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Great info as always. Thanks for taking the time to share. I have been trying to pair my phone to my car for messages to no avail. For some odd reason, I have not been able to get the "Show Notifications" slider to appear under the Bluetooth pairing settings (to my car) on my phone. As a result, "Current Office" and "Messages" menus do not even show up on iDrive when the phone is paired and connected. I only get phone and audio functions. I have tried two iPhone 5 and one iPhone 4S, all of them running IOS 6.01. The software on the iDrive has already been updated to the latest UPD0005.bin versions. Any advise you can share to get messages working would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
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I've attached pics of my iPhone 5's settings - possibly useful for comparison...
I can't get the e-mail to work. I've played with it a bit, but e-mail's not as big of a deal for me.
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Thanks Southern. For my case, I simply couldn't manage to get the "Show Notifications" slider to appear under Bluetooth settings on my phone. Still investigating.
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Your on the list, but may not know it...
I have been reading all of your informative and entertaining post for the last week. I have been tossing around getting a nicely loaded 650i XDrive Cabriolet, with the M package such as yours, and had even considered adding an after market exhaust system to really hear the power, but my wife said why don't you just get the M6, since it really has everything you want...
Most of the time I'm trying not to pay too much attention to what she is saying but this time it hit me like a ton a bricks. Southern, after all of the time you have taken to give us detailed info on the 650xi coupe, I feel you really have, "M" in your blood! I may be wrong, but it seems that your BMW affliction, was not learned... This is an inate quality that only few of us have... It would be great to have you over, on the Dark-Side if you will, and Eventually become part of the, "M" Lifetime Club. Because, once you go "M", you can't go back... Yes the M6 Forum may experience a few crickets from time-to-time, but you have M Blood in your veins and may not know it. If anyone deserves an M product, I feel it would be you. Either way, I appreciate the time and effort you have taken to give us all a glimpse into your BMW Experience.
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I'm going to be driving the M3, M5, and M6 tomorrow and Saturday at the Performance Center, and I'm going to try to put together a pretty good review (with M6 v. 650xi comparisons) in the next few days. While I would love an M6, the 650xi is still a very capable and powerful car, particularly since mine will never make it to a track. I don't doubt that the M6 is objectively and subjectively superior (snowy conditions aside), but it just wasn't the right time for me right now. Quote:
M5 - sure, it's more practical and has a helluva lot more power, but I prefer the 6er's looks and exclusivity, I don't care about practicality, and the power would cost me on insurance. M3 - I adore this car and my first test drive in it made me fall in love with BMW as a brand in addition to the M3. However, I wanted the luxury and the creature comforts of the 6er that the M3 just couldn't offer, and, as a daily driver, Nappa everything, HUD, and gadgets won out over the intoxicating performance of the M3. Passing on the M5 was a very difficult choice when I realized that I could have near-M6 performance with a 650xi price tag, but (a) I am in love with the look of the F13, and (b) there are very few F12/13s where I live (I've only seen two others driving around, and sightings are very rare). I think there is very little doubt that an ///M car is in my future. BMW has p!ssed me off with some of there decisions over the last year or so, but the good always outweighs the bad, and I don't see myself being pulled away from the brand anytime soon. Quote:
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Check out the following threads: http://www.6post.com/forums/showthre...ighlight=Video http://www.6post.com/forums/showthre...ighlight=Video Attached photos of how the video interface looks like. Last edited by andreo; 01-18-2013 at 08:24 PM.. |
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I am pretty sure all you need is the snap in adaptor to play videos through the iphone, bmw apps shouldn't have anything to do with it.
You will get video with parking brake on by default, you will have to code the car to watch video without the parking brake. |
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Just FYI, for those people that will receive their 6er with the new nav system you can code the idrive to play movies off of the hard drive. Although it doesn't seem like the new nav will be in the 6 until my2014.
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