Hi,
Can anyone recommend a good (cheap) hdmi adapter?
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MJ-12
After over a week now, i will take that as a no?
Cheers...
MJ-12
Sorry, do you want a good one or a cheap one?
Both together is nearly impossible, but you are lucky!
We have a priceworthy and good MHL-adaptare (which i think yopu need): http://goo.gl/aD8T7
Shipping to UK is 4€ extra btw.
I got the samsung one from amazon at 13 euros. Decent enough but no HD video. Not with the somesung one or any other adapter i tried. Just keeps the Phones resolution. Fun to play games and maybe a movie though
hdmi adapter uk
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/bizlink-mhl-adapter-microusb-to-hdmi-tv-out-black-p29839.htm
£12.95 inc of vat
this also works with no problems
http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4-/20189616/-/Product.html
that's for £15 and claimed to be official. Took almost a week to deliver but worked without fault. Going by few reviews of "cheap" adapters, it seemed hit n miss thingy. Thought price is in middle for something genuine.
I can't vouch for the quality of this as I'm waiting for mine to be delivered (only ordered it this morning), but for a tenner I'm not complaining...
http://goo.gl/8BwsJ
starfarer said:
that's for £15 and claimed to be official. Took almost a week to deliver but worked without fault. Going by few reviews of "cheap" adapters, it seemed hit n miss thingy. Thought price is in middle for something genuine.
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That is the price for the genuine. post resolution when you try it pls.
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Just got ICS on my phone and tried the HDMI adapter. It seems that it has better quality with ICS. Don't know if it upscales the resolution but it seems clearer.
edit: So the output is 1080p but the upscaling isn't always the best. especially in games where the downloades files are for 800x480. In movies and photos it works great though.
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http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4-/20189616/-/Product.html
that's for £15 and claimed to be official. Took almost a week to deliver but worked without fault. Going by few reviews of "cheap" adapters, it seemed hit n miss thingy. Thought price is in middle for something genuine.
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Argh hope it doesn't take a week to arrive, only ordered mine today
Decided at that price it just wasn't worth saving a couple of quid to get one that might work but likely have worse build quality.
Also ordered a HDMI to DVI cable from there for a stupidly low price of £2..
What's the actual conclusion on the SGS2s HDMI out? I've seen scattered reports of some people getting full 1080p out, others can't get any higher than the native 480x800. Then there's the Video Player app designed specifically for HD playback.
I'm getting 1080 with ICS but only on Videoplayback.
Tried several apps to resize the density for "office use" - everytime i had to reflash...
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Hollow.Droid said:
What's the actual conclusion on the SGS2s HDMI out? I've seen scattered reports of some people getting full 1080p out, others can't get any higher than the native 480x800. Then there's the Video Player app designed specifically for HD playback.
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Used to be 480p but in ICS works like a charm. BUT the app you are running has to be in HD or the phone upscales it a bit but not an actual HD quality. In movies it rocks.
cyberfux said:
I'm getting 1080 with ICS but only on Videoplayback.
Tried several apps to resize the density for "office use" - everytime i had to reflash...
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To me MX player works perfect, no problems with the stock samsung player.
Anyway even while the phone upscales the picture if you are at a big screen from the right distance you do not see bad quality. It is actually more than good. In photo gallery the quality is great, same on videos with any player. Only problem? Games. cause the downloaded files are for 800x480 which is low resolution if plagged on a 1080p tv.
Hollow.Droid said:
What's the actual conclusion on the SGS2s HDMI out? I've seen scattered reports of some people getting full 1080p out, others can't get any higher than the native 480x800. Then there's the Video Player app designed specifically for HD playback.
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Video resolution is independent of the phones native screen resolution. If the phone is 480*800 and the video is 1920*1080, then provided the media player can output 1080, and the tv being outputted to can display 1080, then the video will be 1080.
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Used to be 480p but in ICS works like a charm. BUT the app you are running has to be in HD or the phone upscales it a bit but not an actual HD quality. In movies it rocks.
To me MX player works perfect, no problems with the stock samsung player.
