[Lippi78]

Originally Posted by Guse

Update: it was a burned fuse. It is working now. Now it's time to test it
Thank you for all the help.
Cheers!

Hello Guse,

can you please tell me which Fuse was burned?

I have the same issue. Afer installing the box, the Display stayed black...
The MMI Box is loading my Smartphone, so i think it is connected correctly.

A Reset of the iDrive (pushing Volume on/off for about 60 seconds) didn't work.

Do you have any others advices what to do?

Thanks in advance :-)

[Lippi78]

Shame on me...

I have checked all fuses. They were all ok.

The Quadlock was not right connected.
I reconnected it and now it works like a charm. I'm happy

jacobtc
I have a BMW F20 LCI from 08/2015 with harman kardon speakers (NBT Evo headunit).
It's a little bit tight under the head unit, but there is definitly enough space for the box and all the cables.

[Firefly1337]

A bit late, but finally did the update to v2.0.2.6 including MCU last weekend.
I noticed they fixed the following two things:

1) No more ghost inputs after switching back to iDrive
2) PDC screen is working properly even when in Drive-mode


Now only the Android Auto DPI needs to be fixed somehow... still trying to reverse-engineer everything and if I have time on the coming weekend, I will disassemble my unit and have a look inside.

[cossie1]

Originally Posted by Firefly1337

A bit late, but finally did the update to v2.0.2.6 including MCU last weekend.
I noticed they fixed the following two things:

1) No more ghost inputs after switching back to iDrive
2) PDC screen is working properly even when in Drive-mode


Now only the Android Auto DPI needs to be fixed somehow... still trying to reverse-engineer everything and if I have time on the coming weekend, I will disassemble my unit and have a look inside.

They also need to fix this random black screen issue that I and another member have.

If you do take your unit apart, please take some pictures to post up

[jacobtc]

Originally Posted by Lippi78

Shame on me...

I have checked all fuses. They were all ok.

The Quadlock was not right connected.
I reconnected it and now it works like a charm. I'm happy

jacobtc
I have a BMW F20 LCI from 08/2015 with harman kardon speakers (NBT Evo headunit).
It's a little bit tight under the head unit, but there is definitly enough space for the box and all the cables.

Really? How did you manage to do that? This is a picture from a Evo unit retrofit: Picture

Do you have a picture of your installation?

[Firefly1337]

That's a normal NBT in your picture, not an NBT EVO. For EVO, the box fits perfectly under the HU (source: I have one myself)

[Hali_Mark]

Originally Posted by JLBMW

With the group buy failure, I haven't purchased my Andream (yet). Those in the US, which site did you buy from (seems only one of them ships to the US), and, how much did you pay (if you don't mind me asking)?

I'd like to know the answer to this as well. Been thinking about getting one.

[muniz_ri]

Originally Posted by Hali_Mark

I'd like to know the answer to this as well. Been thinking about getting one.

I bought it from this site and paid $270: https://www.android-car-dvd.com/

I love it and recommend it. I use Android Auto everyday.

The only issue that I have had is the echo that the other person hears when on a phone call. But that isn't limited to this mmi. It also occurs on other aftermarket and even OEM headunits on many cars. So who knows the root cause.

[jacobtc]

Originally Posted by Firefly1337

That's a normal NBT in your picture, not an NBT EVO. For EVO, the box fits perfectly under the HU (source: I have one myself)

Oh, I thought that the headunit for NBT and NBT Evo was the same size.

[Assassin_c]

Thanks OP

[Minims]

Hello,

I have installed this Andream Unit on a Mini F54 ans it works really great. Does anyone know if I can replace the BMW Logo and Text a MINI Logo and Text in apple CarPlay interface ? Many Thanks.

[jacobtc]

Now that I will be installing the box in between the headunit and my glovebox, I want to know whether the placement of the wifi antenna is important? Also, is it possible to have the USB run into the glovebox? I will be using Wireless Android Auto, so the usage of the usb cable will only be when updating the box.

[cossie1]

Just wondering, is there anything to be gained by swapping from my 8.8" non LCI screen to the 8.8" LCI version ?

