The factory OEM screen display from BMW X5 E70 and X6 E71 can be upgraded with an aftermarket Android head unit now. If you are thinking about replacing the factory radio with a screen upgrade, this post is helpful for you to choose a right model and tell you how to install such a head unit easily.
Which screen upgrade is the best for my BMW X5 E70?
Firstly, the best BMW X5 E70 screen upgrade should be easy to use. And it should fit your car perfectly and looks like factory OEM head unit, so it looks natural after you installed it in the car.
Secondly, the new BMW X5 E70 screen upgrade should be able to display factory menus including car information and radio, CD interface. Besides, it should support steering wheel controls and rear view camera video displaying.
Thirdly, the new head unit should add more features like GPS navigation system, USB connection, Bluetooth phone, Bluetooth streaming music, Wi-Fi connection, Apple carplay, and even more.
This BMW X5 E70 Android head unit meets all the above advantages, just click it to visit our site to learn more features and specifications about this BMW X5 E70 screen replacement to upgrade your stereo.
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How to confirm if the BMW X5 E70 screen upgrade fits?
Well, this android screen unit was developed special for BMW X5 E70 and BMW X6 E71 with a 6.5 inch small screen or 8.8 inch large screen. For different factory screens the settings are a little different which can be done in factory settings. So you should better tell us your factory screen size or send a dashboard photo for us to check for you.
Besides, the LVDS plug may be different. For a new model BMW X5 E70 or X6 E71, the original LVDS plug is round, while the old model is with square LVDS plug, so you’d better send us another picture from your LVDS plug for us to check further, the main unit is different for different LVDS plugs.
So, before you do a head unit upgrade, if you need us to confirm if this head unit fits and works with your car, you can send us your car information including:
- car model, manufacture year
- a dashboard photo from your to show us your factory screen
- a photo from your LVDS plug behind the factory screen
Don’t worry, it’s easy to remove factory screen. You can follow this video which shows you how to remove the factory BMW X5 E70 screen.
You can send your car information to us by sending an email to sales@dvdgpsnav.com.
How to install this BMW X5 E70 head unit?
The first part of installation instructions will show you how to take out the factory screen. Then you can connect the new plugs with your factory BMW X5E70 plugs, and the other plugs to the new head unit. You can check steps one by one as follows:
- Firstly you will need to remove the factory screen. Use a pry tool(if you don’t have it, you can also use a straight screwdriver) to pry the bottom of air vents.
- When it’s loose, then you can pull out the air vent panel, unplug cables behind, leave it aside, then you will see 2 screws at top which fixed the factory screen.
Use a cross screwdriver to remove 2 screws at top, so that you are able to take out the factory screen. - In this step you will need to take out the climate control panel and radio/CD, see the 2 screws at the top? Just remove them to take out the climate control panel and CD unit.
- Unplug cables behind, there are 2 new adapter power cables to connect the plugs behind, see below picture:
You can click the above picture to for larger view.
Plug 1: connect it with your factory wiring harness which was connected to the back of CD before.
Plug 2: connect it with the back plug behind the factory CD.
Important Note: If there are fiber optic cables from your factory wiring harness, you will need to move them to our new plug at the same location!
If not, the factory function will not work properly. Please pay attention to this. - There are other plugs with different colors, red, green, blue, grey, white, and black, here’s a picture showing you how to connect all of them, please check carefully and don’t connect wrong!
- If you want to connect an aftermarket reversing camera, there’s a green cable with yellow end to connect the video input from the camera, and there’s a loose REVERSE wire which should connect the trigger line from the camera.
Power for the camera: You should get the power for the reversing camera from your car’s 12V reverse light, NOT from the 12V red and black wire from our unit.
- As for the other separate cable with a blue plug, only if your aux wires don’t go through factory CD, or there’s no sound after installation, then you can use this cable:
Plug 1 and 2: connect your aux plugs in the armrest, firstly you will need to unplug the aux plugs in the armrest, 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 power cables, red to red, white to white.
Note: the above red and white aux plugs were connected wrong! The red plug should connect the other red plug, so does the white plug.
If you follow these steps carefully, you should be able to install this BMW X5 E70 head unit upgrade easily without a problem. Installation is not difficult for a professional car stereo shop, if your installer has not installed such a unit before, we highly suggest you sending this installation instruction to him before installation.
If you still have any questions, just feel free to contact us, you can take some pictures for us to check, we will do our best to help you.
Hi. I have connected the fiberoptik but still no sound from the system ??
Is there a setting I miss .?
The aux from the car is working , if I connect the aux to the phone it works from the cars aux port
My car is a X5 /E70 with CCC system
Hi, your plug behind the factory CD may not come with aux wires or aux wires in different position. I searched your email and name but did not find your order with us, please contact your seller for help because your unit may be different from ours.
What is the factory code setting in this a andriod radio? Is there am /fm in this unit?
There’s no FM/AM radio function from this Android unit because it keeps using the factory radio. You can send us an email so that we can send you the password for factory settings.
Hi, when you said it uses the factory radio, are you saying it only produce the radio sound and cannot produce the radio display? How am I able to change the station then?
Also, will the iDrive still functioning as to the original set up?
Hi, your car does not have factory screen, so there’s not factory menus, so it can not display factory menus. Your radio and idrve work the same as before. All your factory functions are supported.
Habe you only the cable lvds old version?
cables for CCC system with LVDS square 10 pins and CIC or NBT system with LVDS round 4 pins are both available.