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I've just become the proud owner of an Elgato EyeTV DVB-TV tuner.
I've been looking for a DVB-T tuner that works on a tablet for ages, tried to get one working on my Advent vega, wrecked my linux install on my laptop trying to generate the necessary files, so gave up on that one. Tried to get a tuner for my Sony Tablet S that was promoted in Japan for that tablet, I could'nt source one - very frustrating hunt.
Then I saw a post on here that mentioned the Elgato - did a search on Amazon and ordered it immediately, 4 days later I was watching tv on my Nexus 10 (also my Nexus 7 and my Note 2 - so a 3 way win for me).
The dongle is absolutely tiny, just a bit larger than a postage stamp and plugs in directly to the USB port on the N10.
It comes with a telescopic aerial which gets me all the freeview channels, even in the middle of my living room which is way better then my 7" portable that does not get any channels anywhere in my house !
For situations that require it there is also a cabled magmount aerial included, I've not needed this yet, but tried it in my house and got the same result as with the telescopic.
It also comes with an adapter that allows use with a laptop/PC/Mac so I suppose that makes it a 4 way win for me really.
The software is downloaded as an APK from the market for the Android devices, and is downloaded from Elgato's website for PC/Mac use.
The APK installed painlessly and when fired up, tuned in all the Freeview stations without any problems. Although the software is pretty basic, it does what's needed very well and I can't complain at all.
All in all a very pleasant experience, and I can wholeheartedly recommend this little beauty to anyone wanting TV on the go.
Nice find, been wanting something like this for ages. Can you please post a link to the exact item on amazon and also the play store software?
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corwinmortac said:
Nice find, been wanting something like this for ages. Can you please post a link to the exact item on amazon and also the play store software?
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I couldn't find the device on the US store, so here's the UK store link so you can have a look at the device. If you are able to find one, make sure it's the "micro" version with a micro usb, there is an Apple version that looks identical except for the iPod type connector.
I forgot to mention in my original post that this device is only slightly larger than a postage stamp, tiny and very light.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elgato-EyeT...1370151089&sr=1-1&keywords=elgato+eyetv+micro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elgato.eyetv.micro
Hope this helps
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I couldn't find the device on the US store, so here's the UK store link so you can have a look at the device.
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You did not find it in the US store because it will not work in the US it only works in Europe and some other countries. Check the Elgato web site for specifics.
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You did not find it in the US store because it will not work in the US it only works in Europe and some other countries. Check the Elgato web site for specifics.
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Thanks for the heads up, I live in the UK and did'nt realise it was for Europe only, kinda weird really as the Apple version is available in the US on Amazon ?
for those like me who wanted to get the chromecast today from the play store (https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromecast) only to find out that they are "out of inventory," hope is not lost. it's available on amazon too. if you search amazon for chromecast, at least for now, you get nothing (at least for now). it IS on amazon, just not available in the search results yet.
here is the amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DR0PDNE/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?redirect=true&ref_=tv_srch_google
get it while it's hot!
Would be much nicer if it allowed for mirroring of the device on the TV
Some Best Buys have them on sale now. I called the one near me they said they would have them tomorrow morning.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105448789684481707861
out of stock on amazon aswell
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for those like me who wanted to get the chromecast today from the play store (https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromecast) only to find out that they are "out of inventory," hope is not lost. it's available on amazon too. if you search amazon for chromecast, at least for now, you get nothing (at least for now). it IS on amazon, just not available in the search results yet.
here is the amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DR0PDNE/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?redirect=true&ref_=tv_srch_google
get it while it's hot!
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It's sold out from the Amazon as well. Free shipping ftw. I originally ordered from Play Store but cancelled immediately once I found out it was on Amazon. I wonder how much they're going for on Ebay right now...lol remember Nexus 4 release?
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for those like me who wanted to get the chromecast today from the play store (https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromecast) only to find out that they are "out of inventory," hope is not lost. it's available on amazon too. if you search amazon for chromecast, at least for now, you get nothing (at least for now). it IS on amazon, just not available in the search results yet.
here is the amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DR0PDNE/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?redirect=true&ref_=tv_srch_google
get it while it's hot!