[AnonymousUser]

Hi Firefly1337

While i was doing some research on the codebase from my own extraction i fell opon this thread and i can see you are looking into the same issues as my self... The Android Auto resolution.

I have read the whole thread to gather an overview of your research and i think i can give some more hints.

I own the Bimmertech MMi Prime and not the Andream unit. But anyways i think they are the same unit, only different whitelabeling.

Now i can see you are asking for pictures of internals.
I will post some from of my Bimmertech unit.
If you can post some of yours then we can quickly determine if it's the same units or not.


I found the same references to the DPi settings as you and i am pretty sure this issue is that.

I also found that it has referenceses to the SunPlus SPHE8388 microcontroller.

I also found referenceses to Telnet in the firmware.
I have tried to establish connection without sucess unfortunately.

It also containn an passwd file with the user root and a blank password.

That's it for now.
I hope we can solve the puzzle soon.

Sorry for my bad english Cheers

[cossie1]

Originally Posted by AnonymousUser

Hi Firefly1337

While i was doing some research on the codebase from my own extraction i fell opon this thread and i can see you are looking into the same issues as my self... The Android Auto resolution.

I have read the whole thread to gather an overview of your research and i think i can give some more hints.

I own the Bimmertech MMi Prime and not the Andream unit. But anyways i think they are the same unit, only different whitelabeling.

Now i can see you are asking for pictures of internals.
I will post some from of my Bimmertech unit.
If you can post some of yours then we can quickly determine if it's the same units or not.


I found the same references to the DPi settings as you and i am pretty sure this issue is that.

I also found that it has referenceses to the SunPlus SPHE8388 microcontroller.

I also found referenceses to Telnet in the firmware.
I have tried to establish connection without sucess unfortunately.

It also containn an passwd file with the user root and a blank password.

That's it for now.
I hope we can solve the puzzle soon.

Sorry for my bad english Cheers

It looks like it should be possible to Jtag it.

Could you also post your firmware updates for the Bimmertech unit ?

[AnonymousUser]

cossie1

Unfortuneately i have not been able to recive any firmware updates from Bimmertech.
They are not very likely to hand these out.

I have extracted the firmware available from indiwork's website.

Regarding indiwork. The password for the rar archive containing the firmware is 7950

[cossie1]

Originally Posted by AnonymousUser

cossie1

Unfortuneately i have not been able to recive any firmware updates from Bimmertech.
They are not very likely to hand these out.

I have extracted the firmware available from indiwork's website.

Regarding indiwork. The password for the rar archive containing the firmware is 7950

I thought I read on another thread that Bimmertech had passed on a firmware update to someone (but I could be mistaken).

[AnonymousUser]

@cossie1

I have tried to get from Bimmertech Support multiple times without luck.

I would really like to have the .bin file from Bimmertech.

If we can't get we could always dump the firmware directly from flash.

Just a pain in the a** to do

[cossie1]

Originally Posted by AnonymousUser

@cossie1

I have tried to get from Bimmertech Support multiple times without luck.

I would really like to have the .bin file from Bimmertech.

If we can't get we could always dump the firmware directly from flash.

Just a pain in the a** to do

As said above, I think you should be able to Jtag it if needbe.

But as a paying customer, there should be no reason for Bimmertech to be holding back firmware updates from you or any others that purchased there MMI.

EDIT: Found the thread, I didn't imagine it, clearly they have sent updates to some users: https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1678458

[AnonymousUser]

@cossie1

I think it's because they havent released any firmware updates yet.
And if it aint broken then don't mess with firmwares

[Ha11z]

AnonymousUser Thanks for the info on the bimmertech unit. Do the settings screens on your mmi look the same as the second post on this thread?
Are you on the same version numbers as we have for the Andream box?

cossie1 I had the black screen happen today, about 5 mins into a drive with google maps on display and BMW radio playing as source. Came back on shortly after and google maps was still running. Pressed the menu button and saw the boot screen on the head unit so I think that rebooting caused the black screen. Both were stable after that for the remaining 30mins of the drive.

[AnonymousUser]

@Ha11z

Yep, settings screen is the same