HTC EVO and activating Prius USB Tab

Welcome to my hell hole! Link: http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-iii...ng-sucks-android-phones-so-usb-interface.html

I had a Samsung Epic. Basically, the Prius system is designed for Apple Ipods and Iphones. The best thing is to link up BT Audio streaming, but that does not get you good quality sound. I ended having to use MELODYCAN (http://melodycan.com/) to get my Prius to see the songs on my phone...but, beware, there is no playlist or anything. In the end, i dumped my Epic and went back to my Itouch because i drive long distances and music is very important to me.

Good luck.

 

web1b, did you even read the thread i linked?

Well, if you were to do BT Audio, then all you have to do is plug your phone into the 12V socket and charge it while BT Audio does its thing.

Like what i wrote above, BT Audio for Android phone is problematic...and it has NOTHING to do with sound quality per se. It sounds as if your tweeters are blown...i have downloaded numerous apps with equalizers to try and isolate this noise...no good. This is all across Android phones with maybe the exception of the Droid because it has "Enhanced Audio" option...no other Android phone has this option. So, this BT Audio streaming on Android phone is WORST than going thru your AUX.

BTW, BT Audio via my iTouch works very well...but like you said, USB is the best connection for music. Unfortunately, most car audio systems USB (e.g. Prius) do NOT recognize Android phones well. With Melodycan, my prius was able to recognize my songs on my Epic via USB, BUT there was no playlist...so, you end up scrolling (via NAVI) up and down all your songs one-by-one. In the end, i gave up...and just went back to my iTouch via USB.

And this is where i think Apple has the advantage. Not that it has more apps or cooler apps, but the industry is all geared for Apple stuff. Hopefully, this will change in the future as Android becomes more popular. My wife's TSX audio USB won't even recognize my Epic, even using Melodycan.

 

The SD card has to be set to Mass Storage mode before it could be mounted on the Prius. The only way to do this on my OG Droid was to get one of those widget addons like Extended Controls. Rooting would also allow you to get the Dual Mount SD widget to mount to the Prius and Phone.

 

It never worked on the OG Droid unless its preset for Mass Storage mode prior to connecting up the phone to the Prius. The notification to set to Mass Storage never worked for the OG Droid. Have a look at the Dual Mount App in the Market to see what I'm talking about. With the phone already set to Mass Storage mode you won't have these problems.

 

I have the HTC Droid Incredible, the BT streaming is problematic. A new issue is failing to go back to streaming after a phone call, issues seem to change when Droid software changes.
It's annoying, but workable.
I just use USB flash drives for music storage, a couple of 8 gig flash drives is a lot of tunes. Has anyone tried using a hub, or a USB hard drive with the Prius USB port?

 

Question - I know that there are inherent problems with audio books and the usb interface. Specifically, it normally starts the book over everytime. It seems that the iPod Touch works better. Can anyone confirm or deny if the iPod touch has the same problem with the audio book starting over each time?

Dave

 

Not sure about audio books, but as long as i do not "close" the app on my iTouch, it plays where it left off.

"close" = double click the home button and closing the app.

 

I want to be sure I understand because that was my problem too. I plugged my HTC droid Eris into USB port but could not access music through it. I notice the USB has 3 options on the Droid: charge only, HTC sync, and Disk Drive (mount as disk drive). Even the mount as drive did not work. Are you saying (by mass storage) I should sent Mount As Drive. Disconnect the USB leaving it on Mount as Drive (mass storage) and then reconnect the USB and that should let me play audio through the USB port? I wasn't clear on that.

Another something. If I get the USB port working to play audio, and I want to use the phone via Bluetooth, won't I have to turn Bluetooth on anyway, overriding the USB connection (except for charge)?

 

Apparently the Prius needs to have Android set to mount as a Mass Storage device prior to connecting up or else the USB does not get recognized. Stock Android when its in Mass Storage mode will dismount from the phone. Now this is only probably for phones that have no Internal storage and rely on the SD for all storage like the older Droids like the OG Droid and Eris, Hero etc. Those with a combo internal memory and SD card may not need to operate this way. Rooting always helps .

Bluetooth is separate and has its own tab and not affected by the USB.