Hi all ,
I've just bought the official Samsung car holder / dock.
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It's well made and a perfect fit for the phone (without case) but I'm having problems connecting to my car stereo.
After a bit off fiddling with settings (turning on USB debugging) I can connect my GalaxyS2 directly to my Pioneer DEH-2300UB headunit with the USB cable.
GalaxyS2 then detects that it's connected by USB. Pulling down the notification bar and clicking the USB icon turns it on. It is then detected by the headunit like it would any USB mass storage device and plays MP3 files.
But if I connect the car holder to the headunit with the USB cable, then clip my GalaxyS2 into the car holder, the phone goes into car dock mode.
I can get out of car dock mode by pulling down the notifications bar and turning it off but I can't get the the phone into USB mass storage mode.
Any idea how I can get my GalaxyS2 to detect the USB connection and not the car dock?
how about turning USB debuggin on then connect into the dock and then turning it off?
Thanks, but nope that didnt work.
Can you post a picture or link to your car dock?
I'm a newb so can't post direct pics or links so you'll have to cut and paste the link below.
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Is there any setting you can adjust on your car stereo?
No settings on stereo. its an issue with the phone
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Have you tried changing it from car dock to say sound station/dock?
You can turn the car dock off by pulling down the notification bar a clicking the car dock icon. Not sure if it will let the phone go into mass storge mode after that though.
Nope tried that as well
Hmm is it able to detect the phone or is it only the problem relating to playback?
The head unit detects that something has been connected and tries to scan it but because the GalaxyS2 is not in mass storage mode the headunit displays an error.
Maybe theres a 3rd party app that can change it or maybe we can trick the phone into detecting connection into something else first and then putting it into the car dock. thus it might not go into the car dock mode
Been looking around the market. There are a few apps but "NoDock" seems to be the closest to what I'm looking for.
market.android.com/details?id=com.nothize.nodock
There is a trial version. I'll re-root my phone and give it a try.
Cool. Let us know after you give it a try
BTW have you tried plugging in a female USB port and then connecting the male end to your head unit? Or maybe you could try an aux input after docking it.
I think what is happening is that the USB connection is just supplying power to the car holder.
There is an AUX-out on the car holder and an AUX-in on the headunit. I'll see if I can find an AUX cable and try it. Connected that way I think I'll be able to control the MP3s from the phone instead of the headunit.
Maybe this is a bit off-topic but can you tell me if you notice any interference noise through the dock's audio line out when the phone is not playing anything? This is an annoying issue in the I9000 with its official car dock.
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What type of interference? I get the usual RF interference just the same as if you put the phone next to a speaker when in GPRS mode. You'd get that with all phones IMO.
drillyourownhole said:
I think what is happening is that the USB connection is just supplying power to the car holder.
There is an AUX-out on the car holder and an AUX-in on the headunit. I'll see if I can find an AUX cable and try it. Connected that way I think I'll be able to control the MP3s from the phone instead of the headunit.
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lol. thats it then I guess. if there is already an aux out, it must be that Did they include a 3.5mm cable?
rob_h said:
What type of interference? I get the usual RF interference just the same as if you put the phone next to a speaker when in GPRS mode. You'd get that with all phones IMO.
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I didn't mean RF interference, that will depend on the proper shielding your audio system has (I think). The noise I'm talking about is different, sometimes it's random noise and some other times it is a buzzing that goes high and low depending on the acceleration/deceleration of the car engine... I know... weird. This does NOT happen if I connect the phone directly through its 3.5 jack and not the dock's.
Maybe they sorted it out in the I9100 car dock.
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I'm using the livedock and connecting the device to the screen with the HDMI cable.
But I got a problem, if the HDMI cable is connected to the phone the audio is connected to the screen also.
So I can't hear anything from the 3.5mm input. Can I somehow disable the HDMI sound and hear from the 3.5mm?
please
yea this used to be my issue as well. maybe a future firmware will enable the sound be selected to out to the 3.5mm jack instead of going with HDMI.
For a few days now the external audio isn't working anymore and if I set the System Settings->Accessory->Use External Speakers when docked all audio players start behaving weird.
Sometime I get the message that the audio format of the file isn't supported or the file starts playing with abnormal his speed (perhaps 3 times as fast) but in any case no sound is heard.
Sometimes I have to reboot the phone to get it straight again.
With the internal speaker or anything plugged directly into the phone headset output all audio plays perfectly.
Any ideas?
Hikanio
What kernel are you using. . Did you change the kernel recently. . If so try the stweaks audio settings
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pakure said:
What kernel are you using. . Did you change the kernel recently. . If so try the stweaks audio settings
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I am still on the unrooted Standard Kernel 3.0.31-1071214, so I wonder if there are others experiencing the same issue.
Problem solved: related to USB cable from charger to docking station
I just found the cause for the problem:
The USB cable between the original Samsung charger and the docking station was changed.
Although charging in the docking station obviously worked fine, it seems the the resistance of the cable caused a voltage drop in the docking station that lead to the malfunction.
Beware of the charging cable and the high current our smarphone draws from it.
Cheers
Hikanio
Further to this, I just discovered that the dock audio will not work for me when connected to a USB port for charging: I had to connect the mains charger and then the audio worked! It does seem to be a current issue.
Cheers - Andrew
I just installed CM11 on my phone , everything is great except when I put the phone in the car mount (ibolt) the audio wants to switch to the USB port. I would rather it be on the internal phone speaker . Is there a way to disable the the car dock audio switching to USB?
I bought an Usb C hub (not Samsung's) with ethernet, hdmi out, USB 3 ports, card reader, power delivery and headphone Jack. It works well but when I connect it I can't hear sound through the speakers ( I can hear if I connect headphones to the tablet or to the hub).
Does anyone have a solution, or tried a hub without this problem?
I solved it. Go to Developer options/Multimedia and check "Prevent USB audio routing". Now you won't be able to connect headphones to the hub (unless you uncheck that option) but since you can use the tablet 's headphone Jack it's not a problem.