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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ErismaSS:
Ya I had to modify it. At first I didn't like that fact that I was dragging the volume button against the lip every single time(rather aggressively) so I dremeled the lip. Then even after that it seemed the car dock volume rocker buttons were depressing the phone volume buttons causing issues(as in once you hit the up or down volume button it would go all the way up, or all the way down, should have mentioned that a few pages ago). So then I dremeled the inside of the car dock volume rocker buttons just a little bit. It's not perfect, and I haven't dremeled anywhere near the pogo pins, but I'm satisfied with it...this is one of those cases where I'm afraid to mess with it too much and completely ruin it...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sleuth255:
Well, I must say this is one of the easier mods I've ever done (and believe me I've done a few over the years). Out of the box, volume up worked but not volume down. The power button worked fine. I have a Verizon GN with the extended battery.

Now it's quite easy to pop the volume button assembly out of the car dock. Just push it out from the inside with a toothpick. Then I popped my GN back in, took a look at the volume control, and the problem area was easy to see. The bottom of my volume button was covered by the plastic cutout. So essentially I only had to radius out the bottom of the cutout a bit, working until the volume control was free and worked correctly for increase and decrease. Then, I popped the vol insert back into the dock and bada bing.

I've been inserting pogo pin side first and so far haven't had any charging issues.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wade-0:
Perfect description of the process. I shaved the edge of the volume rocker closest to the front before realizing that it was the end of the "volume down" slot that needed to be shaved. I'm starting to wonder if both are necessary though, considering all the problems other people are reporting that I'm not having.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sleuth255:
hmmm... that's exactly what I did. I shaved the front and no joy so then I popped out the insert to take a look and saw the bottom was covered.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] spleebie:
I just did mine, and neither buttons worked. I had to make the slot longer on the volume down end, and then widen the volume up end toward the front. Popping out the buttons to see it was a huge help, thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
Droid-Life had a nice video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad9CDSF20Ps&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] roadhead:
Got mine yesterday - too bad AOKP B38 doesn't have the car home apk I'm guessing. Car Mode appears in the status bar - but the launcher doesn't change.

Very sturdy and much prettier than my Nexus One OEM car mount, would purchase again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gobluejd:
Okay. You guys are confusing me on Desk Dock/Car Dock and LTE/GSM.

Can someone please fill this out for the LTE version.

Desk Dock

Work - Yes/No

Mod - Yes/No

Car Dock

Work - Yes/No

Mod - Yes/No

This would help allot of people out coming late into the thread. It is confusing figuring out whos talking about what.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patruns:
Not going to happen unless Google somehow comes up with a software fix.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
Open this link through your browser not the play store and download it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wxLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5jYXJob21lIl0.

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jkoljo:
I have an issue with the car dock + GSM Galaxy Nexus. When I insert the phone into the dock and plug in the car power adapter, I only get a hissing noise out of my car speakers. The charging is fine, though. It has worked a couple of times when I re-insert the phone multiple times, but it is a real pain in the ass to get any real sound out of it. Any suggestions, similar problems?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] morbidz:
The amazing thing that SEARCH can do
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sleuth255:
playing with my new dock...

CarHome Ultra is a cool cardock home app.

iOnRoad is friggen awesome! Unbelievable, I'll have to shell $5 for the pro version.

I'm gonna crash my car b/c I'm watching my GN more than the road these days...

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This thread is about the car dock, not the desk dock. Here are your answers for the car dock:

Car Dock

Work - yes

Mod - yes

For answers on the desk dock, read this thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gobluejd:
Thanks. The thread was decieving at times. LOL :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wade-0:
Something I've been experiencing over the week of testing this thing out, is my Bluetooth service crashes occasionally after docking the phone. I haven't quite narrowed it down to any specific sequence, but it seems to happen less often if I dock the phone BEFORE turning on the ignition. This seems to allow the phone to sense the dock and enter dock mode before it automatically pairs to my stereo.

The only way I've found to get bluetooth working again after it crashes is to reboot the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NCguy:
You sure iOnRoad is GN compatible? That's not listed as a working device on their website. Looks very cool!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sacksyboy:
The only downside to this app is it does not record video. if you are in an accident it would be handy to have video to backup what happened.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zathus:
I've read a few pages and don't see anyone talking about the audio quality. Is there feedback when charging and using the 3.5mm jack? Dirty power and whatnot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jkoljo:
I am not talking about a weak hiss in the background which that cable can make go away, the audio output is nothing but hiss, pink noise. There is no sound, no real audio at all. Only the pink noise.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sleuth255:
I've not noted any issues with it yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NCguy:
Hope the video has a self destruct button when they get it working :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chuckdz3:
I am having the same problem. I can only get it to make contact if the 3 pin side is placed inside the dock and the volume rocker side is half way out. If I fully insert the phone I loose connection through the 3 pins. I don't think the volume rocker mod will work because when it is fully inserted I have full functionality of the volume buttons, both the up and down work just fine, they are not being mashed down.

