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Disable recognition of Car Dock?

I have had a thread in Accessories for a while with no solution for anyone. Several people are having the issue with Froyo where when placed in the Car Dock it lowers the volume and bitrate; assumingly to fit the capacity of the crappy Dock speakers. However, I have an AUX connection to my car stereo instead.
I need to make my N1 completely not recognize the Car Dock and thus adjust its volume settings when inserted but still charge. Any way to do this?

There are a few apps that might help, Dock Nothingness being one.
NB: not tried it, just did a quick search on AppBrain.
HTH

Tried it
Tried Dock Nothingness. Did not resolve the issue.

[Q] Car Dock / Bluetooth Media Volume lock / Dock spoofing?

I'm running Froyo/CM6, by the way.
In short, anytime the phone is put into the car dock, the bluetooth media volume is set to max. If I have it connected and playing as I insert it, it's fine unttil the next track plays. I have even deleted the actual car home launcher app from the phone, although the phone still detects it has been inserted into the car dock (icon in notification.) Even selecting this icon and exiting car mode still leaves me with the same issue - volume on BT audio constantly being reset to max.
This does NOT happen on the desk dock, that works flawlessly.
Is there a way to somehow keep the phone from detecting being inserted into the car dock? Or somehow "spoofing" the dock so it thinks it's a desk dock? I haven't looked into the pins on the two docks, since I think there are 4 contacts on the phone, and only 3 pins on each dock.. so maybe one triggers normal and one triggers desk? Will get back to you all on this. But in the meantime ... help!
Thanks in advance!

Just checked, same number of pins. Although something occured to me which I will test in a bit ... perhaps there's a magnet in the base of the desk dock, which is how it knows which is which ... ?

***PROBLEM (sort of) SOLVED!!!***
No magnets involved, but when looking at the car dock, if you cover the second / middle pin with something non-conductive so the contacts on the phone don't touch that single pin when it's inserted, the phone still charges but does NOT know it's in the car dock, therefore it doesn't go all goofy with the audio volumes.
Downside is that it doesn't automatically open up whatever Car Home app you may want, but at the cost of one whole extra click .. ? Fine by me.
Photo to illustrate, maybe this will help someone sometime.

Having exactly the same issue, going nuts trying to solve it. Will try this, thanks for the tip.

Just my 2 cents :
You can try an app such as "tasker" to modify your N1 behaviour when it detects it's inserted into the car dock, and set up the volume you need.

dmsr66 said:
Just my 2 cents :
You can try an app such as "tasker" to modify your N1 behaviour when it detects it's inserted into the car dock, and set up the volume you need.
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Sorry for the bump here, but I'm having the exact same issue and for some reason changing the media volume does NOTHING for me. At any level it's full blast aside from 0 where it mutes.

[Q] Official Dock connected to mains = no audio?

Hi peeps,
I've only just noticed that when I have my dock connected to the mains and my phone is charging via it, the Steak for some reason looses all audio mad: got up late cos no alarm sound). The weird thing is that the phone will still vibrate, I've known phones in the past to disable vibration while charging but never audio. If the phone is on the dock and charging via my PC, it's fine, it's just when it's connected via the mains.
I haven't tried using my normal data cable with the mains yet (it's kept in the car for sat nav'ing or for work) but I'll give that a try.
Anyone else notice this at all and anyone know how to enable sound while charging on the mains? Thanks!

When you say "mains" does that mean wall charger?
What ROM are you running?

Hi, yeah I mean charging from the wall with the supplied USB adapter. I'm running official 2.2 BB-318 v12821 with the performance tweak. The official dock has a couple ports at the back of it, there's a mini USB port (which I connect to my PC with) and a small cylindrical power socket (the cable for that goes from a round cylinder head to a normal USB end) and I only ever have one or the other plug in.
I've just tested it with the normal data cable and it works fine. I plugged the dock back in and put the phone on it, then played some music and it actually started playing...but at a reduced volume, after I unplugged either the dock or the phone, the volume jumped up. But the next time I connect the dock or the phone back it goes back to no audio again. It's weird, somes times it'll play audio and sometimes it doesn't.
Could this have anything to do with how the music player now has a HDMI option? The reason I ask this is cos the phone automatically brings up the clock dock screen when docked with the mains connected (doens't do it when connected to the PC) and on that screen the is an option to play music.
On a side note, I can't seem to play video via HDMI any more (just says "This file is audio only") and I can't get music to go out of it either, it doesn't detect it when I have the dock connected to my TV (even with the mains connected on either the TV or on the phone). Would it make a difference it I had it connected to a TV or an AMP?

look like you have set your dock audio out mode.. i don't have problem.
when you connect your mobile in dock hit the menu button and there is option dock setting and then speaker out option then disable speaker out your done.