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Does anybody know if I can plug this into my A/V receiver's HDMI port instead of my TV, would rather hear the sound through my HT speakers and not my TV's..
Would the chromecast then turn on the receiver and switch to the correct input? THAT would be just AWESOME..!
And in general, the auto turn on and switching input is triggered by sending a video/audio from phone/tablet/PC to chromecast?
I just realized, the link here removed that part about being Mediacast compliant. Not sure why Google didn't make it's own device so that the Nexus can stream to TV's like they initially advertised.
Also this thing isn't an Apple TV, which I realized the more I read into this. The content has to be on the cloud, so already uploaded somewhere like on Netflix or Youtube or even your Google Play account in order to work. You can't just take a picture or video or song from your computer/tablet/phone and send it to the TV. It really doesn't do much other than turn your phone into a remote control to play Youtube videos and things like that. Which is also why it can't mirror or anything, since it's not necessarily connected to your phone/tablet, other than that initial request to open a specific URL.
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Does anybody know if I can plug this into my A/V receiver's HDMI port instead of my TV, would rather hear the sound through my HT speakers and not my TV's..
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What receiver do you have? If it supports HDMI CEC it should work perfectly!
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...Also this thing isn't an Apple TV, which I realized the more I read into this. The content has to be on the cloud, so already uploaded somewhere like on Netflix or Youtube or even your Google Play account in order to work. You can't just take a picture or video or song from your computer/tablet/phone and send it to the TV. It really doesn't do much other than turn your phone into a remote control to play Youtube videos and things like that. Which is also why it can't mirror or anything, since it's not necessarily connected to your phone/tablet, other than that initial request to open a specific URL.
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That's not true. They demoed 'casting' of the chrome browser on a desktop.
http://youtu.be/NzT4CW588yY?t=3m33s
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That's not true. They demoed 'casting' of the chrome browser on a desktop.
http://youtu.be/NzT4CW588yY?t=3m33s
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I don't know, still looks like it's simply opening the URL of the website onto the TV. Then again, this is a cut version, I didn't really watch the full version so I'm not sure. I'll check it up in a while and get back to you.
I wonder if this could be ported to a cheap arm board? The Chromecast receiver would rock on a Raspberry Pi.
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Does it work outside the us?
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At this price, and if you guys wanted it next week, dont bother to try Amazon or Best Buy. Pay a few more bucks and get it on Play Store. It's available as of now. Just ordered mine. BestBuy is out of stock and store pick-up is not available, so is Amazon
Did anybody able to get Youtube displaying the ChromeCast? I'm running factory 4.3 with Youtube 4.5.17 and just dont see the icon at all - as with Google Music ...
how would you play local content from PC like movies thru chromecast?
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At this price, and if you guys wanted it next week, dont bother to try Amazon or Best Buy. Pay a few more bucks and get it on Play Store. It's available as of now. Just ordered mine. BestBuy is out of stock and store pick-up is not available, so is Amazon
Did anybody able to get Youtube displaying the ChromeCast? I'm running factory 4.3 with Youtube 4.5.17 and just dont see the icon at all - as with Google Music ...
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Or you can buy it at best buy. I just bought it like 30min ago. Literately walked in and asked if they had any, lady pulled one out from under the table, i paid and left lol. Im trying it now, so far its very very nice!
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Or you can buy it at best buy. I just bought it like 30min ago. Literately walked in and asked if they had any, lady pulled one out from under the table, i paid and left lol. Im trying it now, so far its very very nice!
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Lucky you.
Should have listed the BestBuy address. I'd bet peoples will craws all over the internet in the next days to find this little sweat toy. Couldnt wait for mine ...
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Lucky you.
Should have listed the BestBuy address. I'd bet peoples will craws all over the internet in the next days to find this little sweat toy. Couldnt wait for mine ...
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Best buy on la brea and santa monica. I hate that area... But the best buy in glendale said they didnt have them when i called, so had no choice but to check this one.
Anyway its freaking awesome!! Watching top gear in crystal clear hd playing off google movies/tv. Used my galaxy nexus. Gonna try next with the n7
Edit: apparently it also shows on your lockscreen sort of like how music will show the pause/play options.