I know Accord287 had a similar problem and he took a dremel to the entire back plate inside the dock to get his to work. So that's an option. For me, I do not have a dremel and I am not sure if I am going to mod it all and might be sending it back because I can not get mine to keep contact. Maybe I'll try another one and get lucky and only have to do the volume rocker mod. Still I think its strange that the same dock is having two different problems for the same LTE nexus.

EDIT-I got mine through Expansys and not the Play Store, I doubt it has anything to do with my problem but just a thought.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] detonation:
Question about the audio out on the dock...I read elsewhere that when docked, the volume rocker does nothing and you control the volume via your own car stereo. Is this true, and if so, can you tell if it's just setting the phone's volume to max (and still using the headphone jack amplifier) or if its actual line out audio? And why even include a volume rocker then?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xenokira:
The volume control still works for BT audio or phone speaker volume. So if you're not using the 1/8" audio output of the dock, the volume controls are still functional.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patruns:
In spite of what the dock manual says, it is not a true line out. The phone amp still has some control over the volume which can result in some feedback and also over feed the speakers. I don't know why Google let it out like this. Line out should be un-amplified.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JScottTuck:
I too thought about just returning in and getting another with my fingers crossed, but I have already done the volume rocker mod, so they might notice. As for the dremel, I just borrowed one from a friend at work, so it's sitting in my cube now. :) Debating on what I want to do.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mattallica76:
It depends on your vehicles wiring. The dock does not have a built-in ground loop isolator, so if your vehicles wiring is not so great, you will need to purchase one of the ground loop cables posted within this thread. I have a Chevy Van that has no noise at all, but I also have a Subaru Outback that has a terrible ground loop and therefore I had to purchase one of the noise reducing stereo cables to fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrschyguy:
Anyone know how to fix the volume out problem? I need to be able to lower my phones output. It sounds horrible right now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OSully:
I just thought I'd post my experience.

I shaved off a little from the volume down side of the dock hole after removing the pop out. It took a couple of times but after a few minutes the button worked properly.

The dock works fine for me. Charging and line out worked without issue. I actually like that the phone doesn't control the volume... I use my steering wheel control anyway. I actually think the audio quality is better than plugging directly in. I do not have any hissing or white noise issues.

I have car home and ultra car dock installed. Works well. The ultra app is very awesome.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrschyguy:
I normally control the volume with my steering wheel. But since the phone volume is maxed out, it sounds like it is blowing my speakers. When I plug it directly into the aux cable, and lower the volume just a bit, it sounds perfect.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wade-0:
Does your kernel have SoundControl? Maybe you need to lower the boost level. Otherwise, maybe see if you can lower the AUX input gain on your head-unit.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kvlt:
count me in on the group that cant get it working with the Verizon version once fully snapped into place. Works only with volume rocker hanging out. Ugh... It really wouldnt have been that hard to make a version that was compatible with both models...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
Just got my Car dock. I have the LTE Galaxy Nexus and I couldn't be happier. I shaved the volume thing like everyone said and everything works perfect except phone calls coming through the car speaker just like everyone mentioned. Hopefully we get a fix for that but other then that I'm loving it.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DannEBaz:
Both docks

I have both docks. The original works just fine, just doesn't have the 3pins. Sound on it is great. I got the HSPA+ version from the Play Store, used it this morning & thought I was going to blow my speakers out.

What gives? Why is the 3pin dock not allowing me to control any volume whatsoever? Kind of ridiculous that the car dock app & the car home app cause audio distortion.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
Question, did somebody mention a dremmol? If so where do you shave the car dock?

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sleuth255:
There's a whole different thread for that...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
I did my volume rocker with a knife but I was wondering what the dremmol was for?

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NCguy:
If you have the LTE version most people have been using a razor blade to enlarge the volume down hole (try searching thread for razor). Some have also used a razor blade to notch the rim for the volume and power buttons. I think the volume button itself also needs a slight razor-blade mod. Sorry I'm not the expert on the LTE since I have the GSM but its all in here. I don't think many are using the dremel now that it's shipped.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luffyp:
I have a question. I've read that when the phone is docked, phone call conversations will come through the phone's speaker. What if I want to take a phone call privately (i.e. only me can hear the caller)? If I use a bluetooth handfree then all sounds from the phone, including music, will come through bluetooth right? Is it possible to make the phone's music go through the car's speaker while still able to take a phone call privately?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xenokira:
Bug report

Sorry if I missed a subdiscussion on the topic, but is anyone else having issues with a bug report popping up while using the doc? The prompt I'm getting is asking if it should use Gmail or Google Drive to proceed. I hit Gmail once just to see what it would do and it generates an email with two attachments.

