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      12-16-2013, 11:44 PM   #52
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Drives: 2011 BMW 328i
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Originally Posted by alexwhittemore View Post
THERE'S your problem, sparky!

If the device is asking to trust the computer, I'm pretty confident that means the phone is seeing a native USB connection, which implies you have not-the-right Y cable (the right cable has a USB-Serial converter, the phone wouldn't know it's plugged into USB, or indeed a computer of any sort). Which seems pretty unbelievable, since you got it from the dealership. But nobody's perfect. Does your Y cable look (exactly) like this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BMW-iDRIVE-I...p2054897.l4276

If not, it doesn't have the right electronics internally.

Incidentally, I just found this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/281216401551?lpid=82

I wonder if it works, or if it's BS. Might pick one up just to see, but I don't know of any lightning male-female extension cables in existence, so maybe I won't.
It doesn't look EXACTLY like that - I've attached a photo.

The cable didn't come in any packaging - I kind of got the impression it was one the dealer had lying around.

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