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Hardware that DEFINITELY works in car mode?

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bryguy:
My beloved Sansa e200 died a few months ago after many years of faithful service in car mode. Power comes from the car, the device wakes up, power turns off, the device sleeps. It's wonderful.  i replaced it with a Sansa Clip+ and found that when power from the car is attached, music will not play. Wasted money, oh well. I searched ebay and found an e200 model for a reasonable price, hooked it up... same problem. I guess the v3 firmware doesn't support playing when power is attached.

Can someone point me to hardware *currently available* that will definitely work in car mode? If it suppords microSD cards that's even better, but I've already wasted many hours and a good bit of money trying to make something so basic work again. Rockbox is awesome but the hardware vendors ruin it for us.

Thanks!

saratoga:
The Clip+ actually does work in car mode, used mine for over a year in the car.  Nothing in particular is required to support it, other than being able to detect a charger and charge in rockbox.  Any device that can do that should work.

bryguy:
It runs but the output is muted except for a clicking noise with the version I have. May be different firmware than yours, or maybe the electronics in your lighter/stereo are different from mine in some way. I wish it worked!

saratoga:

--- Quote from: bryguy on April 05, 2013, 01:42:37 PM ---It runs but the output is muted except for a clicking noise with the version I have. May be different firmware than yours, or maybe the electronics in your lighter/stereo are different from mine in some way. I wish it worked!

--- End quote ---

That is a wiring problem with your stereo, not something a firmware can do anything about.  An isolation transformer or isolator might help though if you can't fix the stereo itself.  Maybe check out a car audio form, there are probably well known solutions to this problem.

bryguy:
I've looked and not found anything useful for it. The frustrating thing is that it worked perfectly with my e200 model with v1 firmware.

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