Thanks for the response dude, but it didn't make a difference, it still seems to randomly allow audio and sometimes it doesn't

I had that problem running the same ROM so i set the settings for the dock to ask me about audio when streak is in the dock,then i plugged in the streak and it came up asking what i wanted to do so i allowed audio then lifted it out of the dock went back into settings and changed it always allow audio and now everything seems to be OK

Cool, thanks LUFC! I think thats done it, it still doesn't like it when music is playing and you plug it in, but if you don't have music, plug it in then play music it's fine, but again, you can tell that there's a bit of a volume decrease but it'll do!

I'm running DJ Steve 1.5.1. Are there any dock settings or is it only on Stock 2.2?

hammermedia said:
I'm running DJ Steve 1.5.1. Are there any dock settings or is it only on Stock 2.2?
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Go to all Programs click on the clock when it loads up click on the middle button on the streak (menu) and thats the dock settings

THANKS I knew I saw it somewhere.

those who have the official dock can you output videos like movies that you have on yoru memory card and pass them off to your tv? or is it just videos you record?

On 1.6 I was able to play anything through the TV via HDMI only if the native player would play it, so not just recorded vids. However, ever since the official 2.2 update, I've not been able to get anything to play through HDMI....but to be fair I only had a quick play, didn't look to much into it as I don't really use it for that at all.

This was an issue for me too. I was wondering WTF was going on... Thanks guys!

Please someone answer this.

I use to have a droid 2 and I used it with the car dock with out any problems at all, My car had the aux input for the audio cable from the dock, so when ever my phone would ring or I would make a call, it would go through the cars speakers, Ok so now I have the D3 and the new D3 car dock, same car. Here's the problem, when ever the phone is in the car dock and you place or receive a call, by default the phone switches to speaker phone, and when in speaker phone mode it will not play through the speakers, and yes I can just hit the speaker phone button on the dial pad to turn the speaker off and then it will play through the cars speakers but I really dont like having to do this every . time,I NEVER had to do this with my D2. I have tried other car dock apps to see if this would go away but it don't. Any help or thought would be great.

stephendowney said:
I use to have a droid 2 and I used it with the car dock with out any problems at all, My car had the aux input for the audio cable from the dock, so when ever my phone would ring or I would make a call, it would go through the cars speakers, Ok so now I have the D3 and the new D3 car dock, same car. Here's the problem, when ever the phone is in the car dock and you place or receive a call, by default the phone switches to speaker phone, and when in speaker phone mode it will not play through the speakers, and yes I can just hit the speaker phone button on the dial pad to turn the speaker off and then it will play through the cars speakers but I really dont like having to do this every . time,I NEVER had to do this with my D2. I have tried other car dock apps to see if this would go away but it don't. Any help or thought would be great.
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Sorry man, but I've dug through and have not found any settings pertaining to that. It may be an automatic feature that has not been developed into an adjustable setting in Android 2.3.4 (Since its a new Car Dock App)
However, this may help you out.
http://ig88.cwfk.net/?page_id=96
It's a third party app that might work.

Actually, I think I found something pertaining to it.
In here: http://static.googleusercontent.com...lp/hc/pdfs/mobile/AndroidUsersGuide-2.3.4.pdf
On page 333.
Not sure yet if it applies to our Droid 3 completely, but it might. I don't have an AUX in port in my car to test it out at the moment.
Edit: It appears Motorola/Verizon left out the "Dock" settings under the general settings menu. Unless, it shows up when docked - idk yet.
If it doesn't, I'd try going into applications, "all" applications, select cardock or car home app, and clear data. This may restore the question that it supposedly asks you when you connect to the dock for the first time.

