Hi everybody! I bought a the original vehicle dock kit for Galaxy Nexus, I find it difficult to set it to use as I desire.
Let me explain: I have found here on Xda forum the apk to retrieve the car kit mode, but do not find it useful if you want to navigate with Google Maps, listen to music and take calls and hear from the speakers of my car via a cable jack.
Every time I go to Google Maps, I have to reset again my destination, and the voice of the guide is really low, the music covers a lot. In addition, the call can not hear from the speakers and I'm afraid that if I remove the handsfree mode, automatically the microphone is lowered!
You as you have configured your Nexus? You have downloaded an app alternative? What about a better software Maps, which I still "too beta"?
Thank you everybody! Bye!
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Hi folks,
I play music in my car via an aux cable. The sound is great. However, if I run my sat. nav. app. (copilot 8) at the same time, the directions from the app. seem to be coming from the phone's speaker rather than from the radio speaker. It is almost impossible to hear the instructions.
Most people here are smarter than me. Do any of you know why the sound won't come from my radio? I have turned the sound on copilot up full, btw.
thanks a lot.
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Hello my fellow Galaxy S II owners...
I have a dying Sony Xplod stereo installed in my car that only run MP3s, nothing special about it.
I want to buy a new stereo system that can pair with the Galaxy S II so that I can stream music to it and make phone calls while driving.
Since this is new to me, I would like to ask for your help figure out what my options are:
- Shall I get a stereo system with USB link? or bluetooth? and why?
- A simple research on the XDA forums says that not all Galaxy phones can make phone calls using the USB link, is that the same for the bluetooth?
I'm thinking this would be good, but I want to hear from you too, what do you think? http://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-DEH-6...ef=sr_1_2?s=car&ie=UTF8&qid=1337028884&sr=1-2
Thanks,
I have both in my car and prefer bluetooth by a long shot.
To be honest I never heard of the possibility of using USB to make phone calls. As far as I knew the only thing possible with USB was to use your phone as some kind of mass storage device, where it would find your .mp3 files and be able to play them.
With bluetooth you can play everything on your phone that plays through the speakers. I use it for navigation / phone calls / radio / spotify. Also the buttons on the steering wheel of my car work perfectly for switching tracks on my phone, and the track info is displayed in the dashboard of my car.
Especially combined with spotify this is amazing. On my PC spotify client I just favorite some new songs and without having to take my phone out of my pocket the music is synced to my phone via wifi, then when I get in the car all my music is right there! You'll need a spotify premium account though, but in my opinion well worth the money.
Just make sure that when you buy your new stereo it is able to play A2DP. On my previous car this wasn't supported and this meant I was only able to use it for making phone calls.
Funny thing was that whenever I was in the middle of a phone call and my nav on my phone gave me a "turn left" notification or something it played fine during the phone call. So if you ask me this was just lazyness from the developers not to implement it. To anyone thinking about buying a new car, avoid "Blue & Me" it really is terrible.
Hope this information helps you in your decision
Thank you for the reply, now I know what I should be looking for.
I'll update this post once I get the stereo and test it
Thanks once again
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What's up everybody,
Just posting a thread because one of my best mates bought a black One X on my recommendation because it's a total powerhouse of a handset, except he's having some issues connecting it over bluetooth to his car.
He's got a lovely brand new 12 plate Vauxhall (in the UK, Opel elsewhere and i assume they all use the same software) Corsa with a built-in Bluetooth car kit. His phone connects fine, he can even dial from the steering wheel and start the call, but all audio takes place through the phone speaker. We've tried pairing, unpairing, playing around with a whole host of bluetooth settings, but call audio always takes place through the phone speaker rather than the car itself.
This was never the case with his old Nexus S, or my HD7, but our teacher's One X and another friend's One X have the same problem: no audio routes itself through the car's speakers.
Does anybody have a solution? Has anybody got a similar problem?
HTC one X
Hi, the problem is an app called "car". It takes control when ever you connect your phone to a car kit. Open the app, it has a steering wheel above it and click on the settings, where it displays the bluetooth symbol. Un-click all the auto launch and auto connect settings. That should cure it.
