Is there a way to take a screen shot of a video being played on any of the video players on the Samsung galaxy note. For non rooted phones please. I have tried using spen for various players but just get a blank screen shot for videos.
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You cannot, not unless you can convince your player to use software rendering as opposed to overlays.
If you need one frame only from video, there is nice app from market: Frame grabber.
gabyteodor said:
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I have tried pausing and also without pausing and spen / slide of hand / home button +power button for screen shot with stock player / dice player / mxplayer pro, but always end with just the blank frame apart from seeing buttons of player.
inkanyamba said:
You cannot, not unless you can convince your player to use software rendering as opposed to overlays.
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I have tried software and hardware decoding modes for mxplayer but makes no difference and end with just blank frame for video screen shot.
GPSSerbia said:
If you need one frame only from video, there is nice app from market: Frame grabber.
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Yes just need one frame for taking screenshot for labelling parts etc for powerpoint slides for teaching purposes. For example any teaching videos of procedures or ultrasound scan guided interventional procedures if I have a video but I need a frame at various stages to label the parts and use that frame as powerpoint slide. Will try the frame grabber you mentioned. Thanks.
Screencast on your Note Smartphone possible, but...
bubblesmoney said:
Is there a way to take a screen shot of a video being played on any of the video players on the Samsung galaxy note. For non rooted phones please. I have tried using spen for various players but just get a blank screen shot for videos.
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Screecasts without root access my experience, are almost impossible. There are options to root your phone.With Stockrom by Samsung you get problems. With a CustomROM CM 4.2.2 it´s working fine. The color error you also get solved. Watch PsionparkVideo on Youtube and search for "Screencast color failure corrected "
jebman said:
Screecasts without root access my experience, are almost impossible. There are options to root your phone.With Stockrom by Samsung you get problems. With a CustomROM CM 4.2.2 it´s working fine. The color error you also get solved. Watch PsionparkVideo on Youtube and search for "Screencast color failure corrected "
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found a solution for my needs, i use the sony framegrabber app to get screen grabs on any video that i play (but need to download video first). have been using it for a while now, forgot to reply here earlier.
When I first got my Chromecast, I was able to play a video (on hulu for example) in fullscreen mode, then alt tab back to Chrome so I could still use my laptop while casting to the TV in full screen.
In the past week, it no longer works. When I alt tab, it automatically goes out of full screen mode. So now I have to have my laptop playing the video in fullscreen if I want to cast it in fullscreen to the TV.
I can't find anything in my searches about this happening to anyone else when I google the problem. Has anyone else run across this issue?
Thanks
swillard said:
When I first got my Chromecast, I was able to play a video (on hulu for example) in fullscreen mode, then alt tab back to Chrome so I could still use my laptop while casting to the TV in full screen.
In the past week, it no longer works. When I alt tab, it automatically goes out of full screen mode. So now I have to have my laptop playing the video in fullscreen if I want to cast it in fullscreen to the TV.
I can't find anything in my searches about this happening to anyone else when I google the problem. Has anyone else run across this issue?
Thanks
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Sorry, it works fine for me, and I have the latest update. Maybe reinstall?
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Sorry, it works fine for me, and I have the latest update. Maybe reinstall?
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What do I reinstall? I've reinstalled the cast extension and that didn't fix it. I have the most current version of Chrome. I can only thing to uninstall and reinstall Chrome to see if that fixes the problem.
swillard said:
What do I reinstall? I've reinstalled the cast extension and that didn't fix it. I have the most current version of Chrome. I can only thing to uninstall and reinstall Chrome to see if that fixes the problem.
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I don't know, I don't have the problem.
What about Flash?
swillard said:
When I first got my Chromecast, I was able to play a video (on hulu for example) in fullscreen mode, then alt tab back to Chrome so I could still use my laptop while casting to the TV in full screen.
In the past week, it no longer works. When I alt tab, it automatically goes out of full screen mode. So now I have to have my laptop playing the video in fullscreen if I want to cast it in fullscreen to the TV.
I can't find anything in my searches about this happening to anyone else when I google the problem. Has anyone else run across this issue?
