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[Nexus One Accessories] jamezracer:
this is pretty much was i've been doing with my gps until today when i got the dock on the mail. Now to replace the hardwired gps power cable with the usb cable. My garmin ran on 12v so i pulled the cigarette lighter plug apart and wired it straight to an extra fuse in my fusebox. I like your idea of getting an extra socket. If there is enough room in my fusebox for a socket and the car dock's adapter that saves me hacking it apart since it doesn't seem to be screwed together :-P

on another note, i tried a test call and the person on the other end can barely hear me at all!!!!! I turned off all of the bluetooth since i connect the phone straight to my head unit with a 3.5mm cable and all the other end gets is a few peeps of voice, completely unintelligible. is it that hard to turn up the gain on the microphone when a call comes in google?!?!?!?!?!?

for now i've turned the bluetooth speakerphone function on so i have to listen to calls on the pathetic little speaker but at least i can be heard.

does anyone know of an app or a hack which turns the microphone gain up to speakerphone levels when a 3.5mm audio jack is plugged in?

another warning for potential buyers: the dock's volume buttons don't change the phone's system or media volume levels, only the dock's speaker level. SO if you are like me and actually enjoy something that remotely resembles audio quality and use your car's audio system then you are not exactly well catered for by this product. the only reason i ended up spending the money is so i don't have to keep plugging in a charging cable.
[Nexus One Accessories] infinityhombre:
This is how I have my Radar detector wired, right to the 12v. In the book it says don't use any other power adapters and I was just worried about frying anything because I know with some of the Nuvi GPS units it actually steps the 12v down to 5v USB. I also have a 3.5 cable running to my head unit because I don't have the JVC BT unit yet. If you find an app for the gain let me know.
[Nexus One Accessories] martin0285:
TY for this.....Was a grip of mine as well.....
[Nexus One Accessories] Cheeze[iT]:
fyi, I got my car dock, and it works well with my Body-guardz full body wrap. fittment IS NOT an issue. still charges and clips in just fine. Love how it makes the phone louder... im going to use this with my portable charger for a mobile music player ;)
[Nexus One Accessories] logger:
Yeah infinityhombre's setup looks neat. Might try something similar with my my09 VW Golf, because my fuse box lives on the end of the dash below the A pillar. So it would be a short cable run.

Jamezracer, How do you wire it to a fuse? By this I mean - is there are way to doctor an existing fuse so it has a lead hanging out of it. Or do you perhaps just wedge the live wire under the fuse pin before pushing it in and attach the earth somewhere else in the fuse?
[Nexus One Accessories] jamezracer:
i have a mkv golf too, it's a piece of cake to hard wire stuff in. go grab one of these from pep boys or kragen

use a multimeter to find a fuse that gets 12v when the ignition turns on, that keeps the dock from draining your car battery when the car is off. stick the add-a-fuse plug in place of that fuse, then stick the original fuse and another one (5A should be good for this dock) into the add-a-fuse plug. the wire coming out of it is your new fused +12v line and you can grab a ground from the torx screw right above the fuses. i will post pictures tomorrow if i get a chance between classes.

this single add-a-fuse device currently supplies power to my radar detector, gps, and a powered usb port that i fitted to one of the 3 blank switch covers in front of the gear stick.
[Nexus One Accessories] logger:
Thanks Jamezracer thats good info. Given me some good ideas on how to set mine up. So it is a fuse tap I need. If you are posting more pics I'd be interested to see how your powered usb port in the switch panel looks.
[Nexus One Accessories] logger:
Perhaps this flaw in functionality is the very reason for the delay in the car dock shipping?

Hypothetically, Google's pre-release testers may have discovered this (270 degree portrait to landscape rotate) fault when mounted cup down. Then further investigation showed it not to be a design fault in the cradle, but missing functionality in the phone firmware. What to do? Hold release of the cradle until firmware fixed. Then after long wait for OTA upgrade to be ready they release it anyway, in the knowledge that this glaring problem will go away as soon as the OTA is released. Hopefully this supports the theory of an OTA update real soon.

