OK, here's my setup:
Note II VZW phone, completely stock (Go Launcher Ex installed)
CarHome Ultra App
iBolt xProDock Car Dock **
Samsung Galaxy Desktop Dock Station (recently RMA'd)
** I originally ordered the iBolt xProDock for my HTC Droid DNA, which came with the dock, HTC charging "arm" and 9ft USB cable. After having to switch phones to the Note II, iBolt was kind enough to send me the Samsung charging arm at no cost.
Disclosure: This is my first Samsung Android phone owned.
With my HTC phones, even the DNA, when I put the phone in a Car Dock, it would prompt to start the HTC Car Dock app (or in my case, a choice between HTC's and CarHome Ultra, which I would choose to always open CHU). If I put the phone in a "home/desktop" dock, it would ask if I wanted to start the "Desk Mode/Desk Clock" app.
With the Note II and the docks mentioned above, when I put it in the iBolt car dock, it prompts if I want to open CHU or Desk Clock. When I put the phone in the Samsung OEM Desktop Dock Station, it prompted the same thing. When I plug the phone into the Car Dock and choose CHU "Always," then when I put the phone in the Desktop Dock, it would start the CHU app. (Likewise, if I chose Desk Clock>Always for the Desktop dock, when placing the phone in the Car Dock it would start that app.)
Questions:
Does my Note II really not know the difference between docks?
Anyone know of stock settings for the Note II to get it to see the difference between the docks? (No, I don't want to mess around with NFC tags or Tasker programs if I can help it.)
Is there a Desktop Dock that will ask to start the Desk Clock app that isn't the OEM Samsung one? (The one I had for 2 days was very cheap and broke. VERY poor build quality, especially for what it cost me!)
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions/help.
I'd like to know this too. I have the Note 2 for Sprint, the iBolt car dock, and the Samsung Smart Dock. At the moment, it always opens CarHomeUltra in either dock. I'm guess I may have to make GentleAlarm or the Samsung like Dock Screen the default, and use NFC to force it for the car mode when I'm in there.
Wow, no answers or even additional "me too" complaints. I guess not many people use both a car and home dock. I want to use essentially the same setup as the OP but with a S4. My old Droid 3 (running Gingerbread) would nicely launch the appropriate dock app depending on the dock - Bedside for the home dock and Car Home Ultra for the (obviously ) car dock. My new S4 launches the same default app once it's chosen regardless of the dock. Seems like a huge step backwards.
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I was really hoping they'd come out with a car dock for the G2, similar to the N1. But they haven't. I know that the G2 doesn't have contacts along the side for this functionality, but I was thinking that the USB Micro's extra pin could be used to detect a dock. Does anyone know if there is an API call to read the pin or do an A/D on this pin or anything? I know this is how Motorola detected if their phones were connected to one of their chargers or not, so this isn't new or anything. Other manufacturers have done this also, but the hardware has to support it.
Interested in an official desktop dock and also an official car dock.
Anyone know if one is in the works for the DesireZ/G2? I have both for the NexusOne and its the only real thing that I'm missing since I got a DesireZ/G2
Motorola uses a magnet sensor in the back of the phone to tell if it is docked. Whether the dock is car or home is based on the polarity of the magnet.
Here's a post I just made in the accessories form about how I use a droid X car dock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9112938&postcount=49
my video on the droid x car dock with a g2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cgZy6GkTjE
I agree, not nearly as elegant as the nexus one car dock, but it's a solution. Who knows if they will ever make a nice dock for the G2.
Does any one have a dock for the note?
Did you get it off ebay? (Here for example)
I want to get one - but really only if it put the note into dock mode. I like to use it as a night stand clock.
If these dont work to put the phone into dock mode - does any one have a suggestion of what dock will? except the 80$ one from samsung.
You might wanna check "Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 I9220 SGH-I717 Multimedia Desktop Dock EDD-D1E1BEGSTA". You can find it on the eBay.
(Im a new user so cant give you a direct link)
You can also find "Genuine Samsung Galaxy NOTE Desk Charge Dock N7000 EDD-D1E1BEG Desktop Cradle !" for 60' ish $
I checked and you can get the cheap on from amazon for like 25$. I think I am going to do that unless someone has any suggestions.
Does anyone know what puts the phone into dock mode? I'd like to build my own landscape dock and am curious about this.
