Comments on: Fix for iPhone and BMW iDrive address book not synchronising

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Pairing Iphone To Bmw | BMW Photos Blog — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:47:10 +0000

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By: Scoopz

Scoopz — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:31:48 +0000

@Steve – it might be that you need BMW to update your iDrive software. My 2005 e60 M5 has paired with iPhone 2G, 3G, 3GS and 4. I the iPhone is fully updated to latest iOS and has no Bluetooth issues with other car kits then your car must be to blame. Do other phones connect to your car ok?

Could be a random issue with a name in your address book with a non standard character? Or non standard characters in your iPhone’s Bluetooth name?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:24:33 +0000

Can’t pair my iphone 4 with 2006 520d M. Tried the fake 2000 names but didn’t work.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:27:44 +0000

ok Simething else must be going on, I loaded the 2000 contacts and no change t my i drive, in fact no z entries sync’d with the i-drive although they are on my phone, computer and mobile me address books

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:26:41 +0000

OK I have The original i-phone updated to 3.0.1 (7A400) A 2007 X5 with Nav system. I have a mobile me account where all my contacts reside. When I updated to 3.0 I noticed not all of my contacts sync’d with the idrive, I have about 1060 contacts most with multiple numbers. In some instances one number will show on i-drive from a contact with multiple in others all show. does the 2000 contact solution work for this issue as well? I was thinking that I have some corrupt data in my address book somewhere that was creating the issue. Any other suggestions?

By: Pino

Pino — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:29:25 +0000

Hi Keith,

I’m also on 3.0 now, and still have the 2000 contacts “repair” and is still working in my car (120d from 2006 with nav. pro )

1st gen iphone

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:20:24 +0000

Hey Scoopz. You fixed my issue last year with the iphone 2.0 not loading my contacts into the 2005 BMW 645 with the Nav system. Your 2000 contacts repair worked great.

I just upgraded the same iphone to 3.0. Now the only contacts that will load into the car are V-Z. Same iphone, same car. The contacts still are in the iphone they just will not appear in the phone book in the car.

I can’t seem to find any thing about this issue so far. Any thoughts?

By: eisenb11

eisenb11 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:32:28 +0000

@scoopz

Today’s event was mainly a press release. Apparently, people can apply for the beta of the 3.0 software here (http://developer.apple.com/), but the real deal is due this summer sometime.

I’d probably wait for the real deal unless you’re feeling adventurous or curious about the new features – sounds like Apple added a ton of good stuff in the 3.0 software.

By: Scoopz

Scoopz — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:48:00 +0000

@eisenb11 – I’ll do the best I can to be the human guinea pig when iPhone 3.0 software is released, unfortunately I’m not an iPhone app developer so I won’t be getting any early releases to try but as soon as the public release is available I’ll upgrade and test it with my car with a few hours and report back with hopefully good news.
Is the announcement tomorrow (17th March) just a preview and developer release or is it live to the masses tomorrow?
Scoopz (Admin)

By: eisenb11

eisenb11 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:41:35 +0000

So scoopz, are you going to be our canary to see if the upcoming 3.0 software (announcement with more info on Mar 17th) works on our cars?