Is there an official Car Dock for the Galaxy Note 4 that will automatically put it into a Vehicle mode when you slide it in? I'm coming from a DROID RAZR MAXX, which has a Vehicle Dock made by the manufacturer, and when you insert it into the dock, it loads Vehicle Mode.
Edit: I saw one on Samsung's website, but I'm not too happy with it. Reason being, is, with my DROID RAZR MAXX, charging and audio streaming port is built right into it. It looks like with Samsung's universal dock, that you have to plug in a separate cable, and this is for charging, only. I'm looking for a charging+audio solution, something that is built into the actual dock, much like my DROID RAZR MAXX's Vehicle dock is.
Something's funny with the audio out via USB. I don't think anyone's been able to get it to work properly. I only have a usb audio/charger cable, which should work the same way - but there's no option under the audio settings to route the audio through the cable, and routing apps on the play store don't work either...
It's probably a software update from Samsung away, but it's an odd one to leave out imho.
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So i read a while back somewhere that some guy somehow got his Droid to work with his iPod dock could someone post a link please thanks
1. you have an android phone, you should know who "google" is and what they do
2. what I THINK you are referring to is that people will just set they're droid into an ihome dock of some sort, and the multimedia screen with come up
the motorola droid has magnetic sensors in the back. when a northern magnetic pull happens on it, it goes into the multimedia dock home. when it's southern, it goes into the navigation dock home (or visa versa, can't remember)
most of the ihome's these days use magnets in the dock to help keep the ipod or whatever you plug into it stable. the magnet apparently triggers the multimedia home, which is actually quite neat and handy.
3. if that isn't what you're talking about, your probably asking if there is a way to hook an android phone up to an ihome dock. well, most ihome docks actually have aux ports, or just a built in wire that will plug into any standard headphone jack. if it doesn't, there's really only a few ways to mod an ihome like that to play from a headphone jack, all which would require soldering skills and for you to actually open up the ihome.
I just got my Samsung Fascinate with the car dock manufactured by Samsung as a replacement from Motorola Droid. I didnt know that the dock has a 3.5mm audio out on the back that connects thru a slider unit that inserts into the Samsung's micro USB port so I was excited that I only had to connect a one thing for both power and audio. The only problem is that there is no audio coming out of the port and no where on Samsung's website nor Verizon, does it mention that the docks had audio out going from the micro USB plug that input for power and out for audio. I am not sure if it was mistake in manufacturing or if I got a DOA. Please, if anybody has this same issue, let me know if you are having the same problem.
Thanks!!
Mine doesn't work either.
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Nevermind, I found where the issues. When I was looking at my wife's home dock, the was a sticker covering up the 3.5mm jack stating that audio out function is not available until the 2.2 rollout, damn!!
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Wow...
On the one hand, bad VZW/Samsung for releasing such a buggy phone. On the other hand, it's quite clear they have a plan to support this thing.
To be honest, I'd rather have a buggy Sammy then no Sammy at all. I'll just keep busy by watching Avatar over and over and over.
i truly hope that they support it well, but being so new its a good sign that there are so many accessories becasue they still dont have any type of docks for the incredible just a few cases and **** like that. although now that my dinc is gone they offer the white back dammnit.
So it's official that the Samsung Car Dock sold through Verizon won't support audio out through the 3.5mm jack until the Fascinate is updated to 2.2? That's a definite fail on their part.
wicked_beav said:
So it's official that the Samsung Car Dock sold through Verizon won't support audio out through the 3.5mm jack until the Fascinate is updated to 2.2? That's a definite fail on their part.
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I had the same issue on my Car Dock and Desk Dock. I asked a Samsung Rep about this, as I also bought a 3.5mm to RCA video out cable that doesn't work either. Official Froyo to come out next month per rep, no exact date. I'm **hoping** the 3.5 jack on the car mount will support video out too, as I have a nice multimedia system set up in my truck, wired to include the 3.5 inch screen in dvd head unit, the 7 inch screen I embedded in sun visor, all wired together I want to slap my Fascinate into the dock, having it charge from accessory port and the video out to feed the head unit, which in turn feeds the 7" screen.
Anyone with the official car dock willing to measure resistance between pins 4 and 5 from the USB connector?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=820275
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So now that froyo is out i went and bought the samsung car dock. Guess what? Still no freakin audio out of the 3.5mm jack on the dock.
Anyone else still having this issue even after DL30?
My setup:
DL09 radio
adrynalyne's Super Clean DL30 1.0 and the included kernel
Thanks
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=812698&page=2 Post #13
I am having the same issue i bought a shorty cable to do this and it does not work either. any ideas people?
I bought a $10 FM transmitter from Walmart and plugged it into the back of the car dock. I had to download a "TW_cardock_patch" or something like that. There's more than one thread on here on where to get the real link. It will only work if you're rooted though. Once you do that: throw the phone in the cradle, turn on the FM transmitter and you should be good. When you connect the phone to the cradle your Speaker Icon should have a line through. If it does you should be all set! Hope that helps.