Thanks
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My guess is this is related to the Flash Player or the player on the site that you are using. I have seen this happen on my two monitor setup where when I go to the second screen it breaks out of full screen mode on the first monitor. I'm pretty sure all i had to do was restart my machine. But I would try reinstalling Flash, clearing cache, cookies, etc.
Do you see the same behavior when you are not using Chromecast?
Good luck.
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My guess is this is related to the Flash Player or the player on the site that you are using. I have seen this happen on my two monitor setup where when I go to the second screen it breaks out of full screen mode on the first monitor. I'm pretty sure all i had to do was restart my machine. But I would try reinstalling Flash, clearing cache, cookies, etc.
Do you see the same behavior when you are not using Chromecast?
Good luck.
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It happens with any video, whether casting or not. I used to be able to watch Hulu.com in fullscreen and cast it to the tv, then I could alt tab to another tab to check FB or something. Now it doesn't work. I've tried hulu, youtube, and some other video sites and they all the the same thing. When you hit Alt they immediately go back to the small screen page. I've rebooted my computer and reinstalled the Cast extension. Wondering if I need to reinstall Chrome. It did crash one me a few times this weekend, though not in the past couple of days.
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It happens with any video, whether casting or not. I used to be able to watch Hulu.com in fullscreen and cast it to the tv, then I could alt tab to another tab to check FB or something. Now it doesn't work. I've tried hulu, youtube, and some other video sites and they all the the same thing. When you hit Alt they immediately go back to the small screen page. I've rebooted my computer and reinstalled the Cast extension. Wondering if I need to reinstall Chrome. It did crash one me a few times this weekend, though not in the past couple of days.
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I have had a similar issue. I received mine on Tuesday and the first day full screen worked for espn and I was able to Alt+Tab to continue browsing. Last night, I tried to do the same thing but It would only display a picture of the tab with the embedded video (when I would go to full screen, the embedded video was black with the tab content around it. when I would exit full screen the embedded video began playing again.) Essentially, I can no longer go into full screen mode for any flash based video (tried with NFL network too). Mine did an update first thing when I turned it on yesterday. I didn't write down the original version I had nor what it updated to. My flash player also updated recently but I think that was before I tried it for the first time. I did not try to reboot my machine or reinstall flash / chrome but I did attempt to do it from 2 different computers on my network and both suffered from the same issue.
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I have had a similar issue. I received mine on Tuesday and the first day full screen worked for espn and I was able to Alt+Tab to continue browsing. Last night, I tried to do the same thing but It would only display a picture of the tab with the embedded video (when I would go to full screen, the embedded video was black with the tab content around it. when I would exit full screen the embedded video began playing again.) Essentially, I can no longer go into full screen mode for any flash based video (tried with NFL network too). Mine did an update first thing when I turned it on yesterday. I didn't write down the original version I had nor what it updated to. My flash player also updated recently but I think that was before I tried it for the first time. I did not try to reboot my machine or reinstall flash / chrome but I did attempt to do it from 2 different computers on my network and both suffered from the same issue.
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I found a post on another forum that helped me resolve the issue. In your google chrome browser (assuming that's what you are using), type in about://plugins. Click on the Details icon (+) on the far right of the Plugins title bar. Look for Adobe flash and you probably have 2 plugins listed. Look for pepflashplayer.dll . It should be listed in the location section. Click on disable. You may need to restart the browser. Try your fullscreen again.
That fixed it for me, so I hope it fixes it for you.
I just found a pretty neat trick to do fullscreen.
Install the "Chrome Toolbox" which allows you to open flash videos by themselves, separate from anything else on that webpage.
Go to the page with the flash video you are playing. Cast that tab. Hover over the video and an icon will appear to allow you to put it on its own window. Chromecast will now only show the video, same as if you went fullscreen. Video quality seems better when the window is not minimized.
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I just found a pretty neat trick to do fullscreen.
Install the "Chrome Toolbox" which allows you to open flash videos by themselves, separate from anything else on that webpage.
Go to the page with the flash video you are playing. Cast that tab. Hover over the video and an icon will appear to allow you to put it on its own window. Chromecast will now only show the video, same as if you went fullscreen. Video quality seems better when the window is not minimized.
