[MashinBenzin]

Originally Posted by 'V'

Lol
Everything else is in good order, i honestly think it's just the repair shop doing a half arsed job
I know I can get the chips and marks sorted and it's certainly not a deal breaker but the bumper pee'd me right off

Back in on Tuesday so I'll see what happens

On another note, how do i choose different songs/albums when streaming via BT? Is that possible?
I can only seem to skip to the next track

Ah, you might need a proper phone for full music connectivity on BT. I remember my iPhone had full functionality whilst it's companion Android just had current track and skip.

ID5 was introduced at factory changeover in summer 2016 iirc, my August 2016 build was one of the first. Prior to July 16 would be ID4. Then ID6 was either from LCI (spring 17) or after the summer break again.

[330XDave]

Originally Posted by MashinBenzin

Ah, you might need a proper phone for full music connectivity on BT. I remember my iPhone had full functionality whilst it's companion Android just had current track and skip.

ID5 was introduced at factory changeover in summer 2016 iirc, my August 2016 build was one of the first. Prior to July 16 would be ID4. Then ID6 was either from LCI (spring 17) or after the summer break again.

Proper phone.

['V']

Lol proper phone, that's funny.
It seems bmw have taken a leaf from apples book and have made everthing as restricted as possible

Anyway, is there a way of playing amazon music, either usb or bt?

['V']

Oh I have a galaxy note 9 (proper phone) 😁

[KRS_SN]

i have a galaxy s10. Once i get an iPhone i may have to get a Tesla to go with it

[MashinBenzin]

Originally Posted by 'V'

Oh I have a galaxy note 9 (proper phone) 😁

Yeah, a note 8 was the last Android I ran alongside an iPhone 7. Ended up using the proper phone for most things despite the much better screen on the Samsung. Android BT connection to ID5 is like stepping back a decade or two, proper phone is the way to go.

['V']

Got the car back after 3 days in with BMW.
All sorted 👍

Now another little niggle that I didnt get round to messing with before giving the car back to be fixed.
I have 'no connection' on the iDrive, it just won't use my mobile Internet at all. Is this normal?
Any idea how to fix or who to contact. The salesman got a tech guy to have a look while I was there but he didnt know and told me just to call the number on the iDrive system.

Any ideas?

[KRS_SN]

Originally Posted by 'V'

Got the car back after 3 days in with BMW.
All sorted

Now another little niggle that I didnt get round to messing with before giving the car back to be fixed.
I have 'no connection' on the iDrive, it just won't use my mobile Internet at all. Is this normal?
Any idea how to fix or who to contact. The salesman got a tech guy to have a look while I was there but he didnt know and told me just to call the number on the iDrive system.

Any ideas?

i drive wont use your mobile internet AFAIK.

[sensible]

Originally Posted by 'V'

Got the car back after 3 days in with BMW.
All sorted 👍

Now another little niggle that I didnt get round to messing with before giving the car back to be fixed.
I have 'no connection' on the iDrive, it just won't use my mobile Internet at all. Is this normal?
Any idea how to fix or who to contact. The salesman got a tech guy to have a look while I was there but he didnt know and told me just to call the number on the iDrive system.

Any ideas?

Have you checked the car on 'Connected Drive' to ensure it has an up to date subscription for internet services.

['V']

The app? Or on the iDrive?
Sorry for sounding thick but I'm currently a little confused by all this lol
Internet subscription services - do I need to pay for this? I thought it used the mobile data from my phone

[sensible]

Originally Posted by 'V'

The app? Or on the iDrive?
Sorry for sounding thick but I'm currently a little confused by all this lol
Internet subscription services - do I need to pay for this? I thought it used the mobile data from my phone

No...the car doesn't use your phones mobile data. You can log on to BMW Connected Drive and enter your cars details and it will tell you what subscriptions you have if any. They are free for the first three years but then you pay for stuff like Internet etc.

https://www.bmw-connecteddrive.co.uk...#/portal/store

['V']

Ok thanks, it's all starting to make some sense.
Is it worth having these things?

I have an android so can't really do anything at the moment even playing music is a pain in the a***

[sensible]

Originally Posted by 'V'

Ok thanks, it's all starting to make some sense.
Is it worth having these things?

I have an android so can't really do anything at the moment even playing music is a pain in the a***

Maybe...My car is only 9 months old with Pro-Nav so it's got all the bells and whistles. Not sure how many of those things I would pay for. Do I really need the news and weather, and although I have emails I never read or send them in the car. I do like the Real Time Traffic Info and the 'over the air map updates' and the online voice processing but not sure if I would pay the £159 per year for the package.

['V']

Hmmm,

OK, maybe I just live without these things.
Bit annoyed (as many are that I've read) about the android connectivity, pretty poor show on bmw. Guess I should have done some more research.
I had planned to use an old ipad mini and hide it in the car and use my phone to teather a connection but it also seems that I can only use Spotify (I got it to load spotify on the iDrive) but I use amazon music and that apparently doesn't work (according to the techy at bmw today)

Hopefully someone can correct me and tell me how to get amazon music on the iDrive (happy to use an apple product if it works)