MDI niggles

[ConR]

I just got rid of my iPhone cos i had enough of Apple and bought a Nesus 1 Google phone and loving it.

I'm with you on that....HTC Desire on it's way for me!!!

[kennyc]

I'm with you on that....HTC Desire on it's way for me!!!

Cool, let me know how you go with the MDI, usually if the phone rings it should ring through the car speakers untill you pick up. I want to know whether it works for on the Desire.

[hazamatic]

Not sure if my MDI is dealer or factory fitted. It's in the glove box, what does that mean?

Also, are SDHC cards supported? When I put mine in it doesn't seem to detect it? Do the mp3s have to be in a certain directory?

[alebonau]

Not sure if my MDI is dealer or factory fitted. It's in the glove box, what does that mean?

Also, are SDHC cards supported? When I put mine in it doesn't seem to detect it? Do the mp3s have to be in a certain directory?

If in the glove box that's dealer fitted. The factory one comes in the little cubby hole behind the hand brake.

[alebonau]

Re the iPod not switching off and draining itself to death after switching the car off. One thing I have found is that the iPod does automatically pause itself when you switch from media to say fm or am radio. So what am going to try is for the next week or so hit the fm button before switching the car off. See how the iPod goes and check whether it drains itself or not.

Otherwise been really happy with the iPod as media source and works a treat in the golf

Ok think am on a winner, basically if I have the radio on, the iPod goes into charge mode and appears to go to sleep when switch the car off woo hoo ! Yippee ! Hope not spoken too early hehe !

[night_flight]

I am not sure about the experience of 3GS + MDI + IOS4 but 3g is not going good with iOS4 and MDI. Problems such as MDI saying "device not supported" and sometimes nothing showing up on MDI (iphone restart needed), also resume ipod music play does not work often going back to the SAME SONG (top of songs folder)...awful skipping of the songs, and sometimes song title completely diff to what the song is playing. previous version of iphone soft. while not perfect worked much better. I guess MDI will have to be updated soon or perhaps IOS4 ironed out.

[G-rig]

dont know why people don't just leave an 80-160gb iPod in the car.. would be annoying to unplug your phone every time you jump out of the car. Just a thought

[night_flight]

well personally I like using iphone as it charges my phone on the go, I have same playlists when I drive and when I am in the gym, if I need to use tomtom the voice is spoken via car speakers, if I get a call ipod is muted and can use my jawbone bluetooth....this is why I like using iphone and mdi.

[alebonau]

G rig is exactly what am doing with my iPod touch. Remains permanently in the car hooked up to the mdi iPod interface. And can confirm works just a treat. There's is only the very tiny skip at the start of tracks, bit like dropping a needle on a record hehe, but yeah otherwise there's no delay or anything. Night flight sounds like integrates pretty well with the iPhone too !

[Pepe]

Or if you're happy with 32GB and want it on the cheap, just buy a SDHC card Or, want to have more music than it would take to get the car to 100,000km? Buy the USB MDI connector, then buy a 750GB 2.5" HDD and throw it in there I guess you don't get playlists, but you can sort the folders how you want them.

[MkVIGTI]

thank god I haven't upgraded to iOS4 then

[Mk6 GTI]

thank god I haven't upgraded to iOS4 then

Mine was crap even before OS4.. skipping cutting off first second of songs etc. Basically crap. Apparently VW in Germany says we are suppose to put iphones in airplane mode while plugged in. So basically you can only use ipod not iphone. Its mukkled up my RNS510!

[G-rig]

The new firmware mostly fixes that but still getting a gap between tracks.

sounds like bs as my iPod does it too, haven't tested the iPhone much.

[Mk6 GTI]

The new firmware mostly fixes that but still getting a gap between tracks.

sounds like bs as my iPod does it too, haven't tested the iPhone much.

Yeah i cant be bothered anymore, i just dont use it at all. Hopeless.

Its even done something funny to the ringtone i get with the BT. Doesnt sound the same. Anyway ive taken the car back too many times and ive only had it three months!

[G-rig]

It's not that bad lol, you either have something faulty or your Bluetooth unit is screwing it up.

What Bluetooth btw, and have you updated to the latest MDI firmware?