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Is there a way to change/resize hdmi output resolution ? doesn't fit my tv

As stated in the title, unfortunately my TV won't let me resize the image while using hdmi mode (don't know why...) and I can't see part of the image.
Is there a fix ? (even rooting)
thanks

I put mine in exact scan mode and it fit the screen correct, if you have that or a PC or gaming mode where it goes 1:1 with the pixels it might look better

Still couldn't fix this issue with my television screen, im attaching an image.
thanks

I have this issue as well. Hate it.. Anyone have a fix?

since I'm rooted I'd flash anything to address this boring issue

My TV has the same problem with different sources. Usually computers. It is a TV problem I think. However, my TV works much better with a smaller input size. It leaves about an inch around the outer edge. Hardly noticable though.
Maybe there could be an app for that. Like SetCPU does with OC's.

I had the same problem since the TV was looking for 1280x720 and the transformer is giving it 1280x800 instead. I was able to fix it using the built in scaling feature on my TV. Its an older Sony 720P DLP TV, so I'm sure most of the newer TVs have a similar scaling feature.

a.mcdear said:
I had the same problem since the TV was looking for 1280x720 and the transformer is giving it 1280x800 instead. I was able to fix it using the built in scaling feature on my TV. Its an older Sony 720P DLP TV, so I'm sure most of the newer TVs have a similar scaling feature.
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can't understand why but while in HDMI input it won't let resize the image, no problem with AV (like with my xbox)
I wrote about the same issues in another forum (asus transformer forum) and there are other guys experiencing the same issue.
thanks for the replies

I have this to not quite as bad but i cant see the bottom of the screen or a little bit on the edges but the top lines up sweet
I have tried everything hope somebody makes an app or fix for this maybe revolver parts screen resizing !!!!!!

Some tvs suffer from overscan and there is no fix. That being said, www.avsforum.com might be a better place to get more info on tour specific tv
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Mx video viewer allows me to pinch to zoom in or out that is what I use cause it was driving me nuts as well.
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Don't take this the wrong way but.... could be a cheap tv. My parents have an insignia and there is no 1:1 screen setting even on pc or gaming mode. It always cuts off the over scan space(no overscan).
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I had the same overscan problem initially with my toshiba LCD TV, ie. the sides of the transformer desktop were clipped off but i fixed it via the Toshiba's screen adjust settings whereby you can select aspect-ratios such as "16:9", "4:3", "cinema" etc.
The setting that worked for me was "Exact scan". I believe it is called "Native" mode on some other brands of TV.
That's where to look.

theabsurdman said:
I had the same overscan problem initially with my toshiba LCD TV, ie. the sides of the transformer desktop were clipped off but i fixed it via the Toshiba's screen adjust settings whereby you can select aspect-ratios such as "16:9", "4:3", "cinema" etc.
The setting that worked for me was "Exact scan". I believe it is called "Native" mode on some other brands of TV.
That's where to look.
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Exact scan
Just scan
Native
Pc mode
Usually what it's called. Its just over scanning or a 1:1 pixel matching. But not every tv has this option.
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Splashtop alternative

While the Splashtop app that comes pre-installed on the TF300 is pretty neat, it differs from Windows implementation of Remote Desktop in several ways. Most significantly to me is that the image that you see on the TF300's screen is a mirror of your PC's current desktop, including aspect ratio and screen resolution (scaled). In Microsoft's implementation of RDP, the remote machine is unavailable while an RDP session is in progress, which allows for the session to conform to the client machine's native screen resolution.
Is there an alternative to Splashtop that more closely resembles Microsoft's implementation of RDP?
I ask because my desktop PC sports two 1280 x 1024 resolution screens, and when I open a Splashtop session, not only do I see a single screen (scaled to squeeze a 1024 vertical resolution down to 800) but my second screen is completely invisible.

Look up teamviewer. I'm not sure how it compares but it's free so worth a shot. when I tried it, out had much more options than splashtop. My buddy who is a network admin recommended it to me.

enomele said:
Look up teamviewer. I'm not sure how it compares but it's free so worth a shot. when I tried it, out had much more options than splashtop. My buddy who is a network admin recommended it to me.
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+1 TeamViewer

Another +1. Desktops/servers... Works great.

if you are looking for something that functions like the Remote Desktop app in Windows, the only one that I've found that does that is 2X Client RDP/Remote Desktop. You don't install anything on a host pc like most of these other apps require.
I can use 2X to log into my work's windows server, just like if I was Remote Desktop on a windows PC. Navigating can sometimes be a little tricky, but the app includes a built in mouse emulator that makes things easier.

