BMW R1200RT/R1250RT Forum

Just joined this forum today!. I would like to play music from my iPhone 5C on the RT speakers as well as have the functionality that the USB port is supposed to offer. However, I now understand that you need a speciality cable from BMW to connect to the adapter port in the right hand case. Anyone know where you can pick up on of these cables?


Tks

cykins wrote: Just joined this forum today!. I would like to play music from my iPhone 5C on the RT speakers as well as have the functionality that the USB port is supposed to offer. However, I now understand that you need a speciality cable from BMW to connect to the adapter port in the right hand case. Anyone know where you can pick up on of these cables?


Tks

Try the dealer!
;-)

Thanks for the heads up.......was wondering if that cable and iPhone 5 fits into that compartment?
Also, do you have full functionality that the USB is suppose to provide?

The other issue I have is that I live in Canada and not sure if this cable from Ebay can be delivered here.


Thanks again!

yeah.  just bought new loaded 16 RT.  i asked the salesman about cable, right pocket, plugging in my phone.  "Oh sure, that's what it's for."
got it home.  didn't fit in right pocket.  called dealership.  now the story goes that NOT ALL phones will fit.  I am B.S.  3rd year of this model
and he/they at the dealership knows exactly which phones will fit in the ridiculously small pocket with the ridiculously large cable.  BMW needs to
make a larger pop in container.  It's only a 6S IPhone.  Not the giant one. 

I've managed to fit my 6s into the right hand pocket - here's how.


Purchased a Mini (BMW) usb/aux to lightning cable - it's smaller and neater than the BMW one and works perfectly.


Warm the cable with a haridryer near the lightning conenctor, not too much - then gently form it into a U, bending the cable back on itself as tight to the connector as you can, secure with a small cable tie. This allows enough room length ways for the phone and connector to fit.


Warm the cable again, plug in the usb and aux and arrange the cable in an anti clockwise loop so the main body of the unit lays as flat as possible in the pocket.


The lightening connector should end up near the lock end of the pocket, facing towards the front of the bike.


Insert your phone, making sure it sits onto on top of the lip in the pocket and connect, close the lid


Hope this helps

I bought the dealer cable for my I-Phone 6, fits in the compartment fine, also full control of songs/ playlists etc through the audio system

Why not just buy a USB stick for next to nothing and leave the phone in your pocket.

What's so special about the mini/BMW connecter? I tried my standard plug today for grins and it didn't work.  Any idea if the ones on the US Amazon site will work?  Just don't want to buy something that doesn't work....

PatriotBMW wrote: What's so special about the mini/BMW connecter? I tried my standard plug today for grins and it didn't work. Any idea if the ones on the US Amazon site will work? Just don't want to buy something that doesn't work....

It works. 

I used thhttp://www.amazon.com/Goliton%C2%AE-iDRIVE-ADA ... _o03_s00is ...Worked perfectly on my ipod. Why not just use a usb stick well first you have to listen to mp3's I prefer music in a lossless format and it just doesn't work as well as my ipod.