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 bought the car mount for my Vibrant but I hate the Samsung Car Home App -- does anyone know of a Google Car Home apk that works on 2.1?
I use the Vlingo car home screen, it's on the widget, tap the little car. It's not that pretty, but it is unparalleled in its usefulness.
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.
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 ?
Just received my car dock thanks to Sikety. I find that immediately docking the Amaze to the Car Dock it will launch HTC Locations.
This is annoying because you can't exit the app and your phone is in dock forever, meaning all calls made would automatically placed to speaker.
Has anyone figured out a way to resolve this without rooting their phone? When I dock it, I don't want it to launch anything.
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I don't have the car dock, but I do have the desk dock. I know that when the phone is on dock mode, you can press the menu button to pull up settings for the dock mode. Maybe you can play with the settings there?
Got my car dock yesterday and I have the same problem as described above. There is no setting for disabling the auto start of htc locations. Within the locations app you have to manually close locations (probably you have to turn GPS on before or you won't come into the locations app)
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Hmm, this is interesting. I've got the car dock as well, but I don't seem to have the HTC locations app on my phone. When I put my phone in the car dock, it puts the phone in "Car Mode", but didn't really do much else. I bought Car Home Ultra from the market, now when I put the phone in the car dock, it puts the phone in Car Mode and Car Home Ultra launches when the phone is in Car Mode. So, it works just like you'd want. I'm completely stock, which is why it's curious you have HTC locations and I don't.
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.