How-To: Bose SoundDock LINE IN Hack AUX IN Modification NO iPOD NEEDED !!

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How To Bose Sound Dock Line In Audio Hack-Modification for Android Phone or Tablet or iphone 5 while keeping ipod usability and charging functionality. No iPod Needed

[@bash3388]

Done - thanks mate, works perfectly! If you're in the UK, you might find that there are only 2 wires when you remove the covering from the 3.5 jack. If you look closely though, there will be some copper wiring running separately alongside each of the audio wires. These are the grounding wires. You can twist these together, and solder them to the grounding point. Just make sure these stay separate to the audio wires going to points 13 and 14.

[@nicolasdudermel1211]

I have seen this video years ago, and only just now I installed the jack output. It works great! Somehow I mixed up the left and right sides at first... I am quite sure I connected the pin #13 to the tip of the jack which is supposed to be the left side. Anyway I just unsoldered and inverted the sides. I can't thank you enough Matt! It feels so great to beat programmed obsolescence, especially for high end stuff like this! Greetings from Brussels!

[@farley1088]

I got to say that yesterday I gave this video a shot. I have never sod. or done anything with tech. it took me 1 hr (from start to finish). to get to to work. Thank you for the great detail Mr M!

[@adamrainwater4113]

Worked great! Thanks so much for the tutorial. Was a PITA soldering them but I finally got it. I used a 2.2K ohm resistor from Radio Shack. I bought a 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable and it had the left and right sheathed wires inside with the ground surrounding the 2 wires. I just bunched up all the ground wires and made them one.

[@tbland2000]

Fantastic Video! I purchased a cable with a female 30 pin connector on one end and 3.5mm male on the other. Only costs a few bucks on Amazon; however, it did not work with by 1st gen sounddock. I pried open the female connector end of the cable (the 30 pin) and used the info in your video to make the cable functional. It took adding a small ground wire, de-soldering a factory resistor and soldering in a new resistor, but now works great. Sincerest thanks for this video!!

[@yeanamoto3858]

Thank you Mr. M, finished the job today, hated the soldering, love the result.

[@douggremel3156]

Matt, thanks for posting this video. Rescued an old Bose SoundDock from the trash made your modifications and it works great !

[@HecklyHeckster]

Ever since I bought my sound dock a few years ago I've been looking for a mod like this. I just added the line in and it works great!

[@richcoe1971]

I just completed the wiring and it works great. I used a 2.2k ohms 0.5rW resistor and plugged my bose into the headphone output to my Samsung TV and it sounds fantastic! No need to hook up my ipod to make it work. Thanks Matt!

[@OXSquadRC]

Years later....thank you for the video it worked even with a 4.7k resistor.

[@mandovibrazrocha2295]

Thanks. I get one 2004 Bose out of order, made only for Ipod. I follow your crystal clear voice instruction. I fix problems with 24 and 20 veins flat "challenging" cable and then... voilá! Magic music with Bose quality! Helpever Hurtnever. Be happy! Godblessall...

[@aceone1897]

Thank you very much for sharing, I used 5% resistor and I’ve bought my Bose docking station back to life, many thanks! 🙏🏽😉

[@martingautreau7501]

Worked like a charm, only cost me $0.35. Thanks so much.

[@SoundDecisionDJs]

Well done. My dock has been sitting for years because I have all androids...thanks, will try!

[@paulbowditch7511]

Update. There are 2 different types of Sounddock 1 called A & B. Sounddock 1A has a firewire charging voltage of 12V for early ipods and 1B has a 5V charging voltage for later ipods. Both models look the same and you can only tell the difference from the serial numbers. Iaw the Apple pin notation pin 18 (Bose pin numbers are different) is a pin providing an ipod output of 3.3V to switch the Bose on (same both early and late versions). I'm not sure where or how the 2Kohm resistor was determined in the above video. From my own experience for Version 1A to drop the 12V wirewire voltage to 3.3V the resistor needed was 390Kohm. A 2Kohm resistor sends nearly 10V down thw 3.3V rail!. Form version 1B to drop the 5V charging voltage down to 3.3V the size of resistor is 6.75Kohm. There also would appear to be a common problem with 1A where the firewire voltage is actually 17V, this is clearly far higher than it should be and may contribute to the 1A failure rate.

