Does anyone know if there is an official Moto car mode app for this phone?
What do you mean car mode? If you look in the moto app there is driving mode which will do things automatically when you start driving.
I was wondering if they had something that changed the home screen to only show driving focused features like navigation. Something similar to what they did with the OG Droid, and I think last years Moto X.
Driving mode is it. It'll do a lot for you, but doesn't change the homescreen.
You want a dashboard app, then. Those don't come pre-installed here.
gotzaDroid said:
Driving mode is it. It'll do a lot for you, but doesn't change the homescreen.
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chrisrozon said:
You want a dashboard app, then. Those don't come pre-installed here.
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Thank you guys! I guess I'll look for a dashboard app. Any suggestions on a good one?
This one looks the most polished. Many of them look years old.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codesector.indrive
Thanks!
I use the original Google car home app. It does everything I need it to do. You have to create an icon with Nova to open the app first. But, I have it setup to turn on when my phone connects to my cars bluetooth. This option is in the car home settings.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51436533/com.google.android.carhome-1.apk
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Hi,
I have a question about the dock.
When I plug the phone into it, the Samsung Home app gets launched. If I uninstall it, tuneIn gets launched.
Is there a way to set up the phone so no application is launched and it just goes to the Home screen?
I have tried clearing the defaults for tuneIn but it has none.
Thanks.
Try going to Manage Applications, Tunein, and clear data. Then dock, and it should ask what you want to launch. I don't see any way to NOT select something if you've got TuneIn loaded, though (I just tried it). I'd contact their support if clear data doesn't help.
FYI my alarm clock app does the same thing (Kaloer Clock) - their option to disable it doesn't seem to work on the i777, but I just hit home when it launches and deal with it 'cause I like it to much
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Try going to Manage Applications, Tunein, and clear data. Then dock, and it should ask what you want to launch. I don't see any way to NOT select something if you've got TuneIn loaded, though (I just tried it). I'd contact their support if clear data doesn't help.
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I'll give it a shot tonight and see if it helps. The weird thing is that Clear defaults is disabled for TuneIn.
Thanks.
I had the same problem with TuneIn as OP. I think it is a bug in TuneIn.
A solution that worked for me was to install Dock No-Op. You can find it here.
Well, clearing data for TuneIn did not work but the No-Op did.
Funny to see a bunch of apps in the market like that one that do nothing
Now the strange problem I'm having is that ADW is going to a page to the right from my default when I drop it in the dock. Oh, well, that I can live with.
Thanks for the help guys.
I'm on CM7 and nothing launches. And it won't charge through the dock. Any idea why?
I'm not really sue. I am waiting for CM9 for my phone.
I use CM7 on my tablet and it charges fine with it's dock.
I hate to suggest this but can you try with a different ROM or phone to check if the dock is not the problem.
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I'm not really sue. I am waiting for CM9 for my phone.
I use CM7 on my tablet and it charges fine with it's dock.
I hate to suggest this but can you try with a different ROM or phone to check if the dock is not the problem.
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Alrighty, thanks for responding
Does anyone know how to trigger car mode without a dock? I just ordered a car dock and wanted to play around with car mode prior to receiving the dock. I'm running Scott's CleanRom Dev 1.4. I'm not sure that car mode is included in that ROM. On my Droid X2, I could run a battery across the back of the phone and it would trigger dock mode.
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Does anyone know how to trigger car mode without a dock? I just ordered a car dock and wanted to play around with car mode prior to receiving the dock. I'm running Scott's CleanRom Dev 1.4. I'm not sure that car mode is included in that ROM. On my Droid X2, I could run a battery across the back of the phone and it would trigger dock mode.
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if it doesnt show up in your app drawer the rom doesnt have it
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Does anyone know how to trigger car mode without a dock? I just ordered a car dock and wanted to play around with car mode prior to receiving the dock. I'm running Scott's CleanRom Dev 1.4. I'm not sure that car mode is included in that ROM. On my Droid X2, I could run a battery across the back of the phone and it would trigger dock mode.
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i will trigger car mode app. it is not good as X2 .
sense 4 rom car dock app is much batter.
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if it doesnt show up in your app drawer the rom doesnt have it
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That makes sense. If I were to install one from the market, would the dock trigger it? I guess a better question would be: What exactly triggers car mode?
