Listening to nano through ipod dock and external speakers

Everyone, been reading the posts here and have a very similar problem. I made an audio cable for my 4G pod and my car. It was made from a Belkin adapter. It basically charges the Ipod and links into my car stereo via a Pac Audio adapter. Anyway, I just bought a Nano and I get no output to my car stereo. I also get no output from line out if i put the Nano in my 4G dock. Does anyone know the pinouts of the 4G and Nano dock ports? Before you ask, I cant find the guy that "invented" the car cable modification, so i cant ask him 🙂
Thanks in advance.

I bought two ipod nano's and one works fine in the 60 gig docks and belkin charger/audio thing and one does not work in either. This is clearly a sign that some of the devices are defective in my humble opinion.

How can one device work perfectly in an apple dock and a belkin charger and one not work at all?

I called apple store, of course they are now out of them so i cant get a replacement anytime soon.

I’m getting no sound from my Nano through the car connecter. The Alpine head unit in my MINI Cooper sees the tracks but no sound. I tried the “restore” idea someone suggested but no luck. Maybe I did it wrong. Should I delete the iPod software as well as the iTunes software and just start from scratch? Should I use the “iPod Updater 2005-09-06” on the Apple support page or go back to the original CD?

I just fixed my nano and it now works in the 60 gig dock and the car connector. I did a "restore" which wipes out the music i so lovingly selected, but the restore did the trick, works in two places. I read somewhere else that some nano's are not "turned on" for hte docks and that a full restore "turns them on". go figure. So restore and try again

I found the the nano pauses when the ear phones are removed and its sat int he dock, confused me first time. Try pressing play or selecting another song when in the dock. Mine is a 15gb 3G dock and creature speakers. Works fine once play is pressed again

William, Thank you for the advice. I just received a NANO as a gift from our company and bought an FM transmitter and it was a no-go, didn't work. Went to the main menu, choose settings, scroll down to "Rest All Settings", select, then next screen "cancel" or "Select" choose "select". it worked all music was still on the I Pod and now it worked in the FM transmitter adapter without any hitches at all.
John

My nano doesnt give those choices. when i goto "reset all settings", i get cancel and reset as choices. If i select "reset" it takes me to the language choices. I select english and it just goes back to the menu. dont know if its really doing anything....

At first it seemed like nothing at all happened until I tried plugging it into the dock connection on the FM transmitter. It worked and played just fine. I tried everything else before, pressing play/pause several times unplugging and plugging back in finally tried resetting and resetting worked.
John

After doing a "restore" with the updater the Nano is now outputting sound to line out off the 4G cradle and most importantly to my home-made car stereo cable 🙂

Thanks to all the helped me figure this out.

Its a little misleading when people mention "reset". Its not a reset but a "restore" that needs to be done using the Ipod Updater program. This will wipe out your Nano and put it back to its factory settings. I did this and it worked for me. I hope this helps.

I'm not sure if this is the answer, but I've had similar problems.

Try to replicate this with the third party adapters.

1. Play music on the Nano through headphones.
2. Stop playing the music (ie. turn off the iPod).
3. Take the headphones out of the jack.

Now try on the third party adapters. If I'm correct, the Nano WON'T play.

Now try this:

1. Play music on the Nano through headphones.
2. Pull the headphone jack out of the Nano.

Now try the third party adapters. If I'm correct, the Nano WILL play.

I was traveling yesterday/today, and tried to plug the Nano into my travel speakers in the hotel. Didn't work.

So I used the mini-jack plug (for 2g iPods). That worked. I used the Nano for my alarm clock this morning. Before I left the hotel room, I wanted to give the Nano a quick charge, so I unplugged the mini-jack connector while music was playing and plugged it into the speakers. I had music. I was confused.

I arrived back at the airport and (after listening to music on the plane), unplugged my headphones from the iPod, while the iPod was stopped and off. Plugged it into my car adapter (made by Dension), and it wouldn't work. Perplexed, it hit me--given the location of the dock connector and the mini-jack, Apple must have figured that they can save energy by ONLY playing music through the dock or the mini-jack, BUT NOT BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.

So, I plugged my headphones in, hit play, pulled them out without stopping the music and then plugged into my IceLink. Sound.

Could it be that the Nano switches back and forth based on an order of events?

I just plugged my Nano into an Apple dock--the Nano registered a sound (the "I'm plugged in" sound, and played). Is there something different with the Apple docks compared to 3rd party docks?

Anyway, that's my theory--can anyone test and let me know if I'm right, or if I'm crazy?

I plugged my nano into both my dock connector and my car stereo dock with line-out capability. I got output for several songs, but the next day I tried both and didn't get any line out.

Seems like a defect to me, since others are experiencing this problem.

This thing seems to have a pretty short honeymoon.

Apple???? Any thoughts???

My 5p worth ...

I use my Nano with a Belkin car dock and a set of iLogic speakers, and have so far never had a problem with sound not being produced.

I did find that the dock socket on the Nano seems tighter than the one on my mini, and so always insert the cables very carefully.

I'll try the sequence of steps mentioned, and see what happens.

Just out of curiousity, are those of us who are having the problem with dock/line out output using the 4 gig version, or is this happening with both?

By the way, I reported this to apple support, and the support tech seemed to have no knowledge of the issue. It seems that it isn't unique to one or two nanos, but isn't common to all (but maybe it's too soon to tell?), so I'm hoping that firmware 1.1 will fix it.

Jim

After working for a while, my nano wasn't working with the line out on the dock connector. I found that a soft reset (holding down the menu and select buttons until the Apple logo appears) fixed the problem.

-- Mark