You can’t charge the iPhone 3G on iPod Audio Systems

I am having the same issue with my XB - I guess until the adapter arrives we could use the aux out and manually select music...

This is a serious disappointment for me too. My installed car system that worked fine with first iphone no longer works with 3G. Also my bluetooth car connection needs pairing everytime I get in the car, again worked fine with original iphone. Can anyone suggest a solution or should I revert back to original iphone?

To give you some alternate feedback --

My Altec lansing iPhone speaker system in the house DOES charge.

My Griffin autoTrip charger in my car also DOES charge.

My thought is that those speaker systems and chargers that were "works with iPHone" labeled continue to work with the 3G, and those that happened to work with the 1st Gen but not iPhone certified probably do not.

Same problem with my Sony XA-110IP iPod Interface Adapter: "Charging is not supported with this accessory" and "This accessory is not made to work with the iPhone" although I'm still able to use the adapter via my Sony CDX-GT710 head unit it just won't charge the iPhone 3G.

Common sense.
Everything I buy comes without such a warning.
Expecting everything you buy to be compatible with things not even made yet is a bit of a stretch.
I have a bunch of items that don't work with the 3G.
I'm not going to whine about it.
I bought them for my other iPods, and they still work fine.
It would be great if these also worked with my 3G, and maybe they will, but for now, that's the way it is.
I've got lots of money invested in these things, but I understand this always happens.

I was hoping my iPod's Belkin TuneBase FM could be used as a car charger. Nope. Not a big deal though, because it still charges my iPod.

A quick look around the tubes can turn up all kinds of not-so-new in-car USB charging systems. They are very inexpensive in relation to a $200-300 iPhone, no?

Its good for a new business for selling 3g iphone chargers..

Someone please make an adapter so i can use my built in car ipod connector to charge and listen at the same time.

I have a iPod charging dock and a iPod audio connection in my VW Touareg. Both devices use to play audio and CHARGE my iPods. On the 11th after opening my 3G iPhone at home I was disappointed to find out that the iPhone no longer charges any more. This is a HUGE problem and very selfish of Apple. I feel like a sucker for investing in iPod accessories up until this point. This is a issue that needs to fixed NOW!!!

Same issue here, I have an Alpline CDA-9857 and it no longer charges on the 3g....pretty big issue to me.

Same problem here. Nissan/Infiniti factory radio link does not charge. This is a BIG problem when combined with the lower battery life. We need an adapter cable, quickly!

Yes, but if you're using the iPhone in conunction with your car audio system's iPod link, a third party cigarette charging solution isn't going to cut it, because your dock connector is in-use.

Actually, Apple DID have a program indicating that items would be compatible with future products, its called the "Works with iPhone" certification. Since this is still an iPhone, and not even substantially different from the previous device known as an iPhone, I think it is very reasonable to assume that "Works with iPhone" means, "works with iPhone", not "works with this iPhone now, but not future iPhones, even ones coming out in a few weeks.

In fact, there are "works with iPhone" products available for purchase at the apple store right now that don't "work with the iPhone".

What is the point of product certifications if they mean nothing? Especially when the program was in progress mere weeks before new products are released, and continues to be in progress (falsely), after the new ones are released.

-Sam

Wow, you've certainly done a lot of work to figure this out. Thanks for trying that. Did you hook up an external 5v power supply to those pins?

I'm in a similar situation... I purchased the OEM iPod Connection Kit for my 2005 Mazda 3, and now it doesn't work with the iPhone. Lovely, considering it required me to take half of my dash apart to install it. 😟

Someone's going to make BIG money creating a dock-connector-pass-through device that does 3 things:

1. 12v -> 5v
2. Shield from GSM buzz
3. Identify itself as iPhone 3G compatible.

Just to add one more whine... mine isn't working either.

To be fair, my car kit, and I'm betting most of yours, was sold for iPod, not iPhone. But my original iPhone did work, despite the warning that the connector was a non-iPhone compatible device, and it would have been very considerate of Apple to a) tell us this would happen and b) work with a manufacturer to have a solution ready. Even if I had noticed that firewire support was being dropped, I wouldn't have paid attention... I didn't know that car kits use firewire.

I sure hope Belkin or someone is paying attention - whoever figures out how to fix this will get gobs of good will for their efforts.