Anyway even while the phone upscales the picture if you are at a big screen from the right distance you do not see bad quality. It is actually more than good. In photo gallery the quality is great, same on videos with any player. Only problem? Games. cause the downloaded files are for 800x480 which is low resolution if plagged on a 1080p tv.
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Photo gallery is played on 1080p? are you sure? on GB only videos were 1080
Not 1080p as far as I'm aware it is 1080i isn't it?
I got mines from fleebay, 19 pounds and that included a docking station and a spare battery.
You could always check Dealextreme... they always have good stocks of decent enough products
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Video resolution is independent of the phones native screen resolution. If the phone is 480*800 and the video is 1920*1080, then provided the media player can output 1080, and the tv being outputted to can display 1080, then the video will be 1080.
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What if say the video is 720p and your screen only goes up to 720p
My 22" monitor can't do 1080i so I appear to be stuck at 720x480
I got this one from Amazon for £6.99 and a HDMI cable for £2.25, I've only tried it with my TV (which can only do up to 1080i) and I get 1080i on it, no problems at all.
I haven't tried it with my monitor yet (I got it mainly to watch films on my TV without having to burn any disks/buy a NAS or anything) but I can try it to see the 1080p output if requested.
From what I understood it doesn't support 1080p
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Hi guys. My GNex only seems to output to 720p when I connect it to the TV or he monitor. Does anyone know if it is possible to get the phone to output in 1080p? Thanks.
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Hi guys. My GNex only seems to output to 720p when I connect it to the TV or he monitor. Does anyone know if it is possible to get the phone to output in 1080p? Thanks.
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No. Unless ICS can "detect displays", it'll only display 720x1280, that the phone resolution.
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hmmm I see. So why is it that I keep hearing people touting 1080p output . Can the GS2 output 1080i though? I've heard of some people who have. Really bizzare. My Droid X ran at 858x400 and outputted to 720p so something is up.
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So the GNEX and Rezound both record 1080 but both can't output it? I'm confused. I though my GNEX could record it and then play it? I just got two days ago so pardon my absent of knowledge.
I can confirm that when using MHL to my LCD monitor, all video output is 720p. I tried playing some 1080p H.264 video files but the monitor still says 720p.
I'm beginning to think the GN output is always 720p over MHL.
Can anyone confirm this?
Something is amiss here.
With my Droid X, I can also output to my screen using the micro HDMI cable. The droid x also outputs to 720p; however, the resulting output only takes up a portion of the screen; there are black borders on the sides and on the top and bottom .
My Nexus on the other hand takes up the entire screen, which leads me to believe that this is behaving normally and as intended.
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in this video you can see the switch to 1080p when playing a video file in diceplayer (1:35)... maybe the player has to support it?
No change with Dice player
I tried Dice player with a couple 1080p H.264 videos from Youtube. They all play at 720p in the software player and hardware mode.
I saw in that video above it switches. But my Dell 2408WFP monitor still reports 1280x720 mode.
I know 1080p works fine with this monitor and my PS3 using HDMI.
Maybe when you use this:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/samsung-micro-usb-to-mhl-hdmi-tv-adapter-for-galaxy-s2-i9100-i9188-i9000-more-black-95031
it works then
I was able to play a 1080p 11gig file on my phone through mhl to my TV and it displayed as 1080p. I was using MX Player and the Samsung mhl adaptor.
I will try this on my non samsung mhl adapter (monoprice verison). I have outputted 720p on my tv but never 1080p.
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I was able to play a 1080p 11gig file on my phone through mhl to my TV and it displayed as 1080p. I was using MX Player and the Samsung mhl adaptor.
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Are you certain that it was 1080p...?
I shot a test clip with the built in 1080p/24 setting on the camera and it would replay it at 1080p over MHL via the built-in gallery app. I think people run into two type of problems with MHL:
1) Cheap eBay MHL dongles that max out at 720p and won't uprez ever.
2) Non stock playback apps that don't call out to the MHL to up the rez.
Hmmm... I forgot I just got a 1080p plasma. Will have to test tonight.
