PhatNoise Phatbox - Page 2

thebluewhale · #11 16th April 2009, 09:11 AM

Yes the psu does 9v@1A so I think the cradle is stuffed.

I'll pick up a cable today and try that.

ulfilias · #12 16th April 2009, 12:21 PM

Hi Guys,

I have a spare usb1 cradle at work in front of me. The PSU is a chinese one, 12v 800ma and that works fine. I may check the one at home tonight. Though the usb2 may be different ?

Just plugging the cradle in and psu does not show any lights. Only when you fit the HD caddy in does it light up. When you do that you will see a couple of drives pop up in explorer and can browse the file system. However i would use the software to transfer the files as it builds indexs and voice prompts and stuff.

ulfilias · #13 16th April 2009, 12:30 PM

The Audi files will be the ones that you need....The phatbox software has the options to change head-units and upgrade the firmware etc. Thats quite easy.

The hacking is also quite easy. There is a walk through i belive and was a lot less traumatic than the early days. There is a forum somewhere i should hunt out as its very useful. This is only needed to increase the drive size and potentialy unlock the odd feature....it won't help with hardware recognition.

Its a great box and system - Flac rocks and with a huge 100+ meg of space to play with you can have more audio in the car than you will ever need. If your on the Later E version with memory cards as well you can add in a few odd tracks easily.

cya,
Lee

#14 16th April 2009, 01:56 PM

ooo where did you get this, I see they are discontinued on the web site.

ulfilias · #15 16th April 2009, 05:02 PM

Hi there,

Ebay is your friend.....You can pay 300, or if your lucky around the 100 mark...don't worry about size of hard drive or even particularly if its an audi/vw one as firmware can be flashed and cables changed (£40 from states all in).

Lee

thebluewhale · #16 16th April 2009, 05:04 PM

I picked it up on Fleabay a few days ago.

Have a look at this if you're interested.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=350188768257

But you'll be in the same position as me now

Steve

#17 17th April 2009, 10:22 PM

So they plug straight into the CD player connection in the boot then?
How do you change tracks? with CD controls and the mp3's in CD1, CD2 folders etc?
How big are they - 3000 songs isn't alot since I have 5000 on my Creative currently?

PsYcHe · #18 18th April 2009, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by harpersimon

So they plug straight into the CD player connection in the boot then?
How do you change tracks? with CD controls and the mp3's in CD1, CD2 folders etc?
How big are they - 3000 songs isn't alot since I have 5000 on my Creative currently?

Basically, yes to all of them.

You can get the 20 gig option, but you can drop larger drives in.

thebluewhale · #19 18th April 2009, 08:11 PM

It also depends on the formats you want to play.

For me it's an easy way to stop changing the CDs in the car every five minutes plus the additional benefit of being able to play flac files which I was not aware of (Thanks Lee).

If you hack the box and you have bit of pc knowledge you can install large drives and it will play most audio formats.

Steve

ulfilias · #20 20th April 2009, 09:32 AM

Hi There,

The standard 10gig or 20gig drives are pretty good for MP3...You will get the same amount of tracks on as a similar size mp3 player....Don't know what size your creative is, but certainly if you hack it you will be able to beat it - Hacking is easy from what i recall- You use the existing drive to get a code from (there is a prog to do this) - Swap drives (remove 4 screws, a connector, fit a new large 2.5" laptop hard drive) - Flash the new drive with the code (more progs) - Can be done in an hour or so.

Depending on which RNS you have, the D doesn't show track names but i belive the E (later one) does. The kenwood has voice prompts which are fairly cool. don't know if the audi does.

cya,
Lee