Brodit Active Car Mount-modded with audio/charging

[URPREY]

Here's the short tutorial on how to modify a Brodit/Proclips active car mount to work with an HTC y-cable. This allows you to slide your Kaiser into the device holder, and have audio out capabilities while charging.

First, you need to use a knife to separate the top plate from the charging plug. Slide your knife gently between both sides to completely separate it. If you look carefully there is a thin line between the top plate and the bottom mount.

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Once you've removed the top plate, you'll see the usb charging cable:

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Remove it and get the y-cable ready to install. You need to remove the rubber casing around the end of the y-cable in order for it to fit correctly:

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Once installed in the holder, it should look like this:

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Use some type of adhesive to reattach the top plate:

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Here's the finished product:

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[Sub-Woofer]

Tank you very much for your work. I've got my active car-mount yesterday and will mod it this weekend!

Bye, Peter

[evilc]

Glad to see that you had success, I will mod my active cradle now.
I think I am gonna use the one modded like this on my desk - I still can't see a decent landscape desk cradle on the market, so I think this mod + a bit of lead + some of that polymorph stuff I use in my passive holder version of this mod will make a nice desk cradle. I could link it into the stereo so I can choose songs on the phone while I game on the PC :)

[Frans.]

Here's the short tutorial .....

Will get mine on Friday..

Looking now for...

http://www.dal-tec.com/smarteq.asp

or

http://cgi.ebay.nl/THB-Bury-UNI-System-8-CarTalk-Car-Kit-Base-Unit-Carkit_W0QQitemZ300144142547QQihZ020QQcategoryZ351 93QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

any expierences with that or simalar units from other brands?

[d00mz]

This ruins the 12V cable originally supplied by Brodit/Proclip, correct?

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No - I put a little bit of heatshrink tubing on the exposed metal part that doesn't go into the phone, and I'm using it as the charger still.

[ITAdmin]

Hey guys/gals...

I bought a Y cable for my Tilt and when I plug it in to my phone and plug in an audio connector to external speakers and the power charger to the other side of the Y, I get charging, but the audio still comes out of the phones speaker and not to the adapter? Is there a setting I have to change to stop the audio from coming out of the phone and divert it to the audio out adapter?

Thanks for any help!

[robt2379]

Congratulations!

You have given me the confidence to get on and do mine. Spookily, yesterday my audio output from IGo started being fed to my car speakers via bluetooth for no apparent reason! Getting the nav instructions is my main purpose here. It wont last Im sure . .

[ITAdmin]

Use the BT Toggle app someone here designed. It works GREAT!!

ANyone know why audio won't come out of the Y splitter for my Tilt? Do I need to switch something on/off in the phone to divert the audio from the phones speaker to the audio jack?


Thanks

[URPREY]

Did you verify that it works on another HTC phone? It's just plug and play on all of my HTC phones.

[mega_jamie]

Nice Modding guide...

may do this, but can you tell me if the Brodit/ProClip stuff puts the Kaiser in a good enough position to use it's built in GPS?

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Sure, it works just fine where it's mounted.

[d00mz]

Nice Modding guide...

may do this, but can you tell me if the Brodit/ProClip stuff puts the Kaiser in a good enough position to use it's built in GPS?

Just got back from a 650 mile round trip weekend, and YES, the Brodit/Proclip put my Tilt in a perfect place for the satellites/GPS to work wonderfully.