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found a commercial car kit

HI everyone, been reading th eforum for a while now, and the questions if car kits keeps comming up.
I managed to find one today online, looks ok, but needs professional installation.
here is the link ( and no, before you ask, I am nothing to do with the company, just came across it while looking for accessories for my new XDA)
http://www.directmobileaccessories.com/product_info.php/cPath/161_162/products_id/585
hope it's good!
Thanks
John

Product not found!

Sorry about that, if you look under O2 in the same page you will see it. Ever so sorry about that.
damn links!!

This is the O2 xda car kit
I ordered the kit from directmobileaccesories.com and it arrived yesterday, it is an O2 boxed xda car kit.
Everything works fine - except - I removed my old Nokia 9110 car kit which had a radio mute kit that feeds the phone through the car speakers, and tried to connect the radio mute from the O2 kit to the radio mute lead used by the Nokia car kit. When I place the xda in the cradle it immediately cuts over from the radio to the phone, even before the phone part of the xda is activated.
I have a radio mute on the steering console so I have temporarily disconnected the mute lead and fitted the speaker that came with the xda car kit.
Any suggestions why the radio mute cuts over straight away ?

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Hi,
I have seen the same behaviour, it looks like the mute works reversed. If you make a call the radio will swotch on.
If this is your problem it should be easy to fix by using a small relay or something similiar.
Francois

the problem has resolved itself
the problem I had with the radio muting all the time has resolved itself, it now works perfectly.

Echo with car kit(wired Version)

had a car kit fitted(wired) callers are getting an echo when talking to me. also will not cut radio out when ringing only when i answer. tried various things upgraded ROM etc and radio(1.04.00) had system checked out by installers and works ok with other phones. points to the phone itself anybody any ideas !!!!

THB Bury Echo
had a reply from THB
many thanks for your enquiry regarding our THB product range.
Some PDA´s or mobilephones like the XDA IIi doesn´t support a radiomute
if you only have the ringtone only if you answer the call. This cames
because this phone´s doesn´t give any signal to the carkit so that this
know that it must activeted the radiomute. Also we know for echo
problems for the XDA II i, thats the reasen why our carkits have no
official release for this PDA and the cradle that you use. In the moment
we have not planned to produce here a solution because the are not
enough request for carkits for this typ of PDA.
Independent from this, the echo self can be amplify if you use more then
one carloudspeaker or that the distance between microphone and speaker
are to close.
if anybody else with this problem could e-mail them also hopefully they will be forced into sorting a solution out as nobody else seems to have come up with a suitable answer!!!!

Hi
I have the same car kit, but only sometimes get the echo - have replaced 2 PDA's, and three cradles - no difference? Any other responses?

Power Play FM Trans mic issue

I realize this is probably an isolated issue but any help would be appreciated. So I got my hands on one of the hard to find official t-mo myTouch Power Play FM transmitter charger. It has a built in microphone which bypasses the phone's mic when docked. It worked fine until I rooted and flashed to Cyanogen. I haven't tried any other ROMs yet.
When I send or receive calls while docked in the transmitter, my caller cannot hear me. I assume there is some sort of talk between the transmitter and the phone telling it to turn off the built in mic and take sound from the transmitter mic. But the transmitter never switches on. Maybe it's to prevent non-myTouch devices from using the transmitter. I might go back to stock because I love that fm-transmitter and I don't want to buy a new deck for my car.
Thanks!

Details
myTouch 3 . 5mm
Kernel: 2 . 6 . 34 . 5 - cyanogenmod
shade (at) toxygene # 2
Mod Version: CyanogenMod - 6 . 0 . 0 - DS
Build Number: FRF91
(sorry about all the spaces, xda thinks I'm a spammer)

same as above
dodgeedoo said:
I realize this is probably an isolated issue but any help would be appreciated. So I got my hands on one of the hard to find official t-mo myTouch Power Play FM transmitter charger. It has a built in microphone which bypasses the phone's mic when docked. It worked fine until I rooted and flashed to Cyanogen. I haven't tried any other ROMs yet.
When I send or receive calls while docked in the transmitter, my caller cannot hear me. I assume there is some sort of talk between the transmitter and the phone telling it to turn off the built in mic and take sound from the transmitter mic. But the transmitter never switches on. Maybe it's to prevent non-myTouch devices from using the transmitter. I might go back to stock because I love that fm-transmitter and I don't want to buy a new deck for my car.
Thanks!
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i have this same exact problem i have the mytouch 3g 1.2 and the mic does not work

If anyone who has rooted their phone and can't use the mic on their Power Play anymore wants to sell the Power Play, let me know

[Q] Bad echo on Bluetooth car kit (CK-7W)

Hi all,
I have installed a CK-7W bluetooth car kit in my car which works fine.
The issue is that the the other side can hear a bad echo when they talk. I thought it was because the volume was loud in the car but it happens even when it is soft. They can hear me perfectly.
I saw a similar thread in the HTC desire section and apparently someone said it was gone after he upgraded to Froyo. Unfortunately mine is still there.
Some other thread had a fix in WM by changing the class from smartphone to normal phone and I tried to edit something in the ETC folder like someone suggested but no luck.
I would like to hear from anyone using a bluetooth car kit and obviously how it can be fixed. I have not tried any other phone but someone did mention that it works fine with non Android phones.
K.

