I'm looking at getting this carcomm cradle as my in car solution for my XDA2 : http://www.totalpda.co.uk/product4740_0.aspx
As i understand it, assuming I correctly wire the cradle kit to my headunit's telemute cable, when a call comes in, my stereo will be muted/paused and the cradle's speakers & mic will kick in. I gather TOMTOM instructions will work the same way.
I also have a Sony headunit with an Aux in. I'd like to use the stereo headset jack to play all that MP3 goodness into my stereo. This should reduce the amount i spend on CDR's
My question is whether having the headphone jack plugged in will stop the car kit from getting the phone call audio when a call comes in. Will the XDA try to take mic in from the headset jack or the car kit. Or will it end up dazed and confused, and slump in the footwell of my car nibbling it's toenails and rocking slowly backwards and forwards? Come to that, will I?
Hope this makes sense
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I have roughly the same setup you have, except the car cradle is only used for charging. I have all audio (TomTom, MP3 and phone) from the headset jack, including mic.
Works like a charm, you don't really need a carkit as you can feed all audio to the car stereo
I had a look at that carcomm set. It looks like the cradle blocks the headset jack of the XDA !
For mp3 audio and phone audio, I use a very cheap device called "car baby". This consists of a small clip on device with led and on/off switch. The device is rechargable and comes with lighter plug. Basically you just go to a blank preset on your in car radio, play audio on your xda 2, then tune radio to pick up the audio, the volume on the xda 2 needs to be pretty low to prevent distortion, once setup all audio is routed through the radio allowing very reasonable hands free phone calls and mp3 playback. It also comes with a nice little mount for a phone which has suction or vent mount adaptors, this isnt big enough for xda 2 but it looks very neat and will work with lots of normal size phones. I think it works on fm frequency around 106mhz.
Thanks for your feedback guys.
@ pleun - I was planning on 'modifying' the cradle to either present me with access to the jack socket or to actually plug in a jack, but this would have to be fairly flexible as the jack is obviously at an unhelpful angle.
@cruisin-thru & pleun (again) - thanks for the ideas, My only concern is that I don't really want to have to switch the headunit to a FM channel or the Aux channel when a call comes in - too much distraction when driving. It would be fine if i was only going to be playing MP3's but i will want to continue to use the CD or radio from time to time!
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In a fit of enthusiasm I ordered the PDAmods.com TomTom5 powered cradle for my SPV M5000, and I was remarkably impressed to have it turn up the next day. Works a treat too, but only now do I realise it *doesn't* have an inbuilt microphone for hands free call, like the spiffy GPSforless.co.uk one.
So, is there any way I can activate the mic to make hands free call with the cradle I've got, or am I going to have to bite the bullet and just buy the one with the inbuilt mic too?
The only way you can do it with the cradle you have is to not plug in the speaker mounted in the cradle (the lead that connects the cradle to the universals earphone jack plug). As soon as this is connected, although it enables the external speaker, it disables the internal mic, which stands to reason when you think about it. I find it quite loud enough without the external speaker plugged in to be honest...
I am using the headphone jack on my touch pro 2 to listen to my phone calls over the car speakers and internal mic to talk but people on the other end are complaining about an echo of their voice. I figure its coming from thier voice being picked up by the internal mic. Anybody have any ideas? how can i cut the internal mic while they are talking so it wont pick up them talking. would a cheap wired headset work using its external mic? i could cut the headphones off and splice it into the line in.
Anyone know a solution to this? I enjoy listening to Pandora in my car and being able to take calls through my car stereo, but for some reason my mic doesn't work unless I unplug the Aux cable or put the call in speakephone.
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Hi, I'm looking for an affordable omnidirectional microphone for my 3,5 mm jack on my phone, which still allows me to plug in external speakers. Are there any splitter cables to allow pluggin both a microphone and headphones? Or is there such a microphone which passes the phone audio through them and allow plugging speakers into them.
Idelly it should be a stationary microphone as well. Does anyone know of such a contraption?
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