You can edit the settings for a computer in the Splashtop app to fit the resolution of the tablet (I use "Best fit to this device"). You can also switch between monitors by tapping 3 fingers (which is pretty damn difficult to get it to register at times); I switch between my monitors all the time. Only thing with multiple monitors is that it only adjusts the resolution of the primary display on your computer and not the others.

Thanks for all the tips, guys.

[Q] Is it possible to remote desktop a Windows 7 machine in Full screen 1080p?

One of the reasons I'm interested in this tablet's 1080p screen is to use it for remote desktop purposes. I wish to control my Windows 7 machine from it.
As such I have two questions.
1) Which software do you recommend (both on Windows 7 and Android) to stream my Windows 7 machine to this tablet?
2) Can I take advantage of the 1080p resolution?

tommedema said:
One of the reasons I'm interested in this tablet's 1080p screen is to use it for remote desktop purposes. I wish to control my Windows 7 machine from it.
As such I have two questions.
1) Which software do you recommend (both on Windows 7 and Android) to stream my Windows 7 machine to this tablet?
2) Can I take advantage of the 1080p resolution?
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The only problem with 1080 on 1080 is the borders. You'll want your Windows box at a slightly lower res, or scale it slightly downward, or a border-less client (I'm not use they make one, as then it would be hard to get back to the "tablet" interface)
VNC server on the windows box, VNC client on the tablet. I do this all the time window to windows, and even have a VNC server on my phone, for when I'm in the basement! Tiny VNC on the PC, search the Play store for the tablet.
Also, a program like LogMeIn, but that cost $$.

matthelm said:
The only problem with 1080 on 1080 is the borders. You'll want your Windows box at a slightly lower res, or scale it slightly downward, or a border-less client (I'm not use they make one, as then it would be hard to get back to the "tablet" interface)
VNC server on the windows box, VNC client on the tablet. I do this all the time window to windows, and even have a VNC server on my phone, for when I'm in the basement! Tiny VNC on the PC, search the Play store for the tablet.
Also, a program like LogMeIn, but that cost $$.
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Considering you'd be remoting into a 1920x1080 computer on a 1920x1200 screen, I doubt the borders would be that big. Basically whatever isnt eaten up by the navbar, which would be an insignificant amount. Barely noticeable if at all.

matthelm said:
The only problem with 1080 on 1080 is the borders. You'll want your Windows box at a slightly lower res, or scale it slightly downward, or a border-less client (I'm not use they make one, as then it would be hard to get back to the "tablet" interface)
VNC server on the windows box, VNC client on the tablet. I do this all the time window to windows, and even have a VNC server on my phone, for when I'm in the basement! Tiny VNC on the PC, search the Play store for the tablet.
Also, a program like LogMeIn, but that cost $$.
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Thanks, but which Android app do you recommend for a tablet?

Splashtop HD is a really good program to do just this. It's also included in the transformer infinity already.

Did someone actually test this feature (remote desktop) with the Infinity, be it with Splashtop as it seems to be part of the bundle or any other piece of software ?
This is one of the main use cases I want to be able to do with the Infinity too.

Would the Windows UI elements look tiny on the Infinity due to the large resolution on the small 10" screen?

sonicated said:
Would the Windows UI elements look tiny on the Infinity due to the large resolution on the small 10" screen?
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And that's why you can zoom it just like any tablet/phone feature. I'm interested in the Gamepad version of Splashtop, as I already have the normal one and now I'm hearing it's bundled with that app as well. I'd love to play some Team Fortress 2 via my tablet while I'm away from my laptop (and would be incredibly useful if I decide to buy a powerful desktop in the future)

KilerG said:
And that's why you can zoom it just like any tablet/phone feature.
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So with the Infinity can I remote into a Windows machine with the Windows resolution of 1280x800 but displaying full screen on the 1920x1200 (same aspect ratio) Infinity display?

sonicated said:
So with the Infinity can I remote into a Windows machine with the Windows resolution of 1280x800 but displaying full screen on the 1920x1200 (same aspect ratio) Infinity display?
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It would display full screen on the Infinity I think, but the computer's screen resolution might be changed while connected. I know when I connect my phone, it changed the resolution to something a little bit smaller.

