09 iDrive shutting down

[BBK]

This has happened to me twice now. The music stops, then a loud beep for about 3 seconds, then the whole iDrive shuts off and restarts.

I have booked the car in to be looked at, just dissapointed after only having the car for 3 weeks!

[123D-M]

This happened to me occasionally as well. It is always when playing music off the HDD. I think there must be a bug. I tend to play music off my iphone now instead because it annoyed me.

When my car has its service I will ask if there is a software upgrade.

[BBK]

Yeah only seems to happen when using the HDD music...

[BBK]

Got the car back from the dealer, they don't know what is going on. BMW Australia doesn't know either. There is no fault logged on the computer. Basically asked me to call them the minute it happens again to see all the things that are happening at the same time to replicate it so they can see it happen in the flesh.

[123D-M]

Try and see if it does it when a particular song is playing. I have a feeling it may be related to corruption in music files.

I'm going to delete my HDD and reload all the songs again as a few of them have been corrupted. My dealer had no idea what the problem was either. Hopefully there'll be a software upgrade at some stage.

BMW have recently rolled out a new generation of diagnostic computer to all dealers and the techs here told me they are having endless problems with it. Takes forever to check fault codes (over an hour on new 7) and is very unreliable at programming the cars. We have a 7 in the workshop here where something went wrong during programming and now the car is completely dead. Just a giant shiny paperweight...