Car accessories?

[MrFoxhound]

Is there an accessory that will allow me to charge the phone in my car and allow my car stereo to play the music off of my phone at the same time? I have an AUX jack in my car.

[pinaytoy]

you need a 3.5mm converter plugged into your phone, then plug in a 3.5mm jack that also converts to rca or to another 3.5mm to your aux in on front of your stereo. lol, did that make sense?

[MrFoxhound]

Ok, thanks. I'll hit up a radio shack tomorrow and see if I can come up with something.

[anthony50807]

i dont believe they sell those type of adapters at radio shack...... i already tried BestBuy, TigerDirect, CompUSA etc.. and the only place i've seen them is online............ yeah i know it sucks

[Jorsher]

You could also get the HTC charger + 3.5mm dongle and get an FM transmitter from ebay for the 3.5mm jack.

[jayroam]

crutchfield has a lot of rca adapters which you can then use an rca to 3.5mm cable to play sound from your G1. I'm using the USA Spec (bought from Crutchfield) for my Acura which gives me both RCA and iPod dock inputs giving me the option of using my G1 or my iPod. The iPod dock both charges and has audio out, but with the G1, I have to use the 3-in-1 adapter I bought from the Android Store.

[Ripsphone]

IF i charge and play music at the same time I get a lot of noise through the speakers

[jokerdb78]

Im sure you could just get a charger and a adapter for it to allow an extra conntion so you could play music fom your phone to your care. I could probley just build one in like 1 hour if i had a car charger.

Just need to split some wires and do work. Its more then likely do able with the right hardware.

[CJ Chitwood]

IF i charge and play music at the same time I get a lot of noise through the speakers

If I may ask, which adapter are you using? Do you have a link to it online (so I can avoid it)?

Reason it gets noise is probably nothing more than cheap design. Poor isolation will allow transient voltage from the charger into the audio. May also be a ground loop -- which might be resolvable by disconnecting the ground on one end of the audio, but this will make the audio signal "return" through the car's chassis and may make it worse. It would also require that you have it charging when it's plugged in, but I can't see someone having this in the car and not charging it.


I'd like to see, myself, how the adapter is made. I might pay the $7 for a cheapie online and bust it open to get to the innards. It shouldn't be difficult to make a ciglighter-to-HTCUSB-splitwithaudio adapter that will allow you to charge and play music without buzz.

[Reserve]

I believe all of them are that way, its most likely why they made the cable on the 3 in 1 adapter so short, to reduce noise. But I mean there has to be some way to reduce the noise.... but I'm pretty sure all these adapters are cheapies.