I had the 'great idea' to hook a monitor, keyboard and mouse to my Atrix HD and use it as a PC (to save $70 month on internet) Problem is, it's HORRIBLE. It goes into some kind of 'Dock' mode, and you can only have 4 icons. Flash player doesn't work in Chrome or Browser, so you have to launch youtube videos in a new window. Plus, all these ****ing "mobile" websites that everyone loves suck, and I can't figure out how to change Chromes user-agent header.
I bought this cable: shop dot teamblackhat dot info Cables_c4.htm
Think I'm going to try and root it and get the wifi hotspot to work.
Does anyone know if there is a way to keep the 'Dock' mode from showing up? It's worse than just the normal phone (which wouldn't be bad)
Forget chrome bro, its oversimplified garbage. With stock browser you only have to set desktop mode once every time you open it, with chome its everytime you open a website + everytime you open the browser.
Also, chrome doesnt have plugin support, you need this flash, and it will work in default browser: Adobe_Flash_Player_11.1.115.17.apk
When the dock notification comes, you should chose charge only so it doesnt switch to clock mode. BTW JB is **** with hdmi, google messed it up.
souljaboy said:
When the dock notification comes, you should chose charge only so it doesnt switch to clock mode. BTW JB is **** with hdmi, google messed it up.
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well mine never shown the dock notification even after rebooting. any way to make it appear ?
smogtdi said:
well mine never shown the dock notification even after rebooting. any way to make it appear ?
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It appears when you connect it, but dont open up the lid.
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It appears when you connect it, but dont open up the lid.
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thanks but none of the settings solved the screwed up display on a lapdock.
But I can't see how it's still ok mirroring to the 2 TVs we have at home.
smogtdi said:
thanks but none of the settings solved the screwed up display on a lapdock.
But I can't see how it's still ok mirroring to the 2 TVs we have at home.
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Seems like they only support 720p and 1080p resolution now...
atrix hd does not support webtop like other motos, so it will only look like a big android screen just like the phone. no tablet mode or anything like that.
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atrix hd does not support webtop like other motos, so it will only look like a big android screen just like the phone. no tablet mode or anything like that.
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I didn't see any reference to webtop. we all asked for true 720p display on the lapdocks.
souljaboy said:
Seems like they only support 720p and 1080p resolution now...
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if it support 720p, we would get a very small black band around the display (as if you plug any other hdmi capable device in the lapdock (like a blue-ray player))
there's something wrong like if they targeted the lapdock on purpose.
My original email was wrote on dec.14.
***** ******* via Email 12/30/2012 10:50 AM
****,
So sorry for the extended response time. We've been working hard on improving our products and services to meet the needs of power users like yourself. You posed an excellent question, referencing your previous email, and currently my engineer team is looking into the HDMI issues you referred to. We are working diligently to locate and resolve any issues we find. I want to thank you for your inquiry and let you know that it is through feedback such as yours we are able to provide a better Motorola experience. We will be glad to provide more info when it's available. Again, Thank you for choosing Motorola.
Best Regards,
*****
Motorola Tech Team
I've already sent another back with some of my recent findings, the guys at s3 forum were of great help(they're having the same letterbox).
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My original email was wrote on dec.14.
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Is there a place where I can send my own comments (like the browser bookmarks mess) ?
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/account/overview
click on it, login, or register if you need to.
when youre logged in, click on the link again, should take you to the "mystuff" page
add a phone, and post question, you can also op-in to be contacted in some developer programs
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I was wondering if anyone had any ideas how to turn the g1 camera into an actual webcam connected to your computer with a USB. I've tried the method of pulling images and streamlining them through ADB, framerate is terrible and just not fast enough. If anyone has any better methods or way of doing this lets get cracking and release something asap
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I was wondering if anyone had any ideas how to turn the g1 camera into an actual webcam connected to your computer with a USB. I've tried the method of pulling images and streamlining them through ADB, framerate is terrible and just not fast enough. If anyone has any better methods or way of doing this lets get cracking and release something asap
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try qik in the market see if that suites ur need
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try qik in the market see if that suites ur need
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He wants to connect it to his computer.
qik works great for that unless you want to stream to a site other than qik.
to clarify yes i get that he wants to use it as a regular webcam for something like stickam...etc, nothing out there to do that yet though.
exactly. I want to actually use it like you would a normal webcam. I dont want to stream to a server. I would rather have it stream to my computer and have applications handle displaying it. We would probably need to create a custom driver for that, but that shouldn't be too difficult if we can first find out a way to send more frames per second then I have a friend that can handle the driver issue.
