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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jkoljo:
You have to use more force than normally to put the 3.5 mm connector into the dock. I also thought that it was too loose, but then I found out that I just needed to push it further.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shilent:
How long is the power cable that comes with the dock? Has anyone had trouble routing the cables behind the dash?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Treggs:
Approx 5 ft. Just made it from the cigarette lighter behind the dash to windscreen pillar in my wrx. Basically nothing to spare but it was enough.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wallaced:
launching GPS

I got my dock for father's day and after shaving the volume slot it worked perfectly. I installed car home ultra to give it a try. The one thing I could not get car home home ultra to do is to automatically start the GPS when I insert the phone to the dock and automatically turn it off when I remove the phone from the dock. Has anyone done this? I am running 4.0.4, stock and rooted.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chuckdz3:
I have not figured a way out using car home ultra. Although if you get familiar with NFC tags, that would be your easier solution. I have a tag inside my dock that automatically toggles GPS on/off when I insert the dock. I used NFC Task Launcher from Google Play to program the tag.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cheshirecat79:
From what I understand the only thing you can do is have it "check" for GPS and then prompt you to go to location settings and turn it on.

Otherwise you can do the NFC tag thing mentioned above or make Tasker turn the GPS radio on/off on dock/undock.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] quick_:
Could you not do this with tasker? Just set it to turn on/off GPS when the app is running in the foreground if that is possible?

Side note:

I got my dock a few days ago, happy with the quality. There are few issues though:

1. Very tight fit, presses power/vol buttons like crazy when inserting and removing (plan to make notches eventually)

2. The power, 3.5mm jack are on the wrong side of the dock (for the folks who drive on the right side of the road) IMO the US version should have the plugs on the right side so the wires aren't sticking out into your view, also the fact that you are going to run the cables to the right side anyway to get to your stereo and power connections on your car.

3. Did nothing to fix my ground loop/engine whine/electrical noise (which existed prior to getting the dock). The noise is coming from the cigarette lighter, because I ran a new ground wire from my car stereo and it didn't help. Plus the noise is only there when phone is charging via cigarette lighter. :(:(

Anyone have some ideas on how to eliminate this noise? I already bought a 3.5mm ground loop isolator, it works mostly but it ruins the audio quality, lows/bass is lost and pretty flat... :(:(:(

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yungster12:
Verizon GNex Bluetooth with Car dock

Having trouble finding my answer..

Thinking about buying this dock because I have serious doubts about a proper LTE pogo car dock release BUT I need Bluetooth calls (integrated in car already) to function. I don't currently have ability to link BT music audio to car (only calls) and as such would need to use the AUX OUT to my stereo for music.

Is this possible and proved functioning with any of you Verizon guys?

Thanks!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sigismond0:
Yup, works exactly as you like. Just make sure that your BT device isn't set to play media, you can do this in the Bluetooth settings for that specific device.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yungster12:
Fantastic, I appreciate it. Car doesn't have the "media audio" option, only the "phone audio" option.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] HinotoriBR:
Have been using it in the last few weeks and I really love it...

Can't tell about the line out plug as I don't use it, but it stick to the car windshield very well, its ergonomics are fantastic and easily allow to angle the phone any way I like it, I was a little bit skeptical at first due to the tight fit, but, I can easily and quickly put the phone into it and get the phone out of it, to put the phone in, I just insert it, power button upside, a little bit angled, slide it inside as long as I can, then I just "click" it with two fingers pressing the volume button side, never had any issues with the phone changing the volume, and about screen powering on, it will (at least on stock roms) power on the screen whenever it start to charge anyway, so even if the power button is pressed, I can't possibly have an issue with that as screen will turn on anyway...

And, by the way, as I'm used to the Google Car Home and it works perfectly with this dock, I'm more than satisfied with it.

But, it surely is way overpriced... IMHO it should not cost more than USD 30...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shilent:
I received mines the other day. I have no problem placing in the dock, but removing it is difficult. Anyone got any tips for me? I'm afraid of damaging the camera.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmbfan13:
Anyone else experiencing low volume using the car dock? When I used the 3.5mm output, it seemed to be much louder. Plus, using different kernels, DSP app or volume+ doesnt seem to change anything when using the card dock.

Is there any way to increase the volume?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
I have had the dock for about three weeks and I'm really mixed on my feelings. As everyone has said, inserting/removing is a PITA. I'm certain it wil eventually snap off my volume and power buttons. The design is odd.

