- #BMW IDRIVE BLUETOOTH NOT CONNECTING HOW TO#
- #BMW IDRIVE BLUETOOTH NOT CONNECTING CODE#
- #BMW IDRIVE BLUETOOTH NOT CONNECTING BLUETOOTH#
For those of you on iDrive and a similar problem, see whether you can uncheck the checkmark. (I'll try to snap a pic and post it later, I don't even remember the exact name of the menus and options, hopefully you'll get it).
#BMW IDRIVE BLUETOOTH NOT CONNECTING BLUETOOTH#
So, that's my rule to know whether Bluetooth would or won't work on any given day: if I can uncheck BT, it will work. Then I found something else: when the car and the phone are not pairing, if I go to the Bluetooth settings page (the one with the little checkmark to disable Bluetooth) and try to disable it, it won't respond. The only solution is turning off the car. The call continues on the phone, I was able to continue the call picking up the headset and hang up at the end, but strangely the car is still acting like the BT call is on - Radio off, call timer counting. Sometimes the car would connect, you start a phone call and halfway through it a strong noise (a buzz, if you will) comes through the speaker system and you lose the BT connection. A couple times I was able to get the car to connect by doing the three finger reset, but as of lately this has stopped working. We had this problem with four different phones, a Blackberry 8300, another Blackberry, an 8520, an iPhone 4 and a Samsung Galaxy. Here's a couple strange things I've noticed:įirst, it's not a phone issue. A few days later the problem shows up again, phone can't pair with the car. Bluetooth was working, then it stopped.ĭrove to the dealer, the guy erases all the phones, wipes the car from my phone, pairs it again, everything works! Or so I thought. I have the same problem with my iDrive 2006 330. If I let it fully load before turning the phone's bluetooth on, I usually avoid the SOS freeze. Regarding the phone - both of mine are approved by BMW, but I agree, 99% of the times the problem occurs, it's when I start the car with the phone's bluetooth already activated. I'd think if something physically came unplugged, it'd just stop and that's it. I'd love for it to be a "hardware" issue like that, but I'm skeptical since the bluetooth has worked again since the first time it froze. You're suggesting simply disconnecting/reconnecting everything? Will that cause any other trouble?
I'll try to find it and see if anything is loose.
#BMW IDRIVE BLUETOOTH NOT CONNECTING CODE#
My BT tool also pulls a code related to bluetooth. I'm jailbroken/unlocked on 4.1 but am using the AT&T network. Although, I have an iPhone 3GS (approved) and it gives me the error.
Phones not on the BMW approved list are known to cause the SOS malfunction.
That SOS error is usually caused by an incompatible phone. Remove and reseat all the connections and see if that does anything. If you have folding seats, you can fold them down and go in through the back seats.the floor can be lifted up. TCU is located under the trunk floor, right behind the back seats. You should check the connections to your TCU. Well first before you buy a new module.I should have mentioned this before. It was recently in for service (brake work), does anyone recommend I check the antenna connection itself, as suggested in another thread here? Or would that be more of an "either it works or it doesn't" situation? Also, that probably wouldn't freeze the icon on the screen either, huh.
So if you're referring to the "three finger" reboot, that didn't work. The phone is unable to find the car as well. Well, the next morning, it was able to find my phone again, and worked fine, but then has since stopped again.īasically, it freezes at some point during my commute - the little antenna icon gets frozen, even after disabling on the phone, resetting the iDrive, it'll still be frozen where it was, unable to find/connect to anything.
#BMW IDRIVE BLUETOOTH NOT CONNECTING HOW TO#
Sorry that I don't have any more specific instructions on how to do said reboot.but I'm sure that there's help to be found on one of the forums/threads here. So, you might try such a reboot before replacing the module.unless that's what you mean by "resetting" the computer. What was required to fix the problem was a complete reboot of the ECU (disconnected battery, etc.) which somehow re-enabled the bluetooth (TCU?). After that, while I was checking everything out before leaving the dealer, I found that I had no bluetooth function at all. I had something similar happen the last time that the dealer uploaded software.which was required to reprogram the sunroof closing action after replacing the sunroof gaskets.
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