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Thanks for the tip but I can't get it to work. I have Chrome Toolbox installed, went to Hulu and cast that tab and not getting anything when I hover over the view to pop it out as a separate window.
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Thanks for the tip but I can't get it to work. I have Chrome Toolbox installed, went to Hulu and cast that tab and not getting anything when I hover over the view to pop it out as a separate window.
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i have the same problem. Cant switch tab by using alt+tab
Does anyone has another solution?
ps: i am using mac
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Thanks for the tip but I can't get it to work. I have Chrome Toolbox installed, went to Hulu and cast that tab and not getting anything when I hover over the view to pop it out as a separate window.
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It's working now. Thanks for the tip. I can use this trick to cast to the TV and still use my laptop for other stuff.
Toolbox Pop-out link??
Hi guys!
Any chance of a link to the Chrome Toolbox in the app store? The one I'm looking at is probably not the one I'm looking for.
BTW, Alt-Tab is working for me, but the full-screen video is playing in the background so I can see it in place of the Windows taskbar. I can move about the desktop though
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I just found a pretty neat trick to do fullscreen.
Install the "Chrome Toolbox" which allows you to open flash videos by themselves, separate from anything else on that webpage.
Go to the page with the flash video you are playing. Cast that tab. Hover over the video and an icon will appear to allow you to put it on its own window. Chromecast will now only show the video, same as if you went fullscreen. Video quality seems better when the window is not minimized.
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Unfortunately Chrome Toolbox doesn't work on Windows 8? And isn't available anymore anyway?
This is really annoying. Just got Chromecast.
But when casting a tab of full screen video on certain websites and I move from the tab it reverts to its original frame.
Basically I just want to be able to play full screen content from sites like BBC's iPlayer while doing other things on the computer.
Fiddling with flash plugins doesn't seem to change it. I looked for other possibly relevant extensions in the web store but none really worked.
This seems to me a fundamental but should be pretty simple problem for Google to fix.
Any other ideas now?
Thanks, Tom
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Unfortunately Chrome Toolbox doesn't work on Windows 8? And isn't available anymore anyway?
This is really annoying. Just got Chromecast.
But when casting a tab of full screen video on certain websites and I move from the tab it reverts to its original frame.
Basically I just want to be able to play full screen content from sites like BBC's iPlayer while doing other things on the computer.
Fiddling with flash plugins doesn't seem to change it. I looked for other possibly relevant extensions in the web store but none really worked.
This seems to me a fundamental but should be pretty simple problem for Google to fix.
Any other ideas now?
Thanks, Tom
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Not sure about Windows 8, but in 7 I am pretty sure I can hit the Windows key + D which will minimize the browser and allow me to continue what I am doing.
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BTW, Alt-Tab is working for me, but the full-screen video is playing in the background so I can see it in place of the Windows taskbar. I can move about the desktop though
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I like that "feature" - my old ATI TV tuner card used to have that.
tomwood said:
But when casting a tab of full screen video on certain websites and I move from the tab it reverts to its original frame.
Basically I just want to be able to play full screen content from sites like BBC's iPlayer while doing other things on the computer.
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It seems to depend on how the player achieves full-screen. Some sites have a full-screen option from the browser level, and that seems to behave differently (also sometimes different resolution) than using the full-screen/zoom option in the player.
Good example is www.BabyFirstTV.com
The blue-background full-screen button just full-screens the video in the tab and shows the Exit Fullscreen button when casted.
The full-screen button in the player window (bottom right corner) make the video full-desktop size (and replaces my desktop background), and doesn't show the (annoying) Exit Fullscreen button. The bottom does get cut off, likely because my desktop is 1920x1200 so I'm losing the bottom 180 pixels.
For me at least, either method allows me to Alt-Tab to another application without messing up the Chromecast playback though.
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It seems to depend on how the player achieves full-screen. Some sites have a full-screen option from the browser level, and that seems to behave differently (also sometimes different resolution) than using the full-screen/zoom option in the player.
