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Tonight Google released Car Home as an independent app in the market. It has a ton of improvements like assignable buttons and drag and drop icons. I can't get it to download with Cyanogen(Koush) nightly 09302010 but I know I can through ADB.
Let me know if you can get it to install through the market.
If u have root explorer just delete car home then install from market
I was able to get it to install from the market on Skyraider Vanilla 3.0 RC3. Works well except for the fact that you cannot assign shortcuts to the customisable buttons (e.g. direct dial shortcuts), only app and navigation shortcuts. Seems like a peculiar oversight.
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Anyone post the apk?
GMK83 said:
Anyone post the apk?
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Why? Its a free app.
tdavis42 said:
Why? Its a free app.
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I wouldn't ask you to post a paid app
I got Car Dock to install from the market after deleting the old car home apk but I cannot see an icon in my apps listing. I checked under Applications-Manage Apps and it is there. Any ideas?
EDIT: Nevermind. AppBrain allowed me to download it. To those who can't get it from the official Market, use AppBrain.
CyanogenMod CarHome Instructions
Car home contains two components, the activity (this is the app we're updating) and the launcher. The activity contains the guts of the program, but the Launcher allows it to show up in the app drawer.
If you're using CM6, you have CarHomeLauncher.apk already in system/app and just need to install the com.google.android.carhome-1.apk file. If you are not using CM6, then you may need to install both the Launcher and the carhome apk if the carhome app doesn't show up in the app drawer.
adb remount
adb shell
mv /system/app/CarHomeGoogle.apk CarHomeGoogle.apk.bak
install attached apks. Let me know if there's issues.
As an aside, both LauncherPro and ADW have the capabilities to create shortcuts for activities, bypassing the need of the Launcher, but it still will not show up in the drawer.
When I installed from the market it put com.google.android.carhome-1.apk in the /data/app folder, is this the correct location?
When I go to the app from appbrain it shows it as installed but the open button is grayed out.
Reading the app comments it looks like you can't launch it independently anymore but will launch when placed in the dock, I have yet to verify this.
Works, but has to be in the dock.
I'm running a Sense ROM (Virtuous 2.7) and I installed the Google Car Home using Appbrain. If you click on the Sense Car Panel App in your drawer, you're presented with a pop-up to choose which app you want to use: Sense Car Panel or Google Car Home. I just checked the "use as default" box and selected the Google Car Home. Now when I click the "Car Panel" icon in my app drawer the Google Car Home launches instead of the Sense Car Panel.
Where is the information that shows this is a product made by google?
If you're using ADW.Launcher, you can make a new Custom Shortcut, choosing ADW's Activity List, then selecting Car Home's main activity CarHome(.CarHome)
You can then launch it fine without any problems without needing a dock. Atleast it works for me...
tdiman said:
CyanogenMod CarHome Instructions
The key here is to leave the CarHomeLauncher.apk alone in system/app. This way it will show up in the app drawer.
adb remount
adb shell
mv /system/app/CarHomeGoogle.apk CarHomeGoogle.apk.bak
Thats in, now install Car Home from App Brain (don't know why it won't show up in the Market).
Alternatively, APK is attached, although unverified if this works.
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Thanks for posting the APP, it wasn't showing for me in AppBrain or the Market.
I hv installed Google Car Home app yesterday and cannot see it in app drawer, nor in the applications settings despite it is shown in downloads tab in the market app, but open button is inactive. How to run and use it? confused!
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iLHaNroID said:
I hv installed Google Car Home app yesterday and cannot see it in app drawer, nor in the applications settings despite it is shown in downloads tab in the market app, but open button is inactive. How to run and use it? confused!
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I updated my post with a link to a Launcher APK. Install it and it should allow car home to show up in the app drawer. It is from CM6.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8404454&postcount=9
Thank you so much tdiman.. it is now working... happy
just wondering why it is not working orginally and why google retrieved it from the market
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I added the app from a link I found on droid-life. You don't need a home replacement as they state.....
I simply used BetterCut to place the "activity" of the car home on my screen. Once in I started customizing things like removing the Music Icon (since it doesn't work) and replaced it with Mixzing. I also removed the People Icon and Dialer as I can just use the Voice Search to do everything in the car so I don't need to look at the phone.
My only wishes for this: that you could add toggle widgets (such as Vlingo's Safereader) and that google would allow Bluetooth to initiate voice search instead of a call directly.
iLHaNroID said:
Thank you so much tdiman.. it is now working... happy
just wondering why it is not working orginally and why google retrieved it from the market
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You're welcome!
You can't install it in the first place because you can't update apps in system/app through the Marketplace. This is also probably why it doesn't show up in the Marketplace - Verizon doesn't sell any "google experience" phones so they disallow it on Verizon (this is just a theory).
The reason it didn't show up for you might be because whatever ROM you have installed (default HTC Incredible ROM?) doesn't have the Launcher built in.
It is working but there are some bugs, which can be the reason why Google retrieved it back from market; I get FC when trying to set a custom background from gallery and also as soon as tap on the "android settings" option in the app settings menu.
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Hello. Can somebody tell me how to add a shortcut of internet connection on/off on my Nexus S? It's there any program or widget that do this kind of stuff???
