09-28-2015, 08:25 PM | #1 |
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How do I stop music (iDrive) from turning off?
Can't figure this out; when I am sitting in my car with the engine off, how do I prevent iDrive from turning off?
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09-28-2015, 10:20 PM | #2 |
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It shuts off after a certain amount of time to preserve your battery. Just press the ignition button without your foot on the break to turn it back on.
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I find this dumb. The car KNOWS I am still inside. The doors haven't been opened. The key is inside. I bet there are pressure sensors in the seat too. |
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10-01-2015, 02:35 AM | #5 |
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If you press the radio on/off button it comes back on ,so you can use the radio and sat nav,but not all the functions as before.It then doesn't switch off again
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Falling asleep happens, but it is a much more (like, 100,000 x) common scenario that someone would want to sit in the car for 10-20 minutes waiting (e.g. picking up your spawn) and listening to music/radio. This is just bad design. It might be a minor thing but this happens to me at least once every weekday, it is getting old fast. No other car I had / have had this issue. |
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You realize that feature is not limited to BMW. Many cars keep the radio on and window switches active until you open to door or a certain amount of time elapses. The answer to your issue is 1) keep the engine running or 2) press the start button again with your foot off the break and your radio can keep playing. |
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10-01-2015, 06:44 PM | #9 |
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^^ I agree. Doesnt seem like that big of a deal to me. Press one button, and voila...back on. Only time where this can be annoying as well is if you're using the stereo to listen to music while washing the exterior of the vehicle. I gave up on this, the auto shut off made it painful.
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10-01-2015, 08:01 PM | #10 | |
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I can press a button to turn the music back on, but that is not the same thing. I know this is how it is designed and my opinion is that it is a suboptimal design. There are better ways to protect the battery, as I noted above. Or it could just let me press OK during the warning screen to cancel turning off. Last edited by realsgy; 10-01-2015 at 08:58 PM.. |
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10-02-2015, 06:13 AM | #12 |
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My mom's porsche does this as well along with my new f150. It's quite normal and simply there to conserve the battery. Just press the damn button to turn it back on, seems like such a stupid thing to be worried and aggravated by.
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This annoys me, because I need to deal with it every day, and it takes 10-15 seconds for my phone to reconnect. Sometimes it fails to reconnect automatically, and I have to fiddle with it. Sometimes the phone plays a bit more of a podcast before it realizes it disconnected, so I miss a sentence or two and need to rewind. All this for nothing. There is no benefit. As I said above, I call BS on the battery protection claim. Give me a realistic scenario when this protects the battery. (Note: driver is in the car, never left or even opened the door.) This is just bad design. |
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10-03-2015, 05:28 PM | #16 |
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Ummm, that's called wasting gas. So it's 75 degrees out and your waiting for your wife, etc. And want to listen to the radio, your going to leave the car idle for 30 minutes?
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10-03-2015, 06:06 PM | #18 |
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As others have said, it's a battery/anti-stranded safety net. What if someone is waiting for an hour in the dead of winter and they let their kids watch a movie on iDrive? Battery will run down quite quickly if the shutoff doesn't happen. Should people be smart enough to start the engine for a bit before shutting down again and using iDrive? Sure, but not everyone is attentive like that. Now that you mention that you're using your phone to stream, etc. realsgy you have a little more going in your favor due to the disconnects vs the annoyance of just listening to the radio/satellite directly. Have you updated your BT firmware to the latest?
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So, while it's a not huge deal for me, and I am "OK" - wow how annoying. Especially when waiting in the car and watching a movie. When the message "iDrive will soon shutdown etc..." shows up - THAT should be the time to press a button (the radio ON button works of course) to interrupt a fully shutdown of the system. From the warning message shows up and blocks the screen view + your waiting time until you actually can press the ON button + until the system is up and ready again - is simply too long. Must be an easy software fix for BMW - if they wanted. Best Bent |
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10-03-2015, 07:15 PM | #20 |
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I left my parking lights on the other day and came back about 2hrs later, still on. I guess safety over rides my listening pleasure. Maybe I could run a power wire from the parking lights to the radio. Lol
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Shutting down while I am sitting in it is what I have problem with, I expect more intelligence from a car that can read road signs and park itself. |
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