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[Atrix 4G Accessories] beazie0885:
I'm on my second car dock, first one fell victim to a nasty trigger happy dremmel operator.... Just FYI, apparently the seidio cases do not work with the car dock no matter how much sanding you do ;) - so anyways, I went and bought a new one and for some reason the car interface doesn't come up when i dock the atrix. I took the car dock back to at&t, swapped it for a new one, and still nothing. But when I dock the phone in the butchered car dock, the interface pops right up... Anyone else have this issue? Or anyone have a car dock and not know what interface I'm talking about? I'm going to call motorola tomorrow and see what they have to say, will report back then

Sent from my MB860

edit: did a little searching and found this

so definitely try the dock out before you buy it. IMO it is utterly worthless without being able to go into dock mode...
[Atrix 4G Accessories] CoriolisSTORM:
I have a car dock I keep in my older jeep. (1998 Wrangler) obviously I have to take it out of my otterbox to use it. The enhanced interface is very very nice to have. The included nav application shows speed, which is a must for me, as the abovementioned jeep has an instrument cluster that picks and chooses when to work. The Atrix+car dock has allowed me to quit toting a tomtom around in that jeep. Another plus, less cords!!! The speakerphone on the Atrix is worthless to me when using the dock in the jeep as even with the top up I can't hear it... very mu h worth the money, I ordered from amazon and it came with an included Motorola branded charger...
[Atrix 4G Accessories] OSNPA:
Loving mine! The stock music player doesn't seem to work (4.1.8.3 with GingerBlur 3.1)and I can't change or delete that button on the front page. Still have to figure out how to disable the screen lock so when it launches an app like pandora, I'm not giving myself carpal tunnel trying to swipe my index finger on the backside lol. I know there's a way to do it, haven't found it yet. I did notice after an hour long drive, messing with GPS, streaming music through the 3.5mm jack, windows down on a warm day, that I lost 10% charge while it was charging. On the way home, we ran the A/C with the kids sleeping and it charged pretty quickly with the same functions running.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] GatorRuss:
If any of you aren't too thrilled with the built in Navigation with the Car dock home screen, check out this new Car Dock Launcher.

https://market.android.com/details?id=spinninghead.carhome&feature=search_result

I'm trying it now, and I like it alot. It has your speed in big numbers on the home screen, it shows the weather, what town you are in and the road that you are currently on. Plus, it has the capability of 18 shortcuts instead of 12 on the default one. Plus night mode looks pretty sweet.

:cool:
[Atrix 4G Accessories] beazie0885:
I use this as well!!! LOVE IT
[Atrix 4G Accessories] GoodFoot:
The AT&T retail package (MSRP $39.99) of the Atrix vehicle dock does not come with a 12v lighter plug, but the Motorola retail package (MSRP $59.99) does.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] kmiller8:
Motorola Retail Package only $39.99 shipped on Amazon
[Atrix 4G Accessories] Anstar:
Fyi - the finger scanner also works "upside down." The carpal tunnel comment reminded me of that, as I was trying to twist around to unlock it also.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] GatorRuss:
Wow, thanks for that thought. I have had rare instances in my car where my lock screen enables and I have to take the phone out of the dock to get it to unlock. I just reconfigured my prints; I did two swipes normal, and one swipe 'upside down'; I did this on both hands, and I just tested this and now it goes both ways.

:cool:
[Atrix 4G Accessories] mastadon85:
I just got the car dock. To be honest I am slightly disappointed... The car dock home screen app doesn't auto launch like advertised... Many ppl are having this issue and resort to manually launching it or a custom cardock via third party apps.

The atrix lacks customization with the settings. It seems it is capable of too much without letting you decide what you want it to do. For ex. my car has bluetooth so instead of the atrix playing music through the line out in car dock it uses bt audio. But you don't want to turn off bt cus you want calls to come through the bt...

the usb cable is only for power so when I want to use my cars usb port with my phone I need to swap usb cables. Some reason the car dock doesn't work with any other usb cable...

They tried to design the dock to work with thin cases... But come on, either make the dock adjustable to suit most cases or just make it fit the phone with out another thing for you lose...

