Glad it's worked out.
If only other IOS users would accept there's an issue......
Thank you.
The music thing, which started this thread, I can live without. The iPhone’s habit of not remembering the bike’s local wi-fi network was just annoying.
In my mucking about I have though discovered one thing. There are lots of moans on the internet that the wi-fi connection to the bike is irregular. I think the reason might be a simple one. It seems that a lot of owners are:
A. Using iPhones, where the problem of re-establishing the handshake between the bike’s wi-fi and the phone is more pronounced.
B. Not keeping the phone in the bike’s cubbyhole. The bike’s wi-fi signal / range is quite weak. A phone in a jacket pocket or a pannier can sometimes start to be out of range. 1600 owners should, I think, use the dedicated cubbyhole.
My straightforward tips are therefore:
1. Buy a reconditioned or secondhand S10. It is cheaper than a dedicated sat nav. Just use it for navigation or use it as a phone as well.
2. Don’t bother with a SIM card, unless you want to use the S10 as a phone, too. Me? I still remain fearful of relying exclusively on a single phone for navigation / calls / internet browsing (and everything else a phone does) so I have my separate iPhone just kept in my jacket or tank bag. I have also plumbed in my XT but that is chiefly because I am also testing the beta version of the BMW Connected app, where it is handy to compare the two.
3. Use the BMW branded charging lead and the bike’s cubbyhole.
4. Set the S10 so that it doesn’t go into sleep mode. As it is being charged by the bike when connected to the charging lead in the cubbyhole, this is not a power issue.
5. Get to know how the BMW Connected app actually works, its strengths and weaknesses, along with its use with the whirlywheel thing.