Just upgraded to 2.2 and there is a new "Car Panel" application that looks interesting. But I can't find anything on how to use it or what options like auto-launch and auto-connect mean. It looks like is mates up with my car (voice nav through the car speakers?) bluetooth, but does anyone have a Google or HTC link to some documentation? Thanks!
I thought it was just something you click when you are in the car so things you would readily need you have quick access to and it's large buttons.
Nothing more.
pixelpop said:
Just upgraded to 2.2 and there is a new "Car Panel" application that looks interesting. But I can't find anything on how to use it or what options like auto-launch and auto-connect mean. It looks like is mates up with my car (voice nav through the car speakers?) bluetooth, but does anyone have a Google or HTC link to some documentation? Thanks!
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LIke you, I know nothing more about it than what I can see in the application itself, but it all seems fairly self-explanatory.
Auto-launch will cause the Car Panel app to run automatically when you place the phone in a (yet-to-be-released) car dock.
Auto-connect will cause the Car Panel app to automatically pair your phone up with a selected bluetooth device (presumably your car's bluetooth receiver, if so equipped).
Other than that, it just seems like the Car Panel is a nice finger-friendly way of navigating to the most critical apps while in your car (the auto-nighttime mode looks pretty cool).
sohr said:
Auto-launch will cause the Car Panel app to run automatically when you place the phone in a (yet-to-be-released) car dock.
Auto-connect will cause the Car Panel app to automatically pair your phone up with a selected bluetooth device (presumably your car's bluetooth receiver, if so equipped).
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Thanks for the info and these are the reasons I had asked the question. I hadn't heard about any car dock being available and my phone already pairs with my car via Bluetooth for handsfree calling. But I was wondering what new features might be available if it pairs thru this Car Panel (and does this pairing replace the one I use now)? I think there might be more here than is immediately noticable just from the UI.
Has anyone noticed issue with running the music player and navigation at the same time?
When I was on 2.1 the music would just pause and the navigation would speak...now if I have the music open and I open navigation, the music player shuts down.
If I open navigation, and then the music player, it works as I would hope, the music pauses and then the navigation speaks. But another turn, the music player shuts down by itself, at least it did in the one or two attempts I tried at it.
Anyone else have issue with this? I have a full car dock setup and one of the main reasons was so I could use the phone as a music player integrated with calls and navigation.
By the way, HTC, a landscape mode for the music player would be GREATLY appreciated.
I don't think the music player for the EVO (one installed by default) is HTC's. I think it is Sprint's music app which replaces the default one. I hate the default sprint music app. I installed the original one and use that, which works great in landscape mode. There are a few really good free music apps from the market which are even better (MixZing is my favorite so far which includes a good navigation menu and gestures, then their is Meridian and DoubleTwist which if had all the features I want, would be really great...).
Why doesn't the Car Panel allow landscape mode??? The Android 2.2 default Car Panel app allows landscape mode (has two screens) with extra slots to set your own apps, has music app built in... Sprints modified version does look better than Android's default, but is severely hindered in optimization! Why remove features!?? modify it, but keep features or add to it! Hell, give me option to choose or something...
Auto start of car panel with mini/micro USB adapter
I bought a mini to micro USB adapter and used it to charge my Evo with my old G1 charger. Interestingly, when I do so, the Car Panel application auto starts.
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I bought a mini to micro USB adapter and used it to charge my Evo with my old G1 charger. Interestingly, when I do so, the Car Panel application auto starts.
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Mine does the same. It freaked me out at first.
I'm looking for a car dock that will automatically trigger the car functions such as Navigation and etc. Sorry if this has been covered before. Thanks
You can set it to launch with any BT device can't you?
The Seidio is supposed to.
I'll be finding out soon enough but others here have posted that it is working...
I have the HTC one, and it automatically launches the car mode. It really is a nice dock, but a little costly.
Everytime I plug my DHD in the car, a fu***** navigation application is launching (asking me to buy a licence).
What's the solution ?
Is there a way to disable the auto-launch ?
thanks
Well, I finally received my home and car dock with the POGO pins. The audio is absolutely wonderful being routed out of the POGO. I had the Captivate and that doc through Sub-mini USB and the audio output was horrible, so this is great.
Here are my questions which I could use some help with.
1. What are the dock settings for in the settings menu? They are never active when docked or not.
2. How do I get my Nexus to default to full bright screen always on when docked without adding another docking app. I have always run into having multiple apps on for helping to get the right settings during dock and have the step on each other and ultimately things not getting reset properly when not docked. This seems that these two settings should be a setting in the std ICS settings.
3. While dialing the dialing screen pops over to portrait rather than landscaped like everything else while docked. It makes it hard to control the screen and read the screen.
I will continue to add items to share with everyone as we dockers become more prevalent.
You can use an app like tasker to change to a certain profile (brightness up) while docked. I am going to use NFC tags when I get my car dock.
Hello
For a short while I had an HTC One X running ICS. One great feature was the Car Dock, which presented a nice landscape mode home screen, and dialler to the phone. I changed the One X because the Bluetooth profile V4 just would not connect reliably to my 6 year old BMW in car kit, so I exchanged the phone for a Galaxy Nexus (Nexus 3) which is running JB.
There is no car dock mode included in the operating system unlike HTC, so it must be an HTC feature. i tried many many Car Docks from Google Play, and although some present a nice home screen, when you touch the icon for "phone" you get the stock Android dialler for Portrait mode, instead of a landscape mode dialler designed for in car use. In all the cases i tried this was also true for other "apps" once the app was launched you got standard app not something designed for in car use.
Can the forum point me towards a 3rd party Car Dock app, which includes not just a nice "HOME PAGE" but also a well designed Landscape mode dialler?
Thanks
Guy