yesterday i succeeded with connecting the sg2 to my car stereo via usb,
using the following instructions
usb debugging mode off
while Idle then I go to usb utilities and press connect to storage pc
then I connect the usb cable
yesterday it worked fine, although i was bummed it did not read the music on the external sd card, just the music that is stored on the 16 Gb built in sd card, what a bummer.
BUT today i could not connect it and my car stereo gave me usb N/A
i tired to connect my experia play and my iphone and both worked and connected immediately via usb to my car stereo withut any hassles,
what is wrong here, and why only do i face that with the S2.
I also noticed 2 days ago that every time i connect my phone to the computer and usb debugging mode is on after i disconnect the drives from the computer and then press disconnect from my phone the phone turns off. I did a hard reset hoping it would solve the problem and also formatted my external sd card to fat 32 but still no solution. I have installed kies on my laptop and it identifies the note successfully. Why does the note keep turning off when I disconnect it from my laptop or computer
I really need to solve this as I depend on listening to music in my car using the usb cable as listening to the music directly from the sg2 via 3.5mm cable is really bad on my stereo compared to using the note as storage card.
I was so put down when I compared the same song being played from xperia play with the sg2 using poweramp with the same settings, as the sound coming from the xperia play was good compared to the sg2 which was awful. In this comparison both phones where connected via 3.5mm cable to the car stereo, so I have no choice now to only listen to music using the note as a storage card by connecting it to the car stereo via usb cable
this is when I miss the iphone when everything works out of the box, and I don't have to struggle like this
Please help me in solving this as its driving me crazy
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I am trying to play music from my phone's SD card to my Clarion CZ300 car unit via USB. I've tried using automount, setting developer mode and USB mass storage mode (Settings > wireless and network > USB utilities > Connect storage to PC). I've also unmounted and mounted the sd card while the USB cable was connected.
Has anyone had success with this phone and a USB car stereo? If so, please let me know how you managed to make it work.
thadeus_d3 said:
I am trying to play music from my phone's SD card to my Clarion CZ300 car unit via USB. I've tried using automount, setting developer mode and USB mass storage mode (Settings > wireless and network > USB utilities > Connect storage to PC). I've also unmounted and mounted the sd card while the USB cable was connected.
Has anyone had success with this phone and a USB car stereo? If so, please let me know how you managed to make it work.
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Why u don't use a cable like this one:
http://www.boppshop.de/images/schulz_gtbm.jpg
Out from phone and into "AUX" from radio.
I'm sure when u have USB, u will have en AUX, too
CHEERS
usb is much more convenient that aux. usb charges the phone and allows you to select the songs through the stereo instead of the phone.
This issue was definitely caused by the head unit. I bought a 2012 Kia Optima and the phone now works via USB. I have it set to debug mode and installed automount.
My car stereo supports USB thumb drives and iPods. My understanding is that this would work with UMS mode on Android (I think). But with ICS, UMS is gone and replaced by MTP and PTP. Is it possible to still connect an ICS android phone to a car stereo via USB?
I've got a Samsung Galaxy S3 and have tried using the "SGS3 Easy UMS" app to connect my phone with no luck. Is this on the right track? Has anyone else gotten this to work?
I've just switched over from an iPhone which worked great in the car for streaming music via USB and would like to do the same with my SGS3, but right now I can't seem to find a solution so I'm leaning towards returning it and going for the iPhone 5.
Anyone have any luck connecting an ICS android device to a car stereo via USB?
TIA!
phlepper
Why don't you buy a 3.5 mm cable and connect it?
s1xkill3r said:
Why don't you buy a 3.5 mm cable and connect it?
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Unfortunately, this model stereo (Bose) does not have a 3.5mm input, it only has the USB input. The manual states that the USB input supports "various USB memory sticks, USB hard drives, and iPod players". I have been using it without issue with my iPhone 4 (both as a "USB drive" and to play streaming music via spotify and other streaming players). With the Android phone, with MTP, it doesn't look like a USB drive and therefore won't actually connect (I get a "check device" message).
Seems strange to me that with ICS, the OS is no longer compatible with any of these USB-enabled car stereos (and there seem to be only a handful of MTP-compatible head units out there). Since it apparently worked pre-ICS (I can't verify if that would work on my specific car stereo since my phone is ICS), it would seem that they could have at least had an option to enable UMS mode.
