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Connection to Stereo with USB

skip0pot2mus — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:47:36 GMT

My S won't connect to my Alpine car stereo using USB, My old Nokia would do it fine, and I think other android phones will do it.

When connected, the Stereo says "Device Error" immediately when connected, it should say "searching" [for audio files]

The phone doesn't even charge from the connection, it is as if the phone has no idea it's been connected. The only thing I can find is that in the battery usage screen, the "Time on battery" resets when I connect the usb connector, but it definately doesn't charge, and won't play files obviously.

Anyone have any ideas if there is a setting or app for this to work?

Cheers

Re: Connection to Stereo with USB

Sam — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:46:54 GMT

This could be to do with the phone connecting in MTP mode as opposed to the older and more commonly used mass Storage Mode. At this stage I am not aware of a way around this sorry.

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Re: Connection to Stereo with USB

skip0pot2mus — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:01:49 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

So do you suppose a different model stereo may support this? Or could there be an option in future software in order to do this?

Thanks

Re: Connection to Stereo with USB

skip0pot2mus — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:10:38 GMT

A little update

I've updated to ICS and now the phone will charge, thinks the stereo is a charger, so I'm half-way there now