Is it possible to pass music through my LG G4 to my cars head unit through USB? I was unable to do this with my Galaxy S4. I want to be able to stop using my iPod and use my phone for all my music. If it is possible am I able to play music off apps like Google music and Pandora, or is it only possible to play music stored on the phone?
I know I can do bluetooth but the sound quality is no where near my iPod connected through USB.
There is a way but you have to get the new pioneer stereos that are compatible with the USB connection to read android devices.
wadamean said:
There is a way but you have to get the new pioneer stereos that are compatible with the USB connection to read android devices.
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I have a pioneer head unit that is around 2 years old. Would this fit into the stereos you are talking about? Or are you talking about the Android Auto head units?
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Can the Galaxy Nexus stream audio via USB to a car deck or other docks/usb device??
Im really hoping it can because i used to have an iPhone and i could stream internet radio all day long from "tunein radio" or equivalent app to my car deck via USB.
i plugged the USB in today and it seems like it can only dock as a media device to look for stored media but unable to stream audio from another app??
*well I think i found the answer, it can't. If your deck is compatible with a "mass storage device" which the Galaxy Nexus can turn on to, then you can play stored audio, but you are unable to stream internet radio services through this method.
The only workaround is via bluetooth or aux cable. This really sucks, so im hoping the dev's can develop some kind of mod/tweak to enable audio to stream over the USB connection when docked as a "media device"
Probably uses more juice if and when this happens. And won't be able to charge when doing so.
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Probably uses more juice if and when this happens. And won't be able to charge when doing so.
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This doesn't bare any relevance, all USB devices are able to transmit data and charge at the same time, irrespective of how much power the phone is consuming.
iPhone streams internet radio fine over USB/iPhone cable while charging.
Im saying right now you CAN play stored songs on the Galaxy Nexus with a car deck (while charging, but thats a given, it's USB),
BUT I can't seem to find a way to route the "streaming media" (eg- pandora, tunein radio apps) to transmit this audio through the USB cable to the deck. There must be a way, even if a tweak or mod has to be created.
Can any dev's chime in?
I'd love to see this too. I have the exact same needs and using the amplified 3.5" headphone as a make **** line out leads to less than optimal sound quality.
So I'm getting a new car tomorrow (2012 Chevy Cruze) and I know it has a USB port that allows charge/data.
I've been reading around the Cruze forums and it sounds like I can't stream Pandora/Google Play Music via the phone plugged into the USB port, but rather instead, I have to have an AUX cable and go through that. The disadvantage is I have to control the music via the phone, not the in-car console, amongst other things.
Has anyone had any luck getting an Android phone to stream Pandora/GooglePlayMusic through a USB port without using any mods or the AUX port? Apparently it works with iPhones, but not with Android.
Just was curious if that was true. Either way, I'll find out tomorrow.
I have a 2012 civic and my usb port in the car makes my phone go crazy so I haven't plugged in again. I have used bluetooth for pandora and it works. I can control volume through car.
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Our phones wont do usb audio on car stereos. For some reason you can not mount your drives, i had a nexus s and evo that would mount though. It has to do with how samsung configured the system. I just went ahead and got a bluetooth system because it is easier to control the sudio from the phone and also hands free calling
saj1jr said:
So I'm getting a new car tomorrow (2012 Chevy Cruze) and I know it has a USB port that allows charge/data.
I've been reading around the Cruze forums and it sounds like I can't stream Pandora/Google Play Music via the phone plugged into the USB port, but rather instead, I have to have an AUX cable and go through that. The disadvantage is I have to control the music via the phone, not the in-car console, amongst other things.
Has anyone had any luck getting an Android phone to stream Pandora/GooglePlayMusic through a USB port without using any mods or the AUX port? Apparently it works with iPhones, but not with Android.
Just was curious if that was true. Either way, I'll find out tomorrow.
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Might be something in this that may help you out if you haven't seen it already.
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Maybe this line out with usb type thing will be helpful. I haven't tried it yet but I'm going to be cutting apart one of my cables soonish to see if it'll work.
It's basically just using the dock audio setting for the Galaxy SII.
From what I was able to find, this isn't capable with current versions of Android and I found this information on the code.google website. If you do a google search for "android audio out through usb" it should be the second result listed with "Issue 24682" in the title.
However, it looks as though Android is going to add this function starting in Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). If you do a search with "android audio out through usb jelly bean" you'll get more info on the official details.