[@gavowassy7655]

Thanks for this I've just ordered a 390k resistor... I think I saw Matt comment a few posts ago saying the mod lasted 4years... Maybe down to the wrong resistor

[@paulbowditch7511]

From others comments I beleive there is some form of modification to the 1A model to do what I dont know and have not been able to find any details. Supplying 17V down the 12V rail is really not a very good design concept for the docked ipod or iphone.

[@gavowassy7655]

I've fitted the 390k resistor and all good working perfect... The sound from these early bose docks is Amazing!

[@GotoAmar]

@@gavowassy7655 my soundock makes loud humming noise with resistor that's annoying. Did yours do the same?

[@gavowassy7655]

@@GotoAmar hi, no loud humming noise maybe just a noise when the I plug in and out a device, but I try and remember to power off the dock before disconnecting.. Definitely nothing heard during music playback etc.. I think the resistor from memory is just to trick the dock into thinking an ipod is connected, just double check your connections and quality of your soldering in case there is a dry joint.. Also check the power supply cable is pushed in correctly (it should only fit in one way but it can be defeated)

[@eltulon777]

we finally found it after 7 years, thanks, greeting from Argentina

[@stig5763]

Smurf333 plug in Bluetooth receiver in the audio out. Now it’s Bluetooth enabled.

[@hectormejia6440]

I’m here 9 years later to thank you for this tutorial. That while I sit listening to my freshly modded speaker I picked up for 10 bucks

[@drumrrr19]

Thanks worked great used a 2.2 k resister. The phono jack ground is the rear of the phono plug. Tested with a ohm meter. my wires were red white and black was my ground. Terminals are small be patient take your time. Did not work at first unpluged and repluged in and it worked great. Used your video and the other guys video hooked aux up to main board

[@Mosellemontreal]

Matt.. thanks so much for tutorial. it amazing. it was so easy and so thorough, I could make the Dock work with Aux and a Blackberry finally... Thumbs up man..

[@pedrohugofc]

Thank you very much... You gave life to my Bose again!!!

[@Bungarra2]

Just did this... works a treat... I live in outback OZ but have inet access. No shops near, so got a resister off an old TV.. 3Watt 10k... was worried it wouldnt work but is going just like a bought one... Thankyou MattMikka..

[@denmiles1751]

wot is it?

[@dave1the1deer1hunter]

thank you I used a smd resistor as it made my work a little tidier than when i used an inline one. Thank you.

[@b00rsy]

Hey @Mattmika. I've done it and this works great. thanks again for giving a second life to my bose !

[@paulbowditch7511]

There are 2 different types of Sounddock 1 called A & B. Sounddock 1A has a firewire charging voltage of 12V for early ipods and 1B has a 5V charging voltage for later ipods. Both models look the same and you can only tell from the serial numbers. Iaw the Apple pin notation pin 18 (Bose pin numbers are different) is a pin providing an ipod output of 3.3V to switch the Bose on when the ipod is plugged in (same both early and late versions). I'm not sure where or how the 2Kohm resistor was determined in the above video. From my own experience for Version 1A to drop the 12V wirewire voltage to 3.3V the resistor needed was 390Kohm. A 2Kohm resistor sends nearly 10V down thw 3.3V rail!. Form version 1B to drop the 5V charging voltage down to 3.3V the size of resistor is 6.75Kohm.

[@brianc8967]

mansion accomplished! Had to pull the board off the plastic and put my wires on the rear I messed up the pin 14 with my fat solder iron. It still works either way but the iPOD dock is puffy. Joe Satriani is rocking now!!

[@nicetarek]

Just finished hacking mine, thanks a lot mate.

[@windshieldvipers]

I did this. Worked great with a 100k resistor!

[@AlejandroThacker]

Thanks man! Now my speaker is back!

[@tammuzthomas8332]

This is the Best sounding speaker I have used,Awesome bass and Super Loud.

[@alejandrobocanegra4917]

Hello David, just shorted pin 19 to GND (pin 24). It will work. Good luck, I did it , it works!

[@imrek]

I did it and it works! Thank you!

[@vanroboli]

Thanks, bro! Help me a lot! Greetings from Brazil!

