How does the Streak detect it is in the car dock? Is there a voltage supplied to a specific pin?
I won't have the official car dock, but might want to convert a cable to behave like the car dock, so that I can use that in the car to get in-car behaviour.
Similarly, what is used to detect the desk-dock?
Will the slacker G2 dock be detected as such?
If you use bluetooth in the car the Google car dock app can be set to auto-start when a specific bluetooth device is connected.
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I know this is a new phone, but I want to be able to launch the car app without buying the Motorola Dock from Sprint. I already have a car mount that works and a charger. Is there a way to launch the car app? Any ideas?
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I believe I read that there are two magnets in the car dock that facilitate making the app open up once you plug the Photon into the dock. I can't seem to find that post but mentions this, but you could probably simulate the Car dock app by using another program such as Custom Car Home and add the links to apps represented in the car dock app such as contacts, navigation, google search etc etc
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I ordered a proclip mounting bracket for my car but they havent released the actual dock for the razr as of yet. So my idea is to use the proclip bracket and mount the verizon navigation dock to the bracket. My question is, can you remove the suction cup arm from the mount? What does the back of the mount look like?
Also, is it possible to launch the cardock app without actually having the dock?
Can you disable having the cardock launch automatically in the dock?
You can remove the dock from the suction cup it just snaps in to a ball and joint socket thingy. there is no car home app in the app drawer but im sure theres a way around launching it without the dock and i havent seen an option to disable the autolaunch of the car dock.
Cool thanks. I did find an app in the market to launch the bedside dock mode but no car dock mode.
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what app is that?
It's called "Razr Dock".
1. I didn't find yet a way to launch the CarDock app without actaully docking
2. I found that you can disable having the cardock launch automatically in the dock by diabling the SmartCarDockEventReceiver that is receiving the android.intent.action.DOCK_EVENT event with the "Autorun manager" app.
I have another question related to the cardock:
I have Plantronics K100 speakerphone in my car and it is used for the phone conversations via Droid RAZR's bluetooth.
At the same time the Droid RAZR's 3.3mm audio jack may be connected to the car stereo system and that's where the RAZR will play music.
That is the fine and correct way
However when in a card dock and connected through USB charger cable with special audio jack on it, the Droid starts to play both phone calls and music on the same output line.
If the bluetooth and speakerphone is turned on then both calls and music are played on speakerphone. If you turn this connection off it starts to play music on cars stereo, but also the phone calls are route there too.
Is there any way to fix it somehow ?
When I first Installed my rezound car dock, I also installed an Aux Audio 3.5mm jack.
Later I upgraded to a bluetooth receiver, and stopped using the dock because It couldn't provide enough power to the phone due to bad design.
iBolt replaced the dock for me free of charge, and I started using it again sparingly when I need a charge, but there has always been a nagging issue I'm not sure how to fix.
When Car Mode is enabled, as in it says car mode enabled in the notifications, it pulls the bluetooth media (pandora HTCmusic or gmusic) to the external speaker.
The second I take it off the car dock, or click disable car mode in the notifications, pandora/gmusic/htcmusic goes right back to the bluetooth receiver.
Running Newt's ICS atm, but I've had the same Issue with Venasaur 3.0 to 3.2
I don't use the stock HTC car app, I have Carhome V3 set as my default car app.
So Far I've tried
1) going into the car app settings, and choosing my bluetooth headset as both the default phone and media device. Didn't work.
2) Disabling the stock car app in the app manager. Didn't work, the Notifications said car mode enabled, asked which app to use, and then pandora played over the external speaker.
I had already upgraded to ICS before I got the bluetooth unit, so I'm not sure if this happens in GB or not. Anyone able to test this?
This isn't a BIG issue for me, as I have two other power outlets to charge my phone from in my car. Just sorta an annoyance.
Hopefully I can let you know in a few days here. I have the iBolt dock too. Ssame story, got the replacement one from their support because of the charging issue. Anyway, I've been using a crappy old tape adapter in my car, just ordered a bluetooth adapter and should have it soon.
I wondering if it's a Sense thing. Back when I was on stock GB I couldn't figure why BT kept quitting on me in the car. I kept closing out of the HTC car dock because it was stupid. Well, it turned out that closing the dock app automatically shut off BT. I froze the HTC car home app (Car Panel?) in TB and didn't have any more problems. These are the kind of things that make we wish for AOSP/AOKP! I'm using con's rom now, though.
for me its not so much the Car home app, but being in car mode (Icon in the notifcations) that kills ONLY Bluetooth media.
BT works fine for me. iBolt dock, rooted/stock (GB), Carhome Ultra as the launcher. I use BT all the time in the car, for streaming audio (Subsonic/Pandora/etc.) through a Moto T605.
I have the infuse 4G car dock and it works perfect. you plug the auxiliary cord into the dock and the charger too then you connect the dock. is there any way to not make s voice pop up when you connect the dock. also is the a way to make s voice play through the phones speakers, but onlys voice with that setting, so I could say "play music" and it would play back from the car.
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I had a Droid X and loved the car dock app that came with it. Now I have the RAZR Maxx and just hacked my old physical car dock to fit the new phone. Unfortunately the car dock app doesn't load, the phone just charges. I'm even using the same wiring that was inside the dock but it just acts like i plugged it in to the normal car charger. Does anyone know a way to open the car dock app manually?
Search in Google Play Store free app called Razr Dock or you can type there com.redsulfur.razrdock
I saw RAZR Dock before but it looks like it just loads Desk mode, or is there no difference? I've actually started using Car Home Ultra and really like it but car mode would still offer some additional features.
You can try install Android System Info app (com.electricsheep.asi) - there you have Apps tab where you can try to search oryginal car dock app and lunch it.
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I had a Droid X and loved the car dock app that came with it. Now I have the RAZR Maxx and just hacked my old physical car dock to fit the new phone. Unfortunately the car dock app doesn't load, the phone just charges. I'm even using the same wiring that was inside the dock but it just acts like i plugged it in to the normal car charger. Does anyone know a way to open the car dock app manually?
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Have you tried using SmartActions to automatically open the car dock mode when you plug it in? SmartActions, I know, can be set to open certain applications or phone modes when you do certain things to it or it detects that it is any sort of docking mode.
This works -- there's even a default SmartActions widget called "Drive" that you can use to configure how you want to trigger Vehicle mode as well (tap on the left of the widget to launch car mode, tap on the right to configure car mode).
With that being said, though, I think the SmartAction triggers are a little limited, so I do the same with Tasker -- when my phone is charging + landscape mode, it launches the desk clock; charging + landscape mode + Bluetooth connected launches the vehicle mode.