I picked up the car dock and desk dock for $11 with my corporate discount. I downloaded the sound redirector app from the market and things were working great.
However, with the desk dock I noticed that I get crackling every time the phone is plugged in. If I unplug the charger the crackling goes away. Does anyone else have this problem? Also the sound is very hallow and tiny. There is almost no bass, and it not just my headphones, because the audio is much better if unplugged from the dock and plugged into the 3.5mm jack on the phone. I like the option of these docks, but this is a big bummer for me.
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I just got my official car dock the other day. It works fine, but one problem I have with it, is when my phone is in the dock, it causes noise/feedback on the auxiliary in to my stereo(which is hooked up to the n1). If I pop it out of the dock, it's fine, no noise.
Anyone else experiencing this problem? Any fix? It's pretty much at the point where I don't want to listen to music on the phone if it's plugged into the dock....
kyleroden said:
I just got my official car dock the other day. It works fine, but one problem I have with it, is when my phone is in the dock, it causes noise/feedback on the auxiliary in to my stereo(which is hooked up to the n1). If I pop it out of the dock, it's fine, no noise.
Anyone else experiencing this problem? Any fix? It's pretty much at the point where I don't want to listen to music on the phone if it's plugged into the dock....
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A friend of mine (@gIMpSTa) told me it's caused by the car-dock power supply (cigarette lighter) sharing the same ground with your car-stereo...Which makes sense..... Change the ground wire on your stereo or cigarette lighter and you should be good to go!!
yep, its alternator noise caused by a poor ground, could be the lighter port or could be in the engine bay. I would suggest just hard wiring the charger which is what im gonna do when i get the car dock.
I should be able to hardwire it anywhere I can find 5v? It only draws 2 amps if I recall, so that shouldn't be much of an issue...
Hey guys, would this solve my problem?
http://us.kensington.com/html/14484.html
I wouldn't think so, since it's still being plugged into the same adapter, but just thought I'd check
I want to listen to music in my car via bluetooth A2DP. My car's stereo system only has AUX in. So, I am looking for a device to pair with my phone and plug into the aux port for my car's stereo. I don't really care about hands free calling. That'd be a plus, but not necessary.
I've been doing some research and found two that look reasonable.
BlackBerry Remote Stereo Bluetooth Gateway (would require yet another charger)
Kensington LiquidAUX Bluetooth Car Kit
Does anyone here have any experience with these or any recommendations?
If I were you, I would get something like this:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...10551&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665801276
The reason being that it gets pretty good reviews and you would be able to also use it outside of the car if you wanted to.
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Ericsson...1DCM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288590977&sr=8-1
I am probably going to buy this thing soon, as I have been eying it for a few days now.
If you don't want to charge there are plenty of wire in kits. Check out parrot. They might have a kit that fit s what you want.
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I bought a LiquidAUX and would advise staying away from it unless you like sub par sound quality. The volume is about 75% compared to being plugged directly into my aux port and the quality is like streaming a low quality radio station. For calls I would say it gets the job done "acceptably" but music requires much better fidelity than you'll get from it.
I use the LiquidAUX. I use it to listen to podcasts and have no problem with the sound quality. I did have to buy a ground loop noise filter.
I have the blackberry stero gateway and I use it in my living room, it works fantastic for music.
Just as a follow-up to my original post, I ended up deciding on Satechi Bluetooth Hands-free Car Stereo Fm Transmitter for iPhone 4, 3Gs & 3G and Bluetooth Stereo A2DP supported Devices (available on amazon).
The Satechi device works great! It pairs with the phone quickly and the sound quality is great. This device is exactly what I was looking for. It plugs into the cigarette lighter and has AUX out which I plugged into the stereo in my car. I was a bit worried about noise from the car's engine, but that wasn't a problem. The volume is very slightly lower than plugging the phone directly into the AUX in on my car's stereo. Realistically, that may just be my ears playing tricks on me. It also has a USB port which puts out 5V @ 1000mA for charging USB devices (my Epic).
I didn't use the FM transmitter or the call feature since the only thing I really wanted was the A2DP to AUX.
davidb_ said:
I want to listen to music in my car via bluetooth A2DP. My car's stereo system only has AUX in. So, I am looking for a device to pair with my phone and plug into the aux port for my car's stereo. I don't really care about hands free calling. That'd be a plus, but not necessary.
I've been doing some research and found two that look reasonable.
BlackBerry Remote Stereo Bluetooth Gateway (would require yet another charger)
Kensington LiquidAUX Bluetooth Car Kit
Does anyone here have any experience with these or any recommendations?
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What kind of car? I know GM and several others have aftermarket adapters that plug into the factory harness that allow the addition of A2DP in an almost factory style addon.
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What kind of car? I know GM and several others have aftermarket adapters that plug into the factory harness that allow the addition of A2DP in an almost factory style addon.
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Subaru. I'm actually planning on switching out the factory stereo for a carputer-type thing in the spring. This is just hold me out until nicer weather.
davidb_, why are you opposed to using the Aux port? Seems like a simpler yet more robust solution.
http://www.scosche.com/products/productID/1919
I was just about to post something about that Scosche one. After doing a bit of searching, it seems to be rated fairly well. I'm considering buying one for my wife's car, so if anyone has any experience with it, I'm curious to hear about some more first hand experience.
I have now used both the Kensington LiquidAUX and the Scosche BTAXS motorMOUTH II and I am wishing there was something that had the best of both. Here are my thoughts on both:
Kensington LiquidAUX
I really like the overall feature set of this solution. The remote is handy to skip past ads in podcasts and to jump back a few seconds when the navigation interrupts what I'm listening to. I also like that it is powered.
