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[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] scott14719:
Arrived and installed! I took the cable out from the back like others have done...its just too stiff for the micro usb port if you don't. I'm using Ibolt's car app, but haven't had a lot of time with it yet. But, it holds the phone well and does the job.

**EDIT**

I wanted to ad a little bit about the Car Dock app ibolt Dock'n Drive app.

It works very well. It is fully intuitive and customizable, allows for 18 shortcuts, allows the screen to stay on (well designed slider allows you to put on a clock screen saver), and you can choose between the default dock mode (clock) and this or any other dock app when you plug it in.

I suggest anyone interested check out the Play store and watch the video for themselves. It is very accurate and shows everything you need to know.

The dock itself is still working very well, although it has been reported to charge at a lower rate than the stock charger, it kept up with everything I had running (ibolt car app, navigation, etc...) and never lost charge.

I still highly recommend it and the app.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Vahur_v:
Received my iBolt xProDock. Tried charging rates with original wall charger. When fully used xProDock USB cable, then charging rate is 960mA. When used original USB cable connected to the xProDock stiff USB extension (the one what puts phone to the driving mode), then charging rate is 1700mA. When I have original Samsung cable connected to the phone, then it charges 1900mA.

I may use my own USB cable, but it's to bad that the little USB cable, what puts phone to the driving mode, isn't allowing 1900mA charging also...
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] patrickl:
Too bad this thing is so ugly and has a loose charge cable.

I was hoping there would be a sleek solution like Samsung had for the Galaxy Nexus. Just put it in and go.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] KryptosXLayer2:
Yeah, it's a universal solution, and I stated a few times how I'm not a fan of anything universal for a car dock, but this is the only thing that WORKS right now, really and truly works, so you have to take a whole lot of good with a little unsightliness! I know this won't go well in many higher end vehicles, hell, it looks out of place in my loaded Altima, but as of right now, there's nothing better available
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] rickdm:
Exits dock mode when powered

I just got my xProDock and was wondering if anyone is having the same problem I am. I have a Verizon S4, and it will not stay in dock mode when the USB cable is powered. If I plug in the cable frame the dock without power to dock, it goes into dock mode and stays just fine. If I plug it in with power, the phone goes into dock mode but then immediately exits. I've tried five different car and wall chargers with the same results.

Has anyone seen this issue?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] avetny:
Galaxy s "IIII".

There is incorrect grammatical mistake on the box.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] WillyBear:
I have bought this and it is excellent but it does NOT work with this case : http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BYJXGP2/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The charge cable does not fit when using that case. I had to buy a new car charger. Other then that, it is a perfect car holder for the S4!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] rancidcrab:
In post #35 ramk13 shows how he trimmed the usb plug to work. I've done the same.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Vahur_v:
Could someone check charging rates with iBolt cables?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] dannyben:
It's all over this thread.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Kelseer:
Having this issue as well. :C I'm about to send an email to the seller and see if there's anything that can be done. I'll let you guys know if I hear anything. If anyone has a solution, do tell!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] SmithyNZ:
[MENTION=4931471]Kelseer[/MENTION] & rickdm

Please contact iBOLT. They can help you for sure ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] rickdm:
Thank you, I have contacted iBOLT and have given them some information they requested. I will post the solution when I get one.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] GPSMapper:
"old" car-dock pigtail for iBolt? Anyone?

Personally I do not like the "smart-dock mode" workaround as in this mode TouchWiz and lock screen are NOT rotated and this is the main issue for me.

I do relaize that this is a coercive measure from IBolt to switch to smart-dock mode instead of car-mode as Samsung was not very consistent with car-mode support in it's FWs in the past.

Moreover, as far as I know, SGS4 International FW does not support cardock mode yet(?).

This is the reason why modified Infuse 4G dock does not work on SGS4 (as reported by TC)

But I'm a lucky owner of SGS3 and latest stock FW have cardock support working again.

I'm currently searching for older Smart cables adapters (pigtails) for IBolt from their earlier revisions (car-mode, 619Kohm between pins 4 and 5). Hopefully I will find one...

Anyone from IBolt, can you help me with this?

At the moment I do also have original Samsung dock for Infuse 4G (US) and can confirm it is working again with car mode.

The only issue - it does not fit for SGS3 with skins an I have to remove my SGS3 from the skin every time I want to put it into holder.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] KryptosXLayer2:
I don't think this post was necessary on both threads for the xProDock, or even a post on either one of them since you could have A) contacted [MENTION=4679934]MikaelPe[/MENTION] directly, B) contacted iBolt directly from their website, or C) asked this on an SIII thread considering you don't even have an S4.....

