For years I've been handling all the music in my car via a first-gen iPod mini under the passenger seat connected to a Harman/Kardon Drive+Play. It's got its flaws, but it works great. I turn on the car and it picks right up where it left off. The control is mounted right where my hand expects it to be and the screen is easily visible. No fuss, no muss.
I'm wondering if I can accomplish something similar with my Nexus One. What I DON'T want to do is have some complex setup where every time I get in the car I have to connect three cables and put the phone in some gawdy clamp mount, then be awkwardly trying to use the touch screen while driving, then having to stop playback and disconnect everything when I get out of the car.
I'm looking for a solution that is either one cable or automatic bluetooth. Preferably there would be an external monitor screen. I'd like a manual control that I could mount by the arm rest or steering wheel and use without looking at it. At minimum, I could do music and calls. Navigation would be a plus.
Does anything like this currently exist?
Sounds like your after any number of car headunits that support AD2P (audio over bluetooth), bluetooth voice, and navigation. Alpine, Eclipse and Kenwood all make good units that should do what you want. You should be able to leave your phone in your pocket and just have it connect via bluetooth when your in range.
I've had minimal success with the various Pioneer headunits due to them not supporting AD2P without additional controllers = more money.
I hadn't thought of just replacing the head unit but I suppose I'm due. I browsed Crutchfield but there's no filter for A2DP capability. Anyone have any suggestions for a DIN head unit with integrated A2DP and a color LCD screen?
I'm currently using a jvc kd-r900. It comes with a little Bluetooth adapter that you can plug into the rear USB port. I have it setup to auto start car home when it connects to the bluetooth. Usually by the time I get in, start the car and put my seat belt on, my phone is connected and ready to play music/calls/GPS/etc. I can start music either from my phone or just pressing the play/pause button on the head unit. Works really great. I can switch songs pause/play and make calls directly frm the head unit without having to touch my phone. My wife had her phone in her purse in the back seat and was still able to play music without touching the phone
Overall pretty pleased with the unit and it works great with my n1.
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Can you browse/navigate Artist, Album, Track, etc. from the head unit? If so, this is probably exactly what I'm after.
I can't browse using the headunit. It only allows my to play/pause and skip tracks.
Ah, okay. Thanks for the tip. This looks like a good unit.
Anyone else have experiences with A2DP headunits?
This might be dumb. But do all android phones have this a2dp feature? Isn't it just the same as a Bluetooth headset sort of, so they ALL must have it? If so I'm definitely getting a new stereo! I just want to make sure that after my nexus I can still use this feature!
A2DP is a software thing. So as long as the phone has a Bluetooth 2.0 chip (the G1 does) and the operating system supports A2DP (At minimum, Froyo does) then you're good to go.
I use a THB BURY CC9060 Music. Full Bluetooth kit with full music control from a remote dash mounted screen and call handling.
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no clue if this would work, or if it would even be possible.
i'd love to have my phone synced up with my in dash nav, similar to the way the video out works to put the phone on the tv, but with the only difference of being that you could control the phone through the nav (slightly older Eclipse AVN6610 with no usb in).
without completely hacking up wiring and possibly even screwing around with the nav firmware, is there any way possible to do this?
if not, then i'll have to settle with having my phone at least wired for sound/music out.
thanks
Not possible/10
I have a new Pioneer Elite receiver showing up soon and I also picked up the bluetooth adapter for it. What i want to do is be able to stream music from the TF to the receiver from outside (using my zone 2 outdoor speakers). Since the receiver is inside this would allow to play music from outside which would be ideal. However I cannot get any good info on what is really possible. I tried Pandora last night and got no option to stream? Will options show up once I make the bluetooth connection? Anyone who has paired multimedia devices to the TF please chime in and let me know how your experience was. Thanks!
Hello all.
I have looked around via the search tool but not found what I was looking for directly.
Background:
I have a sterling kit car. I am modernizing the entire car to look, act, and drive like a modern day exotic sports car. So of course I would want an in dash infotainment system. However this car is extremely small. In fact the roof is only 40 inches tall.
So after remodeling the dash I have room for a 5 inch tablet. I would like to use an android based tablet, but most of the units I can find are chinese, and Win CE 6.0 based.
Im looking for the following features:
Google maps 3D GPS/Navigation
Bluetooth for phone, camera and OBD2 system access
WIFI
Back up camera wireless
Driving rear view camera
OBD 2 bluetooth system access
FM radio
MP3 Play back
Parking radar system
HD quality touch screen
Auto on and off based on external voltage (accessory power)
Custom boot screen and animations
I know some of these would be add ons and not part of the base android unit. But I am finding it very difficult to find a 5" tablet I can use in this way. It would be mounted in the dash board with only the screen exposed.
Can a win CE based tablet be converted to run android?
Im looking for a believable OEM in dash infotainment system. SI would imagine the processing power should be pretty good for fast switching, and animation speeds.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Thanks in advance!
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I warmly welcome.
I will note in advance that I do not know if in the appropriate department.
And now to the point ...
I have an old, unused HAMMER ENERGY smartphone with Android 7.0
I would like to convert it into a car phone ... namely, I mean that the phone would only be used as a navigation. Plus some music via BT.
I am curious how to do it best, whether to upload a pure android and only navigations, or maybe there are some interesting "car" modifications
Maybe e.g. protection against a stolen car if the phone were inside,
or some video recorder additionally.
I don't quite know what else you can think of in this topic.
I depend on your experience, I want to play with the phone.
greetings
For me I use my old mi max as car navigation in the car. It's not screen makes waze/gmaps easier to see.
No modifications needed. Just a good car phone mount, car phone charger and a shortcut to the music /navigation app you use most frequent will do.
You might want to pop in a sim card with data or share your data connection with that phone. For me it's simple, i set it to auto share my wifi whenever my phone is connected to my car ice system via BT.
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