I was thinking of buying the "Motorola HD Multimedia Dock" on Amazon for my Atrix 4G.
The Amazon page says "There is a newer model of this item: Motorola Flip Stand with Smart Desktop Charger". The Flip Stand says it has Office, Bedside, Gallery, Music, and Mirror Modes. The Mirror Mode description says that it "supersizes your content by connecting to any HDTV or HD monitor".
I wanted the Multimedia dock so I could use my Atrix on an HDTV using webtop (even though it can be slow), but I would prefer mirroring without webtop so that Netflix wouldn't lag like it does when running in the webtop environment. Does anyone know if this "Mirror Mode" for the Flip Stand just opens the Atrix's webtop, or if it does some other mirroring?
I'm using the latest stock Gingerbread on my Atrix 4G.
Seems the flip stand is universal and doesn't have HDMI. Get the multimedia dock instead.
Just so you know, the dock actually isn't required because they hacked it. All you do is connect the HDMI cable that came with your phone to a TV and you get the menu top pick webtop or entertainment center or mirror. XBMC with CM10 mirroring works nicely too.
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Thanks for the info, I'll research those options.
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Does this HD Dock work as the webtop like so I can use my Monitor as a computer, etc?
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Mult...sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=mobile&qid=1298522537&sr=8-1
The HD dock, at least as far as I have noticed, can only connect with an HDMI cable...so if your monitor has HDMI, then yes. I use my big screen television as my computer in my living room, instead of going to my office all the time.
Hi All,
My dream, one that I hope Android can help me fulfill is to hook my Galaxy S2 to a HDMI tv, fire up remote desktop and by using a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, effectively have a full desktop available.
I am yet to try hooking up my phone to a tv as I am waiting for the MHL cable, but issues I envisage are the following:
1) When the screen is mirrored on the TV, the RDP program will not use the TVs display show 'full screen'. I have installed some RDP applications and they allow you to select the resolution so perhaps this will resolve the issue
2) Are there any RDP applications that allow bluetooth keyboard and mouse entry?
This is the hold grail for me!! Many a time I have stayed in a hotel for work or holiday and not had my laptop with me and wished for such a solution. Combine this with Wake On Lan and it's perfect!
I hope someone can help!
I can't believe i'm the only one that wants something like this to work!
RDP programs should just take any inputs from your phone and pass them onto the remote machine so BT kb/m should work ok IMO. Not sure about the mirroring but if it is fullscreen on the phone then maybe the MHL cable will upscale for the TV.
rob_h said:
RDP programs should just take any inputs from your phone and pass them onto the remote machine so BT kb/m should work ok IMO. Not sure about the mirroring but if it is fullscreen on the phone then maybe the MHL cable will upscale for the TV.
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I'm waiting for the cable before I can try. In fact I would have had it by now but my girlfriend wants to buy some stuff for me for my bday and I believe she's already ordered it!
I should get mine tomorrow and I'll try it out.
Thanks! I'll check back on thread!
I've been doing some reading around and have found that BT keyboards and a mouse will work no problem.
I tried my MHL cable with the Android VNC viewer app and allows you to fit to screen but does not output at the tv's native res.
I have had similar experience with Remote RDP, it just mirrors the phone's native resolution. Hopefully this kind of thing will be supported soon, including internet browsing at 1080p.
Thanks guys, that sux!
I still haven't received my cable so I can't try for myself, but have you managed to make it work to a workable output on the TV?
would be interesting if we could port some parts from the atrix (webtop) over to this phone. I actually enjoyed that feature.
blunted09 said:
would be interesting if we could port some parts from the atrix (webtop) over to this phone. I actually enjoyed that feature.
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Perhaps, this kind of program may help to format the resolution?
Am I missing something? If you got a bt keyboard and bt mouse and the phone to tv hdmi, don't you have it all? Why would you need a remote desktop or vnc software?
Well, you'd have it all except for USB, which you might be able to live without.
ckinninger said:
Am I missing something? If you got a bt keyboard and bt mouse and the phone to tv hdmi, don't you have it all? Why would you need a remote desktop or vnc software?
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If it could pump out the full Remote Desktop resolution then you will effectively have a full desktop through your phone rather than just have the phone's software capability.
Fair enough you can surf the web and play a video but what if I want to use full excel or Word, and multi-task like on a desktop.
I've still not received my cable so I don't know whether the browsing the net with the phone's browser is legible on a big screen.
In my earlier post I complete missed off the applications name - LCD Density - haven't tried and I don't know if it's compatible with the SGSII, but sounds like it changes the native resolution of the phone.