I am using CleanRom 4.3 and I know it is on that. The shortcut to it does not appear in the app drawer even though it is installed. If you go to settings and then apps, click on the "All" tab and scrol down. If you find "Car Panel", then you have a stock HTC car dock app. I miss my car dock from my Droid X. The one from the Rezound pales in comparison. I know that the Droid X used a tiny magnet in their dock to launch car mode. And also another magnet in their homedock switched in the opposite way to launch that. I am guessing that the Rezound uses a similar method. The solution I found was to download an app from another site called carhomelauncher.zip and then when extracted, you will have the carhomelauncher.apk. Just put that on your ext-sd card and install it. That will allow you to launch the stock car dock whenever you want. Also after finding this, I stumbled on the carhomegoogle.zip. When extracted, this gives you the carhomegoogle.apk which IMHO, is much better car dock than the stock one and very easy to customize and more screens than the Droid X had. It reminds me of my old Droid X one. My biggest issue with most car dock programs has always been in landscape mode and finding a decent dialer that works in landscape. The google one uses the stock dialer but allows it somehow to go into landscape mode.
Give these a try and see if they work for you. IIRC, after I installed it on mine, I had to remove the "music" button which wouldn't work and added shortcut to the stock music player. I also had to remove the "Maps" button and added the shortcut to google maps because I like it better. You may have to do the same. I included both zip files but because I am new, I don't know if I am alowed to add attachments.
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That makes sense. If I were to install one from the market, would the dock trigger it? I guess a better question would be: What exactly triggers car mode?
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Yes, the dock should trigger it as well. What should happen if you install a car dock from the market, when you place it in the dock, a box will pop up asking you which one you want to use. It will also have a "default" box that you can select and from then on, whichever one you chose will automatically launch. Otherwise, don't select the default and the box will always pop up and you can always choose.
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The one thing that I really liked about the Droid X car dock app was when you selected "Maps" in the program, It would show you not only your location on the maps but your driving speed as well. The rezound doesn't do that and neither does the Google one. But other than that, I am much happier with the Google app than the Rezound one.
I downloaded both files and extracted them, but I don't see an APK in either one. I'll try again when I'm near a computer.
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You know, I can be pretty stupid sometimes...... You are right, when extracted they are not apk files. Don't extract them. Just change the extension from .zip to.apk and then put them on the SD card. Then they will install. Sorry about the bad info.....
Better yet, I just uploaded them here as .apks
I would like to completely get rid of car dock mode, I renamed the apk but the stupid notification icon still comes up when I dock my phone. Anyone know how to get rid of that? My phone works fine as is I don't need a special "short bus" mode for when I am driving.
I would suggest trying to disable it. If you go into settings/apps and click on the "All" tab. Look for "Car Panel" and click on it. There should be a disable button. Click on that and it shouldn't come up anymore. I just tested it with the launcher app. After disabling it, my only choices were another car dock app I had previously installed from the market and the Google car app. When it is enabled, all three choices come up. So if the only one you have is the stock "Car Panel" app, just disable it and you should be good to go. I think the little car mode icon will still show in the notification bar but that should be all.
However, I must add that once you disable it, I do not know how you would reenable it later if you wanted to use it again. Maybe someone else can help with that.
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Does anyone know how to trigger car mode without a dock? I just ordered a car dock and wanted to play around with car mode prior to receiving the dock. I'm running Scott's CleanRom Dev 1.4. I'm not sure that car mode is included in that ROM. On my Droid X2, I could run a battery across the back of the phone and it would trigger dock mode.
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To access hidden apps like car panel or mirror just go to your home screen hit search and start typing it in.It should pop right up even if its not in your app drawer
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Thanks everyone. I finally got it working. The ROM i'm running is senseless and didn't include the carhome APK. Had to move it to system/app and set the permissions. I still can't figure out what triggers it. I understand the app can be launched by searching it, but the dock has to trigger it somehow. I've had no luck with a magnet. I've read on some other devices that the plug on the dock actually triggers car mode.
whenever I mount the phone to my car dock, S Voice comes on first! When it wasn't working on my Skyrocket, I just froze it and said screw this thing, but now that it works just fine on the SIII, every time I mount it to the car dock, I have to close out of it first before I can get Music up and running.... is there a work around for this to prevent it from coming on when mounted to the car dock I haven't thought of yet?
I quit using Tasker, it got to be too damn much on the phone, so I just use A2DP Volume to automate the connection - when I connect my car dock, it loads Music and adjusts BT volume for me, but it won't close an app on connection.... How can you prevent S Voice from coming up in the first place?
