Just got my s3 and when looking at a picture in the phone there was a sybol on the top of the screen, when I pressed it it askd me if i wanted to change my default playback device to my sony smart tv. which it did.
I think I may have changed an installed program as I no longer can get this option.
Also miss the abillity to plug my phone into my cars usb and play my music. My HTC wildfire could do it, what a stupid omission.The default music player was also better on the wildfire, not easy to get your full list of music up on the s3, If I had not transfered my old number across I think I would be sending it back to vodaphone and getting an Iphone5
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Ok seems from previous threads answers are a bit thin on the ground....
WE've got he Sky+ app to program n record via our phones but...
Since we've got the media capability - can we not use the Sky Player?
I notice on my pc i require Silverlight to be installed - what if i can this through a browser? or can this be ported into a specific app to log into this kind of thing?
It'd be amazing if i could get my Sky tv on my phone - not just see whats on.
Not supported by Sky, but you could always ask if its on their radar.
virgin Media are starting to support something along these lines so it is possible
So after buying the Xperia S was disappointed to learn that I just cant plug it into my PC and have it appear as another drive on my computer like all my other 5-6 android phones I have owned.
I had to download Sony Bridge for Mac so that I can copy files and synch my music... the only problem is I have been trying for about 8-10 hours to synch some music .. and it always seems to hang.. part way through.and then when I try to eject the phone it seems to have lost comms with the phone... Anyone got the same problem as me?
kiwiandy said:
So after buying the Xperia S was disappointed to learn that I just cant plug it into my PC and have it appear as another drive on my computer like all my other 5-6 android phones I have owned.
I had to download Sony Bridge for Mac so that I can copy files and synch my music... the only problem is I have been trying for about 8-10 hours to synch some music .. and it always seems to hang.. part way through.and then when I try to eject the phone it seems to have lost comms with the phone... Anyone got the same problem as me?
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I had this issue as well... What I had to do was figure out the song it was hanging on and then eject the phone, uncheck the song that hangs and then start again. It would then sync from the point forward. There were two songs out of 442 that I had that hung. No idea why.
unfortunately I am trying to sync playlists so I cant identify which track it is hanging on.. but even with just a small playlist with 30 songs it still hangs.
It doesnt seem to hang when transferring photos or videos, but very disappointing I cant easily transfer my music.
The sync function doesn't seem to work properly. It always hangs. And if you try to sync playlist, you will realised that only 8 songs will eb copied over for each albums/playlist. After that it just hang endlessly.
Copying the files/songs manually via the phone browser works. But the browser is kinda retarded. And copying playlist manually doesn't add the playlist to your media player!!!
I did report the issue to Sony Mobile forum but i wasn't able to post any update since the reset password isn't working.
It will help if everyone report the problem to them directly as well >> http://talk.sonymobile.com/community/support/xperia_2012_family/xperia_s
Also had this problem when used with my Arc. It doesnt even recognize the phone. It says connecting then it hangs
Will try it later with my Xperia S
kiwiandy said:
So after buying the Xperia S was disappointed to learn that I just cant plug it into my PC and have it appear as another drive on my computer like all my other 5-6 android phones I have owned.
I had to download Sony Bridge for Mac so that I can copy files and synch my music... the only problem is I have been trying for about 8-10 hours to synch some music .. and it always seems to hang.. part way through.and then when I try to eject the phone it seems to have lost comms with the phone... Anyone got the same problem as me?
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Do you have Mac right? Then download and install app iSyncr for Mac and then iSyncr WiFi after you need to install iSyncr server on your mac and after that you don't need any other apps or device managers to transfer or sync your musics or videos.
Those apps will works flawlessly and will sync all your musics and videos from your iTunes. Its so easy and works almost all android devices with mac.
Have the same problem here...
OS X 10.7, Early 2011 Macbook Pro
I plugged my Xperia S in, and tried to sync my old iPhone playlist. No luck, stuck at around 60%.
