After reading the US BMW blogs, quickly updated my iPhone 4S to IOS6 as soon as available and noticed that I am now able to read and be notified of messages via my F30 320d's iDrive's Office. This is through connectivity through bluetooth. Not been able to connect emails yet.Has anyone been successful to get emails?
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Been looking at this since the ios 6 beta version testers reported that it could be done. Been reading that you have to enable a "Show Notification" function on the iDrive for the bluetooth phone configuration. I have not found this function yet. Anyone knows about this?
Jason
Jason
tcyeow;772921 said:
Have you gotten yours to work yet? ie mail and messages to appear in iDrive's office. My understanding is that the "Show notification" is an iDrive setting, would be glad to be wrong on this one as I cannot find it. I have already enabled all the required notification settings on the iphone, i.e.
Notification Center > On
Alert Style > Banner/Alert
View in LockScreen > On
Is there anything else?
Jason
whynmy;774958 said:Jason, i managed to get both SMS n email working. Hope this helps. Go to telephone, Bluetooth then press option button on our Idrive controller, choose configure Bluetooth then tick office
Done that.
But can anyone check if you have a show notification setting on the iphone. Iphone> Settings> Bluetooth (On)> Select right arrow on the BMW device name > Show notifications (On)
Jason
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if only i can get sms and email working on my galaxy note 1 - android 4.0.4
looks like its not possible right ?
looks like its not possible right ?
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taken from another forum
The quick and easy way to get this set up on your car is to do the following:
The quick and easy way to get this set up on your car is to do the following:
- Upgrade your phone to iOS 6
- If you have paired your phone previous, remove the pairing from your phone and the iDrive system just to start fresh.
- In iDrive go to Telephone -> Bluetooth -> Your Phone and the push the iDrive controller to the right to get to the main configuration screen
- Scroll down to Configure Bluetooth and make sure that the check box for "Office" is checked
- On your iPhone, go to Settings -> Bluetooth -> Your BMW and touch the blue arrow to go to the settings. Make sure that the Show Notifications slider is set to "ON"
- On your iPhone, go to Settings -> Notifications -> Messages. Make sure the following sections are "ON": Notification Center, Show Preview and View in Lock Screen. We also changed the alert style to Alerts in this section.
- After getting it all set up and testing by letting the phone lock itself (not pushing the lock button) and sending a text message from another device, it still did not work for us initially. This is the part about shutting off the car and walking away for at least 5 or 10 minutes. Maybe there is a bug that needs the connection to be severed and re-connected to make things work. It is sort of a mystery right now. After coming back and having a message sent the system worked and the notifications came through to the iDrive and were read aloud by the car.