Anyone know what's going on or how to prevent this from happening?

Edit: Forgot to mention, I'm running CM9 w/ LeanKernel 3.8.0. and installed the CarHome attachments earlier in the thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sleuth255:
oops... need more coffee. :o You did say "car dock" Antob125... A dremmel was used to shave down the entire back of the car dock. If you look at your GN while it is sitting in the dock, you can see that the entire face protrudes out by about 1mm as opposed to the GSM version which sits flush with the front of the dock. That's because the LTE version is that much thicker. The effect of this is to move the pogo pins upward about that much from where the contacts are in the dock itself. For most of us, this doesn't seem to be an issue, but for some, the contacts don't meet up and they have to extract the volume side of their GN out a bit (which rotates the pogo pins down more) to fix.

The dremmel mod actually shaves about a mm of the entire back side of the dock to let a LTE GN sit lower. Don't contemplate this mod unless you are having charging issues.

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I've seen that twice myself. It happens when I remove my GN from the dock. I'm using stock 4.0.4 so it isn't your ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xenokira:
It's good to know it's not the ROM and that I'm not the only one. It seems to happen more than just undocking for me. I've had it happen while cruising around the UI and even just while I have music playing, but only while docked.

I haven't had a chance to look at the bug report that it attaches to the email it want to send out though. I don't mind sending the bug reports, but I'm hesitant to do so when I'm not sure what it's for.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
Spoke to the devs of AOKP and they said they are going to look for a fix for calls going through car speakers. Hopefully it's a software issue and they can make a fix for everyone since there are now quite few people with car docks :)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chuckdz3:
I had the same problem when I first got my dock. Running AOKP M5. My thoughts were that when all the buttons were being mashed down through inserting the phone into the dock and it created this problem. (I also had a quiet a lot of SS taken too lol) Although after I shaved a pretty decent amount on the volume rocker slot I have not seen that problem since.

Just thought I'd share my experience again. I posted a few pages back because I was one who had the problem that my LTE GN would not keep contact when the phone was fully inserted. Well I think I narrowed down two problems and I ended up not having to use a dremel, which I was very happy about that. First I thought that the volume rocker trick would not work for my problem because my phone was not keeping contact and I was still able to use the volume rocker functions just fine. However I contemplated returning the dock and just saying forget it, but I ended up diving in and shaving off a good amount on the volume rocker slot. My second problem was I was trying to get the phone to work with a skin. (I know that sounds ridiculous and I should have known better) but I removed the skin on the sides so the buttons and pin contacts were not involved and left the battery cover plate still with the skin on it. Turns out that even the slightest amount of that skin on the battery cover was causing my phone not to keep contact. So I removed it and everything works perfect now, even with my OEM extended battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tsy87:
GNEX CDMA.

I had TERRIBLE luck with my dock... first was the volume rocker issue. But that was easily fixed by using a hobby knife and trimming around the hole.

My biggest issue was the fact that the phone would not make a solid connection with the pogos. It was tricky because with the dock plugged into a power source, it would show charging on the lock screen and the battery logo would indicate it was being charged, however, when I went into the battery status it said "not charging).

Initially I had no idea what was wrong... I thought it was the rom (cyanogen 9) I was running but eventually I ruled that out. I tried inserting the phone differently and even pressing down on the pogo area when the phone was in. I finally was able to get a solid connection when I inserted the pogo side in first and pressed the phone down diagonally. What was upsetting was that no matter what, as soon as I pressed the other side of the phone in, the connection would be lost. After much consideration, I decided to whip out my dremel and a sanding wheel and go to town. About an hour or so later, I shaved enough material out of the dock that I could insert the phone without any special handling and have it make solid connection with the pins.

After I figured that out, it was time for my permanent car mount. I had purchased a panavise car mount for my Toyota FJ cruiser. Its a small metal plate that is screwed in near the radio deck. Essentially, the perfect place IMHO for the phone to be. The problem was that it was angled so that if you mounted the phone flat against the plate it would be perfect, but because the google car dock was meant to be mounted on a windshield, the angle you could rotate the phone would not be able to face the driver at all.