I didn't get Splashtop HD (or even regular version) pre-installed on my Infinity
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Dub Tech said:
I didn't get Splashtop HD (or even regular version) pre-installed on my Infinity
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using xda app-developers app
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I know Amazon has had it as a free app of the day a few times...that's where I got it from.

KilerG said:
I know Amazon has had it as a free app of the day a few times...that's where I got it from.
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Mine was pre-installed, as well as some other ASUS and Google apps.

d14b0ll0s said:
Mine was pre-installed, as well as some other ASUS and Google apps.
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Nice. Which version is it exactly?

KilerG said:
Nice. Which version is it exactly?
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1.1.0.10c (bundled with MyDesktop and described as "Splashtop Remote" in Settings/Apps, but with an "HD" icon attached)

d14b0ll0s said:
1.1.0.10c (bundled with MyDesktop and described as "Splashtop Remote" in Settings/Apps, but with an "HD" icon attached)
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So Splashtop HD....good.

sonicated said:
Would the Windows UI elements look tiny on the Infinity due to the large resolution on the small 10" screen?
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That would depend entirely on what DPI you have your desktop set to. Windows goes by percentages so, 100% would be tiny, 125% would probably be normal or a little on the small side, and 150% would probably be too big or slightly above normal.

d14b0ll0s said:
1.1.0.10c (bundled with MyDesktop and described as "Splashtop Remote" in Settings/Apps, but with an "HD" icon attached)
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I can find Splashtop Remote HD in Settings/Apps but I can't find MyDesktop or the Splashtop Remote icon for launching it? Do you or anybody else know where I can find the icon for launching te app?
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veelrommel said:
I can find Splashtop Remote HD in Settings/Apps but I can't find MyDesktop or the Splashtop Remote icon for launching it? Do you or anybody else know where I can find the icon for launching te app?
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Excuse me.... I found it..... It is in the MyCloud section and it works really great!!!

I've been playing around with splashtop - THD doesn't support 1080p as far as I can tell.
If you can setup port forwarding, and know your way around networking, I've been using the 2X RDP client: Market Link It lets me get full 1080.
Haven't given the built-in Splashtop HD a try yet.

Try android vnc viewer.
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Screencast to PC

I ended up with the note after replacing my tf101 with the tf300 and tested the note and loved it in every way.
I'm not really even missing the keyboard dock and finding many ways to use the spen on a regular basis.
What I'd love though is to basically use the note as a digital whiteboard for teaching. Essentially to be able to write in smote or quill while sending the screen display over wifi to the PC connected to the projector system. Is there any way to do this? To do a live screencast from the note to a PC?
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jeggen said:
I ended up with the note after replacing my tf101 with the tf300 and tested the note and loved it in every way.
I'm not really even missing the keyboard dock and finding many ways to use the spen on a regular basis.
What I'd love though is to basically use the note as a digital whiteboard for teaching. Essentially to be able to write in smote or quill while sending the screen display over wifi to the PC connected to the projector system. Is there any way to do this? To do a live screencast from the note to a PC?
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AllShare?

ljcook said:
AllShare?
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Have had zero luck even getting it to connect. PC install didn't work at work, tried at home and apparently needed to let it restart and then install all over. Still cannot connect the device though, device always scans when I turn on AllShare cat in network and Allshare on the PC recognizes an "intel" device. Thought for sure the Note would appear there.
Any tips on how to use it?
Does it actually do this? I gave up on it because what I see on Samsung's website only talks about sharing music/video and I didn't see any mention of streaming the tablet display to the PC. (Except the idea that you could watch a game on the PC, but see nothing about this in the app itself.)

jeggen said:
Have had zero luck even getting it to connect. PC install didn't work at work, tried at home and apparently needed to let it restart and then install all over. Still cannot connect the device though, device always scans when I turn on AllShare cat in network and Allshare on the PC recognizes an "intel" device. Thought for sure the Note would appear there.
Any tips on how to use it?
Does it actually do this? I gave up on it because what I see on Samsung's website only talks about sharing music/video and I didn't see any mention of streaming the tablet display to the PC. (Except the idea that you could watch a game on the PC, but see nothing about this in the app itself.)
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Were you able to figure this out? I'm a teacher as well and do things with my HP tablet, but really want to with many Note.