I found the problem and the solution.
Without any setting to change and all the apps I tried did not help, I decided to take a look at the dock and by that I mean take it apart and see whats going on inside. What I found was that where the usb car charger attached there was a circuit board, I am not an electronics guy but I figured that was whats causing the phone to automatic go in to speaker phone when connected to the dock, and I was right. That was the problem, and now for the solution, I had a car dock for a droid x handy so I took it apart as well, and I found that it did not have the circuit board, it was just a straight through put, from the usb connection on one end to the micro usb on the other end, the end that sticks up in the car dock that the phone connects to. So with a little bit of modification and I do mean little, I was able to swap them out, and now all is well again. Pretty ****ty that MOTO would do this and not give an option to change it in the setting though.

[Q] Car Mode?

I used Tasker to put the Moto X into Car Mode until I get the official car dock. Unfortunately, all I get is the Clock Daydream. If I tap the screen, I can see the Car Mode notification and can dismiss Car Mode. I was hoping there was at least some minimal UI as I have seen with other Android devices.
Has anyone else seen this, or have I messed up something?
EDIT: It seems that if I install a Car Dock App like Car Home Ultra, the Car Mode works as expected. Perhaps I was presuming that there was a built-in Car Mode app.
Does anyone have recommendations for a good Car Dock app that works well with the Moto X, since we already have Driving Mode and really good voice control?

Hey there, I was wondering the same thing. Does Moto X's Car mode do anything special on its own? Does it read out messages or anything?

Car home ultra seems to be about the best app that I've found so far. I really liked the car home app that came with some of the previous generation moto phones, but they were part of blur that they got rid of.
What the car mode does is that it sends a trigger to the OS, and depending on what you have installed, it can do various things. It The Motorola assist app enables the reading text messages aloud, but if you use something like tasker, you could probably set it up to do it without using assist.
Personally, I use Tasker in combination with Car Home Ultra, and an app called Media Utilities. I have it set so that when it is triggered, it'll launch into car mode, and launch shuttle plus media player and begin playing a song. I think I also have it set to enable GPS and disable WiFi and set the volume or something. The reason that I use the Media Utilities app is that it works better with 3rd party music players. The built in functions seem to only trigger Google Play Music.

The Horak said:
Hey there, I was wondering the same thing. Does Moto X's Car mode do anything special on its own? Does it read out messages or anything?
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Enabling the dock mode as if it were a standard hardware dock (dock event broadcast) doesn't seem to do much outside of enabling rotation in the launcher. Enabling via the UiModeManager doesn't do anything from what I can tell.

I was wondering the same thing about car mode... loving Car Home Ultra except for one thing, maybe someone has a fix:
Is there a way (Besides the patch they advertise in Car Home Ultra) to get the Home button to go to CHU instead of the normal Homescreen when in Car Mode?
I've been fiddling with Tasker for a while and can't seem to get anything to work...
any ideas?
otherwise CHU is a great app! loving the dock (just got it yesterday!)
EDIT:: here's a sweet Xposed module that fixes the home-button issue: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2361166
if you don't have root, maybe this tasker profile will fix it for you!:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/related/1ax0bw/fix_for_broken_car_mode_in_42/

axly said:
I used Tasker to put the Moto X into Car Mode until I get the official car dock. Unfortunately, all I get is the Clock Daydream. If I tap the screen, I can see the Car Mode notification and can dismiss Car Mode. I was hoping there was at least some minimal UI as I have seen with other Android devices.
Has anyone else seen this, or have I messed up something?
EDIT: It seems that if I install a Car Dock App like Car Home Ultra, the Car Mode works as expected. Perhaps I was presuming that there was a built-in Car Mode app.
Does anyone have recommendations for a good Car Dock app that works well with the Moto X, since we already have Driving Mode and really good voice control?
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How did you do this? I tried using Tasker, but did not see any Car Mode or Dock apps.

kjl512 said:
How did you do this? I tried using Tasker, but did not see any Car Mode or Dock apps.
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Display > Car Mode.
In Jelly Bean (Maybe ICS), Android stopped bringing you to the car mode app when pressing the Home button while Car Mode was active. For me that all but eliminated all benefits of using Car Mode. Most everything I would have done from a Car Mode app I can do with Touchless Controls, and with Moto X's superior voice recognition this works pretty well for me. Sure, there are plenty of things that you can't do with Touchless Controls, but for me it's an improvement over using a Car Mode app.