I'm shopping for a new car mount. I want something with a suction cup that sticks to the windshield or dash - not looking for a vent or cup mount.
I've been looking around at several models, but most of them seem to fit poorly for a Fuze - sides covering volume/PTT buttons & back covering the rear speaker.
I use my Fuze as a GPS device in landscape mode. I'd like a holder that doesn't cover any hardware buttons or the rear speaker. I also use a case once in awhile but not always - so the width should be adjustable.
I have the suction cup mounted type and did not like it.. they seem to wobble/vibrate more than the vent mount ones.. also car theifs will break into you car if they see thesuction mount thing on your dash, as they assume whatever goes on it is still in the car... jsut a warning.. you locat people to not use that type in the Milwaukee area... if you do decide to get the vent mount... Target sells one at the stores for $15 that works well... quick release button and all that... decent quality too (not cheap feeling like some are)
Thank you for your response, you bring up some important things to consider.
I have tried vent clips, but in my vehicle the weight of the phone causes the screen to point downwards.
My wife bought me a universal holder, which the vendor said is compatible with the Fuze. It mounts to the windshield, has a long gooseneck and the holder barely fits the fuze w/o a case. It blocks the rear speaker and the sides cover the volume/PTT buttons.
One nice thing it came with was a disc the size of the suction cup, with some very thick sticky tape on the bottom. While the disc isn't really pretty, it allows me to mount on the dash or even the console - avoiding the conspicuous windshield attention grabber.
I would just like a good, adjustable holder that doesn't cover buttons or the rear speaker.
ProClipUSA
Try http://www.proclipusa.com/
You buy the clip in two parts: vehicle mount and device holder.
I have one and because it fits so well, I never used the double-sided tape that comes with it. Whenever I change devices, I purchase a new device holder.
These are far more secure than a suction cup and all the years I've used these, they never fell off.
I don't have a need for it, but they also have an extension mount so you can mount 2 devices. Really great concept if you have the need.
Although these may cost a little more, they are definitely worth the price.
pischk said:
Try http://www.proclipusa.com/
I have one and because it fits so well, I never used the double-sided tape that comes with it. Whenever I change devices, I purchase a new device holder.
These are far more secure than a suction cup and all the years I've used these, they never fell off.
Although these may cost a little more, they are definitely worth the price.
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Seconded! I've used the Brodit Proclip for over a year now and had no issues at all.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks, you guys made me take a second look at this vendor.
Would you guys trust the holder to hold the phone if it was mounted for landscape viewing?
eudaemonic said:
TWould you guys trust the holder to hold the phone if it was mounted for landscape viewing?
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Yes, no problem.
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I finally did it. I canged the default Ameo case and made it perfect. Somewhere i the forum I saw somebody make a mount for the car. I did not like that very much. To much hassle. So I wanted a mount with which the case could still be on my Ameo. The Ameo ad the case would be place on the mount and a power cable would complete it.
What do you need!
1) Buy a Brodit Pro Clip for your car so you won't damage your car.
2) Buy a HR Richter Swivel mount. This makes it possible to turn the pda towards yur face. Mount it on the ProClip.
3) Buy a HR Richter Magnet Mount. Connect this on the swivel mount.
Now you have a magnetic mount that looks like te picture with name magnet.jpg.
4) Buy a mini usb cable. I bought a Veripart Car Charger mini-USB.
5) Now comes the tricky part. Cut te leather and the top plastic layer from the inside of the case (the pda is infront of it so you won't see it).
6) Put some textile tape at te borders of the thin metal plate and put some construction kit on it. Choose a glue that will glue metal to plastic.
7) Slide the metal plate inside the opening with the facing to you. Slide it to the bottom part and now slide it infront of the hard plastic at the front.
8) Close the opening you made needly with some glue. (use a simple universal glue)
9) Now put some pressure on the case so the metal will be glued to te case. After 24 hours it will be finished.
The result is picture case.jpg which shows the metal plate behind te leather.
The Ameo in my car is shown on picture pda.jpg
Now I have seen a better case. The Pielframe X7500 case.
http://www.pielframa.net/pielframa_productos.asp?id=1795
This case is the best so far, and yes it has a window so you can use the phone plugin finally. I have contacted Pielframe with a request to add a metal plate in it on request. We will see what the say.
Belt clip?
Hi.
It seems to have no belt clip. Possibly we could ask to have it as an option.
Mauro
hahahahahahha. I would love to see that. An Athena attached to someones hip. Personally I thought that the Universal was too big to put on your hip, but I guess everyone has their preference.l
I would love a belt clip for the PielFrama case. I hope they do provide it as an option.