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Best buy on la brea and santa monica. I hate that area... But the best buy in glendale said they didnt have them when i called, so had no choice but to check this one.
Anyway its freaking awesome!! Watching top gear in crystal clear hd playing off google movies/tv. Used my galaxy nexus. Gonna try next with the n7
Edit: apparently it also shows on your lockscreen sort of like how music will show the pause/play options.
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Did Youtube and some other Gapps showed the ChromeCast icon when running on your phone?
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Did Youtube and some other Gapps showed the ChromeCast icon when running on your phone?
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Yeah youtube, google movies, google music, netflix, and im guessing chrome but i havent tried that yet
I got mine tonight at the El Segundo Best Buy in LA. Picked up the last two (one for a friend). It's taking all my will power to finish the work that I'm doing before I open it up to play. Though I realize now I'm on XDA writing about it so I'm kinda failing ha!
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You can't unless you have it stored on the cloud somewhere.
I got my Chromecast just a few weeks ago and I'm a Best Buy "Reward Zone" Member. Being a Reward Zone Member gives me up to 60 days to return purchased items back to the store....with a receipt, obviously. When I got mine, it was quickly automatically updated and I was never afforded the opportunity to root my Chromecast. Do ya'll think I can package my Chromecast back up and return it to Best Buy and purchase another one that is HOPEFULLY still running the original version that allows for it to be rooted? Basically what I'm wondering is if I return my Chromecast back to my local Best Buy retail store and buy another one, will the "newer" one that I pick up still be running the original system that they initially shipped with that enabled for users to root it? I'm asking because I really have wanted to root this thing, but just never have been able to, due to it receiving the automatic OTA shortly after using it for the first time a few weeks ago. I wouldn't think that the more recent Chromecasts would come shipped with the newer OTA's already, would they? I'm just hoping to pick up another one that I can actually root. Ya'lls thoughts?
Why?
The number of unrooted devices is truly tiny, so developers for it are fleetingly few. Also there's no significant advantage to being unrooted.
Couple that with the infetesimal chance of getting an original release device from Best Buy begs the effort.
I don't mean to be unduly negative but such little chance for such minor gain, again, why?
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Why?
The number of unrooted devices is truly tiny, so developers for it are fleetingly few. Also there's no significant advantage to being unrooted.
Couple that with the infetesimal chance of getting an original release device from Best Buy begs the effort.
I don't mean to be unduly negative but such little chance for such minor gain, again, why?
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I think you mean "rooted"
Thank you, correct, rooted.
I think that if you can have a rooted chromecast, it's a good thing.
I do admit that at present there are no advantages to being rooted.
But the future is unknown.
Example : what if google decides to never permit the general developer casting apps like fling or allcast? Theoretically, developers can totally rewrite the chromecast firmware to be the device they want it to be. However it will be very difficult or impossible to install such new firmware on an unrooted chromecast.
So the only benefits are unknown future imaginative features which google may never allow.
I bought another Chromecast from BestBuy on Friday and it still had the original firmware. This BestBuy had been sold out of Chromecast already, so this was probably their second or third shipment. So it's definitely possible to get an original firmware Chromecast, although there is no guarantee.
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I bought another Chromecast from BestBuy on Friday and it still had the original firmware. This BestBuy had been sold out of Chromecast already, so this was probably their second or third shipment. So it's definitely possible to get an original firmware Chromecast, although there is no guarantee.
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I'm not for sure, likewise for anyone else, when Google will be shipping these devices with updated firmware, so I'm gonna take my chances and get another one soon. And the reasons mentioned in the above posts are the main driving factors for my decision. If I'm going to spend $35 of my hard earned money, I'm gonna get every penny out of it that I can. Being locked down like Google has us now, was not in my plans when I first bought this thing.
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Well, guys...I did it today. I returned my Chromecast and switched it out for another one. I haven't hooked it up yet, but hopefully it's the original version.
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Well, guys...I did it today. I returned my Chromecast and switched it out for another one. I haven't hooked it up yet, but hopefully it's the original version.