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Thanks, unfortunately though for me when using that browser-level full screen video, and I move from the tab, it reverts to its original frame.
I'm using Windows 8 x64 with Chrome Beta 32.
Obskure said:
Hi guys!
Any chance of a link to the Chrome Toolbox in the app store?
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-cast/boadgeojelhgndaghljhdicfkmllpafd
Also found another interesting Chrome App....
Turns your Browser into a Chromecast Target that you can stream to!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cr-cast/acmfmindblghbicdipoakcolegkcddbk
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Thanks, unfortunately though for me when using that browser-level full screen video, and I move from the tab, it reverts to its original frame.
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Can you try it on www.babyfirsttv.com ? I'm guessing any browser/tab-level zoom will depend on how the site is coded.
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Can you try it on babyfirsttv? I'm guessing any browser/tab-level zoom will depend on how the site is coded.
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Yeah, if it takes up just the tab it's ok, but when going completely full screen it doesn't stay like that if I move... And unfortunately many sites with video, like the ones I want to use, only have that option.
Hi Guys
Does anyone know of an app that will let you lock the screen of your phone but still leave it playing and showing what it was before, like vide?
Example:
I have an "ABC song and video" I downloaded for my 16 month old son. He loves he, it keeps him happy and entertained for 10 mins at a time (Which is a long long time at that age ha), the trouble is, in that 10 mins he inevitably gets a bit excited and pokes the screen, or picks it up. This pauses the video and ofc he doesnt know how to resume. I need an app that would like float over the top or something that makes it so if he presses the screen nothing happens. Functionally, to unlock it it'd be nice to press the lock button (Which would cause the phone to lock fully) and then be unlocked normally.
Anyone know if that is possible, or if it already exists?
Thanks
Adam
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad
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Thank you very much I had MX player already but I didnt know about the kids lock plugin app.
That was only an example though, there's other things like watching random stuff on youtube, or general gallery video's which would be nice to lock too.
If someone would want to make 1, there isnt anything like it and I would pay £5 for it if i could lock any app working like the kids lock on MX player does.
Thanks
Adam
adamkm said:
Thank you very much I had MX player already but I didnt know about the kids lock plugin app.
That was only an example though, there's other things like watching random stuff on youtube, or general gallery video's which would be nice to lock too.
If someone would want to make 1, there isnt anything like it and I would pay £5 for it if i could lock any app working like the kids lock on MX player does.
Thanks
Adam
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you can try this one to play the video in floating mod but i dont know if it woks while the screen is locked
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.argotronic.touchblocker
or Touch blocker or... The key word for search is "touch",not "screen"
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adamkm said:
Hi Guys
Does anyone know of an app that will let you lock the screen of your phone but still leave it playing and showing what it was before, like vide?
Example:
I have an "ABC song and video" I downloaded for my 16 month old son. He loves he, it keeps him happy and entertained for 10 mins at a time (Which is a long long time at that age ha), the trouble is, in that 10 mins he inevitably gets a bit excited and pokes the screen, or picks it up. This pauses the video and ofc he doesnt know how to resume. I need an app that would like float over the top or something that makes it so if he presses the screen nothing happens. Functionally, to unlock it it'd be nice to press the lock button (Which would cause the phone to lock fully) and then be unlocked normally.
Anyone know if that is possible, or if it already exists?
Thanks
Adam
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MX Player has a kids lock option.. And I think you can put videos onto loop as well..
Be warned though, you will soon regret it. My eldest son is a big fan of the CBeebies app and I swear I now know every word by heart...
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I'm researching whether I can root/convert a Kindle Fire HD7 into a single-use video player. I'm planning to ship the player to a client as part of a promotion my company is doing.
Here's what I'm hoping for:
The client opens up the box and sees the Kindle Fire.
The client turns the Kindle Fire on and the screen displays instructions to put the headphones on and then press play.
The client puts on the supplied headphones and presses play. The video plays.
The video finishes playing and returns to the previous screen.
