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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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?
Sorry, if there’s a voice button near your MENU button, our unit does not work, so you should not install it.
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.
Jan 16 2019
Solution For No Sound After Installed BMW E60 Android Head Unit
Are you trying to install an aftermarket BMW E60 Android head unit but no sound comes out from music or video playing while testing? The sound from factory radio and CD player works well, just no sound from Android screen. Don’t worry, if you follow instructions provided in this post, you can get sound with this solution.
How To Find Out The Exact Problem?
The next step is checking Aux wires from original wiring harness behind the factory radio and CD. Make sure your aux wires match the new aux wires in the same position. Few BMW E60 comes with aux wires in different position or without aux wires from the plug behind the radio. You can check our aux wires from our plug as below:
Our aux wires are with red, white, and black color, 3 wires in a group. Compare your plug with our new plug to check the 3 aux wires in the same position. If your aux wires are not matched, or your plug does not have aux wires, then you can try our solutions.
This picture shows you the original wiring diagram from BMW E60 E61 radio module M-ASK and CCC.
Check connector B, pin#2 is AUX Left audio, pin#7 is AUX right audio, pin#8 is AUX ground.
So you can check if your aux wires are in the position as above. If not, you can move them to the same position as above. While if there’s no aux wires from your plug as below:
Here are 2 solutions for you.
First solution:
This is easier, you can buy a aux adapter cable from us. So you can connect it directly with your aux jack in the armrest or at the rear of armrest, which means our unit connects to your aux directly without modifying wires.
Second solution:
Since you have already known how does the sound work, and know you will need to connect your aux with our aux wires, you can also splice our 3 aux wires from the blue plug and connect them with a aux cable.
Splice red, white and black wires, connect them with a cable as below. Then connect that cable to your aux jack.
Feedback from one of our customers in Norway:
I sort thing out. Must mods the black, white and red plug from your unit harness into a aux cable. Then connect its to my aux in inn the armrest. I got sound in that way.
For customers in Dublin, Northern California, USA, close to San Francisco, we have a recommended shop for you. They have already tried and proved the second solution successfully.
If you have any questions, you can leave a comment below or contact us directly.
Last modified: January 17, 2019 By hinav Posted in BMW, Solutions • 0 • Tags: bmw e60 android head unit, no sound