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How can you check if it is the original version without getting the OTA firmware installed?
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How can you check if it is the original version without getting the OTA firmware installed?
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You must not allow the chromecast to connect to a wifi ssid / network which has Internet.
In my case, I had an old asus (dd-wrt) router laying around. I powered it up with nothing plugged into it. No rj45 cat 5/6 cables connected. Switched my phone wifi to this wireless ssid network. Ran the chromecast app, it found the chromecast, set up the chromecast to use this no Internet network by selecting it & typing in the router's password. After setting up the chromecast, the app shows the firmware version as being 12072.
If you allow the chromecast to connect to a wifi network which has Internet, then it will quickly auto update to a firmware version which can not currently be rooted.
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You must not allow the chromecast to connect to a wifi ssid / network which has Internet.
In my case, I had an old asus (dd-wrt) router laying around. I powered it up with nothing plugged into it. No rj45 cat 5/6 cables connected. Switched my phone wifi to this wireless ssid network. Ran the chromecast app, it found the chromecast, set up the chromecast to use this no Internet network by selecting it & typing in the router's password. After setting up the chromecast, the app shows the firmware version as being 12072.
If you allow the chromecast to connect to a wifi network which has Internet, then it will quickly auto update to a firmware version which can not currently be rooted.
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Ok.So in the case that I can have a device with an older "rootable" firmware is there any way to stop the the firmware upgrade from Google if I connect a rooted Cromecast to the Internet?
hachuelo said:
Ok.So in the case that I can have a device with an older "rootable" firmware is there any way to stop the the firmware upgrade from Google if I connect a rooted Cromecast to the Internet?
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The rooted firmware bin files from tvall have the auto update function disabled.
I just got my Chromecast a couple of days ago and have been reading several threads. I connected it to WiFi with no Internet and found that it still has 12072. Is there any way ti still use Allcast or Fling if I use one of tvall's images to disable updates? I found a previous version of the Chromecast apk and installed Allcast B4 but Allcast just comes up with a blank page. I thought it might be possible to stream local content with no Internet access.
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I just got my Chromecast a couple of days ago and have been reading several threads. I connected it to WiFi with no Internet and found that it still has 12072. Is there any way ti still use Allcast or Fling if I use one of tvall's images to disable updates? I found a previous version of the Chromecast apk and installed Allcast B4 but Allcast just comes up with a blank page. I thought it might be possible to stream local content with no Internet access.
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Technically, I'd say that you would be able to, since it wouldn't be using the internet to stream the video. I'm FAR from an expert on all this though...lol
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deercreek said:
I just got my Chromecast a couple of days ago and have been reading several threads. I connected it to WiFi with no Internet and found that it still has 12072. Is there any way ti still use Allcast or Fling if I use one of tvall's images to disable updates? I found a previous version of the Chromecast apk and installed Allcast B4 but Allcast just comes up with a blank page. I thought it might be possible to stream local content with no Internet access.
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I was actually wondering the same thing too...if we would be able to use the "Fling" PC Java program and/or the "AllCast"/"AirCast" Android apps, just as long as our Chromecasts are on the original (v.12072) firmware..
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I was actually wondering the same thing too...if we would be able to use the "Fling" PC Java program and/or the "AllCast"/"AirCast" Android apps, just as long as our Chromecasts are on the original (v.12072) firmware..
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Couple of questions:Where I can find Fling? The link in dropbox is dead. The firmware in my Chromecast shows 12072 can I still root the device?
hachuelo said:
Couple of questions:Where I can find Fling? The link in dropbox is dead. The firmware in my Chromecast shows 12072 can I still root the device?
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You had better do it QUICK, and I mean SUPER-HUMAN QUICK !! lol You're probably up the creek if it's been on for any decent amount of time. As far as I know, as soon as you turn it off and whenever you power it back up, it'll install that automatically downloaded OTA that it has already downloaded behind the scenes and stored on its memory. This is what *SHOULD* happen...just what I've heard by things I've read on here.
