Sep 13 2017
Smart Guide Before Buying Aftermarket BMW E60 Android Stereo Head Unit
Are you interested in upgrading and replacing the factory BMW e60 stereo with an aftermarket Android head unit? If your answer is yes, you should check these things before buying, follow these guides will help you a lot to get the correct unit for your car.
How does an aftermarket BMW e60 stereo head unit look like?
You can buy it from this website: https://www.dvdgpsnav.com/aftermarket-bmw-e60-android-head-unit-gps-navigation-bmw-e60-radio-upgrade-dvd-optional.html
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A video show of this Android BMW E60 head unit.
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How to check if my BMW e60 has working aux?
Factory aux is very important for BMW e60 which wants to be upgraded with an aftermarket navigation head unit, it doesn’t matter if your e60 has factory navigation or not, but aux is important, why? Because the sound transfers to your car speakers through factory aux mode, if your car does not have aux, you need to get a small amplifier to transfer the sound, or you can coding aux from BMW.
If you don’t know how to check if your e60 has aux or not, you can follow these steps:
Firstly, for e60 with factory aux, usually there’s Aux port at the back of car armrest:
Secondly, you should be able to see aux option from your factory screen menus:
This aux option should not with grey color and you should be able to enter into aux mode, please check below photo with aux mode:
Besides, if you connect your phone with a aux cable, the music sound from your phone can come out from car speakers.Overall, if you are able to enter into the aux mode as above and can play music with your phone via aux, your car has a working aux.
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My car does not have aux, can i still install it?
That depends on, if you can make sure your car does not have aux function and not with fiber optic amplifier, you can still install this BMW e60 android head unit, just remember to choose the option of small amplifier, which is used to transfer the sound from the new unit to your 4 car door speakers, and make sure your car does not have fiber optic amplifier, because the small amplifier option does not work with the fiber optic amplifier. Our small amplifier connects to your 8 speaker wires from factory wiring harness behind the radio/CD directly to get sound, so the sound does not go through factory amplifier or subwoofer if your car has it, so the sound quality may not so good compared with sound quality from radio or CD if your car has more than 4 speakers or amp or subwoofer.
How to check if my e60 has fiber optic amplifier?
You can try to take out the factory radio/CD, and check the plug behind, if there are 8 speaker wires from the plug, that means your car does not have fiber optic amplifier, check this photo:
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Difference between BMW e60 with factory 6.5 inch small screen and 8.8 inch large screen
Our BMW e60 android headunit fits and works for BMW e60 with 6.5″ and 8.8″ factory screen. Most BMW e60 come with factory small 6.5 inch screen, and there are also some with 8.8″ large screen, please note the factory settings are different for different factory screen sizes, the new screen is with large 8.8″ HD 1280*480 resolution capacitive screen, so you’d better send us your screen photo to us, so that we know the screen size and send you the correct model with correct screen settings.
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My BMW E60 comes with a Voice button near the MENU button from idrive controls, can i install this unit?
If there’s a voice button near your MENU button, we have another new similar unit works for your BMW e60. You can contact us to learn more of the new e60 android head unit for your car.
Conclusion
These are four important aspects you should check before you buy an aftermarket BMW e60 stereo head unit, if you follow the above guides, you won’t get a wrong product, and it can save you much time for installation, how to install BMW e60 android head unit? That’s not difficult for a professional car stereo shop. Besides, if you or your installer has any questions while installing, you can also contact us, we will do our best to help you.
Sep 26 2017
DIY Installation Instructions of 10.25″ BMW F30 Touch Screen Android GPS Navigation System
For those who own a BMW 3 series F30/F31/F35 or BMW 4 series F32/F33/F36 and want to upgrade the factory small 6.5 inch/8.8″ screen head unit with a larger touch screen GPS navigation system, an aftermarket 10.25″ touch screen Android GPS navigation unit is your best choice, which allows for a big step forward in your display and navigation & multimedia system no matter if your car comes with factory navigation or not.
This 10.25″ touch screen Android BMW F30 GPS navigation head unit is available here: https://www.dvdgpsnav.com/10-25-inch-android-bmw-f30-navigation-gps-radio-upgrade-aftermarket-head-unit-system.html
How to install this Android BMW F30 GPS navigation touch screen head unit?
Well, before the DIY, you should at least know some electrical acknowledges at least, if you have installed a similar head unit before that would be great. Please remember doing the work slowly and carefully, don’t force anything and don’t rush. If you have any questions while installing, just stop it, then contact DVDGPSNAV for help, you can take some clear photos to show and explain all your doubts or questions. If you are really don’t know how to start and have never installed an aftermarket head unit before, just ask a professional car stereo shop to install it for you, the installer should be responsible, because he may not install such a unit before and he may have a question while installing, a responsible installer is willing to ask for a help from the supplier of your Android head unit.
So let’s get started.
This is the factory display which will be upgraded with a new 10.25″ larger touch screen
You need to unplug the harness behind the CD, so you have got 2 plugs, one female wiring harness and one male plug behind the CD, connect the female harness with the new male plug, connect the male plug behind the CD with the new female plug.
If there are green and black fiber optic cables from your factory wiring harness, you will need to move them to our new plug at the same position, if not, there will be no sound or the unit will not work properly. Gently lift the indicated tab, and slide out the connector for the black and green optical cable, then install the optical cables in the same position in the male plug of the provided adapter cable.
Important note: Please check the connectors carefully, then you will see every plug is different, make sure you don’t connect wrong, and don’t use force to push the plug into the connector, if the plug matched, you should be able to push it into the connector easily.
Note: You can click the above image to view larger.
Note: If you have connected the 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, if you need more info about the relay, you can contact us we can send you some pictures.
After factory aux mode has already been activated, if still no sound, that’s because your aux wires don’t go through factory CD or factory Aux wires from the plug behind the factory CD don’t match our aux wires from our plug, so you can connect factory 3 aux wires(red,white and black color) with our new aux wires directly to get sound, or you can use our special aux-adapter cable to connect your 3.5 mm aux port directly:

Some Useful Instructions after installation
With this new 10.25″ BMW F30 touch screen, you are able to see original menus and new menus, the original menu is controlled the same as before, new menu are touch screen operation.
How to switch between original menu and new menu?
Original menu to new menu: long press the “MENU” button for about 3 seconds.
New menu to original menu: Just press CD, RADIO or MENU.
If you want to hear the music sound from new unit, you need to turn to original AUX mode firstly.
How to turn original menu to AUX mode?
In original menus: select CD/Multimedia > External devices > AUX front > AUX active > Volume.
Note: The AUX volume may not so loud as the radio or CD’s volume, so you can turn the AUX volume from low to highest.
If you want to listen to radio or CD and new navigation sound at the same time, you can follow these steps:
All in all this isn’t a hard project but just a little detailed if you haven’t done this kind of work before. You can send this installation DIY guide to your installer before installing. While installing if you or your installer still have any questions, you can take some photos for us to check, DVDGPSNAV will do the best to help.
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