Want to keep your CD changer & connect an ipod or USB device? no problem

[mikeythemini]

Is that 1st & 2nd

[S33BBY]

Quote: Originally Posted by t400 (original)

ley me know when uve cracked it,,,and ill be 1st in the que!

Hey, I was before you!

[t400]

stop pushing in you little scamp!!




dunno how im in the que twice!


i think it shows how keen i am!

Mikey, can you just explain how it fits together?

does it plug into the cd changer prep cable?
does it charge the ipod too?
do you need the cd changer fitted or just the prep?


t800 ( ha ha see what i did there)

[t400]

please tell me how this wizzardry works!

[Daaoak]

Hi Mickey,

Is this easy to connect? Like plug and play?

Have waited for a divice like this long time...

Daaoak

[pardonator]

Does it charge the ipod as well?

[mikeythemini]

yes

[lingus]

Hi Mike
The USB2 interface you have how easy is it to install? do you have any DIY info for this yet? i have a samsung K5 not ipod so i could see this better for me.

Thanks
J

[Richard_P]

I don't see why the Gateway won't display text on the Nav system, I can however see why you might think there is a problems with it!

When you load the Gateway text selection file from a USB stick the Gateway will display text in three different ways at the same time, asking you which you want to select by pressing the number that you can see in the location you want. This is all well and good, but there is a flaw in the mechanism.

The three places that the Gateway displays text are as a Phone message, on the Nav screen and on the MID (BMW 5 Series). The problem is that the text you see on the Nav system is the phone message, which always overrides the Nav system, I think that this text mechanism is number 1. The Nav text is, I think, number 2, but you can't see it because of the phone message text.

Try loading the text selection file on the USB stick, then select text type number 2 and see what happens.

I've not used a Gateway 400 on a Mini, but I can't see why it would work on the BMW Nav system (in an E46) and not on the Mini.

[S33BBY]

Quote: Originally Posted by Richard_P (original)

I've not used a Gateway 400 on a Mini, but I can't see why it would work on the BMW Nav system (in an E46) and not on the Mini.

Mike will know why.

[Richard_P]

Quote: Originally Posted by S33BBY (original)

Mike will know why.

Maybe someone would like to say if they have tried what I suggested.

[mikeythemini]

Quote: Originally Posted by Richard_P (original)

I don't see why the Gateway won't display text on the Nav system, I can however see why you might think there is a problems with it!

When you load the Gateway text selection file from a USB stick the Gateway will display text in three different ways at the same time, asking you which you want to select by pressing the number that you can see in the location you want. This is all well and good, but there is a flaw in the mechanism.

The three places that the Gateway displays text are as a Phone message, on the Nav screen and on the MID (BMW 5 Series). The problem is that the text you see on the Nav system is the phone message, which always overrides the Nav system, I think that this text mechanism is number 1. The Nav text is, I think, number 2, but you can't see it because of the phone message text.

Try loading the text selection file on the USB stick, then select text type number 2 and see what happens.

I've not used a Gateway 400 on a Mini, but I can't see why it would work on the BMW Nav system (in an E46) and not on the Mini.

Because of the way the ibus works the displays on the Mini - it sees them all as the same so it doesnt work - we have been banging our heads about this one for ages