Car Dock *Root* - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.warner.carmode
I just made this app recently to initiate the Car Dock functionality for my Nexus 5.
Advantages of car dock mode: Landscape mode on home screen, auto speaker phone when getting calls, other little features that people may have used in the past
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SUPER simple app that doubles as a 1x1 widget. Unfortunately though, it requires root to put the device into the appropriate Car Dock mode due to having to execute a simple one line shell command. The standard SDK broadcast intents don't have the appropriate permissions to execute the Car Dock mode correctly.
Note: Don't disable Car Dock mode using the system notification. This is a notification provided by the Android OS and incorrectly disables Car Dock mode the same way you could do so without escalated privileges. Essentially it just shuts of car dock mode but doesn't disable rotation on the home screen which is the big thing.
Let me know what you think, was gonna share it around.
Tested on
Nexus 5 w/ 4.4.2 Stock Rom rooted
Galaxy Nexus w/ 4.3 Cyanogenmod
Droid Incredible w/ 4.0.3 Cyanogenmod
hi
what exactly it does?
meethere said:
hi
what exactly it does?
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It allows you to put the phone in landscape during the home screen and makes things a lot more automated for car situations. Like it will automatically put your calls in speaker phone mode and other little things.
I had used Car Dock mode a lot with my Galaxy Nexus when I would put it in the car dock because the pogo pins would set it to that mode, but now it's not as accessible with the Nexus 5 since there isn't a dedicated dock for it.
Thanks for sharing. Initial impression - looks nice, installed it via Play Store and running, screen rotate with most apps (Youtube, Maps & Google Now, etc.) - simplistic & functional, will test it tomorrow on a snow day as we need to head out. Having incoming calls to ring & answer in speakerphone mode is perfect when BT isn't connected ... not that I advocate distracted driving behind the wheels.
What will it take to rotate the stock telephone dialer and/or the Talkatone dialer? Google/LG should've included the Car Dock on its installed App list for the Nexus 5. I like it. :highfive:
Hm... How is it different from my app (which works as I described here)?
Also, my app doesn't require you to "not disable the car dock mode from the system notification", as it will still correctly disable car mode just fine on a second launch, without any reboot.
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Hm... How is it different from my app (which works as I described here)?
Also, my app doesn't require you to "not disable the car dock mode from the system notification", as it will still correctly disable car mode just fine on a second launch, without any reboot.
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So because you created a similar app, he isn't allowed to make one?
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So because you created a similar app, he isn't allowed to make one?
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OMG, no, I was just asking what's the difference.
E.g., he could have used a different method of achieving the dock state, like firing up a broadcast message via am command (which I've failed to do properly), or something else. I just wanted to know how this one works, that's all.
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OMG, no, I was just asking what's the difference.
E.g., he could have used a different method of achieving the dock state, like firing up a broadcast message via am command (which I've failed to do properly), or something else. I just wanted to know how this one works, that's all.
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My apologies, I misunderstood.
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Can I do a request? I think this would be more useful with a Tasker plugin or a separated switcher for on/off. The reason is sometimes using NFC lockscreenoff enabler xposed module for tag lost detection, when a tag is lost very early, then the car mode goes inverted cause you can't set a task for swith car mode on or off, just toggle.
Sorry for my poor English.
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1. do the headphones have a Mic? and if so, does it have button(s) on it to answer/end calls? can you do voice dialing with it?
i am currently using an IPhone 3GS where i can raise/lower volume, pause/play music and call people using voice control. just curious if the stock headphones can do all of this, or failing that if any aftermarket ones are available that provide these capabilities.
2. does any sort of Palm Pre styled application switcher exist? right now i can bring up this with a long press on the home button or spreading my fingers on the home screen, curious if this functionality is available on the N1/Android because it is extremely convenient.
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those are the two main questions i have now, thank you for being patient with me.
i've had the phone from day one and still haven't even opened the headset - that said the following link should answer your questions
http://www.google.com/support/andro...guide=27201&topic=27212&answer=168441#1084954
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2. does any sort of Palm Pre styled application switcher exist? right now i can bring up this with a long press on the home button or spreading my fingers on the home screen, curious if this functionality is available on the N1/Android because it is extremely convenient.
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In standard Android long press on home brings up a grid of the 6 most recent applications. Only icons though, no live view. And no closing apps from there.
Don't know an app like the one in your screenshot. I'd surely be interested if you or someone else finds / codes one.
1. N1's earphone does have a mic, you can next/play/previous music, and answer call. U cannot volume up or down using the earphone though. Voice cannot be activated using earphone, but you could hold the search button at home page to activate it
2. The app you show is just for the visual purpose. iphone does not have multitasking like Pre or Android, so why we need that fancy card slider anyway.
