[JustinHEMI]

I know Bimmercode doesn't official support idrive 8 yet, but I figured it would work on some things, and I was right. I chose "M3" and it gave me the options I was looking for, like changing interior lighting, 5 flashes of the turn signal, brake force for extra brake light, warning screen, etc.

There's plenty of other tutorials out there about Bimmercode so this isn't a tutorial at all, just mentioning that it works with our cars in some limited capacity.

And a warning. For the head unit module, following coding and when it was resetting the ECU, both the app and my phone went a little haywire for some reason, but all was OK. Basically, I disabled all connections to the car such as bluetooth and even wifi on my phone. When rebooting from this module, the car reenable the bluetooth connection itself in my phone so my phone started trying to reconnect to everything which caused the app to malfunction. I forced stopped it, shut off the car, disabled bluetooth for the car again, reconnected, and all was well. Perhaps that happens with any car, but just mentioning it here since Bimmercode doesn't officially support idrive8 yet.

That being said, everything I wanted worked.



A shot of the modules that came up.




Ambient lighting control. Although in the app the default is "bronze," this worked with the "ivory" selection in my car."

I set upper to normal blue and lower to red, and it worked.






Just to show you the colors. Here I'm selected to ivory and you can see the blue.



And red at my feet.

[JustinHEMI]

This is the adapter I use.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[JustinHEMI]

Haha messing with setting and I got the car to think it's electric.

[M2Jorge]

Originally Posted by JustinHEMI

Haha messing with setting and I got the car to think it's electric.

How did you get iD8 to show your car with black wheels instead of bicolor?

[JustinHEMI]

Originally Posted by M2CompJorge

How did you get iD8 to show your car with black wheels instead of bicolor?

Hmm I don't think I did anything for that.

[JustinHEMI]

Oh ok sitting here now they're bimetallic. When you're moving, the wheels spin so they look black. And that pic is blurry.

[JustinHEMI]

Wait I'm not sure I did anything to make it say charging. That may be normal adaptive content for that screen in driving mode.

Can anyone confirm?

[cmgbk75]

Originally Posted by M2siast

See anything to code the anti-dazzle headlights?
How about setting Sport+ or M1/M2 come on as default?
Or a way to have the M Mode to be Sport by default?

I’m interested in those but I don’t think it’s possible (or will ever be).

Anti-Dazzle is possible, I’ve come across a Bimmercode how to video on YouTube. Can’t search right now, but the truth is out there…

[JustinHEMI]

Originally Posted by M2siast

What screen is that?

Just the "my BMW" widget.

[JustinHEMI]

Originally Posted by M2siast

See anything to code the anti-dazzle headlights?
How about setting Sport+ or M1/M2 come on as default?
Or a way to have the M Mode to be Sport by default?

I’m interested in those but I don’t think it’s possible (or will ever be).

Yes and no, there is a section for that but it's for other cars right now. That's what I was messing with trying to see if I could get sport or sport plus to be the default state. It didn't work. That's when I saw "charging battery" and thought it did change something. But then I realized I never really paid attention to that widget in "road mode" and figured it's possible that's normal behavior, but that also doesn't make sense since I'm not aware of us having regenerative braking and such. It kicks to "charging battery" only when I let off gas or brake.

If it's not normal then I messed something up because I can't get it to stop doing it now, even when loading the default backup.

That's what I get for messing with something that isn't ready.

It's the only anomaly I've seen though, if it's not normal.

[JustinHEMI]

Originally Posted by cmgbk75

Anti-Dazzle is possible, I’ve come across a Bimmercode how to video on YouTube. Can’t search right now, but the truth is out there…

Yeah there's a video out there but I haven't tried it. I'm probably done messing around until it's ready for idrive 8.

[cmgbk75]

Originally Posted by M2siast

For the G87?
Not saying I doubt it, but I am lol can you find it for us to see?

There are many here bringing coding options but they are for cars like the G42…

No, it was for an iDrive8 car. Coding would be the same I’d think.

[JustinHEMI]

Originally Posted by M2siast

I’ll check later for you.

These cars (and previous ones since 2013) definitely do not have regenerative braking, but they charge the 12V battery when you’re on engine brake (since you don’t need power, it uses the engine energy to charge the battery, to save fuel).

I’ve never seen that screen, so I’ll double check and let you know!

If that's the case then this could be normal, because it switches to "charging battery" only when engine braking when I think of it. It just so happened that sometimes I was using the brakes as well when slowing down.

[cmgbk75]

Originally Posted by M2siast

G42s are iDrive 8 now too.
But they're different cars nonetheless. Options will vary a lot

Well, give it a shot and let us know how it goes. As others are saying you can use the G20 coding for the G87.

[cmgbk75]

Originally Posted by M2siast

Nobody is saying that… the car isn’t fully supported yet, so the coding options don’t exist.

Justin just gave examples of the coding he did using the M3 setup. Obviously not everything is available but there are options.

[JustinHEMI]

Ok I'm convinced that "charging battery" is normal and part of the efficient dynamics BMW has had for a while. I even found F generations displays showing when it was charging and such.

On our idrive 8 display, with dynamic content enabled, it'll show a cool animation when charging.

That said, it's a bit annoying if you leave it up because the changing of letters between "my BMW" and "charging battery" make you want to look at it.

This changes if you use "sport" mode displays because the dynamic portion will be horse power and torque.

[JustinHEMI]

Originally Posted by M2siast

Very true, I think it’s cool to change the light colours inside and all, but I’m looking for the “meat”… lol hopefully there’ll be a way in the future.

I emailed developer for timeline and haven't heard back. Not sure I will. Probably gets tons of those questions everyday.

[JustinHEMI]

Heard back from bimmercode, they are working on idrive8.

Edited to add that they said they have an idrive8 system in house.

[JustinHEMI]

Just discovered these tire settings. Let's you pick the two factory options for sizes. It sure would be nice if bimmercode could add other sizes and adjust whatever it is these settings adjust.


Sorry for shit photo.

[JustinHEMI]

Another thing I wish/hope it can do is auto engage the parking brake, at least for manual cars.

[KC87ZB]

I can confirm the “charging” is normal. It is on modern BW’s even without hybrid or electric drivetrains. What occurs is that the alternator goes into a higher charging mode when you are decelerating, that’s it. Completely useless information on ICE cars. My 2013 X3 does the same thing but in semi-analog fashion. Ignore it.

[JustinHEMI]

Originally Posted by KC87ZB

I can confirm the “charging” is normal. It is on modern BW’s even without hybrid or electric drivetrains. What occurs is that the alternator goes into a higher charging mode when you are decelerating, that’s it. Completely useless information on ICE cars. My 2013 X3 does the same thing but in semi-analog fashion. Ignore it.

Excellent! Thank you!