In message , Chris
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , micky
writes:
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So explain this to me. Don't most people just connect their phone to
the PC or car radio with a simple cable. They don't need a splitter or
earbuds.

I imagine most people connect digitally - Bluetooth, wifi, USB "cable",
or otherwise - rather than by analogue means.

There are still a lot of older cars on the road which don't have Bluetooth.
Like mine, a Mazda coincidentally, and I just use the audio jack with my
phone. Works flawlessly. No need for a pairing dance.

Well, at first we were talking about connecting to a PC; micky had
trouble making that work reliably, and an analogue connection gave funny
noises. Someone said maybe the 'phone detects what is connected to it
and behaves differently; I suggested, in effect, that he "fool" it using
a splitter, and that apparently worked.

So in the case of your car/phone combination, it looks as if either
_your_ 'phone _doesn't_ sense what's connected and change its behaviour
accordingly, or your car's input jack looks sufficiently like earphones
that the 'phone thinks that's what it is connected to.

(Having changed cars recently from one with a cassette slot to one with
neither that nor an aux socket, I've had to buy one of these FM
transmitters; seems to work OK - it has the channels transposed, but for
a fully synthesized and stereo unit for 3.20 pounds, it works well!)
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