You can bring up the notification bar to switch between current opening apps
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In standard Android long press on home brings up a grid of the 6 most recent applications. Only icons though, no live view. And no closing apps from there.
Don't know an app like the one in your screenshot. I'd surely be interested if you or someone else finds / codes one.
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i knew about the long press on the home button from playing with the Android 2.1 Emulator. but i was hoping for something more aesthetically pleasing.
and yeah, the program in my screen shot is extremely convenient and aesthetically pleasing for switching programs. but i can imagine the pull down shade at the top of the N1 probably accomplishes all the same tasks...
duylong186 said:
1. N1's earphone does have a mic, you can next/play/previous music, and answer call. U cannot volume up or down using the earphone though. Voice cannot be activated using earphone, but you could hold the search button at home page to activate it
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are you sure voice search cannot be activated? nobody has added in this capability? that's unfortunate because it is really nice to use for making calls without removing the phone from your pocket. hell, with Google navigation you could probably use it for walking directions to somewhere as well.
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2. The app you show is just for the visual purpose. iphone does not have multitasking like Pre or Android, so why we need that fancy card slider anyway.
You can bring up the notification bar to switch between current opening apps
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my 3GS can Multitask, just poorly. even with the added ram (256MB) i can only run 2-3 applications at most before experiencing crashing since the apps were not designed with backgrounding in mind (for example, to play a basic game while running pandora i have to shut down Safari completely to free up enough ram for the other two programs..)
You can scroll through the running Activities/Tasks/processes with "AppSwipe".
Can be bound to a longpress on the search soft-button. Quite customizable too.
Kind of strange, I'm using JT's super clean rom and I just bought the dock for my fascinate. It was automatically launching aosp desk clock. I decided to copy over the stock desk cradle app into system and now when I dock the phone, nothing launches. The other issue I'm having is it doesn't force the phone in landscape mode like my old droid dock did and it bothers me because I only want launcherpro to be in landscape when docked. I tried to remove the aosp desk clock thinking maybe you can't have 2 apps handle it but that didn't solve it, also it would have prompt asking which app to launch. I'm not sure how android handles the dock event or what program does, but I would like to figure out how to restore this. I tried using tasker to control orientation settings but it doesn't seem to have enough flexibility to detect which app is in the foreground.
I also have the dock cradle. I used the stock desk clock for a while, but I hated it.
I settled on using the Alarm Clock app. I didn't have to do anything special to get it to work except making sure the Android News & Weather app was installed. I was never asked which app to launch, but I believe I uninstalled the stock one after a while. I had up to 3 desk clock apps installed at one point while testing them all and I never had an issue.
I only use portrait mode for my launcher (currently Go Launcher, but usually TouchWiz). The Alarm Clock app had no trouble switching from portrait to landscape no matter what my launcher settings were.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/alarm-clock-plusv2★/com.vp.alarmClockPlusDock
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Tried it
Tried it, but it still wouldn't work. It's weird, it's suppose to detect when it's docked and launch the default dock app, but nothing launches at all. The home button will bring me to my default launcher, and the orientation as I mentioned won't change. I only installed desk cradle and after that it stopped working completely. I'm trying now to reinstall the aosp clock and remove desk cradle. Hope it at least works with that again.
I'm having the exact same problem. Please update the thread if you find a solution.
Sort of fixed
Well, I got it sort of working again. It now goes to the aosp clock and the home button also brings it to it. It doesn't fix my orientation problem so I'm going to learn to deal with allowing rotation in launcherpro. So you need to remove both the deskclock and deskhome from /system/app, then using rom manager flash the aosp deskclock zip from sonofskywalker, then you should have the aosp deskclock working with the dock. I still haven't figured out how to get the stock desk cradle to work, maybe it's the way JT's supercleanrom handles it? It came with aosp stock apps and lockscreen by default, I had to flash back the puzzle lock and other stuff. Wish I knew more about the android operating system and how things really worked...
Another feature not in the North American phones?
If you open the notification bar and swipe to the right on the widgets there is a driving mode.
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circuit.007 said:
If you open the notification bar and swipe to the right on the widgets there is a driving mode.
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Not on the Sprint version
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I don't see it there in the ATT model either.
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I don't see it there in the ATT model either.
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Every time I put my ATT SIII into my OEM Samsung Car dock (Infuse), it goes right into Car Mode.
It's buried in the menus:
Settings -> language and input -> text to speech output -> driving mode
Don't ask me why they put it there
When I use a certain (cheap) charging cable my phone goes into car mode. But thats the only time
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T-mobile US version has it
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You can tell S voice to turn on and off car mode as well.
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Dumb question but what is car mode exactly?
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Dumb question but what is car mode exactly?