You can execute AllShare through Samsung Kies, as well.
My suggestion would be to try and look at Remotes. You may be able to find drawing input ones. I use Unified Remote for using my phone/tablet as an input device. Although, the free version is limited to about 13 remotes or so. With the pro version you get it up in it's 50's. I'm not sure if this has what you're looking for but you can make your own custom remotes.
Or, alternatively, you can use a Remote Desktop client. Some of these may adjust your screen resolution on the PC so it fits well in the Note 10, but you can easily change it back. But it'll effect the view on the tablet. For this, I use Splashtop 2 HD.

zaslamel42 said:
You can execute AllShare through Samsung Kies, as well.
My suggestion would be to try and look at Remotes. You may be able to find drawing input ones. I use Unified Remote for using my phone/tablet as an input device. Although, the free version is limited to about 13 remotes or so. With the pro version you get it up in it's 50's. I'm not sure if this has what you're looking for but you can make your own custom remotes.
Or, alternatively, you can use a Remote Desktop client. Some of these may adjust your screen resolution on the PC so it fits well in the Note 10, but you can easily change it back. But it'll effect the view on the tablet. For this, I use Splashtop 2 HD.
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What is Samsung Kies and what is Remotes?
I've done some investigating and I think the only way that AllShare works to screencast to another device is to send it to an AllShare Play device. Unfortunately I don't think (but really hope I'm wrong) the PC software works this way.
I'm curious, has anyone tried the VNC Server for Android and tried connecting in a view mode on a PC?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...lt#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsIm9yZy5vbmFpcHMudm5jIl0.

perhaps this is what you are looking for?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.splashtop.remote.WHITEBOARD&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd

Working Solution
jeggen said:
I ended up with the note after replacing my tf101 with the tf300 and tested the note and loved it in every way.
I'm not really even missing the keyboard dock and finding many ways to use the spen on a regular basis.
What I'd love though is to basically use the note as a digital whiteboard for teaching. Essentially to be able to write in smote or quill while sending the screen display over wifi to the PC connected to the projector system. Is there any way to do this? To do a live screencast from the note to a PC?
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This is the setup I use and would suggest to everone in need to present from Galaxy Note 10.1:
buy Allshare Cast dongle , search for it on Amazon
buy HDMI to VGA adapter
connect HDMI to VGA adapter to projector and Allshare to A/C
on Note 10.1, Settings/More Settings/AllShareCast, the dongle will be detected something like "Dongle-xxxxx", tap to connect
When connected, start to present, wireless, move in the room, take the S-Pen and highlight the important topics etc.
On that way, no hassles with connection to PC/laptop and then to projector. AND the coolness factor is priceless! Every time I present there is a WOW factor, the downturn is sometimes people are not listening to my presentation but wants to see the technology.
And the Apple fanboys in the meetings around with their iPads - can you imagine several of them told me "nah, that is PROPRIETARY technology" !? LOL! I was very respectful before to other people opinions and personally I am very thankful to the genius work of Steve Jobs but in recent time I simple shoot back very sharp - face it, Apple funboy!

wolfindersteppe said:
This is the setup I use and would suggest to everone in need to present from Galaxy Note 10.1:
buy Allshare Cast dongle , search for it on Amazon
buy HDMI to VGA adapter
connect HDMI to VGA adapter to projector and Allshare to A/C
on Note 10.1, Settings/More Settings/AllShareCast, the dongle will be detected something like "Dongle-xxxxx", tap to connect
When connected, start to present, wireless, move in the room, take the S-Pen and highlight the important topics etc.
On that way, no hassles with connection to PC/laptop and then to projector. AND the coolness factor is priceless! Every time I present there is a WOW factor, the downturn is sometimes people are not listening to my presentation but wants to see the technology.
And the Apple fanboys in the meetings around with their iPads - can you imagine several of them told me "nah, that is PROPRIETARY technology" !? LOL! I was very respectful before to other people opinions and personally I am very thankful to the genius work of Steve Jobs but in recent time I simple shoot back very sharp - face it, Apple funboy!
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Is thi similar to AppleTV and Airplay? Does it mirror everything at all times or only certain apps? Thanks for your help!!!