EDIT - I found these steps for turning off Voice Talk, the older version of Google's Voice Commands, and I'm going to give this a try. The motion part isn't applicable though, I think....
Try turning off DOUBLE TAP under Voice Talk settings.
Click on and bring up Voice Talk, then hit the bottom left button and click SETTINGS.
On the SETTINGS page, scroll down to the VOICE TALK section and click VOICE TALK SETTINGS.
On the next page, click on MOTION.
Next page, under MOTION ACTIVATION SERVICES, uncheck DOUBLE TAP.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...140779-infuse-car-dock-users.html#post1486669
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WORKAROUNDS - We now have two workarounds to solve this problem.... Here they are:
If you like S Voice and just want to prevent it from starting up when car docked, use the Dock Nothingness app and select it by default the next time you car dock
If you don't like S Voice and want to block it completely, just freeze it with Titanium Backup and it won't run at all (PRO key must be installed for you to freeze and defrost apps)
Did you get anywhere with this problem - I'm in the same boat. What I'd really like is the old default car home to launch, but not getting s-voice (useless in my little convertible!) would be a great start!
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Did you get anywhere with this problem - I'm in the same boat. What I'd really like is the old default car home to launch, but not getting s-voice (useless in my little convertible!) would be a great start!
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Nope, but I think your issue would be easier to overcome since you can just download Car Home Ultra or something similar, I don't want any car home to launch at all, just the A2DP Volume app which will launch Google Music for me....
I have everything set like they said on the S Voice settings page, so it doesn't activate with a double tap home input, but it still comes up! Now that I have Tasker running as well, it asks if I want to use S Voice or Tasker, or either of them by default, and I don't want any of them, really! If I say Tasker, I believe it will do nothing, but that might interfere with A2DP Volume, and then I have to set Tasker to run A2DP Volume when it is car docked..... that's straight up going around in circles now!!!
I have the same problem... please fix! I do not like S Voice...
baublitz said:
I have the same problem... please fix! I do not like S Voice...
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Nothing I can do about it, I'm definitely not a dev....
I selected Tasker by default when car docked and it seems to work just fine right now, I don't have any task set when the car is docked, but at least it recognizes Tasker will take priority when car docked instead of S Voice! That's the best work around I know of so far....
Sorry if I'm mentioning the obvious, but if you go into s voice in the applications manager is anything set in its 'launch by default' section? I don't have anything in there now, but that may be because I set my car-launcher as default on docking. I don't know if 'on dock' was in there before.
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Sorry if I'm mentioning the obvious, but if you go into s voice in the applications manager is anything set in its 'launch by default' section? I don't have anything in there now, but that may be because I set my car-launcher as default on docking. I don't know if 'on dock' was in there before.
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That's a good thought, but no, there are no defaults set on my phone either under that setting - it was worth a look though! I'm sure it's got to be something as easy as that though....
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I have the same problem... please fix! I do not like S Voice...
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If you are rooted, why don't you just freeze svoice? I didn't like it so I froze it when I was freezing all of the carrier installed crapware (didn't want to uninstall it in case I actually get some of the features enabled).. freeze it and you will never see it again.. (I don't think I would risk deleting it since if it breaks something else it is easy enough to unfreeze/thaw the application)... this of course requires you to have titanium backup and pay for the elite license which gives you these features..
Double Home doesn't launch anything anymore.. although I never had a problem with it launching when going into car-mode.. I had turned that feature off...
I am still a noob with the andriod phone.. I had an iphone before this.. but am finding that I really like the flexibility of andriod over iphone..
It looks like we have a decent work around, posted by zen0s on the Infuse car dock thread:
zen0s said:
I just tried this and it works great. To get rid of that annoying "S Voice" pop up everytime when phone is docked. Go to play store and download "Dock Nothingness". After you install it dock your phone and make "Dock Nothingness" as your default app. Now you won't be bother with those s-voice launching.
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I froze it using TiBU on my Skyrocket and that worked just fine because S Voice wasn't really working well with the phone, but now that I have an SIII, I want to use it when it is appropriate for me, not every time I dock the phone! So the two options stand, freeze it or run Dock Nothingness to prevent S Voice from starting up every time it is car docked!
Has anyone found a way to modify the apps that show up in Car Mode?
I love the idea of Car mode/app but the apps that appear are stupid if you ask me. Is there a ROM that has different apps or is there a zip I can flash with different apps or something?