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Exactly what I was wondering.. I'm sure it reads your texts outloud for you maybe? Someone please shed some light..
When I first got my S3 I wondered the same thing and got excited that it might be Google Car Home but sadly it is not.
The way I understand it is just part of the NFC so you can send your notifications/audio through BT.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/06/samsung-galaxy-s3-review/
2/ By sticking a tag on the smartphone car mount, inserting the phone in place would a/switch to car mode b/ turn Bluetooth on to pair with the car or headset c/ send a text to someone to say that you’re back in the car.
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Personally I keep Google Car Home on my home screen so I can put it into true car mode myself, when needed.
My lg ally goes into car mode inside of a strong magnetic field.
Car mode is a simplified interface with big buttons and other features that makes it easier to use your phone while driving. OG droids go into car mode when you put a magnet behind the battery door ie putting it into the car dock. I put pandora and pocket casts into my car home. You can make the GS3 go into car mode automatically with nfc if you want to. Download the app from samsung or maybe the play store.
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I have it on the sprint version..
Im using it right now.
works well.
its under options text to speech output and then driving mode is there.
seems like there is some confusion in this thread between google's 'car mode' and the 'driving mode' on the GSIII.
Car Mode is a simplified interface as mentioned above. It does not seem to be included on this phone - I've installed CarHomeUltra which is effectively the same thing with a few bells and whistles. When I plug my phone into my Infuse car dock it automatically launches. Before the installation of this software my phone would jump into SVoice. This seems to be the Samsung replacement for car home - instead of big buttons to press you control by voice. I'm sure this works great for some, but driving a Miata the wind noise is too great for it to work for me.
Driving Mode, selected from the icons in the pull down, or from preferences, is a mode where incoming text messages/sender name are read out loud so that you know what has arrived as you drive without doing something daft like trying to read the screen as you hurtle down the highway. It is definitely present on the T-Mobile version, but I can't verify this for the others, obviously.
Hope this clears a few things up.
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seems like there is some confusion in this thread between google's 'car mode' and the 'driving mode' on the GSIII.
Car Mode is a simplified interface as mentioned above. It does not seem to be included on this phone - I've installed CarHomeUltra which is effectively the same thing with a few bells and whistles. When I plug my phone into my Infuse car dock it automatically launches. Before the installation of this software my phone would jump into SVoice. This seems to be the Samsung replacement for car home - instead of big buttons to press you control by voice. I'm sure this works great for some, but driving a Miata the wind noise is too great for it to work for me.
Driving Mode, selected from the icons in the pull down, or from preferences, is a mode where incoming text messages/sender name are read out loud so that you know what has arrived as you drive without doing something daft like trying to read the screen as you hurtle down the highway. It is definitely present on the T-Mobile version, but I can't verify this for the others, obviously.
Hope this clears a few things up.
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Here is a link to Google Car Home
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257329
Once installed it will not show up in your app list, you'll need to use 'anycut' to create the app icon on your home screen so you can launch it manually (like I do).
Hmmm... drivng mode looks like something I would use, but since I have a Sprint version it's a real pain to get to. Any idea how I could either:
Add a button to the pull down area for it
Create a widget for it.
on the AT&T version this is what the default notification bar looks like. Sync is also included. It continues on the right side (swipe to access).
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Hmmm... drivng mode looks like something I would use, but since I have a Sprint version it's a real pain to get to. Any idea how I could either:
Add a button to the pull down area for it
Create a widget for it.
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Looky what I found......hirak99 built a widget for us!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1559801
If you use it be sure to thank the dev!
When I'm charging or docked I want the phone to charge as fast as possible so I don't want the screen or anything on at all..even if its a minimal clock.
Likewise Google has disabled the LED when in daydream mode so apps like LiteFlow don't work.
I'm missing the point I guess. A computer with a screensaver is one thing..but a phone we're trying to squeeze battery life out of doesn't seem like something you'd want daydream on.
The only way this would make sense to me is if Android had an option to 'daydream once phone fully charged' and then it can display currents or a clock or something.
Thoughts? Am I missing something?
You got me. Screen saver for a phone... which I want off when I am not looking at it? Guess it is just one more bullet point on the feature list for the boys in marketing (like 1080p).
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When I'm charging or docked I want the phone to charge as fast as possible so I don't want the screen or anything on at all..even if its a minimal clock.
Likewise Google has disabled the LED when in daydream mode so apps like LiteFlow don't work.
I'm missing the point I guess. A computer with a screensaver is one thing..but a phone we're trying to squeeze battery life out of doesn't seem like something you'd want daydream on.
The only way this would make sense to me is if Android had an option to 'daydream once phone fully charged' and then it can display currents or a clock or something.
Thoughts? Am I missing something?
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As with a lot of things, it's all about preferences.
