I had a car doc app on my Droid X; I think it was stock, but I had to tap it before it would start. But I recently saw a video showing a car doc starting when the ignition key was turned. I can't figure out how to get that to happen or how it works. Is it only when specific car dock apps? Or is it a setting on the Gnex?
I use tasker to launch car dock mode when my phone connects to the car's bluetooth.
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I'm looking for a car dock that will automatically trigger the car functions such as Navigation and etc. Sorry if this has been covered before. Thanks
You can set it to launch with any BT device can't you?
The Seidio is supposed to.
I'll be finding out soon enough but others here have posted that it is working...
I have the HTC one, and it automatically launches the car mode. It really is a nice dock, but a little costly.
Does anyone know if it's possible to get the vehicle dock interface running in the car without the vehicle dock?
I have the Multimedia Dock/hd dock and was planning on mounting that on my dashboard and was wondering how to get the option in the list to use the car dock setup?
Yes you can get the car dock program running without the car dock. You need the app called Anycut from the market. This app makes shortscuts for you. The intructions are listed here in the forum. Just search for Anycut.
If you cannot find it, I will see if I can help further.
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Anycut works and is a neat app. However, I use launch x and couldn't put the anycut shortcut into my app widget. If you get the "Car Mode" app from the market, it does the exact same thing (pretty much a short cut to car dock) and acts like any other app.
Just note if you use the car mode app be sure to click the app icon after you close it otherwise whenever you hit the home button it will bring up the car home. Took me a min to figure that out.
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.
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.
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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.
I used my M8 in the car a lot but most of what I need involves Car Mode being active on the phone, it was no problem with the M8 as the HTC car kit contained a USB cable that enabled Car Mode when you plugged it in.
HTC assured me that the 10 was compatible with Car Mode and it was the dock part of the Universal Car Kit that activated Car Mode and not the USB cable. Their Universal Car Kit only comes with a Micro USB Cable and not Type-C cable that the 10 needs. Turns out it's most definitely the cable that activates Car Mode and not the action of placing it in the dock, so as there only seems to be normal USB Type-C cables on the market I can't get Car Mode to activate when I use the phone in my car.
Does any one have any ideas? HTC's social teams online are useless, even after telling me that the 10 was definitely supported for Car Mode when it wasn't they just kinda shrugged it off with no real answer.
It isn't installed on the HTC 10. They lied to you.
You will have to install them from this http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/themes/patch-one-patch-missing-sense-apps-t3362787 but you will need to unlock your bootloader, flash TWRP and flash it through recovery.
Alternatively android auto in app mode will be out soon and likely sufficient.
nobnut said:
It isn't installed on the HTC 10. They lied to you.
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Sorry I should have been more specific, I'm not on about the "HTC Car" app, I'm on about triggering a Car Mode action dock event.
A lot of the apps I use function better when they're triggered by a dock event from Android system rather than being triggered by a Bluetooth or charge event.
indie1982 said:
Sorry I should have been more specific, I'm not on about the "HTC Car" app, I'm on about triggering a Car Mode action dock event.
A lot of the apps I use function better when they're triggered by a dock event from Android system rather than being triggered by a Bluetooth or charge event.
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Easy. If you want to trigger car mode, just install an app that does just that. My weapon of choice would be Tasker. That way, you could trigger via an event or anything else really (e.g. bluetooth connection, NFC tag, whatever you like).
You could even simulate a dock event.
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Easy. If you want to trigger car mode, just install an app that does just that. My weapon of choice would be Tasker. That way, you could trigger via an event or anything else really (e.g. bluetooth connection, NFC tag, whatever you like).
You could even simulate a dock event.
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Thanks, I'm having a look at Trigger, it looks like I can get it to trigger a car dock event when it sees that the phone connect to the car's Bluetooth AND is charging. And then it'll send an undock event when it disconnects from the car's Bluetooth and stops charging.
Will see how it goes when I get in the car later!
You may also like the Drivemode app. I'm using it on HTC 10 and it works pretty well. Triggered via BT connect to your car, but seems to trigger reliably.
I'm not using a HTC10, but found this thread when looking for the same thing as the thread creator here. I also used my HTC One M8 up until about a month ago with the HTC Car dock and the "special" cable that triggered car mode. From what I can see from this thread: https://forums.androidcentral.com/epic-4g-accessories/64959-what-triggers-car-dock-mode.html, it seems like the magic to trigger car mode is that the cable have a 619K resistor between pins 4 and 5 on the micro usb cable.
Does anybody know if something similar is valid for Type C usb cables and in that case where to get those kind of cables?
Since I got my new phone (which unfortunately was missing NFC, so I can't use RFID stickers in my car dock) I've used a Tasker profile to enable bluetooth on "Power AC" (=wall charger or 2.1A car charger) and then another Tasker profile to enable car mode when it gets connected to the car bluetooth, but this means it takes quite some time before my car home app gets started since the phone first has to enable bluetooth and wait to connect before launching the car app as opposed to with the M8 that triggered car mode immediately when the USB cable was being plugged (by docking the phone) and then let the car app enable bluetooth.