Hello,
I am thinking about building an audio dock for the Galaxy S2 from scratch.
I only want it to load the Galaxy S2 and be able to play music from the MicroUSB, using an inbuilt speaker.
What I want to know:
-Would this speaker be okay? http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/710674/5-CM-BREITBANDLAUTSPRECHER-FRWS-5SC-8OHM/1312030&ref=list
- How do I have to manipulate the MicroUSB cable to force audio output via MicroUSB? (Because I never did something like that before, I'll need precise information about what to to and which components (resistors) to use for that.) What I mean is, which resistance do I have to change and how?
- Is there any chance to brick/damage the phone when doing something wrong?
I have to mention that I never ever in my life have built something electric more than in school for some years.
I don't know much about electrical stuff and I never would attempt something if there would be higher voltages or danger involved.
But if the only thing that could happen is a non-working speakerand a destroyed cable, then I definitely have to try it...
Don't get me wrong: I dare to do this and to get it working! But if there is the danger of f**king up my phone, I won't.
Nonetheless, I would want to know the details, just out of pure interest!
Building a case and installing all those components, making it look nice etc. won't be a problem for me, but with the wiring I really do need help!
If anyone would be so kind to help me with that, I would be very thankful.
Please also know, that english is not my native language.
Regards, Bonscha
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on another phone especially the galaxy sII? wondering it would on another device.
It has a proprietary connector so no.
the mhl dongle? it can be had, but i don't it is available commercially in the us. happen to know if any non motorola phones with hdmi out has tried webtop?
http://motorola-global-eng.custhelp.com/rnt/rnw/img/enduser/oly_supdock_front_m.jpg
You have to connect both connectors at the same time. And if I read correctly, one of the two is a proprietary connector by Motorola.
no. i have the atrix. it's just micro hdmi and micro usb. the galaxy has mhl connection which can be used for hdmi out i believe. it's just hard getting mhl because hardly anything is using it right now.
Samsung provides an microUSB to HDMI cable. But then again, you can't connect both at the same time.
And I think the Atrix has some specific drivers (and a lot of modified Android OS files) too. While they can be dumped, you'd need to adapt them on a GSII ROM. And since it's quite useless, nobody will dive into this huge reverse engineering work.
Definately a no-go.
well some of the atrix webtop files have been pulled and that is part of what i was wondering if anybody has tried to do a quick zip with them and seen what happens. i'm pretty sure it isn't that simple because as you've said, probably custom files from motorola. to some peeps it might be worth it to be able to use webttop/lapdock but who knows how deep you gotta dig in. i don't have the skills for it and am not requesting it either. some phones have been able to boot into other os'es and such so this task isn't unsurmountable.
While it isn't surmontable, it would be pretty hard (not only there's some files related to the webtop (libs and such), but there's also a completely changed Android framework). So it would be a pain in the ass to adapt this with Samsung files.
And since there maximum 5 guys in the world who have both a motorola webtop and a Galaxy S II, there's not a lot of chances to have it working.
And again, there are not the right connectors. Even if the software is adapted, there's still the hardware issue.
Well thanks for all the answers. I was more curious about if other android users were curious about webtop and galaxy sii was a good forum to ask because it's a powerful phone and popular. I got the lapdock and it's pretty good for light duty utilization. And easier on the eyes. Thanks for your answers again.
I voided my warranty.
I PROMISE I have Googled and searched and searched and Googled. I absolutely apologize if this is a repeat or obvious question. I hope that there is a simple answer.
To put it plainly, I am wondering if anyone has made some sort of software that would allow an android device to appear as an iPod/iPhone while attached to a media playing device via USB? Specifically, a car head-unit (radio).
My Pioneer has all kinds of wonderful abilities for talking to and controlling an apple iWhatever, but has almost nothing for other devices. And I just wonder if anyone has helped bridge this gap?
I know that when the Palm Pres first came out, the emulated being an Apple device for a while, and I thought I saw a similar software for Android once upon a time. But if it exists and works today, God knows I am not finding it. SOOOO I thought I would ask in this wonderful, singular place of knowledge, before finally giving up.
Again, I apologize if this is a redundant question. Thanks so much in advance. Have a great day!
bedowyn said:
I PROMISE I have Googled and searched and searched and Googled. I absolutely apologize if this is a repeat or obvious question. I hope that there is a simple answer.
To put it plainly, I am wondering if anyone has made some sort of software that would allow an android device to appear as an iPod/iPhone while attached to a media playing device via USB? Specifically, a car head-unit (radio).
My Pioneer has all kinds of wonderful abilities for talking to and controlling an apple iWhatever, but has almost nothing for other devices. And I just wonder if anyone has helped bridge this gap?
I know that when the Palm Pres first came out, the emulated being an Apple device for a while, and I thought I saw a similar software for Android once upon a time. But if it exists and works today, God knows I am not finding it. SOOOO I thought I would ask in this wonderful, singular place of knowledge, before finally giving up.
Again, I apologize if this is a redundant question. Thanks so much in advance. Have a great day!
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Lemme guess-you have a AVIC head unit? If so, me too! (X910BT). I actually posed a somewhat similar question asking for information on how to program A2DP so I can spoof the Bluetooth into thinking it were a supported model so we could stream Slacker.....
