Help Not compatible with car USB port, any fix?

[lollygag]

So I had a Moto Droid before getting my GN, and with the Droid I would often just plug it into my car's USB port to charge, and the car would recognize it as a flash drive and play any music stored on the SD card.

However, the GN does not act as a flash drive, instead it is acting as a "media" device, which the car does not recognize. The car does also function as an iPod dock, so basically I'm wondering whether there is any way to either force the phone to act as a regular flash drive OR to mimic an iPod using some kind of app or something.

The phone is not rooted, but I plan to root it, so if this requires rooting I will be happy to do so.

Any suggestions?

 

[Crashumbc]

Afaik there is no way for the GN to mount as a USB drive, barring a firmware update to your Car that enables MTP...

 

[TheyCallMeBT]

I'd suggest buying a Tunelink. The phone connects to it through bluetooth, and it plugs into the audio aux input in the car's head unit.

 

[Demache]

The option above is your best bet short of just using AUX. I didn't really bug me too much since my car head unit had issues even with normal USB mass storage on my old Android phone anyway.

 

[lollygag]

My car doesn't have Bluetooth, and it seems pretty ridiculous no one has made an app that allows you to select a folder to mount via UMS. I doubt this is the only situation where such an app would be useful.

One thing someone else suggested was enabling USB debugging, so I'm going to try that next.

 

[kylecummins]

I'd suggest buying a Tunelink. The phone connects to it through bluetooth, and it plugs into the audio aux input in the car's head unit.

Tell me moar

Would this work with the pogo car dock? I don't have Bluetooth in my vehicle, the dock runs music, notifications and ringtones through the aux and my jeeps speakers but when I answer a call it gets routed to the phones speaker.

 

[Tim K]

Tell me moar

Would this work with the pogo car dock? I don't have Bluetooth in my vehicle, the dock runs music, notifications and ringtones through the aux and my jeeps speakers but when I answer a call it gets routed to the phones speaker.

Kyle,
I don't think Tunelink is what you want because your phone audio will still come via speakerphone. I think what you want is something like this that will take music and phone via bluetooth to your stereo Aux in:
Belkin Hands Free
Lots of companies make them.
Griffin
Scoshe

The question is, is it worth it to spend another $70 on top of the $70 you already spent on the dock?

 

[kylecummins]

Just realized my jeep only has 1 cigarette lighter thing so I'd have no where to plug in the charger that comes with the dock

Wish dock audio options wasn't greyed out and I could route the in call sound to my cars speakers. Guess I'll be sending back the dock this weekend and going with the mountek CD mount and a car charger/aux cord combo.

 

[idic]

You can get extensions that plug in to get more sockets you know. Either more cigarette size sockets, or a single adaptor that gives you two or 3 usb A sockets to plug normal cables into...

 

[kylecummins]

Yeah, but thats even more costs..

Pay 77$ for a dock, another 70 for an adapter for Bluetooth etc

Just seems easier to go $20 for a mount and 5-7 for a rapid USB charger and get the results I want..