[Austin9991]

Hey fellow cruzers, I was finally able to get my HTC One to play music through a USB cable!

I had to activate myself as a developer on the phone, and then under the newly added "developer settings" in the settings menu I activated USB debugging. Now when my car is playing xm radio and I plug my phone in, it immediately starts playing my music. Indexing is very quick as well.

All steering wheel controls are working, however I cannot control the music through my phone. The car believes my phone is simply a USB stick, so you need to control using stereo interface and the menu button on the console.

 

[Austin9991]

How would I do this on a galaxy s3?

1. Go to your settings and find: more, then about device.

2. Find the device build number

3. Tap on the build number 7 times--this activates you as a devloper

4. Now return to the settings menu and click on "developer options" (may be a slightly different name on gs3)

5. USB debugging should be one of the first options. Turn it on

6. Plug in via USB in the cruze and switch between input modes and hopefully it finds your device!

Be sure to have your music saved in the proper music folder. Audio quality is much better than through aux. Much more bass too.
Let me know if it works for you, if it does I may need to make a how to thread.

 

[Austin9991]

or if you have an iphone you just plug it up as well . Nothing needed, just the ability to plug in a usb cable.

That's taking the easy way out lol

 

[Austin9991]

CW, the cruze reads mine as an mtp now, but before developer mode and USB debugging it wouldn't do anything when I plugged it in. When I plugged it in to my laptop I could see all the files fine, must be only certain Android phones.

 

[Austin9991]

Ah, that could be. My phone runs unmodified Android since it's a Google device, it's possible Samsung turns off USB access on their phones by default or has them in some other screwy mode... odd that it'd work on a laptop but not the Cruze.

I agree that it was odd that it wouldn't work. But since my HTC one has htc's sense ui instead of vanilla Android like the nexus I'm assuming the problem lies somewhere there.

 

[Austin9991]

Cool thanks austin. I will update if it works

Any news??

 

[Austin9991]

did the cruze try to connect to it or anything? because on one of my usb cables it will try to connect but then say nothing found or whatever the error is. I tried a different usb cable and all of a sudden it started playing.

 

[Austin9991]

worth a try. weird that it worked for me. your phone is unlocked with the screen on when you plug it in?