It's nice to have a factory mount with charging pins, but this is the last design I would have come up with. Also, the "face" of the phone becomes enormous with the dock. It literally blocks my view of the road. Not good.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Andrew025:
The NFC tagstand app can toggle gps and it also has Tasker integration if you prefer to use Tasker profiles.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lucin:
can Tasker somehow even set Bluetooth on and off if in Dock/ out of Dock? That would be the perfect solution for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NCguy:
Sure seems that way but by now there has to be a ton of people snapping away and to my astonishment I haven't heard a single report of a broken button. Maybe its non-intuitive and it actually will withstand it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tgerbracht:
So in summary you can have a fully functioning car dock for the lte Nexus by shaving the plastic to make it fit yes? Will it still be difficult to remove it or can you shave it so it comes in and out with little problem?

I bought the 40 dollar verizon car mount because the rep said it had the pogo pins... It's being delivered but of course it won't...right?

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NCguy:
NP
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kcm117:
Anyone found a fix for this yet? REALLY bad bug to deal with. I had someone call me for a job and I couldn't hear them :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Andrew025:
I've been using NFC for this since it's so simple.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dowenprs:
Question, when I first got the car dock my phone calls would come out of the car speakers, which is what I want. Then all of a sudden it stopped routing the calls through the speakers, and now they just come out of the phone's speaker. All the audio works fine, when you hang up the ping sound even goes through the car speakers, charges fine as well. Anyone have any ideas? Could it be a rom or kernel possibly? I've tried AOKP and CM9.

Thanks for the help!

Dan
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
With the dock phone calls never came through the speakers unless you connect through bluetooth.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tgerbracht:
For this scenario, would you need to have a tag in the dock to toggle on Bluetooth and GPS for example and then another tag elsewhere to toggle it off? (Or would removing it from the dock tag revert it? ) I'm thinking you need two tags but am I wrong?

Edit: Figured it out. Answer is the same tag can be set for on and then for off.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mbeydiya:
Take it back when you get it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aplarsen:
Intermittent charging and no audio out

I received my dock and made the mod with my Dremel. When I have the phone in the dock, it charges, but it seems to fall in and out of charging the battery.

Also, I'm not getting audio out. Not sure what's going on. When I tried my friend's phone, it worked fine on both accounts.

All I've done related to car mode is install these two APKs:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26700624&postcount=932

Have I broken something? Is there a setting somewhere I've flipped?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Andrew025:
Yea, same tag like you said.

I personally don't have mine in the dock so it doesn't toggle if I turn my screen on. I have my nfc sticker in my radio pocket.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wallaced:
GPS

I was able to turn GPS on/off with the dock using tasker. I had to load a plugin called Secure Settings available from the play store. Within Secure Settings I had to load the "helper". In order to load the helper, I had to install "Busybox" from the store. Root is required.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mbirth:
Could you guys check whether your dock has grooves for the volume / power buttons?

The dock shown in January had these grooves:

People who made them themselves (with a razorblade or a sharp knife) said that it makes inserting and removing the phone much easier.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NCguy:
No, no grooves and I believe samsung verified that none of the production units would have them. I don't recall the mods making it easier although that may be the case. It was my impression that the mods were done to protect the buttons from cracking.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yungster12:
Correct, no grooves standard. I added them myself though because I feel it just makes sense to clear the way for and not abuse the buttons from side loads while inserting and removing the phone from the dock. It's funny because the picture on the packaging I think even showed the grooves on the product.....

Dock works well so far, I've been very pleased with the audio. Still thinking about adding a hole in the back to help make removing phone easier on me and the pogos.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] heyman421:
Me too. Me too.

Exact same problem, here. LTE Verizon G'nex, bought in-store on launch day.

Charging works pretty consistently with the car dock (dremmeled,) but audio only works if when the phone is simply 'perched' in the dock (with the volume rocker on the exterior of the dock) and disconnects all but charging once the volume rocker is snapped into the dock....

I've once or twice gotten the audio to connect with the phone fully inserted into the dock (just by smooshing the phone around, wiggling, etc.) but the sound would skip in a routine interval (10ms, say) and it was difficult to tell if the audio was simply cutting in and out, or if the music was actually pausing and unpausing in these intervals.

All in all, not so good.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yungster12:
Try really clearing out more material around vol up and down buttons, my hunch is you are having buttons pushed once phone is installed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nhlpreds98:
Tasker does work, I had it set up to work before I got my dock, now I am using Car Home Ultra to take care of everything.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] heyman421:
All 3 buttons work, actually.

And the phone works fine in the cradle, with the power and headphone connectors disconnected (so it doesn't go into dock mode.)

The pins just aren't lining up right.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] firehazard:
So how does this dock work with Jelly Bean? Any impressions?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
The dock is showing "coming soon" on Google Play.