What do you reckon?
[Nexus One Accessories] gunnner:
So, I haven't experienced this. It makes sense that the dock can't just spin around and around, since there must be a cable going up the shaft to supply power. If it twisted all the way around, that'd eventually snap.

It does mean you have to mount the dock on the windshield in a specific orientation, though - a pain in the butt if you want to move it all the time, but luckily I don't. Is the problem specific to mounting it on the dash or something?

Has anyone else had a problem with the suction cup coming off when they twist the base too far in the unlock direction? It just goes right back on when you twist it back, but it's still odd.
[Nexus One Accessories] jamezracer:
here are some pics of the dash layout, fusebox, and the usb port. if you are interested in the usb port shoot me a pm and i'll give you my diy on making it.

also, an mkvi gti decided to part next to me today, so i couldn't resist taking a few pics :-P

http://jamezracer.imgur.com/nexus_dock_install
[Nexus One Accessories] bsinc1962:
Nice install. I have an '08 Jetta Wolfsburg and the aux input is inside the center console between the front seats. Is yours in there as well and if so how did you deal with it?
[Nexus One Accessories] logger:
+1 on the install, very neat.

+ 1 on the aux input query as well. I too would like to know how u did it.

I do know that there is this cover (4) in the VW MK5 & 6 console that could be removed to route the aux forward discretely. Is this how you did yours?
[Nexus One Accessories] logger:
YES.

Because when dash mounted, the base and the attach point on the rear of the cradle is rotated 180 degrees about from the way it is when windscreen mounted. This means that the rotate stopper moves from the 4-5pm position that yours will be in, to a very inconvenient 10-11pm.

As most of know, the stock phone rotation is currently organised so that the only way to flip the screen with a 90 degree turn from vertical, is leftwards from 12 to 9 pm. This movement is not possible with the cradle dash mounted, due to the rotate stopper which lives in the middle of the 90 degree turn at 10-11pm.

A firmware update from google would fix this, allowing dash mounters to spin their dock 90 degree clockwise from 12 to 3. Instead of the current requirement to spin 270 degrees the long way round from 12 to 9.
[Nexus One Accessories] infinityhombre:
I like the USB port idea I may have to make yet another mod to my car.
[Nexus One Accessories] URPREY:
I believe you're talking about the dock. That is Helix Launcher 2.
[Nexus One Accessories] dahui9:
helix 2 is the best replacement for not having the rotating menu's and its downloadable through the market.

If you have CMOD it is already enable on his new releases.

-Charlie
[Nexus One Accessories] miketheitguy:
When I did that my screen folded in and my radio hasn't worked since. Google said it could have been caused by the phone trying to push drivers to the head unit. Either way my in-dash DVD is now dead.

Mike
[Nexus One Accessories] Festaman:
I have had mine for 2 days now and these are the problems I am running into.

Just trying to find out if anyone else has these issues yet.

Phone Reboots frequently

Mic Will not detect voice when car is moving

Applications that don’t flip to landscape:

Phone

Contact List

Home Sceen (can be fixed with 3rd party launcher)

Some applications will cause the screen to lock after a while

When calls end it goes to call log not back to Dock application

No night mode for navigation

Screen Will Shut off in dock app causing you to have to touch it an extra time to wake it before issuing a voice command
[Nexus One Accessories] RogerPodacter:
mine has night mode for navigation. it inverts all the map colors at night so its not so bright. that what you mean?
[Nexus One Accessories] Festaman:
Yeah My nav does. Sorry i miss spoke. I mean Maps when not using nav. But this restart thing is driving me nutz
[Nexus One Accessories] Slimgym20:
I'm loving the car dock, but does anyone know where I can get an extra mount disk for a diff car? I've used the one that came with it in my car, but we go on road trips in my wife's, and I don't want to use the windshield.

I've searched on google and found a couple, just wondering if anyone get one that is the same size as the current one.
[Nexus One Accessories] SPAS79:
I'm pretty sure I replied to a similar post earlier on, but seem to have disappeared. Maybe the admins thought it was an ad... anyway I bought an extra disc from Radioshack, works well and was kinda inexpensive (like 5 bucks)...
[Nexus One Accessories] roblopes:
Finished installing the Nexus One Car Dock 2004 F-150

This was more fun than I thought it would be. I didn't want dangling wires running down the dash to the 12v cigarette lighter.

