Desire USB play in car audio system?

[ifb-online]

Am on holiday and have rented a Renault Scenic (pretty much brand new latest model) and it has a USB port that you can plug into and play iPOD music through the car speakers.

I have tried this with my HTC Desire but not got it to work? Does anyone know if it's possible. I have to listen to my daughter's iPOD at the moment!!!

My wife's Nokia N97 Mini worked once but not since...

Ian

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Am on holiday and have rented a Renault Scenic (pretty much brand new latest model) and it has a USB port that you can plug into and play iPOD music through the car speakers.

I have tried this with my HTC Desire but not got it to work? Does anyone know if it's possible. I have to listen to my daughter's iPOD at the moment!!!

My wife's Nokia N97 Mini worked once but not since...

Ian

dry dragging the notification bar down and click mass storage mode

 

[ifb-online]

dry dragging the notification bar down and click mass storage mode

Yes, tried that - but no joy.

Ian

 

[ifb-online]

Has anyone successfully connected their Desire to a car's USB port and managed to get the audio to play through thr car's audio system?

If so - how!?

Ian

 

[JonnyDroid]

Has anyone successfully connected their Desire to a car's USB port and managed to get the audio to play through thr car's audio system?

If so - how!?

Ian

Yes, I recently did it with a friend's brand new Vauxhall Meriva (she has the same phone & asked me to test it for her), but I've forgotten exactly how I did it .
I will be seeing her tomorrow and/or can try it on my parent's Citroen C4 Grand Picasso - I normally use Bluetooth, but it has USB and, being French, it may be more similar to Renault?

I know I definitely enabled mass storage (as suggested above) and, then, I worked through the "Source" options until it worked... my poor memory suggests there was some pause before it was recognised and, also, that it was the option after the one I expected it to be (Aux??).

If, when I get to try it again, I will check back and update with something more specific. Good luck in the meantime

*edited to add*:
I think I had to play the media using my phones media player, at least initially (but I'm not 100% sure)

 

[JonnyDroid]

I have just tested my phone on both cars (mentioned above) & music plays through both.

Meriva:
>Plug in USB lead
>Select "Disk Drive"
>Press "Source" until it finds phone
>Music played automatically

There was no need to start music player - I said my memory was bad

Citroen was the same process, although it did show "USB peripheral error" the first time I tried it. I turned off debugging & tried again & it worked. Having said that, I then turned debugging back on (after disconnecting it) and it worked okay - so the debugging may be a red herring & the error was just a random thing?

Hope some of this helps