It *IS* something I want; I like seeing the clock when my phone is on my desktop dock. I have all the time in the world to charge.
I do agree the "daydream once fully charged" option would be a nice addition.
Just another feature that isn't used but marketed to consumers. Kinda like face unlock or the front facing camera. Will people use it? Yeah. But the large community won't be.
I've had a front facing camera for along time now and have yet to use it. I played around with it and that was that. I'm not saying that it's an useless feature but it's mainly used to market. Same goes for face unlock
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Update to the latest Google current and use the news magazine as your day dream inserted of clock and colors
It's amazing....
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I had pics of my nieces... kinda nice to have on your desk. Although after a while it got a little distracting... and I felt a little bad about putting those pictures away to actually use the phone , so I removed the feature.
It might look nice in a docking station or the like...otherwise I don't really see a point.
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It might look nice in a docking station or the like...otherwise I don't really see a point.
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Exactly. It's for when you put your N4 on the google charging Orb.... oh wait.
I disabled daydream on mine. Even when (if) the orb comes out, I doubt I would use it. There is a computer right where I would put it so it seems a bit redundant.
I could see it being used as a photo slide show though (as mentioned above)
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When I'm charging or docked I want the phone to charge as fast as possible so I don't want the screen or anything on at all..even if its a minimal clock.
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Apologies... Guess I'm missing the point of your concerns. If you don't want daydream then turn it off. There's a on/off switch for it in the top of the setup for it.
Hi all,
This is my first thread in android head units. And it was a long time ago I was busy with custom roms on phones (Sony xperia) :crying:
But I just bought and installed a Android 9.0 BMW e90 unit in my car
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After a week I thought the software should become much better to really enjou the device.
So I make up a list and maybe with the help off others I can get them fixed with apps or actual coding.
- idrive button should work in apps like Google maps/Spotify it only works in the Apps the softwarebuilder created
- when I am in main UI and use idrive button I cannot move from big tiles to sidebar. And if I am on sidebar I can't move to big tiles?
- when I open phone menu my sounds from Spotify or any other music app goes silent. Even when there is no intend to make a call
- you should be able to progam idrive buttons. Like opening Spotify if I push idrive media button.
- Configure steering wheel buttons (example: Speech button on steering wheel I want to launch Google assistent) < now my phone and car are answering on "ok google" at the sime time
- can't the unit switch audio input? Like when I listen FM radio on BMW unit. And android unit receives call it will change input to aux?
- Android is last updated on 2018! That's pretty long time ago. Can we update this ourselves?
Maybe some topic are really easy to answer with it's not possible or there are already apps to do this. Let me know and on each topic I will give a status/update. Hope you can give me input otherwise I would love to get help on how to do this myself. Or where to look.
I would also like to see more activity regarding the BMW units!
Regards another Snapdragon user
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I would also like to see more activity regarding the BMW units!
Regards another Snapdragon user
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Try here:
https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1639676
there are few guys with Snapdragon units.
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Try here:
https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1639676
there are few guys with Snapdragon units.
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Thnx, My first review is that's a lot off talk about latest version but nothing about changing things yourself.
If we wait on our suppliers with updates it would take years. Haha mine said after the weekend I have update.. and then still it was the same haha.
I also have this headunit. Works pretty well except for navi instructions, when google maps speechs the background music is pretty garbled and with a lot of noises. Any hint?
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I also have this headunit. Works pretty well except for navi instructions, when google maps speechs the background music is pretty garbled and with a lot of noises. Any hint?
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I have the same system, but for an E93 (8,8"). I also had these noises on google maps, but after playing with some settings (under factory settings, aux, rear camera etc.) the noises stopped. maybe it was just a reboot after that.
BTW: I have tried different apps from the playstore to reboot the device directly, without success. Does anyone have a solution that?
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I have the same system, but for an E93 (8,8"). I also had these noises on google maps, but after playing with some settings (under factory settings, aux, rear camera etc.) the noises stopped. maybe it was just a reboot after that.
BTW: I have tried different apps from the playstore to reboot the device directly, without success. Does anyone have a solution that?
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For rebooting without root install a Terminal emulator and enter "reboot", all ready made apps require root.
For my rooted device i`m using "Simple reboot" from Play store.
Chri
Technolo-G said:
I have the same system, but for an E93 (8,8"). I also had these noises on google maps, but after playing with some settings (under factory settings, aux, rear camera etc.) the noises stopped. maybe it was just a reboot after that.
BTW: I have tried different apps from the playstore to reboot the device directly, without success. Does anyone have a solution that?
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not a solution, but a workaround: boot the unit, start the proprietary mediaplayer, close it, then une google maps and/or your music player. Works like a charm and no background noise. You can set a tasker profile to do the procedure.