I ordered this, installed it in my 2012 Q5 Audi. charges my phone/ does not play music. The screen says "this is not a supported device". What's up?
1031340
What type of phone? If it's android you need to make sure the option to connect as USB is enabled.
1031341
I had the same result. Very annoying. If you already have the older cable you just need to buy the adapter from Apple. Wish I knew that before I ordered this.
1031342
I use this cable with an external hard drive loaded with music. It's not made to play music off of a phone. You need a different cable for that. I have a separate cable that connects to the dock connector on my iPhone 4S. I don't know if they make a cable yet for the Lightning connector on the iPhone 5/5S.
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You need to format your USB device with FAT32 if i remember correctly. NTFS may not be supported so just plug in to your computer, right click and hit Quick Format.
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I had similar issue with an external hard drive that I wanted to use to play music. The Audi system only works with certain formats, according to the car owner's manual. I had to reformat the hard drive as FAT32, then it worked.
744442
Since the MMI programming is different for each car there is no way to know except through Audi. On my 2013 A4 the MMI could see the hard drive on the phone, I never checked if it charged via the cord
1612627
I had to buy the dock and the cigrette adapter. The origfinal dock with the stock radio was incompatible withh the new adapter. You must buy both together, which I found out after I purchased just the dock. Must say, though, my radio is working again without taping the audio cable to dock!!
198640
Do you have the same sort of plug in your glove compartment as this one with an iPod male plug? If yes, I have the same setup in my 2008 Audi A6 and it works well for me to connect to my Android via the headphone jack. Hope this helps.
943755
I just bought this and tried it on my 2008 Audi A4 with Symphony II+ radio with OEM 30pin iPod connection, and it does not work. It is powered and pairs with my phone, but the radio does not recognize it when music is playing from my phone. Note that this is radio is before the new Audi MMI interfaces came out.
1483116
The cable doesn't work at all. Tried it in 6 different Audi's and they all show an error
921082
I love the head unit but im pissed, I bought it hoping to use the Mirrorlink with my new S5 and it dosent support it yet. Ive updated the software and firmware twice and still no support. Im waiting for it to work. Yes it will charge.
115580
Not sure about your Audi, our vw allows control from the stereo interface from the car or from the iPhone itself.in fact we use the lightning adapter on this cable with the new iPhone
446392
It worked in my 2011 A5 Quattro with the MMI audio and navigation system. I just replaced the cable and was able to play music, Pandora and Rhapsody from my phone.
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I just tried it on my 2013 Audi A4 (B8.5) with MMI, and unfortunately it does not work. It lights up, it lets me pair with my iPhone6, and it shows it is connected on the phone, but on the Audi MMI screen it shows a message that it is initializing the device. I could not get any sound to come from it at all.
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Probably not...it won't play anything through my speakers in my car, on my dock, nothing. It charges, and very poorly.
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It will charge your device but it won't play music. You need to have an AUX jack to play music
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I have a 2012 335i with BMW Apps and the dealership sold me the model ending in 308. Will NOT work with my year model. My dealership apologized and said the correct one is not released yet. Sounds like the other writer here said it might come out in the next month or so!! I sure hope so. When you spend $60k on a car, you would think they would get their act together. Hurry up and wait. My older iPhone 4 worked great with the previous adapter!!! I was listening to radio stations from all over the world.
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No. I never could get this to work in my car, the charger it's self seemed to small. I never had the compability message because I never got it to work. Will plug into a iPhone 5 though.
575115
You should call the Dension Gateway support. The unit I got was compatible to a point. Bluetooth did not work because of a firmware issue, this is the older unit and is not getting any updates. so before you spend the money call the support folks. they do reply to email as well. adds the ipod to my systems and still allows for steering wheel controls, my car is a mercedes, 2006, R500.
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Thus did not work for me. I had an iPod extension cable in my car connected to the back of the radio but wanted to be able to use other music playing devices like Android phone or my children's players so thought having a regular 3.5 audio plug available would be great but the convertor did not work. Spent money and time and it seems all I got was disappointment.
200220
i have a q5, 2012 and it works fine. idk if the ports are all the same. good luck