I'll prob only use this thing for long drives when i need navigation otherwise I'm leaving my otterbox on and using bt audio or my fully funtional usb cable to listen to tunes...
[Atrix 4G Accessories] GatorRuss:
That's really odd about the car dock not automatically launch, that would be annoying, I guess I'm lucky in that regard.

So with the bluetooth/line out issue, what exactly do you want to do?

Do you want the phone to use bluetooth, but the audio to use the line out? I'm sorry, for some reason your post made me go cross-eyed.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] mastadon85:
Well the thing is there is no way to tell it to use line out.. It automatically uses bt since it is paired with the car and connects to bt automatically, which is good for using the phone service on bt. But if you have the line out for the car dock you would want to use it since the audio quality would be better. But you can't since the phone is paired to the car with bt. For music anyways...

Plus... I don't know for sure but I don't think the usb that comes with the car dock works when connected straight to the phone... Ridiculous... So I have 2 usb cables in my car. 1 for charging and using phone as usb mass storage and another for when I want to you the car dock.

I an starting to think all I needed was just a plain mount and use a plain usb
[Atrix 4G Accessories] silenzzzz:
i have used my otterbox belt clip to make a custom mount for my car .. just waiting for my next paycheck to get a peice of metal to bend for the mounting clip ... have trimmed away a spot for the finger scanner ... and removed the belt clip and smoothed the back down so i can mount it easier.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] GatorRuss:
One thing to try, to not make the audio go through bluetooth is to turn on your bluetooth, go into the bluetooth settings and long press on your car's setup and choose 'options'. Then, uncheck the box for 'Media', this way, it shouldn't use your bluetooth for audio...hopefully. lol

As far as the 2 usb cable situation, I guess your car dock must be broke, or something. So you have the car dock that you use for navigation using one cable, and the other cable is for charging the phone and usb mass storage mode? So you're saying that your car dock doesn't charge your phone at all?
[Atrix 4G Accessories] mastadon85:
Well I mean I'm not going to remove my otterbox case to dock the phone for a 15 min drive and I can't use the car dock's usb without the cardock (is it suppose to function like a regular usb cable? Cus it doesn't). I'll check my bluetooth settings out and disable bluetooth audio... But then bt audio will not work when not docked right?
[Atrix 4G Accessories] GatorRuss:
Make sure you only disable the 'Media' so that you can still make calls, but you are correct, the bluetooth Media audio will not work if you want to stream music to your car whether it is docked, or un-docked.

Honestly, I'm not sure if it's supposed to work like a regular USB cable, I only use the car dock for navigation and I use a bluetooth headset to make calls...my car doesn't have bluetooth/auxiliary input functionality.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] mastadon85:
Audio does not play out the supplied 3.5mm jack when docked and I cannot configure dock settings it says my phone is not docked... When clearly it is... Thx newegg... too bad no refunds, only RMA

FUNNY thing is when I first took it out of box and docked my phone the cardock app launched BUT after I got into my car and set it up plugged into the usb and 3.5mm out never worked and hasn't since. Even when just docking without the usb connected.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] beazie0885:
Can someone please tell me what the 3.5mm input jack right next to the usb is for... I feel retarded trying to figure this thing out. Im wondering if the supplied 3.5mm audio cable is supposed to plug into the jack that's on the usb cable, but then what is the other end supposed to plug into?

Heres my setup: I have an aftermarket head unit that had a usb jack for my ipod and it also has a 3.5mm AUX jack.

I have my cardock which is powered by the supplied usb cable for the cardock.

I have the supplied 3.5mm audio cable plugged into the AUX jack on my head unit and the other I have to physically plug into my phone everytime I dock it.

Should I have on end plugged into the plug on the usb cable and the other plugged into my AUX port?

I might have just answered my own question...

edit; plugging one end into AUX and the other end into the plug on the usb cable did not end up working with any audio over my car stereo... :confused:

Sent from my MB860
[Atrix 4G Accessories] OSNPA:
Yeah it's meant to stream music from your phone to a 3.5mm aux port on your head unit. Don't know why it wouldn't work, works for me.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] mastadon85:
It will only work if your phone is in cardock mode. When in cardock mode you can change the phone audio settings specific to the cardock mode. I can only find this by making a shortcut on the home screen to dock settings. Ofcourse for me since my cardock wasn't working, when I tried to change settings it just told me my phone is not docked.

