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I have the HTC dock for the ameo arriving monday / tuesday. I lll post pictures and comments for all that are interested.
Ordered from expansys £69
ade0282 said:
I have the HTC dock for the ameo arriving monday / tuesday. I lll post pictures and comments for all that are interested.
Ordered from expansys £69 with a second battery
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Have you noticed this ?
http://www.gpsforless.co.uk/product_details.php?id=9256
GPSLessforLess cradle
Palmchen said:
Have you noticed this ?
http://www.gpsforless.co.uk/product_details.php?id=9256
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That seems to be a charging and syncing station, rather than a full docking station (with its USB passthrough ports etc). Having said that, if it charges from the mains while connected with PC, as description implies, it will be exactly what I'm after. Not a bad price either. If it's the same one I saw a few weeks ago, the price has halved since then. Hmmm, might get two (home and work)...
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No, the one I saw before was this:
http://www.gpsforless.co.uk/product_details.php?id=7558
With second battery slot. Doesn't seem to be available though. The other probably replaced it.
What is the function of earphone jack holes of station?
On the left side of Athena, there are three jack holes, i.e., earphone, miniusb, and vga out. However, the docking station only plugs into miniusb and vga out. It does not plug into earphone. However, there is a earphone jackhole on the right side of the docking station, but when I plug into that earphone jack hole, I did not get any sound from it. I can not use the original earphone jack hole either, because it was blocked when you set Athena into the docking station. I have a question that What is the function of earphone jack holes on the docking station if no sound coming out from it?
The audio output is also available from the mini USB connection on the Ameo, connection of a correctly wired addapter to the Ameo will mute the onboard speakers thus routing the audio to the addapter cable/ port etc. Either your unit is faulty or the dock unit is incorrectly wired -
When you dock the device try playing some music etc. on the unit and does it emmit any sound from its onboard speakers ? - Mike
I *DID* get two of the cheaper cradles for my Advantage. They plug into the mains with a supplied adapter (5V 1A) and the PC's USB.
The trouble is, the charging time seems to be as if it were charging from USB only - ie sloooow. This is despite the power light coming on when mains is connected (or when USB is connected). Does the USB charging override the mains charging? I've tried disabling the USB charging with a registry addition as described elsewhere, to no effect.
If I unplug the adapter the LED on the adapter remains lit for a very long time - several minutes at least. Even unplugging the USB and the adapter at the same time doesn't affect that - the LED on the adapter itself and the cradle remain lit, but the charging light on the Advantage goes out. Very peculiar.
For someone with a full docking station - how quickly does it charge? If it's at full mains speed I may upgrade to one or two of them (when finances permit) for syncing, and use these cheap ones as mere mains-only charging stations dotted around the house.
panvita said:
On the left side of Athena, there are three jack holes, i.e., earphone, miniusb, and vga out. However, the docking station only plugs into miniusb and vga out. It does not plug into earphone.
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The Athena mini-USB also provides Audio-out like all other new HTC devices. This would explain why the dock only connects to the mini-USB jack. However then, you should get some audio noise out of the dock's jack... this seems not to work...
Only had Kaiser for a couple of weeks......put the handset in active Brodit Car Holder and the phone reset ....now doesn't show as charging and won't synch with PC.
The car charger has 12vdc-5vdc regulator etc and it seemed to me like a 'short' when engaging the USB lead with the ignition on. Maybe a slight mis-alignment didn't help either.
T-Mobile (UK) sending exchange phone without any hassle so I asked if this had happened before....
Helpful chap said Yes but they had been blaming moisture, dirt etc. and a 'few' had come back
Anybody else had a fry up ????
i have a similar problem. my car charger works but not my usb or home charger
On a Dutch forum there are a lot of posts about the brodit holder that kill the Kaiser. It's a production error in the holder. Something with draining power from the Kaiser when you turn off your car if i remember correctly.
Yep, it's an brodit problem but brodit is verry quit about this. Couple of tytn's are already returned to HTC. Brodit is now installing a diode in the charging system so a car can't drain power from the tytn/kaiser.
