Hi! I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this. I am trying to develop a software solution that requires the Android phone to be able to output video and be a USB host at the same time. But, after looking into a couple Android devices (Nexus 5 & Samsung S4), I found that I cannot do video and USB hosting on a Android phone at the same time. I wonder if this is a common design in Android phone world? Is this based on Google's reference design for Android? Thank you!
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Ok I have a spare S3 which i'm not going to use, so i plan to plug it to a TV via HDMI and use it as a multimedia center.
So from what i can see I need 2 things.
1. good app to wirelessly sync files between PC, Tablet, Smartphone and the S3 (option to stream media from the PC would be great as well)
2. A program to remote control the S3 from my other android smartphone
any other advise for the setup is welcome
no suggestions whatsoever? :>
Final attempt to get some advises
i don#t know of any app that is able to handle both, but as a start you might look at xbmc, wich actually is a media center, also avaliable for android.
i'd give you links to sites where you can download it (it's still in beta), but i have not enough posts to do so. you should google XBMC android chip.de
or
xbmc android androidpit
or somtething like this.
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.
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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.
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.
Zopo zp900 drx rom
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.
Remember that many video and audio file types - especially wma and wmv are NOT supported by Android unless the ROM is cooked with these features in the recipe. For playing wma, I am using Poweramp that has wma support built in.
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.
Hope this helps.
Enjoy the phone - I think for the money it can't be beaten.
Hi.
I'm starting with android development. I've developed a pair of apps for android devices.
Now I've got a new project where I have to develop a car media infotainment like enviroment based on android. To do this, I need to buy a development board which lets me program using the latest android versions and that mantains up to date. This hardware should contain LCD screen, bluetooth, USB ports, HDMI, etc...
What I really need is to find something that I could use to develop, and also as a final implementation for the real use.
Have suggested the BeagleBone Black. I find good for testing and programing, should do the work as a development board, but not as a final aplication to set it on a car.
Any suggestions?
Hi all,
I'm hoping I can get some suggestions for an Android device to target for a custom app running in Kiosk mode. Just a quick background: app is for internal use so will not be released externally. I currently use Java (JavaFX) on Raspberry Pi - it is v stable. Android device will hook up to the monitor + speakers and ideally will have ethernet port. Device reliability is of course important.
What the app will do when it receives a message from GUI:
Play videos
Display time
Text/Images
I'm hoping to add customer interaction as well at some point so perhaps use a touchscreen monitor.
If you can recommend any Android device then that would be fantastic!