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qik works great for that unless you want to stream to a site other than qik.
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eleminop said:
qik works great for that unless you want to stream to a site other than qik.
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Did you read his post? haha
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Did you read his post? haha
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i did read the post, there just isn't an app to do that, do you have any suggestions or are you just going to be a smartass all day?
eleminop said:
i did read the post, there just isn't an app to do that, do you have any suggestions or are you just going to be a smartass all day?
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Instead of suggesting an app that isn't doing what he asked for, why not say there is no app for that yet?
I can be a smartass all I want, can you be intelligible?
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I can be a smartass all I want
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yes. clearly.
there is a thread asking people for app ideas on xda. I'm sure if you post something there they'll be able to help you a little more
i managed to do it using Screencast here is a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McI3qfkFFH4
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i managed to do it using Screencast here is a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McI3qfkFFH4
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If that's true (and from the looks of it I guess it is) then that would be AWESOME!! ..do share with others how you managed to do that!!
Using screencast does work, but it still has an issue with low frames.
For this you need either Droidexplorer (which is what i am using) or Screencast, and the SDK setup.
Open screencast, turn phone camera on, screencast has a record feature.
More info on making this happen would be greatly appreciated!
i didnt use recording, it was streamed live, i cant remember on how to do it, i will have a look at my computer when i get home! and yes the frame rate is pretty poor but when i use the webcam i hardly move so its alright
ok so how to do it first of all let me tell you that you have to have the phone showing on the desktop because screencast shows your phone on your desktop and screencamera shows your desktop as a webcam so if you cant see it, screencamera cant see it!
1. you need to get screencast showing what is on your phone;
get it via:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=558108
or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=557717
2. download and install screencamera:
http://www.pcwinsoft.com/ScreenCamera/download.asp
3. open screencast and put your phone on the camera application (you can still use the phone don't have to struggle doing it on the computer)
4. open screencamera
go into configuration and change the frame rate to what is appropriate to screencast, i think at the moment its 4fps
go to video output an change the frame size to what you like, i have it at 320 x 420 and have the phone set horizonally on screencast (by right clicking on screencast)
(make sure you have screencast where you want it as you will have to do this step again if you want to move it and make sure you can see it) click on "select region of desktop to capture" and highlight the screen of the camera
done, skype will now see it as that selected area of the desktop as a webcam i cannot confirm if any other application will see it but they should
I believe i was able to capture a livecast event with Video Lan player
Livecast is available for android I believe but i squite the same as quick.
Only livecast made wmv-files.
just tried qik, didn't like it because it didnt have a portrait mode.
wish somebody would make an app for this it would be so much more easyer
i dont like qik cause u have to go to there web site i want to be able to connect my g1 though aim or yahoo web cam
http://home.leakdroid.com/2009/10/06/fresh-leak-moto-phone-portal-for-android-coming-w-sholestaodroid/
Pretty cool. Works with my G1 and Cyanogen 4.1.99. Try it out.
http://rapidshare.com/files/305341350/PersonalPortal.apk
Recently some of the system dumps from the upcoming Motorola Sholes/Tao/Droid hit the Developer community, and they have been trying to piece the puzzle together of what the Motorola Sholes/Tao/Droid is all about. We got our hands on a new app which looks like it will be front and center when the device finally hits the shelves, Motorola Phone Portal.
Those that remember using the Motorola Phone Tools app to hack their Motorola’s back in the day (I’m getting all “Ahmad – Back in the Day” about my v600, v810, and RAZR) will instantly recognize this little gem, but it’s been updated for Android and provides some pretty cool functionality. Basically, Motorola Phone Tools (MPP) serves as an all-in-one phone manager that allows users to easily view, edit, create, delete, and play their contacts, ringtones, photos, wallpaper, and media. The key difference now is, the app is web-based and you log into your phone from directly from your browser! No installing “modems” and drivers on your Windows machine (painful), just fire up the app and press the “Connect with Wi-Fi button. When you press the button, the app prompts you to either turn on Wi-Fi, or connect over USB. For this experiment, I chose Wi-Fi.
