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Originally Posted by Brian-bmw
This is the process for pairing a BT phone with the car. Are you doing this, and what are you seeing at each step?
1. Turn the car off.
2. Push and hold the pairing button in the car for at least 1 second. (The pairing button is not the button on the steering wheel. It is a separate button on or near the phone cradle.)
3. Then, while continuing to hold down the pairing button, switch the car's ignition to position 1.
4. Continue to hold the BT pairing button down for another 2 to 3 seconds after you turn on the ignition.
4. Release the BT pairing button.
5. At this point, the car's nav or MID screen should display "BLUETOOTH PAIRING.
Now, it is time to tell the phone to pair to the car. These steps are different for every phone, so just follow the general steps.
1. Go to the connection or Bluetooth setup menu and find a place where the phone would add a Bluetooth headset.
2. Select an option that looks something like find new devices or add new devices. (You are not making the phone discoverable. You just put the car in discoverable mode above, so the phone must find the car.)
3. The phone will probably show some type of searching screen, then it will display a list of available BT devices that it found.
4. Select the "BMW ULF" option.
5. Your phone will probably then ask for a confirmation and then prompt you for the BT passcode.
6. Enter the passcode printed on the car's Bluetooth module.
7. The phone may then ask you for a confirmation to accept a BT connect to the car, after you enter the passcode. If so, try to select a "YES" or "NEVER ASK AGAIN" option on the phone.
7. The car will beep once to indicate that it has paired with your phone. And, the car will remain in pairing mode so that you can pair other phones, if you wish.
8. After you have paired the phone, turn off the ignition.
9. The ignition back on, and within about 30 seconds, the phone should indicate that it has connected with the car.
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sorry brian it's ALL different for the z4 m coupe. we don't have to push any buttons; we dont have a cradle nor a pairing button. and we are NOT supposed to use the so called streering wheel pairnig button as u saaid it above also...our model is supposed to enter pairing mode automatically as sooon as u turn to position 2 on the ignition. and i have seen this method pair other phones.
the key in position 2 autostarts the BT discovery mode....a bit weird i know. i haven't been able to find any official documentation on our system (e86M nav/premium). even the docs that came with the car are not for our specific model, bur rather for the regular z4 and roadster. it sucks. on top of that i'm using an unapproved phone, but the same phone is paring for some people, just not most of us with the nokia e61.
other than that this is what i do...
turn key to position 2, put navigation system on phone section, the nav screen indicates "Phone Searching" or something like that, but NEVER the word 'pairing' appears at anytime, and i've heard it's not supposed to on our model....then i put my nokia to search for bluetooth. the nokia finds the bmw BT, i tell the phone to pair. it pairs and and asks (and this is on the phone) for the Passkey. i enter the PK in the phone. it accepts it and asks for auto authorization, i say yes. in the meantime the car's nav screen still states "Phone searching..." then i go into the phone's BT options and ask it to connect (ie establish data transfer), then it fails to connect. in the meantime couple of minutes have passed by and the car's nav screen message has changed to "Activate Phone" which i assume means the car has stopped looking for any BT devices because for a couple of minutes it couldnot find any.
I've tried pairing the nokia e61 with the older firmware as well as the recent update to version 2 of the firmware.
and for the record here are my phone settings:
Bluetooth: ON
Visibility: Shown to all
phone name: name
Remote Sim Mode: Off (but i've also tried it with ON)