Car audio adapter problems

Get an adapter that is designated for the iphone. I had the same issue. All normal 3.5mm are garbage now, you will need this adapter to use the 3.5's. Hope this helps.

Only thing I can tell you, is to use the dock that came with your iPhone. That should work.

So....plug 3.5, into back of the iPhone dock(line out), and then plug into your car's 3.5. That will keep you going until new accessories come out.

I've got the same problem. My current setup charges off the car connector but doesn’t play through the speaker system. Looking forward to finding a resolution to this.

I had the same issue trying to use my monster cable fm transmitter. You need an extension. Here:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=DBA 24138&nplm=TN546LL/A

This worked for me.
-Steve

sorry, but I think I may have confused you. And I thought my problem was similar to the original poster but perhaps not.

I have a connector that plugs into the bottom, the dock connector, as if you’re charging your iPhone. It would plug into the dock connector of my iPod and both charge it and channel playback through my car stereo. With my iPhone, it charges it (so I know it’s the right size and the iPhone is ‘seeing’ it) but sound comes out the iPhone’s speaker instead of the car stereo.

Yeah - I'm not sure (from what I've read) that the audio out works quite the same way as the iPod. We may need to buy new line out adaptors, or just use the headphone jack, which is what I'm doing.

Sorry!
Aym

I have a Dension IceLink that I've used to connect my iPods on two of my cars now and with second generation iPods to my Nano. I connect my iPhone and get the Airplane mode alert and I click No and the phone is charging, playing music and receiving phone calls. Nice...

My question is: does anyone know of a car
charger/dock-to-aux (3.5mm) cable that works with the
iPhone? Or do all of the cables have the same
incompatibility?

I believe they all do. I haven't tried but some people have reported success by putting the iPhone into Airplane mode. I know that's not a solution but if it works then we can hope a future software update will address the problem. I've seen some discussion that indicates that such an update may be coming.

OK, just got back from an Apple Store where I had an appointment at the Genius Bar and discussed this issue with the guy. They’re aware of it but right now there is no solution, it simply won’t work. According to him, right now the audio output is directed to two and only two places, the headphone jack and the built in speaker. There is no provision to select a setting that routes it to the dock connector. He said he’s hopeful that a coming software update will remedy this, but has not heard anything solid.

FWIW.

I too have an adapter which plugs the sync connector into my car's stereo. I was able to get it to work today (i.e. play the iphone's audio through the car's stereo). This is what worked for me: First, turn on the iphone and select the ipod function; second, connect the sync cable to the iphone; third, when the screen comes up asking about airplane mode, click NO. The cool thing is, if a call comes in, the music fades out--when you hang up the phone, the music kicks back in from where it left off. Hope this works for everyone else, I was stoked when it worked for me!

What brand of cable are you using?

I have a $350 dealer installed Audi hardwire system that has worked well for my 5G iPod - it jacks into the bottom/sync slot. With the phone, I get the "not approved for the iPhone" message, I hit "no" for airplane mode. and the result is... sound that's great most of the time, but a high-pitched interference under the music the rest of the time. The music dims for a call, which is cool, but the interference has caused me to go back to the 5G until the hoped-for update comes along...

I have Pioneer's Z1 double din radio and my Iphone works fine with the ipod adapter but I have to switch the phone to ipod to hear the audio. If I don't make that switch I get a message on the phone that the device attatched is not compatible to Iphone