Now I know that the Wing works with the Mini-USB Headphones/HTCs ****ty adapter stuff....
But this is what i am wondering...
Can I use a USB to USB-Mini Cable, and connect it into a CD-Deck with a USB Port in my Car and Play MP3s?
*I only need to play MP3's w/S2P or whatever program, that's all*
Diagram:
Wing => Mini-USB => USB => CD-Deck => Car Speakers
haha, I hope that makes sense...
I currently do not have a USB CD-Deck, and am currently either looking into one with USB, or trying to see if I can modify my current Deck to take a Custom USB port
So i decided to get a RCA -> 3.5mm -> Stupid HTC Adapter
lolz
Hopefully works...
Still curious tho!
Fenopy said:
So i decided to get a RCA -> 3.5mm -> Stupid HTC Adapter
lolz
Hopefully works...
Still curious tho!
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I've done the same thing.
Is the output in stereo when played in your car?
rayrayz98 said:
I've done the same thing.
Is the output in stereo when played in your car?
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Yes it is. Sounds awesome actually, finally got it hooked up today.
Wish I had a nicer Media Player (Tried using S2P, had issues w/sound freezing when the screen was turned off) now I am using TCMP, it just works so well!
But yeah, as long as a TURN OFF WOWHD Settings and let my Deck handle the sound, it sounds awesome.
Fenopy said:
Now I know that the Wing works with the Mini-USB Headphones/HTCs ****ty adapter stuff....
But this is what i am wondering...
Can I use a USB to USB-Mini Cable, and connect it into a CD-Deck with a USB Port in my Car and Play MP3s?
*I only need to play MP3's w/S2P or whatever program, that's all*
Diagram:
Wing => Mini-USB => USB => CD-Deck => Car Speakers
haha, I hope that makes sense...
I currently do not have a USB CD-Deck, and am currently either looking into one with USB, or trying to see if I can modify my current Deck to take a Custom USB port
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let me try, brb
doesnt work on with audiovox me 412
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Anyone have a solution for this? I'd like to be able to play MP3's through my car stereo (via FM transmitter), as well as have it plugged into my car lighter to keep it charged.
I figure I can buy the audio adapter and plug it into a generic FM transmitter. I could also buy a boxwave Versacharger to charge it. But I can't do both at the same time b/c they both use the mini USB.
In any event, this proprietary crap sucks.
The only option I'm aware of:
http://www.mobileplanet.com/p.aspx?i=140425
yes, this is the UNIC option.. because:
a) HTC Proprietary connector: it's VERY DIFFICULT to find this type of mini-usb connector
b) Stereo headphones provided with hermes DOESN't have cables to charge the pda
Expensive option... get a bluetooth headset with 3.5mm input to connect to your FM transmitter ... and say bye bye to wired music.. almost..
sickchilly said:
The only option I'm aware of:
http://www.mobileplanet.com/p.aspx?i=140425
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Excellent! Exactly what I was looking for....
new2city said:
Expensive option... get a bluetooth headset with 3.5mm input to connect to your FM transmitter ... and say bye bye to wired music.. almost..
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Heheh... I actually thought of that. I think I'll go with the cheaper option
Here's how I did it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1078942&postcount=26
Has anyone managed to not only get the sound going through their speakers, but have their stereo mute on incoming call?
I'm not sure this is possible. I imagine your average phone has a pin it sets closed or high or something. The hermes doesn't seem to..
URPREY: Does the adaptor give you one standard mini usb for charging then split the 'special' audio pins to the other standard mini usb? Did you then just adapt a mini usb cable to hook into the line level inputs of your stereo?
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URPREY: Does the adaptor give you one standard mini usb for charging then split the 'special' audio pins to the other standard mini usb? Did you then just adapt a mini usb cable to hook into the line level inputs of your stereo?
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It gives me one mini USB for charging, and a port exactly like that on the hermes for the audio/headset portion. I used a usb to 3.5mm adapter from mobileplanet.com to give me the 3.5mm audio out.
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It gives me one mini USB for charging, and a port exactly like that on the hermes for the audio/headset portion. I used a usb to 3.5mm adapter from mobileplanet.com to give me the 3.5mm audio out.
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Yep, sorry, didn't see the extra adapter. That's a shame. It makes the very expensive first plug poor value for money.
If they come out with an adapter that turns it into mini USB and 3.5mm I'll go for it.. otherwise..
2 other q's:
1) With the first adapter, can you then use ANY usb car charger (ie does it bridge the NC pin to ground?) or do you then need your car charger to do that
2) What triggers 'headphone' detection? Is it the first adapter, the stereo adapter or is it actually plugging speakers into the stereo adapter?
This information would be extremely helpful, thank you!
