# Car USB and Fire Phone

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-usb-and-fire-phone/732204>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 22, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-usb-and-fire-phone/732204 "2015-09-22T13:42:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-usb-and-fire-phone/732204/1 "2015-09-22T13:42:05Z")

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I recently purchased a Fire Phone to use as an MP3 player. When I plug it into the USB port of my 2012 Prius C I get a read error it will not play. When I do the same to an apple device there is not problem. Is there some setting I can change that will allow me to use this as I intended?

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**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-usb-and-fire-phone/732204/2 "2015-09-22T14:30:04Z")

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The Fire phone doesn’t appear to be on Toyota’a compatible devices list…

[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.toyota.com/content/entune/pdf/Phone\_Compatibility\_List\_Display\_Audio2.PDF&ved=0CB4QFjAAahUKEwjp957o7IrIAhVCoogKHbjNAPw&usg=AFQjCNEeQYaJ8huNoGhhxnjkLvggu7oggQ&sig2=BxhzmQh8dxM26Oiv1z56Iw](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.toyota.com/content/entune/pdf/Phone_Compatibility_List_Display_Audio2.PDF&ved=0CB4QFjAAahUKEwjp957o7IrIAhVCoogKHbjNAPw&usg=AFQjCNEeQYaJ8huNoGhhxnjkLvggu7oggQ&sig2=BxhzmQh8dxM26Oiv1z56Iw)