The app is called dock sound redirector for anyone still curious.
hey all
ive been roaming thru the forums n google searches trying to get all the info i need in order to create a galaxy to ipod dock connectivity.
im simply doing this as there is an abundant of idocks but nothing really for the galaxy.
my plan is to wire a micro usb and 3.5mm headfone jack into a female ipod cable (taken from an ipod extension cable) to create a small peice that can charge the phone and play music to the dock.
having all the cable outputs on top creates a sorta problem as the screen doesnt rotate upside down (not that im aware of anyway) so id have to create a sorta stand to incorporate it into
my question is, is it acheivable to charge, play music and maybe use for alarms etc? i kno in my head it makes sense but whats the thoughts of the more knowledgable people?
and can anyone help me out with pin numbers for bothe the ipod cable and the micro usb cable?
thank you all
Is this what you are looking for?
Quality is really good and with Voodoo Sound Control installed its really great!
Or if you are good in DIY than have a look here.
Hope this helps!
Try this: http://cgi.ebay.ph/Sprint-Anycom-Bl...er_MP3_Player_Accessories&hash=item2c54a47edb
it basically adds bluetooth functionality to ANY ipod dock..
it works, tried it with a car audio system.
@laurens something similar to that cable but im more interested with being able to charge my phone aswell. i sorta want to harness everything from the dock i can. so charging and playing music, much like i would get if i plugged an iphone onto the dock.
@neilbantoc nah im not a big fan of bluetoothing as it gives a pretty bad sound (usually) plus doesnt really charge the phone.
after much searching i found this link. its pretty much exactly what i want except its for a different phone
wow and i cant add links.... well i found it buy searching iPod dock adapter for the Motorola Droid/Milestone
what u think is it do-able with galaxy?
You can do audio and charging through the USB port, using a 365k resistor between pins 4 and 5 of the plug to enable desk dock mode, and some software to route the audio signal through the USB port. You can charge at the same time by supplying +5V through the Vin pin (pin 1) of the USB port.
The Apple dock pinouts are as shown on this "ipod dock adapter for Motorola Droid" post.
Using a Bluetooth dock adapter would give you the play control functions of the Apple Dock, I can't think of a way to get these with a direct connection.
hey guys all good got the phone to charge and sync using the cable but i cant get the 3.5mm TRS plug to work. tried numerous plugs but no go. ive got the wire strand shield twisted and goin to pinout 2, red wire goin to 3 and white going to 4.
i re wired it up n tested the cable n it works fine just cant get it to work when wired to the ipod board.
any ideas/help?
thank you LaurensJ!
you solved a problem i didnt think of trying to solve before...hehe
I had asked a question similar to this a while back in the accessories section specifically if anyone knew how to hardware trigger the car dock mode and enable the audio out through the usb port. I hadn't gotten an answer and I can't find it anywhere else. I figured I'd ask in general since it's not a feature unique to the car dock (I'm pretty sure another Atrix 2 or Atrix 4G dock can do it as well) and I was curious if it could simply be a software trigger to enable the audio out without needing the dock (obviously you'd still need a spliced cable to allow the usb to split into the audio + charging).
So, has anyone figured out a diy method of getting audio through the usb? I think I'm going to cave and just buy a car dock (AT&T has them for $30 now from the website), but I wanted to check one last time because I prefer being able to do it myself . I assumed it was something that was triggered on the ID pin and then the data pins became left and right audio, but it may be something less passive than that.
since usb is data there is no real audio out. This car dock would have to have a DAC (digital to analog converter) in it. essentially the sound is sent in digital form to it and then it is decoded to analog to be played by the dock, not the phone. in other words you cannot just enable audio out because it does not exist
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since usb is data there is no real audio out. This car dock would have to have a DAC (digital to analog converter) in it. essentially the sound is sent in digital form to it and then it is decoded to analog to be played by the dock, not the phone. in other words you cannot just enable audio out because it does not exist
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Yeah, you are right. I picked one up today and took a look inside and indeed there is definitely some active components in there. My previous phone was a Captivate, so I was used to just changing a resistor value to switch different dock modes and also have the option to have the audio L/R on pins 2 & 3. I was also hopeful since I thought the DAC would need power to work and the A2 car dock works even when not plugged into the charger.
Alas, the diy dock was not meant to be (although, I think I will still need to make my own modifications, of course ).
I found my Note 4 have dock mode with the old dock for other Samsung's phone. But doesn't work with the audio out.
Have anyone know the purpose of the dock mode for the Note 4?
Or there is audio out for the dock mode, which only my dock doesn't fit the electric requirement?