shrek4224 said:
Is thi similar to AppleTV and Airplay? Does it mirror everything at all times or only certain apps? Thanks for your help!!!
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I don not own any Apple product and cannot say anything about it.
Everything what you can see on your Note 10.1 screen you are seeing parallel on the second display. I have tested it with several projectors from Dell, Sony, signal to those devices over their VGA ports and the experience is exactly the same to one with the laptop connected to the projector. The best result is via HDMI port, majority of the business projectors do not have one but monitors and TV have them and the result is gorgeous, beside the screen the audio is transferred too.
The video player is optimized for the AllShare Cast, when playing you can see the video on the second screen and on Note 10.1 you have the control menu.
Polaris office works fine too, same experience, WYSIWYG on both screens. For slides (aka PowerPoint), when connected to AllShare Cast dongle, the slide show button clicked shows the selection of
Primary display
Dual monitor
Controller & Note
but only the Primary display selection switches to presenter mode. Even then, the pen modes is active so you can annotate with S-Pen direct on the slides during the presentation, the killing feature for me.
Small downturn - multiscreen is not working when connected to Allshare Cast dongle, only single screens, but the floating helicopter videos is working and that is impressive for entertaining the people after the work is done :fingers-crossed:.

wolfindersteppe said:
I don not own any Apple product and cannot say anything about it.
Everything what you can see on your Note 10.1 screen you are seeing parallel on the second display. I have tested it with several projectors from Dell, Sony, signal to those devices over their VGA ports and the experience is exactly the same to one with the laptop connected to the projector. The best result is via HDMI port, majority of the business projectors do not have one but monitors and TV have them and the result is gorgeous, beside the screen the audio is transferred too.
The video player is optimized for the AllShare Cast, when playing you can see the video on the second screen and on Note 10.1 you have the control menu.
Polaris office works fine too, same experience, WYSIWYG on both screens. For slides (aka PowerPoint), when connected to AllShare Cast dongle, the slide show button clicked shows the selection of
Primary display
Dual monitor
Controller & Note
but only the Primary display selection switches to presenter mode. Even then, the pen modes is active so you can annotate with S-Pen direct on the slides during the presentation, the killing feature for me.
Small downturn - multiscreen is not working when connected to Allshare Cast dongle, only single screens, but the floating helicopter videos is working and that is impressive for entertaining the people after the work is done :fingers-crossed:.
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That sounds amazing. I'd love to see a video of it all in action. Sounds great, especially being able to run a presentation and markup with the pen, but would like to see it before dropping about $100 on the setup.
I've been testing splashtop whiteboard but have had problems getting it to connect. Sometimes it will.... sometimes it won't. Would prefer to just screencast and run everything from the tablet anyway. The presentation mode sounds impressive and ability to swith into Sketchbook or snotes would be great.
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wolfindersteppe said:
I don not own any Apple product and cannot say anything about it.
Everything what you can see on your Note 10.1 screen you are seeing parallel on the second display. I have tested it with several projectors from Dell, Sony, signal to those devices over their VGA ports and the experience is exactly the same to one with the laptop connected to the projector. The best result is via HDMI port, majority of the business projectors do not have one but monitors and TV have them and the result is gorgeous, beside the screen the audio is transferred too.
The video player is optimized for the AllShare Cast, when playing you can see the video on the second screen and on Note 10.1 you have the control menu.
Polaris office works fine too, same experience, WYSIWYG on both screens. For slides (aka PowerPoint), when connected to AllShare Cast dongle, the slide show button clicked shows the selection of
Primary display
Dual monitor
Controller & Note
but only the Primary display selection switches to presenter mode. Even then, the pen modes is active so you can annotate with S-Pen direct on the slides during the presentation, the killing feature for me.
Small downturn - multiscreen is not working when connected to Allshare Cast dongle, only single screens, but the floating helicopter videos is working and that is impressive for entertaining the people after the work is done :fingers-crossed:.
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First off thank you for your help and input. My school is going to purchase this for me but I have one additional question. We do not have HDMI projectors in our building. I was wondering if an HDMI-VGA adapter would work? It will not provide true 1080P but that is a non-issue for me. I only want to be able to project the S-Note or any note app so my students can take notes on what I am writing. Again thank you for your help.