Hello kar200. I have that exact same bt car kit and I have that exact sale behaviour.
When I talk it's fine for receiver, but when receiver talks she complains about bad echo. Nobody complained about echo when I used Nokia E72 with this car kit.
I'm guessing it could be a delay from speaker which goes to microphone and caller hears her own voice from my mic.
Sorry, but I haven't found any solution. I really hope I find though!
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Thanks for the reply. Apparently the echo is not due to any lag and it is to do with the phone. Someone even said that he used a bluetooth headset and had the issue (cannot explain this really).
Apparently the phone should filter the incomng voice somehoe but I don't know how. I might do a test and mute my speakers and see if the echo is there. Another thread on the desire HD said that it is only with the HTC Sense Roms. This might be the case with us as well with the Galaxy's? Hopefully we will see Cyanogenmod on i9000 which will give us a good indication if it is only the Galaxy's roms.
K.

Dialer - Bluetooth Audio Source Switching

My gut tells me this maybe a lollipop issue in general.
*On a call
*Another call comes in
*Nexus 6 switches audio source to handset
*Call is no longer on my Bluetooth earpiece
This can happen too when email / SMS arrives. I read about a lot of car BT based issues...this is just in the headset now.
Anyone out there feeling this too?

There is a problem with Bluetooth in Lollipop or the Nexus 6
3's&7's said:
My gut tells me this maybe a lollipop issue in general.
*On a call
*Another call comes in
*Nexus 6 switches audio source to handset
*Call is no longer on my Bluetooth earpiece
This can happen too when email / SMS arrives. I read about a lot of car BT based issues...this is just in the headset now.
Anyone out there feeling this too?
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Not many people use BT in their car or daily life at this point in time. Can't tell you how many people I see driving around with a phone in one hand and a steering wheel in the other. Kind of like people here in the USA that don't use cruise control on the highway when clearly you know that their car has it. But I've been hands free in cars for over six years in fact since the HTC HD2 came out. I realized at that point, that to be safe one must use BT and have equipment in car to support this. It's becoming a law in most states in the USA but not all and is not enforced by law as much as it should be, but those times are going to change. There are some forums on the web that talk about bluetooth in lollipop and many of them are confused and think they know what the problem is, but none have proved it yet. There are also other sources that claim BT is on it's way out, I don't know about that. But yes, there are some weird things happening with bluetooth if you use it a lot. I don't know what the answer may be to your problem but you might want to try a search on google to find out more information about this issue. Good luck.

vvveith said:
Not many people use BT in their car or daily life at this point in time. Can't tell you how many people I see driving around with a phone in one hand and a steering wheel in the other. Kind of like people here in the USA that don't use cruise control on the highway when clearly you know that their car has it. But I've been hands free in cars for over six years in fact since the HTC HD2 came out. I realized at that point, that to be safe one must use BT and have equipment in car to support this. It's becoming a law in most states in the USA but not all and is not enforced by law as much as it should be, but those times are going to change. There are some forums on the web that talk about bluetooth in lollipop and many of them are confused and think they know what the problem is, but none have proved it yet. There are also other sources that claim BT is on it's way out, I don't know about that. But yes, there are some weird things happening with bluetooth if you use it a lot. I don't know what the answer may be to your problem but you might want to try a search on google to find out more information about this issue. Good luck.
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Interesting perspective and ty for taking the time to post this.
Back to the point though; anyone out there having these types of specific challenges with Bluetooth on the N6 as I described above? It really makes this phone unusable for me @ work.

Yes, I also use BT in my vehicle. It used to connect through my car speakers automatically, but now im finding that when making/receiving a call, I need to manually tell it to switch to car speakers. I mean, why the hell would my car speakers stop playing regular radio when a call comes in and to make me still use my handset to talk/listen?having to manually switch to car speakers is dangerouse while on the freeway.

jc0187 said:
Yes, I also use BT in my vehicle. It used to connect through my car speakers automatically, but now im finding that when making/receiving a call, I need to manually tell it to switch to car speakers. I mean, why the hell would my car speakers stop playing regular radio when a call comes in and to make me still use my handset to talk/listen?having to manually switch to car speakers is dangerouse while on the freeway.
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I was experiencing something similar.
I had a 2009 model Pioneer AVIC-x910BT headunit in my truck. And bluetooth worked fine until I got my Nexus 6 (coming from a Nexus 5 and Nexus 4). The Nexus 6 would mute my car audio properly, but when I picked up the phone, the phonecall was on the phone and not the car speakers.
I have the same car, but now I have a 2015 model Pioneer AVIC-8100NEX with Android Auto, and have not had one BT issue yet. I am assuming that the issue was either the N6 or Lollipop5.0 was having issues with the older BT technology my old radio used. Now that I have the newer radio, no call issues yet.

jc0187 said:
Yes, I also use BT in my vehicle. It used to connect through my car speakers automatically, but now im finding that when making/receiving a call, I need to manually tell it to switch to car speakers. I mean, why the hell would my car speakers stop playing regular radio when a call comes in and to make me still use my handset to talk/listen?having to manually switch to car speakers is dangerouse while on the freeway.
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Could you share the model and make or the car?
to confirm my understanding,the call audio was on phone speaker and you had to manually select the it every time?
Was this working in the past for you?
Does this happen for every call or only during multiparty call?

I am now using a different BT headset, Jabra, and the model is at least a year old. I think I am going to look for a completely new model of bluetooth headset / earpiece that came on the market much more recently and see if this makes a difference.
I have been using a wired headset to avoid these challenges, but very much miss hands free use for phone calls. Anyone else feeling this issue out there?

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It has happened to me as well. I use a Jabra Tour BT speakerphone, while having music streamed via a BB BT gateway to my car speakers When on the phone and another call / sms /email comes in, the phone connection to Jabra Tour is dropped, I have to manually reconnect (but after reconnecting to Jabra the phone call ends, somehow the media stream switches from BB gateway to Jabra = more manual switching). Unsafe to be doing this on a highway. My Galaxy Note 3 and prior to that Galaxy S3 worked perfectly well with the same setup.
I understand that Nexus 6 takes advantage of the new BT tech, but it should have been made backwards compatible with the older BT devices.