Retrofit Bluetooth for BMW E90 with BMW ICOM NCS Expert

With BMW Bluetooth cellular phone system you can use the BMW steering wheel and radio controls to navigate your cellular phone phonebook, dial numbers, increase volume, etc.  The system also allows for the voice control of your cellular phone, voice control of your navigation system and notepad. Following is an instruction on coding BMW E9x models’ RAD control unit to enable Bluetooth for with BMW ICOM ISTA/D ISTA/P NCS-Expert engineering software.

Equipment:

BMW ICOM A2+B+C diagnostic system  

BMW ICOM Rheingold ISTA-D ISTA-P HDD NCS Expert software

Well install BMW IOCM NCS Expert software

Connect BMW icom a2+b+c hardware with vehicle via OBD socket

Press the key in and press start

Run INPA software and make sure the cable is well connected

Run NCS-Expert and select profile as “Revtor’s NCS Exprt Profile”, press OK

Press F1:VIN/ZCS/FA

Press F3: ZCS/FA I. ECU

Select E89 for all E9x (90, 91, 92, 93)

Choose “CAS” ECU module

The system will display vehicle VIN and VO

Press F6:Back button

NCS-expert software will display the modules available to get coded

Press F4:Process ECU

Select the RAD (Radio) control unit 2RAD

Check enter SGET data and confirm it by click on OK

2RAD will get coded

Press F2:Change job

Select “CODIEREN -LESEN” job

Lesen=Read; Codieren=Code/Write;  SG=Control unit

Make sure jobname is selected to “CODIEREN -LESEN”

Press F3: Execute job

Coding completed

Check the files saved, locate FSW-PSW file (the data was just read from 2RAD module)

Open the FSW-PSW file

Enter “Bluetooth” on Find target blank

Delete “nicht-” under BLUETOOTH-RAD2 option

Enter “ulf” in Find target blank

Again delete “nicht-” under ULF option

Save rename the file as “FSW-PSW. man”

Back to NCS-Expert coding program, press F2: Change job

Select SG-CODIEREN, make sure jobname= SG-CODIEREN

NCS will now copy the modified FSW-PSW to 2RAD

Press F3: Execute job

Test audio and Bluetooth function

Exit the NCS-Expert software and disable BMW ICOM A2 system after Bluetooth is completely activated.