Good luck with your new car, hope this information helps.
There are a few aftermarket radios with partial support. The best I've seen is the AppRadio 2, but that's pretty expensive and I don't remember if it gets along with Google Play Music. I'm really interested in finding a good solution as well. My iPod Touch's battery life has gone to crap and I'd love to get rid of an Apple device rather than repair it.
I wonder if apps can control the USB port on Android? If so, one could potentially develop and app to spoof an iDevice...
You should be able to use the car radio volume with auxiliary.
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From what I was able to find, this isn't capable with current versions of Android and I found this information on the code.google website. If you do a google search for "android audio out through usb" it should be the second result listed with "Issue 24682" in the title.
However, it looks as though Android is going to add this function starting in Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). If you do a search with "android audio out through usb jelly bean" you'll get more info on the official details.
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I have Galaxy S3 and I upgraded to Jelly Bean, in hopes it would work - but it didn't.
In the Settings app, under Accessories, Jelly Bean users have a new option to play audio via external devices (they refer to it as "docks" which seems not too broad).
Apparently, this does not work unless the device was setup to support Google's audio protocol: Android Open Accessory Protocol 2.0 (AOA).
Android Documentation on that: source.android.com/tech/accessories/aoap/aoa2.html
saj1jr said:
So I'm getting a new car tomorrow (2012 Chevy Cruze) and I know it has a USB port that allows charge/data.
I've been reading around the Cruze forums and it sounds like I can't stream Pandora/Google Play Music via the phone plugged into the USB port, but rather instead, I have to have an AUX cable and go through that. The disadvantage is I have to control the music via the phone, not the in-car console, amongst other things.
Has anyone had any luck getting an Android phone to stream Pandora/GooglePlayMusic through a USB port without using any mods or the AUX port? Apparently it works with iPhones, but not with Android.
Just was curious if that was true. Either way, I'll find out tomorrow.
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Hello,
I just recently bought a Chevy Cruze eco 2012 - i didn't research about my android phone and i was dissapointed the bluetooth doesn't work as A2DP. I should of waited for a Eco 2013 includes mylink
I has to research later and found out that it's not supported. what i'm using now is a usb sitck to play my music and sometimes AUX.
I also read that we can use the bluetooth blackberry stereo gateway nad stream our music - i'm thinking of purchasing one.
Ahhh!!!
Also there is a hardware hack lol you can replace the bluetooth module PDIM from a Camaro.
http://www.cruzetalk.com/forum/36-electronics/5833-diy-pdim-test.html
http://www.cruzetalk.com/forum/36-electronics/9346-bluetooth-music-streaming-android-phone.html
http://www.cobaltss.net/forums/electronics-audio-video-49/updated-bluetooth-module-281218/
I have been thinking about the PDIM not convinced 100% i dont wanna mess it up lol
I also try using the USB switcher mode to change to usb storage but i get an error for music data not supported.
If you find anything let me know
I've searched around to different forums and haven't really gotten a clear answer for this. I used to be able to play my music from my iphone simply by connecting it to my usb plug in my car. the sgs3 doesn't do that. I've read it is because it uses mtp instead of ums for data transfer now because there are no partitions in the drive. Supposedly there is a way to use ums by an app that was created for the i9300, but I have the US sprint model and I wonder if that would work on my phone. Plus I would like to know if I use this app, will it even solve my problem? Will I be able to listen to my tunes in my car without connecting the audio aux plug?
Thanks in advance,
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I've searched around to different forums and haven't really gotten a clear answer for this. I used to be able to play my music from my iphone simply by connecting it to my usb plug in my car. the sgs3 doesn't do that. I've read it is because it uses mtp instead of ums for data transfer now because there are no partitions in the drive. Supposedly there is a way to use ums by an app that was created for the i9300, but I have the US sprint model and I wonder if that would work on my phone. Plus I would like to know if I use this app, will it even solve my problem? Will I be able to listen to my tunes in my car without connecting the audio aux plug?
Thanks in advance,
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I would like to know this too, My car radio doesn't have bluetooth support, so it's not an option for me and it doesn't work when I plug the phone in. This is the only thing keeping me from getting rid of my iPod!
I'm curious about this too. I just bought a Sony for its Sirius capabilities and it has Pandora support but I would like to listen to my phone's MP3 catalog too.
