Hello, first post here. Pretty new to the whole smartphone thing. Trying to get the allshare, specifically the screen share to work with my tv. I have an ethernet cord plugged into a samsung tv with allshare with the other end going into a wireless router. The phone and tv find each other and I can stream a movie without a problem. When I go down to the screen share option in the settings it says no device detected. I spoke with samsung a couple of times about it and they said the only way for that to work is with one of their wireless dongles. I find that hard to believe that I can stream movies but not share the screen but I'm also new at this so I was wondering if you had any insight. Thanks in advance
DLNA isn't made for screen sharing. It's just not...I've been using DLNA for a good while before I got a smartphone with that capability. It's really apples and oranges.
i don't understand why in the tv manual it would say that you could though. Just that my phone needs to have screen share on it. was hoping to browse the internet on my tv or play some emulators on it. has anyone else been able to do that with this phone?
ndavis, it seems you are thinking of the phone's tv out feature via 3.5 mm jack. You can't run emulators over DLNA.
i've been trying to figure out how to play videos on the phone (from my pc). the phone sees the videos, but when i try to stream them, it says "unsupported file format". I know that the file is supported because if i physically download it to my phone, it plays fine. Any ideas?
I've got a peculiar issue I need some help with. My son often uses my tablet to watch movies or play games on my tablet. The issue is recently he's been doing something that projects/streams whatever you want to call it, it displays what's on the tablet on the downstairs television. We've never had this issue before, but then again the TV is new, it's a Panasonic Viera. Great TV with a lot of options, in fact it's connected to my local network.
My guess is there's some app on the Transformer that's interacting with an feature on the Panasonic. It is very cool feature, like Apple mirroring, however I don't know what my son is doing to activate it. He just randomly turns it on and I'll be downstairs watching TV and the screen will change. That's another really odd symptom, the TV input isn't changed, it's still on HDMI running cable TV, so whatever he's doing is overriding the TV. I check the tablet and there's no open app, like he's turning it off and on because the TV only does the mirroring for a few seconds. Another guess is that the app opens, then he tries to close it which is why I just see a couple seconds on TV.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is there any other info I can provide to help diagnose? I've got too many apps to list.
Android Version 4.1.1
It may be interacting with your TV's Viera link which acts like Chromecast. You could turn off the Viera link when not needed to prevent this from happening when you don't want it to.
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So any idea what app or process is doing this on my Transformer?
I have one Galaxy S9 phone and one Galaxy S9 plus phone. I am unable to cast the videos directly from youtube to TV from both of these phones and in older Galaxy S series phones this is very straight forward. I have tried multiple options without any luck and I also found that lot of people have the same issue when I googled. I have contacted Samsung support and they told me that you need to install "Samsung Smart View" app from Google play store. It seems this app doesn't come in built unlike previous versions. Unbelievably, when you pull down the buttons below settings icon it displays smart view button even though it's not installed on the phone. It is not detecting any devices until you install "Samsung Smart View". I don't know whether this is intentional or they just screwed this up.
It seems Samsung released a patch update for this issue now.
You don't use Smart View or anything else to cast. The YouTube app has a cast icon if it sees a Chromecast on the same wireless network. I'm a little confused by your initial post. There hasn't been any issue using a Chromecast with my S9+.
What?
Averix said:
You don't use Smart View or anything else to cast. The YouTube app has a cast icon if it sees a Chromecast on the same wireless network. I'm a little confused by your initial post. There hasn't been any issue using a Chromecast with my S9+.
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Same here.
Apps with native Chromecast support (e.g. YouTube, Netflix, Google Play Movies etc) have always worked perfectly on my S9+.
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The following steps seems to resolve the issue
After lot of trials and errors, I am able to resolve my issue thanks to Aliaksandra from google chromecast product forums.
Here are the steps:
1) Go to Settings->Select Device Maintenance
2) Wait for optimization to complete and then select Optimize now
3) Then select the Storage tab located at the bottom of the screen
4) Click on the three dots located on the top right and select Settings->Click Clear Cache
5) Select the Memory tab from the bottom of the screen and click Clean Now
6) Reboot the Samsung device and then try adding the account once again.
This did the trick for me and my friends also.
Has always worked fine for me. I have an S9+, one Chromecast Ultra and one Chromecast. No issues.
dumblazyman said:
After lot of trials and errors, I am able to resolve my issue thanks to Aliaksandra from google chromecast product forums.
