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Does your car audio system have USB, use your G1!

DarkTLRrider said:
Check this out for those of you that don't want to install or buy cables. It connects to your phone via bluetooth and then connects to your radio via FM and you can take calls through your stereo and play music off the phone. I haven't tried it yet but seams it would meet many needs here except charging so you would need a cable for that.

http://www.fommy.com/view-full-page.asp?divid=T-Mobile&cat=Bluetooth+Car+Kits&skuno=80842
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That won't work entirely until T-Mobile activates the new Cupcake update. Once that's done, stereo BT should work. I am getting a BT car kit as well for this purpose.
 
I read somewhere that you need to be sure you are using the USB-->Mini USB cable that either came with your G1 or make sure if you buy a new cable that the MiniUSB side is an 11pin (new) as opposed to a 5 pin MiniUSB, which are more common.

Also, be sure to set your sd card as a mass storage device, the only way I found to check this is using anyCut (from app market) to create a shortcut to the SD card, once you open that shortcut there is a checkbox. To do this, download anycut, then long press on your home screen to add a shortcut, choose shortcut then pick the AnyCut application, form there choose activity, scroll way down to SD Card. Now when you press on the newly created shortcut you should see a checkbox with the text "Enable USB mass storage", make sure it is checked.
 
Normally when you plug the usb in it runs as mass storage after you mount the sd card under notifications.

Has anyone actually had success charging the G1 on a usb headunit though? I know most usb chargers are only 300 - 500mA and the G1 needs atleast 1A to properly charge the device.
 
My G1 charges on my head unit...
It doesn't recognise it as a USB device though...even after I turn on Mass Storage.
 
Oh...just to let you know....

I formatted my memory card to FAT32...and it still didn't work....

No big deal though....It still charges the phone anyway....

I've got my iPod for my music in the car... =)
 
Hi all, I got My touch G3 and I plug the cable into my usb-car, the phone is charging but when the car is try to retrive the mp3 files. I'm getting a message on car audio display 'Reading error'
I have a nokia express music and I do not have any problem, my car read all the songs ...

I mount the as mass storage and nothing
Also I set up on my phone 'Unknown sources' as available. not nothing

Any idea, :confused:
 
I have a sony CDX-GT630UI car stereo and a mytouch and it will not play throw the USD connection i have an AUX but you cant charge it and us the AUX at the same time, because you have to us the USB to plug in the Stereo connection with this crazy little converter it comes with. Is there some App that can fix this? Anyone Know?
 
Just had a borrowed Vauxhall Insignia for 24 hours. Great stereo USB and 3.5m jack. It will play direct from USB media but has to be formatted as FAT with a whole host of restrictions. I really use spotify now so I didn
 
If you have the AUX or the iphone adaper just hook your mini usb to your phone and use that other end and plug it in.
 
I do this periodically, one thing i was told, is that if you use the AUX port that if you run pandora it will play through the car..thats what i really wanna do..If thats the case, any one know of a USB to AUX port adaptor? lol
 
HTC said:
yea doesn't that suck. my brand new $48,000 bmw 335i cant do that because there aint no USB holes anywhere
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I'm sure you know your car better than I, but my parents have 2 '07 BMW's, and they both have USB ports on the inside of the center console. They're very inconspicuous and hard to acces--right on the front wall of the console. Looking in the console from the back seat would give you the best vantage point. My dad didn't realize he had one for a year.
 
Does anyone have a partitioned SD card? Does it work? Sony and Pioneer both say they don't support partitions. Also, if you're using Apps2SD, you can't use it for music (mass storage) and apps at the same time, can you?
 
Berry2Droid said:
I do this periodically, one thing i was told, is that if you use the AUX port that if you run pandora it will play through the car..thats what i really wanna do..If thats the case, any one know of a USB to AUX port adaptor? lol
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You can't just connect the USB port to a 3.5 mini jack. The device would have to support audio via USB. People in this thread are mounting their memory cards via USB which is entirely different.
 
takeshi said:
You can't just connect the USB port to a 3.5 mini jack. The device would have to support audio via USB. People in this thread are mounting their memory cards via USB which is entirely different.
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HTC phones use the ExtUSB connector, so they do actually have analog audio out of the USB port. :) This will certainly not work connected to a stereo's USB input, but it will work connected to a stereo's Aux input using an adapter:

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This is a purely analog audio connection, so you can't control the music from the stereo or anything. It's exactly the same thing as running a cable to the headphone jack.

The USB-to-USB connection makes the phone act like a hard drive, and then you control the stereo and it reads files from the hard drive and plays them.
 
takeshi said:
You can't just connect the USB port to a 3.5 mini jack. The device would have to support audio via USB. People in this thread are mounting their memory cards via USB which is entirely different.
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My iPhone 3G (bear with me, my question is about Androids) connects to the USB jack on my cheapo Pioneer head unit. It charges the phone and plays the iPod (but obnoxiously locks the touchscreen controls and displays "ACCESSORY CONNECTED" screen). If I press the home button it brings up all my apps, and I can then run Pandora (or other audio apps) which then play thru the USB. On occasion it tends to glitch out and restart the iPod app (usually during highway driving - perhaps when switching towers?) starting with the first track (sorted alpha by songname) but for the most part it works.

Still with me? I wanna know, would an Android phone (such as the HTC Incredible) would do the same thing? Apple is making me jailbreak (an option I do not like) or buy a new phone to get multitasking (listening to Pandora but need to bring up the maps app) so I'm putting Android on the table too.
 
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