I have a question for Xperia z1S owners. Does this phone have hardware support for FM Transmitting? I don't have a car with an aux cable or Bluetooth so.. All of the music on my phone is inaccessible when I'm driving. But I'm hoping that the FM receiver can be made to transmit either natively or via 3rd party app?
I did a search for this through google and also here but I haven't found anything about it. I know the Xperia Z Ultra supports this function and it would be the final nail in the coffin for me so to speak as to whether or not I choose this over the Nexus 5 or the Note 3.
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Because the HTC HD2 doesn't have fm transmitter function so i want to buy FM transmitter accessory. Does anyone have any recommendation for me ? ( sorry for my english)
tritran18518 said:
Because the HTC HD2 doesn't have fm transmitter function so i want to buy FM transmitter accessory. Does anyone have any recommendation for me ? ( sorry for my english)
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There is no reason that any FM transmitter with a 3.5" jack connection (the vast majority of them) would not work on an HD2. Just don't get one of those that connect only via the IPOD dock connector.
So, it's not really an HD2-specific question. Better to post in a forum about accessories for all phones.
I haven't had great results myself, with any FM transmitter. It is hard to find a good frequency to transmit on. Then, if you find one, that works well in one place--as you drive around in the car, you might easily find that frequency doesn't work well any more--noise interference, etc. As you are driving, it could not be safe to fiddle around a lot with changing frequencies as you drive.
I haven't been happy with any I have tried.
Other opinions?
what is an FM transmitter for, is it to do stuff like broadcast GPS directions on your car speakers, or is it for getting traffic information on the GPS software?
iwin2000 said:
what is an FM transmitter for, is it to do stuff like broadcast GPS directions on your car speakers, or is it for getting traffic information on the GPS software?
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It is to broadcast any sound from any device with a 3.5 sound jack, through the car radio.
Most often they are used for playing music from your MP3 player (in this case the phone), through your car radio.
It would also work for any other sound though--phone calls, etc. (Only works in one direction, however, so if the phone is far from your mouth, may not be too great to use on phone calls, if you want the other party to hear you.)
tritran18518 said:
Because the HTC HD2 doesn't have fm transmitter function so i want to buy FM transmitter accessory. Does anyone have any recommendation for me ? ( sorry for my english)
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I think its hard to recommend...I have a Belkin iTrip that I picked up at Wal-Mart when me and we took our kids to Disneyland this past June. It works flawlessly in my wifes Jetta (which is what we drove to California in) and the sound was actually much better than I could have ever expected.
...however, in my Grand Vitara...its almost completely unusable, when I can get a station to pick it up...its far below FM quality and I have to have the phone in a certain location and in a specific position just to acheive this.
I have been looking into either getting a bluetooth receiver to attach to the stock head unit...or replacing the head unit all together (I would prefer to keep the stock one though)
I think it has something to do with the power of the antenna on your stereo, which is going to vary with every vehicle.
I did find a little gadget that you simply plug into the antenna input on the back of the stereo and plug the antenna into this gadget...when you turn the gadget on...it basically makes every radio station pure static by shutting off the antenna (It was only like $10.00...and I think it would work if you wanted to go the transmitter way)
Use a speakerphone with FM transmitter
I use a motorola T505 and you can get them for around $50 or so.
I have the Samsung original car dock kit for the Note and I'm having problems with audio from phone calls not coming trough the cars speakers. Music and even system sounds go trough car speakers just fine. I already check the option in settings to use external speakers when docked. Is anyone else experiencing this problem and hopefully have a fix for it?
I'm having the same problem!
called up the samsung helpdesk NL
and they told to download a cardock app but this didn't help anything
calling back on monday to see if they can fix this
(i also came across a app that said it's not supported by samsungs own kernel.
so maybe someone made a better kernel that does support calling over the vehicle dock)
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I too have this problem. I bought this thinking it would compensate for bluetooth disconnecting problems I have with my new Samsung Galaxy S2. It seems that Ice Cream Sandwich is the problem. However, having seen this dock on youtube, it seemed like the answer to all my woes. It had wired connection to the phone via the aux input and in theory should have rooted all of the audio from the phone both music player and telephone audio but like you I found to my cost that this doesn't work; telephone audio doesn't come across. I now have two Samsung products and none of these provide me with either remote or wired connection to the radio. Is there by any chance a third party rom that might cure these issues.
Hello, my curiosity of the Chromecast take me to this website:
http://asia.cnet.com/google-chromecast-supports-bluetooth-62221903.htm
Accord to this article the Chromecast supports Bluetooth 3.0, then my question is, why we cant play some local music in Google Play Music for listen on the TV?