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as far as I'm aware there will only be 1080 p output when playing a 1080 p video file? The rest of the time the display mirrors the phone display at 720 p. Is this the case and are there any games that can take advantage of the larger resolution?
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Trying to find an answer for this. How do I get 1080p using MHL?
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Only when watching 1080p videos to my knowledge.
Swype'ed on my CM10 Galaxy Nexus
I've recorded a video in 1080, but it still plays in 720. MX player and stock player. Google play movies also play in 720.
Can't figure out how to get this to work.
Also strange, the edges of the display are cut.
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My TV is 3 maybe 4 years old. I bought the previous year's model to save $$
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jova33 said:
I've recorded a video in 1080, but it still plays in 720. MX player and stock player. Google play movies also play in 720.
Can't figure out how to get this to work.
Also strange, the edges of the display are cut.
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My TV is 3 maybe 4 years old. I bought the previous year's model to save $$
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I believe you can configure the HDMI settings to cut the (bottom) menus off, my TF300T have it, but I never tried it on my GNEX. I have a (announced as) 1080p MHL=>HDMI cable, tried some 1080p clips but never got my TV to show it above 720p. I'm crazy about it also, I really want to take advantage of FullHD with my Galaxy Nexus.
I'm using MHL Samsung adapter and Samsung 40D7000 tv, and when i play 1080p video through MX Player, TV information shows 1920x1080 resolution.
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Hi guys
i just bought mhl to hdmi convertor off ebay and it supports 1080p resolution. However when i connect it with my Gnex it only outputs 640x480 resolution ...is there any fix for this??
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i just bought mhl to hdmi convertor off ebay and it supports 1080p resolution. However when i connect it with my Gnex it only outputs 640x480 resolution ...is there any fix for this??
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What are you trying to output? Home screen?movie?game?
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everything i have tried is displaying at 640x480 resolution...even movies games
seems like you got a funky MHL my friend.
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everything i have tried is displaying at 640x480 resolution...even movies games
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did you sort this as ive got the same but im using a hdmi to dvi adaptor to try on a monitor, it says 1280 x 720 support on the box...
cheers
I'm experiencing some sort of overscan when using the adapter, but I'm not sure if it is the phone, my av-receiver or the TV.
Oh well. It was dirt cheap on dealextreme.com. Not like I lost a lot of money
I haven't got one yet but have been researching like crazy. What I have found so far is that cheap ones are cheap. They do what yours is doing, the connections need to be wiggled to keep it connected etc. Spring for a good quality one if you're actually going to be using it. The folks at MHL have a good one I think, just haven't been able to find it.
No 1080p when using DVI
What a pity! Back in time, when we had ICS there we at least got the possibility to use 1280x720 (as far as I remember) when using a monitor via mhl->hdmi->dvi chain, now we are only getting 640x480, Even when watching movies.
You will only get full HD whenn you connect directly usb-.hdmi->TV
So no desktop mode any more.
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i just bought mhl to hdmi convertor off ebay and it supports 1080p resolution. However when i connect it with my Gnex it only outputs 640x480 resolution ...is there any fix for this??
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I don't know how helpful this is, but Samsung actually makes an HDMI media dock for the GNex that works really well. I'm not sure how much it costs, however, as mine came with my phone.
The only issue I've had with it is that I have to take the case off my phone to use it.
The real good question...
The real question here is: "Can the Galaxy Nexus output 1080p playback, given his native resolution IS NOT 1080p?"
I mean, I know that OSs can adapt second displays and all that, Linux does that, but can Android do that? Treat the HDMI output as a second and independent display? I hope it can. I have a MHL=>HDMI cable (that also needs the power adapter to be plugged in) and I can only get 720p out of it, and the GNex can actually play 1080p movies, so... That would be awesome to play 1080p movies on my TV screen.
Hey guys I have been using the GN with 720p for a while and it's fine an all but I want to try and get 1080p output, is this possible?
I have been using the Samsung G2 MHL cables.
Thanks in advance.
Only if you play movies in 1080p i think. Not the homescreen itself.
