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martin mustang · 08-28-2015, 07:30 AM

Thanks Bimmer_yu for the response and the photo! I guess from the driver’s side all looking good!

For the Armrest test, without the media cradle it will be hard to judge as with it my I-phone 5s uses the outside shark antenna for reception, in other words a big improvement on phone reception, what I am wondering about is if I am using the Garmin sat nav will the GPS reception do the same use the outside antenna.
May be dealers have a way of find out this

[QUOTE=bimmer_yu;18490467]Hi Martin,

Unfortunately, I dont have armrest media cradle in my F10. I am using iPhone 6 fixed with Fix2Car cradle on my dashboard and charged thorugh cable hidden through the dashboard. GPS reception is very good and GPS fix is immanent.

I can try to put my iPhone in the arm rest compartment and see what is happening with GPS signal... Phones use also 3G/LTE network to improve location accurancy so they are not that dependant on satelittes as traditional GPS systems.

Here is the photo from the driver's seat:

08-28-2015, 07:30 AM	#164
martin mustang Major 257 Rep 1,040 Posts Drives: 640d,X5 45e, 911c4s, 635csi Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Ireland iTrader: (0)	Thanks Bimmer_yu for the response and the photo! I guess from the driver’s side all looking good! For the Armrest test, without the media cradle it will be hard to judge as with it my I-phone 5s uses the outside shark antenna for reception, in other words a big improvement on phone reception, what I am wondering about is if I am using the Garmin sat nav will the GPS reception do the same use the outside antenna. May be dealers have a way of find out this [QUOTE=bimmer_yu;18490467]Hi Martin, Unfortunately, I dont have armrest media cradle in my F10. I am using iPhone 6 fixed with Fix2Car cradle on my dashboard and charged thorugh cable hidden through the dashboard. GPS reception is very good and GPS fix is immanent. I can try to put my iPhone in the arm rest compartment and see what is happening with GPS signal... Phones use also 3G/LTE network to improve location accurancy so they are not that dependant on satelittes as traditional GPS systems. Here is the photo from the driver's seat:
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