Maddog-99

So Ive fairly well teched out my car.
Its a 2004 545i, but has the full CIC Nav Combox upgrade, making it essentially a 2012. All of which I love.

Recently now Ive put my own personal hotspot in the car, using the power source in the glove compartment to power a portable router & a Verizon 4G dongle.
Love this too.

To run the CIC integration I have an iphone 4 with no cellular data (killed the plan) & running wifi. With the router set up, I now have a great experience with BMW apps I want:

Stitcher, MOG, Pandora all rock. The BMW canned apps from their own app are there as well and just ok.

My question is:
Is there a way to get the wifi from my router to feed the CIC directly? A retrofit for a wifi adapter?
Currently the CIC is supposed to get its data connection through the iphone I have attached using hotspot/tethering activated. BUT since I dont have cellular anymore I cant do that. Ive looked into it extensively, and even if jailbroken, the iphone cannot both recieve & share the wifi signal (even in USB mode).

Anyone smart enough to know if there is another way to pipe my wifi directly into the CIC?

stel_i79

Thats exactly what i want to do
Waiting for answers to !

Maddog-99

Miranda to the rescue:
There is a solution...

Can you retrofit a wifi adapter into the CIC? - 5Series.net - Forums

BMW5Stiles

Maddog-99....where did you get your CIC upgrade? Did you do it yourself?
I have a 2010 BMW e60 and want to do it as well.

Maddog-99

Click on the link in my signature below & you will get the full down low.

I used Bimmertech & Patryk whom youll hear about a lot on the forums & am thoroughly satisfied & happy with the work & investment.

As you can see, Im looking for ways to now expand what I have into doing more.

nomis_nehc

The above method seems more permanent and possibly the best if you decide to keep the same set up.

However, I do believe that the jailbroken app MyWi is capable of having the iPhone connect to a wireless network and share it. Might be worth trying out before start taking things apart.

Maddog-99

Nicely done Simon, I searched high & low for a software option like this & missed it.
Definitely going to try this prior to cutting wires. I am of limited capability in that area

Will report back if this whole thing works out.

sahiljain22

Another alternative to MyWi on the iPhone is this app called Tetherme. I use it for sharing data to my wifi-only iPad all the time.