Hi all, new to these forums and trying to figure out some information on the xoom and its "interesting" HDMI out. With my friend's transformer on mini HDMI out, he is able to output full audio to our receiver without issues. I cannot do the same with this tablet and the micro HDMI to HDMI cable I have. It outputs tinny 2ch audio only.
I also tried it on four other receivers at the local fry's. Same deal... I therefore figured it is either an issue with the cable I bought or the xoom itself. It would be great to get this working for videos and the like, but the real deal is something far greater: playing angry birds in an earth shattering, bass powered 100" home theater slaughter.
Thanks for reading!
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Well the quick way to narrow it down wuld be to try his trasnformer with your cable, or your xoom with his cable. My guess is that its probably the cable, cause I'm pretty sure we hooked a xoom up to the conferece room audio at work and it was incredibly loud bass and all...out of the blue, had the whole office wondering what was going on.
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Kcarpenter said:
Well the quick way to narrow it down wuld be to try his trasnformer with your cable, or your xoom with his cable. My guess is that its probably the cable, cause I'm pretty sure we hooked a xoom up to the conferece room audio at work and it was incredibly loud bass and all...out of the blue, had the whole office wondering what was going on.
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was that via HDMI or the 3.5mm jack on the top?
I would but unfortunately the xoom uses micro and the transformer uses mini. I ordered the official Motorola micro HDMI cable since it was $4 from amazon... if that doesn't work it has to be the xoom. Four high end receivers wouldn't give the same result like that. :-\
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what9000 said:
I would but unfortunately the xoom uses micro and the transformer uses mini. I ordered the official Motorola micro HDMI cable since it was $4 from amazon... if that doesn't work it has to be the xoom. Four high end receivers wouldn't give the same result like that. :-\
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Please let us know, if it's the cable, ill buy the moto official one, otherwise I'll just continue to be annoyed with it not working.
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Not sure if this could be the problem, but I have been unable to play 5.1 encoded videos on the Xoom. Any videos with 5.1 audio play at fast forward speed.
dbett said:
Not sure if this could be the problem, but I have been unable to play 5.1 encoded videos on the Xoom. Any videos with 5.1 audio play at fast forward speed.
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Have a look here. Its not only you....its alot of us.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14317252#post14317252
Well I just tried the HDMI cable and same result. Trash audio. I noticed the sub is putting out the tiniest amount of bass if I Max out the sub... but then I switch to the transformer and it absolutely bleeds bass. Its something in the xoom... I'm disappointed.
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Hi all,
I had posted a response in the other HDMI thread but think here may make more sense and even help some of you out. I use my Xoom with the Motorola micro HDMI to HDMI cable going from the Xoom straight into my Dell 21.5" HD monitor from the monitor i use the 3.5mm Audio out port straight into my powered JBL sub woofer which is also connected to 4 JBL speakers. I am getting a full and rich sound stage and for some shows or movies i actually need to turn the Bass down i hope this helps some of you figure out what can or can't be done using a HDMI cable and especially the Motorola cable which whilst it may not be the cheapest option at least for me is giving great results.
Marc
Yes... I have used that as well. It does work, but that does not excuse Motorola from making the HDMI work as it should. I don't always have a 3.5mm Jack to plug into. :-\
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@what9000
Sorry I'm a little confused by your post as surely the point is the Motorola micro HDMI to HDMI cable is working as it should as I'm not plugging the 3.5m jack into the Xoom but my monitor so if the Moto cable wasn't carrying the Bass the monitor out wouldn't and couldn't out put it. I thought what others where saying was that they were finding thier HDMI cables were not carrying the bass or maybe I have misunderstood that as the point as many also said they are not using the more expensive Motorola cable was that may be the cause. I realize in theory any HDMI cable should work but real life isn't always that simple.
Marc
Neither HDMI cable type nor manufacturer will make a difference in the number of audio channels played nor resolution of the video output of our Xoom.
If you're only getting two channel sound, then that's all the Xoom is outputting, which makes sense as there's only two channels in our audio system IIRC.
I basically isolated it down to the xoom. Four receivers, two cables and same result. The only thing that didn't change was the xoom. This is a bit underwhelming...
