[Stoodo]

ME wants it!

 

[AudiA4B6US]

You get this with the new EU software 0330 and a new A4 phone interface with a "C" index. Let's wait and see if the 2006 A4 has a similar interface...

 

[PROXUS]

T-Mobile...I tought in EU thay are called Deutsche Telecom I want one too.
Since it's BT it shouldn't be a big deal to make it to work in US (especially that US unit have TEL / NAME buttons already)

 

[AudiA4B6US]

The Euro phone interface should be 8P0 862 335, index D,E and C are available. Only the "C" unit supports the new software and phone features. I'm not sure if there is also a 8E0 862 335C. There are some references to different devices in the A3 and A4 but there are also references saying that they are the same.

It will be interesting to see if the US phone interface gets a new part number of is taken from Europe without changes. There was also one reference talking about retrofit attempts of the OEM phone interface.

 

[BayrischerS4]

A friend of mine has already installed the Bluetooth option with his EU unit here in the US on his "05 S4 and he loves it.

 

[craigyb]

I have the latest SW 0330 and an 8P0 862 335, but its revision D, I would have thought the later vesrions would be better?

Havinga D rather than C would have normally been a good thing. I have not tried the phone module since I upgraded to the 0330 SW, I have BT antenna on order for it.

Craig

The Euro phone interface should be 8P0 862 335, index D,E and C are available. Only the "C" unit supports the new software and phone features. I'm not sure if there is also a 8E0 862 335C. There are some references to different devices in the A3 and A4 but there are also references saying that they are the same.

It will be interesting to see if the US phone interface gets a new part number of is taken from Europe without changes. There was also one reference talking about retrofit attempts of the OEM phone interface.

 

[AudiA4B6US]

I would agree with having a "D" or "E" is better than having the "C". But what has been reported on motor-talk.de is that the new phone features only work with the newest "C" phone interface. Maybe someone with access to a part catalogue can lookup what the newest revision is?

 

[AudiA4B6US]

A friend of mine has already installed the Bluetooth option with his EU unit here in the US on his "05 S4 and he loves it.

Did he install "a" Bluetooth phone kit (e.g. the Parrot) or "the" Bluetooth phone interface (e.g. the 2006 Audi phone interface)? A normal BT phonekit should work fine (Proxus has this since day one without making any change) but it doesn't integrate with the RNS-E and multi function steering wheel. Only the OEM phone interface is detected by the RNS-E and DIS and offers the additional features. BTW, I think I have heard that Kufatec has been contacted to create a custom harness for the phone interface retrofit.

 

[BayrischerS4]

A friend of mine has already installed the Bluetooth option with his EU unit here in the US on his "05 S4 and he loves it.

Did he install "a" Bluetooth phone kit (e.g. the Parrot) or "the" Bluetooth phone interface (e.g. the 2006 Audi phone interface)? A normal BT phonekit should work fine (Proxus has this since day one without making any change) but it doesn't integrate with the RNS-E and multi function steering wheel. Only the OEM phone interface is detected by the RNS-E and DIS and offers the additional features. BTW, I think I have heard that Kufatec has been contacted to create a custom harness for the phone interface retrofit.

He has the Audi unit so it interfaces with the RNS-E and shows up just like on the picture above so he can use the Address book in the RNS-E to dial from and such.

 

[AudiA4B6US]

Cool

Part numbers? Source for the harness? Which phone? Sorry for asking so many questions but that's definitely the next mod on my list...

 

[BayrischerS4]

Cool

Part numbers? Source for the harness? Which phone? Sorry for asking so many questions but that's definitely the next mod on my list...

I will get the info from him today and post it later. I know that his Audi dealer installed the unit so they used a factory harness.

 

[PROXUS]

Sure US dealers need to have something like that...I doubt that Audi would sell new A4s with those NAV+ units withouit working phone or even possibility to install it as an option.

Time to call local dealer I guess

 

[PROXUS]

Well ..called few local dealers ...they don't have a clue what I'm talking about.....go wonder

few said that there is nothing like that for US market, at least not in their system. There is BT system for A6 and A6 but not A4.....IMHO it's BS because A6 and A8 are based on slightly different system and NAV+ RNS-E is not mounted in those cars.

