Wondering if anyone tried it with the note 3? I read another forum that someone was able to get it working with a S3. I am using tectiles NFC with Trigger (aka NFC task launcher) so I can create the car dock action when using the NFC tag. But it seems that it would enable the car dock mode as well as handsfree mode which basically goes into s-voice. When I disable the handsfree mode, the phone doesn't seem to be in car dock mode even though it tells me to tap to disable car dock mode.
Need help please.
Thanks
Depending on if you want to use voice input as part of your car mode or not, you could try the voice app Dragon and then use an NFC Tag to trigger opening that app when you enter your car. Otherwise, I believe by nature car dock mode would be hands free mode since you're not supposed to be messing with your phone while driving. Another option if you never use S-Voice is to go into your list of all applications and Disable S-Voice. I have S-Voice disabled on my phone since I never use it. Doesn't negatively impact anything. Worth a try...
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I have an android tablet installed in my car running Torque, and it's worked well for the months I've had it in my car.
Now though, I want to utilize my phone wifi tether to allow the tablet to pretty seamlessly do navigation as well since I don't have the 3g version of the n7.
I already have a tasker profile set up to kill Torque and launch maps when I am connected to my phones hotspot. Problem 1 solved. The things I need now is a way to activate google voice search remotely. The way the tablet is installed it sits flat on the upper dash when not in use and pops up when in use, which puts it just outside of comfortable arm reach when in use to activate voice search.
Now, I could set up a tasker profile to launch voice search when it connects to the correct wifi, however the timing is never consistant as to how long it takes from hotspot activation to voice search, and as well it only activates once when it connects to wifi. If I miss the window to speak or need to get it search again I have to either poke at the screen or turn off the hotspot and turn it back on. Less than ideal.
Any ideas are welcome. Bluetooth remote control isn't my first option since Torque uses my bluetooth connection to connect to the OBD sensor. Ideally it would by a one button widget from my hotspot phone I could hit once the tablet is connected to push a command to activate voice search to the tablet.
Caferacer said:
I have an android tablet installed in my car running Torque, and it's worked well for the months I've had it in my car.
Now though, I want to utilize my phone wifi tether to allow the tablet to pretty seamlessly do navigation as well since I don't have the 3g version of the n7.
I already have a tasker profile set up to kill Torque and launch maps when I am connected to my phones hotspot. Problem 1 solved. The things I need now is a way to activate google voice search remotely. The way the tablet is installed it sits flat on the upper dash when not in use and pops up when in use, which puts it just outside of comfortable arm reach when in use to activate voice search.
Now, I could set up a tasker profile to launch voice search when it connects to the correct wifi, however the timing is never consistant as to how long it takes from hotspot activation to voice search, and as well it only activates once when it connects to wifi. If I miss the window to speak or need to get it search again I have to either poke at the screen or turn off the hotspot and turn it back on. Less than ideal.
Any ideas are welcome. Bluetooth remote control isn't my first option since Torque uses my bluetooth connection to connect to the OBD sensor. Ideally it would by a one button widget from my hotspot phone I could hit once the tablet is connected to push a command to activate voice search to the tablet.
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You could try set up a nfc tag or something similar so that when you move it near the tab it activates the voice search. But I don't know how practical it would be for your install...
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Has anyone figured out if there is a car mode available for the LG G2 on T-Mobile? I just got a Verizon car dock that can activate the little window mode thingy via a magnet, but there does not seem to be a native car mode app. Why would someone design a phone that does not have a car mode??
I've not been able to find any car mode in the T-Mobile variant. Logically, it would have been under the "Accessory" setting.
I'm simply running tasker, and set it so when the device is powered and connected to the "SYNC" bluetooth connection, that it autoloads Car Home Ultra (IMO, the best car dock app available). When it disconnects from my bluetooth, it kills Car Home Ultra.
That's how I have it set up currently... Just curious if anyone had figured out anything that wasn't a workaround to having a native car mode. BTW, the car home ultra can launch on bluetooth connect without using tasker.
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I have figured out quite a bit in the last 24 hours regarding car mode, however my information come from playing around with the verizon varient. Maybe it can help though.
1) Car mode is definately activated by a magnet as apposed to an NFC tag as has been suggested. About 1" down on the left edge of the screen is the sweet spot (front and back of phone). The polarity of the magnet determines if it switches to car mode or flip case mode (that is, flip the magnet over and it will activate the other function or don't flip the magnet and move it from the front to back of the phone).
2) The navigation button only links to verizon's navigation software (which I have disabled) and does not prompt for an app to choose. I even tried installing a 3rd party, non-google app and still no dice. A work around for this is to open the map (which links to google maps) and search for a location to initiate navigation.
3) Once in CarHome, there is a setting to have car mode activate when connected to a selectable bluetooth device (must be connected to choose it). This would seem like a great opportunity to be able to use car mode with no dock at all, but... when trying it, car mode did activate, but it immediately closed. I figure either LG or, more likely, Verizon modified the app or has another service to shut it down to force people to buy the dock.