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You had better do it QUICK, and I mean SUPER-HUMAN QUICK !! lol You're probably up the creek if it's been on for any decent amount of time. As far as I know, as soon as you turn it off and whenever you power it back up, it'll install that automatically downloaded OTA that it has already downloaded behind the scenes and stored on its memory. This is what *SHOULD* happen...just what I've heard by things I've read on here.
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Have you rooted yours? I'm gonna try tomorrow I got to borrow an USB otg cable from a friend.
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Have you rooted yours? I'm gonna try tomorrow I got to borrow an USB otg cable from a friend.
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Nope, my first Chromecast installed the auto-OTA and each following update after leaving it plugged in, so I just went and got another Chromecast a few days ago. I ordered the recommended OTG cable from Amazon.com this past Thurs or Fri night. It's scheduled to arrive here at our house sometime around the end of this week(Thurs-Sat) sometime. After it gets here, I'm gonna root it before playin around with it. And if you're wondering, YES, the 2nd Chromecast that I got is STILL sitting in the box, just waiting for the OTG cable to arrive. It's too tempting to take it out and play around with it, but I know I had better just hold off till that cable gets here, otherwise I'd be just throwing that money that I spent on the cable down the drain.
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Nope, my first Chromecast installed the auto-OTA and each following update after leaving it plugged in, so I just went and got another Chromecast a few days ago. I ordered the recommended OTG cable from Amazon.com this past Thurs or Fri night. It's scheduled to arrive here at our house sometime around the end of this week(Thurs-Sat) sometime. After it gets here, I'm gonna root it before playin around with it. And if you're wondering, YES, the 2nd Chromecast that I got is STILL sitting in the box, just waiting for the OTG cable to arrive. It's too tempting to take it out and play around with it, but I know I had better just hold off till that cable gets here, otherwise I'd be just throwing that money that I spent on the cable down the drain.
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Any ideal of which OTG cable from amazon to get? I see them from 1.00 to 10.00. I don't want to spend more than I have to.
Just ordered my chromecast to pick up in our local best buy and want to root it in case it has the older firmware.
Thanks
Recently ive been unable to use my chromecast at all,whenever i switch to the hdmi input for it,i get an "incompatible video signal check output device settings" message on my screen.... Ive tried resetting it and unplugging it and different hdmi ports and nothing just the same message over and over... any help is much appreciated...
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Recently ive been unable to use my chromecast at all,whenever i switch to the hdmi input for it,i get an "incompatible video signal check output device settings" message on my screen.... Ive tried resetting it and unplugging it and different hdmi ports and nothing just the same message over and over... any help is much appreciated...
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Unplug Chromecast from the TV, plug power into Chromecast, plug Chromecast into TV.
Beyond that, try a different TV/monitor.
If you still get invalid signal, Chromecast itself might be broken.
Also try a different Input if you have one available....
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Unplug Chromecast from the TV, plug power into Chromecast, plug Chromecast into TV.
Beyond that, try a different TV/monitor.
If you still get invalid signal, Chromecast itself might be broken.
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ive actually tried this,and different inputs,and same problem.. i even bought a different chromecast to try and same thing now.. it literally worked fine for months... the chromecast connects to my signal fine and i can still see it on the app just nothing on the screen at all smh
finally tried a different television,and it worked fine... seems like its my tv now,but i dont understand how cuz its worked fine up until a week or so ago...
I had this same issue last year. Google never wanted to take responsibility since the issue started after one of their unsolicited updates. They walked me through "fixes" and even sent me a warranty replacement. Funny thing was that it came on the very first firmware and worked... until the update was pushed to it. I just gave up.
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I had this same issue last year. Google never wanted to take responsibility since the issue started after one of their unsolicited updates. They walked me through "fixes" and even sent me a warranty replacement. Funny thing was that it came on the very first firmware and worked... until the update was pushed to it. I just gave up.
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yea i think it must of updated and then WHAM not working,but it worked on a different television so im like wtf... was gonna go the warranty route but now im not sure since the thing obviously works,just not on the television that ive been using it on for the last 6 months smh
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yea i think it must of updated and then WHAM not working,but it worked on a different television so im like wtf... was gonna go the warranty route but now im not sure since the thing obviously works,just not on the television that ive been using it on for the last 6 months smh
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Definitely file a report if it goes from working to not. Unfortunately the forced update nature of the Chromecast ecosystem makes things like this possible...
