fju2112
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My sister recently bought a 2011 Civic EX coupe. I love the car FWIW and have owned Hondas for a long time (now that I have a family we're in an 09 Ody Ex-L). She has an issue with two older iPods, a ten year iPod mini and a 3 or 4 year old iPod touch. Neither works with the stereo jack in her car. She took it to a dealership as it's under factory warranty and the tech used his iPod there and it worked...the error message she gets w/ hers is "unsupported device", so at least there's a message vs. no volume. I figure a stereo jack is a stereo jack and the audio should come through regardless; the tech said it's simply too old a model iPod to work with the '11 Civic radio. Any way to make her iPods work?
(I told her to buy a newish but used ipod or think about an iPhone, but no dice!)
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fju2112
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sorry - the older iPod is not a touch but a shuffle.
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DCR
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So, these aren't connected to the USB in any way, just a 1/8 male to male cable connecting from the iPod and the aux 1/8 port?
Some of the older Shuffles had various functions built in to the headphones making the jack a bit different, but I don't see why the touch headphone jack wouldn't output audio to the aux jack.
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av911
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Please reiterate. Are you using USB or 3.5mm audio jack? You said "unsupported device" yet, you said a stereo jack.
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TonyEX
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av911 wrote:
Please reiterate. Are you using USB or 3.5mm audio jack? You said "unsupported device" yet, you said a stereo jack.
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True.... I get that message when I plug my Android phone via USB and try to access it.
But when plugged over the audio connection (that's how we run our iPods and smart phones in the 06 HCH and 09 Fit, btw) we have no issues. The stereo finds that the plug is being used and it appears as an AUX input.
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fju2112
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sorry - this is just using a stereo cable. i also don't see how you'd even get an error message with that, but i've never owned that gen civic....I do own an 09 Odyssey and it's pretty straightforward to get the stereo cable working with any smartphone, ipod, etc. to output audio, so i'm not sure what that error message is about.
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garoto628
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I have an iPod Mini, the first and only generation of it, and it works perfectly with my 2006 Civic Si - Like everyone here, I find it odd that it would not work with a 2011 civic. Also, I do not believe iPod's have the ability to say that a device is not supported through an audio jack, that only occurs through a usb port. The reason for that is, that no accessories are used through an audio jack, all the audio jack does is output audio to whatever it is connected, and if it is connected to nothing it will still work, you just will not be able to hear anything. Are you sure she's doing so through the jack and not USB?
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DCR
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She is probably plugging in the USB cable as a charger.
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TonyEX
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DCR wrote:
She is probably plugging in the USB cable as a charger.
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That sounds plausible.
She should get a USB power adapter that goes into the cigarette lighter and charge the phone that way. You can get those cheap on Amazon. I got a bunch a while back, the ones with two and four usb outlets each, that way I could charge the phone, charge the iPod and run a small LED lamp when I commuted after sundown.
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