[@farkasferenc7200]

Thanks! I managed to buy one of these speakers for 6 euros and it works 2.2k Ohm.

[@arqvitect]

You are the best !!! thank you very much

[@saulzavala5052]

it works perfectly, thanks man

[@valveman12]

Thanks for the video. I went the bluetooth route with my Dock by purchasing the aftermarket bluetooth adapter for the Bose Sounddock.

[@MattMikkaTV]

cool.. back when I made this video a long time ago... the Bluetooth adapter wasn't a option. thanks

[@valveman12]

***** It is still a great tutorial.

[@jr260551]

If you have a series 1.1, to my understanding you cannot use one of those 30 pin bluetooth connectors, only 1.2

[@davestraker3605]

Bought an "8 Pin male 3.5mm to 30 Pin female Audio Adapter Cable For iPhone 6 6s plus 5 5S" for less than $7 on Ebay. Added a 2.2k ohm 1/2 watt resistor between pins 19 and 20. Works fine on my 1st gen BoseSound Dock that I purchased for $25 at Goodwill!!!

[@Rajmigi]

Thanks Matt it works.For other information the resistor is 2k ohm and 1/4 watt.

[@MrArielex]

Excelente!! Funciona!! Saludos from Argentina!!

[@GnarledSage]

My 2cents, because I'm so happy and grateful that I want to help a little. I wasn't able to find a resistor, so I dig a little and learn about the colors, gladly I found one in an old DVD that matched colors exactly like the one used in the video, but others will also work. Just check the colors of the one you have and if is close in value it will work (there are online calculators to match colors with ohms value). The other thing was that the audio wire I bought (not male, but female plug) had diferent wire colors (red, blue, green and copper), after some more digging I found that red=right=pin13, blue=left=pin14, and the other 2 green+copper=ground=pin 24 (I jointed this 2 together and soldered both to pin 24). I then made a hole for the female plug right next to the place to put the iPhone. It looks like if the Bose came like this from the factory.I can't find a Bluetooth adapter I once bought, but I'm pretty sure it will also work once I find it, thanks to that resistor (if someone has already tested this, please let me know).The sound is perfect.THANKS MATT MIKKA. Greetings from Colombia

[@GnarledSage]

I found that left speaker sounds really loud and right was half the sound. I just plunged the green to the 24th pin and cut the copper wire. Now everything sounds as it should.

[@pablekecarrillo3186]

felipe martinez mil gracias por la info. Le devolviste la vida a mi bocina y utilice una resistencia de 1,500 del cargador viejo de un Nokia.

[@GnarledSage]

@Pableke Carrillo Que bien. Me alegra haber ayudado.

[@manuelbustamante6891]

Hola Felipe. no entendí, que conectaste para que sonara mejor? Sabes tu de cuantos watts debe ser la resistencia? Muchas gracias.

[@elversincelejo3498]

Muchas gracias matt. Gracias a ti pude volber a usar mi bose . Thank u matt . Ur the best. Xoxo...

[@skywatcher585]

Great job man it worked for me !!!

[@bennydarko]

I don't have resistors handy or else I'd try this. Thanks for uploading this.

[@christophersoprano-sculptor]

Brilliant!!!! Thanks for sharing.

[@DORADO-hz1eb]

thank you so much, i did and works perfect

[@leonardolopezortiz4489]

Quedo perfecto, muchas gracias!!!

[@bendertheoffenderbending9370]

this is awesome!! there are a lot of similar deviced that may be modified!!!

[@deanwagg502]

Hi Matt just wanted to say thanks for this tutorial - I had an old Dock lying around for years and I just did this and it's working like a charm! Got the tunes on right now. Thanks a lot.

[@WarpedLab]

Lol... Your welcome... Mine just crapped out after 4 yrs

[@hchowky]

about to try this 8 yrs after your comment. Thanks Matt, if I am successful

[@rauls.g.6946]

Excellent dudde !!! You´re a Genius !!!! careful with the finger nail hope you´re OK!!!!

[@christopherradford5227]

Worked perfectly.

[@Bob49827]

It's time to modify my Bose Docking station, using your technique

[@eusebiosantoyo3269]

muy buen video.. gracias..!!

