Share your allshare cast experience. - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

NOOBS - For those that don't know the difference between ALLSHARE and ALLSHARE CAST please read before replying, thanks.
ALLSHARE - this simply streams bits to your smart TV or compatible wifi media player and plays the actual file on that device, it doesn't do any hardware / software decoding on the phone. This can be a problem is your smart TV or player has limited codec support for instance.
ALLSHARE CAST - this is a different beast altogether and one of the reasons I bought this phone. ALLSHARE cast is basically a mirroring system from your Phone to your TV, essentialyl a wifi HDMI cable as it were. With this option you shoud be able to mirror your phone wirelessly for games and movies and the like on a compatible smart TV with a wifi connection.
The problem is... I cant get it to work. I have tried stock ICS and Jelly ROMS, both with the ALLSHARE CAST option and neither picks up my TV, i definately have a compatible TV (Samsung UE40D8000) so wassp?
update: 27.9.2012 - re conversation on facebook - looks like sammy are backtracking on ALLSHARE CAST as they couldnt get it to work.
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UPDATE: 25.9.2012 - after exhaustive hammering at Samsung from various channels there is still no answer on this - here is an update on what is currently known / assumed:
1. Allshare cast is currently only working with the ALLSHARE CAST dongle it will not work with any TV's direct, regardless of model.
2. It is still not clear which TV's are going to work if it does eventually work at all, it was suggested by an OP at Samsung support that it will be only the high end models, although whether this means all those that have WIFI built in or just some of them.
3. The Allshare Cast info on the Samsung Website seems to have changed to me, it previously suggested it would work on all WIFI/DLNA enabled TV's regardless of model.
4. Samsung and other companies are still working on a universal mirroring system which will be an agreed variant of "mirrorcast", Samsungs version of Allshare cast appears to be an early version of this and may in fact not work very well - the lag on the dongle version seems to back this up.
So, if you want to use Allshare cast at the moment you will need a dongle and the dongle has quite a bit of lag which for me rules out gaming. Please also note this information is a best conjecture on my part and so I cannot corroborate any of it, choose to believe it or not, I am happy to make changes to this if people have any more up to date information.

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Still waiting for mine, supplier said the dongle will arrive end of August...Will report back how it works out. For know only using wired HDMI adapter.
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chrismast said:
Still waiting for mine, supplier said the dongle will arrive end of August...Will report back how it works out. For know only using wired HDMI adapter.
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cheers but its not the dongle I am concerned with, its the direct phone to TV connection I am trying to get working, compatible smart tv's wont need a dongle.

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just spoke to Samsung they tell me that the firmware updated hasnt yet been released on all sammy TV's which is why it doesnt work, it is only currently working on the new ES models. They do advise that its not a fault, they are just waiting for the update to come live.

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Is the WiFi connection really needed to get this working? I have a U46D6200 without WiFi, but it's connected to my LAN over Ethernet. Of course I have also a WiFi router in the same network so the phone is able to contact the TV using WiFi.

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foo said:
Is the WiFi connection really needed to get this working? I have a U46D6200 without WiFi, but it's connected to my LAN over Ethernet. Of course I have also a WiFi router in the same network so the phone is able to contact the TV using WiFi.
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I believe the tv acts as the dongle, therefore you need to have the right model of smart TV with the correct firmware onboard, as far as I know only the new ES models and the older more expensive models have this capability (D7000 and D8000 series), I dont think the 6 series is compatible so you would need the allshare cast dongle - to be safe give samsung a quick call, nice, helpful people I found and wasnt waiting too long and the phone either.

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My next TV will be an ES series I should imagine so that's handy.

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Un46es7000
da.trute said:
just spoke to Samsung they tell me that the firmware updated hasnt yet been released on all sammy TV's which is why it doesnt work, it is only currently working on the new ES models. They do advise that its not a fault, they are just waiting for the update to come live.
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Hi,
I have the new UN46ES7000 model and allshare cast is not working for me, my tv is not found in allshare cast option. Allshare play, control, wifi-direct and DLNA works perfectly. My TV currently is using 001013 firmware.
Maybe the 2012 models also need a firmware update to work with allshare cast.

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[edit] I have a 5 series smart tv [edit]
I have the 6 series smart tv. I cant wait to use allshare cast and I cant figure out how to use allshare at all!
I am not going to buy the dongle as I dont think that I should pay for a smart tv with this functionality and then get told to buy another dongle! I might as well have bought a cheap tv
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I have a smart tv ES series and just updated it to software 001012 . I am still not able to connect my tv to allshare cast ( s3 unable to find) anyone else updated to 001012?

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akhil_pruthi said:
I have a smart tv ES series and just updated it to software 001012 . I am still not able to connect my tv to allshare cast ( s3 unable to find) anyone else updated to 001012?
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I cant be sure the ES 5 and 6 series are going to work, you will need to check with samsung. You should also check for a USB firmware update on the sammy website as the support section on your TV only checks for OTA firmware updates, mine had two to collect.
check you TV compatibility first, then Update your TV, flash back to stock ROM and if still not working i'd log a fault with Sammy in their support section. I cant log one yet as i have the UE40D8000 which is awaiting the official firmware update.

