[hartphoto]

Hmm... The one I received from HandHeldItems.com just worked, no problems. Plugged it into my iPhone dock, then plugged the other end (duh) into a free input of my A/V receiver and started watching. It looks just like the one from the eBay auction you linked, just more $ (but I did get it in two days after ordering).

Maybe you got a dud?

[Mcabbas1]

r u using it in a car?

[hartphoto]

It works to the aux input of our Honda Pilot's (SUV) DVD/video system also.

[billchase2]

ugh, dang it. this is incredibly annoying considering it's the second 3rd party cable i've purchased for this reason. if i have to buy another, it will have cost the same just to buy an official apple one.

i'm not using it in my car. i tried it on two standard televisions and no video on either.

what firmware version are you running? i'm on the 2.0 version that came out a day early.

[hartphoto]

PWN'd 1.1.4

[billchase2]

hmm... okay. i wonder if it's an issue with the version of 2.0 i have or if there's something wrong with the cable. not really sure how to tell w/o installing a different firmware.

i do know that it never pops up the window that asks if i want to display the video on the TV. sometimes it asks to be put in airplane mode... but that's it.

UPDATE: i kind of got it working... but not so much. after restarting my iphone, if i plug it in, it works perfectly. i get video and audio. however, after a couple of minutes, my iphone pops up that stupid warning saying that an unknown device is plugged into it and it asks if i want to put it into airplane mode. this is what's screwing it up. once that message is displayed, i no longer get any video out. i have to restart my iphone to get it working again... but then the same thing happens.

so, to fix this... the only option i can think of is to disable that message somehow. is there a way to do that? or do you guys have any other ideas for me?

[akreston]

I have the same problem. It works for two minutes and then display a mesage "This device is not designed to work with IPhone" --> No Video OUT from that point on.
Looks like it's a 2.0 update problem.

Does anyone has a workaroung (do i need to jailbrake my iphone 2.0 to disable this message?)

Thanks to all

[hartphoto]

Could be the 2.0 software, but unlikely I would think. The J/B for 2.0 is not out yet.

Played with the cable some more...As soon as I hit play on the video, it asks the 'Display on TV' question. Answering yes and it immediately shows on the screen.

No 'This device is not designed......' message after 15 minutes.

FWIW, the one I linked in my earlier post is still on sale at HHI.

Do you get the 'This device is not designed.....' when you don't use the cable?

I've gone through some times where I'll get it constantly for days, and then not at all for days/weeks. Knocking wood...it's not doing it now. Whenever I start getting the error, I clean the contacts on the connecter thoroughly (and usually find dust/lint/gunk). I usually use a toothpick with the end dipped in alcohol (but that's me, think twice before you do it!). I sometimes think it may have something to do with software (specifically some of the apps I've used/loaded), but that's tough to troubleshoot.

HTH.

[akreston]

Thanks for the info HTH.

My cable looks just like the one from the HandHeldItems.com.
The funny thing is they already sent me a second one ('cuse I thought that the first one was just defective).
It doesn't work with my DOCK at all. The only way to make it work is to plug it ino my iphone in the locked mode and unlock it with cable connected to turned on TV. Thet when I hit play in itunes it starts playing video on TV (no 'Display on TV' question whatsoever).
I will try to see if I have dust and dirt in my connectors though.

[billchase2]

mine doesn't work with the dock at all either... but i'm not too worried about that at this point in time. i just want to get rid of that stupid message that screws up the video.

i've also never gotten the "display on tv" message. it just does it. (well, initially until it screws up, of course)

[akreston]

billchase, did you try to clean your iphone dock connector and pluggin in again,

also could you list all the apps you've installed so far, we can compare and see if any of them screw it up?
Here is what I've got:

Arcade.ipa
Aurora Feint.ipa
BoxOffice.ipa
Bubbles.ipa
CheckPlease.ipa
Currency.ipa
Dial Zero.ipa
eBay.ipa
Evernote 1.ipa
Evernote.ipa
Google.ipa
HoldEm.ipa
iPint.ipa
JirboBreak.ipa
Light.ipa
LocalPicks.ipa
Moonlight Mahjong Lite.ipa
Morocco.ipa
NYTimes 1.ipa
NYTimes.ipa
PageOnce.ipa
PhoneSaber.ipa
Pocketpedia.ipa
reQall.ipa
Shazam.ipa
Spanish.ipa
Spinner.ipa
TapTap.ipa
Truphone.ipa
WeatherBug.ipa
WritingPad.ipa
YPmobile.ipa

[Micara57]

Wow, thats sounds great. I never wanted to shell out that much money for the wire, though it could be pretty useful. Thanks for the tip.

[billchase2]

i've got a whole bunch of apps installed, but i doubt that's the problem. i'm wondering if it's the 2.0 firmware.

[akreston]

OK. I think I've had enough of it.
I cleaned the dock connector, same issue.

I am packing both of the stpid cables and shipping them back.
I wrote a negative review on wirester.com about this cable twice but they do not post it (I think they, like many others, censor negative reviews).

In any case, looks like it is much much cheaper and easier to burn DVD's with movies I want to watch on a big screen then buying a $50 WIRE (plus I would have to pay another $50 for the IPhone remote, 'cause without it it makes no sense to watch videos from IPhone) and with my video editing suite making DVDs is a piece of cake, plus You get to keep the DVD copy for yourself.
Think about it PPL.

[billchase2]

Originally Posted by akreston

OK. I think I've had enough of it.
I cleaned the dock connector, same issue.

I am packing both of the stpid cables and shipping them back.
I wrote a negative review on wirester.com about this cable twice but they do not post it (I think they, like many others, censor negative reviews).

In any case, looks like it is much much cheaper and easier to burn DVD's with movies I want to watch on a big screen then buying a $50 WIRE (plus I would have to pay another $50 for the IPhone remote, 'cause without it it makes no sense to watch videos from IPhone) and with my video editing suite making DVDs is a piece of cake, plus You get to keep the DVD copy for yourself.
Think about it PPL.

probably not a bad choice. over the weekend, i restored and pwned 2.0. this time, i used the official version of 2.0, rather than the one that was leaked a day early. i haven't tried using the AV cable since, but will tonight. hopefully that did something. if not, since it is jailbroken, perhaps someone will come up with an app that disables that message.

i have requested that such an app be made here:
http://www.modmyi.com/forums/3rd-par...e-message.html