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[Q] HDMI Lag

I went out and bought a micro HDMI to HDMI cable at frys the other day. It shows the picture and all but the xoom lags like none other when I put it in. Even a short swipe of the screen makes it pop up the add new widgets, wallpapers and so on. I was wondering what could be the problem with it? Its a non-rooted wifi only xoom.

that1techguy said:
I went out and bought a micro HDMI to HDMI cable at frys the other day. It shows the picture and all but the xoom lags like none other when I put it in. Even a short swipe of the screen makes it pop up the add new widgets, wallpapers and so on. I was wondering what could be the problem with it? Its a non-rooted wifi only xoom.
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Mine works great... maybe ur tv sux?
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i have similar problem with my HDMI cable. When ever I connect the xoom reboot it self work for few second then stop. After unplug and replug againsame cycle reboot.
Though this was working fine before! !!!!!

Mine works great with my LG set. The only thing when I plug it in the black bar at the bottom doubles in size on the xoom and doesn't reset after I unplug it. I have to reboot anyone have a fix?
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I picked up a the cord and it worked great.
The only issue I found was neither tv I tried it on could adjust overscan. On one tv the size adjustments were greyed out? and the other didn't respond to changes to picture size.

I will test this when I get my cable this week, should have by Tuesday.
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Does your TV have some sort of smoothing like running at 120Hz or 240 in some cases? If there's a "game" mode then usually that runs at 60Hz without a delay because it doesn't have to interpolate in-between frames.

Scourge1024 said:
Does your TV have some sort of smoothing like running at 120Hz or 240 in some cases? If there's a "game" mode then usually that runs at 60Hz without a delay because it doesn't have to interpolate in-between frames.
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Confirmed this works just change your AV setting on your tv and find the one that works best.

that1techguy said:
Confirmed this works just change your AV setting on your tv and find the one that works best.
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Glad that helped.

Well I tried again today and I found the reboot problem is ONLY with the Youtube, but not with any other applications ... can somebody confirm if they has issues watching Youtube through HDMI !

HDMI Gaming

After getting my 15 foot HDMI, 5 foot HDMI cables and my Body Glove case today I've been testing everything I can throw at this phone. In the end I only noticed the cable loses connection when you really move the phone around.
Played the following for about 5-30 minutes each:
Robot Unicorn Attack
Pocket Legands
Angry Birds, Rio and Seasons
Armored Strike
9 Innings Baseball
Bejeweled 2
Cordy
Dillo Hills
Pinball Deluxe
Rocket Bunnies
Speed Forge 3
What the Doodle!?
Stupid Zombies
Tap Defense
N64oid - Nintendo 64 emulation (Works like a charm!)
Even if I feel like the G2x is not lasting as long as my HD2 with an extended battery***...this phone is godlike and just makes me want to buy a bluetooth controller to play Zelda on the big screen again!
*** Disclaimer:
Of course coming from a phone with extended battery this phone is lasting about 12 hours with HIGH use of texting, gaming at work, music, more music, downloading, e-mails, package tracking and a picture here and there.

What extended battery are you using? Where'd you find it?

mysterioustko said:
What extended battery are you using? Where'd you find it?
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It was on my HTC HD2 and I found it after searching google shopping.
But for the G2x I don't think there is a extended battery for it yet. But for those who need some extra life should get an extra battery.
Comes with a desktop charger for the extra battery so when your ready to leave the house and going to be out for 12+ hours should help.
http://www.amazon.com/Quality-Replacement-T-Mobile-Battery-Desktop/dp/B004WJASNO

