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htc desire to tv or a projector

Well few days back saw my friend do it on his xperia x2 (which obviously has a tv out feature) but I was wondering if any of you guys can help me do the same on desire using either wifi or thru wire or something. ...
Its possible from a laptop. Desire ---->laptop--->>projector or television. ... point is any way to do it directly or may be thru some media station or anything. ....?
Any help Would be gr8. ..
Thanks

Desire (like most android phones) doesn't support tv out. You can try a cable from another device but you will only get audio not video

blog.clove.co.uk/
Samsung galaxy has it...and probably may be some other devices too

You may use androidscreencast: http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
But you will have a very laggy presentation.
The application is really cool but the refresh rate is really low

If you have a digital TV that understands DLNA, or a set-top-box that will do DLNA with TV-out, then you can use TwonkyServer Mobile on your Desire to stream all sorts of media from the phone to the TV: photos, music, and even video. It may depend on the TV or Box understanding the actual video format and codec being used, but apart from that it should work.
If you don't have such equipment, then I'm afraid there isn't much else you can do.

There was a German dude who managed to activate usb-host and than usb2dvi.
Don't know if that will do the trick but sounds like a nice project.

The German dude thing sounds cool any details on tht. ..
Android screen cast uses a pc. ..was thinking of bypassing tht route

avreen said:
The German dude thing sounds cool any details on tht. ..
Android screen cast uses a pc. ..was thinking of bypassing tht route
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He was using a nexus one to run Linux and using USB host mode for the screen mouse and keyboard, making a sort network I guess, His name was Sven, Cent remember where I see it but
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Talked to that guy personally said it ain't possible :-(
Sent from my HTC Desire

Chances are it'll never happen, it was never designed to have TV out...even the HD hasn't got TV-out

HTC is android system, so connect to projector use Mira cast?
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VanessaHunteraa said:
HTC is android system, so connect to projector use Mira cast?
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Try Miracast the store.

Better use of any mobile projector
avreen said:
Well few days back saw my friend do it on his xperia x2 (which obviously has a tv out feature) but I was wondering if any of you guys can help me do the same on desire using either wifi or thru wire or something. ...
Its possible from a laptop. Desire ---->laptop--->>projector or television. ... point is any way to do it directly or may be thru some media station or anything. ....?
Any help Would be gr8. ..
Thanks
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Better you go for a Mobile projector you just need to connect your mobile with projector via Bluetooth

johnicodis said:
Better you go for a Mobile projector you just need to connect your mobile with projector via Bluetooth
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First. Do not reply to post 7 years ago, because it makes no sense.
Second, read about the devices bitrate.

Do we need the live dock to connect accessories ?

Hi,
Everything is in the title. I saw this News on androidcentral and they say
This is a brand new smartphone dock which serves not only as a charging station, but allows you to connect USB peripherals like keyboards and mice, and control your phone using good old-fashioned button-based devices.
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This means we can't connect anything unless we have this dock right ? That's stupid everything is already in the phone, bluetooth, HDMI etc... Am i right ?

USB-OTG (for Memory Sticks, Keyboard, etc.) seems to be working fine with with a standard, cheap Micro USB-OTG lead from eBay. To get it working, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224676
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By the way, does anyone know what app that is running on the Samsung pictured? The Q5 USB manager works fine, but this looks nicer!

I don't think it's a must for USB-OTG, but a software update is required, currently I tried using a simple adapter with USB flash, it recognized it as a USB device but I couldn't use it...
They said that there will be a software update in October ( 2.3.4 ) that will officially support USB-OTG...
For keyboard and mouse, you can currently use Bluetooth mouse and keyboard with it, I tested the mouse with Apple Magic Wireless Mouse and it worked normally the cursor appeared and worked like a charm...
I just hope the USB-OTG includes USB Mass Storage devices like USB flash, it will be very useful

Xajel said:
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For keyboard and mouse, you can currently use Bluetooth mouse and keyboard with it, I tested the mouse with Apple Magic Wireless Mouse and it worked normally the cursor appeared and worked like a charm...
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How did you do that? I can't get my bluetooth mouse connected. It says in dutch gekoppeld maar niet verbonden. What is something like paired but not connected. And i don't get a cursor. I use latest firmware rooted with doomlord kernel.