MPP lets you add/edit/delete/browse your contacts, photos, bookmarks, browser history, and media in an easy-to-use interface. Playing media directly from the device in the browser worked very well, and the picture viewer/slideshow feature is pretty damn cool. So with MPP you’ll be able to play/show-off your media anywhere from any browser. If Moto adds a Social/Sharing aspect to this, they will have a winner on their hands.
So there you have it kids, a little taste of what’s to come with the Sholes/Tao/Droid. The original Moto Phone Tools was a pretty handy app (when it worked), and the new MPP looks to be just as functional, if not more so. I am sure it will help a lot of users manage their contacts/media/content when it gets released, and the ability to do slideshows and play media from your device directly from your browser is pretty slick. I hope Moto adds more features and functionality to it as time goes on, but this seems like a sign of good things to come. Grab the .apk file below and play away!
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Doesn't work on my hero
It asks to activate wi-fi even if it is already active. Tried to start-stop wifi before and after i opened the application. any guess?
Thank you!!
Ok, I figured how to make it working, the phone must be connected to a network to be used, but I though it creates an ad-hoc wi-fi connection to work with.
BTW great app!
This thing is great. I wonder why more people aren't interested in this....
Sounds cool, I'm going to test this out later
pretty slick...
Nice that you can mange contacts and view the contents of your sdcard etc. Similar to AFile and others but a bit more "moto". Could be neat! I imagine that the majority of users would never set up a secure login though, could be fun to sit in a crowded bar and scan for active devices running this on port 8080. Imagine the havoc that could wreak!
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I imagine that the majority of users would never set up a secure login though, could be fun to sit in a crowded bar and scan for active devices running this on port 8080. Imagine the havoc that could wreak!
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I did set up a password. Though it looks like it still does not use https ! So not really secure either....
Some bizarre renderings on Firefox, but it's a simple and cool way to administer your phone from your computer.
suppaman said:
It asks to activate wi-fi even if it is already active. Tried to start-stop wifi before and after i opened the application. any guess?
Thank you!!
Ok, I figured how to make it working, the phone must be connected to a network to be used, but I though it creates an ad-hoc wi-fi connection to work with.
BTW great app!
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USB doesn't work on my G1. Wifi does though. Wonder if its the Hero rom or the drivers causing the issue??
cesarcardoso said:
Some bizarre renderings on Firefox, but it's a simple and cool way to administer your phone from your computer.
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Renders nice on my FF.
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USB doesn't work on my G1. Wifi does though. Wonder if its the Hero rom or the drivers causing the issue??
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Stock MyTouch here. Wifi only as well.
any chance someone can re-upload this, seems its been deleted.
Working link: http://www.mediafire.com/?qnryyjmmjiz
This is such a useful app!
Cool! Thanks for the download/headsup!
does this connect via USB or only wifi?
What does this do exactly? I have to connect to my wifi network and make sure the computer is connected and then what?
Is there a specific process to join the phone and the comp together?
I tried using a remote desktop client but didn't figure out how to get it working, is this the same?
alexnick said:
Working link: http://www.mediafire.com/?qnryyjmmjiz
This is such a useful app!
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no worky
meanmachine said:
no worky
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reupped, check first post
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reupped, check first post
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thanks, ended up just downloading the milestone dump and getting it...
works good with cyan 4.2.4
For some reason I can't get it to work right on the G-Tablet, it does however work beautifully with my phone. Anyone else try doing it yet? You have to access g-mail via your web browser.
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cloudprint.html
http://code.google.com/apis/cloudprint/docs/overview.html
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For some reason I can't get it to work right on the G-Tablet, it does however work beautifully with my phone. Anyone else try doing it yet? You have to access g-mail via your web browser.
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cloudprint.html
http://code.google.com/apis/cloudprint/docs/overview.html
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Does this differ much from printershare?
IMHO it is completely different. I was able to get this working on my gtab running VEGAn in about 5 minutes, and it allows me to print to any printer that is connected to any computer that i have access to, regardless of how that printer is connected to that computer.
