Hi all,

When I bought my BMW E60 (525d) last week, I was wondering if the iPhone was able to connect to the car via bluetooth.

BMW told me that they will give out an adapter for the iPhone but this will only work with cars from 09.2007. My BMW was build in 2006.

Yesterday I powered down my bluetooth headset while I was in the car and started to check the bluetooth status inside the settings of the iPhone. I was surprised to find a Bluetooth device "BMWxxxx". After connection, setting PINs and reentering inside the NAVI Professional I have the following features inside the car:

- iPhone connected to cars speakers and microphone
- full list of addresses inside my iPhone available through voice dial and Navi-Screen
- display of signal strength in Navi-Screen
- incoming/outgoing calls fully working
- seems to be a better connection (using cars antenna?) - less signal dropouts in this area

and best: it's for free!!! They normaly charge you 75€ for the adapter. OK I cannot charge it through this adapter but who cares.

BTW the iPhone does not seem to provide a device name (BMW shows "NoName")

it's work with GPS Garmin 760

Originally Posted by ronin74

Hi all,

When I bought my BMW E60 (525d) last week, I was wondering if the iPhone was able to connect to the car via bluetooth.

BMW told me that they will give out an adapter for the iPhone but this will only work with cars from 09.2007. My BMW was build in 2006.

Yesterday I powered down my bluetooth headset while I was in the car and started to check the bluetooth status inside the settings of the iPhone. I was surprised to find a Bluetooth device "BMWxxxx". After connection, setting PINs and reentering inside the NAVI Professional I have the following features inside the car:

- iPhone connected to cars speakers and microphone
- full list of addresses inside my iPhone available through voice dial and Navi-Screen
- display of signal strength in Navi-Screen
- incoming/outgoing calls fully working
- seems to be a better connection (using cars antenna?) - less signal dropouts in this area

and best: it's for free!!! They normaly charge you 75€ for the adapter. OK I cannot charge it through this adapter but who cares.

BTW the iPhone does not seem to provide a device name (BMW shows "NoName")

Great news!!!! All I need now is a BMW E60!! :p

So ur not using this adaptor but ur bluetooth is connecting to your BMW
is ur iphone unlocked/jailbroken?

Originally Posted by lordofdaflies

So ur not using this adaptor but ur bluetooth is connecting to your BMW
is ur iphone unlocked/jailbroken?

Why does it matter? unlock and jailbreak have nothing to do with bluetooth.

The adapter isn't for handsfree use. The adapter will allow you to interface an iPod with the radio and access your music library using iDrive. You'd probably still have to use bluetooth to connect the iPhone to the handsfree system, as the iPod adapter is just that - an iPod adapter.

Originally Posted by vineetmanghani

Great news!!!! All I need now is a BMW E60!! :p

me too .. anyway thanks about the news !! :p
i got 2Door E46 with no bluetooth unfortunately

Originally Posted by kankon

it's work with GPS Garmin 760

Can you confirm which functions work with the Garmin 760?

it's very normal .. jist set on blutoothe gps garmin then go to iphone and set on blutoothe then you can see name blutoothe gps

It also works in my 2006 BMW Z4 Coupé 3.0si (MK4 Nav with BT) and with my Kenwood DNX7200 Nav in my Peugeot 207 :-)

Got to say, it´s the best connection ever (best speech quality) compared to Motorola, SonyEricsson and Nokia phones...

Greetings from Germany :-)

Nunki