Phone pairing problem

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john-e89

Lifer
Hey Chappies,

Got a new iPhone 5se the other day with a new network. I’ve paired the phone to the car for the phone but I can’t get it to play music, I’ve got a docking station under the armrest that it clips into and it charges the battery but the idrive says ‘Not supported’. It won’t work with a flying lead either. As yet the new provider, O2 hasn’t come on screen and it’s still running the old Vodafone account but I can’t see that makes any difference as it pairs up ok using Bluetooth for phone calls so I’m stumped as to why it won’t play music.

Anyone any ideas please?
 
What years is your car? My 35i is 2009 and will link Bluetooth but only for phone calls. It won’t play music from the phone. And no, it doesn’t make a difference that it’s an iPhone, Android is no different :roll:
 
Lazza said:
What years is your car? My 35i is 2009 and will link Bluetooth but only for phone calls. It won’t play music from the phone. And no, it doesn’t make a difference that it’s an iPhone, Android is no different :roll:
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It’s a 2010 Lazza, the E89 has never played music by Bluetooth but my last E89 played it off the phone either by lead or the docking station. I can’t get it to do either... :(
 
I made the same wrong assumption when pairing my sh!ty old iphone. thought i could stream bassdrive.com through the 10 speaker dsp system. wahaaaay.

but sadly, no enchilada when i hooked it all up.
An mpow BT dongle sorted that little caveat however.
...and then my amp dieded. :x :lol:
 
By the 3.5mm socket I can play from my iPhone but can’t control it from the car.
I don’t have the snap in adapter but I didn’t think that allowed phone music control either.
 
Chris_D said:
I made the same wrong assumption when pairing my sh!ty old iphone. thought i could stream bassdrive.com through the 10 speaker dsp system. wahaaaay.

but sadly, no enchilada when i hooked it all up.
An mpow BT dongle sorted that little caveat however.
...and then my amp dieded. :x :lol:
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:lol:

Chris does any of that have anything even remotely to do with my problem mucker..?? :roll:
 
Lazza said:
By the 3.5mm socket I can play from my iPhone but can’t control it from the car.
I don’t have the snap in adapter but I didn’t think that allowed phone music control either.
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Yes it did Lazza, you could use the steering wheel controls for volume and track skip. It’s charging the thing but won’t play music... :scratchhead:
 
john-e89 said:
Chris_D said:
I made the same wrong assumption when pairing my sh!ty old iphone. thought i could stream bassdrive.com through the 10 speaker dsp system. wahaaaay.

but sadly, no enchilada when i hooked it all up.
An mpow BT dongle sorted that little caveat however.
...and then my amp dieded. :x :lol:
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:lol:

Chris does any of that have anything even remotely to do with my problem mucker..?? :roll:
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No, but I can advise you to ditch your iPhone in favour of an Android one....
you're welcome :thumbsup:
 
I’ve had android before but fell out of love with it. After less than 2 years it was out of date and couldn’t be updated to the latest os, some apps stopped working, it got slow, ran hot and battery barely lasted a day. Everyone I know who has android phones has similar experiences and you really need to upgrade every 2 years, 3 at the most. My iPhone 6 is now 4 years old, on the latest iOS (uodated again this weekend), still works as well as it did when I bought it and I still get to the end of each day with at least 50% battery, usually closer to 80%.
And it doesn’t need virus scanner and junk file deletion apps to keep it running.

:fuelfire:
 
Hi John
Apologies if I've not grasped the issue or what you've tried
I have an old iPod under the arm rest connected with a Y cable (aux and USB)
Just tried it with my iPhone 6s and it works perfectly - steering wheel controls change track/volume
I haven't got iDrive so phone is only paired for calls
 
obewan said:
Hi John
Apologies if I've not grasped the issue or what you've tried
I have an old iPod under the arm rest connected with a Y cable (aux and USB)
Just tried it with my iPhone 6s and it works perfectly - steering wheel controls change track/volume
I haven't got iDrive so phone is only paired for calls
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2010 doesn’t have the usb in the glove box. 3.5mm only. OP has the snap in adapter though but I don’t think he can get it to play music controlled by the cars controls.
Did I get that right?
 
Lazza said:
obewan said:
Hi John
Apologies if I've not grasped the issue or what you've tried
I have an old iPod under the arm rest connected with a Y cable (aux and USB)
Just tried it with my iPhone 6s and it works perfectly - steering wheel controls change track/volume
I haven't got iDrive so phone is only paired for calls
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2010 doesn’t have the usb in the glove box. 3.5mm only. OP has the snap in adapter though but I don’t think he can get it to play music controlled by the cars controls.
Did I get that right?
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Ah right, got it - thanks
 
long shot here... Ive got a 2009 E89 with 3.5mm jack in arm rest and usb power socket (and idrive), when I first got the car I had iPhone 4s, the adaptor connected straight into the bottom of the phone and I could play music, the 5s needed a new adaptor and the standard BMW one didn't work on my car had to buy one off Amazon with extra aux cable that plugged into the headphone socket on the phone
 
Lazza said:
obewan said:
Hi John
Apologies if I've not grasped the issue or what you've tried
I have an old iPod under the arm rest connected with a Y cable (aux and USB)
Just tried it with my iPhone 6s and it works perfectly - steering wheel controls change track/volume
I haven't got iDrive so phone is only paired for calls
Click to expand...

2010 doesn’t have the usb in the glove box. 3.5mm only. OP has the snap in adapter though but I don’t think he can get it to play music controlled by the cars controls.
Did I get that right?
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Two things here the post mentions arm rest USB and all E89s have that along with the 3.5mm jack point for which you need the Y-Cable if using the iPhone for music. You can however upload music onto a USB and then use this for music using the USB in the arm rest.

On the topic of the USB in the glove box, actually this was an option so some cars do have it but is used for uploading data to the built in hard drive to which you could upload your music collection and play from there. There is no other 3.5mm jack apart from in the arm rest.

So the issue here isn’t that the phone is not pairing I.e. via Bluetooth as the phone is paired to the car for calls, it’s that music isn’t being played. I assume on the idrive under media the phone name is not listed? If not then I’d probably look at trying a different Y-Cable incase your one has developed a fault. Maybe try with someone else? If you were closer I would have loaned you mines as I know that was working (with a apple adapter for the 8) when I used it last month.
 
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