Oh yeah...it is free too
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IMHO it is completely different. I was able to get this working on my gtab running VEGAn in about 5 minutes, and it allows me to print to any printer that is connected to any computer that i have access to, regardless of how that printer is connected to that computer.
Oh yeah...it is free too
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Printershare also connect to any printer attached to my computer as well, the free part is interesting since printershare is free for a certain amount of pages and all. guess ill give it a shot. thanks for the info.
I just used Google Cloud Print on my Samsung Captivate and hope to check it out on my new GTab tonight! Thanks for the info! I had not yet heard about it. It will be nice when Google updates some of their Apps (such as the Gmail App and the stock browser) to support Cloud Print!
good cloud print is awesome much better than paying for printer share after all the free pages it gives you to print which isnt much, hope more sites/pages will be supported thanks for the advice.
So have you guys got it to work from your G-tab ok? I always have problems in the stock browser with G-mail.
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IMHO it is completely different. I was able to get this working on my gtab running VEGAn in about 5 minutes, and it allows me to print to any printer that is connected to any computer that i have access to, regardless of how that printer is connected to that computer.
Oh yeah...it is free too
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How did you get it setup?
I have Vegan running, and just wondering how you got it setup.
Thanks
works great on my original droid however your right wont work with the stock browser or with dolphin browser on the gtab, however there is an app in the market called "cloud print" looks like that one works on the gtab
"Cloud Print Beta"?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pauloslf.cloudprint&feature=search_result
I'm going to check it out real quick. According to the web marketplace, it is compatible with the GTab.
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"Cloud Print Beta"?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pauloslf.cloudprint&feature=search_result
I'm going to check it out real quick. According to the web marketplace, it is compatible with the GTab.
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yes, cloud print beta
I installed it, went thru the login process, sent a test page from the app. ... and... Nothing.
EDIT: I rebooted my GTab, still no go. But I can't get my Hero to print either. Weird.
EDIT #2: I went to manage my printers and see a job under the "Active Print Jobs", but nothing in the Completed area and nothing in my tray.
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works great on my original droid however your right wont work with the stock browser or with dolphin browser on the gtab, however there is an app in the market called "cloud print" looks like that one works on the gtab
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Awesome thanks man!
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I installed it, went thru the login process, sent a test page from the app. ... and... Nothing.
EDIT: I rebooted my GTab, still no go. But I can't get my Hero to print either. Weird.
EDIT #2: I went to manage my printers and see a job under the "Active Print Jobs", but nothing in the Completed area and nothing in my tray.
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Very stupid question and no offense is the printer on? and setup with the computer that google cloud chrome is installed on? like i said no offense but u'd be amazed how many people have printer issues at work and the printers arent on lol.
dragonfly1113 said:
Very stupid question and no offense is the printer on? and setup with the computer that google cloud chrome is installed on? like i said no offense but u'd be amazed how many people have printer issues at work and the printers arent on lol.
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LOL! None taken.
Yes. Everything is on, registered, etc. I think the issue lies within the PC. It's 64bit (I hate x64) and it appears I can't load the Microsoft XML paper specification pack that is required (LINK, under "Why is my document not printing?").
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LOL! None taken.
Yes. Everything is on, registered, etc. I think the issue lies within the PC. It's 64bit (I hate x64) and it appears I can't load the Microsoft XML paper specification pack that is required (LINK, under "Why is my document not printing?").
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ill test the print from my gtab when i get home just found the app earlier today and it seemed like it would work the way i was setting it up it found all my printers and all but looks like u got that far too, i'd test now from here but the printer is off at home lol.
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ill test the print from my gtab when i get home just found the app earlier today and it seemed like it would work the way i was setting it up it found all my printers and all but looks like u got that far too, i'd test now from here but the printer is off at home lol.
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Roger that. Thanks in advance.
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Roger that. Thanks in advance.
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tested last night and it printed the test page fine for me from the gtab, also than printed a pic and it came out nice.
Crappy. I'll try sending something to my home printer. I think there's an issue with my work PC being x64.
I wonder if it works with Cute PDF printer?
It works now. I rebooted my work PC, came back from lunch and had a tray full of stuff. It also works with Cute PDF printer!