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da.trute said:
I cant be sure the ES 5 and 6 series are going to work, you will need to check with samsung. You should also check for a USB firmware update on the sammy website as the support section on your TV only checks for OTA firmware updates, mine had two to collect.
check you TV compatibility first, then Update your TV, flash back to stock ROM and if still not working i'd log a fault with Sammy in their support section. I cant log one yet as i have the UE40D8000 which is awaiting the official firmware update.
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What does flash back to stock ROM mean? Im sorry i have no idea about all this . New to android and samsung . Also , i have to check the usn update on the website from my tv or what?

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xda is primarily for people who want to develop existing ROMS and provide a better experience for users, if you dont know what flashing a ROM means you really need to do some reading before you go any further. Its ok to use XDA for info and reference but you should try to contribute a little as well where you can.

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akhil_pruthi said:
What does flash back to stock ROM mean? Im sorry i have no idea about all this . New to android and samsung . Also , i have to check the usn update on the website from my tv or what?
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He means by flashing a stock ROM is to restore your phone to the ROM it originaly came with, i.e including carrier branding! If you dont know about swapping ROM's you shouldnt need to flash your phone back to a stock ROM
there isnt any need to be rude!!! I learned how to root/mod my phones through XDA!!! I am just a fast learner though so it didnt take me as long as it will with others!!!
I hope this helps
Steven
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stevepork said:
He means by flashing a stock ROM is to restore your phone to the ROM it originaly came with, i.e including carrier branding! If you dont know about swapping ROM's you shouldnt need to flash your phone back to a stock ROM
there isnt any need to be rude!!! I learned how to root/mod my phones through XDA!!! I am just a fast learner though so it didnt take me as long as it will with others!!!
I hope this helps
Steven
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Rude, who was being rude?, my reply was accurate and concise, nothing more. If this is what you think passes for rudeness these days I think you should probably try to get out more fella

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Finally some useful news
This thing was driving me mad
I got a d7000 so I hope the update will be released soon

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da.trute said:
Rude, who was being rude?, my reply was accurate and concise, nothing more. If this is what you think passes for rudeness these days I think you should probably try to get out more fella
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damn dude come off that mountain and stop preaching the people you hardly know assuming there way less then you lol
that is called narcism btw
on-topic.. i have a es8000 1018 firmware latest model 2012 and a s3 latest 32gb model with latest 4.04 firmware on them and this allshare cast dont work , it finds no device. allshare control and play versions do work. smartview 3.20 gives subscribtion tv to my s3 phone (really briljant this option). the thing is i found this program called playto samsung tv on my s3 which can play a lot of social media stuff (youtube vimeo metacafe and much more) to the tv from the phone. weird thing is when it actually wants to play a video on the tv which the tv doesnt support u get this quick preview of the android desktop on the tv. this makes me think it works allready, only thing is to find out how
it would need a wifi-direct connection to the tv and the tv should show up as a device on the phonescreen. alas it does not. so the thing is not ready yet allthough this playto samsung tv prog shows me different.

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da_jojo said:
damn dude come off that mountain and stop preaching the people you hardly know assuming there way less then you lol
that is called narcism btw
on-topic.. i have a es8000 1018 firmware latest model 2012 and a s3 latest 32gb model with latest 4.04 firmware on them and this allshare cast dont work , it finds no device. allshare control and play versions do work. smartview 3.20 gives subscribtion tv to my s3 phone (really briljant this option). the thing is i found this program called playto samsung tv on my s3 which can play a lot of social media stuff (youtube vimeo metacafe and much more) to the tv from the phone. weird thing is when it actually wants to play a video on the tv which the tv doesnt support u get this quick preview of the android desktop on the tv. this makes me think it works allready, only thing is to find out how
it would need a wifi-direct connection to the tv and the tv should show up as a device on the phonescreen. alas it does not. so the thing is not ready yet allthough this playto samsung tv prog shows me different.
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I still think you need to check your definition of rude, the guy seemed to be a total noob, I was just providing some info about how this place works.
back on topic - I have had a similar experience with mine, pretty much given up on it now though as it seems clear this isn't going to work, I doubt it will ever work even though it was promised by Samsung and is still promised as "coming soon" on their website. It wouldn't surprise me if it comes out working on the SGS4 off the bat and they rename it "mirror cast" as this is actually what it is. I did a bit of research on this the other day, I think Samsung have bolted out of the door on this one too early, I don't think it is stable for them which is why they haven't released it. Obviously they aren't going to admit that though.

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i wanna buy a 32 inch smart tv with wifi, i need some suggestions, i actually want to use both all share functions as written in op, tell me which model should i buy, my budget is not too high, thanks
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sohebq said:
i wanna buy a 32 inch smart tv with wifi, i need some suggestions, i actually want to use both all share functions as written in op, tell me which model should i buy, my budget is not too high, thanks
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Samsung 5600 es series ( the newest one ) is a good option . But you need the wifi dongle with that , although mine was free. ( with the 40 inch ) it has allshare features.
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