Whats with the removable bluetooth screen thingie?

[JP_The_Grey]

Hi guys,

Just received my My12.5 Polo GTI and the touch screen thingy is rather disturbing.
This post has certainly cleared things up a little bit and thank you all for the helpful info.

Is there a chance of removing the Touch screen adapter, leaving the cradle on, but having my Samsung S3 connected to the Bluetooth and MDI without reprogramming with VCDS? When unplugging the Touch adapter, I couldn't get my phone to pair up with the bluetooth inside the car, or would the dealership know how to disable the touch screen, so I could just connect via bluetooth?

Cheers,

Hi djwiso, it's almost like you've read my mind!
I'm about to pick up my car (77TSI w RCD510) and was wondering the same thing - I'm in the market for a new phone as well so this would help me figure it out as well.

Thanks!
JP

[Karl]

I removed the touch adapter from its cradle and paired my iPhone 4s to car easily. It works fine, mine never complains, not sure why people need to VCDS program? Just like any car you can pair multiple devices and it searches for whichever is in range.
I believe maybe when people say their car is asking for touch adapter it is simply because it could not find any phone via Bluetooth at all(phone may not been ready, Bluetooth signal poor?), disabling touch adapter via VCDS probably means it just says no phone found message instead of a touch adapter message?
I've also bought the iPhone cradle, great for seeing it and charging and u can use Siri or standard voice control on phone if u don't like the car one.
I can put the touch adapter back in any time too.
The question I can't answer is under which configurations does the system use the cars rooftop mobile phone antenna? Do you need a rSIM compatible phone for this ? Does it require cradle? Or is it Bluetooth?
K

[readerr0r]

The question I can't answer is under which configurations does the system use the cars rooftop mobile phone antenna? Do you need a rSIM compatible phone for this ? Does it require cradle? Or is it Bluetooth?
K

Yeah it uses it when you have a rSAP capable phone, which is a hard thing to find these days since neither iOS or Android support it natively (I had no love with rSAP Server for the iOS either, which required a jailbreak). I haven't had a chance to test it with an rSAP phone (most nokias can do it), but I can only assume since they went to the trouble of wiring up the antenna (and the BT unit has an antenna port in the first place).

[ill0gitech]

I removed the touch adapter from its cradle and paired my iPhone 4s to car easily.

I was able to pair my phone when the touch adaptor was installed, and it worked when removed *BUT* I constantly had a notice on the MFD to reconnect the touch adaptor.

[readerr0r]

Yeah that's what the VCDS coding removes

[Karl]

I was able to pair my phone when the touch adaptor was installed, and it worked when removed *BUT* I constantly had a notice on the MFD to reconnect the touch adaptor.

I guess I must be lucky my MFD just shows my iPhone details.

[k0e1]

Yeah that's what the VCDS coding removes

This is the code that readerr0r has kindly provided within this BT touchscreen sig

To deactivate the touchscreen warning, first make sure your phones BT is off. It'll reject the coding if its connected to something.
Load up VCDS -> Select Control module -> 77 - Telephone
In Telephone go select coding and enter...

0A00000000000010

To deactivate A2DP (which stops the iPhone cutting out on MDI) and touchscreen warning enter this code instead.

0A00000001000010

I will be going to the dealership tomorrow and hopefully they will be able to do that. Shall let you guys now how it ends up. Just a quick question what does "stops iphone cutting out on MDI " refer to? Is this to allow for theiphone to charge in the MDI and at the same time connected to the BT to make calls etc

[readerr0r]

Just a quick question what does "stops iphone cutting out on MDI " refer to? Is this to allow for theiphone to charge in the MDI and at the same time connected to the BT to make calls etc

It's more of an issue with the iPhone, it routes through whatever was most recently connected. So when you plug the iPhone into the MDI unit, it'll play through that for a few seconds. But then the BT unit connects to it and takes priority over the MDI. The headunit doesn't notice this happened and still uses the MDI which now has no sound.

Anywho it basically allows you to use the BT for calls and the MDI for charging/music. But it does disable the BT Audio function, which may be annoying if your friends want to play songs or whatever.

[k0e1]

Just got back from the service centre, all good got the auto-locks, BT removal (however he did say that code was the old one but not sure what was old about it, however it was done in the end), the only problem was the voice help button didnt turn into a mute button just simply made it non-functional. So not sure what happened there. But thanks to readerr0r for the codes =D

[Savant]

Great to hear that it all worked properly (apart from the help button).
Gonna do the same to mine.....when I get it