Develop Bugs

On maps, get a call, now I want to go back to maps. How?!

Hey guys,
Here's the scenario: I'm driving along. My Desire is in the car holder performing GPS duties. The Keepscreen app is keeping the display alive. All is good in the world. Then, I get a call. I answer it on my bluetooth headset. It's my agent telling me the UK and US leaders would like my opinion. Same as always.
Now here's the problem. When I hang up, I'm taken back to my lock screen, not the maps that I want to go back to.
Is there any way to automatically get back to the maps (without having to go through the faff of turning off the security lock screen every time I want to use the GPS then turning it back on when I finished)?

dont use keepscreen smu.
google leaves the screen on anyway.
i bet your app is bringing you back to the lockscreen after call since i never had such experience...
i dont have this problem.

snudel said:
dont use keepscreen smu.
google leaves the screen on anyway.
i bet your app is bringing you back to the lockscreen after call since i never had such experience...
i dont have this problem.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Does it? I got KeepScreen because my Google Maps didn't stay on. I can't test it right now because my phone is in for repairs, but this is interesting. I was pretty sure Google Maps didn't have this feature.

Cleargrey said:
Does it? I got KeepScreen because my Google Maps didn't stay on. I can't test it right now because my phone is in for repairs, but this is interesting.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No. Google maps does not keep the screen on. Google navigation does though.

doinbox said:
No. Google maps does not keep the screen on. Google navigation does though.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
where can i find google navigation software??

samy.3660 said:
where can i find google navigation software??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It comes free with google maps.
Don't know what countries it supports though.

GB is supported by the Nav app afaik, otherwise search for maps.brut14.apk in here!

Cleargrey said:
Does it? I got KeepScreen because my Google Maps didn't stay on. I can't test it right now because my phone is in for repairs, but this is interesting. I was pretty sure Google Maps didn't have this feature.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's an option in the settings to keep the screen on when plugged into a power source.

use tasker app so that when in car dock and the call is ended google maps opens.

supasye said:
use tasker app so that when in car dock and the call is ended google maps opens.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How do I do this? Because though it is a car dock, the phone has no way of knowing as it's simply in a holder with a charging cable that goes into the cigarette lighter charging port.

brummiesteven said:
There's an option in the settings to keep the screen on when plugged into a power source.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
True. But this is a bit of a bodge and more for developers. One of the things is that I don't want to spend my time going in to settings and changing settings everytime I want to use it as a gps, and then have to change it back when I come out of my car. I wouldn't want this feature on constantly as it would excessively wear out the screen since I'm charging the phone outside the car much more than inside the car.

You could use Settings Profile app to change the settings based on the conditions in the car.
I use this to detect that I'm not at home, not at work, and plugged into a USB charger, so must be in the car.
I can then set the screen always on, start the Car Dock app etc...
Works well for me.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

couplands said:
You could use Settings Profile app to change the settings based on the conditions in the car.
I use this to detect that I'm not at home, not at work, and plugged into a USB charger, so must be in the car.
I can then set the screen always on, start the Car Dock app etc...
Works well for me.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good idea.
Though one thing has just come up. People are getting Froyo now, which has a car mode built in. Anyone have any experience with it? I'm still hoping to get my phone back by tuesday so can't check it out.

[Q] "CAR Home" Problem

Can any one help me? Every time I plug in my car charger into my desire, Car Home seem keep launching itself regardless closing it. I cant find the way to turn the auto run off. (i got a rooted desire with LeeDroid 1.8 installed)

I have read something about this being to do with magnets in the dock in the car. Other than not using the dock or removing the embedded magnets (or uninstalling) then Car Home will run as soon as the phone detects the magnets in the holder. I may just be chatting crap however LOL

Have you gone to the settings of the car phone app and turned off auto launch?

sbdags said:
Have you gone to the settings of the car phone app and turned off auto launch?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i have, but there are only two options there, 1) always show disclaimer, 2) system settings which takes me to mobile defailt settings menu which doesnt have car home settings

This weird as there are people out there trying to get the desire to do this!
There are no magnet in the desire though (I think)

al89nut said:
This weird as there are people out there trying to get the desire to do this!
There are no magnet in the desire though (I think)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
you are right, but the problem is i want my desire to do I want it to do, means i would like to turn off or on the autorun for car home

the Desire does not have magnets in it but can detect magnetism hence the metal detector apps that you can download.

