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      09-12-2020, 06:41 PM   #67
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I got an update from dealer yesterday & received v07/2020.45

First off, I was quite impressed how integrated in various iDrive Android Auto is -- Nav, Coms & Media. Google map directions appear in both HUD & instrument cluster.

Two things I am very disappointed with:
• Still Lack of Email. on my '14 F30 & the '19b5 series loaner I just had, Email showed up in iDrive & can be read aloud
• Text messages only in iDrive & not Android Auto

Also, Google's voice sometimes sounds a little robotic

Am I missing something?
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I got an update from dealer yesterday & received v07/2020.45

First off, I was quite impressed how integrated in various iDrive Android Auto is -- Nav, Coms & Media. Google map directions appear in both HUD & instrument cluster.

Two things I am very disappointed with:
• Still Lack of Email. on my '14 F30 & the '19b5 series loaner I just had, Email showed up in iDrive & can be read aloud
• Text messages only in iDrive & not Android Auto

Also, Google's voice sometimes sounds a little robotic

Am I missing something?
Finally had my 320 upgraded to 2020/7 version via dealer/ service center.
In Taiwan I guess we'll never have OTA ready so I gave up and requested service to upgrade physically .
Now AA works good but don't know why there's one time head unit reboot during navigation.
HUD still works correctly but just head unit crash and reboot.

Fortunately my Samsung S9+'s digital key remain works, a friend's S10 as well.

GPS will come from the vehicle antenna so signal is very good, originally was worried about this since my phone got very poor GPS signal inside the car.

So far so good.
Hope the system can be more stable. Hope the crash issue can be resolved from phone side since upgrade the iDrive is a huge task here and OTA still don't work here.

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      09-16-2020, 02:57 PM   #69
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I booked the car in and reported few issues.

One real one :

-BMW Connected app not updating. iDrive hard reset helps for couple of days or so

Other two suggested in different thread on this forum :

-internal movement detector and the tilt alarm sensor system cannot be deactivated by pressing the lock button on the key twice

- when revers gear is selected, sporadically no image is displayed

As a result, the car was updated from 07/2019.30 to 07/2020.48

I was expecting them to mention the fact, that I was messing with the software by coding via BimmerCode. They absolutely ignored that. I don't know if they can see it in the system or not. No one said anything about it.


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      09-16-2020, 07:29 PM   #70
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I booked the car in and reported few issues.

One real one :

-BMW Connected app not updating. iDrive hard reset helps for couple of days or so

Other two suggested in different thread on this forum :

-internal movement detector and the tilt alarm sensor system cannot be deactivated by pressing the lock button on the key twice

- when revers gear is selected, sporadically no image is displayed

As a result, the car was updated from 07/2019.30 to 07/2020.48

I was expecting them to mention the fact, that I was messing with the software by coding via BimmerCode. They absolutely ignored that. I don't know if they can see it in the system or not. No one said anything about it.


Some pics below :
The most unacceptable issue for Android Auto is that the music quality is significantly poor.
Not only the volume is low but also losing all music details which sounds blurred.

By the way, they don't usually check if you coding anything when doing upgrade.
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      09-21-2020, 05:06 AM   #71
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Hi guys

I got AA updated today , however i cant get android phones (xiaomi/huawei)
to connect.
It alwats show connection fail. Was told by SA that i need to delete BT from phone and idrive and pair it again. Still fails.
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      09-21-2020, 05:41 AM   #72
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Hi guys

