Just wondered what the best options are at the moment. I have a wireless 360 controller (with usb charger cable) but my transformer doesn't recognize it. Would any old windows based gamepad work ?.
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Ok, so I have these two wireless usb mice (one I use for my desktop) which work great on any normal computer however, on the Transformer (when connected via the dock usb) the mouse stutters every few seconds. In normal usage cases this wouldn't bother me however when I use citrix to run apps on the server at my school the mouse lag is just a buzzkill. I am thinking of getting a cheap wired mouse at the local best buy but has anyone else had this problem with wireless usb mice? Also, is it ALL usb mice that lag or just wireless ones? I don't want to buy a usb mouse if it won't work right with my transformer. Thanks for reading all of this
I just got a cheap wired usb mouse and it works fine, no lag.
I used a spare wired usb mouse and it worked fine, no lag, no problems.
I just bought Logitech small keyboard + mouse combo - it's wireless with usb dongle and it works without a problem. I don't have dock though - I use the USB adaptor.
i have a cyborg R.A.T. 9 for my desktop i plugged in the my tf101 and it worked fine, no lag.
Hello, I have a problem with Android
I'm on Gingerbread stock at my Xperia Neo V
Using USB OTG cable, I connected the Microsoft Wireless Mouse 1000 and everything is working great with one problem - the keyboard hides when I connect the mouse to USB port.
Device is reading this wireless dongle as a Microsoft Nano Transceiver v2.0 so I guess it's like a mouse and a keyboard for system, but I have only mouse.
My wired desktop mouse is detected as a USB Mouse and can use keyboard.
I have tried several keyboards but none worked - even OpenWnn with Use Hardware Keyboard unchecked.
Is there anything that I can do, maybe some keyboard?
Not sure if this is right category...
I'm thinking about getting a Shield, but I've never bothered with wifi connectivity on my desktop PC. Can I still use the Shield as a USB gamepad? What about the streaming functionality?
Thanks for any answers!
Its not immediately clear *exactly* what you are asking here.
You can stream to the PC as long as you are on the same LAN, so if you connect the shield via wifi to your router and the PC has an ethernet connection to the router then that will work. Or you can use a USB-OTG adaptor in the shield with a USB ethernet adaptor to connect the shield to a router via ethernet too. If your desktop doesnt meet the requirements you can use splashtop instead of the official NVidia stuff.
The USB port on the shield though, well, its a regular android device. Its no different from plugging your phone into the PC. You can't use the shield as a USB gamepad like that. Best off just buying the wired version of the xbox controller if you want a PC gamepad, they aren't the cheapest (but they are far from the most expensive) but they are reasonably good quality and well supported
Just as a side note regarding Ethernet over OTG cable. Some apps (like the Play Store) won't connect unless you are using WiFi or mobile connection.
It's not the Shield's fault, just the app when it enumerates the network connectivity.
So far I only found the Play Store to ignore the network connection over Ethernet, same is true on all the devices I tested so far: TrimSlice (Tegra 2), TF201 (Tegra 3), My Touch 4G, Samsung Galaxy SIII and the Shield.
The Trimslice is the only one with a dedicated hardware Ethernet over PCIe, the others I used an OTG cable and hooked a USB HUB with Ethernet built in.
I don't stream PC games but when Nvidia was demoing the Shield's streaming capabilities they were using an Ethernet dongle so they didn't have to fight for WiFi connections from the attendees at the conferences they were presenting at.
To clarify, I was hoping I could simply plug in a Shield to my USB port and use it as a USB gamepad, but by the sounds of it that doesn't seem very likely.
Can't you just connect ps3 controllers to it over bluetooth? If you can't do that yet I'm sure you will be able to
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To clarify, I was hoping I could simply plug in a Shield to my USB port and use it as a USB gamepad, but by the sounds of it that doesn't seem very likely.
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No, you cannot unfortunately. If that is what you require, buy a wired xbox controller.
When you set a device to USB tether, it adds another USB profile that creates a network connection over the USB - with some hacking it might be possible to use this connection. I think adb can also do some kind of port-forwarding to allow communication between the device and the computer.
It might be possible to get something working, both for controller input and streaming, but not sure how difficult this would be or what the performance would be.
But I don't think any of this will work very easily out of the box unfortunately!
~Troop
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I realize that the question is a little "convoluted" and hope to be in the right section.
I have an old tablet Acer Iconia tab a100 I wanted to connect to my TV via HDMI and to whom I wanted to connect a joypad to play.
However, the very old Acer does not have OTG and I do not have an Bluetooth controller (I have a Logitech dual action, a PS2 pad with USB adapter and wireless xbox360 controller with the adapter).
Now I tried to use my s3neo as pad through the app BT controller, but not everything works with all apps and still is inconvenient because I have not the sensitivity of the controller (in the sense I do not see what I touch when I watch TV) .
I floated the idea of linking one of my pad via OTG all'S3neo and use it as a "bridge" for the tablet via Bluetooth (I do not have wi fi).
I try with 360 pads but does not work (not pairing while on pc work and do not understand why)
The Logitech Dual Action is recognized, however, creates a problem: Some keys are associated with functions that can not be removed (for example by pressing the appropriate button of the triangle comes to my home and is therefore not usable in game)
The ps2 pad is however recognized the right analog is completely busted.
I tried with tincore keymapper but I have serious difficulties.
Thanks in advance!
Hi all. Recently I've sold my laptop, as I wasn't using it that much, so I've decided to try the desktop mode (when needed) & also a wireless keyboard with touchpad.
It works fine with the TV, but I can't connect both, HDMI + USB receiver for the keyboard.
I tried 2 docking stations, a thinkpad and a dell, and on both works fine to connect to TV, but it doesn't on the phone. Any idea?
The keyboard is Rii k18.