At first I thought it was because some of my songs in that playlist are AIFF, so I opened another playlist for Xperia S, convert everything in the iPhone playlist to MP3 and give it another go. Still no good. Stuck at around 20%, only about a hundred songs were copied when I have about 700.
Is there any good/free option that can just simply let me mount the phone into SD card mode or whatever and drag-and-drop files into the internal memory?
The transfer is really slow.. I tried transferring 2 playlists from itunes which each contains 100+ songs. It really tooked a while.. Maybe around 30 minutes.
Anyone knows hownto sync the calendar from a mac to the XPS? Google didnt seem to sync my calendar events from my Arc..
You can try this out if your are rooted
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1606940
I'm sick of the Bridge for MAC! Hope they will bring in the Mass Storage Mode in ICS update..
I hear that Sony is going to be releasing V3 of Sony Bridge for Mac (on the Sony Mobile forum) but besides new features, I really hope they'll fix it to it detects the phone properly - and quickly.
I've got lots of phones, from an old X10 to X10 mini pro, arc, neo, active, live walkman and two Xperia S's (one review model, one my own). I've also got an Xperia U for a bit.
Now all of the old phones detect very quickly, but the Xperia S's and sometimes the U struggle... often timing out. I really can't figure out what's happening, nor why on one occasion it even thought the Xperia S was its Japanese counterpart (forget the model number) and also showed up as 'Sony Ericsson' rather than Sony!
I am beginning to think there's an issue with the phone, rather than the software (even though the SW seems very buggy with all the sync problems mentioned above, yet I'd love to get into a position to be able to have sync problems!).
Has anyone else got this problem on the Xperia S? How do you fix it. Believe me, I've tried every combination of unplugging the phone, force quitting the app, rebooting the Mac, rebooting the phone, swapping USB port, resetting the powered USB hub.... but most of the time it's just reconnecting over and over and it working, after maybe 60 seconds of trying to detect!
It's infuriating, especially as there's a specific Android app for Mac to manage files, but that doesn't work with the Xperia S even though it supports MTP! I too hope ICS might fix this.
On Lion with an Xperia P.
It syncs a few items from a playlist and then just sits there. It is a shame since the application actually looks quite good and has a lot of options unlike Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac.
Mine has also stopped checking for updates as it seems to think I have no internet connection.
I should have known that Sony are incapable for writing applications, this application works about as well as SonicStage.
So i interested myself for one htc media link HD and ordered it for an total of €73,50 incl. package sent
Because of the different models im talking about de dg-h200 from htc. Yesterday order came in and i thought piece of cake plug and play. Well it isn't plug and play and for every other person outside xda it would be an hell to get it working. I won't give up easily but i almost was going too!
Turns out the device delivered has a firmware 1.5...something and when you connect it it all goes well till you have too swipe over you screen to sent it out to the television. Then he want to connect and somewere about 70 % of the setup he quits and says there is an additional firmware upgrade. Would you like to install this? Well hell yeah i will. So pushing the yes button will bring you to another message that says "there is no newer software , this is the latest !
Somewere else on the forum here a guy did get it working without an upgrade of the firmware! But after reading true the manual i found out it had to do with ip multicast. Simply said if your router only providing unicast signal an setup like my phone and the htc media link hd connected to the internet and connected to each other not going to work.
So here is what i did
* I disconnected my phone and router (By disconnecting i mean my phone doesn't know the router anymore)
* Made an whole new setup for the htc media link hd by pushing the button on the front for ten seconds
* setup my phone for an wifi hotspot and then swyped three fingers over the screen so that the phone will connect with the media link
* Offcourse it will prompt you with an update of firmware but now it will update because of the hotspot setup.
* Thought i was done setting up the hardware with this upgrade and made my phone connect with my router acces point again.
* The problem still occured as i was almost done with this media link and willing to send it back.
* But me never willing to give up give it another shot and set up my phone again as an wifi hotspot and swyped my display to connect again with
the media link.
* Again it prompted me with an firmware update as i thought whats going on i all ready did so. I thought what the heck lets update it again.