The phone would look great hanging on my Armani (LOL) pants. ;-)
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hahahahahahha. I would love to see that. An Athena attached to someones hip. Personally I thought that the Universal was too big to put on your hip, but I guess everyone has their preference.l
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At the rate of increasing obesity around the world I wouldn't be suprised if the hip sizes catch up with the PDA sizes very soon.
i'm looking for a carmount that doesn't involve a suction cup.I'm really looking for something that can be clipable to the air vent and be able to handle weight since i primarily use an extended battery
Update. I found this instead http://www.proclipusa.com/?sectionp...tegoryid=&p_year=&p_countryid=0&p_leftorright=
I got one aradio shack for $15 that works great. Clips into vent and adjust in size to grip from sides. Charger still fits while in cradle too. Kevin
The one I use is a $9 one from wal-mart. it clips to the air vent & has adjustable sides w/ a space on the bottom for chargers.
Do you like the one from walmart?
Pro Clip is where its at
I bought this set, Everything works great especially for the price.
My first plastic case had the issue of one corner not fitting right, so i contacted them, and they sent out a new one the next day. Fit perfectly.
But it has the car cradle, and a very nice leather holster that holds the phone snug.
amazon has a ginormous variety of all types of holders. i got one a few weeks ago that comes with windshield mount and is also interchangeable to the air vent. also some that are actually custom to the phone for a little more $ with a charger port built in.
hi,
ive been looking araund to finde some nice car holder, but could not find. maybe somone has boght anything on ebay that fits god or sovhere else.
Here you can find a car holder
http://www.brodit.se/?main=searchbrodit.jsp&search=xperia
/Jorgen65
I use the cheap car kit from Wilkinson's in the UK which holds the phone really well, and I have a Motorola mini usb charger for in the car too.
Try the one from Clas Ohlson. Works really good as long as you dont need the keyboard.
BE CAREFUL!
The Brodit holder is Scratching the X1's chrome frame!!!
I've used only twice and already there are two little black spot on the both side. Not worth it!
Hmm I have the Brodit active holder in backorder..
Are there more people experiencing the scratching problem?
Is there a good alternative carholder?
I am just using the Nokia Universal Holder CR-39 with the Easy Mount HH-12 that mounts on my windscreen. Some people might not like it but it is a pretty good solution for me.
I bought it when I had the Nokia n95 phone (used it for 1 year already) but it holds many phone perfectly (imate JASJAM, n95 that I have tried)
The x1 is not exception too, and it shouldn't cause any scratch since there is some soft foam on the side of the "holder".
Only down side is it might be relatively expensive compared to other kit.
I don't like the windshield mounts.
The Brodit is perfect because it's mountable on your dashboard without scratching it. And you can use the keyboard while it's in the holder.
I'm afraid there isn't an alternative.. So I hope the Brodit scratching problem is a hoax (maybe the person using it wasn't very carefull?)
I'm getting mine from brodit on thursday. I really hope it doesn't scratch the chrome and that it was just that one holder that's defect.
I'll let you know if there are scratch tendensies..
I got my Brodit today and installed in my car.. and I can say it doesn't leave scratches on my phone.
Idon't se any scratches on my phone yet, and I've been quite brutal dragging the phone in and out of the holder alot. I would like to see how big the actual scratches are. Can vax6 post any pics of the damage?
Can you order directly from Brodit ?
I would second the choice of brodit.
the problem for me though, is that I change phone frequently, so it's not economical for me to get a new brodit holder every time I change phone , so what I did was get my old ipaq 6965 holder, and add padding to the side of it, and the thickness will vary depending on the phone I have, and I have a OEM looking holder w/o having to spend a bomb each time I change the phone. (although, I reckon not changing phone so often would be the solution)
Brodit holder
I haven't notoced any scratching on phone although I have thought that it is a tighter fit than brodit holders I have had for other phones. The other flaw is that the holder covers the speakerphone which is not the loudest in the world on the X1 anyway.
This post was inspired by thematrixkid17 from this post.
You are going to need the following items to complete this mount.
Drill
small flathead screwdriver
1/4" drill bit
dremel with sanding disc
1 1/4" hole saw
plastic epoxy
I started with a belt holster like this from ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400110870258
It has a cutout for the headphone jack, usb and camera.
The holster itself.
The first thing you want to do is pry out the pin holding the clip
itself. Use a small flat head screwdriver. The pin is only press fit
in so it will come out easily.
The pin
You will be left with these parts.
You can then use a 1/4" drill bit to slowly remove the plastic rivet
holding the rest of the clip.
