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Originally Posted by vivekk
The programmable buttons let you choose the next entertainment source only, as well as some other unrelated functions.
The easiest way to do what you want, is to use the idrive 'shortcut'- wherever you are in the idrive menus, just push in the appropriate direction for a couple of seconds & the main screen will change to the last used screen, for that particular used idrive function.
eg say you were last using the cd tracklist menu in 'entertainment', but you are currently in perspective view in 'navigation'- just hold 'south' for a couple of secs, & you'll go straight to the cd tracklist menu- then hold 'east' for a couple of secs, & you'll go straight back to perspective view
It's quick & it works anytime- I hold 'east' after I get in the car to get straight back to my perspective view, which I had on when I was last in the car- it's usually that & 'south' for entertainment.
For most other things, I prefer the voice control- especially with the bluetooth phone dialling & radio frequency changing- saying something like 'Station Century FM' & 'Call Paddywac' is just pure laziness! 
Viv |
Congrats on the car rochesterBMW !
I have one steering button set for the phone book and the other for next entertainment source. I also have the assistance window set to arrow view pretty much all the time.
If you have guidance enabled and you go to say the radio view, then the arrow view will always be shown to give you directions. If you dont have the assistance window set, then the arrow WILL come up in the main screen regardless of your idrive view.
The shortcuts on idrive are invaluable. So press and hold north for phone, south for entertainment and east for nav - the last view you selected for each will be displayed.
I've found that voice control is invaluable for cutting through all this. A massive tip is don't speak after the beep - wait for the little speech icon to appear. The main commands I use are :
1. 'Map north oriented' or 'perspective to call up the nav view.
2. 'Call (whoever)' to dial from the a-z list.
3. 'Memorised station (whatever)'; 'cd' or 'aux in' to select the entertainment options.
Good tip is that pressing the down button on the wheel will cancel traffic reports if you have TP enabled.
I hope you enjoy the car. All these new 335i's are making my little 330i feel slow
