searched the forums and im surprised there was not too much about this
just got a 2011 gmc terrain
it has a USB and AUX slot...
i can obviously get audio in working through the headphone jack.
but i wanted to cut down on wires and the usb could potentially charge and play music...
but no matter what settings i use ( mass storage, debugging, media player) the car doesn't seem to recognize it... is there a app or program that will make the car see the phone as just a regular usb stick?
just mount the sd card when you plug it in
else it wont see it
I'm just wondering if you can: Mass storage -> Mount
The official car dock uses the official car home from Samsung to send the audio via the USB if that is what you mean? Otherwise just go to menu/setting/Wireless and Networking/USB settings/set to mass storage or ask on connection.
the best is to set it to Ask on Connection
then you don't need to keep going into the annoying menu all the time
I've just tested it and my Pioneer will only detect the first partition, or in other words, the internal SD card.
You will need to use Mass Storage option. I've tried all of the others, but my car audio won't detect it.
If only there was a way of changing which of the partitions would be the first (internal or external SD) then that would be superb. I've set external first on Kies, but I guess that this only affects Kies itself.
thanks for the replies...
i mean i think i've tried them all but i will try again... would be nice if it worked! lol
On my car stereo I had to mount the sd card very fast to get it work.
Multi Mount Sd-card helped me on this as it'll mount as you plug the usb, also you can mount only external sd.
If you have music on your internal sd only then try with winamp as it has auto-mount option also.
Wesku said:
On my car stereo I had to mount the sd card very fast to get it work.
Multi Mount Sd-card helped me on this as it'll mount as you plug the usb, also you can mount only external sd.
If you have music on your internal sd only then try with winamp as it has auto-mount option also.
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on a related note...
even if you missed the initial scan by your car stereo, before you mounted the internal SD
you should be able to cycle through CD/FM radio/AUX/ and back to USB
then it will detect it as mounted, and should be able to read the songs in the phone
Personally I pair my phone with the car radio BT which is A2DP capable.
Then I start MIUI Music player and it plays automatically through the car speakers, flawlessly. I tried the default phone's music players, but there are lots of lags through BT. None with MIUI.
It plays very well and I can even use my steering stalk buttons to switch song.
I tried with an iPhone 4 too, it works very well.
if our phone had USB OTG would have solve all this.it will be just plugging a regular usb storage.
this is a solution i seemed to have got working.
http://www.samsunggalaxysforum.com/hardware-problems/hooking-up-galaxy-s-to-car-radio-via-usb/
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Hi,
I have been using my phone as a mass storage device for my USB car stereo for a while. I have other applications on the internal storage (Diamond) which have mp3s.
Does anyone have any solutions for hiding non-music mp3s from the stereo (other than deleting!). I am getting fed up listening to ringtones etc...
Cheers
Aidan
buy a cheap usb flash disk
bukhariwaheed111 said:
buy a cheap usb flash disk
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While some might see this as a bit pointless post since it doesn't really solve the problem, I think it's good advice, not only will you be able to leave it plugged in and not have to worry about having your USB cable floating around, but it would only cost a few quid, give you more storage and solve the problem.
I suppose, if you didnt fancy buying a new usb stick, you could try setting any non music mp3 files to being hidden. I have no idea how a car stereo would react, and it may still pick them up, but its worth a try.
Your ppc will still find them, you just wont be able to see them in file explorer & im hoping that your stereo might ignore them or something.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will have a look at hiding the files.
I really like the ability to download podcasts on the move so wont be able to do that with a USB stick.
Cheers
Aidan
me too. im using my car stereo to play mp3s in my pda via usb.
but i put all songs in memory card to avoid stereo from playing phone's ringtones.
btw, car stereo with a usb input is an instant charger!
Hey all - tried to search for this but didn't find anything... I have a Kenwood car stereo that plays iphone via usb port, but I wasn't able to see how to get it to work by seeing the SR as a media device. On my captivate, you could choose 'media player' as a usb mode, but that wouldn't work either. Any ideas? I like the idea of playing music while being able to charge the phone at the same time. It does charge off of the deck via usb, but just can't get it to find the music on the SR.