Btw the instructions for the dock are kinda ambiguous... I think the phone is suppose to use the usb data connections to output analog audio signal then allow u to use the 3.5mm at the end of the cable as opposed to the 3.5mm on your phone so you don't have 2 separate cables running down from your windshield.

That is probably why it says don't connect that usb to both your phone and a computer... Since it is not actually a usb cable at all. Big mistake by Motorola if you ask me. Should of just put a VPA at the end of the cable...
[Atrix 4G Accessories] beazie0885:
That would explain everything. I am waiting on a replacement dock from motorola because I am one of the lucky ones who got a bad dock. All makes sense now... Thanks!

Sent from my MB860
[Atrix 4G Accessories] intimnasc:
I have the car dock since I use my Atrix to replace my phone and my tomm tomm and I love it. It buffers the maps ahead of you so even if you run into areas lacking data your usually ok. I haven't tried it on a long trip yet but will be driving from Fort Worth to Price Utah July 4th and will bring some feedback back.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] OSNPA:
I am loving the Google Navigation with free traffic support. It has been dead nuts accurate, so accurate I'm a little creeped out. Not just major roads- backroads, too.

The only thing- it won't really alert me to re-route to a faster path, but I'll get a little thumbnail in the lower right for re-routing options, so I guess that's their way of doing it.

I only experienced battery charging issues when streaming pandora and using gps concurrently. Battery temps have been very moderate. Guess I'm lucky.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] beazie0885:
Just a heads up for you all that have a at&t branded cardock that doesn't go into dock mode, I just got my motorola branded replacement dock in today and it has the motorola usb charger included at no extra cost. This is normally a $59.99 package so the trade off definitely worked in my favor.

Sent from my MB860
[Atrix 4G Accessories] naplesbill:
I don't understand something. I bought my car dock at my local corporate AT&T store for $39.99. It included all the cables. What is this other version people are talking about? It came in an AT&T branded box and clearly listed the USB and Audio cables in the "Package Includes:" area on the box.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] OSNPA:
Motorola branded. There's hardly any indication, if at all, of at&t. Got it on amazon.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] beazie0885:
The motorola branded one also has a charger included in the box. that's the only difference. Not that big of a difference, but gay-t&t wants to charge 20+ for a charger.

Sent from my MB860
[Atrix 4G Accessories] naplesbill:
Oh ok, I get it now. I thought people were saying the cables weren't included. I already have several MicroUSB chargers, and a USB adapter charger, so not a big deal to me. Still stupid though.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] draculahowsby:
i bought a cheap chinese one from ebay works perfectly though they do break easy if in sunny as places
[Atrix 4G Accessories] Mgamerz:
Amazon has the moto package for 40, free super saver shipping and/or prime.

Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4G on the network with the most backhaul, whatever that is
[Atrix 4G Accessories] omnius1:
A thousand times yes. I use my cardock for hands free calls, navigating, voice activated music playlists, watching video (shhh don't tell the cops!) And more. Love it so much I doubt Id ever buy another phone that couldn't do all this without having to juryrig up some kind of 3rd party mess
[Atrix 4G Accessories] fincan:
I agree, this phone + car dock made me remove my standalone GPS from it's permanent mount (although I still keep it in the trunk for backup). I also stopped using my mp3 player in the car and using the atrix exclusively.

Only negative is you cannot use the car dock with a case, not even with the thinnest, slimmest ones.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] naplesbill:
I use all the docks with my case on. No problems with any of them. This includes the HD dock, Car dock, and the Lap dock. I have the Body Glove Mirage case.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] Mgamerz:
I use a gel case. Don't remember who makes it. Im afraid it will bend the usb port and ruin it.

Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4G on the network with the most backhaul, whatever that is
[Atrix 4G Accessories] ekerbuddyeker:
How many of you have dropped the phone while putting it into the cradle driving? :)
[Atrix 4G Accessories] Mgamerz:
Not me... I don't take it out while I drive cause that seems to defeat the purpose of the car dock.