Here are the steps:
1) Go to Settings->Select Device Maintenance
2) Wait for optimization to complete and then select Optimize now
3) Then select the Storage tab located at the bottom of the screen
4) Click on the three dots located on the top right and select Settings->Click Clear Cache
5) Select the Memory tab from the bottom of the screen and click Clean Now
6) Reboot the Samsung device and then try adding the account once again.
This did the trick for me and my friends also.
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What on Earth are you talking about? First you talk about Smart View. Then you talk about a non-existent firmware update. Now you're claiming "device optimization" is a cure for an issue that doesn't exist. Where does adding an account factor into casting?
I'm not sure you understand how Chromecasts even work. Are you even casting from within apps or just mirroring your screen?
Can you provide a link to the Google forums that talk about this issue?
Google forums link
Here is the link
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromecast/OrDR1xwqXRk
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What on Earth are you talking about? First you talk about Smart View. Then you talk about a non-existent firmware update. Now you're claiming "device optimization" is a cure for an issue that doesn't exist. Where does adding an account factor into casting?
I'm not sure you understand how Chromecasts even work. Are you even casting from within apps or just mirroring your screen?
Can you provide a link to the Google forums that talk about this issue?
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Hi Averix,
Bro, you need to understand people do have these kinds of issues. I agree you may have spent more time resolving these issues and helping people but please don't assume you know everything bro.
I know how to use Chromecast works and been using it for last 3-4 years. As explained in the OP, I have the problem in casting videos from youtube on S9+ phone to TV which is working fine with previous versions of Samsung Galaxy phones. When I raised complaint with Samsung tech support, they gave me number to contact them. When I contacted them, they made me troubleshoot the issue and finally they told me to install Samsung smart view app from play store and after installing this also it still not worked correctly. After couple of hours later my phone displayed a message that there is software update and after this update the cast icon started showing up on youtube videos intermittently. Once I followed steps mentioned in the links below, now it is working for me.
Here is the google forums link where people have issues in casting from S9+ to TV: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromecast/OrDR1xwqXRk
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Hi Averix,
Bro, you need to understand people do have these kinds of issues. I agree you may have spent more time resolving these issues and helping people but please don't assume you know everything bro.
I know how to use Chromecast works and been using it for last 3-4 years. As explained in the OP, I have the problem in casting videos from youtube on S9+ phone to TV which is working fine with previous versions of Samsung Galaxy phones. When I raised complaint with Samsung tech support, they gave me number to contact them. When I contacted them, they made me troubleshoot the issue and finally they told me to install Samsung smart view app from play store and after installing this also it still not worked correctly. After couple of hours later my phone displayed a message that there is software update and after this update the cast icon started showing up on youtube videos intermittently. Once I followed steps mentioned in the links below, now it is working for me.
Here is the google forums link where people have issues in casting from S9+ to TV: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromecast/OrDR1xwqXRk
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I read through that thread. It's a cluster of different issues from Chromecasts rebooting or not connecting, the Home app not working with mirroring, Smart View not casting properly, etc. There isn't any common thread of a core issue. I'm glad the voodoo solution solved your problem, but having dealt with hundreds of Chromecasts for commercial installations, I think your case is extremely isolated. I would be curious to see some replies if anyone else is having this issue on here.
Again, I'm glad yours is working now, but I think your solutions of phone software update and cache clearing are actually irrelevant. I'm betting the phone reboot cycles had a bigger impact on flushing the cast associations that your phone thought it had. Using Smart View to cast a mirrored image of your screen to a Chromecast is one of the most horribly inefficient way of casting. If an app has native casting capabilities, always default to using that first. Otherwise, you're literally streaming content to your phone, rendering it on the phone, encoding the content being rendered on your phone, and sending it out from your phone to play as video on a Chromecast. When you select a cast icon from an app, it typically just tells the Chromecast "Hey, go out to the internet and stream this video directly. I'll give you some credentials so you can watch that DRM video. Let me sit here and idle my processor saving battery and making my owner happier."
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I read through that thread. It's a cluster of different issues from Chromecasts rebooting or not connecting, the Home app not working with mirroring, Smart View not casting properly, etc. There isn't any common thread of a core issue. I'm glad the voodoo solution solved your problem, but having dealt with hundreds of Chromecasts for commercial installations, I think your case is extremely isolated. I would be curious to see some replies if anyone else is having this issue on here.
