Bought the expensive Audi iPhone cable..

[slowguy]

Trying to figure out why the cable I purchased only charges my phone and nothing else. Was there no reason to purchase such an expensive cable? I'll be getting a newer iPhone soon but right now I'm using a 5s and the cable I purchased from what I read is yellow-based one ending in AL. Plug in, and nothing. Still need to use Bluetooth. Damn expensive phone charger.

[zcd2.7t]

Trying to figure out why the cable I purchased only charges my phone and nothing else. Was there no reason to purchase such an expensive cable? I'll be getting a newer iPhone soon but right now I'm using a 5s and the cable I purchased from what I read is yellow-based one ending in AL. Plug in, and nothing. Still need to use Bluetooth. Damn expensive phone charger.

Maybe a dumb question, but did you select the proper "source"?

[slowguy]

Ok. Maybe I'm not making the correct choices in function but I played Pandora and was able to select it as a media source. Is that all it will do? There is no phone function while plugged in that only works in Bluetooth. And...if Bluetooth is on at the same time as it's plugged in it will tell you this does not work. Either it must be unplugged or turn off Bluetooth. So as far as I can tell, this $60 cable only allows you to charge and display Pandora or MP3 covers? Same can be done with Bluetooth the only difference is artwork is not displayed for media?

[2wookies]

I was rather let down with mine when I got it, and if you don't turn off Bluetooth audio it really messes up. Also not a fan that it keeps trying to play from my library and not from Spotify when it's on.

[Alister]

I primarily use mine for charging, but do occasionally play from my iPhone's music library accessing it via the MMI's Media menu (with source being iPod).

[zcd2.7t]

Ok. Maybe I'm not making the correct choices in function but I played Pandora and was able to select it as a media source. Is that all it will do? There is no phone function while plugged in that only works in Bluetooth. And...if Bluetooth is on at the same time as it's plugged in it will tell you this does not work. Either it must be unplugged or turn off Bluetooth. So as far as I can tell, this $60 cable only allows you to charge and display Pandora or MP3 covers? Same can be done with Bluetooth the only difference is artwork is not displayed for media?

It allows playing of music that's on the phone, with access to the albums/tracks via the MMI controller. If you don't want/need access via MMI, then you don't need the cable, because the rest of the functions are available via Bluetooth.

On a related topic, I'm working on mirroring my iPhone screen to the MMI display so that I can use Google Maps for Navigation. I bought stuff from Amazon based on another thread here on AZ, and it works when the car is stationary, but I still have to enable Video In Motion to complete the mod. I'll post a full write up with pictures once complete...

[richib86]

It allows playing of music that's on the phone, with access to the albums/tracks via the MMI controller. If you don't want/need access via MMI, then you don't need the cable, because the rest of the functions are available via Bluetooth.

On a related topic, I'm working on mirroring my iPhone screen to the MMI display so that I can use Google Maps for Navigation. I bought stuff from Amazon based on another thread here on AZ, and it works when the car is stationary, but I still have to enable Video In Motion to complete the mod. I'll post a full write up with pictures once complete...

did you go the wired route or wireless? VIM is easy on your gen C7, just need the VAG cable

[zcd2.7t]

did you go the wired route or wireless? VIM is easy on your gen C7, just need the VAG cable

Wired, and the info you provided in that other post helped a lot, so thanks for that. Awaiting a couple more items to clean up the install today or tomorrow, and then I need a VAG-COM setup to complete the process.