[@edwinangeles1850]

Thanks for sharing!! i did the same, but i pulled the cable from behind, so it can look better. By the way, it works perfectly! but soldering in those tiny spots is a pain in the ass. Thank you man, this video was really helpful because i'm a stupid fuck that doesn't knows how to use a multimeter.

[@briansullivan9526]

Did this today. First time soldering too. Great video. Only thing when music is not playing there is an interference sound. Normal or how can I fix?

[@versatil89]

What about solder an audio female input instead a male one and make a hole on the back of the dock station, close to the power supply in, like the second version of this same dock station? Do you think this would be possible? So you wouldn't have a cable hanging always from your dock station and you could plug a male-male jack to your phone and dock station as a normal "Line in" like all the rest of the speakers :) (I'm asking because I don't really know if this is possible or if I'm talking s&$t)

[@szoccc]

Thank you, perfect ;)

[@tamborltamborl9896]

Hi Matt, thanks for your tutorial.I maked it, i solded a cable to create a rear 3.5 jack with your instruction.it work but it work only with ipod connect in the dock but my real problem is the noise i loose the bose sound quality.why? i think the reason is not the quality of 10 cm of cables..please help me Thanks in advanced. Lorenzo

[@jeromegsam]

Thank you , it's working .

[@mrmastersa]

Hi Matt... many years since youve made a comment but i notice that pin 20 is joined to 21 on the PCB... so do i have to solder to the pin or can i solder to the junction of 20/21 on the pcb

[@libardoenriquebenitezsteer1997]

Excelente vídeo...

[@stevansusando541]

thank’s brother cool idea ......greeting from indonesia....

[@smac1943]

I saw another video of a guy just bypassing all that and wiring an audio jack directly to the speakers, my question would be do you get the same performance with that? I'm not very good at soldering,

[@jasonadamjuliano4542]

thanks for this!

[@juanpablovivanco9254]

Hi, i'm thinking about buying a second hand one, but they don't have the remote. Can I still turn it on and operate the volume, just changing the songs manually on the ipod classic? Many thanks.

[@leoysofylealtamez9057]

Hello MattMikkaTV, I see that your video cable has three points, but mine has the red and white and earth but no protective plastic .. this goes on pin 24? protect as a false contact?

[@jaimemartinezdiaz1004]

where did you find the pinout for the ribbon cable? Did you probe around or did you find a service guide online somewhere?

[@nebojsa1976]

I have a problem with my sounddock going into sleep mode after 30 minutes (I don't have remote). If I put that resistor, would that take care of the problem of going to sleep? I don't use ipod or iphone for music. I only use AUX port (with AUX port if there is no music coming after 30 minutes, it will go to sleep and every time I want to listen to music I have to turn up the volume.

[@donchristian9645]

Thanks Matt, hope your nail is cure now.

[@GnarledSage]

Can i use other resistors. I'm in Colombia and haven't been able to find it. But I scavenged some electronics I have, and found several resistors in an old dvd. Some looks the same color and size than the one you used. Others are different size and color. Can I use them?Thanks for the video. Hopefully I can use my bose again.

[@laerciocosta201]

Congratulations information. Only an alert. The PCB Doc is very sensitive and can drop the gold-plated contacts.

[@mandovibrazrocha2295]

Thank you!

[@pivitman101]

sweet thanks works great, just hate when I plug something in I get this loud noise. Now time to try and set up the play/pause, forward/revers controls.

[@donchristian9645]

Loud noise is OK because the resistor keep the dock on all time

[@fruitarianascension6045]

Hi. Do you know of any adapters or mod options that would allow me to stop the charging from the various dock devices, so overcharging is no longer an issue? Please let me know. Thank you.

[@dhhawalnandrajog]

Thank you, worked for me. I had an old dock whose 30 pin socket got separated from the board. Instead of trying to get a socket/module, this worked for me, planning to add a logitech bluetooth receiver to it as well :)

[@stig5763]

Dhhawal Nandrajog just plug in Bluetooth receiver in audio out.

[@laurar9411]

Dude you ROCK I have a IPod Bose and I was going to let it go. Now I have to find someone to do the changes. I don’t have that tool. What do you recommend me taking it to? Affordable please?

[@vincentmeluzio3713]

Very good job there. There is any way that you have an extra powered cord for Sundock 3

[@walmirgarcia9432]

very good !!