Zspy1985 said:
After getting my 15 foot HDMI, 5 foot HDMI cables and my Body Glove case today I've been testing everything I can throw at this phone. In the end I only noticed the cable loses connection when you really move the phone around.
Played the following for about 5-30 minutes each:
Robot Unicorn Attack
Pocket Legands
Angry Birds, Rio and Seasons
Armored Strike
9 Innings Baseball
Bejeweled 2
Cordy
Dillo Hills
Pinball Deluxe
Rocket Bunnies
Speed Forge 3
What the Doodle!?
Stupid Zombies
Tap Defense
N64oid - Nintendo 64 emulation (Works like a charm!)
Even if I feel like the G2x is not lasting as long as my HD2 with an extended battery***...this phone is godlike and just makes me want to buy a bluetooth controller to play Zelda on the big screen again!
*** Disclaimer:
Of course coming from a phone with extended battery this phone is lasting about 12 hours with HIGH use of texting, gaming at work, music, more music, downloading, e-mails, package tracking and a picture here and there.
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N64 still skips for me. Did u change settings.
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I also just got my HDMI cable yesterday, and I gotta agree that gaming on here rocks. Just so you know, Wii remotes don't work on any variant of the T-Mobile stock ROM, you'll have to use a CM nightly.
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C0dy said:
I also just got my HDMI cable yesterday, and I gotta agree that gaming on here rocks. Just so you know, Wii remotes don't work on any variant of the T-Mobile stock ROM, you'll have to use a CM nightly.
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So one gb comes they will work?
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I also just got my hdmi cable yesterday, from amazon. I was amazed at how incredibly smooth everything is through hdmi mirroring. The tegra 2 is really showing its stuff. Quick question, is the hdmi mirroring supported on cyanogen yet? I tried the first nightly, but ended up switching back quickly due to other issues, and didn't have my hdmi cable when I was playing with it.

cbowens said:
I also just got my hdmi cable yesterday, from amazon. I was amazed at how incredibly smooth everything is through hdmi mirroring. The tegra 2 is really showing its stuff. Quick question, is the hdmi mirroring supported on cyanogen yet? I tried the first nightly, but ended up switching back quickly due to other issues, and didn't have my hdmi cable when I was playing with it.
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Latest CM7 nightly has HDMI mirroring, but it's buggy...

mapin0518 said:
Latest CM7 nightly has HDMI mirroring, but it's buggy...
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Thanks; here's hoping that'll get fixed before the first stable release.

For what it's worth...
I thought HDMI mirroring was more buggy on stock. My phone would sometimes turn off as soon as I plugged in the cable and if I rotated my phone while the cable was in it DEFINITELY did not like that and would also shut down my phone (and drain battery to 0).
I've had absolutely no issues with HDMI mirroring on CM7 (including rotation) however playback in landscape is not so great.
Overall, I'd say performance was better with stock but it was way buggier. CM HDMI is more stable but worse performance.
Just my 2 cents...

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I thought HDMI mirroring was more buggy on stock. My phone would sometimes turn off as soon as I plugged in the cable and if I rotated my phone while the cable was in it DEFINITELY did not like that and would also shut down my phone (and drain battery to 0).
I've had absolutely no issues with HDMI mirroring on CM7 (including rotation) however playback in landscape is not so great.
Overall, I'd say performance was better with stock but it was way buggier. CM HDMI is more stable but worse performance.
Just my 2 cents...
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Hmmm, thats odd; I didn't run into any of those issues during my tests. My first thought would have been it was a hardware problem, either the cable or the hdmi port on the phone...but that wouldn't really explain why your cm7 build isn't exhibiting the same problems. Maybe its similar to some of the other issues that seem to plague some G2X owners: the presence of reboots and what not seems to vary from device to device. I love my G2X and haven't had any problems, but there seems to be some quality control issues for the batch as a whole.
Out of curiosity, where did you get your hdmi cable from?
EDIT: Also, what player were you using in both stock and CM7 to test your video playback?

teleknEsis said:
I thought HDMI mirroring was more buggy on stock. My phone would sometimes turn off as soon as I plugged in the cable and if I rotated my phone while the cable was in it DEFINITELY did not like that and would also shut down my phone (and drain battery to 0).
I've had absolutely no issues with HDMI mirroring on CM7 (including rotation) however playback in landscape is not so great.
Overall, I'd say performance was better with stock but it was way buggier. CM HDMI is more stable but worse performance.
Just my 2 cents...
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I tried playing a movie on youtube and in CM7 video player using the latest nightly and it would interrupt to a black screen for a second, every 30 seconds on my HDTV (but continue playing on my phone). Flash back to stock, and this didnt happen at all.

