Does anyone know of a car dock for the Venue? Google maps and navigation is just too useful to not use this phone as a gps.
If not, has anyone found a universal car dock that works well?
npspears said:
Does anyone know of a car dock for the Venue? Google maps and navigation is just too useful to not use this phone as a gps.
If not, has anyone found a universal car dock that works well?
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The dock you mentioned including power cord or not?
If you need the dock just to hold the phone, universal one's enough.
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Hello,
I'm using my Hero as car navigator in car holder,
but it's not comfortable without external manipulator,
for example, for zoom in/out, switch between apps etc,
I've tried this:
http://forum.legendroid.com/android...)-use-your-bluetooth-mouse-as-your-trackball/
it works with my bt mouse,
but for the car - mouse is not usefull,
do you know some bt trackball or joystick for car mount?
I know there are too many car joysticks on the market,
but they are for carpc, not for bt devices.
amigo421 said:
Hello,
I'm using my Hero as car navigator in car holder,
but it's not comfortable without external manipulator,
for example, for zoom in/out, switch between apps etc,
I've tried this:
http://forum.legendroid.com/android...)-use-your-bluetooth-mouse-as-your-trackball/
it works with my bt mouse,
but for the car - mouse is not usefull,
do you know some bt trackball or joystick for car mount?
I know there are too many car joysticks on the market,
but they are for carpc, not for bt devices.
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Hhmm... Great idea but I think you would need to find a Bluetooth joystick first like you said, and the way you got the mouse working may need some tweaking
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?
Thanks
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
TS out
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 ?
is there anyway to install the GB car dock app on cm9 ?
ive tried to extract the app from a motoblur 2.3.6 nandroid but it doesnt seem to work .
any tips ?
d_brimer said:
is there anyway to install the GB car dock app on cm9 ?
ive tried to extract the app from a motoblur 2.3.6 nandroid but it doesnt seem to work .
any tips ?
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I know this isn't quite what you want, but my tip is to use a better car dock app. Car Home Ultra is what I use, and it's fantastic. You can snag it from the Market (aka Play Store).
thats what im using now but it doesnt have the functionality that the moto car dock app has.
i have the motorola car dock (not the app) connected to my car stereo and the other apps wont transmit the sound via the usb port
d_brimer said:
thats what im using now but it doesnt have the functionality that the moto car dock app has.
i have the motorola car dock (not the app) connected to my car stereo and the other apps wont transmit the sound via the usb port
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Have you tried looking in settings? CM9:
Settings->System->Dock-> Use Dock USB Audio
That should work I THINK, but there might be a problem with the DAC for the atrix since it's not fully supported by CM9... I think it does though. I'll check on my laptop dock and let you know what results I have.
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.