May 17 2017
BMW E84 X1 Android Screen Upgrade Navigation Installation Instructions
A new pure Android screen navigation head unit for BMW X1 e84 is available now. Compared to the old Wince version of BMW X1 navigation system, the new Android screen comes with modern Android display, 1024*600 HD resolution capacitive screen, Wi-Fi and Mirror-Link function.
Android 10 OS
8 inch 1024*600 HD resolution capacitive screen, touch screen
Quad-Cores 1.6GHz CPU processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB Flash(8-Cores 32GB+4GB optional)
GPS navigation, Bluetooth, USB, SD, WiFi, Mirror-Link, Apple Carplay/Android auto optional, etc
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It supports Apple Carplay as well.
How to install this BMW X1 Android Screen Navigation?
Installation is very easy if you have experience before for a similar head unit. You can download the installation manual directly to check the detailed step by step instructions. No matter your BMW X1 navigation unit is with Wince system or Android system, BMW X1 android screen install is more or less the same.
- Use pry tool to disassemble the trim strip at right, then pull out the air vents, disconnect cables behind.
- Remove 2 screws, then take out the storage compartment, disconnect the cable behind.
- Then pry the plastic strips from right to left, take it out, put it aside.
- Now you can pry out the climate control panel, unplug cables behind.
- Next step is to detach the factory radio/cd. Pay attention to 2 screws, remove these screws, so that you can take out the radio and cd.
- Disassemble the decorative bar below the shift gear, use a pry knife to pry it out from right to left, then pull it out, so that you can easily install the new control box, please mind the cable for the control box.
- Disconnect your factory wiring harness from the back of radio/cd, then connect your female plug with our new male plug, connect your male plug at the back of radio/cd with our new female plug, there’s a 2 pins small plug which should connect our small speaker.
Attention!!!
If there are fiber optic cables from your original plug which connects to the back of your factory CD, you need to move the fiber optic cables to our new plug and connect them to the same position on the new plug, see below picture:
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If you did not move the green and black fiber optic cables to our new plug, you will hear heartbeat sound coming out from car speakers after installation. - Connect all cables, including power adapter cables, red/green/blue/grey plugs, USB cable, control knob cable, GPS antenna, WiFi antenna, RCA cables.
P.S: Just click the above picture for larger view.Blow photo showing you how to connect red/green/blue/grey plugs, and usb cable, control box cable.
You can run the USB cable into the glove box from the inside of dashboard.Pay attention to left side of the unit, so you can see the connectors for GPS and WiFi antenna, pull out the red cover so that you can connect the antenna:
- If you need to connect a back up camera, there’s a green cable for rear view video input:
If you connect a back up camera, you also need to connect this BACK wire:
Note: If you don’t connect a back up camera, you don’t need to connect the BACK wire.
For some BMW models, it can not get stable 12V voltage from the reverse light to the camera, it may be flicker screen or no signal while reversing, the solution is by connecting a relay, this has been proved by many of our customers.
Operation Instructions for this Android BMW X1 E84 Android Screen Upgrade:
- If you want to listen to the radio sound and gps sound at the same time, you can let the gps sound comes out from the small speaker, and radio sound comes from car speakers, how to do that?When the unit plays radio, firstly press this CAR button, then press NAVI button, so the gps sound will come out from our small speaker, and the radio sound comes out from car speakers, see below pic:
- Please note the music sound from the new Android BMW X1 navigation unit should be transferred to your car speakers through your car’s aux mode, if you don’t turn to aux mode and turn up the aux volume, there will be no sound for USB playing. If you don’t know how to activate the original aux mode and how to turn up the aux volume, just follow these steps:Firstly press the AUDIO button from your original CD, then you can turn to AUX function via the right knob, and change the aux volume, make sure it’s not mute.
Note: The aux volume may be lower compared to the radio or CD volume, so you’d better turn up the aux volume to highest level. - If there’s still no sound from our music playing after you turn up the aux volume, your aux wires may not go through factory cd, then you can contact us to get a aux adapter cable to connect your aux directly to get sound.
