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Bluetooth Retrofit: E90 335i with iDrive, Phone prep, Voice control, and USB
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02-06-2013, 06:30 PM | #133 |
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All 2009 328is have telephone prep right? Mine isn't listed but I have MULF with usb/ipod idrive, hdd and idrive. I have a telephone button to.. I don't have to run another mic wire do I since I have voice commands?
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02-06-2013, 06:47 PM | #134 | |
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If you have voice command, I'll assume you also have iDrive? That means you have a mic, but it's more likely connected directly to the CIC than it is to the MULF. If you have phone prep, you can repin the mic in the junction box area from the CIC to direct to the MULF. If you don't have phone prep, you definitely have to run a new wire. It's probably easier to run a new wire either way. I've personally done my car (328i 2009 no idrive no prep) and one other (335i 2009 idrive don't recall prep) and ran wires for both of them. |
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02-06-2013, 07:08 PM | #135 | |
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02-06-2013, 07:17 PM | #136 | |
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But yes, anyway, all you need is the mic and to run that cable. I ran under the headliner, down the driver's A pillar, through the dash down into the pedal trim by the FRM, under the scuff plate, past the B pillar, up under the seat and into the trunk. Search around, there's lots of info on all of this. |
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02-06-2013, 08:46 PM | #137 | |
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02-08-2013, 01:53 PM | #138 | |
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So I am out there dropping the trim pannel and I don't see where this MOST connector is. Also, I assume all cars with MULF2 have that extra cable that runs from the mulf over to the trim panel? I guess the phone prep has more to do with having the mic? |
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02-08-2013, 02:10 PM | #139 | |
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What's probably easiest is if you just yank up the trunk floor and take a picture for us. I will say: If the SA says it's easy AND HAS ACTUALLY LOOKED IN YOUR TRUNK, you probably have phone prep and everything's... easy. HOWEVER: I had an SA once tell me "retrofit bluetooth? your car already has it!" "Uh, no it doesn't, it's a base model and that's an option it doesn't have." "No they all came with bluetooth in '09 on." "No, no that's just not correct." "Let's look... Huh, that's weird, it doesn't have bluetooth." Then he never called back to actually let me know what they'd charge to retrofit. Point being, with exceptions for the type of info only available to BMW employees, this forum knows collectively more than plenty of SAs. |
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02-08-2013, 02:28 PM | #140 | |
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So yeah I read on page one lol and I have the same cable set up as this guy. I have sat prep and no phone prep so it looks like this cable in the back runs up to the shark fin for sat prep. Anyone know the name of the cable they use for the blue tooth annetna. I have a feeling I can get it cheap at frys but don't know the name. |
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02-08-2013, 02:41 PM | #143 |
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Okay, so sat and no phone prep, it's by far easiest just to run a new mic cable. The antenna cable you're talking about is SMB. The cable will need to be a female plug on the MULF side to mate up. I assume it'll need to be female on the antenna side, too, but I didn't use the stock antenna. I bought a $5 RP-SMA duck antenna, SMA-SMB adapter, and SMB female to SMB male extension to go from the mulf to the adapter to the antenna.
If you've got the antenna already, can you post a picture of the connector on it? RE: range to the front - if you leave the antenna in the trunk, it'll probably work fine. But it IS highly directional and the coverage pattern is optimized to be in the cabin where it normally goes. |
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02-08-2013, 04:06 PM | #144 | |
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lol I figure a wifi antenna would work wasn't sure tho.. Wish I would have thought about that before I dropped 35.00 on this one. The one I have is the same one on page 1.. Looks to be female |
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02-08-2013, 06:49 PM | #146 |
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Not for cheap, anyway. China's your only real bet. You can almost certainly find something on mouser or digikey, but they don't have many full assemblies and if/when you find one after a few hours of searching, it'll be at least 10x the price you'll pay on ebay.
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02-09-2013, 02:51 PM | #148 | |
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Just buy it on eBay for $5 and wait the 10-15 days. |
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02-09-2013, 03:10 PM | #150 |
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I didn't. The adapter at frys is irrelevant. It's just the only thing at any physical store anywhere that actually has an SMB plug at all. I'd link you the cable I bought on eBay, but it's a m-f extension, thus not what you need. Although you may, since finding an F-F cable long enough to go trunk to dash will be hard. Unless you're definitely just leaving it in the trunk.
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02-10-2013, 09:22 PM | #151 |
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like what alex has said, it's cheaper to buy from eBay. when i did my retrofit, my local stockiest helped me order a short facra cable from BMW germany. but somehow, they can't even find the cable in stock even in germany. so i ended up buying one from eBay since the ones i could find in store were like 4 to 5 times of what i would had paid for on eBay.
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02-11-2013, 11:23 PM | #152 | |
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What really started to piss me off is these SMB connectors are used in sirius radio, usb and blue tooth antenna. So why is the part impossible to find? Oh and it was funny I was calling places that do XM radio installs to purchase the cable. None of them had it but it is kinda impossible to do an antenna run without these connectors. One guy wouldn't even let me finish before he said he doesn't carry the cable. If you install XM radio you have the connectors. I even described the cable and what it was used for on installing XM radio.. |
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02-12-2013, 02:27 AM | #153 |
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Thing is, that cable has the connector in question, but still isn't the proper cable. It's also not like every xm product is the same.
Not sure why you didn't just suck it up and order on eBay, the splice job could cause signal integrity issues |
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02-12-2013, 11:26 AM | #154 | |
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