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By M35x_Touareg · Feb 21, 2010in General💬 10 posts👁️ 2,187 views
Posted Feb 21, 2010 · 05:36 UTC#1

Bluetooth yet? I have my iphone set for tethering already I want to know if its possible?

Posted Feb 21, 2010 · 22:16 UTC#2

Not likely, unless someone got a USB based Bluetooth dongle working (carver was working on that but ran into a problem with the software portion of the BT stack). The Bluetooth device that the AVIC-Fs have does not support the Bluetooth PAN profile, which is what you need to tether. It just does Handsfree and Serial Port profiles.

Posted Feb 23, 2010 · 00:48 UTC#3

Thanks for responding. So I would need to use a wifi sd card then use my iphone as a wifi router. Correct?

Posted Feb 23, 2010 · 15:40 UTC#4
Thanks for responding. So I would need to use a wifi sd card then use my iphone as a wifi router. Correct?

That's been described by a few others on the forum, not sure if it's been 100% solved or not. Another alternative might be tethering via USB, if there's a WinCE driver for your phone to act as a serial modem.

Posted Feb 24, 2010 · 20:56 UTC#5
Thanks for responding. So I would need to use a wifi sd card then use my iphone as a wifi router. Correct?

That's been described by a few others on the forum, not sure if it's been 100% solved or not. Another alternative might be tethering via USB, if there's a WinCE driver for your phone to act as a serial modem.

 

By serial Modem what do you mean? I've never heard that term before

Posted Feb 25, 2010 · 02:19 UTC#6
By serial Modem what do you mean?

That's how modems all connected before the days of USB. Most cell phones can still emulate a serial port connection for networking. I don't know exactly how people are getting a serial connection into the AVIC, though.

Posted May 22, 2010 · 23:14 UTC#7

Bump for more information on this.

 

Are people using internet explorer on their stereos, or is this for information like MSN Direct (which I've never used) for traffic updates, etc. My Samsung Moment has tethering, so I'd love it if my F90BT could stream music directly from the stereo using my phone as the signal. What is needed to make the stereo has internet? I've seen BT dongles on ebay for like .99 shipped.

Posted Jul 01, 2010 · 02:45 UTC#8

Using my F90BT to play on the internet would be more cumbersome than using the GPS vs how much easier it is to use on my phone, but it'd still be cool just to say that I could :)

Posted Jul 01, 2010 · 03:08 UTC#9

It has been accomplished with an F500BT and there is a thread about it somewhere deep in this forum. Search long enough and you will find it.

Posted Jul 01, 2010 · 14:51 UTC#10
It has been accomplished with an F500BT and there is a thread about it somewhere deep in this forum. Search long enough and you will find it.

Wasn't that accomplished using the Spectec SD WiFi card and not Bluetooth? Thought the OP wanted Bluetooth specifically as a requirement.