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can help us....
What is the connection method? If its USB you could try mass storage device mode just to access the files themselves assuming the player has some sort of GUI to navigate the directories.
The easiest method if you want to control audio via the phone is to just hook the headphone output into the aux. Apple's proprietary usb connection has audio out and thats how docks are able to use it.
What is the radio model and have you tried Googling for a solution. I can't believe the manufacturer would just leave all other devices in the dark, but I have seen stuff like this before.
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What is the connection method? If its USB you could try mass storage device mode just to access the files themselves assuming the player has some sort of GUI to navigate the directories.
The easiest method if you want to control audio via the phone is to just hook the headphone output into the aux. Apple's proprietary usb connection has audio out and thats how docks are able to use it.
What is the radio model and have you tried Googling for a solution. I can't believe the manufacturer would just leave all other devices in the dark, but I have seen stuff like this before.
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Ummm... yes, connecting by USB. And yes I googled first. The pioneer will mount a USB mass storage device, but it is slow and lacks much in the way of functionality, such as sorting and playlists. Again, if the phone "pretended" to be an iSomething, then that would be ideal. I am wondering if such is possible.
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Ummm... yes, connecting by USB. And yes I googled first. The pioneer will mount a USB mass storage device, but it is slow and lacks much in the way of functionality, such as sorting and playlists. Again, if the phone "pretended" to be an iSomething, then that would be ideal. I am wondering if such is possible.
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I posted the same question a week ago with no answers. Great source of information here.
Anyway I dont think the issue is making the android system "pretend" to be an apple product as blackberries also work fine. I think droid needs a software to make it compatible wit this usb feature.
Hello everybody,
firstly i wanted to say that i'm very new to this forum, and also my english is not so good (or how we say here in germany: my english is not the yellow from the egg ^^).
So, whats the Problem?
How you can read in the title i'm searching for something, to record a screen. BUT: yeah, of course there are 1000s of tutorials on the net how to record with quite a good framerate, and why do i create this thread when i know that it's already around in the net? Because that's not what i'm searching for. I do not want to record my android screen, but my pc monitor. And because if you use fraps, the video get's really big and you need much more resources to record in good quality, i thought that maybe the smartphone could record what happens on the pc.
How could it work?
Well the first thing i thought of whas the mini-usb to hdmi cable that lays around here anywhere. So maybe you could simply use the hdmi output of the pc and turn the monitor mode this way, that you have the same picture on both "monitors" and the android phone just records what comes out of the cable (in easy, non professional words)
Otherwise i would think of something with the usb cable, for this there must be something installed on the pc of course.
So the first thing i'd like to know from you is that you think if it's possible and of course how it could works.
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greetings and thanks in advance.
so there's noone who has any experiences in this topic?
I'm looking at this inexpensive HDTV tuner/DVR. I'm guessing that they're ARM/Android-based but I'm going to buy one and open it up to see what's inside. It has all the makings of a cool, inexpensive little OTA DVR box - ATSC tuner, HDMI output, and a USB port for a TB storage drive. I originally bought the wrong (previous) model and played around with it. It was pretty responsive/seemed to have enough horsepower. Picture quality was good. DVR functionality didn't seem to work properly and the EPG was utter crap. If it's ARM/Android based and could be rooted, we could probably get XBMC on it and this thing would be a TiVo Roamio KILLER.
I could try to root it on my own but I've never done anything like that before and wouldn't know where to start. Can anyone point me toward any "how to root an Android device" resources?
I'm not without skills, but it would probably be better to just post a bounty and get help from the experts. What's the best way to go about doing something like that? What kinds of details do I need and how do I come up with the terms for the bounty? And WHERE would I post it?
I should probably add that I've googled rooting Android devices and the resulting haystack is focused on rooting phones. There's no MicroSD card to play with here - only the USB port - and no bootloader or BIOS prompt that I can see.
You could either try to get access through a serial or jtag connector, that is for example, how it was possible to change the firmware on the Fonera FON2100, which is maybe the easiest way.
Or you could try do disassemble a firmware update for this Router and reassemble it to work in your desired way, e.g. flash a different firmware.
Or you could try the numerous combinations of keys to press, where one may lead to something like fastboot.
But if it is really some sort of android-based you should try the various root-methodes like towelroot first.
Hi all I'm not sure where to turn to at all and I'm sure if this firmware can be created and used successfully, if it could there will be alot of other users that could benefit. This is a little specific so bear with me, for Christmas I got myself a corsair virtuoso se headset to use with my ps5, I've set them up the way I want using the icue software on PC, went to use them on the ps5 only to find that the settings didn't carry over. After a bit of a search on Google I've found that the headset itself doesn't have any on board memory to save the settings. I've spoke to corsair and it seems the don't really care too much about the console gamer and can't help me.
So this is to you guys if you can point me in the right direction if anything can be done to get my headset how I want it to be.
Can a custom firmware be created with my settings and flashed directly to the headset?
I wouldn't even know where to start I'm a complete novice the most I've ever done is mess around with my old s10 by rooting and flashing roms.
If this thread is in the wrong place let me know where to put it or delete if not allowed altogether.
I know I'm not the only person to have this issue with the headset so like I said others may benefit if can be done successfully.