Ran a 12v feed to the key holder and hooked up the sound with the cable that came with the Home Dock to a 3rd party adapter I purchased years ago. This is so I can pump sound into the stock unit (Aux port).

Very clean install (As clean as it can be).

I need to figure out how to work the navigation :) Its not all that easy!

I video'd it and will put it up on You Tube.

Fun Stuff....

Thanks to CyanogenMod for making the launcher rotate. Otherwise, I'd have to leave the cradle pointing up instead of on the side.

Here's a You Tube video after I finished the install http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOUVdjFTBLM
[Nexus One Accessories] roblopes:
2 AMP Power = Heat

I looked on the charger that came with the phone. It puts out 2 AMPS. Super Charge the Charge on the phone. Its going to get hot.

I did notice using the phone with the USB plugged into the computer USB, it really doesn't charge very well if your using the phone. Car and home dock seem to charge the phone well.

Also, I thought I read somewhere the AC/DC power would change the way the CPU's. Much like a laptop's when its unplugged.
[Nexus One Accessories] jamezracer:
My aux port is actually in my glove box, but the routing shouldn't be too hard for those of you who have it in the center console.

With the aux cable in the glove box i removed the panels on either side of the center console (one torx screw on each and a good yank). then remove the panels under the glove box and the steering column. The audio cable and any power cables you want can be fed through the center console to the fusebox then up to where i have the dock.

if your aux port is in the center console then just remove the left panel on the side of the console adjacent to the carpet and you should be able to tuck the audio cable down the side of the seat and then under that side panel out of the way. keep it tucked behind the side panel until it gets to the very front of the panel at which point you can tuck it up above the tray under the steering column and run it to the fusebox and up.

for those interested in charging systems here are some more pics of the usb port i hardwired in. it was made from an old discarded apple car charger

http://jamezracer.imgur.com/usb_port/
[Nexus One Accessories] uansari1:
I was under the impression that regardless of the chargers amperage, the device would only draw 980mah..?
[Nexus One Accessories] roblopes:
Voltage draw

I'm by no means an engineer and suck at math but logic tells me that if you want to charge something that's using a lot of power (Display, GPS, Navigation, map, 3G/HSDPA, et...) and want to charge at the same time, it would require more power than whats being used? Seem logical?

I wonder what the discharge rate is while in the car dock and assume we have a lot running? Maybe that explains the 2A for the car charger.

Power and battery (part no. 35h00132-01m)

Removable 1400 mAh battery

Charges at 480 mA from USB, at 980 mA from supplied charger

Perhaps reading the Wiki on the battery. There are charging methods near the bottom of the article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
[Nexus One Accessories] detox702:
I've been having the overheating problem too. I was thinking that maybe it was because the cigarette lighter output more than my aux would, so I switched it over to the aux. Though, it seems like this doesn't fix the problem for anyone else. This seems like a rather major design flaw of the dock. It charges the phone so well that it has been turning off randomly or rebooting from the heat. Even with my air conditioning on high, it still didn't stay cool enough.
[Nexus One Accessories] agentkalaw:
I'm thinking of getting the dock and have been reading about the rotation problems. Do you think that if you have the usb cord is facing you instead of facing the windshield, you could rotate the phone properly? it seems to make sense to me. I'm running a desire rom and don't want to flash a new one just to get 360 rotation. Any thoughts? thanks.

rio
[Nexus One Accessories] gunnner:
Dead

So, my car dock seems to have died.

The orange light on the 12V plug turns off the second I plug it into the dock's base. This means that the phone doesn't even know it's docked.