I couldn't find anything on XDA about this and it scared me a little, like I am the only one who wants the apps changed.
Keep the Phone and Google Maps Navigation on the left hand side
Music change to Google Music
Internet Radio change to... anything thing else. lol
no your not the only one, i am too i use car mode constantly since i drive alot and i have the car dock, i wish i could change that too
Why don't you just try the nfc options and get some tags that will open what you want to open, where you want to open them?
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Apparently I read from goodandevo.com that the One Series got an update that allowed them to change exactly these things. Here's to hoping that it comes soon because I love the car app on this phone.
Edit: finally found the source at pocketables, the new home of goodandevo.
http://www.pocketables.com/2012/08/...to-use-third-party-music-apps-in-car-app.html
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Can Car Panel app be modified?
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no your not the only one, i am too i use car mode constantly since i drive alot and i have the car dock, i wish i could change that too
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Me too. I really like the look and graphics of the Car Panel stock app that originally came with the EVO. However since I have rooted to Mikg v3.11 I noticed that Car Panel app is in here too. However, the problem is Footprints is no longer operable, i.e. dead link. I did find an alternative Footprints on Google's Play that I like. It would be nice to modify the Car Panel to Footprints graphic to LINK to the alternative Footprints, a like shortcut. app.:fingers-crossed:
First off, how can I get rid of the little blue tab on the side with the icon shortcuts. I never use any of them. It would be great to be able to add my own app shortcuts to it but I could not figure out how. I am guessing that these are limited to only ones that are able to do the split screen feature.
Another question is, is there a program that can allow you to use your mouse and keyboard from your PC to control the phone, in a way that I have my phone next to the computer monitor, drag my mouse across over to the side, and the cursor appears on the android screen? Similar to Synergy (PC program)?
Is there a way to keep track of how much data you use over the 4g network? I don't want to go over my 2gigs a month.
I saw on a website that had "top 50 features of the Note2" that it has a feature where you can make the camera track your eyes, so that when you lay in bed, the screen does not rotate. Anyone know about this?
Also, I am pretty new to Android as this is my first smart phone ever. Is there a way to make google reader show pictures from blog artices, instead of having one app for slickdeals (iSlick) or another app for reading lifehacker articles? (Lifehacker unofficial)? I think I would use google reader if it showed pictures.
Has anyone started using Utter!? Seems like a great idea but I did not get very far with exploring it.
Sorry this is a big mess of random questions. Thank you for any input.
PS ~ I tried searching the android forum for how to control with pc mouse and keyboard but was unable to find something. I found AirDroid but i don't think that is what I am looking for.
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First off, how can I get rid of the little blue tab on the side with the icon shortcuts. I never use any of them. It would be great to be able to add my own app shortcuts to it but I could not figure out how. I am guessing that these are limited to only ones that are able to do the split screen feature.
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Press and hold back until it goes away. Press and hold back again to bring it back.
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Another question is, is there a program that can allow you to use your mouse and keyboard from your PC to control the phone, in a way that I have my phone next to the computer monitor, drag my mouse across over to the side, and the cursor appears on the android screen? Similar to Synergy (PC program)?
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Don't think this is possible the way you describe. They do offer a dock that allows you to plug in a USB keyboard/mouse to control the phone, but you can't have one mouse control both without unplugging it from one and plugging it in to the other.
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Is there a way to keep track of how much data you use over the 4g network? I don't want to go over my 2gigs a month.
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You can't track JUST 4G usage, but you can track mobile data usage. Go in to Settings and then Data usage. You can even set an alert to warn you when you get close, and a limit that will disable mobile data after so much usage.
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I saw on a website that had "top 50 features of the Note2" that it has a feature where you can make the camera track your eyes, so that when you lay in bed, the screen does not rotate. Anyone know about this?
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This is also in Settings, though under Display. What you're looking for is Smart Rotation. Smart Stay is also there and that keeps the screen on while you look at it.
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Also, I am pretty new to Android as this is my first smart phone ever. Is there a way to make google reader show pictures from blog artices, instead of having one app for slickdeals (iSlick) or another app for reading lifehacker articles? (Lifehacker unofficial)? I think I would use google reader if it showed pictures.
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Google Currents allows you to do news/feed reading. Not sure how it works, but it's listed as an option. Get it in the Play Store.
Awesome, thanks for the quick reply!
I saw a video on YouTube where the guy uses the computer keyboard on his note 2 but without a mouse. It is the guy who makes those daily note 2 videos.
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