Since im not a dev, i dont have the chops to figure this out.... but I would definately donate to a dev that can figure this out.
Is hdmi mirroring possible?
in build.prop theres this:
ro.hdmi.mirror.enable=false
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changing the first line to true WORKS only at boot, it correctly mirrors what you see on your phone. but once the phone is done booting, it kicks the TV to a black screen and the phone asks you if you want to open up the entertainment app or do nothing.
So mirroring is there, its just blocked by something on boot.
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changing the first line to true WORKS only at boot, it correctly mirrors what you see on your phone. but once the phone is done booting, it kicks the TV to a black screen and the phone asks you if you want to open up the entertainment app or do nothing.
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Have you tried disabling webtop? It sounds like the app takes over control of the HDMI port once started.
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Have you tried disabling webtop? It sounds like the app takes over control of the HDMI port once started.
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how do you do that?
omg yes how do you do that. please, thank you thank you thank you. they're such assholes for blocking this very basic task and wanting you to buy the stupid dock
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omg yes how do you do that. please, thank you thank you thank you. they're such assholes for blocking this very basic task and wanting you to buy the stupid dock
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Sorry, I just ordered my phone, so I don't have one to tinker with yet. But maybe you can use titanium backup to freeze the app. If it doesn't show up as an app, maybe you can use autostarts to try and stop it. Finally, the last idea I have is to poke around in the init scripts to find the offending app. All of this is just speculation, but since you can see mirroring at bootup I think it is pretty clear that the webtop app is causing the issue.
I can confirm this. It boots to the homescreens. I got to unlock and touch a widget. Then it disappeared, the box came up asking if I wanted to connect to the entertainment center.
I back through my apps with titanium backup and froze anything regarding hdmi. The entertainment box went away, but it still takes away hdmi mirroring.
I didn't have any results with autostarts either, but I don't really know what to look for.
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Tried to freeze up some services with Titanium backup - no luck so far.
There is something happening during the boot process which disables the mirroring.
Tried this also. Same results.
I went into Titanium Backup and deleted the Entertainment Center application as well as a couple of other ones I thought might be the reason. But, it still switched off to a black screen after a few seconds.
Any updates on this?
I still don't have a phone yet, but I had another realization.
When you plug in the HDMI cord, the phone pops up with options regarding what to display. i.e. the webtop or the entertainment center. Ergo, something lower in the OS than the webtop is blocking the HDMI port.
However, my thought is, rather than block this, we need to figure out how to make another entry in this list. So the options read, webtop, entertainment, and mirroring.
Unfortunately this may require waiting for Moto to release the code. It will also require someone with coding skill. I for one have never worked with Android and have very poor experience with even Java.
This subject is being killed all over the forums in different threads. The hdmi is being toggled for different apps like webtop or media. The config is the other part that supports the hdmi app service options. We have dumped the apk into smalli and have confirmed this.
There is devs working on webtop without dock and it maybe beneficial to combine these efforts to support display mirroring... just a thought
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Any updates on this?
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Any updates on this?
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There is no need for dedicated mirroring now that you can launch the webtop without the dock.
You can run mobile view full screen once you launch webtop.... and alas, you have HDMI mirroring.
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There is no need for dedicated mirroring now that you can launch the webtop without the dock.
You can run mobile view full screen once you launch webtop.... and alas, you have HDMI mirroring.
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Can i just run mirroring?
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There is no need for dedicated mirroring now that you can launch the webtop without the dock.
You can run mobile view full screen once you launch webtop.... and alas, you have HDMI mirroring.
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Well thats not fully correct, if you launch a app that has on screen buttons like games or emulators..you cant use or play them using the phone as these dont show up on phone.
so we could still do with mirroring for atrix
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There is no need for dedicated mirroring now that you can launch the webtop without the dock.
You can run mobile view full screen once you launch webtop.... and alas, you have HDMI mirroring.
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Can i just run mirroring?
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As of now the best solution is to do what leadguy68 suggested. I don't think any dev is working on it. It is just not worth it since what you want to accomplish can be done with just one additional mouse click after enabling webtop.
If I am wrong and any devs are still working on this, please ignore this thread, otherwise it is prudent to close this thread. Or maybe OP can state this in the first post so that people stop asking about HDMI mirroring.