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I found my Note 4 have dock mode with the old dock for other Samsung's phone. But doesn't work with the audio out.
Have anyone know the purpose of the dock mode for the Note 4?
Or there is audio out for the dock mode, which only my dock doesn't fit the electric requirement?
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Does your Note 4 have the "Audio output mode" setting in Settings, General, Accessory, Dock? That's what tells it to use external speakers when it's docked.
Does it output via hdmi? 720p, 1080p?
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Also, is it an official Samsung dock?
Official Samsung Multimedia Dock (for Note 2 & 3)
I have verified that my official Samsung multimedia dock works EXCEPT that the standard audio out jack does not appear to work.
HDMI audio works in both stereo and surround mode. Video is output at 1080 30P.
Has anyone tried it with the plain OEM desktop dock (EDD-D200BEGSTA) that just has audio output? I wonder if the Note 4 doesn't handle all of the extra outputs of the fancier one (EDD-S20JWEGSTA).
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Does your Note 4 have the "Audio output mode" setting in Settings, General, Accessory, Dock? That's what tells it to use external speakers when it's docked.
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The option does not appear to be available on the Note 4?
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The option does not appear to be available on the Note 4?
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Correct! This is one reason I went back to a Note 3 for now.
If you search you'll find that this has been discussed at length in several other threads. I'll sum up here for you though- basically the Note 4 at this time does not support audio out over USB the way the previous gen Galaxy devices did. This means it won't work with the desktop docks or with the car docks/cables that split audio and charging on one cable. Essentially any device that tries to provide both audio and charging simultaneously through the usb port will not work. The Note 4 WILL support audio over USB with a USB OTG cable and a DAC, but you can't charge while using them.
However, Android 5.0 Lollipop does have audio out over USB included as a standard feature, so it's quite possible that once we get the 5.0 update this will begin to work. I haven't been able to find any solid proof, but my suspicion is that Samsung knew that 5.0 would have this feature included and so they just didn't bother to build it in to the initial release of the Note 4 (interestingly the S5 also suffers from this). Why take the time to develop a feature that's already being included in the first software update anyway? Again it's just my own personal theory, but I wouldn't be surprised to have this feature start working once we get Lollipop.
Anyway, a simple search of the forum will turn up a bunch of other info on this, take a minute to look!
With Lollipop now, this feature does not work. Could be a hardware limitation.
I believe it has something to do with the Fast Charging capability.
Standard USB uses only 2 pins for power, meaning either of the remaining pins can be utilized for audio, probably the data+ pin, or possibly the second ground pin.
However with fast charging, the data+ and data- pins are used to communicate with the charging controller, so they can't be used as audio out. This seems to be the case, as an old "faster" charge cable I made way back does not work with Fast Charging. (the cable was made by an old common trick where you short the 2 data pins in the USB A side, essentially telling the phone no data was going to be used, just charging."
I have the Multimedia Dock as well, and I noticed that limitation when I got the phone. Though honestly it didn't bother me all that much, as the Note doesn't like to stay in it anyways, and I rarely used the audio out.
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I believe it has something to do with the Fast Charging capability.
Standard USB uses only 2 pins for power, meaning either of the remaining pins can be utilized for audio, probably the data+ pin, or possibly the second ground pin.
However with fast charging, the data+ and data- pins are used to communicate with the charging controller, so they can't be used as audio out. This seems to be the case, as an old "faster" charge cable I made way back does not work with Fast Charging. (the cable was made by an old common trick where you short the 2 data pins in the USB A side, essentially telling the phone no data was going to be used, just charging."
I have the Multimedia Dock as well, and I noticed that limitation when I got the phone. Though honestly it didn't bother me all that much, as the Note doesn't like to stay in it anyways, and I rarely used the audio out.
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I bet you're right, but I don't know of any other phones that have audio out to compare against. For example the Nexus 6 supports dock mode for Daydream, but I haven't found any docks that can activate it.
How to activate Dock Mode
I discovered that with the app called "Smart Connect" you can customize what apps will activate based on what peripheral device is connected. You can set this up for the usb dock, 3.5mm input, etc. You can control what happens when something is connected and when it is disconnect. You don't need root either. This isn't perfect, I still preferred the way the Note 2 and 3 worked but it does help.
Youtube video on this issue
we go over this in our video on YouTube, no go on the audio out for the Note 4.
Luke @ Galaxy Tech Review
degeiso said:
we go over this in our video on YouTube, no go on the audio out for the Note 4.
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The dock could be used to attach usb dac to phone and to charge phone at the same time, right?
The question is: will usb dac & charge work at the same time if I connect dock to low level usb power cable? e.g. if I connect dock to car charging adapter?
We unfortunately do not have a USB dac to test this.
Yes i can confirm that using a usb dac with smart dock obviously does work.
The only thing that does not work as it was said before is the dock audio jack.
My dack is my best workaround solution so far.