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Yep, it's an brodit problem but brodit is verry quit about this. Couple of tytn's are already returned to HTC. Brodit is now installing a diode in the charging system so a car can't drain power from the tytn/kaiser.
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It's about the Parrot 3200 specially connectors starting with serial # M there is a call back for.
Heijdemann said:
It's about the Parrot 3200 specially connectors starting with serial # M there is a call back for.
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Parrot? Brodit are we talking about. But typo perhaps because the othet text is correct. The brodit with an defect has an serialnumber starting with an M an six digits.
Where can you find the serial number of the brodit holder?
sticky here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=343951
Nice production failure, maybe brodit can sell it as feature "when your battery is low, you can start your car with your kaiser...."
Are there other known Accessoirs with such bricking stuff?
No brodit holder here, but two of my chargers no longer work ... my car charge and my igo charger at home... now I can only charge via my plug-in charger that came with the tilt or the usb to computer connection. aargh. I am out of warranty
I recently purchased the i.Trek Powered Cradle Mount with Powered Speaker from Semsons (http://www.semsons.com/ipocrmowiins18.html). It arrived today and I wanted to jot down my first impressions. By the way, My Sprint Mogul is running the leaked 3.16 ROM and radio. So, I use the internal GPS for navigation. I bought the cradle/mount so that I could use my Mogul like a TomTom / Garmin / etc.
I purchased the cradle with the standard mounting kit and the RJ-11 to 4mm DC cable. It also came with a car adapter. The standard mounting kit includes 1 windshield mount (suction cup and flexible arm), 1 adhesive disc, and 1 vent clip adapter.
The windshield mounting arm seems very stiff and stable. I could not get the suction cup to disconnect from the window without flipping the release switch. I have not tried the vent clip, but it seems like it would attach to most vent configurations as the clips can attach to vertical or horizontal vents.
I was disappointed to see that the car adapter is not a mini-usb connection. You have to plug the car adapter into the cradle and dock the Mogul in the cradle to charge it. On that note, there is a switch on the side of the cradle that turns the charger on and off so that if the Mogul is fully charged, you can still use the speaker without sending power to the mogul's charging port.
The speaker on the cradle seems plenty loud. Unfortunately, there isn't a hardware volume adjustment for the built-in speaker. If you are driving a loud vehicle, you may have a little trouble hearing the speaker, but in my Buick sedan, I had no problems.
The dock has an RJ-11 port that you can use the included cable with to charge a GPS adapter. It also has an audio-in connection, however, the cradle does not come with a cable or microphone for audio-in. I believe this is a serious omission on i.Trek's part.
When docked, my Mogul played all of its audio through the cradle's speaker. As I said before, the volume was very adequate. However, I could not give any voice commands to MS Voice Command and callers could not hear me. I turned on Bluetooth and used my Jaw Bone headset and got the same results. Audio would come through the headset momentarily, switch back to the speaker on the cradle, and the caller could not hear me.
For some reason, plugging the Mogul into the cradle disables all microphones. I can only assume this is because the phone expects something to be plugged into the audio-in port on the cradle. This may become a serious problem for me as I take a lot of calls from the car. I have to undock the phone from the cradle to make or take a phone call. This is annoying, to say the least.
If anyone knows of a registry hack that will play audio through the speaker, but keep my Bluetooth headset active, please post it here or PM me. I would be very grateful.
I have taken some pictures of the dock and will post them soon. I hope this helps you make a decision about your purchase.
Sorry about the poor quality pics. I took them with my phone (kind of ironic, eh?).
so it does have an audio out and audio in. hmmm. i think you can get the clip on mic from seido for about 12 bucks. i may have to order this and an adaptor (stupid aftermarket proprietary plug required) for my radio and give it a shot.
all in all an external mic may be easier than using bluetooth and cause less of a problem <shrug>.
good luck and thanks for the pics.