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1) With the first adapter, can you then use ANY usb car charger (ie does it bridge the NC pin to ground?) or do you then need your car charger to do that
2) What triggers 'headphone' detection? Is it the first adapter, the stereo adapter or is it actually plugging speakers into the stereo adapter?
This information would be extremely helpful, thank you!
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I can use any car charger, but the other ones I have don't provide enough power to consistently cause the 8525 to recognize the charger (and thus they don't always charge).
I don't know the answer to your second question. I'd be happy to check it out for you tomorrow when it's light outside again
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I can use any car charger, but the other ones I have don't provide enough power to consistently cause the 8525 to recognize the charger (and thus they don't always charge).
I don't know the answer to your second question. I'd be happy to check it out for you tomorrow when it's light outside again
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Cheers for that. By not consistently recognize you mean it detects it the first time you plug it in then not anymore? If so that sounds like what I've found too.. it's due to the 'spare' pin 4 (or 2 or B depending what diagram you're looking at) not being grounded. The fact it detects it once per reset seems to be a bug.
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Cheers for that. By not consistently recognize you mean it detects it the first time you plug it in then not anymore?
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Correct. The car charger that came with my device holder works perfectly and consistently charges my phone every time I plug it in, so I've always use that one.
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I don't know the answer to your second question. I'd be happy to check it out for you tomorrow when it's light outside again
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Had a chance to look at this?
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Had a chance to look at this?
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Sorry - yes. With just the audio adapter hooked up, the sound continues to come out of the rear speaker. When I plug in the headphones, the sound switches to the headphones. Hope that helps.
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Sorry - yes. With just the audio adapter hooked up, the sound continues to come out of the rear speaker. When I plug in the headphones, the sound switches to the headphones. Hope that helps.
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Yep thanks. From this I can work out from the pin outs that have been worked out that the tytn detects headphones (and thus shuts off the back speaker) by testing impedance/capacitance or something on the speaker out cables.
Since there are no official cradles for the tytn I'm looking at knocking up a solution like yours, charge in the car and gps nav through the stereo (was hoping for auto stereo mute on call but that's a pipe dream) and doing it without the 2 expensive adapters and car charger my jasjam didn't have.
I've gathered a bit of info about the usb connection from various sites and forum topics. Maybe I should create a/add to the hermes usb port page in the wiki, if anyone but me is interested..
I hope the tytn Y cable is NEEDED, because there isn't a male "minu usb" jack like the one on the hermes in commerce. Cutting original headphones has no results because you can't charge it.
I have thought to buy tytn y cable, open it, and if there is some space inside, to add a 2.5mm - 3.5mm (depends on the free space) jack
So the Y adapter has 3 outputs: to charge, headset & jack.
If no space is avaiable, i cut my headphones and plug it from y cable to my stereo (also with mic included).
Another thing, to detect ORIGINAL CHARGER must be connected B & A pins, as described in THIS url comments
I agree with wiki page
SkizZO said:
Another thing, to detect ORIGINAL CHARGER must be connected B & A pins, as described in THIS url comments
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Ah yeah, I'm Iceman, I wrote that
Based mainly on comments in this thread, some other posts and some jiggery pokery with a multimeter and checking pinouts.
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Has anyone managed to not only get the sound going through their speakers, but have their stereo mute on incoming call?
Parrot makes a BT car kit that connects into all factory stereos to use the speakers to play the phone or mp3 through the car stereo speakers. Obviously the mic is a separate item, but incoming calls (or listing to mp3s from your BT phone) do mute the car stereo during the call.
several kits work, but I have Parrot CK3000 Evolution Bluetooth, Hands-Free Car Kit which came with specific harnesses for my car make and model. The other one is a bit flashier here:
http://www.abtelectronics.com/scripts/site/site_product.php3?source=froogle&id=24115
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Since there are no official cradles for the tytn I'm looking at knocking up a solution like yours, charge in the car and gps nav through the stereo (was hoping for auto stereo mute on call but that's a pipe dream) and doing it without the 2 expensive adapters and car charger my jasjam didn't have.
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Auto stereo mute works fine if you use WMP or even with TCPMP if you uncheck the "play music in background" option
Ok so I have a Pioneer AVH-P4100 Car Stereo. It has a USB plug that controls ipods or thumb drives. It has worked on every usb device I've pluged it to it so far. However, not with the Vibrant. When I plug it in it just keeps saying "reading". I think it may have to do with the fact there are two memorys in this phone and this radio can only see one at a time. Can anyone help?
what if you go to
menu-Settings-wireless and network-usb settings
and changed it to ask on connection.
plug in it choose one, see if it reads, if not unplug, plug it in again choose a different one and see if it reads.....should be one that works. im guessing the media player setting.....but i dont know, just a guess.