For keyboard and mouse, you can currently use Bluetooth mouse and keyboard with it, I tested the mouse with Apple Magic Wireless Mouse and it worked normally the cursor appeared and worked like a charm
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interesting. that may be an option rather than waiting for the livedock, but if the bluetooth keyboard and mouse combo costs higher then its not cost efficient.
when you connect the Arc via HDMI to a monitor, is there a way to turn of the Arc display to save battery since display is outted to a screen anyway?

USB Host with flash drive? Galaxy Nexus Mouse + Keyboard are wonderful

So I wanted to try and mount my usb drive to my Galaxy Nexus. I just got the usb host cable today. I downloaded an app to try and see if it would list the device there, which indeed it did. I posted screen shots of it below. I watched a video on the Galaxy SII which has the usb host cable information pop right up when you attach the device. Also I am using a CDMA/LTE Verizon Galaxy Nexus with the CM9 Kang ROM. Android version: 4.0.3 CyanogenMod version: 9.0.0-RCO-GN-CMDA-KANG-01132012. Maybe they removed that capability in the ROM for stability reasons? I would be fine updating if that is needed because I have had this ROM for a week or two now and I imagine there is more stable CM9 version by now.
Do I just need to manually mkdir and mount the drive? I was hoping I wouldn't have to do something like that, although that seems like it might be easy to automate with an app or script.
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Mouse was just simple plug and go:
Keyboard worked just fine as well.
Also here is the Galaxy SII video I was referring to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=giJXF5pIITc

try the app "[root] StickMount (G.Nexus)" from the market.
works like a charm for me.
galaxy nexus seems not to mount usb drives automatically, so we need the app to do that.

Update: I did try this app that Stigy was using.
[root] StickMount (G.Nexus) https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus/433685-so-you-want-more-storage-space-2.html
It made the usbStorage folder for me, but it appears the drive is empty according to my file browser. Maybe it is the how the drive is formatted. I'll play around with it and see if I get any success.
Either way I thought this was available without root. I was under the impression it was built in to ICS and possibly Honeycomb too.
Edit: Guess I should have refreshed the page. Wow quick reply. Thanks. I'm messing with it now as you can probably read.
Edit 2: Just need that StickMount app and a Fat32 formatted drive. (I actually searched for it in the market, but it didn't show up for me) The one I was trying was NTFS, my bad. Well hopefully this will help someone else from feeling like and idiot. lol =)

for me fat32 formatted drives worked. ext2/3/4 should work too.
ntfs formatted drives only work if there's the appropriate driver present (which isn't the case for the galaxy nexus).
I'm not sure if there's any possibility to add a ntfs driver to android. maybe one of the devs has further insight into that.
edit: as far as I understood it, mounting usb drives should work out of the box for the galaxy nexus. but it doesn't for some reason (bug?). so we need this app and it needs root priviledges to mount a drive

^ Ya I was about to search that up soon. It isn't that big of a deal to me to have NTFS, but it would be handy since it is a common file system. Maybe I'll just try to add ext2/3/4 support to my windows install.
Another side question, is there a maximum supported size? I could try an external hdd with its own power I guess. Although I don't have any available to test with atm, and my biggest flash drive is 16GB. Is this a good excuse to go buy a bigger flash drive?

Well I got a little daring, wasn't sure how this would work out. But I plugged my Galaxy Nexus into my HP Touchpad running CM7. Told the HP Touchpad to turn on its USB storage and then told the Galaxy Nexus to mount the storage. IT WORKED. Woot. So at least 32GB is supported. =)
Sorry if it seems a bit off topic. I just like to share and document for others, figure it can't hurt.

