Hi,
I just bought an official car holder for my Note and plugged the charger + 3.5mm audio jack in to my radio, my problem is that the car holder does send my music nor navigation sound nor phone calls through the car speakers, instead it goes on the Note's speaker and i don't want that! Anyone have a solution?
I had the same problem, go to Settings -> Dock and enable "Audio output mode".
I find the sound quality to be very good.
Thanks a lot!! My previous sgs 2 worked from the start thats why i didnt know what whas going on
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Hi, I've had this dock a few weeks now and I think it's almost perfect. It has excellent build quality and the ease and power of the suction cup is fantastic.
My only gripe is when I set the phone to external mode for the audio it works great with music and videos, even ringtones and notifications but calls only come out of the speaker or the phone itself as opposed to the car stereo system as would be ideal.
Does anyone know how to fix this as it makes receiving and making calls almost impossible and that's one of the main reasons I bought the dock in the first place.
Just want to bump this thread, really hoping someone can help me out
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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
I can't help you, but I enjoyed the question...
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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!
your questions answered.....
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I have a hands free bluetooth system in my car. I noticed that while I play music via auxiliary cord, and someone calls me, the Bluetooth isn't working. Anyone else having same issue?
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krazyflipj said:
I have a hands free bluetooth system in my car. I noticed that while I play music via auxiliary cord, and someone calls me, the Bluetooth isn't working. Anyone else having same issue?
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I have the exact same issue in my car, tried everything to get around it. You just have to unplug the auxiliary cable when you get a call incoming.
geekingitup2005 said:
I have the exact same issue in my car, tried everything to get around it. You just have to unplug the auxiliary cable when you get a call incoming.
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Calls come through bluetooth if using audio through car dock.
nobrakes said:
Calls come through bluetooth if using audio through car dock.
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I hope that's not the only option. I didn't have this issue with the Evo so I wonder what's causing this
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krazyflipj said:
I have a hands free bluetooth system in my car. I noticed that while I play music via auxiliary cord, and someone calls me, the Bluetooth isn't working. Anyone else having same issue?
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Get an A2DP cd player and you don't need to worry about auxiliary. It's all done through bluetooth. This is what I got
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SONY-XPLOD-...In_Dash_Receivers&vxp=mtr&hash=item3cbe5d6b2a
krazyflipj said:
I hope that's not the only option. I didn't have this issue with the Evo so I wonder what's causing this
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Car dock is cheap and works really well
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I wonder if we can stream audio to the car using super mono app
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It has something to do with TTY settings. I also have this issue.
I hope someone could figure out how to fix this. I have to take out the aux cord whenever I get a call in my G35.
*UPDATE* So I did some searching and it looks like the original Epic had the same issue but was fixed via OTA update. Hopefully Samsung/Sprint is aware of this issue.
other forums have mentioned this problem "Received confirmation from Samsung that there will be no fix for this. It was made this way on purpose. I guess the Epic 4g does the same thing. I am not buying a $400 stereo system just to use this phone properly. What was Samsung thinking? Every other Android device works the correct way."
I haven't called samsung myself but this is absolutely ridiculous if it was made this way on purpose. full thread here (well because i don't have 8 posts to this forum, i can't post the full thread link! it's on android forums at android central.com. you can access the thread by doing this search "No car kit bluetooth while Aux stereo cord is plugged in" sorry!
what possible reason would there be to have to unplug the auxillary jack to use bluetooth? it's an incredible inconvenience. and i would rather not use an A2DP adapter to play music, i'm assuming that this would eat up more battery life than using the auxillary 3.5 mm jack
anyone know of a ROM that get's past this issue?
Same situation
Galaxy S II in original car dock+cable to car audio system AUX jack
Stock ROM 2.3.4
Bluetooth Jabra BT125
It's possible to answer with bluetooth earphone, but can't hear other side, just myself.
Other side hears me OK
Try this:
http://www.miccus.com/products/blubridge-mini-jack-rx
Plugs in to your car deck and allows you to use Bluetooth to stream music to it.
