Help please, New X5 owner
 

Hi all, great site, really informative, even though I don't do any mechanical stuff myself it's great to read some of the stuff on here.

Anyway, my old freelander conked out a couple of weeks back so I went out and bought an X5! It's a 2006 Le Mans performance blue 3litre diesel model. Gorgeous looking car, and so smooth to drive.. it's got sat nav with it but unfortunately I don't have the relevant sd card or know what to get or where from. I've looked everywhere so thought I'd finally try asking here.

The unit has one cd drive and 2 SD card slots, one which says SD and the other which says gps. I've attached photos if this helps?

Does anyone recognise what I have and can they help? Is it the stock unit? I just want the sat nav to work. I do have a plug in one but seeing as it's on the machine I'd like to use it. Also the DAB doesn't seem to work either if anyone can shed a light on that? I'm not too bothered about that but might be nice to listen to the football on Saturday afternoon on five live...

Thanks in advance

Cheers

Jez

EDIT: here is the link: http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q...psfl2hgm6d.jpg

Pictures wouldn't add for some reason??? I'll try again

I have to resize my photos and am having difficulty doing this so will try again in the morning

I've never seen an official BMW e53 X5 audio system with CD & SD slots in front...so more than likely you have an aftermarket system. Especially if the steering wheel buttons do not function.

Do a search for bmw e53 nav upgrades and see if what you have installed appesrs. Eonon jumps to mind as one of the few aftermarket options.

The steering wheel buttons function fine. Volume and station search. And the voice thing too but there's not really much to connect to.

The cd slot is at the top to play music I guess. Both the sd slot and gps slots are at the bottom on either side

Load your pictures to Photobucket or some other image hosting site, then link them in your posts. You can attach images here but linking is better...

Dynavin also comes to mind as they make a unit that looks a lot like the description.

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Dynavin has sd slots on the top right side one on top of each other.
Avin Avant has slots on both sides.
Not sure about Eonon.

Thanks chaps,

Lets try this...

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui...2&disp=safe&zw


https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui...2&disp=safe&zw

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui...1&disp=safe&zw

None of that worked.

Photobucket.com
Upload images to your account there then cut & paste their (IMG) link into your message.

...none of the links you posted will work because they are secured links (https). URL addresses for pics posted in a message need to have the ability to be accessed 24/7 by anyone reading the page and not have password protection (or a "secured" URL address).

Thanks again, im trying to get this sorted now. Seems im a bit of a clutz!!

http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q...psfl2hgm6d.jpg

Is that 2 or 3 pictures?

Must then be an Avin Avant - 2. Eonon has the SD and GPS slots near the DVD/CD player and as was mentioned and I stand corrected Dynavin has theirs one on top of the other on the top right of the unit.

That could be an Eonon - mine has similar positioning. Based on the UX in the shots I think it's not a Dynavin which means some Android based system.

With that said, it's going to depend on what mapping app you use on the HU.

Found one clone pretty close on Amazon:

Hizpio

Cheers I'll give that a go.

U have an aftermarket radio... very looks like mine Seicane! Previous owner uninstall navi app! U just have to download sygic in car and try basic options for free :)

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I managed to find the path to where the mapping software was, and it is indeed IGO

The path is
\StorageCard\IGO8\iG)8.exe

With that being said, is it simply a case of buying an SD card and then searching for IGO mapping software online and downloading it to the card?

Cheers again everyone for your help with this.

For my aftermarket radio IGO was there by default as well,but I do not like IGO! I uninstalled it! U have to download navi directly in to your radio from Google play market! I am not sure u will install IGO from sdcard to your device! U still have old igo folders just delete them! Share internet from your phone download any free navi from google market and drive:) for me best is sygic

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There isn't a google play app on the radio? Which makes me wonder if it is android..

If there is no...then download it....my God!!!!

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Jesus mate! Absolutely no need to be like that!! This is the first radio of this type I've ever had, so no clue how it works, hence the questions.

Helpful comments are greatly appreciated, but others.. well, not so much!

For example, download it might sound obvious to you, but onto what, and with what exactly???? it looks nothing like the Android system in my phone, it's only through this site I've learnt that some systems are Android. To me its a radio, with Bluetooth etc and navigation which doesn't work because there is no sd card.

Which is why I thought initially all I had to do was buy an sd card with navigation on it and pop it in the slot.

If this is something you can help me with, that's awesome and I thank you. If it isn't, that's also fine, but don't just assume that everyone knows how these systems work and get exasperated when questions are asked!

I have 4 screens in total, would it help if I take a photo of all 4 so you know exactly what I'm working with?

That unit is like a mobile phone nothing complicated...if it doesn't have internet option...it is crap! Have u mobile I think u have! No question about that unit u have,but about way of thinking...! U can go to settings and check everything what it has inside and so on! Don't u c the apps on the screen or it has only radio?

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