I'm looking for a charging speaker dock ( al a ipod / iphone ) for a HTC Desire.
Ideally to charge the phone and play music via, then the phone can be used as an alarm clock.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Well.. I don't think the Desire outputs audio through the USB port, so you'd have an ugly audio cable running from the dock to the top of the Desire...
I'd also be looking for one of these. I guess it could use bluetooth to avoid the cable issue?
albert_htc said:
I'm looking for a charging speaker dock ( al a ipod / iphone ) for a HTC Desire.
Ideally to charge the phone and play music via, then the phone can be used as an alarm clock.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
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Don't you think we will soon see a device very similar to the Nexus One dock -- which has both wired audio out, and also bluetooth audio -- once paired, it plays through your speakers without the phone in the dock. It also is set up to be used as a bedside clock for alarm, with dimmer display. You may know all this already, but just in case you don't, here is the Desire's first cousin's (Nexus One's) dock... just to show that what you want is probably coming very soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HsG4xCVb2s&fmt=22
http://www.androidspin.com/2010/01/30/nexus-one-desktop-dock-unboxing-and-review/
(has more details about settins -- but since this is nexus one only.... )
someone found any music/alarm clock dock for desire?????
It could work if the dock charges the phone while it's sending the audio thrue bluetooth hope some 1 well go further with this idea...
quicksite said:
Don't you think we will soon see a device very similar to the Nexus One dock -- which has both wired audio out, and also bluetooth audio -- once paired, it plays through your speakers without the phone in the dock. It also is set up to be used as a bedside clock for alarm, with dimmer display. You may know all this already, but just in case you don't, here is the Desire's first cousin's (Nexus One's) dock... just to show that what you want is probably coming very soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HsG4xCVb2s&fmt=22
http://www.androidspin.com/2010/01/30/nexus-one-desktop-dock-unboxing-and-review/
(has more details about settins -- but since this is nexus one only.... )
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Why couldn't I use the Nexus One dock for the Desire then?
al89nut said:
Why couldn't I use the Nexus One dock for the Desire then?
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Because the Desire doesn't have the extra pins on the bottom edge to connect with the dock.
http://pic.gsmarena.com/vv/reviewsimg/google-nexus-one/phone/gsmarena_020.jpg
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.
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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
Update
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.
Has anyone tried using any of the new Droids with the Razr/Razr Maxx dock? I'm thinking of getting a Maxx and Mini and would love to have a cheap dock, even if I had to modify it a bit.
WeaselWeaz said:
Has anyone tried using any of the new Droids with the Razr/Razr Maxx dock? I'm thinking of getting a Maxx and Mini and would love to have a cheap dock, even if I had to modify it a bit.
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Depends on what you want the dock for but I don't think it would work. I would guess that the magnets are in different places on the phones so the dock wouldn't activate the phone to go into dock mode. Also, the usb pins are not the same so it won't charge the phones or handle any audio or data. So no it would not work even if you modified it. sorry.
All,
Anyone know of any car dock that has both the USB injector and can output audio through USB? I currently have the Samsung Infuse 4G dock and use it with my S3. It is very convenient to dock the phone and slide the usb connector (as opposed to plugging usb and stereo manually) and it puts the phone in dock mode, which triggers my Tasker task to run navigation, play music, etc..
I have my T-Mo Note 4 now but did not find/decide a dock that can hold the phone with the Spigen Neo hybrid case on with the usb injector like the Infuse dock.
Two docks that I looked at and might work..
iBolt xProDock (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AOCSFYC/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1KED7QPKDBUQ7)
iOttie One Touch 2 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JRGOKQ8/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2FE6D62A4WM6Q)
Worst case, I would have to buy one of these. Any suggestions? What do you use?
by the way, I did look through all the suggested threads in other forums before creating this one.
Thanks.
gnash.s said:
All,
Anyone know of any car dock that has both the USB injector and can output audio through USB? I currently have the Samsung Infuse 4G dock and use it with my S3. It is very convenient to dock the phone and slide the usb connector (as opposed to plugging usb and stereo manually) and it puts the phone in dock mode, which triggers my Tasker task to run navigation, play music, etc..
I have my T-Mo Note 4 now but did not find/decide a dock that can hold the phone with the Spigen Neo hybrid case on with the usb injector like the Infuse dock.
Two docks that I looked at and might work..
iBolt xProDock (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AOCSFYC/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1KED7QPKDBUQ7)
iOttie One Touch 2 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JRGOKQ8/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2FE6D62A4WM6Q)
Worst case, I would have to buy one of these. Any suggestions? What do you use?
by the way, I did look through all the suggested threads in other forums before creating this one.
Thanks.