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Hi,
Guys I am having the same issue in my one x version 4.0.3. I can't pick up calls and talk straight from my car's speakers . i have first to pick up from the from and switch the speaker to htc speaker then I have to switch the phone to my car speaker again. At this point the call is heard through the car's speakers. !! PLZ HOW CAN I FIX THIS ??
Me Too!
My car does this too, only way to get sound is go into the menu on the car and tick "Free Speech"
Hoping 4.0.4 or 4.1 fixes this!
HTC's advice was return the phone....
same problem with samsung galaxy s2
Hi everyone, i am having the same problem with a samsung galaxy s2 and a opel corsa 2010. it connects, i can dial numbers, i can make phone numbers but i can't hear anything and nobody can hear me. if i un check the freespeech box it automatically uncheck the headseat on the phone.
so if anyone found any solutions i would appreciate if they post the solution.
sainttarry said:
Hi, the problem is an app called "car". It takes control when ever you connect your phone to a car kit. Open the app, it has a steering wheel above it and click on the settings, where it displays the bluetooth symbol. Un-click all the auto launch and auto connect settings. That should cure it.
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the app does not seems to be present in 4.2.2 is there any other way for fixing the settings, I realy would like to have music over bluetooth
These are responses to the SGSIII I made, but they are JUST as relevant here
Hope they help!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26959345#post26959345
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26830352#post26830352
Hello,
I recently bought an FM Transmitter for the car, and I am looking for an app that does that following things:
1. Automatic Pickup and routing to the FM Transmitter (so the sound plays on my car speakers)
2. Automatic Text and Email Readout to the FM Transmitter
3. HandsFree voice so when I say a keyword, the phone voice search will activate (even when the screen is locked) (or the phone to always go back to google now after a call or a text)
4. Also, when playing music or during navigation, when a call is coming, it should automatically pick up.
Are there any apps that offer all/most of these features?
Thanks
Have you tried Car Home? I know that is a popular one..
WiredPirate said:
Have you tried Car Home? I know that is a popular one..
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No, that doesn't have auto pickup and it doesn't read out messages to you.
I've tried Lazy Car, and it fulfills my requirements but it is extremely buggy and only works half the time. Sometimes the phone auto answers and the call routes to the headset on the phone instead of the car.
There are so many options that I don't know where to begin.
In fact, I'm rather lost as I can't really tell if a combination of tablet + car stereo will work for what I want to achieve.
Here's what I want to do:
I am using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8" as a satnav with Sygic.
I currently have an old Pioneer car stereo which works perfectly fine for mp3 CDs and radio but I want to change it to a new unit that would accept a small USB drive as storage for my mp3's. I don't care if it will accept CD's or not (even better if it doesn't).
What I want is this new unit to allow me to play music or radio as normal and, when instructions come from the Sygic App (turn left, turn right etc) during navigation, to get the music interrupted and the instructions heard from the car's speakers. After the instructions are over, the music then start back automatically.
The only thing I managed to sort out is that, for this whole thing to work, both devices (tablet and car stereo) must support the A2DP protocol. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8" does indeed support A2DP for Bluetooth (according to specs) but I'm lost as far as car stereos are concerned.
Instead of looking the specs of every single car stereo available on the market today, I thought I would try asking here first.
Does anyone have anything similar working?
Thanks in advance
Car stereo
aianas said:
There are so many options that I don't know where to begin.
In fact, I'm rather lost as I can't really tell if a combination of tablet + car stereo will work for what I want to achieve.
Here's what I want to do:
I am using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8" as a satnav with Sygic.
I currently have an old Pioneer car stereo which works perfectly fine for mp3 CDs and radio but I want to change it to a new unit that would accept a small USB drive as storage for my mp3's. I don't care if it will accept CD's or not (even better if it doesn't).
What I want is this new unit to allow me to play music or radio as normal and, when instructions come from the Sygic App (turn left, turn right etc) during navigation, to get the music interrupted and the instructions heard from the car's speakers. After the instructions are over, the music then start back automatically.
The only thing I managed to sort out is that, for this whole thing to work, both devices (tablet and car stereo) must support the A2DP protocol. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8" does indeed support A2DP for Bluetooth (according to specs) but I'm lost as far as car stereos are concerned.
Instead of looking the specs of every single car stereo available on the market today, I thought I would try asking here first.
Does anyone have anything similar working?
Thanks in advance
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You may try the "Dynavin Car Stereo"