Does anybody use a bluetooth controller that works good? If so can you guys post a link? As soon as my hdmi cable arrives I'm going to install one of those emulators and test it out!
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charlieb620 said:
So one gb comes they will work?
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From what I understand, it's an issue with LG's Bluetooth drivers, so most likely not.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY-VnXP0hAo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzP2rwaUsdA

Zeemote works great...only four buttons though. Too lazy to link for ya...just google it if you're interested.
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bdkinney said:
Zeemote works great...only four buttons though. Too lazy to link for ya...just google it if you're interested.
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With which rom?
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I don't think a stock LG rom will support the bluetooth profiles unless they add them in with the GB update.
At this time, CM based roms are the only ones that will work with bluetooth gamepads.
There was already a thread on gamepads that listed pictures and pricing.
I'ved played several emulators and games via HDMI and no problems. Phone screen has to be on though... hopefully they fix that.

[Q] WebTOP Possible?

Hello, i used to have an atrix... then a photon and i still got them around but ofc im using the Infuse.
I was used to the WebTOP thing those motorola phones included in wich with just a bit of modifications it was an actually funtional "large screen" mobile computer; as soon as i got the Infuse i go and try the HDMI to realize its just HDMI "mirroring" so it just displays what you have on he screen... so seemengly "useless" at that time i went for rogers GB base ROMs since i wasnt gonna use HDMI.
Anyways now that i see the kernel problem with Rogers GB that didnt let HDMI go out its fixed with the J2 leak i went curious about HDMI again. Still whats the big deal to create the WebTOP display and can it be " ported" easily to Samsung? Or its device specific too hard etc etc?
Would be nice to not just have HDMI mirror but a kind of "WebTOP" for the Infuse since you can turn it into an awesome " micro laptop" with about 15 minuts of mods run full ubuntu etc.
Closest i have found its this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179824
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1162662
I know its probably hardware things still....
If anyone could be so kind of explaining me whats the deal about only motorola being able to run a WebTOP OR if its possible to just pull the apks from my photon/atrix and run them on Infuse?

koriotto said:
Hello, i used to have an atrix... then a photon and i still got them around but ofc im using the Infuse.
I was used to the WebTOP thing those motorola phones included in wich with just a bit of modifications it was an actually funtional "large screen" mobile computer; as soon as i got the Infuse i go and try the HDMI to realize its just HDMI "mirroring" so it just displays what you have on he screen... so seemengly "useless" at that time i went for rogers GB base ROMs since i wasnt gonna use HDMI.
Anyways now that i see the kernel problem with Rogers GB that didnt let HDMI go out its fixed with the J2 leak i went curious about HDMI again. Still whats the big deal to create the WebTOP display and can it be " ported" easily to Samsung? Or its device specific too hard etc etc?
Would be nice to not just have HDMI mirror but a kind of "WebTOP" for the Infuse since you can turn it into an awesome " micro laptop" with about 15 minuts of mods run full ubuntu etc.
I know its probably hardware things still....
If anyone could be so kind of explaining me whats the deal about only motorola being able to run a WebTOP OR if its possible to just pull the apks from my photon/atrix and run them on Infuse?
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Web top is lame, hwy I can run Web apps and browse Web sites like any other browser. I really don't get it.
You can actually run Linux in place of the Web top on the atrix but it had limitations last I looked. But yeah it is kinda motorola specific. Though if you install Linux to the sd card it is possible to ruin it along side Android. Then with a set of apps you may be able to access it with vnc software through Android to display the GUI on an hdmi device.
I'd imagine this would be slow and take a while to setup but it could be fun try.

