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Hello folks,
I'm interested in buying a galaxy tab 7" with 3G for my wife, to replace her kindle 3. She fell in love with it in a store, after seeing the ebook app, in which you can bookmark and highlight text.
Question is: Is there an app that does the same for PDFs?
BTW, is there any way to send video to another screen? I know there is no HDMI output, but maybe there there is another way to do it...
i recommend u to read this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=815981
apeine said:
Hello folks,
I'm interested in buying a galaxy tab 7" with 3G for my wife, to replace her kindle 3. She fell in love with it in a store, after seeing the ebook app, in which you can bookmark and highlight text.
Question is: Is there an app that does the same for PDFs?
BTW, is there any way to send video to another screen? I know there is no HDMI output, but maybe there there is another way to do it...
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the samsung dock has hdmi out for the tab.
I'm interested in buying a galaxy tab 7" with 3G for my wife, to replace her kindle 3. She fell in love with it in a store, after seeing the ebook app, in which you can bookmark and highlight text.
Question is: Is there an app that does the same for PDFs?
BTW, is there any way to send video to another screen? I know there is no HDMI output, but maybe there there is another way to do it...
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1- got to Android store , there are some great PDF tools that will allow that an more
2- Yes, several wired (via HDMI) and wireless...Search the forum, BTW I love the ebook app but sadly in my case is slow to load and highlight etc... does not respond that well, not a biggie since ATM i use moon reader that have lost of customizations and likes Calibre in the desktop also there are many more in the market, as ebook, PDF, comic reader.... the tab is great
For pdf, Repligo is the best...its paid but lets you make notes, underlines, editing...
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EasyPDF is another option for PDF annotation.
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... also BeamReader - at least I like it. Fast enough, text view mode, free trial.
You can send your entire screen to another video device. As a teacher I send my screen and audio to my lcd projector and soundsystem using an rca cable I got from ebay for $24. The hdmi through the dock only outputs some things like movies.
There are several vnc apps in the market to set up a screen share.
rangercaptain said:
You can send your entire screen to another video device. As a teacher I send my screen and audio to my lcd projector and soundsystem using an rca cable I got from ebay for $24. The hdmi through the dock only outputs some things like movies.
There are several vnc apps in the market to set up a screen share.
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Where did you buy it?
Is there any accessories, which should I order to connect my Nexus 7 to video projector (HDMI, VGA)?
I thought there was a USB to HDMI cable somewhere... i found it in a other post.
dont have a link..
I was under the assumption the N7 has no video out support?
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You mean anything like this http://www.amazon.com/Menotek-Adapter-IMPROVED-Protocol-Sensation/dp/B005F9W6DU?
So it seems it will not work http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/29/3127278/nexus-7-mhl-usb-otg
Did't know that.. like other things about the N7
so i dont have to order this.
I was hoping it would have usb host aka usb on the go so that I could hook up my Canon DSLR and use this as a remote shutter/video screen for shooting advanced movies etc. It was more of a side wish, but not a killing point, however I really do hope future firmwares would include this.
I'm guessing google don't want any video out accessory because they plan on selling the Nexus Q
no MHL and no HDMI.
basically there is no video-out on the device. sucks but true.
No MHL
Not having MHL support and no support to external HDD/pen drive was a big disappointment indeed.
For the lack of MHL, there might be soon a great alternative: Android Transporter software + Raspberry Pi
For external HDD/pen drive support, I'm sure someone will figure out a solution soon
maizein said:
For external HDD/pen drive support, I'm sure someone will figure out a solution soon
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Uhh, it's been figured out for a long time. Root and use Stickmount
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Uhh, it's been figured out for a long time. Root and use Stickmount
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Yup watched a movie off an external HDD today.
Quick video I put together about some neat options for limitless storage on the Nexus 7. I was going to do a write-up in this thread but the video is fast-paced enough that I'm not going to bother for now, perhaps tomorrow when I'm less busy I'll do a text write-up of it all.
Great video.
I'm currently exploring storage options for my Nexus tablet and I didn't know about the cifs storage. Too bad that it doesn't work on the stock kernel though.
