No Need for car charger when you have a USB connection on your car stereo

[chetermaat]

I use the Navi on My diamond. But needed a new car charger. Alsmost bought one. But then I thought. It charges true USB and my Kenwood car stereo has a usb slot to read music from my 8 gig usb stick. Now i connected my diamond. My diamond asked me to optimize for active sync or storage drive. I set it to storage drive. My kenwood reads the music verry fast from my diamond (faster then from my U3 caplable 8 gig USB stick) but it also charges the battery fast.


So you people that have the USB connection on your car stereo. Try it first it saves you a copple of bugs. :)

Greetz.

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Found out that when using TT7 Navi on it. The charging power true my USB on my car stereo is not enough. So i Bought a car charger at www.pdashop.nl under HTC DIAMOND ACCESOIRIES. Then again if you lower the screen's backlight it might still work ?

Going on vacation tomorrow. Testing TT7 on USB only with a swifft rom on it. This might do the trick cause i used the TT7 on the latest Dutch stock (battery draining) rom first. Let you guys know when I get back from vacation.

[sandeman684]

Now i connected my diamond. My diamond asked me to optimize for active sync or storage drive. I set it to storage drive. My kenwood reads the music verry fast from my diamond (faster then from my U3 caplable 8 gig USB stick) but it also charges the battery fast.

Nice solution. But: with this method you cannot play music from the Diamond on your stereo and use navigation on the Diamond at the same time. When you connect as storage drive, your Diamond can no longer access the internal storage (where the navigation data is usually stored). And I don't think your stereo will find the files on the Diamond when you use it in Activesync mode.

On the other hand: when you use a car charger you don't even have the option to play the music through the car stereo.

[chetermaat]

Its indead impossible to use audio and navi @ the same time when connected true USB on my car stereo.

Have to use the slower Mp3 cd for the music. Or a USB splitter to connect USB stick and charge @ the same time. :D

[AndyLuft]

thx mate, great info

wont have to buy car charger, using sony cd changer with usb.

Cheers