Will that make the laser lights work?

 

With anti-dazzle decode removed, it will work like Bimmercode, but you'll only need to do it once and only in one place.

 

Crazy, too, since my wife’s Mazda has it!

 

Ya, my fiance’s Lexus NX has traffic sign recognition too, and selective high beam headlights enabled (they’ve recently become legal in Canada). I wish BMW would update their rules. I’d love to get traffic sign/light recognition like some Europeans get.

 

$110 for it. Seems fairly reasonable.

 

Excuse this ignorant plebe, but does this also require an obd adapter?

 

Yes. Their adapter is $65 or so shipped.
I'm waiting on my adapter. I bought the app.

I also own a legacy version of Carly.
I have Bimmercode and now BimmerUtility.



2023 M50 - Tanzanite over tartufo full individual leather, 20" wheels, fully loaded.

 

Subscribing, I haven't recoded anti dazzle after the last OTA. If BU can do VO then I'm willing to spend a few more bucks to get it.

 

I didn’t recode after the last update but did today. Went through flawlessly.

 

Subscribing as I have neither and will want to do some minor coding...

 

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Does the app require it's own reader or will others work with it?

 

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There're a lot of things can be done, like coding your dash display as M3 dash display, but it would also break something along the way since it wasn't designed to display it on the i4. Here's someone coded his i3 (China full electric G20 3 series) to M3 display...

Do you happen to know the original source?
Tried looking on xiaohongshu but couldn't find any more information.

It seems that the values on the cluster correlate to an electric vehicle (power, KW,), but I can't find the exact coding in BU nor BC.

 

Are there any community tested standard coding options or does it just give you access to the control units to make the changes? Similar to BimmerCode Expert Mode ?

 

It has comfort and expert mode just like BC.

 

What does one need for connectivity to use this on Android? I have an ENET cable that I used in the past with E-SYS. If I get a USB-C Ethernet adapter and plug it into my phone, can I just use my existing ENET cable?

I really am missing having anti-dazzle done by VO coding like I did on my previous car.

 

Sometimes I wonder whether it is actually meaningful to get de DAPP function in certain countries. And Belgium is one of them. If you look at it: no reversing assistant (although my bro has it in his X3), no lane change assistant, no traffic lights recognition....
Strangely enough, I would think traffic light recognition is a safety feature. I mean, your car would automatically stop for a red light. But, oh no, we will not allow that...crazy!

 

BU is not a standalone tool, it is an easy to use front end for coding that leverage esys for coding. You need Esys installed on your computer for BU to work. As far as VO coding, the reason it does not stick is probably whoever did the coding did not write the VO change to FA. However I read that if you change the VO and write to FA the dealer can detect coding was done on the car and can refuse warranty. With BU, it is easy to recode so not a big deal.

 

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Wasn’t aware of the change to BU. Used it last month and was still using Esys, it is great that they did away with Esys and added phone apps.
What I meant is that for example when I remove 5AP, I go through the motion of VO coding - edit the FA, calculate, code modules.. But I never save the edited FA back to the car. This was discussed as the recommended method in the other forums to prevent dealers from detecting coding and refused warranty.

 

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just be aware that all factory options (and probably dealer retrofits) are also saved in BMW servers and from this point it's quite easy to detect any "unoffical change" by simply comparing server version with car version. Hence the recommandation to avoid VehicleOrder/FactoryActivation directly.

 

I noticed that with the new update, they turned on the external speaker while the car is in parked, and seems they raised the volume as well. Would BU allow changes to the external speaker?

 

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But as been reported by many, your modified VO will get uploaded to the server eventually, and reflected on the car image.

I would not imagine this being an official policy, but dealer courtesy could do this on specific cases and HQ approval is needed (or at least was needed in the past afaik)

 

Can someone with BC or BU please do me a big favor? Can you check under MGU expert mode>Navigation and see what value do you have for the followings or if you even have these entries at all? Thanks!

ADAS_Max_SL_Mes
ADAS_Min_SL_L

 

Can someone with BC or BU please do me a big favor? Can you check under MGU expert mode>Navigation and see what value do you have for the followings or if you even have these entries at all? Thanks!

ADAS_Max_SL_Mes
ADAS_Min_SL_L

Where do I find this? I did go looking, but I'm very unfamiliar with BimmerUtility and how it surfaces things (I ended up using both it and BimmerCode to get my car re-coded post update). Let me know how to find it and I'll let you know what mine says.

 

In Belgium (and I suppose in other countries too) it is not only BMW that makes sure everything is correct in your car options list. Lease companies also look at what is installed.
I once drove an Opel Vectra with simple 17" wheels (250/50) while my boss drove an Opel Signum with 19" wheels (235/35).
My boss didn't like his wheels because they were damaged all the time during parking (hitting the curb stones all the time). One day he got a brand new set of 4 wheels. He asked me to swap them with my 17" wheels. Of course, I agreed !!!
But then, one day, I got a flat. Well, when I tried to get it fixed, that company needed an agreement (price) from the lease company, and they told me they couldn't do it because it was not my original tire... So we had to swap again...

 

Here is a snapshot of all ADAS parameters in the MGU

 

PSA -
I like the ability to filter in BimmerUtility, BimmerCode has no such function so you are relegated to dig through menus of crap.



2023 M50 - Tanzanite over tartufo full individual leather, 20" wheels, fully loaded.

 

Hmmmm...

I managed to somehow turn off the welcome and farewell tones. I didn't mean to do that. I had played with the sounds by trying Mini and Rolls Royce profiles, but only noticed the loss of the welcome/farewell after changing to Rolls Royce. Changing back to BMW didn't bring it back. I had also changed the iDrive welcome to ///M, but that didn't seem to do anything. Changing it back to BMW i didn't bring the tones back.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

PS Loving the real blue ambient color! Weird to have it show up when set to Citrine, but I'll take it!

 

I have to back and look.
I managed to turn them off also but I was able. To turn them back on.


2023 M50 - Tanzanite over tartufo full individual leather, 20" wheels, fully loaded.

 

Well, VO coding did not work like I expected it to. TIme to go look up how I do the anti-dazzle with VO coding. I removed the decode option, but that didn't do anything else, so now I'm assuming I have to code the individual variables as well, which frankly was a surprise. If you know how to do this or how it works, please post here. When I figure it out, I'll post, as well.

 

I haven't done VO coding on the i4 yet, but when I used VO coding for anti-dazzle on my previous 3-series, all I had to do was remove 5AP and 8S4 and apply the VO coding to the right modules (FEM_BODY and KAFAS2 on that car). The i4 doesn't have 8S4, so I'd assume that you would just have to remove 5AP.