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Could you makea video showing how to set up cifs manager for noobs? I think it would be very beneficial for the nexus 7 community.
Thanks.
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"Save app to flash drive with OTG"
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Quick video I put together about some neat options for limitless storage on the Nexus 7. I was going to do a write-up in this thread but the video is fast-paced enough that I'm not going to bother for now, perhaps tomorrow when I'm less busy I'll do a text write-up of it all.
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Thank you for the video. I learned a lot. I'm new to xda and I've been looking for the answer to this question everywhere, but have yet to find it. I bought a 64gb sandisk cruzer usb drive to use with my otg cable with the stickmount app. Because of limited storage, I was wondering if I could actually save installed applications to the flash drive. In other words, if I can use a feature similar to "save to sd card" for apps, but have the apps save to my flashdrive. If anyone could make a video or just type up a response, I would really appreciate it.
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Thank you for the video. I learned a lot. I'm new to xda and I've been looking for the answer to this question everywhere, but have yet to find it. I bought a 64gb sandisk cruzer usb drive to use with my otg cable with the stickmount app. Because of limited storage, I was wondering if I could actually save installed applications to the flash drive. In other words, if I can use a feature similar to "save to sd card" for apps, but have the apps save to my flashdrive. If anyone could make a video or just type up a response, I would really appreciate it.
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The one solution I can think of (and I'll test it once I get home) is to use symlinks. I'll see if that sort of solution works with stickmount.
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Quick video I put together about some neat options for limitless storage on the Nexus 7. I was going to do a write-up in this thread but the video is fast-paced enough that I'm not going to bother for now, perhaps tomorrow when I'm less busy I'll do a text write-up of it all.
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Neat video I was considering the portable wifi drive now for a while but with that third option you mentioned that sounds pretty promising and that would make storage much easier.
What was the name of the app for the 3rd option? Couldn't find it in the play store.
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What was the name of the app for the 3rd option? Couldn't find it in the play store.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ws.plattner.cifsmanager
I'm going to put together a tutorial tomorrow on getting cifsmanager set up.
Which OTG cable are you using? Where did you get it?
Thanks for the info! Was wondering how you are making your network share accessible over the internet when you say that your network share is web facing. Is there an easy way to set this up in DDWRT, or is this with a VPN connection of some sort? Thanks!
-haryy
Nice video. My daughter tried to repeat the word "****" though...
I'll have to use a headset for any of your videos I guess.
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Thanks for the info! Was wondering how you are making your network share accessible over the internet when you say that your network share is web facing. Is there an easy way to set this up in DDWRT, or is this with a VPN connection of some sort? Thanks!
-haryy
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I'll be doing a video this evening outlining the entire process for getting cifsmanager and your share set up. It's especially easy with dd-wrt, though!
Stay tuned!
EDIT: Didn't have a chance to shoot that second tutorial today. I'll make sure to put aside time to do it tomorrow.
Hi all!
I want to open this thread because I don't understand why Samsung galaxy tab can read USB drive without root permission using its file explorer, while nexus 7 need to be root!
What is the difference between them?
Why nexus need it?
Can never been a ROMs that can solve this problem?
Tnx guys
First off, you don't need root to use OTG to read a flash drive with a Nexus 7. You need the proper cable and the Nexus 7-specific app from the Play Store. Secondly, the difference between the nexus and the Tab is they are made by different companies. Google has a reason for this, they want you to buy multimedia content from the Play Store. That's why they sell the Nexus at cost or at a loss because they make it up on sales from their Play Store. Samsung gets nothing when you buy stuff from the Play Store so they don't care if you have access to other media with the Tab. They make their money on the device and it is significantly more expensive for that reason.
Couldn't have possibly said it better myself, spot on.