Below is that cable with a blue plug, only if your aux wires don’t go through factory CD, then you can use this cable:
Plug 1 and 2: connect your aux plugs behind your aux port, firstly you will need to detach your aux module, then you can see aux plugs behind, then connect 1 and 2 with them.Plug 3: connect the back of the new main unit where the blue plug should be.
Plug 4: connect 2 female aux plugs from the aux cables(behind our android screen), red to red, white to white.
Note: there’s also a small black 2 pins plug from the blue plug(this picture does not show), you should connect it with our small speaker.
The BMW E84 X1 Android GPS Navigation can also support an aftermarket reversing camera, which can automatically work after you put in reverse gear. If you are interested in a rear view camera as well, you can measure the dimensions from your trunk handle to check if this BMW trunk handle back up camera fits your car.
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May 19 2017
How to Install Android BMW E60 Navigation Head Unit?
As the 5th generation of BMW 5 series, BMW E60/E61 is available from 2003 to 2010. Compared to BMW E39, the dashboard for BMW E60 always comes with a 6.5 inch or 8. 8 inch factory screen. If you have a BMW E60 or E61 without navigation system, you are able to upgrade the original screen unit with a modern looking UI Android BMW E60 navigation head unit now.
How does the Android BMW E60 navigation look like?
Android 10 operation system
Octa-Core 1.5GHz CPU processor
32GB Nand Flash, 4GB RAM
8.8 inch HD capacitive screen, 1024*600 resolution
Inbuilt GPS, Bluetooth hands free phone calling, Bluetooth streaming music, USB, Wi-Fi, Mirror-Link, etc
Keep original radio, CD player working
External one din DVD player optional
Apple carplay and Android auto optional
For more information about the Android BMW E60 navigation unit, you can check it here: https://www.dvdgpsnav.com/aftermarket-bmw-e60-android-head-unit-gps-navigation-bmw-e60-radio-upgrade-dvd-optional.html
How to install BMW E60 Android navigation unit?
Here’s a video showing you BMW E60 radio removal, and you can follow the below steps one by one.
Move the 2 fiber optic cables to the new plug at the same position, make sure they are well connected!
Connect the new plug with 2 fiber optic cables to the back of factory CD/radio, see below:
Note: You should also connect the GPS antenna, WiFi antenna at this step, GPS and WiFi antenna can be put at top right corner of dashboard. And connect the loose black wire to the iron of LVDS plug, very important!!! you should firstly connect the black wire to the iron of LVDS plug before turn on the unit! see below:
Don’t worry about the future maps update, you can copy new maps from USB to the sd card.
Note: the small speaker is not necessary anymore, so we don’t add it in the package, as the navigation sound can come out from front left car door speaker.If there’s no sound after installed the small amplifier, the small amplifier should not be activated, you can follow these steps: firstly turn off the car and take out car key, unplug the red power plug from the main unit, then disconnect the 2 plugs for the small amplifier, then connect the 2 plugs for the small amp again, finally connect the red power plug(the red plug should be the last to plug).
Firstly the camera should be powered with your car reverse light.
Secondly, there are one green cable with RCA connector to connect the video input from the camera, and there’s a loose REVERSE 倒车控制 wire which should also connect the red trigger line from the camera.
Only the above 2 cables need to be connected from the unit for the camera.About wires diagram of the camera to be installed with this BMW e60 head unit, please check below photo.
Note: If you have connected the backup camera correctly, but still no signal or the display is not stable, that’s because the voltage from your car reverse light is not stable, you can connect a relay to solve this, it has been proved by many of our customers, if you need more info about the relay, you can contact us we can send you some pictures and feedback from our customers who’ve used a relay for the camera.
If you have installed a few units yourself over the years, following step by step installation instructions here you won’t have a problem. Please send this installation guide to your installer before he installs the Android BMW E60 navigation head unit for you. If your installer still have questions, you can take some pictures for us to check, we will do our best to help.
You can also download the entire installation guide here, however, installation instructions from this post are more detailed as we will update this post from time to time to add more information which our customers will frequently ask, so you’d better printing the how to install guides on this page directly.
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