I bought the Phillips AS351/37 fidelio docking speaker for android. It's on Amazon for $112 but I bought mine at Best Buy for $99. It's a dock/speaker system specifically for android phones....it holds my Tmobile Galaxy s2, Htc Sensation and my GNote....it has little wheels on the usb dock where you can adjust it to fit your phone or if you have the usb port on the side of the phone instead of the bottom. It works by bluetooth and the speaker quality, imo, is awesome! It says to download the fidelio app from the play store, you dont have to, I did and its not bad, it has clock mode, alarm mode, brightness settings along with weather forecast. It has radio stations and has the app "songbird"....you can find that in the play store as well. It's just a music app, its ok but I rather use the google play music app. All in all its one of my favorite docks, and I have a few. It doesnt automatically set off the dock mode but like I said, the fidelio app puts it in to dock mode. Phillips has a few different ones, one that has a built in alarm clock with digital display, one that is a round speaker with a nightlight...which is the one that i wanted but when I went to best buy to look at it the GNote overpowered it as the speaker isnt all that big. You can find all the Phillip android docks on amazon. Read the reviews....they have great reviews....I should have posted the link to the one I got, sorry, I'll repost with it.
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Here is the one I got......
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-AS351...4UPK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334421246&sr=8-2
ubermetroid said:
Does any one have a dock for the note?
Did you get it off ebay? (Here for example)
I want to get one - but really only if it put the note into dock mode. I like to use it as a night stand clock.
If these dont work to put the phone into dock mode - does any one have a suggestion of what dock will? except the 80$ one from samsung.
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What i did is a simple use of tasker to activate the clock dock screen when usb is charged. You can also improve it by detecting your home wifi SSID so that it only converts when you are at home. This saves you a ton of money with the cheaper docks. Hope it helps!
Forgot to mention that the fidelio dock I got has a USB port in the back to charge a second device.....which I find super helpful since I have 3 phones.
I ordered and just received infuse car dock and desktop dock for my galaxy s3. Thanks ookba, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725013
the car dock is perfect fit but the desktop dock is little tight but still fits. The infuse dock has speaker build in but when I dock my galaxy 3 and play music, music comes out of phone speaker, not the dock speaker. How can I enable the desktop dock speaker? The manual says I need to down load samsung desk home from app store but I can't find such app.
there's actually a setting in the phone itself. forget where, but Im sure you can find it
bearboy80 said:
I ordered and just received infuse car dock and desktop dock for my galaxy s3. Thanks ookba, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725013
the car dock is perfect fit but the desktop dock is little tight but still fits. The infuse dock has speaker build in but when I dock my galaxy 3 and play music, music comes out of phone speaker, not the dock speaker. How can I enable the desktop dock speaker? The manual says I need to down load samsung desk home from app store but I can't find such app.
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You won't be able to find the app mostly likely because of who you have your service with. You can search for it on google play, using the web browser, but you still can't install it.
There is an option in the dock settings to control where the audio outputs to. Select "settings" and then select "dock".
How's the sound when you connect the car stereo with car dock? Mine sounded horrible flat bass and vocal sounds scratchy
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Perhaps this is a thread better for Q&A, but I figure it is specifically about an accessory. As I've done searching through various gadget sites and Google I've yet to find an accessory for the SGSIII as below:
Coming from the Droid X, there existed a dock which when the DX was placed in it the phone would go into desktop dock mode. I forgot where I got mine. I think it was an ad on droid-life that I clicked through. I've seen that Samsung has a dock that charges the phone and is a multimedia dock, but it appears as if it holds the phone in portrait mode. Is there a dock that allows the phone to sit in a landscape position and have the screen show a clock, calender, etc.?
On another note, does anyone know if the SGSIII's dock is triggered via magnets as the DX was?
mikejr83 said:
Perhaps this is a thread better for Q&A, but I figure it is specifically about an accessory. As I've done searching through various gadget sites and Google I've yet to find an accessory for the SGSIII as below:
Coming from the Droid X, there existed a dock which when the DX was placed in it the phone would go into desktop dock mode. I forgot where I got mine. I think it was an ad on droid-life that I clicked through. I've seen that Samsung has a dock that charges the phone and is a multimedia dock, but it appears as if it holds the phone in portrait mode. Is there a dock that allows the phone to sit in a landscape position and have the screen show a clock, calender, etc.?
