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Looks like most of you guys answered each other questions. Yes, this works on iPhone 3G and 3GS. Wish I had a 3GS, but using this on 3G.
Batman: In terms of switching orientation. Once you set it on landscape, it takes a lot of tolerance for it to switch orientation. Example. Once you set it on landscape, you can lay it flat, let it fly around. It just can't exceed 50 degrees to towards an opposing orientation and stay that way. Like you have it on landscape. You can only lift up the top of the phone to 50 degrees until it switches to portrait. More than likely it'll work since it's just sliding in the center console. If you're offroading and your phone is flying around like in a popcorn machine, that's different. Like rominl said, nav hack required.
rominl: Unfortunately, Apple is strict with their hardware. They only allow video out their in YouTube and iPod Video apps. Your phone has to be jailbroken. There's two apps that I know of that will enable video out on virtually all applications on the iPhone. They're called "ScreenSplitr", and "TV-Out" available on Cydia. I'm using TV-Out personally.
Batman: In terms of switching orientation. Once you set it on landscape, it takes a lot of tolerance for it to switch orientation. Example. Once you set it on landscape, you can lay it flat, let it fly around. It just can't exceed 50 degrees to towards an opposing orientation and stay that way. Like you have it on landscape. You can only lift up the top of the phone to 50 degrees until it switches to portrait. More than likely it'll work since it's just sliding in the center console. If you're offroading and your phone is flying around like in a popcorn machine, that's different. Like rominl said, nav hack required.
rominl: Unfortunately, Apple is strict with their hardware. They only allow video out their in YouTube and iPod Video apps. Your phone has to be jailbroken. There's two apps that I know of that will enable video out on virtually all applications on the iPhone. They're called "ScreenSplitr", and "TV-Out" available on Cydia. I'm using TV-Out personally.
one more question, it doesn't only feed video but also feed the sound through the stock system, is that correct? so when you are using the nav and it gives you direction, the sound is through the car speakers?
this really makes me look into sl2vi-p4 now
get an iphone 3g or 3gs, jailbreak and unlock it, get the appz, plug it in
set the system to ipod mode (through vaistech) and plug in the iphone, you are good to go
This is cool! That means that you can use an iPhone to play videos, so you dont have to burn any DVD's. Hmmm and if it feeds the sound as well then I'd be more than interested in getting that vais unit installed.
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It feeds both audio and video through the car speakers and display. Like I said before, your music dims or mutes automatically when it announces a turn or other guidance and resumes afterwards. This eliminates the problem of your music drowning the TTS guidance. Some nav apps have ipod control built in. If not, you use the standard Lexus on screen display controls or steering wheel controls. It still think you're playing a DVD so when you tap the screen, you can press play, fwd, rwd, etc. These functions control your ipod as well.
mysteryan, sweet, that's what i thought. that's totally awesome! thank you so much for this, i had no idea with jailbreak you can feed video through the usb. this is great!
i always thought about doing the sl2vi, but it's expensive coz' i need p4, and just to play movies that seems kind of expensive. but with this i can pretty much do anything, my passenger can play games and it can pretty much display everything on screen, that's not a bad ideaand hey, i was thinking, with this potential, maybe you can do the radio streaming too?
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haha i am fine with the lexus nav, fits my needs i always thought about doing the sl2vi, but it's expensive coz' i need p4, and just to play movies that seems kind of expensive. but with this i can pretty much do anything, my passenger can play games and it can pretty much display everything on screen, that's not a bad idea
and hey, i was thinking, with this potential, maybe you can do the radio streaming too?
i always thought about doing the sl2vi, but it's expensive coz' i need p4, and just to play movies that seems kind of expensive. but with this i can pretty much do anything, my passenger can play games and it can pretty much display everything on screen, that's not a bad ideaand hey, i was thinking, with this potential, maybe you can do the radio streaming too?
You can already do radio streaming no? Since you already have an SLi, you receive the radio stream from the iPhone. Audio is the only thing required. Just stop the iPod app and use your radio streaming app. Audio should still be fed through. If you're thinking about streaming Sirius, unfortunately, you still need a subscription for internet streaming.
i believe the sl2vi is the same, you have 2 modes, one is the mp3 mode and it access the song folders, and then it's the video mode where it releases the controls on iphone so you can select and play from iphone. i would think only in that mode you can select radio streaming appz from the phone and do the playback?
haha i am fine with the lexus nav, fits my needs i always thought about doing the sl2vi, but it's expensive coz' i need p4, and just to play movies that seems kind of expensive. but with this i can pretty much do anything, my passenger can play games and it can pretty much display everything on screen, that's not a bad idea
and hey, i was thinking, with this potential, maybe you can do the radio streaming too?
i always thought about doing the sl2vi, but it's expensive coz' i need p4, and just to play movies that seems kind of expensive. but with this i can pretty much do anything, my passenger can play games and it can pretty much display everything on screen, that's not a bad ideaand hey, i was thinking, with this potential, maybe you can do the radio streaming too?
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You can always enter simple mode by pressing scan button 8 times within 1-2 seconds (It's in the manual). That'll probably free up the controls.