...back to the starting point I guess

 

[PROXUS]

I just spoke with another Audi part Dept.

Part # 8P0 862 335 is not valid or is not in their system.
This guy actually was a little bit more knowledgeable and told me that if I want to install OEM BT system I can't have Telematics installed. Suposely they don't work together.

He promissed to search for BT interface for US RNS-E and give me a call...we 'll see. 8)

 

[BayrischerS4]

Hopefully I will have some pictures and more info to post from my friend. it seems his Audi dealer is quite knowledgable and here is a bit of unique info for you all. I suspect that the firmware in the US and EU units is interchangeable, that's why I'm looking for a US and EU unit that work but look like crap or are in a condition of where no one would buy them so I can pull the chips out of them and compare the code.
I have suspected this for some time now but after he got his BT unit installed something happened that has me believing it more so than ever.
After the BT was installed his EU unit all of a sudden started showing hte legal disclaimer about operating things while the vehicle is moving and yadayadayada..... The tech had to go in and re-program the RNS-E unit itself and after doing so he was able to remove that annoying legal mumbojumbo. Now I find this very interesting - what do you guys think?

 

[PROXUS]

That would be sweet if we could actually disable those messages.

On the telephone part, I wouldn't be supriced either, if we could plud and play this BT interface in US units. BT is pretty much standard and doesn't require any regional changes. Software-wise both navigations EU & US have TEL buttons and I guess TEL functionality included in both software versions.

I seriously doubt that Audi would release US NAV+ with TEL button and no TEL funcionality included in current software...it's just probably deactivated (in VAG)

 

[AudiA4B6US]

Hopefully I will have some pictures and more info to post from my friend. it seems his Audi dealer is quite knowledgable and here is a bit of unique info for you all. I suspect that the firmware in the US and EU units is interchangeable, that's why I'm looking for a US and EU unit that work but look like crap or are in a condition of where no one would buy them so I can pull the chips out of them and compare the code.
I have suspected this for some time now but after he got his BT unit installed something happened that has me believing it more so than ever.
After the BT was installed his EU unit all of a sudden started showing hte legal disclaimer about operating things while the vehicle is moving and yadayadayada..... The tech had to go in and re-program the RNS-E unit itself and after doing so he was able to remove that annoying legal mumbojumbo. Now I find this very interesting - what do you guys think?

This is indeed very interesting. From what I read on the boards so far it looks like you can flash several devices with new software. The phone interface and other controllers are good examples. During the process the firmware gets reset to read x--- or something like that. In a second step the correct/updated firmware gets loaded.

I played a little with my EU RNS-E and tried to load the US software. I got it to read x--- as the software version (something which had also been reported back in March when we tried to get the US DVD to work in the EU unit) but it would not proceed to load the US software. It rebooted twice to do the update but I couldn't get anywhere from there. I'm still trying to get the EU sw 0140 to see if I can make any progress here. Maybe someone with good connections to an Audi dealer can try to get a US software update CD (no map, just the software). I would offer my assistance and try it on my EU unit before I eventually get the new EU software to reset it back to EU standards.

Regarding the compatibility I wouldn't assume that the EU and US devices are the same based on what we have seen so far. They might be but they could also be completely different. The situation with the sat receivers where the EU unit doesn't recognize the sat receiver and even the US unit has problems with the first generation sat receivers, Audi is doing some crazy stuff there.

Still, the more people report what they successful retrofit, the more interesting it will get. The RNS-E first the first piece, BT phone and mutlifunction steering wheels are probably next. And at the end we can even get the TPMS retrofitted :lol:

 

[PROXUS]

That's interesting:

http://www.audi.com/de/de/neuwagen/...modellreihen/kommunikation/haeufigefragen.jsp

 

[BayrischerS4]

That's interesting:

http://www.audi.com/de/de/neuwagen/...modellreihen/kommunikation/haeufigefragen.jsp

Intersting indeed - good reading.

 

[PROXUS]

Also one of the local companies ADR come up back in time with Parrot interface for Audi. I wonder if they are working on version for RNS-E as well?

http://store.caughtbluehanded.com/aucokit.html