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I haven't tried my iBolt xProDock, but it *should* work. They actually took forum members here opinion when they were designing it, and designed it to work with the Note 2 / 3 with a bulky otterbox case on, so you won't have any issues with the phone not fitting.
Also, their support is awesome. Part of the dock was rubbing down over time due to wear & tear, they sent me a replacement pretty quick.
gnash.s said:
All,
Anyone know of any car dock that has both the USB injector and can output audio through USB? I currently have the Samsung Infuse 4G dock and use it with my S3. It is very convenient to dock the phone and slide the usb connector (as opposed to plugging usb and stereo manually) and it puts the phone in dock mode, which triggers my Tasker task to run navigation, play music, etc..
I have my T-Mo Note 4 now but did not find/decide a dock that can hold the phone with the Spigen Neo hybrid case on with the usb injector like the Infuse dock.
Two docks that I looked at and might work..
iBolt xProDock (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AOCSFYC/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1KED7QPKDBUQ7)
iOttie One Touch 2 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JRGOKQ8/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2FE6D62A4WM6Q)
Worst case, I would have to buy one of these. Any suggestions? What do you use?
by the way, I did look through all the suggested threads in other forums before creating this one.
Thanks.
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I'm not sure the Note 4 has the audio out through usb capability. My Note 2 and 3 worked perfect with the ibolt dock but when I attached the Note 4 the audio would not play through the car speakers. The option to switch the audio mode in the Accessories menu is not there anymore. I tried to use tasker to switch to external speakers but no luck.
flowidc said:
I'm not sure the Note 4 has the audio out through usb capability. My Note 2 and 3 worked perfect with the ibolt dock but when I attached the Note 4 the audio would not play through the car speakers. The option to switch the audio mode in the Accessories menu is not there anymore. I tried to use tasker to switch to external speakers but no luck.
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Thanks. I decided to go with the iOttie dock, because of the telescopic arm. I have some unused nfc tags that I hope to use it with Trigger/Tasker to put the phone in car mode. I will post some pictures once I get it in 4-5 days.
flowidc said:
I'm not sure the Note 4 has the audio out through usb capability. My Note 2 and 3 worked perfect with the ibolt dock but when I attached the Note 4 the audio would not play through the car speakers. The option to switch the audio mode in the Accessories menu is not there anymore. I tried to use tasker to switch to external speakers but no luck.
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I have the same issue with mine. What did you end up doing?
No luck with mine and the Aux audio either with the iBolt dock or the official samsung media dock with the HDMI/usb ports. And with the iBolt the phone has to be off centered due to the position of the volume buttons.
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I'm really bummed, it looks like with the Galaxy S5 and the Note 4 Samsung or Verizon has dropped support for USB dock audio out. I tried an S5-based ROM on my Note 3 and lost dock audio-out capability, and now that I've upgraded to the Verizon Note 4, it's not even an option in settings. I tried Dock Audio from the Play Store which says hopefully "Audio redirected to dock" when you enable it but doesn't change a damn thing.
My only work-around is to use a third-party Bluetooth adapter. I have the Sony SBH52 which sounds great for a Bluetooth adapter, I just plug this into my rear audio-in ports on my MDX, you could probably get a 3.5mm male-to-male audio cable to get this to work with your 3.5mm AUX jack no problem.
I had the same issue, was pretty bummed to find out that the desk dock I was using next to my bed with my s4 wouldn't play audio through the speakers I've got set up. Did a lot of looking around and didn't find any solutions currently, but I did find out something interesting that might explain some of this- It looks like Lollipop will have native support for audio out through USB. Makes me wonder if Samsung didn't include this feature in the s5 or Note 4 because they are waiting for L to drop, and will update touchwiz to handle it at that point? I can't find any confirmation of this anywhere so it's just speculation on my part, but it does seem to make sense. Why put the time and effort into designing a feature that will be coming standard in the next rev of Android anyway?
aussiepunk said:
I'm really bummed, it looks like with the Galaxy S5 and the Note 4 Samsung or Verizon has dropped support for USB dock audio out. I tried an S5-based ROM on my Note 3 and lost dock audio-out capability, and now that I've upgraded to the Verizon Note 4, it's not even an option in settings. I tried Dock Audio from the Play Store which says hopefully "Audio redirected to dock" when you enable it but doesn't change a damn thing.
My only work-around is to use a third-party Bluetooth adapter. I have the Sony SBH52 which sounds great for a Bluetooth adapter, I just plug this into my rear audio-in ports on my MDX, you could probably get a 3.5mm male-to-male audio cable to get this to work with your 3.5mm AUX jack no problem.
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I'm using a Fiio Kunlun E-18 Audio Amplifier and Digital Audio Converter without issue on both the Galaxy S4 and the Note 4.
http://www.fiio.com.cn/products/index.aspx?ID=100000049935442&MenuID=105026002
Not sure why USB Audio Out would not work on the Note 4.