I think you can pair both your headset or BT speaker phone and the Blubridge to your phone at the same time.
http://www.amazon.com/Miccus-BluBridge-Mini-Jack-Bluetooth-Bluetooth-Enabled/dp/B0038MA11U
Buying something else is not a solution.
This is some type of design flaw.
What a completely useless technical support they have. "This is how the phone was designed and we cannot change that"
Last samsung product I will buy. They have no concept of customer service.
This is a design flaw. Bluetooth should be completely independant of the audio jack.
What they want is you to use the dock for use in the car so it can be hands free. Unfortunately if its true they don't intend to fix with an OTA then the only option is to use the functionality they have given you. The headphone jack takes priority over other connections in this instance. Sorry. I am sure you don't want this to be the resolution.
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What they want is you to use the dock for use in the car so it can be hands free. Unfortunately if its true they don't intend to fix with an OTA then the only option is to use the functionality they have given you. The headphone jack takes priority over other connections in this instance. Sorry. I am sure you don't want this to be the resolution.
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Take the car out of the equation. I am using a Jabra headset to take calls, but have the phone plugged into an external speaker to listen to music at my desk.
Call comes in, I have to unplug the speaker to use bluetooth.
What dock would affect this?
Bielinsk said:
Take the car out of the equation. I am using a Jabra headset to take calls, but have the phone plugged into an external speaker to listen to music at my desk.
Call comes in, I have to unplug the speaker to use bluetooth.
What dock would affect this?
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Similar scenario for me. I listen to Sirius/XM through earbuds at work. When the phone rings, I have to unplug the earbuds to hear through my Bluetooth headset. Then I have to tell the caller to wait while I exit the Sirius app because it keeps on playing through my Bluetooth headset.
Wrote about this issue to my local Samsung office.
Answer was:
That's the way device works. Only one source can be used: jack or bluetooth.
Not both together.
I don't have words to describe how this is lame.
Just stupid, audio should be independant of the source.
All my past phones have worked fine. Evo would pause the music, I take the call, when I end the call, the music picks back up and plays.
Terrible design, and while I could live with it if Samsung agreed it should be fixed, them simply saying "thats how it is, live with it" is not acceptable. I will not get another samsung phone because of their poor service.
Let alone the stupid kernel partition they use.
Back to HTC.
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Hmm, reading the other thread got me thinking.
I know there are different AUX cables, some have two bars (looking at the male part that plugs into the jack) and some have 3.
I wonder if there is a different behavior between the two. Maybe the phone is thinking there is a headset plugged into the aux jack.
Installed 2.3.6
I can confirm that problem is fixed.
When there is incoming call, it's routed to bluetooth headset, music is shutdown.
Navigation warnings in headset are heard as short beeps.
Great !!!
Hi there.
I just recently bought my SGSII, and even more recently received the Samsung vehicle dock/holder with charger and line out. It seems like a quality unit, and it sounds very well when playing music etc, but there is a huge annoyance: Every time android initializes some sound, whether it be when the music player plays the first song, the voice in the google navigation program, or a system sound, a loud "popping" sound can be heard. I tried turning all system sounds off, but it's very annoying when using the navigation program. Has anyone had this same problem?
Other than this, the output from the unit is loud and clear (no volume issues), and there is not much background noise. I considered the wiring on my 2008 VW touran, but that should be good. I also tried it on another car (Jeep with an aftermarket stereo). I have used an iPhone with a similar style dock (ie one that splits the USB/dock connector to a charger and aux) without these issues earlier.
So, has anyone else experienced the same problem, or should there be no pops? Could it be a defective unit? Otherwise, could it be due to some bug in the OS? I have the latest official build from Kies. (2.3.5, I9100XXKI4, GINGERBREAD.XWKI8).
Thanks in advance.
I have a Alpine indash monitor and when I use the USB connection and hook up my phone and mount the storage ( to play music over my stereo) it starts to play a loud popping noise till it finds all the music files on my phone. For example if I have 50 songs it pops 50 times. Really really annoying cause I I hear is popping noises before my music starts to play
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So is this with the USB cable straight to the GS2 or thru the vehicle dock's USB?