Dani897 said:
Web top is lame, hwy I can run Web apps and browse Web sites like any other browser. I really don't get it.
You can actually run Linux in place of the Web top on the atrix but it had limitations last I looked. But yeah it is kinda motorola specific. Though if you install Linux to the sd card it is possible to ruin it along side Android. Then with a set of apps you may be able to access it with vnc software through Android to display the GUI on an hdmi device.
I'd imagine this would be slow and take a while to setup but it could be fun try.
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Yeah i mean i know you can basicly run browser like desktop etc, still maybe its my bigscree or my infuse but it scales so ugly it doesnt quite looks " HD" and the fact that its always portrait unless you open a video... maybe im playing wrong with MHL and my big screen but the videos dont look as good as i would expect, and again i repeat maybe im doing somethign wron but i sometimes use netflix on my infuse and put it on the bigscreen by the MHL adaptor and it looks UGLY choppy slow etc... if im doing something wrong would be nice if someone helped me out... its a 52" 1080p screen im connecting directly the MHL to hd cable to tv... and running froyo stock atm... looks bad videos look choppy dar sounds sometimes syncs off etc...
thats why i asked about the webtop cause it created an external emvironmet "ugly one" still looked so good while running videos etc that i could say " hey now thats hd"

koriotto said:
Yeah i mean i know you can basicly run browser like desktop etc, still maybe its my bigscree or my infuse but it scales so ugly it doesnt quite looks " HD" and the fact that its always portrait unless you open a video... maybe im playing wrong with MHL and my big screen but the videos dont look as good as i would expect, and again i repeat maybe im doing somethign wron but i sometimes use netflix on my infuse and put it on the bigscreen by the MHL adaptor and it looks UGLY choppy slow etc... if im doing something wrong would be nice if someone helped me out... its a 52" 1080p screen im connecting directly the MHL to hd cable to tv... and running froyo stock atm... looks bad videos look choppy dar sounds sometimes syncs off etc...
thats why i asked about the webtop cause it created an external emvironmet "ugly one" still looked so good while running videos etc that i could say " hey now thats hd"
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Yeah the scaling sux, but video playback isn't mirrored the phone screen should be off and it should output high Res video. A lot of the hdmi stuff is closed source and I don't know if the devs can figure out a way to interface with it. I wouldn't be optimistic about a better way.
Are you playing videos pdf the sd card oder flash off websites? If the Samsung player is running and you go full screen it should look ok. If it is windowed or uses the flash powered video player then there isn't any way I know of to get better than 480x800 res with bad upscaling. Try forcing the TV into 480p and see if the sharpness improves, other than that, I guess you have to deal with it.

Dani897 said:
Yeah the scaling sux, but video playback isn't mirrored the phone screen should be off and it should output high Res video. A lot of the hdmi stuff is closed source and I don't know if the devs can figure out a way to interface with it. I wouldn't be optimistic about a better way.
Are you playing videos pdf the sd card oder flash off websites? If the Samsung player is running and you go full screen it should look ok. If it is windowed or uses the flash powered video player then there isn't any way I know of to get better than 480x800 res with bad upscaling. Try forcing the TV into 480p and see if the sharpness improves, other than that, I guess you have to deal with it.
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Hmm idk how netflix works to be honest... but the screen nevers goes off while im playing a movie... that puts the phone temp REALLY hot after 2.30 hrs of playing with the screen on... i havent tried any videos directly from Video player i was saying Netflix quiality trough HDMI SUCKED haha...ill give it a shot at forcing the tv to go 480p thats actually a nice idea i didnt had... tnks man.

You are lucky you can even mirror Netflix. Samsung can't even allow there own media hub to mirror, the studios won't allow it. It would be too ready to record and distribute, media hub videos are only licenced to playback on the device. running mhl only gives you a message about how it isn't supported.

Dani897 said:
You are lucky you can even mirror Netflix. Samsung can't even allow there own media hub to mirror, the studios won't allow it. It would be too ready to record and distribute, media hub videos are only licenced to playback on the device. running mhl only gives you a message about how it isn't supported.
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Lol thats true, then ill stick with what i can get hahaha.

