I spent years with Voicestream/T-Mobile wondering what that noise was - in the car's stereo, in the livingroom's stereo, on my bathroom radio. Finally figured out it was "GSM noise", and that's another thing I don't miss now that I'm with Sprint. I wonder if the hybrid phones (CDMA and GSM) cause that noise when being used in the US on a CDMA network. Not sure how it switches from CDMA to GSM and back.
Anyway, the Centro with a Scosche FM transmitter, and my Volvo for Life Bluetooth kit work well for me. My music, and Bluetooth calls, through the car's speakers. Microphone above the rear view mirror. If I used an iPod instead the Centro, all I'd get would be more storage space since the weak link in the whole thing is the FM transmitter's quality. If I had a car stereo with an Aux in connector, I'd be set - unfortunately Volvo still included a Sony Minidisk connector in the 2003 models - I was told that the Minidisk was still popular in Europe at that time... So I'm out of luck there with the stock stereo system in the car. Since the whole wiring setup in the XC90 is fibre optic, I'm very limited as to my options, unfortunately. Meanwhile, what I have seems to work well. Cheers, Don -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Kaplan Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 5:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Using my Treo as a portable player Hello, Craig Froehle. On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:08:26 -0500 you said: > No worries, Jeffrey...and I'm sure folks would be interested in your > solution if you come up with one. Final note (I hope) from me on this subject: I'm giving up on it. I found a card that works, I found a way to get the music onto the card. I was able to get the music to play via the Treo into my car stereo, but here is the final killer: It kills the usefulness of the Treo as a phone when doing this. At least, it does so when using a GSM Treo. The problem is the "GSM Noise" through nearby speakers that happens when a GSM phone is actively communicating, like when I'm using the phone... Plus plugging something into the headset jack disables the use of a BT headset. And it's just not feasible to unplug the jack when a call comes in and then re-plug back in when the call is over. If this were a CDMA unit, I could use Seidio's 2-in-1 hybrid connector, which has a microphone in the cord and just use my car stereo as the hands-free speaker. But with a GSM phone, I can't hear anything over the noise. It's not a complete loss. For one thing, now I know. If I ever switch back to Verizon Wireless, I can try again. Meanwhile, the 16G Class 6 card works wonders in my camera, it appears to be able to keep up with a prolonged burst, unlike my other cards so I'm keeping it. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." - George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 Yahoo! Groups Links