I have 4 options in my car phone app one is auto launch

I have found the solution, installed custom car home and made it my default car app
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

sbdags said:
I have 4 options in my car phone app one is auto launch
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You have HTC's Car Panel, as opposed to Google's Car Home - both do pretty much the same thing though.
Regards,
Dave

I personally found 'custom car home' more friendly, specially it allows you to add your own apps, and lets you select your own navigation, as i got copilot live and navigon
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

glimpsofreality said:
I personally found 'custom car home' more friendly, specially it allows you to add your own apps, and lets you select your own navigation, as i got copilot live and navigon
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Link?
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

Its free in the market
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

I read somewhere that the it launcher due to one of the pins in the car charger, that is or is not present on a standard data usb cable, This cause it to launch, Well so i've read.

1- standard car home doesnt let u choose ur own navigation, which is pretty lame, 2- its auto run is extremely annoying. 'custom car home' a lot better and friendly, also u can set it as default car home
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Car dock opens randomly, regardless of the Rom

So my phone has this problem where my phone will randomly open the car dock. When the phones locked, unlocked, when I using it, it just randomly opens. I've reflashed roms to change and hope it was just one Rom but it still does it.
I even switched to miui which doesn't have a car dock and I got the car dock notification in the top bar and it kicked the gps on.

Get_Out_and_Push said:
So my phone has this problem where my phone will randomly open the car dock. When the phones locked, unlocked, when I using it, it just randomly opens. I've reflashed roms to change and hope it was just one Rom but it still does it.
I even switched to miui which doesn't have a car dock and I got the car dock notification in the top bar and it kicked the gps on.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That is weird. Have you attempted to remove, freeze or rename the car dock app? If not, give it a try. Using a system level file manager like Root Explorer or adb, maneuver to the /system/app folder and either rename or delete .apk file associated with the car panel. I've deleted mine and I'm not sure of the exact name of it.
Posting & replying via the XDA Premium app

I've seen where some usb cables have the extra pin grounded and the car dock will open when plugged into any sort of charger, unchecking the option to start automatically under settings/dock will fix that.
Are you saying it opens without being plugged into anything all by itself?

I have had that same problem for about 5 months. I'm guessing u also have speakerphone active every time you start a call, right? What I always do is after I flash a new Rom go in to car panel- settings- and disable auto launch then open titanium backup and uninstall car panel. This doesn't work as good on sense 2.0 Roman tho, it won't ever actually pop up but it will be in your task bar constantly. Sorry u r going thru this too cuz I know how pissed it used to make me.

You probably have a problem with your USB port. Best thing to do is take it in to Sprint and get it looked at.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G with Tapatalk

Thanks for all the quick replies guys. Yeah I figured it's probably a grounded pin somewhere making the phone think that it's always docked. I'm using MIUI now and I don't think I can uninstall the car panel part.
But by far the most annoying part is the phone always defaulting to speakerphone, totally awesome when I'm at college haha.

My girlfreind has the issue on her phone but only when using a certain charger. I didn't realize the problem she has with speakerphone activating were related. Does turning off the dock auto-launch also fix the speaker phone issue?

