The bluetooth connection has stopped working, ive tried deleting both phones from the car and also making both phones forget the connection so I can start from new, but neither iPhone will find the car or the car find them when I go on add new device. Pretty sure this all started while on holiday and I put the car in valet mode for a hotel we stopped in for a night. when activating my profile again it said acting bluetooth and wifi but the phones didn't connect to the car after that. does anyone have any ideas? or know if there is a way to force the car to reset the computer to see if that works
Bluetooth stopped working (also sat nav is rubbish)
- Thread starter Ledg
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on a different note as well, does anyone else thing the sat nav is pretty s**t, I don't know if its recent thing (ive updated the maps to the latest version), but it seems determined to send us down the narrowest roads it can find, even when its clearly shorter and faster stopping on the main road.
I personally think the iDrive 7 satnav is actually quite smart. I have two iDrive 7 cars. For the same destination, two satnav will use two different routes and the route chosen by the bigger car is wider than the one chosen by the Z4.
As other has said, check the route criteria settings. However, one thing to keep in mind is that the fastest route may require many diversions due to traffic conditions. What I find is that the original route planning is smart but after multiple diversions (each of them claims to save several minutes), the route condition can become unsuitable (e.g too narrow, too bumpy etc.) to the car if all the main road options have heavy traffic. This end up costs me more time to get to the destination as I can't drive at 60mph on those road but the satnav think I can. :headbang: :headbang:
As other has said, check the route criteria settings. However, one thing to keep in mind is that the fastest route may require many diversions due to traffic conditions. What I find is that the original route planning is smart but after multiple diversions (each of them claims to save several minutes), the route condition can become unsuitable (e.g too narrow, too bumpy etc.) to the car if all the main road options have heavy traffic. This end up costs me more time to get to the destination as I can't drive at 60mph on those road but the satnav think I can. :headbang: :headbang:
got my bluetooth working again, turns out if you push and hold the power button on the radio for 30 seconds, then turn it back on again this does a reboot of the computer. this solved that problem and both phones found the car and work fine again.
As for the sat nav, ive changed the preference to most economical route, this seems a bit better but it still has questionable ideas. we ended up getting the map book out (we was in Cornwall) and checking the roads it was going to send us down before setting off. Wish the satnav had an option to avoid minor roads where possible like it does for motorways, tolls etc... Even better would be if the old Bmw route planner still worked where you could preplan a trip including which roads you wanted to go on and send it to the car, it was amazing for a road trip in the old e89 z4. the Bmw app on your phone doesn't even let you send multiple locations to the car, just one at once
As for the sat nav, ive changed the preference to most economical route, this seems a bit better but it still has questionable ideas. we ended up getting the map book out (we was in Cornwall) and checking the roads it was going to send us down before setting off. Wish the satnav had an option to avoid minor roads where possible like it does for motorways, tolls etc... Even better would be if the old Bmw route planner still worked where you could preplan a trip including which roads you wanted to go on and send it to the car, it was amazing for a road trip in the old e89 z4. the Bmw app on your phone doesn't even let you send multiple locations to the car, just one at once
q96169we said:
Does it let you put in way points, stops etc or just one destination?
q96169we said:
Cheers, I’ll give that a try