Samsung Norway just got back to me after having tested their own devices, and it seems they also had the same problem. So they just told me that that's the way this thing works. Which is very strange, I can't imagine they don't get more complains. Surely, noone wants ear wrecking noise before any message from the navigation app or music player?
Are there no fellow vehicle dock users out there who can confirm if this is normal?
I'm using the desk dock and I have the same problem, never found a solution, I tried several roms and kernels
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Thanks for your reply. Seems very odd, almost as if there is some firmware/software problem, something emitting an audio signal that shouldn't be there. Let me see, wasn't there a thread about making your own usb to charge/audio out here...
I received the car dock the other day and have encountered the same problem. Any time the android system "does" something other than just playing the music, terrible loud pops occur.
Between this and the fact that the call audio is not routed through the dock's 3.5" jack has me considering returning it! I wish this fact was better explained in the Samsung literature on the dock.
I also considered returning the unit, but I think it might be a software flaw. At least, it should be possible to make a software workaround (drivers/firmware) for this, as it seems to be caused by audio initialization in the phone. Is this something for the developers? Do any of you have experience with same kinds of accessories with other brands using a micro USB connector as dock?
this has got to be a bad ground. the only time i get a pop is when i place/remove the phone from my dock or plug/unplug the usb power and i blame that on a bad ground for the usb adapter in my cigarette lighter.
if it doesnt pop while off usb power than its the ground plain and simple
edit: sorry for hijacking this thread but could you post a screen shot of the car home or desk home app?
I can't imagine this being due to a bad ground. Its a 3 years old car, and i've also tested the unit in a brand new Citroen c5 with the exact same pops. In addition the Norwegian Samsung people say its the same with their units. Out of curiosity, what firmware are you running on yours? I'll see if I can arrange a screenshot.
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Hey Guys,
Can anyone recommend any car docks that have built-in speakers? Currently using my phone as a navigation doesn't work too well as I find the speaker so quiet that on high speeds or with some light music on, you can barely here anything.
So with that in mind if anyone has any good recommendation of car dock with speakers that is loud and crisp then much appreciated! Sort of like the TomTom's which I found was always quite clear to hear even with the background noises.
Thanks
I'm not sure if there are any Car Docks with built in speakers, but I am very satisfied with the iBolt Car Dock in combination with the HTC Car StereoClip. I always play my music through the phone and navigation works fine as well, as it even turns down the music when the satnav says something.
The only downside is, that it's quite pricey, but instead of the Car StereoClip you could use a normal AUX cable which will do the same as the StereoClip.
Not long ago I got the Galaxy Note 2 and I love it. Even to the point of building a car dock from parts made for a Samsung Stratosphere. The dock works great, charging the phone and playing my music directly through the car stereo. However, I found that phone calls, while correctly set to speakerphone on the dock, are still coming through the phone speaker, rather than the car speakers, and since the dock covers the speaker, I can barely hear the person I'm talking to.
Is it normal for the phone to go only through the speaker/headset and ignore the dock, or is perhaps the Stratosphere's dock design the flaw?
In technical design, the Stratophere dock appears to function by taking the 5 pins of MicroUSB and seperating them into two charging pins and the left, right, and ground for stereo audio, connected to a standard 3.5mm jack. Knowing that the Galaxy Note 2 uses an 11 pin MicroUSB port, could that be the compatibility issue? As I mentioned, music and other phone audio plays properly through my dock, so why wouldn't the phone?
If there's an override possible, my phone does have full root access, but is otherwise still on full stock software.
Don't know about that dock idea - not familiar with it. Don't want to be dismissive if that's your only option, but best way is just get a Bluetooth Car Stereo. Then you can connect via BT and music and calls will come out the speakers. Some also have usb input as well.
I do know I tried using 5pin cables with the Note 2 and they don't work for various applications. You can verify this if you look up threads on video adapters for example. BTW, when you get a phone call, you do know about the output select screen right? Choices for Speaker, Headset (usually BT) - you can try deselecting Speaker... But I guess you've tried that.