Where do you guys get movies in 1080p for phones? Legally of course
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Depending on where you live, you could use something like MakeMKV to rip your BluRays (in sane parts of the world that would fall under fair use, in other parts the MPAA would track you down and beat you with your own entrails for causing millions of dollars in losses by watching a movie you bought on a device for which it was not intended).
However, since the MHL adapter mirrors the screen I highly doubt you'll get anything more or less than 720p without going through an upscaler which would kind of defeat the purpose.
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Where do you guys get movies in 1080p for phones? Legally of course
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If you just want a short for testing or demonstration, download a few official Angry Birds shorts off youtube with some extra programs . They are available in 1080p MP4 versions. I have a few of them on my phone.
Shooting off on a tangent here, anyone tried those MHL dongles off ebay?
I bought the more expensive mhl cable and when I connect to any TV at all when I stream nextflix or play any movie the quality is horrible. Its hard to even make out what's going on. Is there a rom or something to fix this?
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I bought the more expensive mhl cable and when I connect to any TV at all when I stream nextflix or play any movie the quality is horrible. Its hard to even make out what's going on. Is there a rom or something to fix this?
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try and stream a hq quality youtube video and see what pic is like. ive noticed most time trying stream netflix the quality of netflix is causing it to give bad pic.
I tried it. It looks good only with HQ YouTube. Is there anyway to get normal streaming videos or Netflix to look good. I saw a YouTube video were a guys gs2 looked perfect with all streaming
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well there are some hd movies on netflix or a movie from market will both look good idk about if there way get reg netflix to look good i havent seen it done.
a lot of shows on the the netflix app is like 480p at best thats why when shown on your 720p-1080p tv it would look very uhh.. bad. You probably need to find shows and movies at higher resolution for it to look crisp.
Well it definitely isn't showing in 480 . Its so horrible I can't even make out faces. There has to be something wrong. Cause the cable is useless
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Well it definitely isn't showing in 480 . Its so horrible I can't even make out faces. There has to be something wrong. Cause the cable is useless
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obviously if viewing hq youtube videos produces a good pic then the problem lies within the netflix app itself and its lower quality being streamed. the cable is serving its purpose you just need to stream hd quality video
netflix sucks on my phone
I notice this as well and if you look very closely the same distortion can be seen on the phone as well. I hope we get a better netflix app. I can't believe my wii gets better picture than this great phone. This totally sucks.
Netflix just needs to get it together and make there **** all hd...no reason y I should have to watch low quality picture on phone or streaming on my flat screen
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It has nothing to do with this or your NHL HDMI converter. Its more then likely the sync issue between your TV and output of signal from your phone. I can almost assume your outputting to a plasma? Which has a higher refresh rate then a LCD has, this is the problem. Your phone can't satisfy the output request of the plasma, in other words it can't keep up. On a LCD it would look pretty good.
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It has nothing to do with this or your NHL HDMI converter. Its more then likely the sync issue between your TV and output of signal from your phone. I can almost assume your outputting to a plasma? Which has a higher refresh rate then a LCD has, this is the problem. Your phone can't satisfy the output request of the plasma, in other words it can't keep up. On a LCD it would look pretty good.
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I believe his "blurriness" is referring to the resolution and not the refresh rate. The refresh rate translate to the smoothness and clarity of movements on the screen. I can see what you think he meant by the blurriness, but ultimately, the resolution on netflix is too low to be projected with clarity on a 1080 lcd/plasma screen.
and damn 4.5 years on here with no thanks.. here is one.
+1 - Teo032, there's your thanks.
Anyway, Netflix automaticly cuts the quality down if its not streaming on wifi
Remember when Netflix was first released, it was only to a few phones. The dev masters had to develop work arounds and hacks to get the apk to work. Soon Netflix caved (so we think) and made it available to the masses. You don't think the engineering that went into the final development of the app will prevent total streaming from phone to TV? The Netflix apk is for personal use, for your personal phone, not for streaming to some capture software to be pirated off of some torrent web site. Just put yourself in their shoes. To keeps the deals they made with the production companies, that had to appease them somehow. You can't stream HD quality content from your Netflix app on your phone to any TV out there, no matter if its LCD or plasma. They don't want you to. Its only intended to be viewed from your phone.