Still hoping for a solution...
phlepper
phlepper said:
My car stereo supports USB thumb drives and iPods. My understanding is that this would work with UMS mode on Android (I think). But with ICS, UMS is gone and replaced by MTP and PTP. Is it possible to still connect an ICS android phone to a car stereo via USB?
I've got a Samsung Galaxy S3 and have tried using the "SGS3 Easy UMS" app to connect my phone with no luck. Is this on the right track? Has anyone else gotten this to work?
I've just switched over from an iPhone which worked great in the car for streaming music via USB and would like to do the same with my SGS3, but right now I can't seem to find a solution so I'm leaning towards returning it and going for the iPhone 5.
Anyone have any luck connecting an ICS android device to a car stereo via USB?
TIA!
phlepper
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I know how you feal i have a AVH-P3300T and it works GREAT with pandora and iPhone...(even an iPhone 2G) pandora detected the stereo as an accessory right away... but for what ever reason when i plug my HTC Sensation in it jsut reads it it as a disk drive..
there has to be some active driver letting the head unit and the device talk... If there was a way to capture that level of logging going on im sure there some people here that could reverse engineer this... and just make it so that its a service runnign in the back ground...
Either that... or soemoen figure out how to REPROGRAM a head unit from its stock image to an android image lol...
I've been researching this for a few days now and I am disappointed that I can not find any way to get my Note 2 to allow music playback over USB through the car's USB port. I am trying to hook it up to a Mitsubishi MMCS system.
I know that Samsung has removed UMS on their new phones and that's what most car stereos are used for. I downloaded SGS3 Easy UMS and it seems to work fine (except for the phone appearing as read-only cd drive when I plug it into my computer), and I can access every folder on the device in this mode - at least on the computer. When I plug it into the USB in the car, it starts charging, but the USB/ipod mode on the NAV says "No connection". And yes, it works fine if I hook it up to my old iphone.
My phone has been rooted and I even unlocked it and installed this custom rom on the device, but I still am at a no go. Unfortunately, using my phone as a media device for my car stereo on my long trips to work is one of the main functions I use my phone for. Right now I am stuck using bluetooth which has horrible quality and doesn't offer near the same amount of features on the stereo as USB does.
Does anyone have any ideas or am I simply hosed?
Hi. I have a USB port on my car which can be used to play mp3 files of aauSB flash memory through the in car stereo system. The problem is, I needed to quickly transfer some music from my phone (Xperia Z3) to the flash memory, so I used a USB OTG cable to get it of my phone and into the USB storage. Only problem is, immediately after I plugged in the USB memory, the car did not recognise it, saying it is unsupported. I stopped the engine, waited some 10-15 minutes (so I made sure the car shut down it's computer), them tried again and did not succeed. So this leaves me wondering what could have gone wrong. I know I can simply format the memory and refill it again with the data, but I am really interested in what happened: what does actually Android do to such as memory when connected to the handset? I have to mention that the cults on the memory look fine, both on my Windows PC, and on my phone. Also, of useful, I don't know what OS the car uses, but it is a 2013 BMW 3 Series. Thanks for any help.
Hi everyone I recently switched over to Android from iPhone for the first time and have been researching all kinds of stuff like crazy.
My issue is getting my music and playlists to pop up in my cars media system when I plug it in via USB. All my music and playlists are on my SD card because it won't all fit on internal storage. I'm not as knowledgeable as many of you here but after doing some research I think the problem is because I cannot put my phone into mass storage mode and adoptable storage doesn't exist on this phone. When I plug it into my car the only sound files are some weather notification tone and another type of beeping noise or something.
If there's an easy way to manage music on my SD card without having to remove it and plug it into my computer I would love to know that as well. A couple apps I tried could only connect to my internal storage for some reason.
Thanks in advance.
I use "Poweramp" (which I think is the best media player available for android):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer
and "Bluetooth Connect & Play":
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cp2.start.and.play.music.player
Bluetooth Connect & Play allows me to choose what app I want to launch when I connect to the media centre in my car (Power amp). Works perfect.
Stromma
Thanks for the reply but I don't want to connect with Bluetooth. I want a USB connection for the audio quality and so that all my media shows up on my car screen so I can search through playlists and sounds with my car not the phone
Does your head unit read your iphone like a hard drive? I think your head unit need to be android compatible for that to work on the G5 but I'm not sure.
My wife just told me hers does that. I'm not sure why it wont read from your sd card.