Car mode + copilot premium

Does anyone know if its possible to assign the car mode navigation to be copilot live rather than Google navigation or HTC?
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Don't think so. I have it installed, but the options in settings still only offer Google or Locations.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

lindsaydr said:
Does anyone know if its possible to assign the car mode navigation to be copilot live rather than Google navigation or HTC?
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Does copilot premium work for you, it just crashes every time I put into landscape
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

Copilot seems to work fine on one x but not used in anger yet.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Co pilot works fine for me. Not used it in landscape mode though. Prefer portrait.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

No, it is not possible. Car mode is useless; it is locked to use only htc locations or google for nav, and only tunein for streaming radio (even if you own TuneIn Pro.)
I'm usin Sygic and except for two silent crashes, it runs perfectly.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA

knoxploration said:
No, it is not possible. Car mode is useless; it is locked to use only htc locations or google for nav, and only tunein for streaming radio (even if you own TuneIn Pro.)
I'm usin Sygic and except for two silent crashes, it runs perfectly.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think you can use tunein pro if you desactivate the normal one in apps settings..
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Nope, not in Car mode. Believe me, I've tried. TuneIn is disabled in Setings :: Apps, but can still be launched by the Car mode app, and can't be replaced. Nor is it ijntelligent enough to pick up favorites from the Pro version, so yoiu have to maintain two sets of favorites.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA

Also, you can install the Google Car mode instead of using the included one.
You'll be able to add and/or remove all the apps you want.
Works quite fine here, but a little laggy.
About CoPilot, I have many crashes when I use it for a while (more than 2 hrs), landscape or portrait.

K!lly said:
Also, you can install the Google Car mode instead of using the included one.
You'll be able to add and/or remove all the apps you want.
Works quite fine here, but a little laggy.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, I'll likely have to install a third-party Car mode. Makes me wonder though; supposedly HTC's Car mode pops up automatically when you use the car dock. I wonder if that can be disabled or changed to another program?

knoxploration said:
Yeah, I'll likely have to install a third-party Car mode. Makes me wonder though; supposedly HTC's Car mode pops up automatically when you use the car dock. I wonder if that can be disabled or changed to another program?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
In settings under Dock mode there is an option "Default action". It has the following options:
Show HTC dock screen
Open app
Do nothing
When I press open app it doesn't let me select an app so I'm guessing it either opens car mode or (and I hope this is the one but I dont have a dock to test it) when you dock it it lets you select an app (for example google car) and saves the option.

Gatos7 said:
In settings under Dock mode there is an option "Default action". It has the following options:
Show HTC dock screen
Open app
Do nothing
When I press open app it doesn't let me select an app so I'm guessing it either opens car mode or (and I hope this is the one but I dont have a dock to test it) when you dock it it lets you select an app (for example google car) and saves the option.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, I saw that and am hoping (but not daring assume) the same...

knoxploration said:
Nope, not in Car mode. Believe me, I've tried. TuneIn is disabled in Setings :: Apps, but can still be launched by the Car mode app, and can't be replaced. Nor is it ijntelligent enough to pick up favorites from the Pro version, so yoiu have to maintain two sets of favorites.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
All you have to do is set up a tunein account, then log in to the account with tunein and tunein pro. your favourites upload to your account. voila one set of presets/favourites

Good tip. I Does regular TuneIn still show ads in Car mode? I haven't bothered trying it yet.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA

CoPilot 8
Hi,
Anyone using CoPilot 8 with their One X? Recently installed it & works very well with the exception that I cannot access the bottom of the screen (menu, hide & exit options) because the 3 dot menu covers it. This occurs in both portrait & landscape modes.
Anyone experiencing this and is there a workaround? Noticed on ALK's website that there is an update for the HTC One X however believe this is only for Premium versions...

You can use Tasker to launch whatever config you want (including apps) when the phone is docked and undocked. Easiest way is to use a tasker profile to detect when the phone docs.
Got mine configured to launch Bluetooth to connect to my handsfree, shut of Wifi, turn the volume up to max and launch a sat nav app then undo all that when undocked. I stopped using the Car app when I found the limitations being described here.

