Ok so love the s4. I have purchased the white media dock with 3 usb ports and Hdmi out. I have everything going but notice the screen resolution or dimesions dont fit right. I already checked my tv formats and nothing. So, anyone know a fix?
I have the same problem and not found a solution so far. I don't have a full-HD capable monitor or TV. On my 720P (think it is, I'm sure it's not full-HD) TV the picture is sharp but flickers all the time. When I connect it to my 20inch TFT I only get 640x480.
I'm pretty sure it's my hardware but I'm kind of disappointed that Samung does not offer any options to set the resolution manually not every TV or monitor allows to select the resolution manually. My last phone was a Motorola Razr and I could set the resolution and had about 5 or 6 different options to select from. I suppose there is no way to change this without root.
Maybe Samsung will change this in a future release. One of the reasons I bought the multimedia dock was to connect it to beamers or a lower resolution TV.
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hey guys.. can you help me? why is it that if i connect my 80 g9 to the tv thru mini hdmi, it is not in full screen on the tv? any settings that i should change? thanks!
Because the g9 80 screen is 4:3 and your tv is 16:9, but when you open a video you should be able to watch it in 16:9 (1280x720 or 1920x1080)
havent tried the stock video player again because when i tried it earlier, its only black screen. but when i tried moboplayer, selected the 16:9 ratio, its still the same, not in full screen
jipee296 said:
havent tried the stock video player again because when i tried it earlier, its only black screen. but when i tried moboplayer, selected the 16:9 ratio, its still the same, not in full screen
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Does your TV/monitor have any settings for HDMI? If output signal is in lower resolution it may be not upscalled to TV/monitor native
no it doesnt have settings for hdmi. all i can select is from what source and thats it.but when i plug my laptop thru hdmi cable,its in fullscreen
Tablet may not recognize what is the native LCD resolution or it may not support it (and uses highest available)
on my older Insignia hd tv, I adjust TV settings depending on source on my G9, some need no adjustment like Netflix but others like Ustream live streaming I adjust aspect ratio, mine has Normal, Zoom, Wide, Cinema.
some tvs adjust automatically and older tvs may not give a lot of choices. if you can, test on another tv
when you plug in your tablet, does it mirror desktop fully on tv or are there gaps? or is it just media/ videos?
this is one thing i didnt think about before i bought the tablet!!!
so am i stuck with the 4:3 view? i have actually put the tablet in the drawer and listed it for sale because too be honest i simply have no use for a tablet and the 4:3 aspect ratio on my tv is the final nail in the archos coffin.
i did though buy it for media player duties and to take over from my nas as a torrent downloader. now the media player plays back my movies as they are in widescreen however everything else in gui is boxed up on the screen. this obviously makes it a real no no for media duties. even youtube videos retain the 4:3 boxy shape.
really silly of me. i dont know why i didnt think of it before but let my lesson be a lesson learned for someone else.
basically if you want to use the tablet on your tv then videos once playing will be ok but everything else and i mean everything is in the 4:3 format.
yes i could zoom in on the tv but then one loses quite a bit of the tablet screen real esate so it isnt really a soliution.
all very annoying and i am seriously kicking myself for being so daft. thing is i think 4:3 in a screen this small makes sense but i just didnt think about the way it would mirror the image on the tv
so heed this lesson would be buyers and think long and hard about what you intend to do with the tab. if you are buying it just because you want a tab then you should mostly be ok but if you fancy using it hooked up to your tv look elsewhere and buy something that is in the widescreen format.
unless unless unless i am missing something obvious???
EDIT: OK saved by my tv. it has a setting called smart which more or less puts the archos image in full widescreen with a little stretching and a bit cropped out from the bottom and top. it is better than say the zoom function which actually crops loads of the display.
it isnt the best solution but for now it will do... i actually have more serious worries like a real flaky wifi connection (even though my network is rock solid) the tablet randomly rebooting and constant freezes when watching a video. thing is one starts wondering if it is the hardware or just badly written firmware that is to blame and there is no way to really be able to tell.
