Can someone explain the car dock to me?

eoinf

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Car dock

Just ordered one Friday last. Am glad I read through this before getting one, always nice to save any hassles:). Roll on new unit Thurs/Fri!
 

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Just received Motorola car dock, set it up, fine, placed phone in cradle, fine.
Audio cable is connected from usb to speakers and phone on aux.
Issue - when i make a call the sound is not being routed to the car speakers. I have turned sound option for speaker on and off
 
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Just hit speaker button, it defaults to the phone speaker
Is there any work around that you know of to make it automatically bypass the speaker though? Perhaps an app that can sense that?
 

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I found a workaround for this...

After much frustration & a lot of searching, I finally came across a very clever workaround for this issue in a Motorola Atrix-related forum. Cheers and many thanks to ACraigL (Andrew) for his original post.

Here's how to get around it:

1) Go to Android Marketplace and install an app called "Setting Profiles". The free Lite version will do the job.

2) Run Setting Profiles on your phone.

3) Create a new profile that turns off the speakerphone; call it "Speakerphone Off" or whatever. Hint: to create a profile that does this, clear all the checkboxes and all the green stars, then enable the green star for Speakerphone and make sure that checkbox is unchecked.

4) Create a new Rule with the following two conditions: Docking State=car dock and Active Call. Use Add Tweak to add a 5-second Activation Delay (this is required so the phone doesn't override the Speakerphone Off setting). Finally, choose Add Action, Activate Profile, Speakerphone Off.

Voila! All incoming and outgoing calls will now play through your car speakers via the Car Dock's audio out.

Note: If you have trouble on your phone, try tweaking the delay time. The 5 second delay works flawlessly on my Droid Bionic; the original poster said he ended up using 3 seconds for his Atrix.

I hope this is helpful to other users.

best,
JohnB
 
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