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People pay Monthly for there Netflix services...you can stream from ps3 to your TV why would it matter that your deciding to use your phone? Either way your paying for the service...bottom line is Netflix is primarily low quality movies...
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ps3 requires a TV, same thing with xbox360. You needs a TV to view Netflix, Hulu+ with game consoles. That's a given. But your smartphone already has a viewable screen. No need to attach any TV. So, they can purposely lower the quality. One of the MAJOR concerns with the movie (old school) studios is piracy. They flawed it from the get go. INTENTIONALLY!
Believe you me! I'll be watching "The Human Centipede" from Netflix on my HD 70" 240hts LCD TV from my phone RIGHT NOW if it can be done. With good quality.
Sorry, but it can't be done.
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Nope I tried on 2 LCD TVs. And no the picture on my phone will always look great while the TV is unviewable. And I can have a megavideo movie playing on my phone that looks excellent when the TV quality is still horrible as well. Is there any app out that may help this problem?
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Just bought 2 from Mertiline... i'm new here and cannot post link so here's product code #0005278. Price is 9.99 but if you buy 2 you'll get at 8.50 each. They're working good, i've just watch 720p video that i took with my T989D and quality is very nice.
That's cool. Im thinking of getting one too. Didn't know they were so reasonable.
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Im using the samsung one..really great quality. was $20.00 @ frys i think?..read somewhere that some third party MHL adapters messed the phone up so i decided to use the factory recommended one:good:
i remember seeing the mertiline deal...was about to jump on it, until i realize it doesn't allow me to plug in the charger. I think I'll be ordering one from monoprince that adds an inline USB charging port. But good to see the video quality is good via the converter.
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How is the quality? I want to use mine to watch youtube and downloaded videos on my TV. Is the quality comparable to connecting my laptop to my tv via hdmi.
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How is the quality? I want to use mine to watch youtube and downloaded videos on my TV. Is the quality comparable to connecting my laptop to my tv via hdmi.
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Sorry for the delay, i could not say is comparable to HDMI with your laptop but it's still very nice to watch. I tried youtube videos, WMV, AVI, and 720P MKV Videos without problem,...You can notice some small blur when there.s a lot of movements in the videos. Maybe the Original Samsung Adapter is better than this one, i don't know i don't have one in my hand to compare...
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Sorry for the delay, i could not say is comparable to HDMI with your laptop but it's still very nice to watch. I tried youtube videos, WMV, AVI, and 720P MKV Videos without problem,...You can notice some small blur when there.s a lot of movements in the videos. Maybe the Original Samsung Adapter is better than this one, i don't know i don't have one in my hand to compare...
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Can you turn your cell phone screen off while using the adapter?
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Can you turn your cell phone screen off while using the adapter?
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No you can't, sleep button is disabled when watching videos!!
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Sorry for the delay, i could not say is comparable to HDMI with your laptop but it's still very nice to watch. I tried youtube videos, WMV, AVI, and 720P MKV Videos without problem,...You can notice some small blur when there.s a lot of movements in the videos. Maybe the Original Samsung Adapter is better than this one, i don't know i don't have one in my hand to compare...
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as far as having blurring the samsung one shows none of that..the quality is really great...HD youtube vids and movies play pefectly.:good:
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Can you turn your cell phone screen off while using the adapter?
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If you have root check out root-dim. Pretty much the same effect. Dim to 0...
I ordered an mhl adapter off eBay with inline charger ... but it doesn't seem to work... it charges my phone but I get nothing on my television... :/ I have it on proper input .... is there something I am missing?
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I've read other threads saying the ones from e-bay it's a hit and miss... some works some don't!!!
Did you try to reboot while it is plugged ?
I bought the cheapest one I could find for like $5 and it works great. The adapter doesn't seem to work with any of the JellyBean roms, just ICS and lower if that helps.
whenever i use my sgs2 with a MHL adapter the phone goes into 'auto rotation out of control mode' when i switch inputs on the target device. i'm sure it has something to do with it losing HDMI sync, but i've never seen a fix for it which is so damn annoying.
other than that it's pretty nifty.