Thx!
Try either Quick Settings or MySettings from the Android Market, both free.
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Am I missing something or does the car dock app not integrate with Google music or Pandora? I don't use tunein or store music on my phone directly so this app loses appeal for me. Any ideas?
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I think there was a thread earlier today about this to. Im in the same boat but I use spotify. As far as I can tell theres no way to change the icons.
It's a shame that it cant be customized. I'd like to add Spotify and an app that detects speed cameras. I guess i will need to switch to the old car app that was abandoned by google.
This is my favorite car mode app on android https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwyLDEsInNwaW5uaW5naGVhZC5jYXJob21lIl0.
Car Home Ultra
gunnyman said:
This is my favorite car mode app on android https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwyLDEsInNwaW5uaW5naGVhZC5jYXJob21lIl0.
Car Home Ultra
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Its functional, but doesnt look that nice imo. Too bad there are no skins.
It's ugly for sure but very customizable.
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Notnilc said:
Am I missing something or does the car dock app not integrate with Google music or Pandora? I don't use tunein or store music on my phone directly so this app loses appeal for me. Any ideas?
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Anyone figure out how to use Pandora for the car dock app?
since i'm on CM i'm using the original google car home. it can be customized fairly well. not sure if you can disable the htc version and use that one or not.
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since i'm on CM i'm using the original google car home. it can be customized fairly well. not sure if you can disable the htc version and use that one or not.
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the original car home doesn't have ICS support, has CM taken it and run with it?
I've been using Car Home Ultra for the last few days and while it works and you can add custom app shortcuts, it's really ugly. It's the equivalent of a Geocities website with blinking text and animated GIFs.
If I knew anything about creating an Android app and I had the time I could make some decent spare cash building a beautiful car app.
I found the Google one on XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569027
Install both APK's works fine. Why HTC didn't allow there's to be customizable is beyond me.
gunnyman said:
the original car home doesn't have ICS support, has CM taken it and run with it?
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(i see you found it) I just install the apk and have tasker (best app ever) launch it when it docks.
Does anyone know how to make the dialer go into landscape like it does in htc car mode?
You can use Rotation Locker from the play store, Gunny. Long press the Auto option to get the home screen and dialer to rotate.
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Perfect. Thanks.
car mode modify
vjr021 said:
Anyone figure out how to use Pandora for the car dock app?
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Bit of a late reply but I've only started using the car app and encountered the same problem.
The solution is to go into the music app that comes with the phone. Here you'll see a couple of music related apps like tunein radio and soundhound. Click on the options icon up the top right and select 'add shortcut'. Add all the apps you want (pandora, spotify, music players).
Now when you enter the car mode the last app you added will appear on the bottom right. You can access all the media shortcuts you added by scrolling to the right twice.
Pressing the home button from any screen will take you back into the original screen so you can alter your music even when in navigation.
Hope this helps anyone using the car mode app.
No luck with that, either. TuneIn is always there.
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Maybe it doesn't recognise the app your using as a music app?? I did it with playerpro and it does appear as the bottom right icon automatically.
What happens if you scroll to the right twice from the car mode homescreen.
One scroll to the right takes me to the default music player and the second scroll takes me into all the shortcuts I added using the music app.
I tested this with a random, non-music related app and it didn't appear on the car mode homescreen but did still appear as an icon when I scrolled right twice.
You should be able to swipe to the right twice off of the main Car Home screen, and that should give you all of the shortcuts that are in the HTC Music app. The bottom right icon on the main screen should then reflect the last app you used.
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You should be able to swipe to the right twice off of the main Car Home screen, and that should give you all of the shortcuts that are in the HTC Music app. The bottom right icon on the main screen should then reflect the last app you used.
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Yeah just to confirm, even if its not a music app it will still appear in the bottom right if that was the last of you shortcuts to be opened.
Well, have the phone for a week now and still couldn't figure out how to add shortcut to lockscreen.
No app nor widget... Only accessible is the pre-installed Google search
Is this specific to MotoG or Android 4.3????
There are few apps on the Play, but I would like to know if there's native support for lockscreen apps/widget on MotoG or not.
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Nevermind. Just figure it out.
When lockscreen active press the power button and either very left or right side of the screen press and slide and it show new "tab" with + and there you can add widget. However, it shows actual data (SMS, Email) so any one can check it ( so much about privacy!!!).
Why the hell Moto couldn't add simply notification???
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The camera shortcut (far right) can not be changed/deleted.
You can ad up to 7 widgets ONLY (no apps!).
To delete/change shortcut, briefly press Power button slide to desired tab and press and hold until you see X Remove on the top. Just pull up the page toward it and it will be removed and you can add another widget.
This is what stock android is like
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jonovw said:
This is what stock android is like
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that's ok, but why not app shortcut???
No idea. You could try finding a widget that has some kind of launcher
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@aspot72,
Use Better DashClock from Play Store
Hi, I'm looking to click a homescreen icon and have it run a search for "weather" in the Google app, NOT the browser.
This will essentially therefore load the new Google weather card from one tap of an icon, the way it should be, or the way iPhone users have it.
Thank you.
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