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You have to run audio out via 3.5mm jack to get good sound. You can run the hdmi to a dock with a audio out then plug some speakers into the dock and it will sound great, but not straight through the hdmi.
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Hi
I did read posts that the wiring is not normal and a head set connection would need some kind of Adapter. Is it true? Mine did not work after plugging it though a notification came up.And where to get this from?
ATM I am using Bluetooth Sony MW600 and it can control the Music player settings via remote.Any one knows how much battery would be hit using this bluetooth vs Wired?
ipod style headsets-plugs should work.
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I did read posts that the wiring is not normal and a head set connection would need some kind of Adapter. Is it true? Mine did not work after plugging it though a notification came up.And where to get this from?
ATM I am using Bluetooth Sony MW600 and it can control the Music player settings via remote.Any one knows how much battery would be hit using this bluetooth vs Wired?
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I have used a standard headphone - that I use for my MP3 player - into the TF pad and it worked.
I have also used the handsfree kit that came with my HTC Wildfire phone - which has a built-in mic (you know it is a phone handsfree kit) - and this works too. Even the microphone works properly.
So you don't really need any special headphones.
Thank'd.
Mine works now too!
Anyways would be interesting to know the impact of bluetooth on battery.
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I have used a standard headphone - that I use for my MP3 player - into the TF pad and it worked.
I have also used the handsfree kit that came with my HTC Wildfire phone - which has a built-in mic (you know it is a phone handsfree kit) - and this works too. Even the microphone works properly.
So you don't really need any special headphones.
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Does your TF700T make noise from its 3,5 mini jack when the screen is off?
I have connected my TF700 to some cheap speakers, and i notice a low noisy sound when the screen is off.
My speakers are powered.
I dont have this problem with my phone.
Can anyone test it please?
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I have this with nearly every device. Unless I fully kill the power to the speakers/headset, they start squeaking and humming once there's no feed. Doesn't matter if it's my tab, pc, laptop, phone, ipod in dock or even my radio. It's just the idle feed you hear. You phone probably cuts the connection to the jack when you're not using it.
I read an article couple months ago about a USB audio dock accessory that Asus was going to release for the Transformer series. The article even had a picture of a prototype dock with B&O speakers. One of the new features of Jelly Bean is native support for USB audio. Has anyone heard anything about the dock, or do you think they're just going to scrap the project?
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This?
http://www.asus.com/Peripherals_Accessories/Eee_Pad_Accessories/Audio_Dock/#specifications
Edit : Found a web shop who claims to have it by 20.01.2013, (http://goo.gl/LnPqv)
Yep. I'm so going to order one when it comes out.
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Does this mean that USB sound will work? I havent even checked if USB Sound works now tho It would be nice to be able to connect to my speakers with USB instead of Bluetooth indeed
Hey! I have an audio problem with my device. When i just play some music with google play using my headphones (that came with galaxy 3 that i have) it sounds like i am hearing in low quality and i can't hear some parts that are playing. For example, sometimes i can't hear the singer singing or the guitar plays. Kinda like my device is playing stereo and my headphones gets only one side.
It's worth mentioning that i tried other headphones, which didn't help much. I have tried other audio apps also and got the same results.
I have searched for an answer to the situation for quite some time now and didn't find any.
Thank you
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Either there's a problem with the headphones (but you imply it is the same across different ones), or they are not plugging in properly. Is the jack in fully? Is there something lurking in the socket that might stop the jack from connecting?
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Either there's a problem with the headphones (but you imply it is the same across different ones), or they are not plugging in properly. Is the jack in fully? Is there something lurking in the socket that might stop the jack from connecting?
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the problem is that this issue happens with other headphones too.
maybe you should try to loose the headphone jack a little bit, hope this works
Well i tried playing a little with the jack but no luck...
what do you mean by "loose the headphone jack a little bit" ?
I don't want to cause any physical damage ...
Either the jack was incorrectly installed or the jack is defective. I would RMA the unit if I were you.
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Today I had an issue where my volume was all the way up and the phone plugged into the receiver wouldn't work. The s3 I have here would play just fine though.
N5 stock Rom rooted, xposed, franco, sounds mod, dalvik optimization mod and using stock music player.
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