Probablly is disable this tecnology but I know this comunity could do the work for add this function.
Braaank said:
Hello, my curiosity of the Chromecast take me to this website:
http://asia.cnet.com/google-chromecast-supports-bluetooth-62221903.htm
Accord to this article the Chromecast supports Bluetooth 3.0, then my question is, why we cant play some local music in Google Play Music for listen on the TV?
Probablly is disable this tecnology but I know this comunity could do the work for add this function.
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I didn't look at the article but to answer your question most wifi chips now are made with bluetooth and sometimes FM radio option. Bluetooth as of now is not used on this chip/device.
dallastx said:
I didn't look at the article but to answer your question most wifi chips now are made with bluetooth and sometimes FM radio option. Bluetooth as of now is not used on this chip/device.
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if we dont ever end up seeing bluetooth active on this it might even be because its physically disabled inside the chip via the manufacturer so even with device drivers on the unit it wouldn't be able to use it.. its happened before sort of a method to ensure that nobody uses something that needs to have a licensing paid for to an organisation or another company.. does Bluetooth 3.0 need to have a license paid per X# devices?
anyways random thought.. who knows maybe it is enabled and an update in 6 months will see it active on the devices via an update.
Yeah, I don't know if there are specific licensing fees but there are licensing restrictions that require an agreement with the Bluetooth SIG to enable Bluetooth in your device.
Either way, this should ultimately be possible through WiFi which would give you much better audio quality. It's just that none of the Android apps support streaming content directly from the device (yet).
I have pioneer car stereo with Bluetooth connected to my Z3 Compact but sometimes it WILL NOT auto connect. Most of the time Bluetooth connects as soon as I put car on but sometimes it doesn't!
Any advice idea's why this should happen?
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I even can not connect to my Pioneer DEH-P700BT with BT Audio profile. My Z3 compact connects only as phone. While I have 3 phones working perfectly as BT audio with my car audio. My Z3 Compact also connects by BT with Sony Home Theater system w/o problems. As for car audio issue I have tried to clear all paired devices in pioneer and z3 and reconnect, car audio and z3 see each other and z3 asks for pin (pin is correct) but fail on connection and pioneer shows "Error" on display. It looks like some sw incompatibility. Though pioneer has BT SW upgrade function only one very old update (issued far before I have purchased that unit) is available so probably SW update will not help...
I have a pioneer head unit, http://www.pioneer.com.au/au/products/archive/AVH-X3500DAB/page.html
Mine seems to be working the same as any of my other android phones, if not better. I use it to play Spotify and it seems to always auto connect.
I'm happy to help test any scenarios you want for comparison.
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I even can not connect to my Pioneer DEH-P700BT with BT Audio profile. My Z3 compact connects only as phone. While I have 3 phones working perfectly as BT audio with my car audio. My Z3 Compact also connects by BT with Sony Home Theater system w/o problems. As for car audio issue I have tried to clear all paired devices in pioneer and z3 and reconnect, car audio and z3 see each other and z3 asks for pin (pin is correct) but fail on connection and pioneer shows "Error" on display. It looks like some sw incompatibility. Though pioneer has BT SW upgrade function only one very old update (issued far before I have purchased that unit) is available so probably SW update will not help...
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Were pioneer thoughtful enough to include details as to what exactly the SW update addressed? just thinking maybe they pre-empted the problem your having with the update. **just a guess!**
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Were pioneer thoughtful enough to include details as to what exactly the SW update addressed? just thinking maybe they pre-empted the problem your having with the update. **just a guess!**
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Yes - "This update enables you to connect to Nokia Nseries with software after October 2007".
I managed to connect to my head unit with BT Audio profile, but it connects only if I manually initiate connection from both phone and unit. I.e. in unit there are 2 modes - 1. unit searches for previously paired phone 2. unit waits for connection from phone. In my case only second way works. Auto connect does not work.
Just to confirm. I am also experiencing this. Even my buggy LG g2 on g3 fw connected without issues and now the z3c does not :/ I have to always go in the deck connection and select it.
Hi there.
I'm considering buying and external portable amplifier/DAC such a Fiio or a Topping NX2 , as I've bought a great pair of headphone, and the 3,5" volume output of the Z3 Compact is really, really poor.
But I've noticed that after Lollipop-Walkam/Music update the "Hi-Res Audio" feature (that allows you to connect those dac/amplifiers through the usb port with an axcellent sound) is no longer there.
Sony in its forum said it's beacuse now the feature is stock in Android Lollipop but users are reporting it's not true, and that they're not able too bypass internal z3c DAC anymore.
Anybody using an ampli/dac with the z3c could eventually confirm or deny this?
Thank you in advance.
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