Most likely CC is trying to use a resolution or format that it didn't before, and now it's making the TV confused.
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I had this same issue last year. Google never wanted to take responsibility since the issue started after one of their unsolicited updates. They walked me through "fixes" and even sent me a warranty replacement. Funny thing was that it came on the very first firmware and worked... until the update was pushed to it. I just gave up.
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I hade the same issue also with a 7 year old Samsung LCD TV. Used to work then didn't after an update. Works fine on a 1080p TV.
bhiga said:
Definitely file a report if it goes from working to not. Unfortunately the forced update nature of the Chromecast ecosystem makes things like this possible...
Most likely CC is trying to use a resolution or format that it didn't before, and now it's making the TV confused.
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It happened to my tv as well(and most 720P TVs).
Something in one of the updates(around January) caused the chromecast to not properly handshake with the TV.
They are blaming it on badly formed EDID signals(which reports the available/best resolutions it accepts) from some TV's.
If you file a bug through the chromecast app, maybe they'll get enough complaints to fix it.
Just got a new Chromecast - it is the newer box with the Despicable Me 2 minions on the back. S/N 4C10102Zxxxx MFG: 12/2014
Did not set up or connect to Internet.
Attempted HubCap and failed with both 12940 and 16664 hex files.
LED just stays red.
I used @ddggttff3's test to check for the build number
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52020396&postcount=1
"build_version":"20472"
Does not appear to have been previously loved.
This is not a Refurbished unit.
Anyone else run into an off-the-shelf, new-in-box un-HubCap-able Chromecast?
BTW: Yes, I know how to HubCap - and I double-checked to be sure.
bhiga said:
Just got a new Chromecast - it is the newer box with the Despicable Me 2 minions on the back. S/N 4C10102Zxxxx MFG: 12/2014
Did not set up or connect to Internet.
Attempted HubCap and failed with both 12940 and 16664 hex files.
LED just stays red.
I used @ddggttff3's test to check for the build number
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52020396&postcount=1
"build_version":"20472"
Does not appear to have been previously loved.
This is not a Refurbished unit.
Anyone else run into an off-the-shelf, new-in-box un-HubCap-able Chromecast?
BTW: Yes, I know how to HubCap - and I double-checked to be sure.
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This is definitely a first as far as I'm aware. Are you positive that it was not previously used? I know of a few people here in Australia who hurriedly returned their new CCs for an exchange after realising that the OTA update had hit them.
Where was the CC purchased from?
Cheers
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This is definitely a first as far as I'm aware. Are you positive that it was not previously used?
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I'm almost 100% sure, that device was newer used before, because of two reasons. bhiga is experienced CC user, so when he says, that it was newer connected to internet, I believe him. And most importantly, look at the build number. Not even close to recent update, and curiously its build number, which was never released to public as OTA update (after 19084, there was 22062). And its the same situation as with previous untouched Chromecasts (15098 was also never released as OTA update).
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I'm almost 100% sure, that device was newer used before, because of two reasons. bhiga is experienced CC user, so when he says, that it was newer connected to internet, I believe him. And most importantly, look at the build number. Not even close to recent update, and curiously its build number, which was never released to public as OTA update (after 19084, there was 22062). And its the same situation as with previous untouched Chromecasts (15098 was also never released as OTA update).
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Yes, after I re-read the post, I recognised bhiga as the author. Definitely a first.
Hi folks, thanks for your interest.
Purchased from Best Buy online.
Package does not show any signs of being previously opened (though the new easy-pull seals are don't show tampering as well as the older clear ones that showed VOID in the adhesive).
The HDMI plug did not show any signs of being plugged in before (often times there are scrapes or scuff lines - you'll see this on refurbished units).
The plastic liner on the side of Chromecast looked untouched (it loses stick and will lift if not carefully opened).
The power cable looked well-wrapped with original bends like stock.
The top hanging loop is separated, telling me this probably got shipped from a store rather than directly from the warehouse.