[LINK]--[APP][ROOT] SG USB Mass Storage Enabler

Came across this app through the main XDA portal. Original thread Linky
MohammadAG in Samsung Galaxy S 4 i9500 said:
SG USB Mass Storage Enabler allows you to export your microSD card over USB as a Mass Storage device. It will never be able to export the internal storage on the device.
I originally made this app for myself for the SGS3, as I needed some more flexibility in mounting/unmounting than Easy UMS offered. However, I backed out from releasing it as I thought it wasn't a nice gesture towards Easy UMS's dev.
Features:
Allows you to use your microSD card as a USB Mass Storage device.
Shortcuts on your homescreen to easily enable/disable USB Mass Storage mode.
Warns the user if they try to disable Mass Storage mode without unmounting/ejecting on the PC side.
Tested working on:
Samsung Galaxy Note II (GT-N7100)
Samsung Galaxy SIII (GT-I9300)
Samsung Grand Duos (GT-I9082) - Thanks to wan Mohd in Play Store reviews.
Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9500) - Thanks to taiseer999 in the replies below.
Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505) - Thanks to Solomon Chow in Play Store reviews.
Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGH-I337) - Thanks to Delyan Georgiev in Play Store reviews.
Screenshots:
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The application is free, ad-supported*, and open source: https://github.com/MohammadAG/galaxy-usb-mass-storage-enabler
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I've loaded this and tried it out. Works well from what I've experienced. For most stuff the MTP works fine, but for stuff like Visual Basic projects, it MTP does not play nice. This, made the phone act like a flash drive, and I could load those same projects directly from the phone; in MTP, I had to copy the project to the computer first.
The only issue I've encountered, and it was cosmetic, the landscape view needs adjusting because the text and buttons overlap.
I didn't try reloading Samsung drives to see if it helps with the hardward ID issue for ADB. I assume it will not.

Nice
Nice I like it you said that's for the s4
Yawn well this is post 10 off I go
I've loaded this and tried it out. Works well from what I've experienced. For most stuff the MTP works fine, but for stuff like Visual Basic projects, it MTP does not play nice. This, made the phone act like a flash drive, and I could load those same projects directly from the phone; in MTP, I had to copy the project to the computer first.
The only issue I've encountered, and it was cosmetic, the landscape view needs adjusting because the text and buttons overlap.
I didn't try reloading Samsung drives to see if it helps with the hardward ID issue for ADB. I assume it will not.[/QUOTE]

Hacking the Philips Screeneo U4

Hi, I am not sure, whether this is the right position to post for the Screeneo U4 because it is a projector and no TV. So if it is wrong here, sorry for that and the moderators might move it to the right place. But it is running Android TV.
I recently received a Philips Screeneo U4 ultra short throw projector. This projector uses Android TV and I did some research. I thought that somebody might be interested in the results. The screenshots show german Text but the steps should be self explanatory, so I did not change the language of the machine.
The first impression is that they use their own launcher on that machine which hides “normal” Android. But not totally .
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If you go to Settings and there to serial number, press OK on the remote five times. Then you find a hidden menu. Once there go to ABDDemo and you will find the standard Android developer options. On my machine they were already activated. Go to USB-Debugging, activate it and you have standard USB-Debugging access with all adb-commands working. I also activated file transfer as standard usb-setting. The projector then shows as maxtv on your computer with the standard directories in the internal storage.
If you transfer an apk-file to InstallableApps it can be installed on the machine with the app-installer in the hidden directory. You could also use adb shell commands for installing.
In that menu you also find an entry called settings which leads to another standard android settings menu. Showing for example Wifi-Settings although there is no Wifi on board.
So far the first research steps. I would be interested whether there are other owners of that projector who know more and would also be interested in suggestions to do deeper research. And might be suggestions for useful software to try.
Detlev

Hello and thank you for the information, I have connected a key with two apk, IPTV and Kodi in usb but I do not see them, you are talking about ADB shell but how to connect it since there is no integrated wifi or RJ45 network cable, can you help me please?
fabio

Hello,
you have to transfer the files to the Installable Apps directory (see above).
I use the connection to the projector which I have, when connecting an usb-cable to the computer.
Kodi would probably make sense for media on a connected harddisk or stick if Kodi recognizes those. I did not try this. But the installed vlc media player does quiet a good job in playing videos and music.
I do not see the point with IPTV without any Network connection. I did not manage to activate Wifi or ehternet via usb - did you?
Detlev