Again, I'm glad yours is working now, but I think your solutions of phone software update and cache clearing are actually irrelevant. I'm betting the phone reboot cycles had a bigger impact on flushing the cast associations that your phone thought it had. Using Smart View to cast a mirrored image of your screen to a Chromecast is one of the most horribly inefficient way of casting. If an app has native casting capabilities, always default to using that first. Otherwise, you're literally streaming content to your phone, rendering it on the phone, encoding the content being rendered on your phone, and sending it out from your phone to play as video on a Chromecast. When you select a cast icon from an app, it typically just tells the Chromecast "Hey, go out to the internet and stream this video directly. I'll give you some credentials so you can watch that DRM video. Let me sit here and idle my processor saving battery and making my owner happier."
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Thanks, bro.
Installing the SmartView app seems to have helped with my issue.
I have three TiVo units, three Rokus, and two Vizio smart TVs. I just switched from my S7 Edge to the S9+ ; the S7E would show all these devices when casting from YouTube app.
When I tried to cast from YouTube app on S9+ to my TVs the only devices I would see were the Rokus. Neither TV and none of the TiVos would show as options for casting from the YouTube app.
After installing the Samsung Smart View app all of the devices were listed! Thanks!
gadzooks64 said:
Installing the SmartView app seems to have helped with my issue.
I have three TiVo units, three Rokus, and two Vizio smart TVs. I just switched from my S7 Edge to the S9+ ; the S7E would show all these devices when casting from YouTube app.
When I tried to cast from YouTube app on S9+ to my TVs the only devices I would see were the Rokus. Neither TV and none of the TiVos would show as options for casting from the YouTube app.
After installing the Samsung Smart View app all of the devices were listed! Thanks!
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Casting to a Chromecast is not the same as talking to a Tivo, Roku, or smart TV. The discovery protocol is different. YouTube maintains the DIAL protocol which is why it shows up on Tivos and Rokus. In your case, open the YouTube app and look at all the devices you see available to cast from. Now open Hulu, Movies Anywhere, or other Google Cast compliant apps and you will see a much smaller list corresponding only to devices broadcasting as Google Cast receivers.
This thread is mixing up Google Cast (Chromecast or Android TV receiver), Miracast (screen mirroring using Wi-Fi Direct), the DIAL discovery for streaming content, and apps that use multiple protocols (SmartView). Each one has it's own issues and gotchas when trying to make things work. The problem with the advice in this thread is that there is no panacea for all the myriad of symptoms the original poster and you have. I'm glad your YouTube is working now, but that doesn't mean you have fixed a Chromecast issue because they are targeting different endpoints.
I will let those of you who care do some research on your own as to how all these things are different if you really want to understand what is going on.
DIAL protocol
Casting, DIAL, Airplay, etc. and Fire.
Chromecast change from DIAL to mDNS
dumblazyman said:
Hi Averix,
Bro, you need to understand people do have these kinds of issues. I agree you may have spent more time resolving these issues and helping people but please don't assume you know everything bro.
I know how to use Chromecast works and been using it for last 3-4 years. As explained in the OP, I have the problem in casting videos from youtube on S9+ phone to TV which is working fine with previous versions of Samsung Galaxy phones. When I raised complaint with Samsung tech support, they gave me number to contact them. When I contacted them, they made me troubleshoot the issue and finally they told me to install Samsung smart view app from play store and after installing this also it still not worked correctly. After couple of hours later my phone displayed a message that there is software update and after this update the cast icon started showing up on youtube videos intermittently. Once I followed steps mentioned in the links below, now it is working for me.
Here is the google forums link where people have issues in casting from S9+ to TV: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromecast/OrDR1xwqXRk
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I've had the S9+ a month or more now.. casting videos has always worked for me. I can do it from Home, from YouTube, Plex, and I also have used Videostream. All work fine.
Casting works fine for me except for Plex for some reason
I'm running into issues with my S9+ and Chromecasts as well. Sometimes my S9+ doesn't detect my Chromecasts until I reconnect to my wireless. This goes for Youtube, Hulu, Netflix, even the Google Home app. This has never been an issue before and the only thing that has changed has been my new S9+.
