using auxillary input
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using auxillary input
I have a 2010 460LS. I would like to use a cable to connect my galaxy smart phone to the auxiliary port so I can listen to streaming internet sites. When I try this in my 2009 Honda Ridgeline it works fine but in the Lexus I get no sound out of the car when the phone is playing and the cable is connected. The local Lexus service told me that the auxiliary input only works for stored files like music I would have already downloaded but not for streaming. This makes no sense to me. How does the wire know what the phone is putting into it and why does it work fine on the Honda?
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I have a 2010 460LS. I would like to use a cable to connect my galaxy smart phone to the auxiliary port so I can listen to streaming internet sites. When I try this in my 2009 Honda Ridgeline it works fine but in the Lexus I get no sound out of the car when the phone is playing and the cable is connected. The local Lexus service told me that the auxiliary input only works for stored files like music I would have already downloaded but not for streaming. This makes no sense to me. How does the wire know what the phone is putting into it and why does it work fine on the Honda?
You are talking about a 3.5 mm plug aux port right? Not an ipod port? I thought Lexus added a dedicated ipod port in 2010.
I know it sounds stupid, but are you sure the head unit was in "aux" mode? And the volume was turned up on the phone?
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oops!
Thanks for taking the trouble to answer. It works fine. I forgot to turn on the audio system. This of course leaves the question of why the Lexus tech gave me such a non-nonsensical answer.
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Yeah I notice a lot of them just make stuff up. When I bought my car the guy kept trying to upload the contacts from my phone to the car, I kept telling him nevermind I'll do it myself but he insisted he would do it. After about 15-20 minutes he gave up and said that it can't be done because I have Verizon and Verizon blocks it from uploading.
Took me about 5 minutes to figure it out once I got home.
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I had a Verizon phone sales person tell that the reason my wife have the same issue with our iPhones in the car is because Lexus is made by Nissan . (LOL) These people talk out of their asses
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Seriously stupid people. The AUX just turns the car into a set of speakers or headphones. It does not matter if you are streaming music from the net, playing music or even a movie. If it plays on your headphones it plays through the AUX. That is the way that NIssan designed the Lexus. 
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Seriously stupid people. The AUX just turns the car into a set of speakers or headphones. It does not matter if you are streaming music from the net, playing music or even a movie. If it plays on your headphones it plays through the AUX. That is the way that NIssan designed the Lexus.
Am sure glad I'm not the one to inform them ......LOL !
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