But that's just my opinion.... on my thread..... :D
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] GPSMapper:
yep, sorry for that. I was a bit lost :)
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] rickdm:
FYI: iBolt has found that the issue with the S4 not staying in dock mode was with the charging arm. They have sent me a new arm, and I have also purchased a second dock that came with the new arm. All is working fine.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] KryptosXLayer2:
Interesting! I have a problem with the S4 not staying in car dock mode, not dock mode.... I think that has to do with Tasker though unfortunately, and I'm going to test that out with NFC tags when I get my hands on ones I can personally test that work with the S4 instead of ordering them online.

Every so often while driving, the car dock mode task I have set on Tasker just DIES - and since I have Google Music set as a kill app when car dock mode ends, the music dies immediately as well too, it's very annoying to say the least.... I don't want to point fingers at iBolt since the phone stays on dock mode even after car dock mode dies, so I don't think it has to do with them, but I've been wrong before!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] nico3838:
hi !

I have the S4 in landscape with the iBOLT xProDock and audio OUT.

I have 2 adapter, I use "SAM2"

but I've a problem when driving : The screen rotate to portrait for 1sec very regularly, this is really annoying

I don't know why.

I search a little app for lock "Reverse Landscape mode" automatically when CarMode is ON and enable "AutoRotation Mode" when I un-plug

Someone can help me ?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] SmithyNZ:
Why are you using a seperate app for landscape? Just enable "AutoRotate" in the settings and you're good to go.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] nico3838:
If I enable "AutoRotate", My phone have a problem (rotate to portrait for 1sec regularly)

but I found my problem :)

I use "MyProfiles" for change volume, luminosity, disable wifi... and other automation.

I've uncheck "Stay Awake" and "No Screen Lock" but I set "ScreenTimeout" to 30m

Now it's perfect :)
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] MonkeyTime:
iBolt Car Dock - audio out and Bluetooth phone

Not sure if anyone with the dock can elaborate on this or not......

For starters, finally nice to know that I'm not the only one anal about my car dock! I was going to start a one-man therapy group to convince myself that I'm the normal one, the rest of the world was wacko for not being concerned with this!

Ok, so now the question. While searching for the right dock, I've been playing around with a few old ones just to have something in the car for navigation. I've found (and read that it was intentionally designed this way by Samsung) that if you have something plugged into the 3.5mm headphone jack that an incoming call will not be allowed to be picked up by BT, once the headphone jack is unplugged, the option is ungrayed on the phone screen and even auto connects if set to. This is less than optimal having to unplug a cable every time a call comes in.

When using the micro usb w/ audio out, does it still restrict this? I can't find an answer as to whether this is being initiated by the actual jack connection, or if it's an audio out switch.

Either way, seems like this is the dock to go with, quite possibly also with a proclip base!

Thanks for the thread and knowing I'm not the strange one (at least for this reason!)!:silly:
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] KryptosXLayer2:
No, we definitely are the normal ones, if you're not concerned about how your perfect device is supposed to be mounted in the car while driving, you are most certainly "wacko" as you so eloquently put it!

I'm not sure I understand your question though, so I'll explain how I use it with my Bluetooth headset.... the phone call comes in, and I do nothing on the device, just tap the Bluetooth headset and start talking. Google Music is muted while I'm on the call (remember, music is going through the car's speakers), and resumes as soon as the call ends. It is beautiful, it is a piece of software that is truly designed exactly how it should be. Now, if Samsung and Google would just stop screwing around with it, we would be great!!! Leave it exactly how it is for ALL future devices because this is the safest, most effective way of using a phone while mounted to your dash!

Hope that answered your question? Not sure if that's what you were asking, but that's kind of what I think you were getting at....
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] dannyben:
Confirmed. It also works that way for bluetooth calls going through the car speakers. Notifications & GPS will also pause the music briefly.

The change I'd like to see however, and it's Google not iBolt, is apps like Tango, hangouts, etc... These won't work with the car audio now but as soon as connected turn the phone into speakerphone mode.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] MonkeyTime:
Not really what I was asking, but I got one today and it works how I hoped.

With the GS4, out of the box, if you have something plugged into the headphone jack, you can't take a call over BT. So a normal driving trip of charging the phone while streaming music and possibly using navigation, when a call comes in, you can either take the call on the phone directly (up to your ear) or unplug the headphone jack and use the BT. Very inconvenient and not what I'm used to. I read that Samsung designed it that way intentionally, not sure what the rational was, but doesn't work for me.

My question was if I was taking the audio out over the micro usb, if it behaved the same way. I just didn't explain it very clearly. I'm still not sure what triggers the system to lock off the BT, if it's a physical connection or what, but this worked great today (just like my other phones in the past). When I was driving, with music streaming from the dock and the audio output from the usb cable and into a aux input, when a phone call came in, it automatically paused the music and I could hit the button on the steering wheel to answer it over the car BT system. Without this cable, with music out from the headphone jack and into the aux input, when a call came in, it paused the music, the car picked it up with BT, but the phone wouldn't output the call to BT, the option was grayed out. It was an odd combination. I could answer the call, but they couldn't hear me and I couldn't hear them.

