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I've discovered a few things since I got my car. They might be common knowledge so I'm not going to go into any detail, but you can ask questions if anybody wants to know more.
1. I wasn't sure what would happen if I plugged my phone (an HTC Touch Pro) into the "iPod" port. As I hoped, I was able to charge my phone, play MP3 files, move between tracks using the steering wheel controls, move between albums by holding down the steering wheel controls and even watch a slideshow of photos held on my phone at the same time
2. I was also able to stream music wirelessly over BlueTooth from my phone. I was still able to move between tracks using the steering wheel controls, but I wasn't able to move between albums. You have to remember to turn the volume up on your phone when attempting this (that isn't necessary when using USB).
3. I've exported my lap times from Screen F on the MFD to my phone and opened them in Excel on my PC. I covered this on another thread. Alternatively, any USB memory stick can be used.
4. I've already burned about 40 CDs onto the MusicBox. It was unable to determine the album and track titles for 9 of these CDs. I exported the details of these 9 albums (there is a menu option for this) to a file called export.dat on my phone. I then plugged my phone into my PC and downloaded a PC application from Gracenote Music Box Updates via USB Port with Navigation - Nissan USA which used the export.dat file to find the missing information for all these albums using my internet connection. The application created an import.dat file that I could then use to update my MusicBox. I tried the same process several times using my USB memory stick, but the export.dat file was empty every time. I haven't worked out why the phone works, but the memory stick doesn't. Any ideas?
On a related subject, does anybody know whether it's possible to update the entire GraceNote database to the latest version? There is an menu option labelled something like "Update GraceNote Database From Hard Drive". What does that do?
I hope you found some of this useful.
1. I wasn't sure what would happen if I plugged my phone (an HTC Touch Pro) into the "iPod" port. As I hoped, I was able to charge my phone, play MP3 files, move between tracks using the steering wheel controls, move between albums by holding down the steering wheel controls and even watch a slideshow of photos held on my phone at the same time
2. I was also able to stream music wirelessly over BlueTooth from my phone. I was still able to move between tracks using the steering wheel controls, but I wasn't able to move between albums. You have to remember to turn the volume up on your phone when attempting this (that isn't necessary when using USB).
3. I've exported my lap times from Screen F on the MFD to my phone and opened them in Excel on my PC. I covered this on another thread. Alternatively, any USB memory stick can be used.
4. I've already burned about 40 CDs onto the MusicBox. It was unable to determine the album and track titles for 9 of these CDs. I exported the details of these 9 albums (there is a menu option for this) to a file called export.dat on my phone. I then plugged my phone into my PC and downloaded a PC application from Gracenote Music Box Updates via USB Port with Navigation - Nissan USA which used the export.dat file to find the missing information for all these albums using my internet connection. The application created an import.dat file that I could then use to update my MusicBox. I tried the same process several times using my USB memory stick, but the export.dat file was empty every time. I haven't worked out why the phone works, but the memory stick doesn't. Any ideas?
On a related subject, does anybody know whether it's possible to update the entire GraceNote database to the latest version? There is an menu option labelled something like "Update GraceNote Database From Hard Drive". What does that do?
I hope you found some of this useful.