[@MrAwa8]

It works danks

[@josephkaminsky9777]

What type of resistor did you use anything specific it must be could you tell me?

[@tomtomvtx]

hi Matt - you are the man I have one question - sugestion - can we somehow connect cable from cablejive (samDock) - but not directly in to the ipod plug - I mean - how to create another 30-pin plug somewhere inside the Boss and the ending with micro usb bring forth out to connect our galaxy ,I'm thinking about creating something along the lines of Grace Digital GDI GSD8200 (Bose sounddock + cablejive /samDock/ + iGRIP Universal Micro USB Charging Dock ) can you see it :) ? Regards Tom

[@berbagigratis52]

Thanks Matt

[@placoso1000]

Exelnt..,,

[@edudefferrari]

Hope your nail is good by now. LOL. Amazing video

[@simonkingit]

Hi MattMikkaTV, I have tried adding the 2k ohm resister to pins 19 and 20, but it doesn't seem to work at all. The quality of your video is too poor to see where exactly you're soldering the resister in. Do you go in at the actual ribbon connector or to one of the small dot holes a little bit away from the ribbon connector?

[@cleberlira1914]

Ficou ótimo obrigado.

[@toks7492]

thank you so much for this tutorial video,using this method i just had a little concern, sometimes when i plugged my dock it doesnt power up rite away, i still have to unplugged it and plugged it again til it powers up, COULD YOU PLS GIVE ME SOME IDEA HOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM, THANKS...

[@simonkingit]

OK, I've actually connected the resister to 19 and 20 at the other side of the ribbon cable connecter and it still doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

[@danle2884]

Hi Matt if I ever want to back to using the iphone docking, do I have to take the resistor off? Or does anyone else know? Thank you so much.

[@manuelbustamante7248]

Hi Matt. Excelente video. thanks. I did everything like you, but I must to Connecticut an IPhone to the port to listen the music form my Samsung. If I remover the iPhone, the music from my Samsung stops. What can I do?

[@juancarlosolivera8790]

Can u tell me what side resistor do i need to put it pls, also this trick will help a lot , my station have no way to connect the iPhone, do to some one break the connection inside were the iPod connect, also they do sell that part to install it again the one the connect the iPod with the station, thanks

[@irvdabird]

Thanks for sharing, this is pretty cool! BTW, you seem very familiar with the sound dock, would you know if there's a way to hack a non-Bose power supply?

[@prithvip7888]

I got this speaker, whever I play song its full bass. Vocals low beats high. Are bose speakers always have that quality?

[@magdielbarreto7651]

EXCELENTE

[@Gk2003m]

5:32: so in order to retain existing functionality while enabling the unit for external audio, one might consider a little switch for that 2 ohm resistor. Cool!

[@rickxs619]

nice DIY i have a ? i have the same bose dock but i dont power cord can i just make one ??? wich is ground and power

[@darkerror55555]

спасибо тебе. заграничный снежок. сделал. правда поставил смд резистор на 510 ом. с ним тоже работает.

[@markstrommen1831]

You the man hack thanks

[@ayaanmittal_]

GUYS! The hack WORKS FOR SURE! but IMP NOTE - The correct placement for the left and right channels from the aux cable is actually opposite to that shown in the video, the video placement is wrong, RED GOES TO PIN 14, WHITE/BLACK GOES TO PIN 13! thanks for the hack though!

[@Buturama]

Gracias!

[@manuelbustamante6891]

Hi Matt. Excelent video. thanks. I did everything like you, but I must to Connect an IPhone to the port to listen the music form my Samsung. If I remover the iPhone, the music from my Samsung stops. What can I do?. Can I Use a 2,200 Ohms Resistor or two 1,000 ohms resistor How many watts the resistor is?

[@VeryShortDwarf]

Really keen on trying this. Got all the stuff but then I can't get the front cover off! It seems to be some allan key hex screws. I've got a metric set and an imperial set but none of them seem to fit! Am I missing something? I never thought getting the damn cover off would be the bit I would stuggle with!

[@dec2mclaren]

Yeah I was confused when I saw those screws, too. I ended up actually having the respective bit in my box of screwdriver bits by coincidence. Never used that and probably won't ever again too haha

[@jimkovacs7]

They are called TORX screws.