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Old 09-30-2008, 02:03 PM
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Need some help guys. Everything in my car worked perfect yesterday evening, I came home and parked it as usual. I went to get in my car and the stereo is stuck on mute!!! I never pushed the mute button last night or today. I can still change between songs and between radio and cd and everything else appears to be working fine but I cant get it to get off mute. When I hit the voice command button it still works and I can hear the voice. And I just had a new battery installed by BMW 2 weeks ago if that matters. Thanks

Oh yeah, I read alot about blue tooth and should mention that at no time yesterday did I recieve or make a call from my car
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Originally Posted by akfirepro' post='682050' date='Sep 30 2008, 06:03 PM
Need some help guys. Everything in my car worked perfect yesterday evening, I came home and parked it as usual. I went to get in my car and the stereo is stuck on mute!!! I never pushed the mute button last night or today. I can still change between songs and between radio and cd and everything else appears to be working fine but I cant get it to get off mute. When I hit the voice command button it still works and I can hear the voice. And I just had a new battery installed by BMW 2 weeks ago if that matters. Thanks

Oh yeah, I read alot about blue tooth and should mention that at no time yesterday did I recieve or make a call from my car
I don't really know if it's going to help you, but I had a similar experience. I parked, locked the car, and about 2 hours later the mute issue went away. Somebody explained that Idrive goes into soft reset about 20 minutes after you shut down the engine and lock the car. Another suggestion was to disconnect the battery for about 20 minutes. GL, I hope this works. Keep us posted.

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Old 09-30-2008, 09:27 PM
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So the old lock it and wait routine did the trick!! These cars have their quirks dont they? starting to shake my confidence not a lot, but a little
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So the old lock it and wait routine did the trick!! These cars have their quirks dont they? starting to shake my confidence not a lot, but a little
Well, look at it as dating Angelina Jolie. Very high maintenance, but boy is it well worth it? Great ride, either one.
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I suddenly developed this problem twice in the last week. Rebooting the iDrive (two ejects + Mute) does reset the issue as does keeping the car off until it goes to sleep. But being the LAST day of my warranty today I took it in and BMW have said that the car requires a full software update. So even though I didn't want to I'll be getting PROGRAM 33.0 now.
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Originally Posted by bruce_miranda' post='774670' date='Jan 22 2009, 06:22 PM
even though I didn't want to I'll be getting PROGRAM 33.0 now.
33.0 ? I just had mine upgraded yesterday and only got 32.1. I wonder why I didn't get 33.0. It's not something I care about particularly, 32.1 is a huge upgrade over what I had (circa 2004).
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Originally Posted by DD_545i' post='774747' date='Jan 22 2009, 01:48 PM
33.0 ? I just had mine upgraded yesterday and only got 32.1. I wonder why I didn't get 33.0. It's not something I care about particularly, 32.1 is a huge upgrade over what I had (circa 2004).
Depends on whether your dealer has received the update or chosen to start using it.
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Originally Posted by 545felix' post='774796' date='Jan 22 2009, 08:45 PM
Depends on whether your dealer has received the update or chosen to start using it.
Interesting. They told me that when they connect the car to 'the system', it then connects directly to Munich and asks what updates are available. The SA was quite annoyed when I asked what version of Program I was given. He said something along the lines of "damn internet - now everyone wants to know what version of Progman they've got"
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