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First off, you don't need root to use OTG to read a flash drive with a Nexus 7. You need the proper cable and the Nexus 7-specific app from the Play Store. Secondly, the difference between the nexus and the Tab is they are made by different companies. Google has a reason for this, they want you to buy multimedia content from the Play Store. That's why they sell the Nexus at cost or at a loss because they make it up on sales from their Play Store. Samsung gets nothing when you buy stuff from the Play Store so they don't care if you have access to other media with the Tab. They make their money on the device and it is significantly more expensive for that reason.
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But stick mount needs root permission, doesn't it?
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You don't need Stickmount to access a USB drive with an OTG cable, which is what the OP is asking about.
well, you can see usb drives in the usbdisk folder but you cant edit the stuff, even with stickmount i cant delete files from my externel ddd
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^That may be true, but the OP only asked about being able to read a USB drive. With the setup I referred to earlier I can at least copy from the USB device to my Nexus. My primary reason for reading a USB drive is so I can take music and movies with me when I travel without having to sacrifice storage space on my Nexus to do so.:good:
first of all, tnx you guys for replyes!
so, you say that I can read usb drive without root's permission, but it is true if i buy the nexus manager app!
so is a problem of kernel or android rom?
https://plus.google.com/107130354111162483072/posts/bc1TZChjhRE
Installed it on my NeoTV Prime and it works great with YouTube videos cast from my Samsung Galaxy S3.
EDIT: Well egg on my face. Seems it was not CheapCast that was sending YouTube to my NeoTV Prime. YouTube will cast to my NeoTV Prime without CheapCast even installed. If anyone has Netflix and NeoTV Prime could you confirm this as working for you?
EDIT. The new update to CheapCast will not run on NeoTV Prime. Causes Force Close.
Waiting on Chrome Tab support now.
EDIT. Chrome can see any device that I have CheapCast running on (Galaxy Tab 2.7 and MK802IIIs) and both respond to a Cast from Chrome but nothing plays and Chrome errors out shortly. Both the Tab and MK802IIIs are running the updated CheapCast.
EDIT. I can cast YouTube video from my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.7 to my MK802IIIs most of the time. Sometimes complains about taking too long to play but for the most part works OK>
What's this supposed to do?
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What's this supposed to do?
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Emulate a chromecast on other android devices.
Since it's beta I figure you want feedback. Here is my setup: Source: Galaxy Note 2. Server: Galaxy Tab 10.1
I started sending a YouTube video. It started but after 20 seconds I got a continual spinning circle on both the source and server.
So, I shut down the server app on the tablet by pressing the stop server button. However, even though it was shutdown on the tablet it would play that 20 seconds of YouTube over and over again. I couldn't figure out where it was playing. It didn't show up in the app, it didn't show up in the YouTube app, nowhere. I could just hear that video playing in the background. I finally reboot the tablet to stop it.
Don't mean to be an ass, but what's the point of this? Do we really need to use our phones as a "remote control" for our tablets?
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Think of those Android dongles that you already hook up to a tv. Yes they have native apps but being able to control them quickly is a plus.
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michaelg1030 said:
Don't mean to be an ass, but what's the point of this? Do we really need to use our phones as a "remote control" for our tablets?
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Think it through. Most of us have an extra, old Android phone laying around. Just buy a $5 MHL cable and connect to your TV. Now you have a Chromecast for $5. If nothing else, it will hold you over until Amazon gets them back in stock.
michaelg1030 said:
Don't mean to be an ass, but what's the point of this? Do we really need to use our phones as a "remote control" for our tablets?
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It depends on your usage scenario.
For instance, I have an old Android phone plugged into the aux input on a stereo, which I use to stream music. The phone is less-than-accessible, so it'd be great to be able to control it remotely from my phone.
In my living room, I have an old Google TV (The Revue), which Google isn't going to be adding support for casting to. Being able to queue up music and such from my phone would be nice, but what will be nicer is when apps that don't have Google TV versions add Chromecast support. HBO Go, for instance. I think that's the place this helps the most, allowing you to use phone/tablet media apps on older Google TV devices, and some backwards compatibility scenarios (Imagine HBO Go only supports Jellybean, and your tablet can only run Ice Cream Sandwich).