* When it was done i got amazed from the fact it does updated the media link device again to 2.99...something firmware version
* So i decided to hold the button for an reset for ten seconds again so it was ready for an new configuration.
* Also made my phone know my router acces point again and swyped over the screen again to setup again.
* And there you have it working not asking for an update and doing what he needs to do. ... ! Or not ?
Tested it with all sorts of media,
* games not going to work as wireless give the game an lag time for instance with pinball you push to make the flipper shoot the ball. and done with the media link setup you mis because of the lag time!
Pushed an movie from my synology nas server to my tv ( Not needed in this setup because i can play them well true my wdtvlive hub ) but for testing. It play well but yep there you have your lag again from the audio
* Internet works and browsing true the phone checking photo's works
* Youtube on the phone works without lag time in 1080p
* Did not had any movie on my phone to play so coudn't test that but i recon i will play okay
But all together it is fun to have for 10 minutes and i going to sell mine because of the total not use of it i know will happen!
But the least i coud do is write an review over this htc media link hd for you all ! Excuse me for my english as it is not my native language to speak/write
Greetz Batjuh
The mhl adapter I have is an off brand from Amazon. Cost 3 dollars. It doesn't work with the specified app on the phone but as soon as I plug it in and set my tv it's all right there. Is there advantages to the HTC branded one?
Never Die!
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I have noticed with Netflix and other online videos it doesn't look very HD. Videos I recorded with my phone and watch are great but I guess streaming ones look like crap. Mine is not the wireless version by the way
Never Die!
I got mine last week and all I had to do is:
- plug in power and HDMI cable
-promt me for updating the firmware twice and it all went through
- swipe three fingers and the whatever on my HOX+ its on the tv
Youtube, Netflix all playing perfectly fine and I would say HD quality. phone have to be on wifi to be able to connect to the media link. and my home wifie DL 20MB/s
so far so good :good:
moh980 said:
I got mine last week and all I had to do is:
- plug in power and HDMI cable
-promt me for updating the firmware twice and it all went through
- swipe three fingers and the whatever on my HOX+ its on the tv
Youtube, Netflix all playing perfectly fine and I would say HD quality. phone have to be on wifi to be able to connect to the media link. and my home wifie DL 20MB/s
so far so good :good:
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Same here, works very great with the hdlink 200 > also plugged in did firmware upgrade and working great.
Youtube video high quality, but i bought it to easy show fotos/videos to friends and familys > Working great
Im very happy with the device, and sure ill have a lot of fun.
Sometimes i just lay on the couch and reading forums/storys on my plasma trough this HD link
Help
Can you tell me how to make Htc Media Link HD working without firmware upgrade?
Sorry for my bad English.
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I don't need help any more. My device worked
Hi all,
Sorry if I missed it in the replies, but which item is it that seems to work well with the HTC One X+? Can I get a link to it? Also, will it work with apps too or just photos and movies?
Thanks!
The wireless link should not use multicast traffic... I can't think of any home routers that would support that. Why, if your phone is only sending to the media link, would it even need to use a multicast destination... if it did, every device in your broadcast domain (i.e. your home) would receive the HD content. not particularly good.
I suppose, if HTC wanted it to work without any kind of discovery process then multicast would work.. but this, and the price of the unit has deterred me. Especially since you can get a $4 cable of ebay which does the same thing, just using a wire.
With regards to my specific question, should anyone else need help, I bought one of these for my HTC One X+ and it simply duplicates whatever is on the screen onto my TV via HDMI. Works great!
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gavin watson said:
With regards to my specific question, should anyone else need help, I bought one of these for my HTC One X+ and it simply duplicates whatever is on the screen onto my TV via HDMI. Works great!