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As of now the best solution is to do what leadguy68 suggested. I don't think any dev is working on it. It is just not worth it since what you want to accomplish can be done with just one additional mouse click after enabling webtop.
If I am wrong and any devs are still working on this, please ignore this thread, otherwise it is prudent to close this thread. Or maybe OP can state this in the first post so that people stop asking about HDMI mirroring.
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I think it's dumb to end a thread because YOU aren't interested in something. I think it'd be a damn good idea to get mirroring running. The webtop mirror is laggy, and I want to play a real game of angry birds on a 100" screen, lol. Keep the work up, if anyone is working on it. I'll keep trying on my end to get it working.
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I think it's dumb to end a thread because YOU aren't interested in something. I think it'd be a damn good idea to get mirroring running. The webtop mirror is laggy, and I want to play a real game of angry birds on a 100" screen, lol. Keep the work up, if anyone is working on it. I'll keep trying on my end to get it working.
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exactly. mirroring is still highly sought after. Like another said earlier, for people who want to run emulators, you're sol with the webtop, theres no onscreen buttons AND you cant use your wii-mote while in webtop mode.
Agreed. Still very much needed for games. Web top game emulation is laggy.
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Hey all!
I've had the tab for a while and its pretty much been with me for UNI alot more than my laptop.
I don't do much word processing, but alot of PDF reading. Sometimes I'd need to have 2-3 PDFs open (e.g one is the assignment question and one is reference). It's a real hassle having to open and close a PDF and also scroll back to were I was before.
I've read the Notion ink has "panels" where things are open at the same time... but that is a whole ROM thing. Any ideas?
Also, having seen the HP touchpad and pre phones, that "tap to share" feature is cool. I know its more a hardware thing, but I also know there is an app called bump which sends pics via bumping the devices.
Thing is, you need to be online for that. I'd usually tether my phone so that my tab has internet, but is there an equivalent using bluetooth? Bump to send anything would be nice!
Thanks in advance!
FC1032 said:
Hey all!
I've had the tab for a while and its pretty much been with me for UNI alot more than my laptop.
I don't do much word processing, but alot of PDF reading. Sometimes I'd need to have 2-3 PDFs open (e.g one is the assignment question and one is reference). It's a real hassle having to open and close a PDF and also scroll back to were I was before.
I've read the Notion ink has "panels" where things are open at the same time... but that is a whole ROM thing. Any ideas?
Also, having seen the HP touchpad and pre phones, that "tap to share" feature is cool. I know its more a hardware thing, but I also know there is an app called bump which sends pics via bumping the devices.
Thing is, you need to be online for that. I'd usually tether my phone so that my tab has internet, but is there an equivalent using bluetooth? Bump to send anything would be nice!
Thanks in advance!
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There's an app in the market that allows you to transfer files from one device to another, its called:
Bluetooth File Transfer - Medieval Software
geoyakult said:
There's an app in the market that allows you to transfer files from one device to another, its called:
Bluetooth File Transfer - Medieval Software
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Thanks for that
Any idea how to read 2 or more PDFs? I don't mean side to side (though that would be nice), even if I can just jump between two without reloading and all would be good enough
FC1032 said:
Thanks for that
Any idea how to read 2 or more PDFs? I don't mean side to side (though that would be nice), even if I can just jump between two without reloading and all would be good enough
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No problem.
Don't think there's an app on android as of yet on reading 2 PDF's at the same time, think there's a one in the Appstore (kno) but obviously that won't work on the Galaxy tab or any other android devices.
FC1032 said:
Thanks for that
Any idea how to read 2 or more PDFs? I don't mean side to side (though that would be nice), even if I can just jump between two without reloading and all would be good enough
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Well you can use 2 different pdf readers, and you can switch with the home button, by long pressing then chose the reader.
Hope it helps.
aibo said:
Well you can use 2 different pdf readers, and you can switch with the home button, by long pressing then chose the reader.
Hope it helps.
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I actually just thought of that today too! I had repligo reader open and thought i might be able to open another PDF in adobe
I haven't exactly tried it, but I'll be back to report
I don't know if it will directly help or not, but there are apps that let you tether through Bluetooth. If I am not mistaken, PDAnet is one such app.