I will be super pissed if they have pulled it and are re-designing it. In it's current form, the fit is just way too tight. If they release a rev.B version, I'm going to demand an exchange.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tgerbracht:
Just got my dock and I use a monster fm tuner audio converter since my radio doesn't have an aux input. The volume was very low and very fuzzy/whiny. Simply not tolerable longer than a minute or two though music and navigation would go through my car speakers. Any suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] motu90:
Are there any statements about a new revision of the car dock?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NCguy:
No. I imagine they are out of stock because they are out of stock.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DSMDev:
I just ordered one from here:

http://www.expansys-usa.com/samsung-google-galaxy-nexus-vehicle-mount-225505/

It took a couple days to process my order but it just shipped out today.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vshun:
Indeed wanted to order it on Wednesday when ordering another Galaxy Nexus phone to go with it but had to order just the phone.

Now waiting for it before ordering Nexus 7 to bundle it together, do not want to pay shipping charges for 3 separate orders (one for Nexus phone, another for tablet and third for the dock). Not sure if all the people ordering Nexus phone due to price drop ordered dock and made it out of stock or they are redesigning.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dataghoul:
Yes, it fits perfectly in the dock even with the extended battery (the original one from Samsung)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Knolly:
So I recently got my car dock to replace my Touchstone as a car charging solution. The Touchstone worked great but I was worried that leaving it plugged in was draining my car's battery since I had to jump-start it the other day.

Anyhow, right now I'm running a USB cord to the car mount through my Belkin Aircast Auto, which has a USB port, and I've noticed that it doesn't charge the battery faster than using GPS Navigation with the screen on drains it. Is this likely and issue with the charger? I guess what I'm asking is, have people had the phone charge fine with the included Samsung charger while using it for Navigation?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] moe6:
Some chargers aren't, internally, wired/soldered correctly and Android assumes that it's a USB port (ie a port that can spit out 500mA or 0.5A) vs an AC charger (1A). Belkin's regular 12v DC 1-2 port chargers are guilty of this so it's possible that the Aircast is the same way. There's a mod but only useful if you are handy with a soldering iron (or willing to learn, it's easy for things like this).

My generic car charger doesn't have this problem but I had a previous one that did. Still getting a proper charge even when Nav is on and Google Play is streaming :). The OEM vehicle dock will behave in the same way.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rollinncoaster:
No issues so far. It works exactly the same as with ICS after receiving the OTA.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Knolly:
Thanks for the info! Do I just need to solder the data connections in the actual plug or something?

I got frustrated and spliced in a second power plug that I put a Griffin Powerjolt Slim which is specifically marketed as being 1A per port, so I'm going to see if that works at all before tearing open anything else. Oh the lengths I go to for the perfect car setup, haha.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Knolly:
So a bit of an update... I had a six hour car ride today so I had time to test out charging rates and whatnot.

As best as I can tell, using the stock Samsung charger and navigation, the battery still drains, just VERY VERY slowly. Like one percent every 20 minutes or so. Is this seriously normal? It just annoys me because using Navigation and charging it via Touchstone worked great. Maybe I should try the Palm charger?

Also, is it correct that enabling fast charge in a ROM with this does nothing because the pins do that automatically already?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
Lithium ion batteries and sun don't mix. So if it was in direct sun it will drain. If not it will charge. The sun's heat cause the drain.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Knolly:
Sigh, I kind of thought that might be the case but wasn't positive, thanks! That's really annoying since the main reason I bought the 3-pin dock to replace my Touchstone in my car was I had read it has a bunch of issues when summer rolls around.

Considering it was 101 F out for at one point that doesn't surprise me. So how does one mount a windshield-mounted device not in the sun? The saga for car perfection continues, haha.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] spleebie:
I have my car dock mounted on the left, and there's an A/C vent that doesn't blow very much that I point up at it. That seems to help with the heat, but I haven't really tested whether it keeps up with the charge.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
They have like a 3M type of round sticky surface that you stick somewhere down below near shifter or something. Then the suction cup goes on that.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] litrekid:
I just drove to and from indiana to florida and i used my car dock with nav on, weather radar and playing a video on full brightness and it still charged. Do you know if it was AC charging? I noticed one time it was not keeping charge and was in USB mode and after re positioning my phone it went into AC charge.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Samcobra:
****ing Apple and their injunction apparently also resulted in Google pulling Galaxy Nexus accessories from the Play store. Just as my cheapo dock broke too!

Anyone have an extra one that they might have bought? I'll pay for it!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GZ20TT:
I have my car dock up and running and I really like it. Rock solid build and I like the tight hold it keeps on the phone.

One weird thing though. When I use Google Nav now - the voice is male when it used to be the female one. I've made no other changes since swapping from a cheap phone holder.

Any ideas why?

Anyone else get this?

Can I change back to the female voice?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Confisk8d131:
:( - Sigh.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
Kinda glad I jumped on it when I did then. Sucks that they are such a-holes and ruin our experience. Though I believe you can get the dock from expansys and other sites for the same price.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sinbad_NI:
Yeah same here. If I need charge I now check its picking up as AC power. Mustn't have been quite in right I guess.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] don quixada:
Yes, I installed Jelly Bean to try and fix the audio issue as outlined here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26870469&postcount=1170

Unfortunately, it made no difference. So don't waste your time installing JB to fix this problem.