Weirdly enough, the 12V adapter works just fine when connected to the phone itself, leaving out the dock base. Maybe a fuse has blown in the dock? Furthermore, the dock no longer responds when plugged into a regular indoor micro-USB charger (which it used to). Dead, dead, dead.
[Nexus One Accessories] :
could it have tripped something internally from being underpowered? the 12v adapter gives it 2A. most indoor are only 500ma - 1A. just a thought... don't a whole lot about lower amperage DC devices, but i know home/car audio stuff does not like being underpowered.
[Nexus One Accessories] gunnner:
That is possible, but I only used it once indoors, then used it fine for the next week and a half in my car. Then it stopped working, in my car.
[Nexus One Accessories] martin0285:
Yo you didn't un-lock the bootloaded on the dam car-dock.....Call Google and get it replaced.....Easy as that
[Nexus One Accessories] gunnner:
Yeah, I'll call them tonight. It should be an easy replacement, I hope.
[Nexus One Accessories] martin0285:
keep us posted plz!!
[Nexus One Accessories] gunnner:
Just called them - couldn't have been a simpler process to get a pre-paid label emailed to me for a refund. I can order a replacement if I want. Google/HTC must really have made an effort to fix their support setup, because they didn't make me jump through any hoops at all. Super easy.
[Nexus One Accessories] martin0285:
nice very very nice
[Nexus One Accessories] SPAS79:
So mine acts strange. I'm on CM 5.0.6 vanilla, and sometimes when i plug it in and connect the jack the phone reboots... this never happened with headphones, both stock and non stock ones. I guess it's the combination of car home and plugging in the jack that starts the reboot. Also if a wait a little before doing it it seems not to reboot...

I'm puzzled. I've tried to logcat it but when it reboots I seem to loose any logs... ideas?
[Nexus One Accessories] Argon007:
Hello,

Yesterday i received my Car Dock. I installed it in my car but it acts strange. If i put the phone into the dock bluetooth starts but after a minute or 2 minutes bluetooth disconnects with my phone - Car dock. Anyone else had this issue? I'm running Cyanogen mod 5.0.6

Today i used my phone for navigation for around 30 minutes and like some other people say, my phone is very hot! It burns almost :eek:

Everybody got this "problem" ?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] yawnmoth:
According to 090826a_Barium_ATT_UM.pdf, opening the Quick Menu will show you the "total percentage of program memory in use". My question is... what's a normal amount? For me, it's 67% with no running programs.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] orb3000:
That will depend what ROM are you using.

Sense 2.5 uses a lot more RAM
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] burtonsnow8:
Depends what ROM I am running and what tweaks I have performed. I can usually idle around 61-63% on sense 2.5. WM6.1 TF3D 50%. SPB Mobile Shell 61-65% (I could probably get this lower on a different ROM). I use cleanRAM when switching between SPB and Sense and at the end of each day.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mr_sheen:
super stock sense 2.1 rom, resproxy and no push internet tweaks, idling at max 65% after three days.

I dont use cleanram often too, i tend to forgot about it. Havent soft reset in a week and the phone still running nice
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] orb3000:
You can schedule to auto run every certain time:eek::cool:
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
This is just a small plea to those of you who help the Moderators by reporting posts using the red triangle.

There are two situations where it would be useful if you give us just a little more information:

1

If you report a post saying "this thread is posted in the wrong forum", then it would be useful to suggest a better forum to move it to.

2

If you report a thread saying "there is already a thread on this topic" then it would be useful to have a link to the other thread.

I know some members do this already, but it really does save a lot of time for tyhe Moderators, if they do not have to search around forums with which they may not be familiar. It may help to know that many Moderators will deal with such issues, even if they do not know much about that specific device or the forums in question - we will not be annoyed in any way, if you suggest where things can be moved to or merged etc.

​

Mike​
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Ok, got it Mike:)
[About XDA developers] Badwolve1:
Kk, Thanks Mike

Edit: Typo "Time for tyhe Moderators"

PS, if that guy got a HTC phone, he could check his comments on the go ;)!!!
[About XDA developers] galaxys:
Sounds like a plan!
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Thanks guys.... I may even consider a Group Hug:)

​

Mike​
[About XDA developers] flyboyovyick:
LOL ! at the pic mike!

flyboy
[Hero CDMA General] subliminalurge:
Many people have noted that some apps, the HTC weather and clock widget in particular, seem to report the wrong location frequently. Some people have traced the problem to the use of an Airave, which at least provides an explanation even if a fix is still lacking. But other people who have reported the issue are not Airave users, so the problem can't be blamed on that in all cases.