I got AA updated today , however i cant get android phones (xiaomi/huawei)
to connect.
It alwats show connection fail. Was told by SA that i need to delete BT from phone and idrive and pair it again. Still fails.
Yeah Huawei's don't support wireless android auto unfortunately. I've managed to find a way round it by using an app called speedify but it's just become really buggy now. Only solution is to switch to a Samsung :
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      09-21-2020, 05:53 AM   #73
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Yeah Huawei's don't support wireless android auto unfortunately. I've managed to find a way round it by using an app called speedify but it's just become really buggy now. Only solution is to switch to a Samsung :
Ohh man...
So have to connect via usb cable?
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      09-21-2020, 07:43 AM   #74
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Ohh man...
So have to connect via usb cable?
BMW only supports AA wirelessly (fairly positive on that anyway)... so you have to wait for the Android 11 update, or get a phone that supports wireless AA on Android 10.
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My dealer said they could do the update for $140 even though i mentioned that it includes bugfixes and should be included with warranty work - they stated if nothing is technically wrong its not covered
Have you gotten any OTA updates? Assuming not, then I think the easy argument would be that you have "Remote Software Upgrade" included until xx/xxxx on your connected drive account, but you haven't been getting any updates, so you are requesting them to update it at the dealership, as there must be something technically wrong.

If you have been getting OTA updates, then I would side with them, and you'd have to wait until the 7/2020 updates start rolling out remotely (should start in November), or pay to play.
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anyone have issues after OTA updates to 2020/7? my SA said they have see many errors some preventing starting the car, needing a tow to dealer. said bring car in to update
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      09-22-2020, 04:28 AM   #77
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My 330e got update last weekend by dealer.

Most of AA functions work fine but while driving near the easy pass gate on the highway, the navigator will disappear and restart
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      09-22-2020, 05:57 AM   #78
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Well, now that my car got software v07/2020.45, I have finally gotten use of Android Auto.

I do like having access to Google Maps since its traffic display seems much more up to date. I still haven't figured out how to use Email however. Has anyone figured that out yet?

On my old F30 and on the '19 540 loaner I had while my car was in service, it was straight forward
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      09-22-2020, 06:41 AM   #79
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anyone have issues after OTA updates to 2020/7? my SA said they have see many errors some preventing starting the car, needing a tow to dealer. said bring car in to update
Nonsense, iDrive won't impact critical system such as engine start.
You can see there are sometimes iDrive crashed but still speedometer and others works fine. This is the regulation they need to separate them.
They simply didn't want to take the effort to upgrade your system. This is common in every countries.
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I really can't wait to try it out. Hoping that my trip to the dealer Friday will result in a software upgrade.
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OBD2

Hi friends, do you know if its possible using an OBD2, update the idrive version (from 03/2020 to 07/2020) by myself?
Here in Brazil the dealer doesn't have the update on their systems yet, i saw it myself while the guy opened BMW service software and there was no update available.
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Hi friends, do you know if its possible using an OBD2, update the idrive version (from 03/2020 to 07/2020) by myself?
Here in Brazil the dealer doesn't have the update on their systems yet, i saw it myself while the guy opened BMW service software and there was no update available.
Indeed upgrade is using OBD2, however do you have tool and also firmware to do that?
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Indeed upgrade is using OBD2, however do you have tool and also firmware to do that?
No, ehehehhe. Hope someone does and point me where i can find that.
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Finally got Android Auto in Sweden as well. Sadly it was done by the dealer and not by OTA.

First thing I notice is that the 330e anticipatory drive does not work with Google Maps nor Waze. Which kind of defeats the purpose of using AA if going on a long drive.
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fkyang ,
I have found having Android Auto very convenient, if for no other reason than easy access to Google Maps -- though as I said earlier, sure wish there was a way to tie in EMail (like I had in '14 F30)

I noticed in the pictures you posted that the horizontal tach showed up in your HUD. My HUD tachometer doesn't work in Sport only, but does for All the time. Is that what you had it in?
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Does the Google maps navigation show in the instrument cluster?
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fkyang ,
I noticed in the pictures you posted that the horizontal tach showed up in your HUD. My HUD tachometer doesn't work in Sport only, but does for All the time. Is that what you had it in?
Tach in sport only works for me on 3/2020.69 however there are multiple reports that it's a bug in 7/2020 where the tach only shows on the HUD if you have it set to show in all modes.
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Does the Google maps navigation show in the instrument cluster?
Only the arrows. Not a full map. See my pictures few posts earlier.
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