That is such a coincidence, I just put in probably the same (or similar) Kenwood stereo into my car (KDC-248U). I was looking around on the website and under the KDC-252U they list an Android app "Kenwood Music Control" it's in the Market. I am going to give that a try later today.
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Apparently the app analyzes your music or something and then puts a file on your device to make it readable, worth looking into.
Also check here http://androidforums.com/android-media/167502-kewood-car-deck-problem-solving.html
Nice call! You have to have the music on the external SD though, in case anyone else has a problem getting it running Then choose 'auto output' in preferences. Also appears that the program stays active all the time... which I'm not crazy about, but it does work!
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Nice call! You have to have the music on the external SD though, in case anyone else has a problem getting it running Then choose 'auto output' in preferences. Also appears that the program stays active all the time... which I'm not crazy about, but it does work!
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That's great news! I gave it the ol college try but came up empty. Maybe you can help me out.
First what model stereo do you have and second, how do you store your media on your external SD , in a folder "music" or under a second level folder? Lastly, how did you get it to recognize did you plug it in and quickly choose USB storage or did you plug it in, choose USB storage and then cycle sources till you landed back on USB?
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So I've been playing around with it and now I can get it to play all the time. First plug USB into phone then into Head unit. When head switches to "Reading" change source to something else (Radio, Portable, etc.). Now enable USB storage and open Kenwood App, while doing this switch to "USB" on the source and it will play.
Now I am having lots of issues getting new music to read, I have tried manually analyzing to no such luck. What options do you have on? I noticed that at one time on reboot it re-did the scan.
It's not very elegant but it works. I wish I didn't have to use an app running all the time.
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I first scanned the music so it was all recognized by the app. Plug it in, and while the stereo is showing 'reading's then turn on the PC storage (and assuming you have auto output enabled). Then it worked. Clunky, but better than nothing for linger car trips. My stereo is the x695 excelon deck.
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I first scanned the music so it was all recognized by the app. Plug it in, and while the stereo is showing 'reading's then turn on the PC storage (and assuming you have auto output enabled). Then it worked. Clunky, but better than nothing for linger car trips. My stereo is the x695 excelon deck.
Kenwood Music Editor Light
After playing around a bit it seems really clunky and I don't like the idea of the app running all the time. However I did find a solution, the Kenwood Music Editor (Light Edition).
http://www.kenwood.com/cs/ce/music_editor_light/english/download.html
You are still limited to music on your external SD card but it does not require the Kenwood app to be running or present to work. It was meant to make music playable on any USB device so it can be used for flash cards as well if you are having issues reading them. You plug your device into a computer (Windows only) and then run a scan and you should be good to go.
After doing this it's the same situation to play for me, plug in and turn on USB storage (it takes long for my phone to get into USB storage so that is why I have to cycle the Sources after it's connected to get the stereo to play). It remembers track position and everything.
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After playing around a bit it seems really clunky and I don't like the idea of the app running all the time. However I did find a solution, the Kenwood Music Editor (Light Edition).
You are still limited to music on your external SD card but it does not require the Kenwood app to be running or present to work. It was meant to make music playable on any USB device so it can be used for flash cards as well if you are having issues reading them. You plug your device into a computer (Windows only) and then run a scan and you should be good to go.
After doing this it's the same situation to play for me, plug in and turn on USB storage (it takes long for my phone to get into USB storage so that is why I have to cycle the Sources after it's connected to get the stereo to play). It remembers track position and everything.
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newer car-stereos usualy suport any file when you put the phone in "storage-device"-mode.
im looking to get controll over the phone from my stereo, yther use the player in the phone or spotify. works great whit an iphone, but cant find any solution to get the same controll from my htc desire hd...
im guessing its not the stereo itself but the phones software thats the problem, not allowing audio out or controlls in from the microUSB
id love a solution to this though
Check out the other apps like kenwood music control for android:
http://www.kenwood.com/cs/ce/
I know it works via an auxiliary cable but I'd like to get it working with USB. Is this possible?
it won't work. However if you have the cable from ibolt you can use the micro usb out on the phone. you cannot simply connect a usb cable for audio.
