I was watching a movie via mizuu movies on my Motorola Zoom (which was connected to my HD TV via the official Motorola Mini-full HDMI cable. And the only way I could pause, rewind, stop, and so on, and so onwas to use the Motorola Bluetooth mouse, which was tricky on my couches material.
I just thought it would have been easier if I could control the xoom using my HTC desire HD. Would any developer be interested in making a remote control app that does android to android connection via Bluetooth with nice ui that would allow me to pair my desire HD to my xoom and use it to control and\or select media on my xoom?
Also, an app that could toggle my xooms screen off but leave the live output (via the hdmi cable) on my TV would be great. (A little like on a PC with two monitors. Where you can choose to one screen, the other screen, extended desktop or mirrored output)
I have searched both XDA and Google for viable solutions but so far no joy. If anyone could help or provide information on a product currently available then please get in touch. I would pay for an app like this. And if it was made available free then I would make a donation towards further development.
Thanks for taking time out to read this and look forward to hearing from you.
Phil
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Hi All,
My dream, one that I hope Android can help me fulfill is to hook my Galaxy S2 to a HDMI tv, fire up remote desktop and by using a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, effectively have a full desktop available.
I am yet to try hooking up my phone to a tv as I am waiting for the MHL cable, but issues I envisage are the following:
1) When the screen is mirrored on the TV, the RDP program will not use the TVs display show 'full screen'. I have installed some RDP applications and they allow you to select the resolution so perhaps this will resolve the issue
2) Are there any RDP applications that allow bluetooth keyboard and mouse entry?
This is the hold grail for me!! Many a time I have stayed in a hotel for work or holiday and not had my laptop with me and wished for such a solution. Combine this with Wake On Lan and it's perfect!
I hope someone can help!
I can't believe i'm the only one that wants something like this to work!
RDP programs should just take any inputs from your phone and pass them onto the remote machine so BT kb/m should work ok IMO. Not sure about the mirroring but if it is fullscreen on the phone then maybe the MHL cable will upscale for the TV.
rob_h said:
RDP programs should just take any inputs from your phone and pass them onto the remote machine so BT kb/m should work ok IMO. Not sure about the mirroring but if it is fullscreen on the phone then maybe the MHL cable will upscale for the TV.
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I'm waiting for the cable before I can try. In fact I would have had it by now but my girlfriend wants to buy some stuff for me for my bday and I believe she's already ordered it!
I should get mine tomorrow and I'll try it out.
Thanks! I'll check back on thread!
I've been doing some reading around and have found that BT keyboards and a mouse will work no problem.
I tried my MHL cable with the Android VNC viewer app and allows you to fit to screen but does not output at the tv's native res.
I have had similar experience with Remote RDP, it just mirrors the phone's native resolution. Hopefully this kind of thing will be supported soon, including internet browsing at 1080p.
Thanks guys, that sux!
I still haven't received my cable so I can't try for myself, but have you managed to make it work to a workable output on the TV?
would be interesting if we could port some parts from the atrix (webtop) over to this phone. I actually enjoyed that feature.
blunted09 said:
would be interesting if we could port some parts from the atrix (webtop) over to this phone. I actually enjoyed that feature.
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Perhaps, this kind of program may help to format the resolution?
Am I missing something? If you got a bt keyboard and bt mouse and the phone to tv hdmi, don't you have it all? Why would you need a remote desktop or vnc software?
Well, you'd have it all except for USB, which you might be able to live without.
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Am I missing something? If you got a bt keyboard and bt mouse and the phone to tv hdmi, don't you have it all? Why would you need a remote desktop or vnc software?
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If it could pump out the full Remote Desktop resolution then you will effectively have a full desktop through your phone rather than just have the phone's software capability.
Fair enough you can surf the web and play a video but what if I want to use full excel or Word, and multi-task like on a desktop.
I've still not received my cable so I don't know whether the browsing the net with the phone's browser is legible on a big screen.
In my earlier post I complete missed off the applications name - LCD Density - haven't tried and I don't know if it's compatible with the SGSII, but sounds like it changes the native resolution of the phone.
Try Splashtop as your vnc app it is the only one to my knowledge that can stream audio almost perfect and video pretty good over vnc and works like a charm on the atrix.
Did you find a good BT keyboard that works well with the Evo? I'd prefer one with a built in trackpad, as my goal is to use this on the road (ie, airports, trains, etc), and would like to have an all-in-one keyboard/mouse.
The one thing that I haven't had time to tinker with have been HDMI goggles that can give a virtual display. Has anyone tried these w/ the Evo's mini-HDMI output?
Hello. Just bought my third HTC phone and I am very happy with it. The 1080P video sounds especially appealing. I saw there was an HDMI adapter which I mentioned to the sales guy and he said that his girlfriend had one(of the phones) and their TV (which has wifi) automatically picked it up. If I am going to take good HD videos it would be great to send them over wifi to my PS3 (preferably) or my computer with a media server on it to watch them easily. I have heard of an app called awesome drop but everything I have seen is getting media ONTO the phone, not off. I know I could just USB to my computer (and maybe even ps3?) but since it can be on my wifi network it would seem there was some way to easily just push the video wirelessly to watch. I know this isn't specific to the Amaze so if you think I will get better answers I can move to a more general Android area. Thanks always XDA.