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My media link worked great as well. Did an update once I can remember. During this time I was using an old HTC One sv to cast Netflix mainly. Since upgrading to an m7, my girl has an m8, everything still works fine, except Netflix! It works all the way up to choosing what to watch. As soon as the video starts to play, screen goes black, just audio, you can still see the play button, the timeline and other options to top right in the Netflix app but video is black until you stop playing. I have posted in a few other places (not XDA), have read couple more of the same problems with no one answering those posts either. Does anyone have A-N-Y idea why the video goes black when it starts to play in Netflix only?
Really about to give up, O-N-L-Y reason I purchased the HTC Media Link was for the purpose of watching Netflix on the flatscreen.................. sigh.
zach
Netflix f-i-x-e-d!!!
batjuh said:
So i interested myself for one htc media link HD and ordered it for an total of €73,50 incl. package sent
Because of the different models im talking about de dg-h200 from htc. Yesterday order came in and i thought piece of cake plug and play. Well it isn't plug and play and for every other person outside xda it would be an hell to get it working. I won't give up easily but i almost was going too!
Turns out the device delivered has a firmware 1.5...something and when you connect it it all goes well till you have too swipe over you screen to sent it out to the television. Then he want to connect and somewere about 70 % of the setup he quits and says there is an additional firmware upgrade. Would you like to install this? Well hell yeah i will. So pushing the yes button will bring you to another message that says "there is no newer software , this is the latest !
Somewere else on the forum here a guy did get it working without an upgrade of the firmware! But after reading true the manual i found out it had to do with ip multicast. Simply said if your router only providing unicast signal an setup like my phone and the htc media link hd connected to the internet and connected to each other not going to work.
So here is what i did
* I disconnected my phone and router (By disconnecting i mean my phone doesn't know the router anymore)
* Made an whole new setup for the htc media link hd by pushing the button on the front for ten seconds
* setup my phone for an wifi hotspot and then swyped three fingers over the screen so that the phone will connect with the media link
* Offcourse it will prompt you with an update of firmware but now it will update because of the hotspot setup.
* Thought i was done setting up the hardware with this upgrade and made my phone connect with my router acces point again.
* The problem still occured as i was almost done with this media link and willing to send it back.
* But me never willing to give up give it another shot and set up my phone again as an wifi hotspot and swyped my display to connect again with
the media link.
* Again it prompted me with an firmware update as i thought whats going on i all ready did so. I thought what the heck lets update it again.
* When it was done i got amazed from the fact it does updated the media link device again to 2.99...something firmware version
* So i decided to hold the button for an reset for ten seconds again so it was ready for an new configuration.
* Also made my phone know my router acces point again and swyped over the screen again to setup again.
* And there you have it working not asking for an update and doing what he needs to do. ... ! Or not ?
Tested it with all sorts of media,
* games not going to work as wireless give the game an lag time for instance with pinball you push to make the flipper shoot the ball. and done with the media link setup you mis because of the lag time!
Pushed an movie from my synology nas server to my tv ( Not needed in this setup because i can play them well true my wdtvlive hub ) but for testing. It play well but yep there you have your lag again from the audio
* Internet works and browsing true the phone checking photo's works
* Youtube on the phone works without lag time in 1080p
* Did not had any movie on my phone to play so coudn't test that but i recon i will play okay
But all together it is fun to have for 10 minutes and i going to sell mine because of the total not use of it i know will happen!
But the least i coud do is write an review over this htc media link hd for you all ! Excuse me for my english as it is not my native language to speak/write
Greetz Batjuh
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I had my HTC Media Link quit working completely on video feed (not audio) with Netflix. Upgrading my HTC One sv to a Sprint HTC One m7. My girls Verizon HTC One m8 had the same results, mirrored our screens perfectly, played any video along with audio whether it was an email video attachment (asks if want to watch using media link upon opening video), or YouTube, etc.... Found other posts online with others having the same problem. I just happened across a forum posting (like 3 pages) from a Mr. Satan who was fedup with a scene in a favorite movie of his lagging in Netflix. He changed the bitrates (app version 2.4.1), made 3 different .apk's with three different frame rate settings. I tried the 3,850kps or what ever it is and it would load up on phone, let me choose video but the circle kept spinning a bit too long for me. Loaded the 3,000kbps .apk and it loaded up, played well. Went and linked my Sprint HTC One m7 to the HTC Media Link, everything came up in Netflix like before, but lo & behold, when video starts, it shows............ finally!!!!!!!
