

- BMW IDRIVE UPDATE NO USB HOW TO
- BMW IDRIVE UPDATE NO USB FULL
- BMW IDRIVE UPDATE NO USB PORTABLE
- BMW IDRIVE UPDATE NO USB PC
I hope that hard drive you were using is an SSD.
BMW IDRIVE UPDATE NO USB FULL
This would just force another rescan as above, which eventually would stop but without any change to the listings.Īnd, then, once things started to duplicate, there was nothing I could do other than the reset all vehicle data to force a full reindexing. I could select them but obviously nothing would play. It would visibly scan through all of the songs, presumably trying to find one to play, and it even would recognize that the file was not there (i.e., the length of each song showed as 0:00 as it was scanning each), but still showed all the albums, cover art, playlists, track listings, etc. Additionally, when I deleted every folder but one album on the drive, it kept showing all 10,000 songs that were originally on the thumb drive. For example, if you change the title or cover art of a song in a file, it doesn't seem to always update (it was inconsistent, since a couple of albums did update and others did not) but when I added a new playlist, it recognized it and added it immediately. The problem is more about deletions and file updates. What happens when you've successfully indexed a drive full of music then add a new album to the drive? Will it be recognized or force a reset as you describe above
BMW IDRIVE UPDATE NO USB PORTABLE
I don't know if the center console USB port is not set up to send a wake up signal to the iPhone-the F15 would as soon as you opened the door of the car-or if it's something else, but I wonder if there is a similar reason for a portable drive not working. In the G05, I had to unplug it and plug it back in every time I started the car. I used to use an old iPhone as a music hard drive in my F15. It's solid, stays in the port well, and other than the indexing problem works great. Was the drive you referenced in the Amazon link the exact drive you are using?

BMW IDRIVE UPDATE NO USB PC
My drive is a Seagate 1 TB and I'm using a windows PC to xfer all my music from a network share where all my ripped CD's are organized and stored. I found that unlikely and I am currently awaiting delivery of my factory order to start tackling this. After some research, the Genius told me that idrive 7 doesnt support hard drives. The x5 wouldnt even recognize the drive when it was plugged in. I took my 1 TB usb hard drive with all my music to the dealership and put it into a showroom vehicle. Picking up my 2019 x5 in a couple of weeks. And, now I know what happens when you reset all vehicle data. Took me a bit to get everything back in order, but the flash drive fully reindexed and works great. Unfortunately, this means you have to reconnect your car to your profile, and you lose a ton of settings (e.g., seat memory, steering intervention settings, sound settings, map settings, customized control displays, etc.). Here's the solution, in case anyone else runs into this problem: you need to reset all vehicle data (under car|general settings).
BMW IDRIVE UPDATE NO USB HOW TO
I spoke with the BMW Genius and they had no idea how to help, and suggested I'd need to bring it into the dealership for service for this(!). That's when I ended up with duplicate file names. deleting all the music off the drive and reinserting. removing the drive, rebooting iDrive, and reinserting it. I couldn't find anyway to force a reindex a thumb drive. New stuff would be added, but not removed and updated files were not updated. I'd also tried to fix some cover art problems, but once the original file was loaded, it wouldn't update. I ended up with duplicate playlists in my listing of playlists, for example. Any updates were added, but nothing was taken away or reindexed. As I went between the two drives, iDrive cached all of the information from both. One was organized slightly differently as I was trying to see what would be the best way to organize things on the car. The only change I needed to make to playlists after exporting them from iTunes was to remove any local drive info (i.e., remove "D:\music" from "D:\music\itunes\music", as noted in the link above) in a text editor. I was able to maintain my (sub)directories and add a playlists directory. Now, it works with drives formatted withe either exFAT and NTFS. I followed a lot of the info here but iDrive has changed quite a bit since then. I've been able to load a hefty amount of music on a 512GB drive USB-C drive. I thought I'd post the solution in case anyone else finds themselves in this boat.įirst, some background. I was searching for an answer to this problem and couldn't find a solution on the interwebs.
