I have a SG2 and the official samsung galaxy s2 vehicle dock. I am wondering if there is a way to make the home button go to a program like Car Home Ultra.
When I plug the phone into the car dock, it asks me if I want Voice Control or Car Home Ultra. I haven't yet made either of them default so I choose Car Home Ultra and it works. Until I accidentally bump the home button and I go to my launcherPro home screen.
Isn't there some way to change the behavior of the home button when in the car dock?
Is there a way to permantly disable car mode? Its very annoying how it replaces my homescreen and defaults to speakerphone when i recieve calls. The worst part is that when i disconnect the car charger it stays in car mode. Sometimes it gives my an icon in the notification bar to deactivate it but its hit or miss.
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I was just going to ask the same thing. When on the car charger or connected to the BT speakerphone, it does this rather frequently.
I have mine connect to the bluetooth in the car, and put in a regular car charger, but I have never seen any car mode.
I am not running TW though.
this is how you can setup your phone using a cheap gps holder as a car dock. i don't know if real car docks work the same way, but this is what works for me.
first you need a gps holder that will hold your phone snug with the case on.
next, buy a nfc sticker and stick it on the holder.
use nfc task launcher to run a tasker script and bypass the keyguard, set brightness, volume, etc.
my task runs zeam launcher as an app to display the car dock screen (since touchwiz has no landscape mode).
put your audio and gps apps in zeam as tasker shortcuts. since there is no way to switch gps on and off (at least in stock rom), i have tasker go thru the settings pages using dpad input. same thing turns off gps if those apps are closed. i'm also using this method to switch between edge and 4g, to save battery.
to run it you just stick your phone in the holder, plug in usb and audio cables. phone turns on when you start the car, and the audio and gps apps start with 1 button. but personally i just have streaming music start automatically.
if anyone has any ideas how i can improve on this (can i run the audio out thru just the usb cable?) feel free to reply.
-ryan
With my Nexus one if I was in car mode, and I hit the home button, I would come back to the car mode home. Now I get sent to my home screen. Can I fix this somehow? I have tasker and car dashboard. I'm running Jelly Bean but the issue still happened on ICS. It's annoying if I'm in car mode and I tap my shortcut for poweramp then hit home and it goes to my regular home screen!
ninjai117 said:
With my Nexus one if I was in car mode, and I hit the home button, I would come back to the car mode home. Now I get sent to my home screen. Can I fix this somehow? I have tasker and car dashboard. I'm running Jelly Bean but the issue still happened on ICS. It's annoying if I'm in car mode and I tap my shortcut for poweramp then hit home and it goes to my regular home screen!
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I'd just install the Nexus S car mode - works fine for me in ICS and I've never had the issue you describe (hitting home goes to "car home")
I cannot understand this oversight on Google's part...
Does anyone have any idea how to disable speaker phone in Car Mode?
I am often dialed in to meetings in which I'm optional, and therefore in "stalker mode" just listening to the conversation. I would LOVE to have that play over my speakers rather than the ****ing worthless speaker on this phone...
Does G4 has car mode? Is there appropriate cable, car dock?
Also interested in knowing this.
I just got my Sprint G4 and Car Mode is working fine, including "home" going back to the car dock app. I'm using Car Dashboard for the app. I'm also using Bluetooth Car Mode to set the phone to car mode when it connects with my car.
It "just worked" for me... but I also did an LG Backup from my old G2 to the G4, and that transferred all this over to the G4.
There IS a car mode, but as far as I know, not launchable in the conventional sense. I use Tasker to activate car mode when I plug the phone into the car. You can also set it to car mode when connected to your car BT.
What does the car mode look like, or how could I try it out on my phone?
Nothing really - just an icon in the notification bar, and that screen brightness is at max. There's no Google Car Mode app or anything built in.
Can just add: when Car Mode is initiated, the call AutoAnswer becomes active and works without switching on Call auto answering in LG menu
I use Bluetooth Car Mode Starter to start car mode when the phone pairs with my car's bluetooth:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammadag.bluetoothcarmodestarter&hl=en
Prior to that, I used the Car Mode app to enable car mode manually:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.schwimmer.android.carmode&hl=en
(alternately, as mentioned about, you can use Tasker)
The Car Dock Settings app is helpful:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cwfk.incar&hl=en
I've actually got the old Google Car Dock on my phone; I plucked the APK off my Galaxy Nexus and Google has moved it forward for me every phone I've had since. It's really ugly. As I said, I prefer "Car Dashboard".
alamo76 said:
There IS a car mode, but as far as I know, not launchable in the conventional sense. I use Tasker to activate car mode when I plug the phone into the car. You can also set it to car mode when connected to your car BT.
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I was trying to do exactly this. Do you know what activates car mode? I know I can use NFC but I was hoping to replicate a setup I had on my S4 where I plug into a dock and tasker detects it is in dock mode. If I recall on my Samsung S4 had to modify a USB cable for the S4 to detect this.
Cheers!
db2boy said:
I was trying to do exactly this. Do you know what activates car mode? I know I can use NFC but I was hoping to replicate a setup I had on my S4 where I plug into a dock and tasker detects it is in dock mode. If I recall on my Samsung S4 had to modify a USB cable for the S4 to detect this.
Cheers!
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Within Tasker I can search for Car Mode, but I have no idea how to find and initiate merely from the phone.