As seen here.
Once the rivet is removed you can remove the rest of the belt clip.
You will be left with a belt holster that looks like this.
Then take out your trusty dremel and grind down the extrusions on the
back of the holster.
You will be left with a piece that looks like this.
Next you will need to move on to the windshield holder or some other
holder that you wish to use. I chose to use the garmin nuvi series.
It uses a plastic ball and socket type mount that allows you to swivel
to any angle. They make windshield, bicycle, vent, and friction
mounts. You can find them all over ebay. The seller I bought from
appears to be gone now.
The most important piece you will need first is the actual bracket
mount itself which will be permanently mounted to the belt holster you
have prepared.
The piece looks like this on the front and this on the back.
Then using that 1 1/4" hole saw without the centering drill bit you
can mount the bracket in a vice and remove the excess off of the
bracket as it won't be needed.
You will be left with two pieces that look like this.
The most important piece is going to be the socket.
Now with some plastic epoxy you will mount the socket piece to the
back of the holster.
It will come out looking like this.
Once it dries you can use whatever ball mount you have chosen.
Example with the windshield suction cup.
With the phone mounted from the front and back
As you can see, you can still use the camera for layer or any other
augmented reality.
The rest of the pictures can be seen in this album.
Nice work.
thats the best ive seen
I would gladly pay for one of those, im not a great DIY person =\
I definitely must get around to doing this! where the best place to buy plastic epoxy by the way?
Nice work, I've been looking all over for something like this and don't know why sprint or HTC haven't made one yet.
I have just ordered something similar to this But I don't like how bulky it is. I had ordered one that was a bike mount but the little foam thingy and one of the arms that holds the phone came off and I can't find it. So I just ordered me another one. I think however that the mounting type on the one I ordered would probably be a little better since the mounting piece if flat. All you would need to do is dremel the little 4 pegs from the mounting plate off and glue that to the back of the phone belt clip piece. I think you'd get a better job since the glue would have more of a contact patch to glue onto then with the OP's "ball joint" method.
I'll probably order me one of those belt clips and try it myself. I like the form fitting outcome of this mod as opposed to the big bulky universal phone holder that I got.
Great work.
I was inspired to find something nice and compact like this DYI mount. For those that do not have time or skills to do this, I just ordered the following for $9.99, $14.99 shipped.
http://shop.vendio.com/cellularqueen/item/2042534021/?s=1270540562
Ceger
Nice work. The only reason I didn't grind more stuff is that I wanted to be sure the epoxy was going to hold. But after some use, I think that the plastic would break before the epoxy comes loose
Looks great. More than augmented reality, I think this would be cool for doing a ustream of a trip or something. I may drill out a hole in my mount to do this.
I'll link this thread in my post too
Damn, I had all those parts from my old GPS unit that quit working, but threw them out a couple weeks ago. I had one with an extended arm, but the arm broke. Damn Wal Mart brand.
ro_bro said:
I definitely must get around to doing this! where the best place to buy plastic epoxy by the way?
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Any hardware store will do. I got mine at Ace. I'm sure you can find it it at Walmart/Lowes/Home Depot though.
I used the mount today, the phone isn't going to go anywhere. The bigger problem is the anti-glare for the phone.
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Any hardware store will do. I got mine at Ace. I'm sure you can find it it at Walmart/Lowes/Home Depot though.
I used the mount today, the phone isn't going to go anywhere. The bigger problem is the anti-glare for the phone.
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thx, just picked up one from home depot. but now i gotta go back for the round hole saw bit - shoulda did this in one shot!
davide169 said:
You are going to need the following items to complete this mount.
Drill
small flathead screwdriver
1/4" drill bit
dremel with sanding disc
1 1/4" hole saw
plastic epoxy
I started with a belt holster like this from ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400110870258
It has a cutout for the headphone jack, usb and camera.
The rest of the pictures can be seen in this album.
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Very nice work. Cost wise ($$ and time) what are we talking? I'm guessing about 20 minutes worth of time, with a little extra for the epoxy to set, even if it is instant, I don't trust that.
I'm looking to unload my GPS now that I'm on the everything data and have it with my cell. Obviously I know I'm coming out ahead doing that, but just for reference when I try to justify it to the wife. LOL.
We'll see about that.
riggsandroid said:
Very nice work. Cost wise ($$ and time) what are we talking? I'm guessing about 20 minutes worth of time, with a little extra for the epoxy to set, even if it is instant, I don't trust that.
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The belt holster and garmin windshield mount cost under $10 shipped off of ebay. The epoxy was about $3.50 which will go a long way if I need to use it in the future for anything else.
