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Car: USB to Aux/charger?

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nooaah

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So, I have a cable for my iPhone that plugs into the doc connector and then splits the cable out (one goes to my car's aux, the other to the power). The audio from usb to aux is way, way cleaner for the iPhone and not having to use two separate cables to charge and provide audio is also extremely convenient.

Does anything like this exist for the S3 or a compatible device? I saw a thread about there being some sort of driver issue with usb audio and how it's kind of difficult to implement - I'm hoping I just wasn't understanding what I was reading.


Thanks as usual.
 
hmm, not quite what you are asking for but I bought one of these:

Belkin : AirCast Auto HandsFree

Its still two cables, but the aux one stays in the car, so if the phone doesn't need charging you don't need to connect anything to it at all!
All functions work fine with the S3 (pause/play, accept call, hang up, next track).
I drove home from work earlier with the phone in my pocket, playing through the car audio system.

When I get my ass in gear I'll order some NFC tags and use one to turn bluetooth on when in the car.
 
I had a Scosch (sp) bluetooth dongle that worked the same way. The issue was the volume was very muffled. I lost about 30% volume compared to straight 3mm to aux or usb to aux. How's this adapter in that respect?
 
I find it pretty good, I don't find it muffled at all. Volume wise it doesn't sound any different to devices I've connected via cable to aux.

You can actually use the volume buttons on the S3 to increase the volume there.
Many car stereos that have aux in sockets also have a line in level - if you increase that it gets louder, may be worth checking out.
 
Crafty said:
hmm, not quite what you are asking for but I bought one of these:

Belkin : AirCast Auto HandsFree

Its still two cables, but the aux one stays in the car, so if the phone doesn't need charging you don't need to connect anything to it at all!
All functions work fine with the S3 (pause/play, accept call, hang up, next track).
I drove home from work earlier with the phone in my pocket, playing through the car audio system.

When I get my ass in gear I'll order some NFC tags and use one to turn bluetooth on when in the car.
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Do you know if it works with google music, or just the stock player? Or does it matter?
 
Works with any player, in fact I had a small issue with it last week in that I connected and pressed the belkin button to make it start playing and it started beyondpod, rather than the stock music player. I don't know why this happened, before that it would start the default music player app. All I did was pick up the hpone and press play on the music player and it was fine from that point onwards.

Since then I've got rid of beyondpod and started using google listen and it seems okay now. Maybe beyondpod was lurking as a background process or something.
 
nooaah said:
So, I have a cable for my iPhone that plugs into the doc connector and then splits the cable out (one goes to my car's aux, the other to the power). The audio from usb to aux is way, way cleaner for the iPhone and not having to use two separate cables to charge and provide audio is also extremely convenient.

Does anything like this exist for the S3 or a compatible device? I saw a thread about there being some sort of driver issue with usb audio and how it's kind of difficult to implement - I'm hoping I just wasn't understanding what I was reading.


Thanks as usual.
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The s3 has aptX bt support which is lossless digital to a compatible aptX bt receiver. One such receiver is the htc steroclip which plugs into your aux. also, you avoid ground loop issues this way as well.
 
Crafty said:
I find it pretty good, I don't find it muffled at all. Volume wise it doesn't sound any different to devices I've connected via cable to aux.

You can actually use the volume buttons on the S3 to increase the volume there.
Many car stereos that have aux in sockets also have a line in level - if you increase that it gets louder, may be worth checking out.
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The problem is the s3 has a bug in liba2do.so which has the bit pol setup 31 instead of 53 resulting in severe compression through the SBC a2dp protocol. Hopefully they wil fix this in a software update. The only bt auction solution for audiophiles on the s3 currently is any receiver that support aptX.
 
sorka said:
The s3 has aptX bt support which is lossless digital to a compatible aptX bt receiver. One such receiver is the htc steroclip which plugs into your aux. also, you avoid ground loop issues this way as well.
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I'm waiting for the price to go down on that thing, but Sprint does sell it for $20 cheaper than Amazon. Still, I don't feel like dropping $60 for it either. The ground loop issue makes it tempting though. Wasn't as annoying on my Incredible as it is with the S3.
 
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