The S9 cannot mirror to Chromecast. Samsung has stated this time and again. It has to do with Oreo and the processor in the S9.
Seems ridiculous that I spent $800 on a flagship phone and have to use a 5 year old LG phone to cast Spectrum cable to my television.
Chromecast has worked on my S6, S7 & S8, but NOT on my S9+ OR the Note9. Really sucks... Anyone figured out a REAL fix yet?
Hi, I just recently purchased a Roku Express Plus. I had one of the very first generation Rokus but I haven't used it for 3 or 4 years so I got it all set up and was excited about the option to screen mirror my phone to watch content that I can't cast.
Everywhere I look shows me the exact same information, which is basically to go to my settings in my LG G5, share and connect, select the device, and then, supposedly, Voila! Except there is no Voila!
What ends up happening is that my phone sees the Roku unit and after it finishes searching it shows it's connecting. I've already been into my Roku settings and it sees the LG G5 and also has an abled no prompts necessary for connection. But within a couple of seconds of connecting to the Roku, and the Roku puts up a little purple screen that shows a small device and a large TV screen so it looks like something's going to happen, then the connection drops, Roku goes back to its home screen, and my phone shows no devices are available for connection.
I have tried to Google myself silly figuring out what might be going on. I can't screen mirror remotely from my phone to my TV, which is early generation flat screen and not a smart TV, but with an HDMI cord and a dongle I bought that allows it to work that way. But, of course, when I do that I'm limited to screen mirroring only as long as my battery is running because the dongle goes into my charging port on my phone.
Maybe I am misunderstanding things, but from everything I can see, it appears that my Roku model I have, which is a 3900 series, should work as the Miracast Dongle so that my LG G5 can screen mirror to my unsmart TV.
I have PlayStored myself to death and because Developers interchange the words "cast" and "mirror" it's been install, uninstall, install, uninstall Ad nauseam. For all of the apps that end up just basically being "assistants" and taking me to my share and connect page they are no help at all because even though I go through the process the same problem happens.
I did download one app, which works but is working so horribly because of the app itself that it's useless. So I do know that my phone can mirror through the Roku somehow but it is basically circumventing having to go through the Share & Connect somehow. That app was called Screen Stream Mirroring, and I was trying the free version because I did not want to spend $5 if it wasn't going to work at all. Aside from the annoying ads and limited time, it did a lot of "loading. . .", and had a significant delay. I don't mind the delay, but today it was working worse than it did last night when I first tried it. I'm not sure how it connects, but there was a little tab on the side that said to connect to Chromecast, DLNA, or other stuff, and when I clicked on that Roku popped up as an option because the app saw my Roku so I connected that way. Or any way connected crappily.
I know that's a lot of information, but I wanted to give you everything that I've tried so far. I've also cleared my caches, uninstalled the third party mirroring and casting apps, rebooted my phone, unplug and rebooted the Roku, and I'm not sure if there is a great app I can download? I don't mind a third party app but I can't find one that will work for me right now. So if anybody has ideas on that. Again, I need something that will mirror and not just passed because I would like to view my DishAnywhere or other things on the TV that I can't see through my Roku.
Or, ideally, it would be great to have my phone mirror directly to the Roku without that connection dropping and not seeing the device for some reason. There is no Direct Customer Support with Roku or my model Roku even though I just bought it new. My only options are help center cookie cutter choices you have to select from a drop-down menu, none of which have anything to do with screen mirroring.
Thank you in advance for any experience and or suggestions and ideas to troubleshoot this.,
Kristie
And if no one has any thoughts about how to solve the mirror dropping, how about a good Screen Mirroring App, not Casting, to mirror my LG G5 through my Roku? But it needs to bypass the Screen Mirroring button on my Share & Connect in Settings since that process keeps recognizing, trying to connect, and then dropping the Roku.
I did find one app that used a tab to connect directly to DNLA, Chromecast, etc. that recognized Roku and connected it, but the buffering/loading was horrible, the resolution wasn't great, and the second time I tried to use it the audio was not working. It was called Screen Stream Mirroring by MOBZAPP. Others I tried simply took me back to toggling on my Screen Mirroring button, and that is not working. Bypassing it did work, although the app wasn't great. I am hoping there is another, but I have not had luck since some developers say "mirror" but mean casting.
Thank you in again for your time and and ideas,
Kristie
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