Also in the same vein is there some app to just directly move any files freely between the phone and my computer (and maybe even ps3?) over wifi? TY
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Hello. Just bought my third HTC phone and I am very happy with it. The 1080P video sounds especially appealing. I saw there was an HDMI adapter which I mentioned to the sales guy and he said that his girlfriend had one(of the phones) and their TV (which has wifi) automatically picked it up. If I am going to take good HD videos it would be great to send them over wifi to my PS3 (preferably) or my computer with a media server on it to watch them easily. I have heard of an app called awesome drop but everything I have seen is getting media ONTO the phone, not off. I know I could just USB to my computer (and maybe even ps3?) but since it can be on my wifi network it would seem there was some way to easily just push the video wirelessly to watch. I know this isn't specific to the Amaze so if you think I will get better answers I can move to a more general Android area. Thanks always XDA.
Also in the same vein is there some app to just directly move any files freely between the phone and my computer (and maybe even ps3?) over wifi? TY
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I use iMediaShare Premium to stream videos stored on my device to my XBox 360. I can also stream Youtube and several other services as well. All connect via wifi.
There's a program called PS3 Media Server that is awesome. I haven't yet tried streaming amaze videos, but I will tonight. THis app is very light weight and streams really well. I have yet to have any problems, but I've only streamed some relatively low bandwidth 4:3 video over wireless.
I stream video to my Xbox 360 using an app called Twonky, It's in the Android Market, nice and easy. Let me know if it works for you.
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With the Prime being a multi media power house it's very conceivable many of us will hook the Prime up to various TVs to watch our media. Walking up to the tablet to control DicePlayer or whatever media player we use isn't very convenient.
Here's a free app I found that provides a solution to this scenario (and also works as a virtual gamepad) that I'd thought I'd bring to people's attention:
Tablet Remote:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tournesol.tabletremote
Visit the market link above for a more verbose description of how it works with screenshots. The gist is you download the app to both your phone and tablet and pair them up using Bluetooth. On the tablet it installs a software keyboard that you enable/activate. Once both devices are paired control commands are sent through the easy to use phone UI to the soft keyboard on the tablet via Bluetooth.
Thanks I will try this with my evo3d when my prime comes today.
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Bump because the app was just updated today to add connectivity between Android devices via WiFi.
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Bump because the app was just updated today to add connectivity between Android devices via WiFi.
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friggin awesome, this app has lots of potential..
I have the AV cables and can get my home screen of my phone on the TV. My question is it possible to get Netflix to go from my phone out to TV?
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unless the netflix app limits that ability. everything should work just fine. although not sure why you would want to with all the other sources we have now days for netflix. google tv, xbox, playstation, etc
Maybe he or she wants to use the TV out cables on a DVD player which uses A/V in? I would love to find out how to enable that capability on my phone since I have a 5" PSone monitor in addition to using Crunchyroll.
FYI: This is for Pre-Android 4.2 Jelly Bean (not 4.1 Jelly Bean - yes it's confusing) devices. 4.2 now has a much better feature for screen mirroring!
I'm just wondering if anyone else has thought of this. I know that it's not EXACTLY the same thing, but the principles are similar.
If the Nexus Q is just a media viewing device for $300, why wouldn't you just buy an Android tablet with MHL or HDMI out?
I happen to have the TF101 (original Nexus tablet IMHO) with Mini HDMI out. Newer Android tabs have Micro HDMI out. A lot of Android phones have MHL/microUSB-HDMI out. I did a quick google, found this and installed a VNC Viewer and VNC Server on both by HTC Sensation phone (running Android 4.1.2) and my TF101 (running Android 4.1.1).
I was able to remote control the tablet from my phone.
So since I have the full app catalog available to me through my TF101 (including Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, Pandora, Google Music, etc.) and I can use my Sensation to remote control it while connected to my LED TV - and also take it with me if I decide to go on a trip - why would I want to buy the Nexus Q???
Nexus Q main feature is the built in amplifier for passive speakers.
TheRealCyberOptic said:
Nexus Q main feature is the built in amplifier for passive speakers.
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I thought the main feature was that it was a media link to your TV. What the heck else would people really buy it for?
I use my Droid Bionic with dock that has USB, micro HDMI and a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard as an extra HTPC in my other room. Works great for all media content.
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RoboDan918 said:
I thought the main feature was that it was a media link to your TV. What the heck else would people really buy it for?
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The possibilities are endless. It gets even better as the 10/100 LAN support and NFC makes a connected home pretty easy.
The Nexus Q main feature is that it is a social media device. Sharing music and movies is the prime feature.
What VNC server?
As of 4.2.1, all VNC servers are broken, and there is no information about when (if ever) there will be a fix. Can your family handle a multi-month disruption of their media-viewing ability?