[Q] TV out on ICS

Hi, so I've been ICS for a while now and I'm currently running Virtuous Infinity 1.35beta. A few days ago I stumbled upon my cable that I used to use when I was on Gingerbread for connecting the MT4GS to the tv. It's a 4 pole jack with a red, white and yellow on the other end. Ever since I came over to ICS, I haven't had much time to play with this, but when I wanted to watch a movie on the tv off my mt4gs, it did not work. The phone tells me something along the lines of "hdmi connected", but the screen on the tv just turns blue and does not show anything. The movie plays on the mt4gs without a problem. I'm posting this because all of the threads I found about similar issues are from 2011 or early 2012, i.e. long before we got the ICS.
Does anyone have any idea of how to get this to work properly? Or is reverting back to Gingerbread the only option of getting this to work?
I bought this phone to last me a while and I'd hate to lose a useful function like this, where you can always essentially have a movie player in your pocket.
Thank you for even the slightest input you can give me on this because I haven't been able to find anything on this issue on xda or google.

lubotron said:
Hi, so I've been ICS [...] A few days ago I stumbled upon my cable that I used to use when I was on Gingerbread for connecting the MT4GS to the tv. It's a 4 pole jack with a red, white and yellow on the other end. [...] The phone tells me something along the lines of "hdmi connected", but the screen on the tv just turns blue and does not show anything.
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I saw the title to this thread in the forum list and it prompted me to find my cable. I'm going to have a few days coming up here where it will come in quite handy and I want to make sure the ROM I'm using is fully functional for my purposes. REALLY ticks me off how this phone seemed to be built only for Sense 3 Gingerbread. I think I'm going to quit supporting HTC over this BS.
So I finally find an ICS ROM that doesn't seem like it's crippled all to hell, and I saw this thread, and decided to try it. So far everything else I've needed seems to work, and I just went 12 hours with only 5% drop in battery (of course not touching the phone -- once I do it's like I lose a percent a minute) so it seems like a pretty decent ROM. But then I plug it into the tv, and just like you, I got "HDMI Connected" in the notebar, a blue screen on the tv (with black interleaved horizontal lines), and no other output. Also, there's no "TV Out" app or any kind of config that I can find.
I'm going to go hunting and if I catch anything I'll bring it back here...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1484165
that's probably your best bet. just a warning, i'm pretty sure it drains battery quickly (which i guess kind of makes sense cuz of the name "brute force"). not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but it's a start!

anitgandhi said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1484165
that's probably your best bet. just a warning, i'm pretty sure it drains battery quickly (which i guess kind of makes sense cuz of the name "brute force"). not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but it's a start!
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Anybody knows if tbalden released the source of this tvoutd binary? Would really love to work on this one if I could get hold of the source.

Riyal said:
Anybody knows if tbalden released the source of this tvoutd binary? Would really love to work on this one if I could get hold of the source.
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I don't think he posted/released the source for the tv out app. Try sending him a PM. I'd be interested in helping you with this, if tv out via micro usb is even doable.

rumi409 said:
I don't think he posted/released the source for the tv out app. Try sending him a PM. I'd be interested in helping you with this, if tv out via micro usb is even doable.
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Don't confuse tv-out (via 3.5mm 4-conductor phone plug) with MHL (via micro-USB connector/adapter) though...
...and I read in another xda thread that this phone may have the same
MHL chip that another phone had... Was it the sensation?
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All the guys who have examined it and worked hard on the subject have stated that it simply is not built in such a way as to do MHL. Blue IIRC was the guy who made the definitive statement.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement

I tried dissecting the binary to extract as much information as I can have and I noticed that this daemon is hacking up the route of the hdmi to the headset passage and into the usb to the TV. I'm not really good into these technology as I am not even using HDMI lol! So unless there's a source code I can't continue development on this as I don't understand the process of this bruteforce hack.

IR Blaster for Nexus?

I was wondering if these ir transmitters can be used with the Nexus Phone to use as a universal remote

raviraaj said:
I was wondering if these ir transmitters can be used with the Nexus Phone to use as a universal remote
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The N5 doesn't have an IR transmitter.

alacrify said:
The N5 doesn't have an IR transmitter.
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I referred to a link to ir emitters from ebay that plug into your headphone jack

raviraaj said:
I referred to a link to ir emitters from ebay that plug into your headphone jack
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Ah, sorry, didn't click the link.

That's a pretty ingenious idea whoever came up with it. I don't see why it wouldn't work technically if the software to control the emitter is written correctly for kitkat...

awesomeness
I totally want one. Hope someone does come out with a program to use these gadgets to make a simple remote control add on.

jahman42 said:
I totally want one. Hope someone does come out with a program to use these gadgets to make a simple remote control add on.
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And then you realized that you will never hear any sound from your nexus, because there is something in your headphone jack. You will have to unplug it whenever you are not using the phone as a remote.
I conclude that i totally don't want one.