Try Splashtop as your vnc app it is the only one to my knowledge that can stream audio almost perfect and video pretty good over vnc and works like a charm on the atrix.
Did you find a good BT keyboard that works well with the Evo? I'd prefer one with a built in trackpad, as my goal is to use this on the road (ie, airports, trains, etc), and would like to have an all-in-one keyboard/mouse.
The one thing that I haven't had time to tinker with have been HDMI goggles that can give a virtual display. Has anyone tried these w/ the Evo's mini-HDMI output?
I've been playing around with my HDMI cable that I originally bought for my Droid X... absolutely loving the mirror mode the RAZR has (much better than using realHDMI for the X) YouTube works flawlessly, however the only app I've come across that absolutely will not work is Netflix... you can browse movies, but as soon as you select a movie it will start to load and play like 2 secs of audio through TV then a pop-up notification alerts you that the Netflix server can't be reached(same if on wifi or 3g or 4g).... anyway I was wondering if there is some sort of work around for Netflix to use HDMI out function.... I feel that if I am streaming on my phone it shouldn't matter to Netflix if I want to view it on my TV... is there an app kinda like realHDMI that allows anything you want to use HDMI out?
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that's weird, works fine for me on rzrx. Watched just about every episode of soa on my TV via the razr.
FYI: This is for Pre-Android 4.2 Jelly Bean (not 4.1 Jelly Bean - yes it's confusing) devices. 4.2 now has a much better feature for screen mirroring!
I'm just wondering if anyone else has thought of this. I know that it's not EXACTLY the same thing, but the principles are similar.
If the Nexus Q is just a media viewing device for $300, why wouldn't you just buy an Android tablet with MHL or HDMI out?
I happen to have the TF101 (original Nexus tablet IMHO) with Mini HDMI out. Newer Android tabs have Micro HDMI out. A lot of Android phones have MHL/microUSB-HDMI out. I did a quick google, found this and installed a VNC Viewer and VNC Server on both by HTC Sensation phone (running Android 4.1.2) and my TF101 (running Android 4.1.1).
I was able to remote control the tablet from my phone.
So since I have the full app catalog available to me through my TF101 (including Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, Pandora, Google Music, etc.) and I can use my Sensation to remote control it while connected to my LED TV - and also take it with me if I decide to go on a trip - why would I want to buy the Nexus Q???
Nexus Q main feature is the built in amplifier for passive speakers.
TheRealCyberOptic said:
Nexus Q main feature is the built in amplifier for passive speakers.
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I thought the main feature was that it was a media link to your TV. What the heck else would people really buy it for?
I use my Droid Bionic with dock that has USB, micro HDMI and a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard as an extra HTPC in my other room. Works great for all media content.
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I thought the main feature was that it was a media link to your TV. What the heck else would people really buy it for?
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The possibilities are endless. It gets even better as the 10/100 LAN support and NFC makes a connected home pretty easy.
The Nexus Q main feature is that it is a social media device. Sharing music and movies is the prime feature.
What VNC server?
As of 4.2.1, all VNC servers are broken, and there is no information about when (if ever) there will be a fix. Can your family handle a multi-month disruption of their media-viewing ability?
Hey guys, does anybody know of an app or a method that will allow me to stream video (not YouTube or Netflix) to my Vizio Smart TV? It's a really new TV with all kinds of features...I know I could simply hook up my MacBook to an HDMI port or even stream video via Apple TV, but I don't usually have those things in my living room. I'm just basically hoping to be able to stream a movie playing from an app like Showbox(or something similar to) to my TV, without any wiring. Samsung's screen mirroring feature would be ideal...if it wasn't limited to ONLY working with other Samsung products Anyways...please, if you can let me know of anything you've heard of, or have used that might make this possible, it would be greatly appreciated!!:fingers-crossed:
Unless Vizio has some type of app for their TV that I never heard of, there needs to be hardware plugged into the TV that receives the stream. Cheapest and easiest way to do this with android is a Chromecast, $35 bucks, I believe it can or soon will be able to fully mirror your screen no special root app required.
you can use the mdl to hdmi adapter from Sammy and keep a spare (but hidden) hdmi cable plugged into the tv. As far as wireless Chromcast
Did you find a solution?
Did you find an App solution for this? I recently purchased a Vizio and looking for the same?
Can some one help me play videos from phone to my vizo 70 inch smart tv I've tried everything the closest thing I've come up with is I media share but it doesn't allow me to watch it always states video, audio not supported
You need something on the TV Side - I used Fire TV stick