I was affected by this myself. While troubleshooting an unrelated problem yesterday I noticed messages scrolling by related to location, some of them containing the latitude and longitude. I plugged these into google maps, and bingo, it placed it smack in the middle of my front yard, even though the HTC widget was showing (what I thought at the time was) a city 150 miles away.

Now comes the part where luck steps in. I just recently moved to this town, and this morning I was doing some random googling to learn more about the area, just the sort of mindless stuff I do to keep my mind occupied until I've had enough coffee to wake up and actually start on something useful, and I eventually landed on the Wikipedia page for the city.

I currently live in Traer, IA. My phone has been saying I'm in Perry, which is a town that I know well, on the other side of the state, leading me to assume that my phone was giving me a location roughly 150 miles off. However, as it turns out (thanks Wikipedia!), the city of Traer is located in the Perry township. For those who don't know, just as states are divided into counties, counties are further divided into townships. But, townships aren't often mentioned in day to day conversation, and the vast majority of poeple have no idea which township they live in (or, for that matter, that there is such a thing as a township).

So all along, it has had the location right, it's just been displaying the township name instead of the city name.

I still consider this to be a bug (obviously the correct behavior would be to display the city name), but at least I now know that it has my location correct even if it's choosing to display an unfamiliar name.

Anyone else experiencing this bug and not able to blame it on an Airave, it might be worth checking to see if the name of the location it's displaying is more closely related to where you live than you might originally think.

EDIT: Ok, I pulled it up on google maps, and it's only 113 miles away, not 150. The actual distance is completely beside the point, but I've been on the internet long enough to know that some smartass will mention it.... :D
[Hero CDMA General] flipzmode:
I have seen others say that it was showing their county. I never put two and two together. Great detective work.
[Hero CDMA General] subliminalurge:
Thanks. It's been driving me nuts.

I'd still really like to see it display the city name, but until that gets resolved at least I can feel comfortable that location based apps will work properly. Bring up local weather, display nearby movie theaters, etc...

It seems like a minor bug on the surface, but when you stop to consider how many apps are starting to utilize location in very useful ways, it's nice to be able to feel confident that they're using the RIGHT location....
[Hero CDMA General] Zexter:
weird. I haven't had that problem. it actually updates within 5ish minutes of being in a new county/city. good to know if it does ever happen to me though. thanks :-)
[Hero CDMA General] subliminalurge:
Yeah, the issue was never with the speed of the update. Mine has always updated plenty fast. It's just that in one particular location where I happen to spend a great deal of time (my home), it seemed to be getting it wrong.

I'm going to dig in a little deeper, but my initial instinct is that the bug isn't even in the HTC widget. The most likely explanation, I think, is that the database it's reading from has some values stored in the wrong fields..... (But that's just an educated guess until I get a chance to look more closely....)
[Hero CDMA General] beerock:
I don't get any wrong city info.....but it seems like recently it doesn't update the weather correctly. For instance weather will say it bright and sun shining when its obivouly DARK. LOL:p oh well thats what they made windows for.:D

Thanks for bringing this up!
[Hero CDMA General] mkhopper:
I'm currently running DC ROM v2.05 and my reported location in GMaps and any weather application is always quite a bit off from the true location.

Prior to installing any OS 2.1 based ROM, the location was always dead on correct even with GPS turned off.

I'm not using Airave.

You mention that you saw coordinates information messages while researching another issue.

Do you happen to know where the file is that these coordinates are stored in the system? I had found them once a few months ago; two plain text files containing only latitude and longitude values.

However I can't find these file now. Maybe they're no longer text files in a v2.1 system?

I'm curious to know if the correct values are being stored in these files.
[Hero CDMA General] subliminalurge:
Where they're actually stored? No. I found them while I was running "adb logcat". If you connect your phone to your pc and let that run while the phone is just sitting idle, one of the things that will go by every now and then is log messages about the phone refreshing the location info. You should be able to grab latitude and longitude info from there.