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I just replaced my car stereo thinking I could use the USB in, I couldn't get it to work by default.
I'm left with using the aux in, which is nothing more than a stop gap solution.
Hoping that I can get it to work with usb too
Edit :
I forgot to try system >accessories >usb audio
I'll try when I get out of work.
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Didn't work
Sort of the same issue, compounded.
I have a 2012 volt and an S3/I9300 international version. I can't get it to play audio in my car for love or money. No roms, just stock...but bluetooth and auxiliary fails. Bluetooth says it doesn't recognize it, auxiliary jack says everything is hooked up but I get no sound.
I also have a bluetooth soundbar in my home; the phone connects fine but the sound comes through the phone still rather than the speakers. I feel like I'm missing something pretty basic here. Any help/guidance would be much appreciated. If there is an app that will fix this I'm totally game. Also anything to get rid of the samsun apps login that is constantly annoying me, or the German news sides that are preinstalled.
I'm a wreck lol. Love the phone otherwise though (other than ATT delivering my text messages roughly 72 hours after they were sent...all at once, from 3 to 6 am, like clockwork. I switched to t-mobile).
Wrong section dude, you want the international forums, this one is for the sprint variant only
I would suggest searching for usb input on the stereo and making sure its selected as the playback device. My ford fusion has bluetooth and usb but when i use usb i have to select it on the stereo to actually play music from my phone. Hope this helps...:good:
is there headunits out there where i can connect my gnex and control music off my phone via headunit and not the phone? not looking for headunit where i have to use pandora but the actual music on my phone.
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is there headunits out there where i can connect my gnex and control music off my phone via headunit and not the phone? not looking for headunit where i have to use pandora but the actual music on my phone.
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That would have to be a head unit with usb MTP support.
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Since Sonos does not support Google Music I decided to undergo my own project using my Note 2. My house is already wired for sound with multiple speakers in most rooms attached to either HTPC's or audio receivers. So my goal here was to use my Note 2 to stream Google music to the rooms that I was in and have that music follow me around similar to the Sonos setup. I have found that inexpensive Bluetooth dongles attached to my audio receivers in strategically positioned areas allow me to connect and disconnect to the appropriate speakers automatically while I am moving from room to room. For the rooms without any previous audio, I have added some small high quality speakers with a mini amplifier attached to the dongle. So for less than $100 I can have music anywhere. This is an extremely inexpensive alternative to Sonos with 80% of the Sonos functionality at a fraction of the cost. Now anything that I can play on my phone I can push to the nearby speakers. This also allows my wife and her phone to do the same thing in different parts of the house. Further customization with NFC tags and Tasker makes it a no brainer over Sonos.
That said, here is the only annoying part of this project. I have tried everything to get my Note 2 (SGH-T889) to connect to my HTPC's running Windows 7 prof edition. There seems to be a lack of drivers for this phone and I have tried all of the previous work arounds in other threads but keep getting "Bluetooth Peripheral Device driver error". I can pair the device but the lack of driver support has prevented me from streaming directly to my HTPC's. I have attached another Bluetooth dongle to the HTPC speakers as a workaround but would really like to stream directly into the computer.
Has anyone successfully connected the Note 2 (SGH-T889) to a Windows 7 64bit machine and streamed audio over Bluetooth to the pc???
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Since Sonos does not support Google Music I decided to undergo my own project using my Note 2. My house is already wired for sound with multiple speakers in most rooms attached to either HTPC's or audio receivers. So my goal here was to use my Note 2 to stream Google music to the rooms that I was in and have that music follow me around similar to the Sonos setup. I have found that inexpensive Bluetooth dongles attached to my audio receivers in strategically positioned areas allow me to connect and disconnect to the appropriate speakers automatically while I am moving from room to room. For the rooms without any previous audio, I have added some small high quality speakers with a mini amplifier attached to the dongle. So for less than $100 I can have music anywhere. This is an extremely inexpensive alternative to Sonos with 80% of the Sonos functionality at a fraction of the cost. Now anything that I can play on my phone I can push to the nearby speakers. This also allows my wife and her phone to do the same thing in different parts of the house. Further customization with NFC tags and Tasker makes it a no brainer over Sonos.
