Palm, please fix phone use through car stereos!

I'd been loving using the pre as a hands free device when taking my calls hooked up to the car sound system out of the headphone jack. 1.3.5 broke this, and I was hoping 1.4 would re-engauge it. No dice.
Palm, please-- many of us use this feature (check out precentral and everythingpre). It's also a matter of safety-- in many states (here in California as you well know) it's illegal to use the phone without an earpiece. As many of us use the phone for tunes in the car, fumbling to put on an earpiece and disconnect the audio cord when a call comes in is more dangerous than just pressing a button on an already-connected phone.
We know it wasn't the best quality, with some bounceback to the caller, but it sure was a nice feature and if you're going up against iPhones, my wife's iPhone can still do this just fine.
Please bring it back.

kiltedtim: that is not good news...
I have a Kenwood car stereo that I plug my iphone 4s into via USB. Stereo interface was working great for 9 months. After updating to 6.1.1 it is has become wonky. Main problem is I cannot access playlists through stereo anymore. Rather, I can select them but the stereo then indicates "No Music." So I have to select playlists on the iphone to play from them. I can still select all music or specific artists/albums through stereo interface. Also had some difficulty finding way through podcasts using the stereo interface.

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Assuming that the Apple Watch and the car system use different BT profiles, it shouldn't be a problem to have the phone connected to both.

My iphone 4s is being used on car stereo via usb port.

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I just got my iPhone a few days ago and I use a Kensington LiquidAUX. It plugs into your lighter and charges your iPhone and has a aux line that plugs into your cars aux in. Sounds great and I have a 1 hour commute to work on way. So I get a full charge to work, watch vids at lunch and a full charge on the way home. Also it has a wireless remote that attaches to your steering wheel to control play back, I love that part. You can find it on Apple's site but do a search and you can find it cheaper. You will see some reviews that say the plastic cover on the plug comes apart. But I use a Pro Clip holder for my iPhone and the plug clamps into the holder turning into a dock, so my plug can't come apart.
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I used to own a 4 gig ipod mini, and I'd connect it to my car stereo via a stereo cassette adapter. Well, that little guy crashed after a few years of good hard use, and I bought an Ipod Nano. Only, when I play the Nano through my car stereo, the volume is really low. Is there any way to fix this? I'm thinking maybe the Nano doesn't have the same amplification as the mini, and that's why the volume is low, in which case there's going to be no way to play it through the car stereo. I've tried two different stereo cassette adapters so I know that's not the problem. Anyone have any clarifying thought on this? Please help. David

I use a cassette adapter in the car as well, and also have to adjust the voume on the stereo and the ipod to a higher setting than what I would when listening to a cassette or CD. I've used this adapter with another brand of MP3 player before I got my nano and it was the same as the nano in regards to having to turn up the volume.
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I have been using a Sony XPLOD MX8500 for some time as my car head unit and handsfree kit combined. It has paired successfully with a series of phones, going back to the Nokia N82. Using the Lumia 800, I can pair the phone and use it for both calls and music.However, it appears that I am not getting a true stereo signal over the bluetooth connection. I have tested with several songs that I know to have segments that are either fully left speaker or fully right speaker (an example being the opening sequence of The Invisible Man by Queen) and the sounds remains firmly centre stage.
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Thanks Deggie... no biggie, just trying to clean up cords. I recommend this head unit if anyone is looking... I wired it for hands free calling in my car and it works flawlessly. Much better than my BT headset. And the music playback through wired connection is great because I can choose to control it through the stereo, or through the phone.

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i have my iPhone connected to my Pioneer car stereo through USB, i can view the iPod song list playlists etc on the phone aswell as using the stereo. The song/artist/album titles used to have about a second delay before they displayed the on the car stereo screen but since the 3.0 update this has been taking up to 5 seconds which is really really annoying.
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I have a Alpine iDA-X305 head unit in my car and I used to stream Pandora through my stereo using a plug in connection. I recently did an app update for Pandora and it can no longer stream through my car stereo. A message pops up on my phone and it says that the device is not optimized. I have an iPhone 4 and am running the most up-to-date software.
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Hi there,
I'm wanting to connect my iPod via my Car Stereo's USB port, and control the ipod still so I can choose which songs to play.
I was told if I enabled disk use AND manually manage songs, it would allow me to do this, but so far, after a few seconds of reading the ipod, songs are played in a random order through my car stereo and I have no control from the iPod.
Please explain what I need to do.
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slippydrew wrote:
I was told if I enabled disk use AND manually manage songs, it would allow me to do this,
I don't think so. Disk use allows you to use the iPod as a storage device - as far as I know you cannot play music while it's in Disk mode, nor can you take audio from the USB port on the iPod. (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong!). Manually managing songs is the method for adding or removing content from the iPod, not a means of controlling it from a head unit.
Whether you can connect your iPod to your car and how it will work depends upon the car, model and year of manufacture. I used a Dension adaptor that plugs from the Dock connector on the iPod to the back of the stereo in my Mazda 3. I can choose any album, genre or playlist but usually I set the ipod to "shuffle all songs" mode and then plug it into the adaptor. Once connected, I can control track skip and track back from the steering column but I cannot see track information on the car's display. The iPod turns off and back on with the car ignition.
However, my sister-in-law has a Mazda MX-5, but her (Bose) stereo will only play from the first five playlists and that's it! Quite who thought that was a good idea, I cannot imagine! I believe this issue has been corrected on newer models.
So you see, two models from the same company give different results. Oh, and by the way, when I had the adaptor fitted, my supplier tried to sell me an FM transmitter type adaptor and I recall having a very heated discussion with them about this as they had already fitted the wired adaptor I wanted to a friend's Mazda 3.
My advice is that you see a car audio specialist who can then advise you (properly, I hope) on what options are available to you and your car. Look up Dension though, but treat with caution their claim about using USB. I've noticed that you and Kenichi have exchanged a few more comments while I'm writing this, so I now know you have a Sony head unit. It may not be able to display the iPod screens, but I'm sure Sony make iPod adaptors for their head units..
I still think you need to consult a car audio specialist, who knows what they are talking about. I think even your local Halfords may be able to help. It can't help to try them.
Phil.

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I want to run the sound from my MacBook Pro through my Kenwood Excelon car stereo so that I can hear it on the truck speakers.
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Thanks Deggie... no biggie, just trying to clean up cords. I recommend this head unit if anyone is looking... I wired it for hands free calling in my car and it works flawlessly. Much better than my BT headset. And the music playback through wired connection is great because I can choose to control it through the stereo, or through the phone.

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I have trauled forums and still dont have an answer. Here is my query. I have an iPhone 4s all is fine, just installed the tomtom app, again great app however I want the nav instructions to speal thorugh my car stereo. (VW GOLF Mk6) now my issue is that TomTom uses bluetooth streaming and in doing so means I cant listen to my iPOD nano plugged into the car dock.
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Do you have the option of an 'aux' in your car stereo? If so, you should only have to purchase an auxiliary cable and plug it into your IPod and 'aux' in the car. It will then play through the speakers. You can also do this with your home stereo if it has the 'aux' option.
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Palm, please fix phone use through car stereos!

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