Other than that, I notice no other differences between JB and ICS in the car dock.

dq
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sucker4pa1n:
Google pulled it for a week or so. No big deal; they've said they pulled it until their software patch (probably JB) can be finished and stuffed onto the hardware. You can wait a week right? ;)

*brohoof*
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] poody:
I don't know where you got that idiotic idea from, both the desktop docks are available, and the car dock has been out of stock for at least a week, as discussed in THIS thread...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zuberio:
No need to call the idea idiotic - that's how flame wars get started. Everyone makes mistakes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Naex:
Hi,

About a month ago I got the GSM Samsung Car Dock with POGO pins and applied some careful dremeling as described all over the internet and made things work with my Verizon Galaxy Nexus. A couple of weeks ago I managed to shatter the screen on said Nexus and then got an insurance replacement. Strangely, the new phone will not detect the dock. It charges, though it claims it's charging from USB and not AC, but it won't detect that it's in the dock.

The kernel claims that it was "unable to identify pogo dock" and it takes about 5-10 seconds after dropping it in the dock for it to begin charging. I applied a bit more liberal dremel to ensure that the phone was sitting properly and all of the buttons work flawlessly, so I assume that's fine.

I pulled out my multimeter and did notice the phone issuing the pulse on the middle pin. Strangely, one time when plugging it in, it *did* detect the dock but I haven't been able to get it to do that since. I've tried using the Samsung wall charger and the Samsung car charger and when either are connected directly, it claims it's connected to AC. When either are connected through the dock, it claims it's charging from USB.

Finally, I had a nandroid backup of the ROM I was using (AOKP 4.0.4) from the broken phone and restored the same ROM to the new phone. I also recently upgraded to JB.

Does anyone know what I can do to try and solve this? Does anyone know if the AC/USB charging handshake occurs on the middle pogo pin? I would imagine so since the left is power and right is ground. I'm trying to figure out an easy way to run some wires from the pogo pins on the dock directly to the phone to test out if it's a fit problem but they're so small that I'm having trouble finding a good way to do it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zuberio:
Yes, the handshake occurs on the middle pin. The details of which are in this thread. Without a proper handshake the phone defaults to USB charging rates. That 10-15 second delay is standard for custom ROMs when there's no handshake on the middle pin - I deal with it on my AOKP GNex whenever it charges in the DIY pogo pin dock I made.

If it isn't handshaking but is charging at USB then your middle pin isn't talking or isn't touching the pogo pad correctly.

For ideas on how to hold connectors to the three pins try this thread.

Nice work with the multimeter btw.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] weltz:
Audio Clipping

I've searched through this thread as best I can, and haven't found any mention of this problem.

Has anyone else had the audio from the car dock clipping? It manifests as clicks and pops during playback.

I'm using an LTE Nexus with the official 3-pin dock from Google Play. I have an audio cable running from the dock's base to the 3.5mm jack for my car's AUX input. I put the phone in the dock, wait for it to activate car mode, turn on Pandora, and louder sounds clip.

When plugging the cable into the phone's 3.5mm jack, the behavior can be reproduced by turning the volume up to maximum. This leads me to believe that the pogo pin SPDIF out is sending the sounds too loud for the DAC to handle when converting to analog.

The obvious solution would be to lower the output volume from the phone's pogo pin connectors, but I'm not sure how to do that or if it's even possible. Any thoughts or suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crazifyngers:
My girlfriends line in is a very hot input. I use a 10db pad I had lying around for recording live shows. Looks like m-audio discontinued it but you can still find it online. works like a champ and is transparent sonically. On the other hand the line in on my car is very low. anyway it works well so there is a suggestion.

https://www.google.com/webhp?source....,cf.osb&fp=784d899c8f80c925&biw=1366&bih=677
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tsy87:
hmm... does anyone have the issue where it says its charging, (AC charge mode) and the battery still drains as if its not being charged at all? I permawired the dock into my car so Im not sure if I messed up some of the connections from the PCB's or if my pogo pins are still messing with me. (vzw nexus).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tsy87:
hmm after some thought... is it possible that my rom is causing the charging issues?

I know from before, when I had connection problems, it would show the battery icon as charging, but the battery status would say not charging. So this makes me think that its not a hardware connection issue, maybe something with the latest ROM since before, it worked fine.

Anyway, I never got around to posting these.

DSC_1099 by tsy87, on Flickr

DSC_1097 by tsy87, on Flickr
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ice9mike:
Does the audio jack output SPDIF signal? I see from your pictures that the SPDIF signal is on the main board, but I can't tell if it is routed to the audio jack. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tsy87:
I honestly have no idea because my car stereo only has an aux input. Sound quality is EXCELLENT though.