NOTE it will turn off USB Debugging.
I've tried every setting none of them work. I really think it has to do with the fact the radio is getting confused cause it see two drives
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I've tried every setting none of them work. I really think it has to do with the fact the radio is getting confused cause it see two drives
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you could always try removing the sd card kinda a pita but....
d_bot said:
you could always try removing the sd card
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I will give that a try. That is gonna suck that I'll have to keep all my music on my internal. Tnx
reksp13 said:
I will give that a try. That is gonna suck that I'll have to keep all my music on my internal. Tnx
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agreed....
I think the stereo gets confused because of the internal and sd memory trying to mount at the same time. These stereo's are not made to handle this. Mine does the same thing. I think the only way around this would be to find a way to tell the phone to only to mount one or the other.
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I think the stereo gets confused because of the internal and sd memory trying to mount at the same time. These stereo's are not made to handle this. Mine does the same thing. I think the only way around this would be to find a way to tell the phone to only to mount one or the other.
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Thats what I think. I will be loading a song on my internal tonite and remove the External and try.
Are you set on hooking it up with USB? I'm sure you've thought of this but you could always try a straight up auxiliary cable if your stereo would allow, worst case you could get an FM adapter for your car and plug it into the headphone jack
Dnov said:
Are you set on hooking it up with USB? I'm sure you've thought of this but you could always try a straight up auxiliary cable if your stereo would allow, worst case you could get an FM adapter for your car and plug it into the headphone jack
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Sound is very important! I have a very high-end system with USB I wont lose quality. And FM adapter is lame the sound would really poor! But thanks.
Do you have an aux input? I just plug that in and use the phone for controls. Pretty awesome for movies, slacker, etc.
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Do you have an aux input? I just plug that in and use the phone for controls. Pretty awesome for movies, slacker, etc.
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I agree, if your system has an rca jack, just get a 3.5mm to rca cable, then not only can you listen to your music on the phone, but you could stream pandora/slacker.....only down side would be you loose the ability to control your phone through the head unit.
I use a car mount and connect via auxillary input. The sound is great and then when I'm on phone calls, the music pauses automatically and the car speakers act as the speakerphone. It's pretty much awesome. The added bonus is being able to stream Last.fm or podcasts all over town or even play a movie for the other folks in the car.
The headphone jack works great for me, all I do is connect then sit the phone upright in my cup-holders. Bam. Lovin it. Pretty much have no need for CDs anymore
Thanks everyone for your opinion. I just wanted to be able to use the usb because its nice to control it from the radio
Hi rekspe13, I'm with you. I have the exact same problem. I have a usb port which when I plug my Vibrant into, tries to read the phone as a usb drive but fails. However, it does recognize that there are two drives, "USB 1" and "USB 2" as it tries to read. I sure hope there is a nice easy solution for this problem. My stereo also has an sd port but it's time to stop doing the double duty of uploading audio separately on both phone and external sd card.
Isn't there a solution to connect our Vibrants to devices that support ONLY ONE USB drive at a time?
My car stereo doesn't show the files even when I select Mass Storage Mode.
try connecting via blutooth...
Bluetooth? I don't think it is the best solution. Shouldn't we be able to use our Vibrant as a Mass Storage Device? Maybe mounting only the external sd card.
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Sound is very important! I have a very high-end system with USB I wont lose quality. And FM adapter is lame the sound would really poor! But thanks.
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As far as I know Vibrant has a really good sound codec, Wolfson's, and when it detects low resistance at the 3.5mm jack, it sends out very flat line-out output. I think this sort of things have been discussed in one of Voodoo Sound threads in i9000 forum. Anyway as long as you adjust your car stereo's equalizer properly you should get pretty good sound quality.
Voodoo Sound by supercurio that's being implemented to Vibrant's custom Kernels now should improve sound quality by oversampling, amplifying and removing hissing from Vibrant's sound output. Read this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=806195. Very helpful.
Hey. I was wondering how the TV out works on the Vibrant. My last phone was a ipohne 3g and I used a programs called TV out to connect it to my car audio system. With that setup I was able to watch Slingplayer through the car audio display. When I check the TV out box on the Vibrant, I don't get video (just audio). I was told that video can be achieved through the 3.5mm headphone jack. I don't see how this is possible and I don't believe the mini usb is capable of audio/video. Can someone confirm this? Is there a way to utilize the slingplayer the same way as I did with the iphone?