I don't want apps, menus, settings, or anything else available. I just want it to do this one thing and do it perfectly without a hitch. The only thing that the client should be able to do is:
A. Turn the Kindle on.
B. Adjust the volume.
C. Watch the video as many times as they wish.
D. Turn the Kindle off.
This might be a long shot, and I've never rooted a device or worked with Android developers, but my cursory research has led me to this forum and I'd be eager to hear your input. I have a hunch that a rooted Kindle can achieve this.
If this would work better or be easier to achieve with another tablet (perhaps an older one) I would gladly entertain that possibility. My boss bought the Kindle Fire HD7 for this purpose so I'd like to at least give this a shot before throwing in the towel.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
I'm willing to bet you can accomplish this with a launcher.
You need to find a launcher you can
1: hide apps on
2: lock settings with password
Then I would simply hide all apps except your video app and lock the launcher
My initial thoughts are a child safe launcher those are very very customizable and usually lock out everything and are password protected.
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I want to run chrome and a game without the game pausing when I used chrome. I read for rog 1 it's not possible. Is it possible on rog phone 2 can more people confirm?
https://www.asus.com/zentalk/thread-261926-1-1.html
Samsung and xiaomi devices can do this so far without Android Q's multi resume feature. Can rog 2 do this on Pie? Only 1 member confirmed so far, z3r0h in another thread but said it's buggy
I can split screen without pausing game on Galaxy note 9 with good lock and multistar
Can anyone find out by installing 2 of these games : ingress/ pokemon go / harry potter and split screen them? My goal is to be able to play 2 at the same time without pausing in split screen. Deciding factor for me to buy this phone or not as I do not want to carry two phones around
Can anyone test this out?
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Can anyone find out by installing 2 of these games : ingress/ pokemon go / harry potter and split screen them? My goal is to be able to play 2 at the same time without pausing in split screen. Deciding factor for me to buy this phone or not as I do not want to carry two phones around
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I have tried PoGo and YouTube. I doesn't pause the game. But when I try PoGo and Harry Potter, HP says it doesn't support split screen
PS. Sorry wrong photo and I can't delete it..?
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I have tried PoGo and YouTube. I doesn't pause the game. But when I try PoGo and Harry Potter, HP says it doesn't support split screen
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Thanks for testing this. Can you see what happens when you have pogo on and split screen with chrome? Does the game pause on defocus when you start using chrome? To force any game to be compatible with split screen, you can enable developer options in Settings app then enable Force Activities to Be Resizeable so all apps can be used in split screen
In Android pie and earlier, YouTube can run with Pokemon go but using chrome will pause pokemon. If Pokemon go does not pause when you browse in chrome then it means Asus did some extra work ?
PoGo and Chrome works. I have done what you have said but sadly HP still won't go to split screen
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PoGo and Chrome works. I have done what you have said but sadly HP still won't go to split screen
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Thanks for confirming. I transit so when I do I usually split screen pokemon go and chrome and use chrome while waiting for things to appear in the game to catch. You enabled force resize in developer settings? You might have to restart the phone for it to take effect. That way you should be able to split screen any game that does not support split screen
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Thanks for confirming. I transit so when I do I usually split screen pokemon go and chrome and use chrome while waiting for things to appear in the game to catch. You enabled force resize in developer settings? You might have to restart the phone for it to take effect. That way you should be able to split screen any game that does not support split screen
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Hey, it works..? both games are playable at the same time.
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Hey, it works.. both games are playable at the same time.
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That's great news as many other phones cannot do that without freezing. Thanks a lot I will buy the phone now :good:
Dual pogo
Hi can two different pogo accounts work with split screen and when raiding is it possible rejoin the raid without issue?
Pokemon go
Hi can two different pogo accounts work with split screen and when raiding is it possible rejoin the raid without issue?
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Hi can two different pogo accounts work with split screen and when raiding is it possible rejoin the raid without issue?
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I can confirm that 2 pokemons go accs can run at the same time, working together, none of them freeze when using dual screen. Everything works.
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Hi can two different pogo accounts work with split screen and when raiding is it possible rejoin the raid without issue?
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Can always rejoin raid without any problem. I always see the rejoin button even in split screen. Either use ASUS' twin app feature or download an app called Island to create a work profile which lets you clone any app