My car came from the factory with a black cable for an iPod/iPhone 4S connector. 30 Pin type. That served me well for a while. When I upgrades to the iPhone 5 I just left my old 4S in the car as a "iPod" music only player and used my new phone as a Phone through blootooth.


I would like to know if anyone had used the 30 pin to Lightening connector to re-use this cable or if anyone purchased the new connector (assuming Porsche made one)


Thanks..........

 

30 to lightning works

 

When I checked a couple of months ago, Porsche had not made a lightening cable. I use an Apple adapter cable and it works fine.

 

Is the cable supposed to charge the iphone/ipod?

 

If the USB is plugged in, it will charge the iPod attached.

 

So, you actually need the $30 porsche combined usb and multi pin cable for that. The one plug cable does not work for charging!

 

But it will not feed the music. Stupid system.

 

Is this true for the 997.1 early models. ?
I am playing mine through my apple 30 pin to lightning adapter .
Pisses me off , I have to disconnect the adapter from the cable in console most times and plug back in . It is like it gets confused and loses it's path .
Also it does not charge and every time it starts it starts at the the top of the playlist , same song EVERYTIME .

 

I have the cable you mention so I assume that the mutli pin ipod connection will charge the phone?

 

The multi pin cable does NOT charge the phone.

 

I have a 5S and I use 2 cables. USB for charging and I just use an AUX cable in the AUX jack for music streaming

 

I just bought one this past weekend and it was actually $50 from Porsche. Goes in the iPod thingy and the USB also to charge and to a 30 pin and then you go to eBay and for $10 you get the 30 pin to lightning. What a mess! I went to Radio Shack and tried the AUX thing but it didn't work, so I called the guy at Porsche and he told me to buy the two and it works now. However, I received an email today from Porsche to bring my car to the dealer for a free technology update, so who knows what that means? It reads it could be both hardware and software. Maybe I can return the cords!

 

I would switch to the iPod cable if I were you. The fidelity through the AUX jack is horrible. The iPod cable is a line level connection instead of going through the Apple headphone amp.

 

And to think it was delivered with the car originally. I got my car CPO and told them to include one, but they only provided the single plug cable. Only discovered later that it only charges if you have the USB connection plugged in.

 

Yep I did not get the double cable with my CPO car either so I bought if from Suncoast, not $50 but $35-40 IIRC.

I have the issue as well where sometimes either my iPod classic or iPhone 5 will "freeze" or take a helluva long time to load up an artist or track listing. I do have >11,000 tracks but the weird thing is sometimes it's snappy and other times sluggish. It actually froze this morning and I unplugged/replugged the phone and it immediately went back to normal. PCM software bug I suspect...