Dremel round two.... I decided at this point I was going to make it work no matter what. I unscrewed as many screws as i could find and popped the base open. To my surprise... their are 2 PCBs that are connected via a thin 3 wired cable with small connectors on either end. I guess I should have expected that since audio and power are being routed through the device. After some thinking... I decided that it would be best to splice/extend the wires and hide the PCB's somewhere behind the dash for a permanent install. Because of my lack of proper tools the wiring looks rough and im currently looking for a source to buy the little connectors so I can make a much cleaner wiring job.

After all the work and frustration, the dock works beautifully and it works as I expected... I just wish the dock worked out of the box for the CDMA version.

I will try to get some pictures of the install after work and of the little PCB connectors... hopefully someone with more knowledge can point me to where I can find those connectors so I can make a longer cable to connect the dock to the PCB.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dru858:
Bummer, can't find that model anywhere outside of a car kit for the Nexus or Note.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Samzebian:
You have to go to the bluetooth settings, and disable playing media audio through it. Just found this today because I finally paired my jawbone with my phone again, for like the first time in months. I can't stand talking on speakerphone, nowhere near loud enough.

I usually use my aux cable and the car speakers, but this dock doesn't do that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wade-0:
The phone outputs digital audio via the middle pogo pin to the dock, which uses an onboard DAC to convert to analog output for the AUX jack. I find the sound quality on mine to be clean and at a perfect "line out" volume. It's actually a slightly lower volume than the Bluetooth output.

Make sure you aren't running any sound modifications on your phone, like SoundControl or Volume+. Try turning any EQ feature off too and see if it fixes the distortion. I'd be tempted to say you had a defective DAC in your car dock, but if you're saying it happens with your desktop dock too, then you've probably got something else going on in your phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zathus:
Just ordered mine. makes me kind of sad though. I spent a week building this
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mmidgley:
dock settings unavailable?

My experience:

Verizon Galaxy Nexus, stock 4.0.4 imm76k (bootloader unlocked, not rooted)

Standard battery

CarHome and CarDock installed from this thread

GSM Galaxy Nexus Vehicle Dock Kit from Google Play store

I popped out the rubber volume buttons and enlarged the dock's opening for the phone volume down button (did this by hand with a small drill bit). With that as the only modification the phone did go in the dock and make pogo pin contact. The bottom of the phone (around microusb port) sticks out of the dock around 1mm. It sticks out like 1.5mm or so at the top. This slight angle made it so I had to widen the volume up button opening in the dock (on the side closest to the GN's display) using a small razor blade.

I also carefully notched out a section of the rubber rim to make it easier on the volume buttons when being inserted into the dock (kinda like it shows on the product image on the box, duh). I did not do this for the power button as I always insert the phone pogo pins first and didn't think it needed it.

It is tight to get in, but does pop right in--it even lines up right if inserted carefully. Its been tight to get it out as well but as mod'd it doesn't seem like it will hurt the phone (just be annoying with volume keys bumped). I'm curious to see if it loosens up over time.

Dock software automatically runs as the launcher. It charges. It sends non-phone audio out the 3.5mm jack (without volume control). It was expensive, but I am happy to have it and will make good use of its functionality as it is.

The part that doesn't work is the Android settings for Dock--they show as unavailable (greyed out) even when the notification bar shows car dock mode. Does this work for anyone else? Last time I messed with those type of settings was with a nexus one...

m.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wade-0:
Nope.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] najaboy:
The reason is unavailable is because that setting pertains to the desktop dock. It would be rather pointless to have the car dock trigger it as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SQurel23:
My dock is supposed to arrive today! Besides the standard car app, what else are you guys using? I've looked at Car Home Ultra but it's kinda ugly IMO. Is there any way to use the Galaxy Note car app?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmbfan13:
Is there a way to increase the volume that the pogo pins output? Seems to be much quieter than when i run a 3.5mm wire from the phone. It doesnt seem that Volume+ changes anything either.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fatttire:
+1 for porting / developing more car dock apps
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drumstyk1:
The new vlingo beta is pretty cool (very siri-esque). Note that there are 2 versions in the market, vlingo and vlingo labs beta i believe.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jstew182:
Is anyone else having an issue with the dock staying suctioned to their windshield?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sigismond0:
It's been extremely solid for me. It's held up to the phone mashing it around dirng the in/out process plenty of times and hasn't budged. Make sure you're holding it on the windshield super-tight before you close the lever to create the vacuum. The less air that is under the sucker when you engage the lever, the more powerful the vacuum grip.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
Also clean windshield. That buildup is a factor too.

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jstew182:
I installed my dock on Monday and haven't had any issue until this morning when I took my phone out and the whole dock came with it. After that I tried several locations on the windshield and kept having the same issue. I will try to clean it better and go from there.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SQurel23:
Thanks I'll check this out...wouldn't have guessed that this could act as a car dock app.