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just received a micro HDMI -> HDMI adapter, and tried the connection to my Sony Bravia LCD TV (KDL-40W4000).. it seems to be working OK, but i wanted to ask you all, if you have the same experience as i do.. just to be clear, i'm now on latest ICS international beta..
when using the device vertically (like a phone) the resolution/picture seems to be 1:1 (the picture/fonts/graphics looks OK, like there is no resizing), but when i use the device horizontally, the picture is not 1:1, and i can see that the picture is resized/stretched.. looks like a different resolution than 720p/1080p.. my TV automatically selects 1080p mode when i connect MediaPad..
anybody know what the HDMI output resolution of Media with ICS and those who still have honeycomb on their tablets.. anyone tried this with their TVs, Monitors? what's your experience?
this person is using MediaPad with Honeycomb -> monitor and it looks OK to me in both vertical/horzontal positions..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFI0FluhNq4
thanks a lot
My TV is 720p only, and I am not even seeing any video on the display, whereas it worked completely fine under Honeycomb.
Not sure what's going on with mine...
i've installed HC 3.2 (B016) to try this out, and it works.. the output looks great on my TV .. the resolution is definately is 1:1, so it looks like a real 720p/1080p output, and not that crappy picture from ICS.. so it looks like a bug/software issue of the beta versions of ICS released so far for MediaPad.. i hope it will be corrected in the final version..
The hdmi out is indeed crappy witch ics. Its not scaled correctly, the mediapad is recognized as 1080,-but its more of a 4:3 ratio.
Connected a sixaxis with bluetooth to the pad and wanted to play some shadowgun on the tv, but the result is just poor.
Lets see what the final version brings.
Try * # * # 2846579 # * # * activity->testing
->project menu act->Hdmi Test and check the box
I get 720*480 on that test. DVD resolution, don't know if that's normal.
Sent from my HUAWEI MediaPad
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I get 720*480 on that test. DVD resolution, don't know if that's normal.
Sent from my HUAWEI MediaPad
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yeah, i get the same result.. when i tick the checkbox under HMDI test, my TV switched to a "480p" mode, so it's definatelly a DVD resolution.. nevertheless the picture is more "watchable" than the "1080p" output when the checkbox is not ticked..
what's strange is that when i tryed the output on a totally unknown brandname TV in a hotel (i was on a trip the last two days), it was a small LCD tv, definatelly max. 720p, the picture from MediaPad was OK :\
For those that have forgotten how it should be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp5WO-XzEEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Wwr6-a4-g&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL9609AD4617E766DE
I just bought the S3's HDMI adapter, everything works fine BUT the image is a bit cropped at the borders on my TV.
After researching a bit I've found that in other Android devices going into Settings->Display there should be an option to set something to 'fit screen' or 'overscan' or something, but in my phone I can't find such settings, I can't find anything related to HDMI! Does anyone know where can I find some thing to configure my HDMI settings so the image isn't cropped?
Usually that depends on settings on the actual monitor or TV, most tvs have the option to change aspect or other zoom settings
Sent from my GT-I9300
I also have searched a lot for these Settings, but there isnt any thing you can configurate in your s3 to control the connector. I know, sad but true :/
Maybe samsung will implent this feature in future updates, but its just a thing you can hope about.
at the moment I am also screwed with my tv, cause it isnt even 1080p and doesnt support mhl, so my picture is too big onscreen, so I can see only 90% of the stuff at my phone.
Yeah Samsung need to fix it! My monitors and tvs are all 1080p 60hz capable but the s3 defaults to 1080i and I get flicker making it unusable,.
Fix it Samsung!!!!
Hi there!
Hope someone can help me here...
I have a 10" Teclast A10t (Allwinner A15 CPU, based on Cortex a8) running ICS which sports an HDMI Output.
