I've been looking around to use this cable in my car. If you guys have not seen it, it's a dock cable at one end and has a composite + usb at the other end. When plugged, you can play music (or video if your car has a lcd monitor) and charge the phone at the same time. Composite will go into the HU's (head unit) auxiliary in jack and the USB will be plugged to your car's power outlet (require another USB adapter to do this)

It's similar to the Apple Composite AV Cable but i'm not gonna pay rm199 for that. i found one selling on Amazon for around 10usd but after shipping, i'll come out to about rm90. i don't want to spend so much for that cable and i believe that i can find it around PJ/KL.

If any of you guys have seen it or bought it, maybe you can share where you bought or also provide feedback of the usage. Thanks

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Links:
- Apple Composite AV Cable (click here)
- Composite Audio Video AV Cable with USB for Apple iPhone - from Amazon (click here)

Disclaimer: Tried searching the forum and found no threads about this cable. therefore i had to open a new one.

i'm running on v3.0.1 now... bummer!

what about the audio? does it work?

I finally setup my in-car audio for my iPhone.

Looked around LYN but didn't manage to find any compatible cable (av + usb) for my iPhone. Got it from fellow LYN member crxr instead. Quite a nice chap and we spent a good 1 hour chatting. He was telling me his stories about the iPhones that he serviced. Link to the post below.

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=741862&hl=

With that cable, there are some set back. You won't be able to play video (the yellow composite) using this cable. This is because the chip that they used is not by Apple so the encoding changes each time when you do a firmware update. Doesn't matter to me as i primarily need it to play music in my car. Be sure to test the cable out with your phone before buying because some of the cables that I've tried, my iPhone will not allow charging.

So the setup is as follow:
1. HP car holder to hold your iPhone while driving
2. Cap Ayam brand Composite AV cable + USB to plug into your iPhone (plays music & charges the phone at the same time)
3. AV RCA cable to phono jack to plug the cable into your car head unit's Aux In port. You will need a RCA coupler to connect #2 to #3.
4. A USB adapter to plug the USB for power. The adapter is plugged to your car's power socket.
5. A head unit with an Aux-in jack

Pros:
1. Plays music & charges the phone while driving
2. Select your music using cover flow
3. Use genius feature in your iPhone/iPod

Cons:
1. Cap Ayam brand cannot play video. It'll play at times but will stop halfway
2. iPhone will complain that you're not using a compatible accessories

Hope this helps. Will try to upload photos when I have time.