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      04-22-2013, 08:07 PM   #2
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I was going through exactly the same. I have an iPhone 4S. What I did is this. The snap-in adapters for the E39 are almost next to nothing. Some motorola phone, a nokia, and siemens and that's it. All very old phones.
The new snap-in adapter, however, doesn't fit in the armrest as per default. BMW tells you it isn't compatible and only for E60 and up. Since I saw an E60 with exactly the same ULF module and cables running I tried the following. I took my dremel and simply cut off on a work-bench a few milimeters from both sides (the length). The snap in now perfectly goes into the armrest, clicks in, fits perfect. Phone charges. Phone of course connects without issues on the bluetooth ULF. However, no music. To use this, you'll or need to get very creative with the aux and pull some cables through the mid-console maybe or get something like a DICE. The ULF is mono anyway b.t.w.!! Stereo sound via A2DP (what you'd like!) won't work. So a DICE is definitly advisable. You can still use your armrest snap-in to charge the phone then, but just hook it to the dice over bluetooth instead.

What I'm really surprised of and didn't figure out why exaclty yet, is that when I hook a motorola android phone (like a RAZR or an ATRIX) to the ULF, that it reads the sms-s from the phone and they are accessable through the menu on the car. With iPhone this isn't the case. Anybody any idea what/why this is?