Dlog said:
And then you realized that you will never hear any sound from your nexus, because there is something in your headphone jack. You will have to unplug it whenever you are not using the phone as a remote.
I conclude that i totally don't want one.
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My old phones had IR ports on them. My Cingular 8125, and 8525 both had them.
That being said, it's a crap waste of time that never amounts to anything more than a novelty.

GldRush98 said:
My old phones had IR ports on them. My Cingular 8125, and 8525 both had them.
That being said, it's a crap waste of time that never amounts to anything more than a novelty.
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The HTC One and S4 also has it and we love having a smart remote.
I'm really interested in seeing how well that solution works

I was actually upset because my Nexus 5 didn't have one. I've used My Media Center on my last few phones to control my media center setup but I wish I could control everything from it.

I use xbmc so I don't need ir as there are plenty of apps to do it via the Wi-Fi network.
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Is there a OTG alternative to add IR Blaster to the Nexus 5?

raviraaj said:
I was wondering if these ir transmitters can be used with the Nexus Phone to use as a universal remote
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im gonna say no for your exact purpose you want out of the box this probably only works properly with their proprietary software for camera controls.. but with a lot of software hacking around it could be possible.
any pre existing apps out there that will be looking for a device driver in the kernel for a built in hardware IR transmitter so any universal remote apps wont find this device. now in theory if you had a rooted phone and the know how you could possibly hack up a fake driver that tells the OS its got an IR transmitter so the software will find it and that driver redirects to an analog signal and sends the output to the audio jack.
Or your gonna need to write custom apps just for this device to work as a universal remote, the propriety app appears to only do camera commands.
I wonder if Tasker has a way to generate tones? maybe if you could use tasker to do pulses of tones and use those as the on/offs of the IR LED, would take some work but i bet you could do it if you either had a very small short audio sample played in quick succession or if there were a tone generator yo ucould turn on/off really fast.
looking around found this..
A Sony IR signal starts with 2400 microseconds on and 600 microseconds off; that's the first wide pulse. A "1" bit is transmitted with 1200 microseconds on and 600 microseconds off, while a "0" bit is transmitted with 600 microseconds on and 600 microseconds off.
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ive not played with tasker enough to know if it can do timing signals that short, maybe you could pre build a library of .wav files of each code to play into the IR LED.. so you'd have a pre recorded one for on one for off one for vol up etc etc and just play them on demand via tasker.
ps the website for the 5 to 6 dollar app on the android market has a how to build your own IR emitter http://www.wegroo.com/photoirmote/diyirmitter/ also the website says a operating range of 3 meters FYI... which would probably be dependant upon the IR LED's one used too. also interesting that camera remote software appears to also work with hardware built in IR emitters.

raviraaj said:
Is there a OTG alternative to add IR Blaster to the Nexus 5?
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looked around this morning... found this. http://iguanaworks.net/products/usb-ir-transceiver/ works in linux and windows.. source code for drivers is GPL.. so possibly again if someone ports the code to a kernel driver for android...??? the second model on the pull down has built in emitters the one at the top uses IR blasters like OP had linked to. looks rather large i assume its a very simple circuit inside so if someone actually put some effort into it could probably get it a lot smaller if they had a preferred circuit board fab and skills to re do the design smaller.
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raviraaj said:
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more random wandering on web...
looks to be pretty old and outa date.. http://www.slatedroid.com/wiki/index.php?title=Adding_IR_Output

Can it be used to control TV too ?

Dlog said:
And then you realized that you will never hear any sound from your nexus, because there is something in your headphone jack. You will have to unplug it whenever you are not using the phone as a remote.
I conclude that i totally don't want one.
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Oh you "totally" dont, you sound like a girl. Good luck troll

raviraaj said:
Oh you "totally" dont, you sound like a girl. Good luck troll
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No i really don't. Sounds like a good idea at first, but seriously: Are you going to live with having to un-/plug it constantly?

Just received my 3.5 ir blaster from ebay aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand doesn't work on my N5.