How to connect a phone to a radio in a car in all ways

As we know, not expensive car radios have a limited number of functions. You can expand their capabilities by connecting a smartphone using one of the available methods using AUX, Bluetooth or USB. New generation phones are equipped with modern devices that provide special options for connected equipment. Automakers, in turn, create models that can function in integration with phones, but in order to use useful functions, you need to be able to properly connect and configure the device.

What is Bluetooth, AUX and USB

Budget car radios have a limited list of functions. Usually they do not have special connectors that allow you to connect an external device and listen to music. To fix the situation, you can purchase an adapter.

What are Bluetooth, AUX and USB. At its core, these are technologies designed to transfer data from one device to another.

Bluetooth is different in that it allows you to combine gadgets, a way to wirelessly transfer information.

Each of the ways to transfer data from a phone to a car radio has its own technological features.

For a successful connection, the technical capability is required:

1. adapters;
2. connectors;
3. the location of the smartphone within reach for the transfer.

How to listen to music in the car via Bluetooth

The most profitable way to connect your smartphone to the car radio via Bluetooth. The technology allows you to use the phone's options to the fullest. The system allows you to synchronize the operation of the radio and audio transmitter.

The connection method is also advantageous in that while using the phone, you can communicate remotely without using your hands. To make the connection, you can use the instructions from the car radio.

Such a device always has a manual in Russian, where all the steps are described in detail with pictures:

1. On the sound reproducing apparatus, the desired mode of receiving information is switched on;
2. Select Bluetooth in the phone menu;
3. A list of available devices appears on the screen, the necessary one is selected from the list, and a connection is made.

To control the correct functioning of the connection, one glance at the phone screen is enough. The Bluetooth icon should glow white or blue. If there is no connection, it remains gray.

This method of information transfer is advantageous due to the absence of wires. Several devices can connect to one phone and receive data at once.

The only disadvantage of Bluetooth transmission is that it quickly drains the phone's battery. After a short period of time, it will have to be recharged, if there is no car recharging in the car, the driver risks being left without communication.

Video connection instruction

How to properly connect your phone via Bluetooth in this video:

Connecting the phone using Bluetooth

Connecting a Smartphone with AUX

This type of connection allows you to use the car radio as an amplifier, while playing the music composition is performed by the phone.

Audio information can be obtained:

1. From the Internet online;
2. On the radio;
3. From recorded and saved files.

To make the connection, you only need an AUX adapter with the appropriate connector.

This type of connection between telephone and car radio is not advantageous:

1. The energy reserve on the smartphone quickly runs out;
2. The phone cannot be charged while playing music via AUX connection;
3. Additional connected wires in the car create inconvenience.

Advantages of AUX connection:

1. Does not require complex settings, universal;
2. The choice of musical compositions is made from a mobile device;
3. The ability to create a playlist to your own taste;
4. Ease of controls;
5. The possibility of organizing a speakerphone through which everyone present in the car can communicate;
6. Works on the simplest devices.

During a telephone conversation, the music transfer to the radio is stopped. Some attribute this to inconvenience, someone considers it a plus, since loud sounds do not interfere with hearing the interlocutor.

Video instruction for connecting two devices

This video details how to connect two devices to listen to audio content:

How to connect a mobile phone to the car radio using a 3,5mm headphone jack.

Pairing the phone and radio via USB

The USB adapter is a universal tool, it can be used to connect various types of devices. To transfer audio from the phone to the car radio, you need certain connectors (jacks) through which the adapter is connected.

The USB connection allows you to control your phone through the radio and vice versa.

While data is being transferred to the playback device, all other mobile phone applications remain available and can be used.

To connect through an adapter, you do not need to perform complex manipulations and additional settings. Devices begin to “see” and perceive each other automatically. Some models ask the administrator for access permission, then there are no difficulties during operation.

Advantages of using a USB connection to connect your phone:

1. The phone's battery does not run out as quickly as when connected via Bluetooth.
2. The mobile phone requires recharging less often, because during the transfer of information to the radio through the adapter, its battery is simultaneously fed.
3. The phone can be controlled through the screen of the radio, and the playback device through the mobile phone.
4. During the transfer of information, all other applications and functions of the phone remain available and can be used. This is especially valuable when you need to make a call or use the navigator in your smartphone.

There are not many disadvantages of this method:

1. A permanently connected and hanging wire can get in the way;
2. Old radios do not see "audio files" in new phone models or cannot play them.

Video manual for connecting devices

When the user does not understand exactly how and in which socket the USB cable should be connected, you should study the manual, which popularly tells all the steps that need to be performed.

The video instructions describe how to connect the phone to the car radio:

Connecting a phone to a JVC radio via USB

What problems can you face

Inexpensive car radios are rarely equipped with the devices necessary to connect to the phone. In some models, you can install an adapter that allows you to receive data transmitted from your phone.

When transferring data to the car radio via Bluetooth, AUX, the phone's battery quickly runs out. After a short period of time, it will have to be recharged.

What can be the conclusion? Connecting the phone to the radio is possible in three available ways, however, with all the simplicity of this process, not every user is able to connect two devices without watching video materials and studying the instructions.