Only reason purchased this media link, not only because of the niftiness using phone on flat screen but for watching streaming account with Netflix on it!!!!! I am going to go post in a few places where people posted problems. You will not have lag anymore!!!!
http://www69.zippyshare.com/v/iGk8sKCx/file.html
zach
I have the sch-i605 Verizon Samsung galaxy note 2. I bought an OEM Samsung MHL adapter for it and a HDMI cable. My phone is rooted using root_66 and Im on build JRO03C VERSION VRALL4 android version 4.1.1. My phone connects just fine to the TV until I try to play a video, any video, YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, etc. The TV will say lost signal. When I back out of the video on my phone back to the desktop, the TV will then pick back up and display my phone contents. Strange for sure, but I cant find an answer to it. I also tried connecting my wife's Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 completely stock not rooted phone and that one plays just fine. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
UPDATE : I enabled all apps that I had disabled and rebooted. Im not sure what apps that were disabled were causing the problem yet. This now allows me to play all video on the phone. Problem now is every 30 seconds or so, I get a message pop up asking to enable global roaming mode. The options are cancel and accept. Anyone know what program or file that is coming from so I can delete it? It only pops up when I am playing a video on YouTube, Netflix, etc.. Im in my house and my signal strength is excellent. I tried with my wife's Verizon galaxy stock S4 and when it pops up on hers, I have a check box to never ask again. On my phone however, no such check box is there.
Sorry if this is not the right place but I did not know where else to post and I know there is a lot of the appropriate knowledge here.
I have an S912 T95Zplus Android TV box that I bought on Amazon a bit over a year ago. It is Android 7.1.2 and it boots to a program that says SmartTV Box and runs a version of Kodi 17.6 that they call KDplayer.
The main "problem" is that I have a 15+ year old HDTV Mitsubishi WS65313 that was from before HDMI. It *does* have one DVI port that Mitsubishi calls "MonitorLink/DVI" and says it follows the EIA-861 standard.
Using a DVI<->HDMI cable I am able to get the TV to display the output from the Android box. SOMETIMES. With a LOT of messing around. Once I get it set up, sometimes it will behave for several days, sometimes I will lose it on the next power off/on.
The max. the TV can do is 1080i. SOMETIMES this option is available in the "Droid Settings" app, sometimes only 1080p, 720p and 480p.
There is no way to manually force the TV into a certain resolution and the T95Zplus loses it SOMETIMES even though I set it to not automatically go to the best resolution.
When they are out of sync obviously only garbage is displayed on the TV. When this happens I either have to take the TV box and connect to computer monitor and force resolution to 480p OR manually switch (via audio receiver - sorry I forgot to tell you that was in the middle too) to a WD TV Live Streaming box I also have connected, the WD box then negotiates the TV into a good display, and when I switch back to the Android box I get about one second where I can see enough of an image to navigate the menus. After a few switches I can go though the menus and change the resolution back to 480 and get the Android box back online again.
The main thing I am asking is: Is there a way to get the Android box to always offer me the full list of resolutions? This way at least I could get back 1080i on the first try. I have tried all kinds of combinations of rebooting the Andoid box with the other stuff powered on, off, all at the same time, etc. Just when I think I have it figured out it screws me again and I am stuck on 480p until one day 1080i magically appears again.
I am hoping there is a configuration file somewhere, or maybe one I can create, to make it always display the full set of resolutions. I'm sure it has something to do with negotiation of capabilities when it boots up, but obviously the TV is very old and doesn't even have the ability to update firmware. The Adnroid I know can do what I need because sometimes it does it, but it sure is a pain and I never know when I will get the 1080i option again.
Unfortunately a new TV is not possible at this time.
THANKS in advance.
-Marty