On another note, does anyone know if the SGSIII's dock is triggered via magnets as the DX was?
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S3 does not trigger by magnets.
you have 2 options:
USB trigger, or NFC tag.
BUT samsung has a nice dock with multimedia out, and there are a couple aftermarket ones too... that i can't yet link to.
Hopefully they'll release a desktop dock with HDMI and USB OTG on it, in addition to a charger port. Would make a nice portable computer...
I wish I could put my DX into the "desktop dock" mode to snap a picture of it. It doesn't seem to want to cooperate with CM7 on it. Perhaps it was a Blur thing. I mainly wanted to have this big ass clock/calender/news ticker to sit on my desk. I sit on the corner of cube row so people probably would break their neck as they rounded the corner checking it out!
Hello all Galaxy S3 users. As many of you know the Galaxy S3 appears to be the last (?) Samsung phone that supports true "car-mode". There are at least four major benefits with Car-dock mode:
1. When the phone is inserted into a car-dock the icons on the home screen can turn to horizontal position.
2. An "docking App" like iBOLT Dock'n Drive, CarHome Ultra or Ulysee Speedometer can be installed as the new "home screen".
3. Sound from Apps (music & gps) can be routed through the microUSB to the car-stereo making it possible to have ONE cable connection for both charging and aux-out to car-stereo.
4. A separate "home dock" App can be used when "docking" the S3 in the home or office environment.
In newer handsets, like the S4 and Note II Samsung have combined the "car-dock" and the "home-dock" mode into one, referred to as "DockMode" only. The main differences is that icons on the home screen does not turn horizontally and you can not have a separate Docking App for home and car. See YouTube video here.
We here at iBOLT (lots of threads on XDA...) are now down to less then 3K units of the S3 car-dock with "car-dock" mode and we just wanted to let you know that they are lowered to $24.95, from $39.95 on Amazon, see here. Feel free to reach out to me and ask questions about the dock-mode, docking apps etc. and I'll do my best to answer.
MikaelPe said:
Hello all Galaxy S3 users. As many of you know the Galaxy S3 appears to be the last (?) Samsung phone that supports true "car-mode". There are at least four major benefits with Car-dock mode:
1. When the phone is inserted into a car-dock the icons on the home screen can turn to horizontal position.
2. An "docking App" like iBOLT Dock'n Drive, CarHome Ultra or Ulysee Speedometer can be installed as the new "home screen".
3. Sound from Apps (music & gps) can be routed through the microUSB to the car-stereo making it possible to have ONE cable connection for both charging and aux-out to car-stereo.
4. A separate "home dock" App can be used when "docking" the S3 in the home or office environment.
In newer handsets, like the S4 and Note II Samsung have combined the "car-dock" and the "home-dock" mode into one, referred to as "DockMode" only. The main differences is that icons on the home screen does not turn horizontally and you can not have a separate Docking App for home and car. See YouTube video here.
We here at iBOLT (lots of threads on XDA...) are now down to less then 3K units of the S3 car-dock with "car-dock" mode and we just wanted to let you know that they are lowered to $24.95, from $39.95 on Amazon, see here. Feel free to reach out to me and ask questions about the dock-mode, docking apps etc. and I'll do my best to answer.
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Ughh, too bad Amazon won't ship this item to Canada. All vendors in Canada have this dock for $45+, including amazon.ca...
To bad they won't fit aftermarket cases.
Will that work with the Zerolemon 7000 battery?
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Will that work with the Zerolemon 7000 battery?
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sorry, only the xProDock is compatible with the Zerolemon 7000 battery. Search under "xProDock" on Amazon or AndroidCentral and you'll find it... Thanks! MP
jasonbtx said:
To bad they won't fit aftermarket cases.
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I use the iBolt with a Ditztronic TPU case on my SGS3 and it fits just fine. The iBolt has worked better for me than any of the generic docks I've tried. Unfortunately, the (ridiculously long) usb cable provided with the unit has started to fail after 7 months of normal usage.
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Will that work with the Zerolemon 7000 battery?
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Yes it will...maybe. It looks just like the Rezound car dock. I kept my old Rezound's dock and my s3 with the 7000mAh battery fits perfectly. Just had to remove the dock's charging connector.
If it doesn't fit, as the OP says, I would just order one for the rezound.