Learn in this video, how you can use valuable functions of the BMW Motorrad Connected App via the Multi-Controller and the MENU rocker button with the optional ConnectedRide Cradle. Any BMW motorbike with the optional equipment “Navigation Preparation“ can be fitted with the ConnectedRide Cradle. First you need to adapt the ConnectedRide cradle to your smartphone size. Your dealer can provide you with details about compatible smartphones. Or look it up in the FAQ on the BMW Motorrad website. Removing bulky smartphone cases ensures a tighter safer fit of the ConnectedRideCradle. Untighten the screw and extend the arms. Slide your smartphone in from the top: Screen towards you – charging port typically to the right. Now close both arms by holding the upper arm and the button on the lower arm and tightening the screw again. Unlock the navigation preparation with your vehicle key and open the bracket. Insert der ConnectedRide Cradle by clicking it in with the bottom side first. A green LED indicates briefly when the ConnectedRide Cradle is active. Push in the bracket and lock the navigation preparation. Pull down the bottom arm of the ConnectedRide Cradle to take out your phone.
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This is very much like the Navigator 6 and 5: Overpriced underperformance BMW GPS devices.
Cost me SGD480 (USD346 or EUR327) to hold my phone in place and charge it wirelessly–very slowly. Nothing else.
You can't use Google Maps!!! You must use the BMW Connected's downloadable maps. I use the bike in Japan: they don't provide a map for Japan.
If you want a GPS navigation, use your phone`s Google Maps: always up-to-date, reliable and fast… If you want a dedicated GPS navigation device, get something else and stay away from BMW Navigator 5, 6 and this cradle. For about USD50 you can get unbranded Chinese-made cradles that do the same thing and are compatible with the BMW docking (power source); they will allow you to use Google Maps, hold-in place and charge your phone.
Perhaps in Europe and USA the downloadable maps are high in detail and timely updated, but still, it is something of 20 years ago. Nobody download maps nowadays, they use Google Maps.
The bike info feature? It's the same as what you get on the Navigator 5 and 6… on your phone. Yeah, now you have the bike leaning angle indicator…Cool but uselese information.
The operation with that BMW counterintuitive scroll doughnut and up/down arrow switch is awkward at best, and is horrible with the cradle and the Connected app.. At the end you have to do things when you are stopped, not while riding.
It is frustrating to buy another BMW expensive device that delivers nothing. Once you start the Connected app, that is only what your phone can do. The app takes over, and you can`t get other apps or functions to work unless you shut down the BMW Connected app.
I had 6 bmw bikes so far, I loved each one of them, but BMW is terrible on the GPS navigation department. BMW:please give-up and focus on the wonderful bikes… Or get someone to do it right for you, like Google.
Green LED isn't blinking on my cradle what's the solution?
260 € of support and wireless charging does not work with iphone! very very bad!!!
I just picked one up today, tested it on my brothers android phone and my wife’s iPhone 8 Plus, wireless charging works fine. With my iPhone 13 pro max however it won’t reliable wireless charge. Not sure what’s going on but I have tested it on another iPhone 13 pro max and same issue. Seems like the wireless charging feature is not compatible with a 13 pro max
Be good if you could get hold of one !!!!
where can i buy it, buy link?
It would be pretty cool if it had wireless charge.
My Florida dealer never heard of this. They called you. Apparently it is not available in the USA? Would be nice to notify your dealers and owners. But what do I know.
does it work with a 1200RT or 1250RT
Would have liked a mechanical option to only remove your phone with the key. Thieves nowadays target motorcycles at intersections.
I wonder if it will be introduced in Japan. .. ..
No, it's impossible because the app can't be used.
If it's introduced in Japan, it's great!
$260 for this thing that China has been selling for $30?
I have a cuestión, if my bike is a 2016 model, I can use it without the TFK ? Or this is only for the new models?