| Toopskees |
04-25-2011 12:08 AM |
When the Delivery Specialist was showing me around the car, we played around with BMW Apps. You get there via "Connected Drive" then "BMW Apps", but you have to launch the app (either Pandora or BMW Connected) from your iPhone. The display then prompts you to connect to the vehicle via USB. You can then access Facebook, Twitter, Web Radio and Pandora. So far, so good. However, after quitting the app we discovered that I could not stream audio via Bluetooth. Under "Bluetooth" we found that my phone was enabled for telephone but not for audio. When we tried to configure the phone for audio, the display gave this message: "Audio via USB is not supported by iPhone with Bluetooth audio activated. Bluetooth audio deactivated. Reactivate USB audio if necessary."
This evening, I ran through a few scenarios and I think I now understand what is going on. Both incoming and outgoing phone calls operate normally even during USB operation. Audio output, however, can be done either via USB or via Bluetooth but not both. If the phone is connected via USB, then Bluetooth audio is disabled. But I realized that that doesn't matter since I can stream the audio just fine via USB. I did discover a quirk. I was playing an album from the iPod function of my iPhone. The display showed the correct album art, both on the main screen and the split screen (I have it configured so that the split screen shows Entertainment Details). I then stooped the iPod and switched to a different audio streaming source (Last.fm). The audio was correct, but Entertainment Details still showed the album I had been listening to just before on the iPod.
I hope that these issues will go away once I get the iPhone Media Snap-In Adapter (currently backordered). I am hoping that transitioning between audio sources will be more seamless.
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