Mal Maddock (UK)

Its`only money anyway who needs it.

Wonder if anyone can help – not clear from this forum which is best option and I’m a beginner.

Have a 2010 idrive and want to download all my songs from my iphone 16gb (latest version)

I know I can use bluetooth to connect and pair….and download my contacts…..but whats the best way to download and save all my tunes to the idrive?

Do I need a lead to plug into my iphone and the bmw idrive input socket and if so, can anyone send me a link of the correct one to buy?

many thanks

p.s. can you download video clips to idrive??

I’ve not found any logic to it, I thought it could be if two people, say Ben and Amy who live together, have the same number under each name for their home phone. When a call comes in from that number the iDrive doesn’t know which number to display. I have tested this and it’s not the case because incoming calls from a mobile number only associated with one person sometimes show as *******.

I thought maybe I had too many contacts syncing to the iDrive (it also used to take several minutes to resync all entries when first setting off on a journey but not always) so now I’ve gone into the new option in the Bluetooth setting to pick which contacts you want to sync and selected my “favourites” only.

Regards

Scoopz (admin)

I have s/w 3.1.3 and can sucessfully pair my iphone 3G to my BMW 2005 e90.

I have been able to pair my iphone with many earlier s/w versions, but lately not all of my contacts are being displayed as caller id’s on the idrive screen.

Can’t understand why some names appear and other don’t even though they are in my contacts list and shown on the iphone itself during an incoming call.

Any ideas???

Thanks

Jak

my iphone still does not connect at my own network , tha ti created from my macbook .

i must mention here that OLD DAYS , the connection between iphone and wireless was fine .

unfortunately , i didnt try at other network , HOPE i find one network and try it ..

at last , my friend , here is greece(you know…) and if i send my iphone to replace it , hope to get it

ps is it possible iphone has a “hardware” problem ?

wireless sets up by mac book .

sorry from my english , my email is parizianosgr@hotmail.com

plz help me

Scoopz

Scoopz’ solution did not work. (Pasting the exact link he posted in his comment to Leobard G)

Xygris’ solution did work.

I’m running vista with IE8.

Credit to Scoopz. This is exactly what i needed.

Hard to believe Apple dropped the use of a 10-year coin cell battery (that costs under $1 retail) and instead went with a capacitor or even a rechargeable battery. Obviously it was a very bad idea. Apple may be the king of innovation, but sometimes they should stick with things that are known to work quite reliably.

First one hinge broke, kept using the macbook like that. Then the other one went. Now the screen really messed up, i think the wireing got messed up because nothing on the screen moves and its all purple and greenish….I dont no what to do, i have apple care but the guy said because of the dents and scratches on he cannot do anything….but its a goddamn macbook air, its made to be travelled with!

Thanks!

For those with other browsers, different operating systems or just updated versions with different paths try just copying the shortcut from your start menu to your desktop (via drag & drop) and them appending the new shortcut with the URL.

Also people that have installed IE7 or IE8 may need a new path for IE. Search for iexplorer and create the shortcut from the found program by right clicking and select send shortcut to desktop.

I read thought the post on this blog and thought I’d add my experiance of pairing my iPhone 3G with BMW X5 (2005) (not iDrive). Following the instruction in the manual I was able to pair the two units… However, strangly it all decided to stop!

I was able to make and receive calls via the automatic bluetooth pairing. I could never get the names to show on disply but that was the least of my agony. 4 weeks after the X5 disply still shows the name of my iPhone as paired but fails to pull any of the addresses or indeed send or receive calls! I must admit, I was completely oblivious to the world of incompatibilities between BMW and iPhone before this happened.

I am puzzled as to how the thing worked fine and then just decided to stop. I tried to delete the profiles from both the X5 and the iphone …turn the wifi off… then pair the devices, which I get a successful message appearing on the disply. However, everytime I try to browse my address book I get NOTHING!

Have I missed something?

Thanx anyway! I am impressed by the ingenuity you guys have!
/Joachim

So it should look like
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” http://mail.yahoo.com

Try pasting that and see if that works?

