Mobile Audio Systems & GPS

[ongle]

I have an Alpine CDE-102 w/iPod cable (installed by Best Buy) with I use with an old 5th gen iPod Video 30gb. My goal is to just leave the iPod in the glove compartment and only remove it once a week or so to sync. The problem is that when I turn the car off the iPod doesn't go to sleep, it just stays paused in the low power mode (display dimmed but not off). I found that if I just switch the lock switch to unlocked and back to lock, this "wakes" the iPod up and allows it to then go to sleep shortly thereafter, without disrupting the "pause". I should note that I do not have any issues with the iPod going to sleep when it is not connected to the Alpine.

I have played around with hooking my iPhone up to it and it appears to correctly go to sleep when the car is turned off.

Any ideas on how I can get the head unit and the iPod to play together nicely?

[mprete]

possibly keep the ipod in the unlocked position al the time. when its plugged in nothing can be changed anyway so there is no need for it to be locked. if not then i have no idea.

[ongle]

Thanks, however that didn't work either.

What I have learned is even stranger. If I just turn the car off after running the engine, the iPod does as described above, pauses but not sleeping. However, if I then turn the car back on to accessory (without starting the engine) and wait a couple of seconds for the stereo to begin to initialize (the 'Alpine' name appears on the display) and then turn the car off it works correctly. The iPod then goes to sleep. This is a little awkward, but less annoying than opening the glove box and flipping the lock switch back and forth.