gc48067 said:
You can use Tasker to launch whatever config you want (including apps) when the phone is docked and undocked. Easiest way is to use a tasker profile to detect when the phone docs.
Got mine configured to launch Bluetooth to connect to my handsfree, shut of Wifi, turn the volume up to max and launch a sat nav app then undo all that when undocked. I stopped using the Car app when I found the limitations being described here.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, that is what I use instead. Nuts to HTC’s Car Mode.
I’ve set up a ‘Car Mode On’ task and assigned it to a Tasker launch widget on a home screen. I press it and Tasker runs through the following;
1. Screen Brightness: 90%
2. GPS: On
3. Bluetooth: On
4. 3G: Off (I don’t need it for CoPilot, maps on SD card plus I don’t want e-mails etc distracting me. )
5. Auto Sync: Off (Same reasons as above)
6. Media Volume: 100%
7. Wait for 1 second
8. Launch App: CoPilot
I added step 7 as if CoPilot launches too soon after GPS has activated, it *****es up about GPS being off even though Tasker has turned it on. Stops the need bring up the menu just to turn GPS off and on again.
(On my previous phone (Desire S) I also had Tasker drop CPU back to 66% to prevent overheating. Doesn’t seem to work yet on One X but I’ll keep trying. I tested it using System Tuner. Told Tasker to drop CPU 0 to 760Mhz when System Tuner runs. I opened System Tuner, and although the slider for setting CPU speed had responded to Tasker’s command and had set to 760Mhz, I could see from the CPU monitor that it was still going up to 1.5Ghz.)
As this is just a Tasker Widget that executes a pre-set task, you don’t get the exit tasks turning everything back to normal when you end your journey and close CoPilot. So I added a ‘Car Mode Off’ Task and associated widget which basically reverses steps 1 to 6.

Gulioth said:
Anyone experiencing this and is there a workaround? Noticed on ALK's website that there is an update for the HTC One X however believe this is only for Premium versions...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes the update to the premium version works great. Don't know of any other updates. Maybe get in touch with Alk via facebook or twitter they seem to repsond to questions there regualary.
---------- Post added at 05:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:54 PM ----------
gc48067 said:
Got mine configured to launch Bluetooth to connect to my handsfree, shut of Wifi, turn the volume up to max and launch a sat nav app then undo all that when undocked. I stopped using the Car app when I found the limitations being described here.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you get tasker to shut down copiot fully when you leave dock mode? I find that it still runs in the background with the GPS still switched on. I haven't rooted yet though so can't use that option

wnp_79 said:
Yes, that is what I use instead. Nuts to HTC’s Car Mode.
I’ve set up a ‘Car Mode On’ task and assigned it to a Tasker launch widget on a home screen. I press it and Tasker runs through the following;
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can Set up a profile to detect when docked and have it launch your Car Mode On task if you wanted to automate it.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Yes the update to the premium version works great. Don't know of any other updates. Maybe get in touch with Alk via facebook or twitter they seem to repsond to questions there regualary
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Response from ALK Support:
"We have been testing the fix for previous versions and a new update will be released in the next two weeks fixing that problem"

[R] Disable blocking of notification panel in car mode?

I really like the HTC's Car app, but there's one thing that drives me nuts. It disables the notification pulldown, which makes things like skipping a track (or any number of other things) much more difficult than it should be. Does anyone know of a way to fix this? If there's not a known workaround, would any devs be willing to look at modifying this behavior? I'd be willing to donate a bit for it...

I think HTC did this as a safety precaution because when it was allowed, you could access anything that popped up and wasn't "drive friendly".
However, I'd love to know if this possible. For example, getting back to navigation after switching back to music takes three or four taps.
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

I'm definitely interested in this too. Blocked notification bar is driving me nuts!
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Another vote from me to enable it please. On the one x it was blocked on the car launcher but launch a third party app and you had access to it again. Damn annoying as it is now.

lol i just dont use the default HTC car mode. use car home ultra. works like 100 times better and allows for notification bar AND it has default home too

I like Car Home Ultra, but it doesn't read your texts out loud and allow you to respond without ever looking at your phone. If I could do that with CHU I'd switch in a heartbeat.

In case anyone else is still interested in this, someone has finally released an Xposed module to correct these issues! It's called "Car Xposed" and it makes the Car app work exactly like it should! :good::good: