[mastrchee]

Originally Posted by Urbz

Two questions:

Do you have Harman Kardon audio system?

Would you mind posting your MMI EQ settings?

I do have HK audio, but mine's an F22 and that's quite different from the F3x HK system.

I'll send it over the eq settings soon'ish when I get home.

[seanos10]

Originally Posted by jacobtc

Anyone else having to reboot the device everytime to get wireless Android Auto connected again? Every time I enter my car and switch to the Andream box, the small bluetooth icon is present, and my phone says that my cars wifi has been found, but I'm not able to connect to the phone. I have to hold down the back button to reboot the Andream box, and sometimes also toggle airplane mode off and on on my phone, before I get the pop up on my cars screen to enter Android Auto.

Airplane mode on and off on the phone should be enough for the system to prompt you again once the phone reconnects. Hopefully there will be a start button soon for Android like there is for CarPlay

[Firefly1337]

Originally Posted by jacobtc

Anyone else having to reboot the device everytime to get wireless Android Auto connected again? Every time I enter my car and switch to the Andream box, the small bluetooth icon is present, and my phone says that my cars wifi has been found, but I'm not able to connect to the phone. I have to hold down the back button to reboot the Andream box, and sometimes also toggle airplane mode off and on on my phone, before I get the pop up on my cars screen to enter Android Auto.

Yes, that sucks and I don't understand why they did it like this. Manually connecting to Wireless Carplay seems to be possible, with Android Auto that popup is the only option.

But, instead of rebooting (and waiting...) you can just disconnect the phone under WirelessDev and immediately reconnect it. It's actually quite fast and shortly after that the popup will appear again. Takes all in all maybe 5 seconds. Still sucks having to do it in the first place, though ^^

Originally Posted by mastrchee

I do have HK audio, but mine's an F22 and that's quite different from the F3x HK system.

I'll send it over the eq settings soon'ish when I get home.

Would be interested as well
I have HK in my F20, so it'll be the same.

[muniz_ri]

Originally Posted by jacobtc

Anyone else having to reboot the device everytime to get wireless Android Auto connected again? Every time I enter my car and switch to the Andream box, the small bluetooth icon is present, and my phone says that my cars wifi has been found, but I'm not able to connect to the phone. I have to hold down the back button to reboot the Andream box, and sometimes also toggle airplane mode off and on on my phone, before I get the pop up on my cars screen to enter Android Auto.

I had a couple of issues with wireless AA in general so I gave up on it. I usually plug my phone in for charging so wired AA works out well for me.

With wireless AA I sometimes had trouble getting sound from Spotify. The screen showed that Spotify was playing but there was no sound coming from the speakers. There was also a lag when scrolling through the apps and the google voice assistant was slow and sometimes unreliable.

[Gumdrop]

Little help here, just installed this box and can’t get it to work. (NBT version). After installing, I reconnected battery and started car up, iDrive throwing a “no warning tones” code on the screen. I can’t get into the MMI mode/software. Tried clicking AUX as input source and holding Menu button for 2 seconds, doesn’t seem to be working.
It seems as if it’s a fuse blown, or bad box, or bad connection?

The 12v and ACC wire on the CAN don’t need to be spliced into anything for MMI to work, that’s only needed for camera correct?

[stvward]

Originally Posted by Gumdrop

Little help here, just installed this box and can’t get it to work. (NBT version). After installing, I reconnected battery and started car up, iDrive throwing a “no warning tones” code on the screen. I can’t get into the MMI mode/software. Tried clicking AUX as input source and holding Menu button for 2 seconds, doesn’t seem to be working.
It seems as if it’s a fuse blown, or bad box, or bad connection?

The 12v and ACC wire on the CAN don’t need to be spliced into anything for MMI to work, that’s only needed for camera correct?

If you had your battery disconnected it should not be a fuse. I suspect it is the main locking block connector attached to your head unit. I had a similar issue that it was not properly seated into position and I had to reinstall it making sure that it is seated all of the way in before locking it. Good luck !

[Gumdrop]

Originally Posted by stvward

If you had your battery disconnected it should not be a fuse. I suspect it is the main locking block connector attached to your head unit. I had a similar issue that it was not properly seated into position and I had to reinstall it making sure that it is seated all of the way in before locking it. Good luck !

Woooops that was it, FIXED!

[cossie1]

Just for info (incase anyone else didn't notice it), I just found a setting in the menu (after the mcu update from December), you can set it to use the back button to switch to and from i-drive, instead of using the menu button.

Press and hold Back for 2 seconds to switch, for me this is much better than pressing and holding menu.

Also just curious but which is the correct side for the menu bar at the side with the genuine BMW version of Carplay in the uk, is it on the left or the right (google doesn't seem to help with this as there are pictures with both, but from 3rd party coders, rather than official bmw).