The tools I already had so no expense there. If you have a dremel with a cut off wheel you could get away without using a hole saw. The hole saw just makes things cleaner and faster.
I'd say it took me a total of 10 mins to do everything. Most of the time just for grinding the holster flat which really didn't take all that much time.
The epoxy takes 5 mins to set and 24 hours to be fully cure.
davide169 said:
The belt holster and garmin windshield mount cost under $10 shipped off of ebay. The epoxy was about $3.50 which will go a long way if I need to use it in the future for anything else.
The tools I already had so no expense there. If you have a dremel with a cut off wheel you could get away without using a hole saw. The hole saw just makes things cleaner and faster.
I'd say it took me a total of 10 mins to do everything. Most of the time just for grinding the holster flat which really didn't take all that much time.
The epoxy takes 5 mins to set and 24 hours to be fully cure.
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I would definitely pay for one of these. If you wanna sell one let me know. I'd be glad to pay thru paypal.
Does anyone know of a good windscreen phone holder that doesn't fall off after a while.
The other day I was driving with my windows down (luckily my mobile wasn't in its holder) I went around a corner and the holder shot out the window....
Even if it wasn't that severe just falling off in the car with the modern day screens on these phones they could easily break so finding a holder with a really good sucker is quite important I haven't had much success in this regard so far...
anyone point me in the right direction
Oh Car air vents ones aren't an option needs to be a suction cup.......
cheers
pspec1 said:
Does anyone know of a good windscreen phone holder that doesn't fall off after a while.
The other day I was driving with my windows down (luckily my mobile wasn't in its holder) I went around a corner and the holder shot out the window....
Even if it wasn't that severe just falling off in the car with the modern day screens on these phones they could easily break so finding a holder with a really good sucker is quite important I haven't had much success in this regard so far...
anyone point me in the right direction
Oh Car air vents ones aren't an option needs to be a suction cup.......
cheers
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Car vent mount wasn't an option for me either, and my windshield is too far to reach.
So I got a magnetic mount that uses foam tape to stick to my dashboard. It came with a metal plate that fits inside my case.
My just set my phone on the mount and it sticks, every time. No having to open a clamp or squeeze a button to put it on there. I like it so much I have one at my desk, one in my wife's car and we even bought one for a friend. Also the phone hasn't ever fallen off either.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012EI4J3O/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
ryant35 said:
Car vent mount wasn't an option for me either, and my windshield is too far to reach.
So I got a magnetic mount that uses foam tape to stick to my dashboard. It came with a metal plate that fits inside my case.
My just set my phone on the mount and it sticks, every time. No having to open a clamp or squeeze a button to put it on there. I like it so much I have one at my desk, one in my wife's car and we even bought one for a friend. Also the phone hasn't ever fallen off either.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012EI4J3O/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Thanks I'll check that one out
Thanks again ; )
SlipGrip makes mounts that work with the most popular phone cases. Windshield mounts and more. I have no affiliation with this company but I have used their product and I like it.
http://www.slipgripcarmounts.com/Galaxy-S7-Edge_c_30908.html
pspec1 said:
Does anyone know of a good windscreen phone holder that doesn't fall off after a while.
The other day I was driving with my windows down (luckily my mobile wasn't in its holder) I went around a corner and the holder shot out the window....
Even if it wasn't that severe just falling off in the car with the modern day screens on these phones they could easily break so finding a holder with a really good sucker is quite important I haven't had much success in this regard so far...
anyone point me in the right direction
Oh Car air vents ones aren't an option needs to be a suction cup.......
cheers
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I have tried several windscreen holders that does not do the job after a while.
Ended up to buy Samsung Original Wireless Vehicle Charging and this one is great, never fall off and you can charge it QI.
I have had this one mounted since August last year without problems...
Samsung :
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/mobile-accessories/phones/wireless-charging-vehicle-dock-qi-w-2a-cla-ep-hn910ibusta/
Ebay :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-Qi-Wireless-Car-Charger-Dock-Mount-Holder-Samsung-Galaxy-S8-S7-S6-Note-5-/282398965544?var=&hash=item41c04a3f28:m:mPFzkO4WPe9DUPg4FSHhvCA
Thanks for all the advise
In the end I went with West coasts post the Samsung Original ..
I didn't go for the wireless one just the basic they look the same but loads cheaper.........
the suction is great .
I stuck it to a large pine kitchen table and tried to pull it off and yes the table started to lift but I had the feeling the plastic bracket was going to break so I stopped....
so happy so far...........
Thanks again for all input...