Built in ipod/iphone player help !

[Greenwood]

Hi guys,

In my glove box i have a built-in ipod/iphone player however i cant seem to get it to work ? i have pulled it out to check if it's connected and it seems to be ? no options seem to come up on my headunit aswell ?

Any suggestions please ?

Thanks Alex

 

[MorkC68]

Have you tried pressing the CD button twice?

From radio mode - cd button once goes to CD, press again to change to CD Changer or, in yours (and my case) to switch to iPod mode

 

[Jet2004uk]

silly question, what head unit you got, are you pressing the cd button on the unit? I have a concert II and I have to press the cd button to play tracks off my ipod

 

[Greenwood]

Have you tried pressing the CD button twice?

From radio mode - cd button once goes to CD, press again to change to CD Changer or, in yours (and my case) to switch to iPod mode

no i havn't mate but ill try it and see if anything happens

silly question, what head unit you got, are you pressing the cd button on the unit? I have a concert II and I have to press the cd button to play tracks off my ipod

i have a RNS-E head unit pal, sorry didnt forgot to put it in the post

 

[Jet2004uk]

Give the cd button a try

 

[Greenwood]

Have you tried pressing the CD button twice?

From radio mode - cd button once goes to CD, press again to change to CD Changer or, in yours (and my case) to switch to iPod mode

i dont have a button that says cd though, the only buttons i have are; Radio,Media,Name,Tel,Nav,Info,Car and setup ?

im guessing it will be the media button ?

 

[Jet2004uk]

Not having the same unit as you I cant help, press every button lol I have the same dock in the glove box you say its lighing the ipod up so I assume its wired up to the back of the unit, are you using an ipod? if so what generation, mine will only work with certain generation ipods

 

[MorkC68]

Mines a Concert II as well!

 

[Greenwood]

Not having the same unit as you I cant help, press every button lol I have the same dock in the glove box you say its lighing the ipod up so I assume its wired up to the back of the unit, are you using an ipod? if so what generation, mine will only work with certain generation ipods

ive just been trying to plug my iphone 5 in with an adaptor

 

[Jet2004uk]

ahh ok, that can be hit and miss sometimes, is it a cheap adaptor or proper OEM one?

 

[Greenwood]

ahh ok, that can be hit and miss sometimes, is it a cheap adaptor or proper OEM one?

its just some cheap crap mate haha ill have to find an ipod lying around and try it

 

[Jet2004uk]

I would mate, I have a crappy 2nd gereation one only 8 gb, ideal for leaving in the glovebox all the time tho

 

[MacrosTheBlack]

Most likely your 3rd party Apple Lightning adapter mate. Only the proper apple ones work for full audio support and control. Got a proper apple myself in my car and works fine with the AMI and RNSE from my iphone5. But yeah maybe just grab an older ipod or iphone to double check it all works before buying the proper adapter. Last time I checked the proper adapter was £5 cheaper on Amazon than from Apple.

 

[Greenwood]

Most likely your 3rd party Apple Lightning adapter mate. Only the proper apple ones work for full audio support and control. Got a proper apple myself in my car and works fine with the AMI and RNSE from my iphone5. But yeah maybe just grab an older ipod or iphone to double check it all works before buying the proper adapter. Last time I checked the proper adapter was £5 cheaper on Amazon than from Apple.

Cheers mate I'll have to hunt for one and try it

 

[MacrosTheBlack]

Oh and if it's the older style ipod system, like the one in your first post, its utter cack anyway and just works by treating your ipod/iphone as a CD changer and using the first 6 playlists as though they were CD's. So no track info or ID3 tags etc. Just track 1,2,3,4,5....etc Terrible system and that's what my car had originally from Audi.
Then Audi brought out the AMI system and I had NHN (user on here) upgrade my system to this. Then you can at least see all the music and track details. Still pretty basic compared to a lot of third party headunits, but it's the best option if you want to stay OEM.

 

[martin_s3]

Mines works when u go into cd changer but doesn't come up playlist or track names just cd 1-6 which is quite annoying..

 

[Greenwood]

Oh and if it's the older style ipod system, like the one in your first post, its utter cack anyway and just works by treating your ipod/iphone as a CD changer and using the first 6 playlists as though they were CD's. So no track info or ID3 tags etc. Just track 1,2,3,4,5....etc Terrible system and that's what my car had originally from Audi.
Then Audi brought out the AMI system and I had NHN (user on here) upgrade my system to this. Then you can at least see all the music and track details. Still pretty basic compared to a lot of third party headunits, but it's the best option if you want to stay OEM.

Ahh that's abit rubbish then mate, I'll probably just leave it then and pretend it's not there haha, I use my SD card slots anyway

Mines works when u go into cd changer but doesn't come up playlist or track names just cd 1-6 which is quite annoying..

I'll stick to the modern days haha SD cards all the way !

 

[martin_s3]

Yeah less hassle mate lol. I'm just goin to wire up my aux and stick with that I think ha!

 

[Greenwood]

Yeah less hassle mate lol. I'm just goin to wire up my aux and stick with that I think ha!

Haha that's the way forward pal !

 

[MacrosTheBlack]

Yep SD slots are the best really! What I use on mine day to day, as I even though I've full AMI now, I can't be ***** to keep plugging the iphone in and leaving it in the glove box.

With the RNSE Mk1 you can get 2 x 4GB SD cards. If you have the newer MkII (which sounds like you have as you've got the media button) then you can max it out with 2 x 32GB cards which is as much as it will support.