4) I modified a bracketron mount I had to locate a magnet in the right location to activate car mode. I used a tiny magnet that came off one of those pushpin looking magnets.
5) I installed a third party app for the car mode and when I place the phone in the dock it does provide a choose app list, so this is a good thing. If the other varients don't have the specific stock app, they could still have the service running that would recognize the car mode activation and prompt to use the 3rd party app.
6) Some people have suggested that car mode is not available in jellybean 4.2.2, but what the case is is that previously in car mode the home button would return to car mode, but now the home button returns to home. This presents an issue with the stock app because it doesn't show up in the recent app list, so the only way to get it back is to pull the phone from the dock and put it back in. The 3rd party apps show up in the recent app (and can be launched from the app drawer for that matter) so this isn't an issue in this situation.
Think thats is about it. Don't know if the right people will look at this post, but it would be nice if people smarter than I could figure out how to make the navigation button allow selecting other apps and also how to prevent the activation by bluetooth from closing out. I know there are other options out there, but the stock app is simple and the processes are already running on the phone so I don't need other apps eating up battery. I also have a GPS sitting right next to it, so I don't really need it to be trying to maintain a GPS lock constantly like other apps do.
Hope this helps.
Those are all VERY helpful insites. I will have to try them when I get off work. Thanks for the help! :good:
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I've not been able to find any car mode in the T-Mobile variant. Logically, it would have been under the "Accessory" setting.
I'm simply running tasker, and set it so when the device is powered and connected to the "SYNC" bluetooth connection, that it autoloads Car Home Ultra (IMO, the best car dock app available). When it disconnects from my bluetooth, it kills Car Home Ultra.
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THIS!
Another thing i noticed car mode does is enable the landscape lockscreen. Again, this can be accomplished by many other tweaks out there.
Hopefully I'm not asking about something that's already been answered. But after spending hours on google, forums, etc I'm finding myself at a dead end.
On my note 3 I've got to liking the hands free mode but forgetting to turn it on when I get in the car or even worse, not turning it off when I get out is getting really annoying.
Now unlike most, I don't have bluetooth audio in the car at all. I've never needed it & never will. A simple headset is good enough. Problem is, the headset is always on, driving or not.
So I'm left with the OBD adapter on the car as a potential for letting the phone know I'm driving. But I just can't the damm thing to work.
Now the OBD adapter connects to the phone perfectly fine & I can load up the info in pretty much any app I try. But trying to set the phones "location settings" for the car (using the OBD adapter) just isn't doing anything. No matter how many times I tap the OBD adapter in the menu, it just does nothing. Yet bluetooth audio devices connect right up.
So my question now, is.... can you use the OBD adapter as an option for car location? or is there a way to hack the phone to allow it as an option? or am I just not looking at it right?
Thank's in advance.
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Iv done some reading and am still a little confused as to if I can use something like Trigger or something like Trigger to turn off toggles etc. when my phone is removed from a NFC Tag. Currently I use Trigger to turn on BT and Turn off Wifi etc.. when I place my phone on a NFC tag when I get into my car and that works great. But when I get out of my car and remove my phone from said NFC Tag I would like to turn off BT etc.. Can this be done?
I have a Verizon Galaxy S5 running NE9.
Thanks,
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It can be done but you'll have to set up another trigger to disable them. So one trigger is turning on BT/ off Wifi when you touch it the first time. The second trigger would be the opposite BT off/ wifi on but you can't just remove it from the NFC tag, you have to tap it again
Thanks for the idea. I found that I was over engineering the whole idea between Tasker and Trigger. After reading your reply I figured I would only use Trigger. I had to create 2 Tasks in Trigger. When I get into my car I put my phone into the phones car dock (which has a NFC Tag on it) . 1 triggers via NFC which turns on BT and connects to my Cars BT,disables wifi, enables Mobile Data and opens Waze or whatever navigation app I want. The other Task does the reverse when disconnecting from my Cars BT (aka getting out of my car and taking my phone with me). After various tests its about 99.99999% accurate. And I works with only 1 initial NFC tap.
Thanks again for the idea.
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I grew accustomed to Car Home Ultra when I was on my Galaxy S3 through Straight Talk. So, I was kinda bummed when I moved to AT&T and purchased the Galaxy S5 Active and found that AT&T had their own launcher that they wanted me to use. I rooted the device and went through all the steps to get the default car mode enabled, but that too enables Samsung's car mode app. Is there any way to get Car Home Ultra to load instead when I turn on Car Mode? There doesn't seem to be a default application option. On the S3, I would open Car Mode Control and the first time it configured, it let me pick the car mode home launcher I wanted to use, so I was easily able to choose Car Home Ultra. It didn't do that on the S5, either before I rooted and modded, or after.
I was able to get it to work after some tweaking. Seems that Android 4.2+ either intentionally or through a bug disabled it. The Car Home Ultra developer implemented a patch for the app as a separate install to override the system settings. So it works for Car Home, but the issue is still present in the underlying Android code. Other apps might have similar fixes, but I'm happy with the results here.
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