Thanks in advance,
ScottZ0
You have to switch red with yellow or some sh¡t like that
V5 custom vibrant
ScottZ0 said:
Hey. I was wondering how the TV out works on the Vibrant. My last phone was a ipohne 3g and I used a programs called TV out to connect it to my car audio system. With that setup I was able to watch Slingplayer through the car audio display. When I check the TV out box on the Vibrant, I don't get video (just audio). I was told that video can be achieved through the 3.5mm headphone jack. I don't see how this is possible and I don't believe the mini usb is capable of audio/video. Can someone confirm this? Is there a way to utilize the slingplayer the same way as I did with the iphone?
Thanks in advance,
ScottZ0
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I recently received my 3.5mm to rca plug from amazon for about $3 shipping included. Do you have the specific plug? I'm assuming you do since you said you used to do it with your iphone. Connect only 2 of the 3 rca plugs to the tv. Connect the white male plug for audio to the white female port and then connect the red male plug to the yellow female port for video (YES, YOU HEARD RIGHT. FOR SOME REASON THE RED MALE PLUG WORKS AS VIDEO INSTEAD OF AUDIO). Make sure your tv's input is set to VIDEO 1 or VIDEO 2 etc. Then make sure to check the tv out check box.
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The Vibrant's pretty picky about the cables. The correct cable is a standard Red/White/Yellow composite cable, but the wiring is non-standard, so you may have to switch the red and yellow connectors. Also, make sure the plug is plugged ALL THE WAY into the 3.5mm jack on the phone - it's easy to leave out one click. Even still, I've run into a couple cables that would not work no matter what I did (I think this is a grounding issue.)
I recommend the $3 cable from amazon. Took about 3 days for me to receive the cable. The cable was located in New Jersey and I live in Maryland.
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Motorola oem cable on ebay for about 5 bucks works correctly, yellow for video and red/white for audio.
ScottZ0 said:
Hey. I was wondering how the TV out works on the Vibrant. My last phone was a ipohne 3g and I used a programs called TV out to connect it to my car audio system. With that setup I was able to watch Slingplayer through the car audio display. When I check the TV out box on the Vibrant, I don't get video (just audio). I was told that video can be achieved through the 3.5mm headphone jack. I don't see how this is possible and I don't believe the mini usb is capable of audio/video. Can someone confirm this? Is there a way to utilize the slingplayer the same way as I did with the iphone?
Thanks in advance,
ScottZ0
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Hey Scott,
Hope all is well with you - I too have a Vibrant - did you get the cabling figured out? What worked. Look forward to your reply. Thanks in advance - cheers
I had an ipod connected to my stereo through a cord that is run into the back of my glove box. The end is a USB connection so i figured my phone should work fine. When i plug it in it recognizes it and starts to charge my phone but on my deck it says no audio and i cant play any of my music. If anybody has some suggestions im all ears, Thanks!
The Motorola Vehicle Dock comes with a USB charging cable that has an inline 3.5mm jack out. You may need this or something similar to get audio out to your car speakers via USB.
Note: If you buy the Moto dock, do not buy it from AT&T. They remove the charger and package it separately forcing you to spend more money. Buy the Motorola packaged version instead.
Also, try changing the storage modes when connected. I believe Mass Storage is the correct setting, but could be wrong.
i dont think it will work. see those types or systems are formatted to work with ipod or a direct usb dongle.
i have the some type of thing in my svu but i have both usb and aux i just use the aux.
I connected Atrix to my Pioneer deck and it automatically recognized it as usb storage and played my songs as expected. With the car dock and cable it won't play music over usb, just through the 3.5mm jack.
Did you enable usb storage mode?
sal2708 said:
i have the some type of thing in my svu but i have both usb and aux i just use the aux.
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That's how I do it when travelling and renting cars. Works fine with 3.5mm jack if the head unit in the vehicle has an aux input.
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Did you enable usb storage mode?
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I believe I already asked this!
I have the same problem with my pioneer deck. Instead of connecting USB for music ill just use Bluetooth from my phone to my deck and play music.
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I'm having the same issue with my Atrix + a Pionner sound system on my car. The phone keeps on disconnecting and reconecting. No, I don't use the iPod/phone dock, but just the USB connection. The Atrix won't even charge because it's always enabling/disabling the USB.
Hello everyone. I am and android guy but I have and older ipod I use for my car that I would like to replace with an android player. I currently have a digital aux out to usb to charge and aux cable. With this cable the sound coming out is great. I have not been able to find any other players other then the ipod/iphone that sound this good.
Now i have a photon that when using the car dock has audio out but its not full raw out and dose not sound good at call like the ipod out set up I have.
I was wondering if there is a way I can hook the the SGP in my car like how I have my current ipod. If not would there be a way to make a cable. I see that someone was able to make a cable for the att samsung phone.
Any imput that you all can give would be great.
Thanks in advance.