Imagine having this app on something like a Kindle Fire, where it might allow you to stream media from an application that's unavailable in your sandbox (which is really the same situation as Google TV and outdated versions of Android).
Also, considering Chromecast can be added to iOS, imagine there are apps available only for iOS that support Chromecast. You could use this to get whatever they provide onto an Android device. Essentially, it's useful in a number of various situations where (1) the target device doesn't support something your phone does (2) the target device is less accessible than your phone is (3) the target device is more visible than your phone is.
Heck, it's even somewhat useful to be able to send media to a tablet without having to pick the tablet up. I have a Nexus 7 sitting in a stand, plugged into the charging cable, paired with some Bluetooth headphones. The charging cable on the Nexus 7 is very, very short, so I have to unplug the device every time I pick it up. So, there's some small convenience to be had even in the phone-to-tablet scenario.
michaelg1030 said:
Don't mean to be an ass, but what's the point of this? Do we really need to use our phones as a "remote control" for our tablets?
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msm903 said:
Think of those Android dongles that you already hook up to a tv. Yes they have native apps but being able to control them quickly is a plus.
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EXACTLY! I only got one Chromecast before they were sold out. But I have an Android stick/dongle on the other TV. By turning that on, I can cast to it OR the Chromecast on the other TV. Can't wait to try it!
I am curious if this emulator is hindered by the same API restrictions as the actual Chrome Cast? If not, that would make this very interesting.
I am guessing it will probably be hindered instead by lack of proprietary binaries... Netflix and so on. It should be easy to support non-Google-approved features like what Koush has been working on, though.
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In my opinion the nice thing would be to have the ability to cast content instead of stream content.
What I mean is that aside from sending a movie from our phone/tablet/computer to the "cheapcasted device" (streaming), it would be nice to open a movie on netflix/youtube/vimeo/ on our phone/tablet/computer and tell the "cheapcasted device" tablet to download it directly from the servers of the video site (without needing to stream anything from one device to another)
Can anyone confirm whether Cheapcast used UDP multicast to identify it on a network? I have an Asus tf700 that doesn't show up on my main router(linksys e4200v2). Ifi connect to my secondary router I can see it if my phone is on the same 2nd router. Chromecast works fine on my primary router and is visible from both devices. It is only visible from devices on my secondary device if it is directly hooked up to the 2nd device.
Do note my primary router works as the dhcp server while the second one is a reapeter bridge.
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titooo7 said:
In my opinion the nice thing would be to have the ability to cast content instead of stream content.
What I mean is that aside from sending a movie from our phone/tablet/computer to the "cheapcasted device" (streaming), it would be nice to open a movie on netflix/youtube/vimeo/ on our phone/tablet/computer and tell the "cheapcasted device" tablet to download it directly from the servers of the video site (without needing to stream anything from one device to another)
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Unless I am totally confused my your post you have it backwards. When you cast something, for example you are in Youtube, select a video then cast it to Chromecast (or CheapCast) your phone is just telling the device to stream it from the Internet. You phone is basically done at that point. Once the SDK is offical there will be apps that allow you to cast a local video in which Chromecast (CheapCast) will stream it from your phone...
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Unless I am totally confused my your post you have it backwards. When you cast something, for example you are in Youtube, select a video then cast it to Chromecast (or CheapCast) your phone is just telling the device to stream it from the Internet. You phone is basically done at that point. Once the SDK is offical there will be apps that allow you to cast a local video in which Chromecast (CheapCast) will stream it from your phone...
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Yeah that's what I mean. Maybe I didn't explained it properly.
I'm more interested on casting a video from youtube, netflix and similar sites than streaming a local video to the cheapcasted device.
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Anyone who could be kind to post the latest chromecast app (1.1.2)
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Sld I sell my chromecast and install cheapcast on my android pc stick and use it as an alternative?
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jessesam said:
Sld I sell my chromecast and install cheapcast on my android pc stick and use it as an alternative?
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Test first. I can't get Netflix or AMZ Prime to cast on Cheapcast, so far.
Anyone managed to Get Koush' Allcast to stream to Cheapcast?
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