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      12-13-2020, 10:02 AM   #1
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Drives: M2c / mach e
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Force Wired Carplay?

Hoping the forum can help me with a dilemma. Did a quick search on here with no luck. Basically would like to force carplay to run through USB rather than wifi. Based on my understanding, this is not possible natively. Is there a coding option to make this possible?

And for those wondering, a few reasons I would like wired:

1. Audio quality: when I plug in and play music through iDrive, there is a significant improvement in audio quality vs carplay

2. M Laptimer +Gopro. I need to connect to carplay/ wifi to allow me to run my M laptimer in iDrive... this makes it so I can not connect to my GoPro's wifi to sync up the video. Quite the oversight and looks like BMW hasn't updated Laptimer on iOS for 3 years...

3. General instability: Works well 90-95% of the times, but sometimes has issues disconnecting from my home wifi and getting on carplay... when in congested areas with a lot of EMI (airports etc) the audio cuts in and out.

4. I plug in anyway to charge my phone because the wireless charging is out of place and overheats my phone
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