I'm not going to exclude the possibility that this unit was previously used and very carefully repacked quite yet, but we all knew there would be some point that the factory would start shipping a newer firmware, just like happened earlier.
Definitely curious to hear from any others that have the same packaging and similar serial number what build they have.
I didn't want to post this in the serial numbers thread just yet (and cause potential panic buying), in case this is just a fluke or indeed a return.
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Hi folks, thanks for your interest.
Purchased from Best Buy online.
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Thanks bhiga. It definitely looks like you have the first reported NIB build >19084. Also as srandista mentioned, build 20472 was not an OTA build, so it could not have been a return.
I think there will probably be a bit of a flurry of buying up old stock once the word gets out.
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Thanks bhiga. It definitely looks like you have the first reported NIB build >19084. Also as srandista mentioned, build 20472 was not an OTA build, so it could not have been a return.
I think there will probably be a bit of a flurry of buying up old stock once the word gets out.
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Thanks for the second opinions. Lucky me. Looks like I'll have to be updating the Rootable Serial Numbers thread soon.
It was really only a matter of time before they started shipping units with Un Rootable OS installed.
Checked my local store, majority are MFG DATE 12/2014 or 01/2015 and newer. The shelf stock which had been in the 70+ range prior is now down to less than 20. I didn't see the Chromecast stand up display rack either.
Will do some tests to try to narrow down the serial boundary when I have time.
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Checked my local store, majority are MFG DATE 12/2014 or 01/2015 and newer. The shelf stock which had been in the 70+ range prior is now down to less than 20. I didn't see the Chromecast stand up display rack either.
Will do some tests to try to narrow down the serial boundary when I have time.
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Is there even anyone still out there putting these new updates through it's paces looking for new root exploits?
My first guess would be no so even if there was a way to root it no one is really looking for it anymore...
Of course we probably wouldn't know even if they were cause why say anything unless you found something? LOL
I'm just glad I got my second chance after failing to read XDA before plugging it in the first time around!
LOL
I have found lots of uses for the Teensy too!
I'm not sure there's a lot of effort going into future root though i'm sure there are folks who simply enjoy the challenge.
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I'm not sure there's a lot of effort going into future root though i'm sure there are folks who simply enjoy the challenge.
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Perhaps if the fears everyone was so concerned with when the CCast first came out were realized...(Draconian banning of App Support by Google)
It might be a little more important. But I have not heard a single report of someone providing an app for CCast that was not eventually Whitelisted.
bhiga said:
Hi folks, thanks for your interest.
I didn't want to post this in the serial numbers thread just yet (and cause potential panic buying), in case this is just a fluke or indeed a return.
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If bhiga is still present (or anyone else who can comment), it has been a couple of months since this unrootable NIB was discovered but I haven't heard whether this has become the norm or was it a one-off glitch. I have kept my ear to the ground on this but all seems quiet?
Any updates?
Thanks
Feelers reported on another thread a 4C16 that came with 20472, so the root spring is definitely starting to dry.
I completely revamped the rootable serial numbers the new information but there hasn't been a lot of chatter lately.
So far it seems things get fuzzy starting around 4A20.
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I'm almost 100% sure, that device was newer used before, because of two reasons. bhiga is experienced CC user, so when he says, that it was newer connected to internet, I believe him. And most importantly, look at the build number. Not even close to recent update, and curiously its build number, which was never released to public as OTA update (after 19084, there was 22062). And its the same situation as with previous untouched Chromecasts (15098 was also never released as OTA update).
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Hi everyone. Just checked my NIB CC. Serial is 4C13 MFG: 12/2014 build version: 20472. Ordered from Amazon US. Good news or bad news? Haven't connected to internet or anything. I just checked the build that's all.
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ferdinez said:
Hi everyone. Just checked my NIB CC. Serial is 4C13 MFG: 12/2014 build version: 20472. Ordered from Amazon US. Good news or bad news? Haven't connected to internet or anything. I just checked the build that's all.
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Any build greater than or equal to 19084 is not rootable by current means.
So yours is not rootable unless a new exploit is found, sorry.