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10-02-2004, 10:41 PM
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My Ride: 2011 535i... Alpine White, Black Dakota, Anthracite, Premiium 1+2, Sports Package, Comfort Access
When in the actual entertainment section of the idrive my car displays a message "CAR PHONE" instead of the RDS on the bottom of the screen. In every other section RDS works fine. Does anyone else have this problem? I dont have and never had a phone in the car. My car is going for service next week so I wanted to know if this was fixable because the only other problem I have with the car is the CD in the dash reverting back to Track 1 when restarting the car.
10-03-2004, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by bklyn545' date='Oct 3 2004, 12:41 AM
When in the actual entertainment section of the idrive my car displays a message "CAR PHONE" instead of the RDS on the bottom of the screen. In every other section RDS works fine. Does anyone else have this problem? I dont have and never had a phone in the car. My car is going for service next week so I wanted to know if this was fixable because the only other problem I have with the car is the CD in the dash reverting back to Track 1 when restarting the car.
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10-03-2004, 01:07 PM
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From what others have said, you have an earlier software version in your iDrive. If you update it, you will loose RDS info in any screen. Apparently, the RDS signals were inconsistently used by the radio stations, and the newer software version eliminated them altogether.
So if you decide to update, you may loose the baby with the bathwater....
So if you decide to update, you may loose the baby with the bathwater....
10-03-2004, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by SueBMW' date='Oct 3 2004, 08:59 PM
What's funny is that I never had RDS working until the very last software update on Wednesday.? Of course, it doesn't work very well, but...
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Does that means that RDS is back?
It used to work on mine before, then it stop working after latest update (Three weeks ago)
10-03-2004, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Wiu-Bimmer' date='Oct 3 2004, 09:25 PM
Does that means that RDS is back?
It used to work on mine before, then it stop working after latest update (Three weeks ago)
It used to work on mine before, then it stop working after latest update (Three weeks ago)
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