Is that RJ11 to dc to power the cradle from a phone jack so you could use it as a charger in say a hotel room?
mogul67 said:
Is that RJ11 to dc to power the cradle from a phone jack so you could use it as a charger in say a hotel room?
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No, they use the RJ-11 cable to charge a stand-alone GPS receiver. It has nothing to do with a land-line telephone.
This thing is a piece of crap.
It takes two hands to get the phone in or out. The sound from the audio output is horrible.
Save your money.
rangie said:
This thing is a piece of crap.
It takes two hands to get the phone in or out. The sound from the audio output is horrible.
Save your money.
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Getting the phone into the cradle is definitely a pain in the neck. If you don't get it lined up just right, it won't dock. You would think they could have fit it to the phone a little better.
Hey Guys,
I notice that the HTC has a generic UBS connection. And shares the same connection type as my TomTom Car charger for my GPS system. I am wondering if I can use the charger for my phone without frying it?
Thanks
ern88 said:
Hey Guys,
I notice that the HTC has a generic UBS connection. And shares the same connection type as my TomTom Car charger for my GPS system. I am wondering if I can use the charger for my phone without frying it?
Thanks
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i read in another thread somebody fried thier vogue doing that if i find the post ill quote it
masalma said:
I have a vogue that i plugged into a gps charger, led flashed pink and never heard from the phone again lol. it is dead if he needs it for parts it is his.
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guess this answers it
Hey. Thanks alot. I thought I would asked before I became a doe head. Thanks
I use my TomTom one charger to charge my Touch XV6900 all the time also have used it on a 6800 that my wife has. Never had any problems myself. But it really has to do with the voltage that the charger supplies. The Motorola charger puts out on 3 volts when a usb supplies 5 volts and the HTC can charge on the 5 volts but not the other way around.
tomtom gps charger for vogue
works like it was made for it. i use mine all the time.never had an issue.and means that i only need one cord in the car which is good with a miata
Just for the record; I used my Vogue with TomTom car charger, worked wonderfully well, atleast thats what I thought but I ended up destroying my mini usb connection on phone. Now I have to hold the original charger at a particular position or it wont charge!!
i would be cautious. im pretty sure all the USB plugs are wired the same- hence universal- i tried a charger i had laying around the house with a universal plug and similar voltages and it worked like a charm- once- then i tried it again and it wont recognize the charger for a charge- havent the slightest idea what is going on with it but i would suggest OEM car charger or power inverter (i have one in the car for my laptop)
I just purchased a new car stereo (JVC kd-r730bt). I knew it wouldn't be able to access my HD7's media through the USB, but the salesperson told me that I should still be able to charge through it. (The booklet specifically mentions the usb provides 5V 1a for charging.) But it won't charge when I plug it in. The port itself seems to be working because it will charge my ipod and the HD7 must be getting some juice because it will turn on if it's off when I plug it in, but I don't get the charge indicator and my battery level never goes up.
I thought it might just be my unit or a problem with the install, but I had the same problem when I went and tried it on the display unit in the store. The sales guy was at a loss. The only thing we could think of was maybe the unit doesn't have the right volts or amps for the phone? However another sales guy told me that most chargers are 1a and that shouldn't be a problem. And I called JVC and HTC customer service and neither of them thought that would be the problem either. Does anyone know what the issue might be and if there's any fix/work around for it?
By the way, I was able to charge the phone using the same USB cable with a different car stereo display unit (Pioneer deh-6400bt). I also charge just fine off a computer usb using that cable.
On the bright side, the JVC streams music beautifully from my HD7 over bluetooth. I'm glad I got it over the Pioneer even with the charging issue since the Pioneer only does phone calls over bluetooth not media.
HD7 won't charge from car stereo USB...
...no it won't...it's not a ipod (thanks god)! buy a bluetooth car stereo...
Maybe u got some cigarette ash in ur car lighter pot , my car got that problem .
I fixed it by clean it ....
to saKerXing
maybe he got flat battery, my car got this problem ,
i fixed it by getting new battery
cheers and have a gr8 day
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