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Originally Posted by edelossantos
I have a 2011 E92 without iDrive. I have the new iPhone 5s and the lightening adapter. I can connect my phone via Bluetooth (and make voice calls), but when I use the Y-cable to playback music I get inconsistent issues. Forwarding to the next song using the steering wheel controls sometime repeats the song. Also, I noticed a slight lag on the radio displaying the title of the song (going from one song to another). On the way home tonight, all it would display is "loading".
Not sure it's the cable of adapter?
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It's not the type of issue I've ever seen or heard of in a Y cable specifically, but it's certainly the type of thing that could pop up if you have a bad serial chip in the Y cable. And the cable gets temp cycled really hard inside a car, and I wouldn't be surprised if the cheap Ebay cables are built with counterfeit chips to begin with (usually parts that don't pass testing at the factory, but work well enough to fool you). It could even be something like a crappy solder joint, I've certainly opened my cable to resolder it because of intermittent connection issues.
Bottom line, it seems crazy, but you've only got $20 to lose trying a new cable, and it's probably the most likely culprit.