Morning all,
I am new and very excited to be here - bought my first GTi on Wednesday, a very beautiful dark blue 2008 5-door with pretty much all mod cons. Am deliriously happy with it and falling more in love with it by the minute.
But there is always a 'but'.
The car had the sat nav upgraded by the previous owner to an RNS510 unit which is ace, but he seems to have chosen the non-bluetooth version. There is an Apple 30-pin connector in the arm rest which I haven't tried but suspect is disconnected as there is a second MDI connector in the glove box. I have tested this with the wife's iPhone and it works fine BUT I am an Android man and have a Galaxy Note 3 with oodles of music on it...which I can't play.
Using the MDI cable in the glove box I've tried the following:
- connecting a bluetooth receiver that I normally use with my Bose sounddock but this did not work
- connecting a "Cablejive" apple-to-android lead that I used to use with my Bose sounddock; this was nearly successful as if I turn both phone and head unit up to max you can hear the music but it's very distant, almost inaudible and tinny-sounding so not a go-er. So close!
- broadcasting from my phone using a Kensington FM transmitter but the radio couldn't find the signal.
So all in all I am a bit stuck. I could put the music on an SD card but would rather use my phone. Can anyone help? Having just spent quite a lot of money buying the car I'm keen to avoid having to spend lots more money obviously!
Any assistance very gratefully received.
Big thanks in advance...