Perhaps the DAC is missing on a dock?
iqak said:
I'm using a Fiio Kunlun E-18 Audio Amplifier and Digital Audio Converter without issue on both the Galaxy S4 and the Note 4.
http://www.fiio.com.cn/products/index.aspx?ID=100000049935442&MenuID=105026002
Not sure why USB Audio Out would not work on the Note 4.
Perhaps the DAC is missing on a dock?
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As has been stated in a few other threads, the Note 4 DOES support audio out with the use of an OTG cable and an accompanying DAC/amplifier. What it lacks is support for audio out through a standard micro-USB/auxiliary audio combo cable (like you get with many car docks), or through the aux port on desk docks like the Samsung dock for the previous gen notes and Galaxy S devices. Basically, you can't just drop the Note 4 into a dock that's connected to speakers or to your car's aux in port without adding extra hardware, which was a feature that was present in all of the previous Galaxy devices IIRC (certainly you could do it with the S4 and the Note 3). The S5 also lacks this ability. What this means is that those of us who want to charge the phone and output audio on a single cable are basically out of luck
As I said in my previous post, it looks like Lollipop will be including audio out over USB standard across all devices, so my hope is that Samsung knew this and just decided not to waste time building in a feature that would become present with the 5.0 update anyway. I haven't been able to find any confirmation of this however, and I also haven't been able to find out specifically whether the feature in Lollipop will only support audio out with an OTG cable/DAC or if it also will support audio over micro-USB the way that the S4 and Note 3 did. Guess we'll just have to wait and see!
A discussion was started about this already, the only way to get audio out is an external dac and OTG.
This may sound stupid but, can you help to eloborate more on the dac and otg thighy? Does it mean i can still utilize my ibolt xprodock for prior samsung models with my note4? This will be very interesting. On Lollipop feature, I am getting my hands itchy to test the new firmware already...
So, the answer to your question is both yes and no. You won't be able to use your iBolt with the cable that it came with, but you can get audio out through usb with some extra hardware.
What is needed is a USB OTG (On The Go) cable such as one of these: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_qy4kwf7wh_b
and a DAC (Digital to Audio Converter) like one of these: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...aps&field-keywords=USB+DAC&rh=i:aps,k:USB+DAC
I haven't personally done this, so I'm really not the best person to completely explain how this all works, but there is tons of info on doing this all around the web. The long and the short of it though is that you'll need the extra hardware to make this work and you won't be able to get the dock recognition that you get from the iBolt cable.
This problem can be solved with a modified kernel?
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soul777toast said:
So, the answer to your question is both yes and no. You won't be able to use your iBolt with the cable that it came with, but you can get audio out through usb with some extra hardware.
What is needed is a USB OTG (On The Go) cable such as one of these: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_qy4kwf7wh_b
and a DAC (Digital to Audio Converter) like one of these: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...aps&field-keywords=USB+DAC&rh=i:aps,k:USB+DAC
I haven't personally done this, so I'm really not the best person to completely explain how this all works, but there is tons of info on doing this all around the web. The long and the short of it though is that you'll need the extra hardware to make this work and you won't be able to get the dock recognition that you get from the iBolt cable.
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So. It can be done? Will I be able to charge the phone meanwhile?
Sorry. Read the full post and noticed that we can't have both.
It's either audio through otg or charging. [emoji30] [emoji31]
McGilljam said:
So. It can be done? Will I be able to charge the phone meanwhile?
Sorry. Read the full post and noticed that we can't have both.
It's either audio through otg or charging. [emoji30] [emoji31]
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That's what I've found, you get EITHER charge OR audio out, not both at the same time. :crying: if anyone knows of a product that can do both please let us all know.
My Note 4 plays through USB DAC and charges at the same time (about 800mA) when connected to Samsung Smart Dock (only 2 of 3 usb ports could host dac). It's important to use 2A Samsung charger and short high quality USB cables. All other docks I tried and longer cables and non-samsung chargers made Note 4 ignore DAC audio output. I also wired smart dock with usb dac in my car so internet radio and even more so flacs sound amazing.
This doesn't help with charging, but in terms of Audio clarity, this is one amazing plug using my car's Aux input/Aux cable straight into my Note 4 microusb port: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FJSEAZ4/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1. It makes my crappy 9 speaker HiFi system in my BMW X5 F15 sound close to the Harmon Kardon sound system - no joke. All the scratchiness at higher volumes is gone. It's all pure clarity.
Note 4 is listed as supported by this cable. Has anyone tried it?
http://allputer.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=240_99&products_id=2295
Seems to be the same as this one
http://allgalaxytab.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8_97&products_id=1846
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Lolipop solved the problem?
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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.