That said, here is the only annoying part of this project. I have tried everything to get my Note 2 (SGH-T889) to connect to my HTPC's running Windows 7 prof edition. There seems to be a lack of drivers for this phone and I have tried all of the previous work arounds in other threads but keep getting "Bluetooth Peripheral Device driver error". I can pair the device but the lack of driver support has prevented me from streaming directly to my HTPC's. I have attached another Bluetooth dongle to the HTPC speakers as a workaround but would really like to stream directly into the computer.
Has anyone successfully connected the Note 2 (SGH-T889) to a Windows 7 64bit machine and streamed audio over Bluetooth to the pc???
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Although I have not tried connecting the note 2 to a windows 7 desktop. I am using the squeezebox system to connect the entire house sound system. I am not familiar with the sonos, The cost of the sonos made not to venture into this system. I have a squeezebox duet system in the garage, I got just squeezebox duet receivers in 2 rooms and the music room has the squeezebox touch system. The home server has all the music serving the different squeezebox system. the note 2 has the squeezebox controller app in it. It has also the squeezeplayer app in the note2, this app makes the note 2 of any android device act as player. This allows you to stream the music directly into your note 2. The squeezebox system has the wire and wireless option to connect. I prefer the wired connection inside the house. while the squeezebox in the garage is connected wirelessly.
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Although I have not tried connecting the note 2 to a windows 7 desktop. I am using the squeezebox system to connect the entire house sound system. I am not familiar with the sonos, The cost of the sonos made not to venture into this system. I have a squeezebox duet system in the garage, I got just squeezebox duet receivers in 2 rooms and the music room has the squeezebox touch system. The home server has all the music serving the different squeezebox system. the note 2 has the squeezebox controller app in it. It has also the squeezeplayer app in the note2, this app makes the note 2 of any android device act as player. This allows you to stream the music directly into your note 2. The squeezebox system has the wire and wireless option to connect. I prefer the wired connection inside the house. while the squeezebox in the garage is connected wirelessly.
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My understanding is that Squeezebox like Sonos is not Google music compatible yet. I can already access my music via a NAS but my goal with this system is to be able to stream all my music via the Google music app on my phone thus making my phone the data source. Since bluetooth is ubiquitous, making my phone the source allows me greater flexibility and portability. By bringing a simple bluetooth dongle and a 3" cable I can connect the dongle to any aux port on any music setup (home, car, radio) and stream my music. This also makes it exceptionally easy to listen to friends music collections by having them pair up their phones to the dongle.
Still wondering if anyone has been able to connect the Note 2 to a windows 7 64 bit pc via bluetooth. This is the last piece of the puzzle and I'm hoping someone finally finds a workaround or the the appropriate drivers. The generic windows drivers don't seem to work and the manual alternatives that have been posted to work with other phones have not worked either.
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My understanding is that Squeezebox like Sonos is not Google music compatible yet. I can already access my music via a NAS but my goal with this system is to be able to stream all my music via the Google music app on my phone thus making my phone the data source. Since bluetooth is ubiquitous, making my phone the source allows me greater flexibility and portability. By bringing a simple bluetooth dongle and a 3" cable I can connect the dongle to any aux port on any music setup (home, car, radio) and stream my music. This also makes it exceptionally easy to listen to friends music collections by having them pair up their phones to the dongle.
Still wondering if anyone has been able to connect the Note 2 to a windows 7 64 bit pc via bluetooth. This is the last piece of the puzzle and I'm hoping someone finally finds a workaround or the the appropriate drivers. The generic windows drivers don't seem to work and the manual alternatives that have been posted to work with other phones have not worked either.
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Have you tried bubblesoft's Bubble uPnP on android market. Google music does work with it and it costs $5 or so. However, it was having trouble playing songs from playlist that were added from sdcard. I am in touch with the developer and am going to ask for a refund if he can't make this basic functionality work. It could have to do something with his latest release.
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Have you tried bubblesoft's Bubble uPnP on android market. Google music does work with it and it costs $5 or so. However, it was having trouble playing songs from playlist that were added from sdcard. I am in touch with the developer and am going to ask for a refund if he can't make this basic functionality work. It could have to do something with his latest release.
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Chromcast has solved my google music to mediacenter/HTPC issue. I still use the bluetooth dongle for stand alone audio situations like a car or portable radio system due to the ease of connection through an input jack. You can also use this with a chromecast for audio only: http://www.amazon.com/J-Tech-Digita...IQER0E/ref=pd_sim_e_3?tag=androidcentral00-20