What I didn't like is that I had to get a ground loop noise filter (although once I did, the sound was perfect.) Also, there were some connection issues if I was listening with the car off and then started the car due to the interruption of power to the device. The phone never seemed to reconnect in that situation. I would have to turn off the LiquidAUX and turn it back on and wait for it to reconnect. I liked that it has an extra USB port so I could charge the phone if it was low on juice without a separate power adapter but it only charges at 500 mA so really it just kept the phone from dying without really adding extra charge during the drive. The one huge drawback to the LiquidAUX was that people found it difficult to hear me during calls. I usually had to switch the call to speakerphone to have any success. I think the location of the microphone (due to the location of my power port) was the cause of this issue. This is what led me to purchase the Scosche BTAXS.
Scosche BTAXS
There were several things that impressed me with the Scosche BTAXS. I loved the fact that there was no mess of cables. The position of the microphone was much better because it was up at the AUX port of the head unit so I never had any complaints on calls. The sound was great and since it wasn't drawing power from the car I no longer needed the noise filter. Also, Scosche provided many great accessories in the box that other companies might have sold separately.
What I don't like about the Scosche BTAXS is the terrible battery life. I drive about 40 min to work. I cannot use the Scosche BTAXS on both my drive to and from work and leave it in the car overnight and expect it to work the next day. If I drive around on my lunch break, it may not last all day, even when I turn it off when not in use. Scosche does provide a charging cable and car adapter so I can power it during use but that takes away the coolness of not having any cables. It also introduces a little bit of ground loop noise. If I was to run it through the filter I would not be able to position the microphone where I would get the best call quality.
In conclusion, neither of these devices is perfect. The call quality issue of the LiquidAUX is a big drawback that I wish there was a way to overcome. Since there isn’t, I will most likely stick with the Scosche and just make sure I recharge it whenever I am not in the car.
I got this from Buy.com for $20 a few months back. Hopefully you'll find a good deal like that again.
http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Li..._1_1?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1293177894&sr=1-1
Any update on products for this. I am looking to do this in my 09 jetta through the Aux in, and none of the solutions seem that stellar. Just wanted to see if anyone had found something recently that works great.
I keep looking for a simple BT solution that can give me the best of both worlds. I'm surprised there is no simple BT receiver that can sit behind the dash plugged in to power and aux with a mic out and corded dual mic I can route myself. Liquidaux and motormouth II come close yet miss the mark. A quality mic on the kensington would make for a perfect setup. A remote mic on the motormouth II would be great. Makes zero sense at this stage of the game.
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nice thing
http://www.belkin.com/au/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=530115
Just wanted to tell everyone I "solved" the problem of the official Samsung Car Dock not playing music and phone calls through the headset.
Well, sort of. I removed the entire "USB slider" mechanism, and just hook up the power cord and headset directly to the phone.
If you pry apart the back of the slider, there a just some small screws holding to the dock. It comes apart easily.
Not quite the software solution I would have wanted, but the official dock is pretty cheap right now compared to alternatives, so I went with it.
I dont have a car dock I just run a soldered in audible cable out of the headphone jack. Perfect audio in, but thats also because I drive a VW that I had to do that.
I'm running SC2.9.2 - car dock works just fine with the USB slider and headphone out the back. Use the Car Cradle app and hit the Speaker icon. That turns on the USB sound. Been working for several of the previous versions of Froyo also.
I'm having a lot of trouble believing that none of you guys ever pop into the Dev section.
OTB'd CM6 FTW
Wouldn't an easier solution have been to just turn dock the phone upside down then flip the dock around? No need to pull of the slider mechanism.
For those of you that have one. Please dock your phone, play a song and put on a headset. Listen to the quality of it. Now unplug your headset and plug it to the headphone port up on top. Hear the difference?
Its night and day, the port on the dock not only sounds low but there is no bass. Or is it just my dock? Please check your dock and let me know.
Thanks in advance.
anyone? Can you test please?
If you have a case on the phone and if the jack on the car dock is standard size, it might be too thick to go plug all the way. If it is not plugged all the way you will experience the symptoms you just described...
Hate cases so its in all the way. do you have the car dock? if yes can you please try and check to see if the sound is the same at the car dock verses the top port.
I am not sure if anyone checked it (I know the thread is one year old), but I have the same problem. Actually I stumbled across this thread because I wanted to know if there are some settings I can play with, so the sound out of the microusb is the same with the sound out of the headphone jack on top of the phone (my car has an aux input where I can plug a 3.5 jack.
Thanks for helping
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Hey guys, I bought the official samsung/verizon car dock for my charge the other day for a 4.5 hour trip I was doing, and while the built in power/audio ports on the dock were great....the audio out on the dock always lets out EAR PIERCING squealing randomly. if I plug my audio cable into the headphone jack OTOH, it works flawlessly.....
Anyone else use the dock and have similar issues? also, im sure this is from my cigarette socket...but charging like to randomly drop off and on >.<
Other than that, if I plug into the headphone jack versus line out on the dock it is great...albeit annoying
I will have my car dock from VzW tomorrow and will test this out.
It sounds like it could be a ground loop. Do you hear the the sound change when you rev the car engine? What about when the engine is off?
Ok, so I seem to have figured out the problem with the squealing audio through the line-out on the car dock.....the leaked GB roms are to blame so it is. I tried humble and gummy GB roms and the speaker blasting squealing was there, then went back to Froyo and BLAMMO no more squealing.
just food for thought hehe
EDIT....*grumbles* nevermind, started squealing like a stuck pig again this morning....PITA but oh well, not that big a deal, so I have to plug the audio cable into the headphone jack instead of the oh so convenient line-out jack on the official car dock.