Now, I'd like to use it as a upnp client hooked up to a widescreen 1080p display via HDMI,but the picture I get on the big display is always 4:3 which ends up being either an incredible waste of display when playing widescreen media or quite blurry and overall fugly when stretched to fit the screen using the display's settings (and, of course, it's stretched which makes watching movies not exactly enjoyable).
Anyways, I can't find an option to select the AR of the HDMI output... Does anyone here know how to do the trick? Am I overlooking something, is there an app for that (tm) or am I just f*cked and it's not achievable?
Tried CM9, CM10, googled around for hours qnd searched the market but to no avail...
Thanks in advance
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Hi same here... well almost.
I have rk3066 tablet, screen resolutinon 1024x768 (4:3).
Output via HDMI gives picture that is not corect. Circles are not circles anymore ,but horizontal elipses
skymanuva said:
Hi same here... well almost.
I have rk3066 tablet, screen resolutinon 1024x768 (4:3).
Output via HDMI gives picture that is not corect. Circles are not circles anymore ,but horizontal elipses
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You can do this with AOKP I believe.
You can use Resolution Changer to change the resolution from 4:3 to 16:9 (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lugalabs.resolutionchanger&hl=en).
Note: The app REQUIRES ROOT.
I had the same problem as my 4:3 tablet has an HDMI output, yet when connected to a 16:9 TV, the picture was stretched making circles turn into horizontal ovals. I also tested this with Chromecast and it worked well, too.
The SecondScreen app (free) and a bit of additional research let me find a way of getting this working without having to root.
This solution will work well for those that want to use a 4:3 tablet (e.g. 9.7" 2048x1536) with HDMI and/or Chromecast/Miracast on a 16:9 format screen (TV/projector) and have found the picture looks squashed (egg.shaped instead of round). This will fix those problems well WITHOUT needing to root. It just needs a little effort to install this properly.
First of all, you need to install SecondScreen on the tablet (or smartphone).
Then you need a PC (preferably Windows 7 as anything higher needs additional security steps) with Google Chrome installed and a bit of patience.
Follow the instructions on this page up to and including step 6:
https://medium.com/sentio-superbook/enabling-sentio-desktop-dpi-resolution-change-d1a0b40e2c84
For step 7, use this exact command, instead: pm grant com.farmerbb.secondscreen.free android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
After that, you can proceed to setup the app, there are now no more root issues and it works well. I recommend setting up profiles with 160 (for smaller and more text on screen) and 240 dpi (normal size). If you go higher than that, you start losing icons on your desktop that have to be setup again.
Alternatives:
If you just want to play videos properly, use VLC Player as that natively sends the videos in the correct aspect ratio to the TV (second screen method). This also works well with Chromecast.
For images, Google Photos does have a cast button, that will then display the images in the correct aspect ratio on Chromecast - this will NOT work with HDMI. Showing still images with Chromecast is somewhat frustrating, as the pictures are often pixelated at first and by the time they look good, the slideshow goes on to the next picture. HDMI is MUCH better than Chromecast in this aspect. Pity that many Tablets do not have an HDMI port.
My recommendation is clearly to use the HDMI port and this solution, when showing videos and images. HDMI is much easier to use (just plug in the cable), as well. If your tablet does not have an HDMI port, Chromecast is just as good with videos, but worse with still images. Chromecast also requires a local Wi-Fi router and internet connection to work. Miracast does not require a local Wi-Fi or internet, but suffers from pixelation the most. This could be OK for static slides, but videos rarely look good on Miracast.
I just bought the official Smasung usbc-hdmi adapter for use with my Galaxy Note 8. I am looking for a way to set the output resolution since it goes to max by default and since my TV is 4k and i get 25 with this adapter (hdmi restriction via usb due to rights) i am looking to set the resolution to something lower. I would also appreciate a setting where picture is only shown through my TV and does not play on my mobile as well. Its distracting and a waste of energy as well