Scoopz (Admin)

I am at a loss as how I can get the iPhone working with my in car phone prep. Anyone have any ideas on how I can just get the f*cking thing to work would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Cheers

Scoopz (Admin)

You are correct though, the cradle is nothing more than a very expensive charger. There is meant to be a connection to an external aerial to give a stronger signal but I’ve never noticed this. The cradle does NOT connect to the iDrive or stereo in any way it is simply charges the iPhone, I’ll repeat that again as many others seem confused by this, the BMW iPhone cradle is just a glorified iPhone charger.

To enable your iPhone to connect to the iDrive/stereo to make and receive calls you still have to pair it via bluetooth. If your car didn’t have the bluetooth module installed from the factory then I’m afraid you’re out of luck and will need a 3rd party bluetooth kit installing.

Also, please note that the iPhone cradle does not allow any function of the iPod part of the iPhone to work through the stereo.

Scoopz (Admin)

Anyway the phone eventually goes in and charges fine. I get no bluetooth connectivity neither does the phone get picked up once snapped into the cradle.

On the computer console in the car when I go to the telephone options on the screen it says “activate phone” and below that there is two options. “Emergency” and a telephone symbol. Neiher of which do anything. Essentially I have bought myself a rather expensive car charger for £59.99. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get this working.

I have an iPhone 3G with firmware 3.1 (7C144)

Thanks for your help in advance

Scoopz (Admin)

Well let’s write only the content of the A tag’s href attribute which is the important:

“…/firefox.exe “http://your_url”"

Link from IE to FF

I had the problem that i wanted the desktop, which runs on IE, to open the links not in some IE window but in FF.

I achieved this by linking the FF.exe and passing the url as parameter.

Link from IE to FF

Notice the double quotes around the url as well!!

It keeps always asking if i want to open or save the exe but, it’s best i could.

Do you have any idea to avoid having to accept executing files??

I’m not building malware, only shortcuts to my most used folders, files and websites. I already tried LaunchinIE plugin but it won’t work for me :S

There are two programs that I’ve found but neither are freeware, however, they do both offer free trials.
R-Drive (15 day trial)
WinImage (30 day tiral)

See how you get on with either of the above programs, just create .iso files rather than .dmg files as explained in this blog.

If you do manage to find one, please let me know.

Scoopz (Admin)

Regarding the problem with the iPhone not charging off the BMW iPod adapter, this is a bit of a touchy subject with Apple. There are basically 2 pairs of pins in the dock connector that can be used to charge the older iPods, one pair was used when charging with a firewire cable and the other pair used when charging with a USB cable. Apple planned to phase out the firewire charging pins after the iPhone 2G, they’d been giving 3rd party manufactures such as Bose, Altec Lansing, BMW, etc several years warning about this change over but they all seemed to ignore it. Sure enough when the iPhone 3G (and newer iPods) were released there was outrage (even by me) as people found their new shiny iPhone/iPod wouldn’t charge on Bose SoundDocks, BMW iPod cables and many many more. What really annoyed me was that my Apple, yes Apple, HiFi that I bought not long before the iPhone 3G came out doesn’t even charge my iPhone 3G/3GS. So even Apple ignored their own warnings about the change over with the charging pins!

Sorry I’m starting to waffle, long story short, the boffins at Griffin (and a few other places) had the same thought as me “it’s only some pins that need relocating in the dock connector” and brought out a little adapter that will allow you to continue using your older iPod accessories with the new iPhones and iPods and reclaim that all important charging feature.

I’ve not tried one with a BMW iPod adapter but considering it’s just swapping over some charging pins and the rest of the pins are just routing as normal I see no reason why it shouldn’t work. No doubt BMW are still scratching their head about this one and will *eventually* bring out a identical adapter with a BMW logo on it and perhaps offer free of charge to people who bought the iPod adapter but you might as well just buy and try the Griffin one now.
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/firewire-to-usb-converter

Scoopz