Poweramp needs to mute itself when using voice commands though.

Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4G on the network with the most backhaul, whatever that is
[Atrix 4G Accessories] stevebarnes:
Me, several times.........
[Atrix 4G Accessories] bongd:
I've almost ripped the phone out of the dock or shoved it in and almost let it slip violently out of my hands. Made me nearly **** my pants a few times but always Ninja'd it in time to keep it from dropping. :eek:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shahkam:
Hi people i'd like to have mediascape on 2.2 freex10 beta4 and the stock camera app from 2.1 and i have been looking around couldnt find it anywhere and i guess for installing i leave them in system/app and i change permissons and reboot?

Thanks in advance to all. ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asa2303:
Wont work mate, currently no way of making SE camera apk work on 2.2, so make sure you back up b4 attempting cos you'll just end up with no camera.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shahkam:
Alright thanks.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kozmo198:
my htc hero is stuck in safe mode, i dont know how it got there, but all my apps and data arent there, but i can see some of the apps are installed when i browse thru market, i tried reinstalling the cm7 7.0.2 updat but that didnt help with much...what should i do?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AspenTree:
What do you mean safe mode? What I would do is (since you're on cm7) is download and install es file explorer or root explorer from the market. Go to applications in the settings menu and move all apps back to the sd card, then open ESFE (give it root permissions for cyanogenmod in the settings...) or root explorer and go into /data/app and backup ALL apk files by multi selecting them all and copying them to your sd card. Then I'd flash clockworkmod recovery v3.0 + and then wipe cache, wipe dalvik, wipe factory data/reset, format system, boot, data, cache then install cm7 v 7.0.2 and gapps reboot into the phone and then once you get it set up again, use cm7's default file manager to install all your apk files again. THEN! open adb shell or your terminal emulator app and type this:

su (if using terminal emulator)

mkdir /cache/download

chmod a+x /cache/download

chmod ug+rwx /cache/download

then go into your market and read and accept the terms of service

then once you open the market it should have ALMOST all of your apps you have gotten listed (my market doesnt show everyone because i have about 30-40 apps I use).

This should fix it. If it doesn't then open ESFE (after giving it root permissions in the settings again) or root explorer and AFTER opening the market for the first time. Wipe the market's data in the /data/data directory and look for the vending folder(s) and delete those. Then reboot recovery and wipe cache, and then open the market again :D Should fix it so you have most of your apps showing :D

Have a nice time on CM7 v7.0.2

- Kifno
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bierce22:
you probably held the menu button while it was on the bootanimation witch will make it go into safe just reboot it and you should be fine.

yes phones do have a safe mode much like a pc does so it makes it eiser to get in and do a reset if somethings screwing up.

the first time i experienced this was on nfx stock apps2sd i accedintly held the menu on boot up and it said safe mode on the bottom left corner and i was like what the hell is this so i rebooted and it was fine.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbracht:
I love this ROM just cause I'm all about simplicity. anyways, i have tried to do these mods im asking for but have failed everytime. ha, anyways I'm looking for someone to edit the services.jar to give me the 6 bar signal indicator. and also the pull down notification power control. if some dev can do this for me, that would be great! thank you VERy much!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbracht:
Still nothing? I know some of you could do it. It's really simple for some of you. So please help a beginner out. ;)
[General Topics] dutchbastard:
Im trying to find a good list with all currently available android phones. Preferable sortable by certain features.

Im mainly interested in finding phones with a physical keyboard such as the DROID 2. Any suggestions?
[General Topics] Incanity:
check the XDA Wiki or Device DB for a list of available Android phones.
[General Topics] dutchbastard:
thanks, I cant believe I overlooked that.
[General Topics] athani:
Or try GSMArena.com.