So there's no way to see the artist/track name of what i'm playing through my phone other than connecting via bluetooth.. awesome.
You can and you can't.
Kenwood and Pioneer car stereos (have tested on both) read flat file structures (NOT iTunes or WMP playlists, but the individual mp3 files and to a limit of 255 folders), but they will only read on your phone storage and ONLY if you have a Mass Storage option. They do not support MTP. This is a real pain in the butt. There was an application that let you swap storage and another app I saw someone make to allow you to mount storage so this could be done. I did this for a while until it became dumb and just ended up using Bluetooth.
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So there's no way to see the artist/track name of what i'm playing through my phone other than connecting via bluetooth.. awesome.
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Hi!
For the people who use an Android phone via USB to their car stereo: does the car stereo just make the phone a glorified SD card? Like, you just browse through the file structure on the stereo? Or, is it straight output? So, whatever I'm playing through my phone, it plays through the speakers?
Basically: does the USB slot on car stereos act like a computer (i.e. phone is glorified SD card) or a dock (i.e. phone is source for speakers)?
~Ibrahim~
Depends. Does your phone support mass storage?
Does your head unit support Bluetooth connections?
If 1. Is true then yes you should be able to pick mass storage from status bar (in some Samsung phones it's buried deeper in settings -> data more settings -> USB settings.
On some new devices like SGS3 mass storage is not supported at all and MTP requires Windows drivers to work.... I've not seen a Microsoft head unit anywhere to date? (I could be wrong but at the very best they'd be few and far between).
This can be circumvented with root access and scripts to mount a designated card and or an app like EasyUMS.
If you don't have mass storage support, you don't have a BT supported head unit and you don't have a rooted device then all i can say is good luck.
Just for clarification BT is to suggest that you can stream from your device. I've looked into reverse radio transmitting from FM app hacked but gave up when i discovered my latest device doesn't have FM radio what so ever.
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Depends. Does your phone support mass storage?
Does your head unit support Bluetooth connections?
If 1. Is true then yes you should be able to pick mass storage from status bar (in some Samsung phones it's buried deeper in settings -> data more settings -> USB settings.
On some new devices like SGS3 mass storage is not supported at all and MTP requires Windows drivers to work.... I've not seen a Microsoft head unit anywhere to date? (I could be wrong but at the very best they'd be few and far between).
This can be circumvented with root access and scripts to mount a designated card and or an app like EasyUMS.
If you don't have mass storage support, you don't have a BT supported head unit and you don't have a rooted device then all i can say is good luck.
Just for clarification BT is to suggest that you can stream from your device. I've looked into reverse radio transmitting from FM app hacked but gave up when i discovered my latest device doesn't have FM radio what so ever.
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Thanks for the reply!
Yeah, only MTP on stock, but EasyUMS works. But, I actually wanted the USB audio out (not mass storage). For example, all the playlists I have would be useless and it sounds nigh impossible trying to navigate 1000 songs with a head unit. Do you know if any head units do support Android USB audio out?
I considered BT, but no head units support apt-x (lossless audio codec) yet: even the 2013 models are using crappy SBC. A few home stereos have it, but they don't exactly fit in my car, haha.
Hello. I made my s4 mini as usb drive (mass storage), and it perfectly working in car stereo, I can switch songs and folders, but to make it easier to find songs i would like to control everything not from car streo player, but from my phone like in this video (1:40). Is that possible on android?
youtu[DOT]be/h0T7JdUpq1A?t=1m40s
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Hello. I made my s4 mini as usb drive (mass storage), and it perfectly working in car stereo, I can switch songs and folders, but to make it easier to find songs i would like to control everything not from car streo player, but from my phone like in this video (1:40). Is that possible on android?
youtu[DOT]be/h0T7JdUpq1A?t=1m40s
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No, because of the way Mass Storage works, that wouldn't be possible. You could however use Bluetooth instead.