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Old 05-16-12, 02:18 AM
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Hey guys. I have a droid razr and was wondering how can i play themusic i download in my phone in the car while i am driving? Or play any muaic app i download like iheart radio or pandora?
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Sorry for the typos did this from my phone lol.
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From your profile, looks like you have a 2006.

You'll need to use the aux-in port in the center console. Just get a standard 3.5mm stereo cable...one end goes into the headphone jack on your phone, one end goes into the aux-in port in the center, play the music and hit the Aux button on the car stereo....good to go! The cables are very cheap online.
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Make sue you get an angled plus or you may have a hard time closing your center arm rest. Then press AUX and your music will play.
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I have mine run through my jabra Bluetooth visor speaker. Has you tune to a station not being used and booyah your music. Also when calls come in you can answer it right over the speaker system
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get this for less wires:
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Blackberry Music Gateway

http://store.shopblackberry.com/Prod.../ACC-41596-001
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To summarize the previous few posts:

If you just want to quickly and cheaply get your music playing through the speakers, buy an auxiliary/headphone cable (3.5mm male to male). Don't spend more than ~$7, places like monoprice.com will have them for less than $1 and the quality will be fine (this is the one I have).

If you want to get a little fancier and route your calls through the car speaker or not have to plug the phone in every time, then you can get a bluetooth-aux cable adapter like the Blackberry Music Gateway as suggested above. It'll cost a little more and will take a little time to set up, but the whole experience will be much more seamless and you'll get more functionality out of it.
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Originally Posted by kickin8
Is this powered w/ batteries or do you have to charge it before use? I'm assuming it will not charge through the aux port.
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Originally Posted by piguy
To summarize the previous few posts:

If you just want to quickly and cheaply get your music playing through the speakers, buy an auxiliary/headphone cable (3.5mm male to male). Don't spend more than ~$7, places like monoprice.com will have them for less than $1 and the quality will be fine (this is the one I have).

If you want to get a little fancier and route your calls through the car speaker or not have to plug the phone in every time, then you can get a bluetooth-aux cable adapter like the Blackberry Music Gateway as suggested above. It'll cost a little more and will take a little time to set up, but the whole experience will be much more seamless and you'll get more functionality out of it.
3rd alternative is buy one the AUX car kits they make, these are more in the 25-50 buck range, but not only give you an AUX plug to use, they will charge the phone too, which neither of the two mentioned solutions do.

Also- if you are just going with an AUX cable, try to avoid going headphone to AUX. Find something equivalent to a dock-to-aux cable on an iphone to get a line-level output instead of an amped one- this will give you significantly better audio quality than the headphone jack.
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Originally Posted by nixx621
Is this powered w/ batteries or do you have to charge it before use? I'm assuming it will not charge through the aux port.
These have not been available on the market for awhile
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