They have a very good Phone Finder page.
[General Topics] alessiolupo:
i have used GSMArena.com is very very good
[General Topics] lude219:
+1 for GSMArena's phone finder
[General Topics] dontjudgemekk:
The variety of UK operators offering Android handsets is poor, no devices with physical keyboards have been released here :(

The one thing I like about Blackberrys although I hate to say it from being an Android fanboy, is their keyboards... such a pleasurable experience!
[General Topics] aidil007:
find it in gsmarena or google :D
[General Topics] surasshu:
Thanks for that, GSMArena is super useful!
[General Topics] gaga0101:
Xperia mini pro is available in uk
[T-Mobile LG G2x] 92drls:
I loaded a rom with apparent bugs and now I'm stuck in a contious boot over and over. How do I get to the recovery image to restore my latest nandroid backup? What buttons do I hold, obviously not volume down and power...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] cthach11:
Did you install clockwork mod with rom manager or NVFlash?

If you installed it through NVflash, clockwork mod is permanently on your phone by holding Volume Down + Power....if your not getting there....you didnt.....

If you used Rom Manager, you fake-flashed and won't be able to get there. The only way is by using NVFlash to install clockwork and restoring your nandroid. Go here

OR if you just wanna go back to stock, factory reset by holding both volume keys and power then releasing power when the screen is on....Good luck!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] 92drls:
Yea I used NVFlash and just hit the root button, then it asked to install something since I didn't have it, I agreed, then it loaded again and was complete. Superuser was added to my apps and that's it. I think I have a brick lol, oh well, I honestly hated not having an led for notifications anyway. I got a weird screen a few mins ago though and it was stuck for like an hour. It said "updating s/w, please wait". Then went away and now it won't go past the LG screen...

Any ideas or anyone want to buy it for like 130?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] milk242:
The way you described NVFlash seems like you didn't actually use NVFlash. There is no root button involved with NVFlash.

To root the phone, you probably used superoneclickroot.

To install clockworkmod recovery you could have installed it through rom manager or installed it manually using NVFlash, which is a command line utility (unless you used the one click clockwork recovery found in this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1056847).

Can you clear these things up so we can further help.

I'll also buy it for 130 if you don't want to deal with it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] 92drls:
Yea you're right, I forgot, sorry finals have fogged my mind the last few days. I used superoneclick for sure and flashed the recovery through ROM manager. Will the NVFlash help get to somewhere to flash by backup or hell, even the stock rom? I just got back to my computer at home and am gonna try some things.. I'll report back..

Edit: Ok I think I found the problem. I have Eagleblood 1.02 ROM and I loaded a Kernel from a p990 (Optimus 2x) and NOT the p999 (G2x). When I plug my phone in it says LGE P990 now. So is there any fixing this? I can plug it in and it'll popo up with the notification window for the safe remove and mass storage but I still can't access the recovery image??
[T-Mobile LG G2x] milk242:
You should definitely flash clockworkmod recovery via NVFlash. The easiest way would be to follow this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1056847

It provides an easy to use user interface to NVFlash to flash clockworkmod recovery. After that, I guess you could flash CM7 nightly and hopefully it'll load the approriate kernel. I'm new to android so I'm not sure if ROMs contain the kernel too, but I'm guessing it is because looking at the CM7 source, they seem to include the kernel. Then after that you can flash the stock nandroid found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1048274

Note: you could possibly just flash the stock nandroid instead of CM7 and it could still work out, but I'm not sure.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] 92drls:
Sweet NVFlash fixed it, I have my recovery image again, flashed my backup and am right where I left it, Thanks man!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jaestreetss:
Im also new to rooting and flashing.....I flashed using rommanager and everything was fine till I flashed cyanogen...now I can't get to rcocery screen and I have no computer for the next few days....don't get me wrong ibwant to keep this rom-2.3.4 but it doesn't come with Google apps which i have installed on my SD but can't flash.....someonehelp
[T-Mobile LG G2x] 92drls:
Lol, I'm nowhere near new at rooting/flashing but this phone is the first to ever NOT have a back up plan..

You'll have to do exactly what I did. Honestly, NO ONE should flash anything without the REAL recovery image and NOT through ROM manager, otherwise in this case your without a phone until you can get to a computer.

Use the NVFlash method posted above, it takes a couple minutes and then its permanent. Afterwards, if you ever flash something buggy or broken, you can always fall back on vol down and power..