I couldn't test this until I bought the dock because my old Moto cable that split power from audio died before I bought this phone. I hadn't ordered another because I wasn't sure how I was going to proceed with a dock for this phone.

In the end, all's well that ends well.

Now onto this dock......

Overall, I like it. for now I put it on the windshield where my last dock was. All cables are concealed and it's in a convenient place for seeing and working with for navigation/music and really doesn't block any of my view of the road.

I've noticed more shaking than I'm used to, which I wasn't expecting, but not terrible.

It took a lot of working the springs before I could load or unload the phone one handed. Before it loosened up, I would move the dock trying because the spring took that much to move.

I'm also experiencing the slowwww charging with the norm about 720. Funny thing is, moving the cord around gets different results. Anywhere from 600 to 820. I'm wondering if it's a connection issue. Removing the stiff connector and taking the cable directly to the phone, it increases a bit, but not much and the fluctuation is even greater.

Considering with the corporate discount I only paid $30 for this at Verizon, I'm very happy with it.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] zxsix:
Is anyone else using the ibolt dock in the car and a regular desktop dock in the house?

I have the Samsung Universal dock.

When I place the phone on that, it comes up and asks what program I want as default. It offers the ibolt car app, carhome ultra, and desk clock.

I chose desk clock, always.

Now when I put phone on night stand dock, it goes to desk clock. Perfect so far.

But, when I plug phone into the ibolt dock in the car, it launches desk clock! No, I need one of the car apps to launch here.

So, I cleared the default setting, connected phone to ibolt dock in car, get prompted for which app to use, selected car home ultra.

Now car home ultra launches when I connect to the ibolt dock in the car. Good so far.

But, when I sit the phone on the samsung universal dock on my night stand, it launches car dock ultra! That's hardly useful in bed!

How do I get it to launch desk clock on the samsung dock and car home ultra (or ibolt car app) in the car?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] jinxiz:
Thank You:victory:
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] EvoN00b:
I got mine last week. It works fine, but the loose cables also annoy the **** out of me! Coming from the HTC car dock that I had for my EVO LTE the over all looks of the dock suck, IMO, but then again as said, it works...for now, until Samsung actually comes out with a car dock (hopefully).
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] KryptosXLayer2:
There's a few simple ways to do it, the first and easiest way is using Tasker. You can set a specific app to run when connected to each individual dock. The app is a must have if you like to automate things as much as I do - when I come home, when I get to work, when I connect to a certain WiFi, things happen automatically, as they should!

The other way to do it is using dock specific apps that know which dock you are connected to - kind of like Tasker, but cheaper / free in some cases. There are apps (I don't use them so I don't know what they are) that will specify which dock you are connected to and assign an app to run for that dock, and nothing else. If you don't want ANYTHING to run, there's an app that does that as well too, appropriately named Dock No-Op, but that doesn't sound like what you're looking for.....

I'm sure someone else can help you find those other apps here, I'm about to run out but I wanted to answer your question real quick!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] nico3838:
I've a another problem again :(

everything worked fine until now but,

When I press the "home button", I come back to the launcher home and no the IBolt app.

however the default car mode app is Ibolt

I can run ibolt automatically but if I press home button, I return to launcher, I want return to ibolt app

I have the last update JDQ39.i9505XXUBMEA

someone has the same problem?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] kevinbear:
Consider using NFC tags to trigger the different locations
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] MikaelPe:
New Dock'n Drive App beta version available...

Hello everyone. We here at iBOLT just created a Google Community for the Dock'n Drive App. The not--yet-released 1.4 version is available for download if you sign up as a Beta tester. Since there's so many bright and dedicated "car-dock" users here we are reaching out asking you to join the community, download the app and provide input if you find something that is not working. See https://plus.google.com/b/118395465528517084123/118395465528517084123/about

We will also post news and other updates on this site with regards to DockMode and more. I'll also set up a dedicated thread here on XDA for the App. Thanks and have a great weekend!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] nico3838:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/dock/

FUCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] KryptosXLayer2:
SIGNED!! Thanks for sharing!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] vandettaz:
Thank you! Galaxy Dock Lover..

Thank you for this thread. I have been using my iBolt dock for my S4 for a few days now. I'm so glad I found something since Samsung has abandoned making a proper active dock. Reading the initial iBolt review here, I knew I found my next dock!

I've had the S2 active dock from samsung, and used the infuse dock for my S3. I also have the samsung universal dock that held me over with my S4 until i found this thread! I needed a dock that let me insert and remove my phone single handed, and enabled a charge and an aux out with as little cables and steps as possible.

My S4 gives me all my music / gps / data while I drive. And I drive a lot!

