I have an fm transmitter that I used on my other devices to listen to my music in the car. With the last couple of phones I would plug it into the headphone jack and the phone would detect it as a set of headphones and the playback was fine. When I plugged it into the headphone jack on the ET, it didn't do anything at all. Is there a way to get it work or is that something that I am just SOL on with this phone?
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Does anyone know of a solution where I can plug my phone in, play music on the car stereo and then make/take calls?
Would be nice if it was all integrated - i.e. that the stereo would pause or so when I'm on the phone, and the phone goes through the stereo speakers etc.
Need to get a new stereo anyway, so need the whole lot!
Cheers,
Ferg.
This is not a new stereo but works perfect for me. look up the Motorola t505. It is bluetooth handsfree and transmits wirelessly to your car stereo with built in fm transmitter. very strong fm transmitter. Music streamed to car stereo will paus when you make or get a call and the call even comes through the car stereo. Battery is very good too. Google it
That looks quite a decent solution, thanks hotrod.
I'm a little suspicious of BT though generally, not least because of my succession of HTC devices. I wonder if there's anything that just plugs in using old fashioned wires.
Well I am using the t505 with my HTC Touch Elf and it is the best thing that I have used in my car for transmitting music, since my factory stereo doesn't have aux in jack. I have tried using a regular fm transmitter directly from the phone but you get way too much distortion and feedback and radio interferance that way. I aslo do not have a tape deck in my car so that option wasn't available. For me I had to decide - Get a new car stereo with Aux Jack in or Built in Bluetooth, get the Parrot Bluetooth ( has to be professionally installed) or the T505. The cheapest was the T505 for me and it works better for me than I had ever hoped.
Does anybody else have problems with their phone outputting music to anything other than headphones? I have an external speaker and when I plug it into the headphone jack I get no sound from it but I still get sound on the phone speaker. I can plug in an FM transmitter to the headphone jack and I get nothing but sound on the phone speaker. But if I plug in a pair of headphones I get sound on them. This sucks as the new treadmill has speakers, jack, and the male to male plug necessary to plug my phone in. Any fixes for this?
The device plugs into your car charger and receives music from the phone via Bluetooth and transmits the audio to the car head unit via auxiliary or using the built in FM transmitter, all while simultaneously charging your phone. Unfortunately it does not handle phone calls.
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Are there any better devices on the market that do something similar? I am trying to eliminate unnecessary cable mess from within my car.
I use the following in my car and it works great on AUX
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If you have an old car without bluetooth or AUX and you wish you’d be able to listen to music from your phone in your car, then FM transmitters are a solution, and this is one of the best I’ve tried.
I’ve used several FM Transmitters before, and one like this one. With FM transmitter, you need to set the same radio station on both your radio and the transmitter, making sure the station is clean and not in use. This way, the device connects to the radio and you can listen to your music through it.
With this particular one, you also get bluetooth to connect to the device, so you don’t have to use a 3.5mm audio cable and instead get wireless connection to the device and radio. You can hook it up the car’s charging port, and it has a USB port so you can charger your gadgets with it.
This transmitter has a button that works as power and pairing. The LED light indicates when it is connected or in pairing mode. It also has buttons for skipping songs, a radio frequency rocker at the bottom, as well as a volume rocker at the top.
Usually FM transmitter do the job with some interference, but after a several days of testing, I still haven’t experienced any interference at all. The quality of the sound is almost as good as if it was hooked up directly to the radio with an audio cable.
The volume though was a little lower than with other non-FM Bluetooth transmitters, but that makes total sense.
If you're looking for something like this, you can get this one with $6 off using code ZK9M4UHZ, valid until May 31st.
Hi, so i tried playing music on my car with an aux cable and there is no sound but when i use my old Galaxy s3 music plays just fine.
I thought the problem was with my htc phone. Can anyone help me please?
Did you check that:
The volume is set correctly on the phone?. It will auto reduce the volume if it senses a headphone jack has been plugged in.
Headphones work with the phone?.
Bluetooth is OFF or not paired to the system?.
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Do standard wired headphones work?
Yeah, headphones working just fine with the m9 and my volume was set to a maximum level but music plays through the phone speakers instead of the car's stereo.
Aux lead. Either not pushed in all the way (the last click will feel like your about to snap something) OR It's not compatible..
Just found an aux lead hidden in my car and that's no signal from this phone too.. I think the aux lead is too old and needs replacing with a newer model. Most likely a compatibility issue between the jack plug and socket. Further illustrated by the lack of mode switching by the phone. Basically it's not detecting the jack plug.
I presume if I started cutting wires and jack plugs up then I'd get it working in no time at all..
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