10-04-2019, 03:59 PM | #1 |
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Understanding the phone as a Digital Key
Great joining you all on this forum! I took delivery of my G20/330i this morning. It's been a joy so far, but I'm struggling to understand how to use my phone as a Digital Key. Wondering what your experiences are:
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10-04-2019, 04:30 PM | #2 |
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They key is stored on a secure element, which only can be found at certain phones. Samsung happens to have a couple that support this..
I expect the CD app is required to write the digital key on the secure element.
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My Samsung doesn't work since I am on Verizon. Note 9
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Well, I have a Samsung S8 and have finally got it to work as a digital key on my M340. I tried what the owner's manual lays out, as well as the "Quick Start Guide" that's up on the BMW USA owner's page -- all to no avail. I had to go to my dealer for something else. While there, I asked their "Genius" and she took me over to my Service Advisor, who found an instruction from BMW and using my regular key fob did something on their end (all in the BMW USA database) that really enabled my phone. I now can unlock my car by placing my phone next to the driver's door handle "hot spot" and operate the car with my phone in the wireless charger. BTW, I do have the BMW Connected App on my phone and it now show my phone with a digital key; the App is actually useful with the new iDrives (as opposed to neqar useless on my F30) So my advice is to go to a BMW dealer get them to enable your phone as a digital key at their end. Hope that helps!
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10-09-2019, 12:31 AM | #7 |
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Here it's explained in detail:
And here you can see how to share it: The reason why it doesn't work with any cat is because it needs a special NFC feature to be supported. Check these forums, since that has been addressed before elsewhere. Last edited by eddiehaug; 10-09-2019 at 12:35 AM.. Reason: Typos |
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