I have a little hood for my Magellan GPS and it works great. Would like to know where I can get one for this phone. I use a dash mount and during the day, the screen is hard to see because of sun glare.
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When using as a satnav, I find the Desire getting VERY hot in the summer weather we've been having, with the sun coming straight thru the window onto the device. I have had the battery app telling me it's overheating which isn't the case on cooler days or at night.
Anyone got any 'bright' ideas about how to shield the unit but still keeping the gps signal when sitting in the suction-mounted cradle?
this might sound stupid, but i think it will work. get some some thick black card. and make a boxed surrounding for the desire, then the card should adsorb the sun
I wouldn't bother making anything out of anything black considering it's the best colour for absorbing/re-emitting heat. Unless you want to bake your Desire.
I would suggest a box made of out Aluminium foil though that could interfere with signal. Your best bet might be a white box around your phone to try and reflect some of the heat/energy.
I suspect black on the inside of the box and white on the outside would be best. Maybe even a little fan too!
Glue up the box that desire comes inside on the dashboard, lol
Get one of those cocktail umbrella things and glue it to the side of your phone holder. Position it to block the sun, you might need 2 to stop it from both angles!
I just run my AC through the windscreen vent position so it blows cool air over my desire while it's running. I had the GPS running for 4 hours continually in the car without any battery or heating issues and the desire still felt only slightly warm.
I just got the OEM car dock and I am having issues mounting it to my windshield so that I can see the screen properly. I had a Nexus One with the the OEM car dock and it was much easier to position the arm so that the screen is viewable. This new one almost seems like the arm is on backwards because the angle is reversed of what it looks like it should be. If I could take it apart, I think I could align it properly, but I do not want ot destroy it. I can sort of make it work when I have the USB port on the top, but from the diagram in the box, it should be on the bottom.
Anybody else have one? If so how does it work? Pics?
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The car dock has very limited range of motion in the arm. I ended up fashioning a custom mount attached to my dash which I glued the plastic disc to that came with the car dock. It was a huge amount of work and I'm still not very happy with the solution.
alright, so i bought the clingo vent mount from london drugs today (19.99), pretty easy install. the thing sticks like crazy, if i put it full on back-to-back then i need to be very careful taking it off or else it will pull the battery cover a bit. my fix is to put it only on the right side of the phone, ie only using 3/4 of the sticky pad. this way it also leaves the speaker vent open. if you already have a case on the phone then i can see it working out even better.
overall the build quality is decent for plastic, the ball bearing feels solid and is enclosed by a metal ring so it wont get loose easy. the pad itself has a crazy grip, i dont think any amount of shock or potholes can dislodge the phone.
best part of this mount is that it doesnt require any fittings, as long as it still sticks i can see myself using it with a few other devices including GS3 when it comes out. and yes, it can be rotated horizontally for navigation use.
I have the HTC car kit for my Sensation and love it except for one thing: When driving over rougher roads or when taking hard right turns the mount moves, so instead of the phone staying nice and level it droops. My car's on an pretty firm aftermarket suspension so I wouldn't be surprised if not many other people have this issue... Is there any way to tighten or flat-out lock the mount's arm? There doesn't appear to be any visible tension screw I can tighten, and because the arm is chromed no adhesive I can think of really sticks to it. (at least super glue and silicone adhesives haven't ) Any ideas?
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I have the HTC car kit for my Sensation and love it except for one thing: When driving over rougher roads or when taking hard right turns the mount moves, so instead of the phone staying nice and level it droops. My car's on an pretty firm aftermarket suspension so I wouldn't be surprised if not many other people have this issue... Is there any way to tighten or flat-out lock the mount's arm? There doesn't appear to be any visible tension screw I can tighten, and because the arm is chromed no adhesive I can think of really sticks to it. (at least super glue and silicone adhesives haven't ) Any ideas?
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Of the mount itself? It's this one: http://www.google.com/products/cata...a=X&ei=qDK1T7SzFMqeiQKdr7H1AQ&ved=0CHsQ8wIwAQ
The part I want to be able to tighten or lock down the the ball and socket you can see at the base... If this gets much more annoying I might end up grinding away the chrome from the ball portion and using something like JB Weld to secure it to the base.
It looks like the base should be able to come apart to tighten the tension on the socket for the lower ball.
Is there an external adjustment for this?
I checked and couldn't find any adjustment anywhere. If I pull away the suction cup it looks like the metal base is pressed in so I can't even get to the ball joint. Since the ball joint is limited to roughly 180* of rotation, I just rotated the entire mount so it's already at it's limit for the counter-clockwise rotation and therefore can't sag in that direction anymore. That leaves the power cable sticking out of the bottom instead of neatly out of the way at the top, but I ordered a micro-USB cable with a 90* end that should minimize that too...
So i have signed up for Googles new music service "All Access". I love it, however, I have noticed one thing about it. It puts one hell of a strain on my Nexus 4s modem when streaming in high quality.
I found out that if I run a GPS app such as ingress or Waze while streaming hi quality audio from All Access that eventually my phone will get so hot that my internet connection pretty much stops working all together. I like to run Waze every morning for my commute because the police alerts are sweet and i also like to stream music.
I have tried every software tweak i can think of to help with this issue including underclocking, unvolting, underclock GPU, screen brightness ECT....but it doesn't prevent it. My only idea left if to have the phone held by a vent mounted clip and expose the area around the camera (where it is very very hot) to the flow of cool air while i drive. Hopefully the phones back doesn't get that hot if the phone is exposed to the air from the start.
Does anyone have experience with a vent clip that works well with vertical vents?
I have horizontal vents but I was able to use this mount I got on ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380541142201&ssPageName=ADME:X:AAQ:US:1123
The vent clip is rotatable so it can be use on either horizontal or vertical vents. It technically didn't fit my N4 but after some bic lighter manipulations my phone fits pretty snug with it's Ringke Fusion case. I heated up the 2 corner clips and used a pair of pliers to bend out the hooks at the ends. I also stretched out the center holding clip so it would fit my phone better. The whole thing is not super locked into place since it can still wiggle but I am sure that is isn't going to fall off since the hooking mechanism is pretty well done.
You can use a binder clip car dock.
http://lifehacker.com/5747897/how-to-build-a-car-mount-for-your-cellphone-from-office-supplies
Just had this happen to me today. I'm streaming all access while charging and my phone got so hot that it stopped charging. My fix is the mount that goes in the CD tray. I just aim one of my vents toward the phone and it can't possibly overheat.
I just shove it into one of the vents and crank up the ac Lol two mins its cool Lol. Short term solution
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You can also block the vent in behind the holder. That's what I did. By totally fluke the dark grey plastic that DVD movie cases are made of match the color of my dash.
So I cut up an old DVD cass the right size and stuck it in between the vent grills and the vent housing. Then made holes for the arms of the phone holder.
Here's a pic.
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