[Q] MHL limitation with camera apps - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
I just recently found out that S2 can not stream anything via MHL to the external monitor when camera app is running (in focus).
It will just display: "HDMI not available when application is running" which really sucks. I expected a lot of flexibility from Android, since this feature has been in Apple phone product for quite some time.
Anyone know why exactly this happened? I tried to look around mhl consortium and can't find relevant technical information.
I'm guessing the problem lies on the android OS itself and not the hardware. But still, it would be nice if someone can share a workaround or latest news or whatever discussion on this.
Thanks,
vinis.

Post your ROM details (Settings > About phone)

Hi, i am using Neat Rom lite as in here latest build 7thOct
I know that only samsung based ROM have MHL / tv-out capability, mainly due to proprietary driver.

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865397
So been using this nice phone for quite some time I still have some queries unanswered or unexplored maybe .
1. Does this phone support hardware video decoding , have tried running MX Player and apparently it does not work, even though i thought that the GPU in this phone is quite decent. Maybe this opiton need to be enabled at the kernel level. Another user in the forum also had the same question without any success in using any of the media players. This also limits the possibility of running the recently released XBMC Beta 1 as a complete media center application on this phone, given that it already has a sizable 5.3 inch screen enough for a single person viewing.
2. Does this phone support USB OTG, i tried it today with a standard USB OTG cable and tried connecting the USB Flash disk and a USB 3G Modem apparently both of them are not detected. I have also tried them connected via a powered USB hub in case the phone's micro usb connector cannot supply enough power. So far nothing comes up. I have installed the PPP Widget from the Google Play Market, but as I read it needs a couple of libraries and drivers built into the custom ROM (ppp serial driver and libraries) and the USB OTG option also needs to be enabled at the kernel level.
3. There is not much following of this phone on a mass level, so that we could expect any feature packed kernel like Siyah/Dorimanx and ROM from the branches of AOKP/AOSP/Cyanogen.
Given the current situation can I request on behalf of all the users of this phone (and its branded brother ZOPO ZP900) to the developer's community to please look into the possibility of modding the kernel to at least enable the video hardware decoding and USB OTG functionality. It would be a complete blast, given the ROM has already been rooted.
Please ask and guide me if I can be of any help to post the dumped kernel image or anything else.
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HyperEscape said:
Please refer to the original thread for ZOPO ZP900 / Hero H9500 which are basically one and the same phone models with different brand tags.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865397
So been using this nice phone for quite some time I still have some queries unanswered or unexplored maybe .
1. Does this phone support hardware video decoding , have tried running MX Player and apparently it does not work, even though i thought that the GPU in this phone is quite decent. Maybe this opiton need to be enabled at the kernel level. Another user in the forum also had the same question without any success in using any of the media players. This also limits the possibility of running the recently released XBMC Beta 1 as a complete media center application on this phone, given that it already has a sizable 5.3 inch screen enough for a single person viewing.
2. Does this phone support USB OTG, i tried it today with a standard USB OTG cable and tried connecting the USB Flash disk and a USB 3G Modem apparently both of them are not detected. I have also tried them connected via a powered USB hub in case the phone's micro usb connector cannot supply enough power. So far nothing comes up. I have installed the PPP Widget from the Google Play Market, but as I read it needs a couple of libraries and drivers built into the custom ROM (ppp serial driver and libraries) and the USB OTG option also needs to be enabled at the kernel level.
3. There is not much following of this phone on a mass level, so that we could expect any feature packed kernel like Siyah/Dorimanx and ROM from the branches of AOKP/AOSP/Cyanogen.
Given the current situation can I request on behalf of all the users of this phone (and its branded brother ZOPO ZP900) to the developer's community to please look into the possibility of modding the kernel to at least enable the video hardware decoding and USB OTG functionality. It would be a complete blast, given the ROM has already been rooted.
Please ask and guide me if I can be of any help to post the dumped kernel image or anything else.
Thanks.
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Suggest you try here: http://www.movilesdualsim.com/foro/...7-4-ICS-4-0-4-ZP900-y-clonicos-de-1GB-y-512MB
The forum is in Spanish, but I have flashed the ROM and it is very good. Google translate makes most of the stuff on the forum understandable. If you post in English the forum doesn't mind too much. As long as you have managed to flash CWM onto your Zopo/Hero you will have no problems with this ROM.
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The ROM is based on ICS, so it supports flash video, if nothing else. AVI also works. Not sure if there is a video player to play wmv.
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