building my X5 diesel

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Originally Posted by Franklin Joseph

.....my friend also told me the usb adapter doesnt charge the phone...has this been updated?

yes and no. which adapter cable you get appears to be the luck of the draw.

Our 35d with the $400 USB/iPod option, came with the Y adapter cable part# 61-12-0-440-796 that did NOT charge our iPhone. But our CA found us a Y cable part number 61-12-0-440-812 that DOES charge our iPhone 3Gs. BUT the iPhone still complains that the 'iPhone accessory' (AKA our X5) was not designed to work with our iPhone and offers to switch to airplane mode. If we tap 'no' the phone DOES charge. Here is a thread with more details.

OTOH you can buy a Kensington cable for $60 retail from the Apple Store that both charges your iPhone and allows ALL of your iPhone apps to play via the X5's sound system. The catch is that you can't control the iPod app on the iPhone via the X5's iDrive. If I had know this I would not have ordered the $400 USB/iPod adapter.

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