
The phone reads this as a headset, so it properly sends the audio over the cable to your car's stereo (instead of to the speakerphone on the phone itself). You plug one end into your headphone jack, and then you plug the other end (which has a built-in microphone) into your auxiliary jack. I was very skeptical of it at first since it was only $10 at Wal-Mart, but so far, it has worked exceptionally well. Personally, I'm using a generic mount along with this cable from Scosche. It's not perfect, but it can get the job done. Right now, this is as close as you can get to the car dock setup that the RAZR/MAXX have. It can be annoying, but it's something that can be addressed if you're used to it and adjust things accordingly. Some have mentioned that with phone calls made outside of the car app (which comes up when docked) put the audio out through the speaker on the phone rather than through your car's speakers. But once plugged in, they should function in much the same fashion. The Infuse dock requires you to plug in a USB cable and an auxiliary cable into the dock. The Motorola dock has a single cable that splits into a USB charger and an auxiliary jack. It does send audio over USB, but not quite in the same way the Motorola dock does. It's not a perfect fit, but from everything I've seen and read, it holds it securely. That said, there have been several reports that the car dock for the Infuse works with the S3 (but only without a case). The only widely available OEM car dock specifically advertised for the S3 right now is a basic, multi-device holder that doesn't offer anything in the way of connections or features. There isn't a car dock made specifically for the S3 like the one FoxKat is talking about for the RAZR. I would be interested to hear some additional owners' opinions of the issue you bring up to get a broad-based assessment of the situation and determine if it's a known flaw or unique to your particular situation.


#Repalced chargin prot on s3 mic doesnt work Bluetooth
This way, the phone "knows" it's now sending audio through the car stereo as a result of identifying the Navigation Dock, and perhaps it then triggers this noise canceling technology as I haven't had any complaints of echo.įinally, I also have Bluetooth built-into the car sound system, so if I choose to, I can have the music audio go through the sound system via the USB cable, and yet also have the phone sound go via the Bluetooth connection, for the best of both worlds. Otherwise, incorporating a Bluetooth Car Speaker should effectively resolve this issue.įor what it's worth, I know that my Droid RAZR has a car Navigation Dock that provides not only power connectivity but also sound through the same MicroUSB connector, so when I place my phone in the cradle and press down the slider to secure the phone, both power and audio are diverted via the combined Power and Audio USB cable that is provided with the dock, alleviating the need to also plug in a 3.5mm headphone plug into the phone and reducing the number of wires running up from the dashboard to my phone from 2 to 1. I would suggest you keep the volume down on the car stereo and by reducing the volume you may place it under the threshold of sensitivity of the phone's microphone. Whether either of these features were engineered into the X and yet not into the S3 remains to be discovered. Also a noise canceling algorithm can accomplish the same thing by "listening" to the environment and through either filtering or reverse sound waves (a mirror of the background noise, meant to cancel or sum-zero the noise) imparted into the audio the offending sound is diminished, minimized or completely removed. A delay of only microseconds can be the difference between an echo or feedback and completely uninhibited pure sound. Well, in the world of sound echo and feedback, timing is everything.
