I bought a 2011 G37 Limited Edition Convertible in June. No Nav. 36,900 miles on it when I bought it. I've been reading this forum weekly since I bought it. At the time, I had an Android phone and was using an FM Transmitter & bluetooth set up to stream music. A couple of weeks ago, I went back to iPhone for the 6S. I took its lightning cable & plugged it into the USB port, figuring (from other threads) there was a chance I might get music, but I probably wouldn't.

I did get music with full steering wheel controls working, etc for music that was on my phone. It wouldn't stream from google play music or any other apps. This weekend, I decided to take apple up on their 3 month trial for apple music. The first thing I tried out was whether or not music from that service would also play through the car. It does. This morning, I tried something else. Since starting the Apple Music subscription, I can now also stream music from google play music and programs from the Tune In radio app. I'll try other apps out as well soon.

My best guess is that enabling Apple Music toggled some setting in IOS. Either that or the fact that I couldn't use other apps before was just a coincidence. I'm very curious as to whether or not this ability to stream from other apps will continue if I let my Apple Music subscription expire.

 

So I take it that you didn't have any luck with your android phone with your car? I just bough an 09 Journey non nav and I'm trying to get the android to show video and album art on the screen but no luck. Have you found out more on this?

 

I had no luck at all with the Android phone. I think that's probably entirely a software thing on the car's end. My car was compatible with iPods. Given that the lightning connector didn't even exist when the my 2011 came out, but it was plug and play and it even charges the phone, I think that's all taken care of in software.

 

What lightning connector is that? I just might get an itouch if that's the case. Six cuz I'm not an Apple fan. No offense.

 

So is there anyway to stream wirelessly? I have a 2010 G37S Coupe non nav. I can play music when it is connected with a lightning cable but I would prefer wireless.

 

Bluetooth music streaming is only available with nav.

 

Yeah, I have up trying to find a solution so I bought the aux cable on amazon with the iPhone 6 adaptor. At least that way I can use the steering wheel controls. Now I have to find a way to stream video w/o the ebrake .Thank God my company issues iPhone for work. 😁

 

Not sure if this deserves its own post or not. If you have the same set up that I have, I would avoid updating to IOS 9.3. Both it and 9.3.1 broke my steering wheel controls and head unit controls. I could only adjust volume. Thankfully, I caught it quickly enough to downgrade to 9.2.1, but I wonder if I'm permanently stuck at this version of the OS. I had survived the various upgrades from 9 to 9.2.1 without any problems.

 

i recently started messing with my iPod again - it works great, but sounds like ***. the iPod EQ doesn't help overcome the crappy Bose EQ. if you use another iPod music player app with better EQ adjustment, then the song info and album art gets messed up.

with an old Android phone over Bluetooth, i can use Viper4Android app to fix the Bose EQ, but no album art, and sometimes its slow to load up - annoying when i'm making a bunch of stops on my drive. the Bose speakers sound very good when the EQ is adjusted - the Bose amp processing is what kills the audio quality.