I found a few issues with the iBolt though, for some reason the spring loaded arm would "lock" when there was no phone inserted, making it extra hard to extend for the first 1/16th of an inch. I put a small rubber pad to stop it from closing all the way, now its extra easy.

The lengthy 9foot cable does in fact cause a charge drop. The small gauge wiring prevents a full current, I managed to increase mine to 1250ma from 860ma by shortening the cable from between the Y to the microusb (I left the small iBolt "jumper" in tact, it seems the resistance created in the jumper is what enables the dock mode). As soon as I'm able to purchase a replacement cable from iBolt, I'd like to try and butcher the whole Y cable to increase the charge capacity to get closer to the stock 1900ma i get with the S4's white charging cable.

Unless someone has found another solution to getting a better charge with iBolts stock Y aux-out cable?

I'm also having a problem with dock modes...At home with my Samsung "universal" desktop dock vs iBolt. I'm hoping to find a simpler solution, I don't want to use NFC tags or add several apps, but there is no longer a difference between the two docks, both trigger the same dock mode, which currently loads the iBolt car dock software.. Since I don't do anything different when I get home, as opposed to driving.. I can't find a way to get tasker to differentiate from the two docks. Both docks get identified the same by the S4.. (I'm currently waiting for the new S4 Smart dock to show up, I hope it might cause a different reaction from my phone) Any new suggestions?..

Even with these issues(mostly samsung issues), iBolt has successfully made the best "universal" dock I have ever used.

Thank you!! And thanks everyone for their input here, I'm sorry for the lengthy post and I hope I haven't broken any forum rules, or bad posting etiquette.

Paul

SG, SGS2, SGS3, SGS4(IIII?)

Edit: I shortened the distance from the Y of the 9 foot iBolt cable Even more and now I'm getting a full 1700ma charge out of it. The 5 individual wires inside the sheath are good quality and easy to strip and reattach (soldered and heat shrink tubing added) im finally 100% satisfied with the charging rate of the cable! Before it would barely charge and sometimes even discharge if I used gps/ audio playback/brightscreen.

I ended up removing 5 feet of cable from the microusb side.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] nico3838:
I found a little fix for the home button problems

4.2 Car Mode Patch but it work only with Car Home Ultra

After installing the app, press Home and then select 4.2 Car Mode Patch as the default home screen app.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] sweeds:
I bought the proclip and iBolt dock based off of proclips reputation and your recommendations.

The mounting went fine. No major roadblocks there (so punny)

One hangup: The sound quality is inconsistent for me. Sometimes perfect clarity, and other times unbearably crackly. It seems to depend on how the cable is angled. That cable is incredibly stiff!

Any recommendations to loosening up the cable? I emailed iBolt support yesterday morning and haven't heard back. I might already need a replacement :/

Edit/suggestion: as someone mentioned, I unhooked the cable from the back of the dock, so now it hangs. That gives it more leeway. I'll have a 2 hour car ride today to test that out.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] kevinbear:
Anyone else experiencing music through the dock audio output not allowing audio effects (such as Bass Boost, or in my case the excellent Viper4Android audio engine)? These effects get greyed out, just as if you were listening to just the phone speaker. Utilizing the 3.5mm audio output jack allows for these effects (and thus, better sound in my case).
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] mmark27:
After all this back and forth with dock mode and charging, yada, yada, I decided to save the bucks and get this dock off amazon first:

EnGive Samsung Galaxy S4 dock

Seems like a real basic dock. People complain about the tightness of the fit, I might just dremel it out a bit. I don't use screen protectors or cases, so this should work. Of course this won't launch dock mode, but I'll set up a NFC task when it connects to my car bluetooth to launch into the dock mode. And.....if its a POS, then I'll just get this iBolt one.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Basileus_AU:
So, from what I understand cutting away and soldering everything back is the only option to bring the charging current to appropriate level?

Is there any replacement cable for sale available somewhere?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] vandettaz:
It seems that is the only option I've found. I've tried several chargers, 1A Samsung car charger, 2A Palm car charger, and 2A Samsung car charger. (All were single port 2A, and charged at 1700-1900ma when using a stock samsung charging cable, but went down to 720-820ma when using the ibolt cable at it's full length).

A few weeks ago iBolt's sales emailed me saying that they would be selling the Y cables on their site, but so far there has been no cable for sale. So it looks like there is no way to buy a spare cable without having to spend the $40 to purchase the whole unit with cable yet.

Cutting the cable looks like the only current option to make the iBolt cable useful for in-car charging use.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Basileus_AU:
I'm going to try one of those to see if it'll work http://www.ebay.com/itm/300914072546?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 in the worst case I'll lose $5 ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] vandettaz:
Nice Find! I was looking for this cable before I cut up the iBolt cable incase I screwed anything up but couldn't find one.