[theblues]

Originally Posted by cossie1

Just for info (incase anyone else didn't notice it), I just found a setting in the menu (after the mcu update from December), you can set it to use the back button to switch to and from i-drive, instead of using the menu button.

Press and hold Back for 2 seconds to switch, for me this is much better than pressing and holding menu.

Also just curious but which is the correct side for the menu bar at the side with the genuine BMW version of Carplay in the uk, is it on the left or the right (google doesn't seem to help with this as there are pictures with both, but from 3rd party coders, rather than official bmw).

Isn't holding back button is to reboot the MMI?

[cossie1]

Originally Posted by theblues

Isn't holding back button is to reboot the MMI?

Yes, but you have to hold it for 5+ seconds to reboot.

[cossie1]

Oh also I checked with E-sys with carplay on the screen (so fault code present) and E-sys see's all modules including NBT_HU

[stvward]

Originally Posted by cossie1

Oh also I checked with E-sys with carplay on the screen (so fault code present) and E-sys see's all modules including NBT_HU

Does that mean that you can code the NBT_HU with E-sys with the MMI installed?

[cossie1]

Originally Posted by stvward

Does that mean that you can code the NBT_HU with E-sys with the MMI installed?

Yes I confirmed this before, that you can code with E-sys with the MMI connected, but I only tried it when on the i-drive screen and without any fault code logged.

I didn't try any coding today, as there isn't anything that needs coding.

[stvward]

Originally Posted by cossie1

Yes I confirmed this before, that you can code with E-sys with the MMI connected, but I only tried it when on the i-drive screen and without any fault code logged.

I didn't try any coding today, as there isn't anything that needs coding.

Ok thanks.

[Gumdrop]

Installed and working but I realized while in CarPlay mode and putting car in reverse, system does not automatically switch back to iDrive backup screen, I have to hold menu to get out of MMI and then hold it again after backing up to get back to MMI.

Does it not automatically do that for you? Is there some setting in the MMI system I need to change?

[cossie1]

Originally Posted by Gumdrop

Installed and working but I realized while in CarPlay mode and putting car in reverse, system does not automatically switch back to iDrive backup screen, I have to hold menu to get out of MMI and then hold it again after backing up to get back to MMI.

Does it not automatically do that for you? Is there some setting in the MMI system I need to change?

Go into settings and switch off reverse line detection in the Reverse Camera section.

[mastrchee]

Originally Posted by Firefly1337

Would be interested as well
I have HK in my F20, so it'll be the same.

So, this is the closest I've got to a flat frequency response. Remember no amplifier/speaker is made equally, so the experience may not be the same for you.



To the left of the spectrum, you'll notice a spike. Despite this it's not overly bassy. The spike is because low frequencies travel far distances and the calibration mic is rather eager shall we say. As you can see it's spiky and not exactly flat, but we're hoping for a healthy average - It's nearly impossible to get a perfect flat line given the limitations of car play/HK/iDrive.

This is a reference EQ, as in start from here and adjust to your liking. I prefer a little bit more bass, so I've dialled 57Hz to 7. I recommend listening to "Chan Chan", which has a variety of instruments and sounds spanning across the entire frequency range. https://open.spotify.com/track/5sbw5...RbWL7YomcBycAA

[emulajavi]

Originally Posted by floc

on behalf of my friend f56 mini, thanks

Hi. Did your friend installed this on a MINI F56?

How does the screen look? Is the CarPlay UI partially blocked by the MINI’s ring?

Thanks !

[constantind]

Hi guys.
I've installed an Andream unit to my f30 2013. No sound thorough the carplay - all connected and working, AUX selected on NBT and still nothing, ALso tried Android and still no sound. I have updated the unit to the last software. Any suggestions? Thanks

[muniz_ri]

Originally Posted by jacobtc

Anyone else having to reboot the device everytime to get wireless Android Auto connected again? Every time I enter my car and switch to the Andream box, the small bluetooth icon is present, and my phone says that my cars wifi has been found, but I'm not able to connect to the phone. I have to hold down the back button to reboot the Andream box, and sometimes also toggle airplane mode off and on on my phone, before I get the pop up on my cars screen to enter Android Auto.

I gave wireless AA another shot today and experienced the same thing. I sent an email to Wang at Andream.

[stvward]

Originally Posted by constantind

Hi guys.
I've installed an Andream unit to my f30 2013. No sound thorough the carplay - all connected and working, AUX selected on NBT and still nothing, ALso tried Android and still no sound. I have updated the unit to the last software. Any suggestions? Thanks

If you are using an iPhone swipe up from the bottom and in music box press the small icon at the top right and select carplay as your source. Try that.

[floc]

Originally Posted by emulajavi

Hi. Did your friend installed this on a MINI F56?

How does the screen look? Is the CarPlay UI partially blocked by the MINI’s ring?

Thanks !

works good, there is an horizontal offset you can set to mitigates round edges. He is pretty happy with it and carplay.