IPhone 3G with Universal Dock

Just bought a iPod Universal Dock, and pulg my iPhone 3G into it, it says "This accessory is not made to wrk with iPhone" and ask me to turn on the airplane mode.
I thought the Universal Dock is universal for all iPod and iPhone, why does it give me a such error message?

sharpxia wrote:
Just bought a iPod Universal Dock, and pulg my iPhone 3G into it, it says "This accessory is not made to wrk with iPhone" and ask me to turn on the airplane mode.
I thought the Universal Dock is universal for all iPod and iPhone, why does it give me a such error message?
I had that with a universal ipod dock but it worked fine. The only thing is that no sound came from the iphone when docked.

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