shrek4224 said:
First off thank you for your help and input. My school is going to purchase this for me but I have one additional question. We do not have HDMI projectors in our building. I was wondering if an HDMI-VGA adapter would work? It will not provide true 1080P but that is a non-issue for me. I only want to be able to project the S-Note or any note app so my students can take notes on what I am writing. Again thank you for your help.
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I use Gold Plated Premium HDMI to VGA Active M/F Adapter in White by Cable Matters (still cannot post links, just search for it on amazon) and it works, tested on several company's Dell and Sony projectors with VGA port.

FYI - I filed a support ticket with Polaris Office about not being able to use the different display modes. This was their response.
Dear customer,
Thank you for the inquiry.
We knew this issue already, we’re working on it now.
We’ll try hard to figure out the issue and let you know as soon as we’ve got the solution.
Please be patient and understand about it.
We will try hard to repay you for all your kindness.
Thanks for your interest.
Polaris Office CS Team
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Hopefully they have a solution soon. The only thing that would improve this setup is being able to use the Controller & Note presentation mode.

Anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong? .I can project the screen when the dongle is connected with HDMI, but when I connect with an HDMI to VGA converter the Allshate Cast automatically shuts down and the Note restarts.

Anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong? .I can project the screen when the dongle is connected with HDMI, but when I connect with an HDMI to VGA converter the Allshate Cast automatically shuts down and the Note restarts.
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Did you figure this out? I would not like to make the dongle purchase if this is bound to happen....

did anyone manage to solve the display mirroring to PC software?

I found another way to get very good results in mirroring wirelessly from Note to PC: Teamviewer. Download the free app from the play market, and also the free PC client from the Teamviewer website. A tad laggy, but works well for presentations.

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[*]buy HDMI to VGA adapter
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could tell me please the type of hdmi to vga adapter exactly with the manufacturing code, there is a lot of staff on the market and I am pretty sure not all of them are working, thanks

I just got the dongle. It works great!
A few comments:
(1) For rooted device (like mine), the app "triangle away" is needed. The dongle works after (but not before) I reset the counting using triangle away. For un-rooted devices (the device is un-rooted if you didn't root it yourself) it shouldn't be an issue.
(2) The dongle works with a hdmi-VGA converter. The one I bought is this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cable-Matte...7O2U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358947513&sr=8-1
I am sure lots of other converters should work as well. But there may be two things to note. It would be safer if
(a) "Active" converters should have more chance to work than "passive" converters. There is an IC chip in active converters. The passive ones are just data lines.
(b) Make sure the converter does not need too much power to work. The one I bought is raspberry PI compatible. This typically mean the converter the current it draws from the device is not too large. In some previous post it is mentioned the dongle could reset when connected to VGA converters. I doubt it may because of too much power required by the converter.
(3) I didn't notice any lag or instability issues with 30 minutes of use (I installed a firmware update before usage. The discovery of update and installation is automatic. I just clicked OK).
I didn't (and will not) use it to play games or watch movies anyway. I only want to use it to do presentations via projectors. Games and movies transfers much more data, in which case I haven't tested.
I will update if I got problems using the dongle for a longer time.
(4) The "multi-window app" feature goes away when the dongle is connected. (It re-appears after disconnection.)
UPDATE:
After more test, there do exist a few problems:
(1) If I play a video in full screen (both youtube video online or downloaded videos using MXplayer), the video is only shown on external display. Even worse, when I exit the full screen mode of the video player, the allshare connection typically crashes. I need to go to settings to connect again (no reboot needed though).
On the other hand, for youtube without going to full screen, there is no problem. And when I compare the two displays, there is no lag between them.
(2) In polaris office, only the "primary display" mode works well. In other two modes, the external screen only update partially.
Both of them should be software problems. If I don't do (1) of the above, I never met crash or disconnections. I didn't test the device with games. There is no random disconnection so far (this is most important for me).
The connection is stable within 10 meters, while it breaks at about 30 meters (together with 2 doors blocking the space).
Finally, there is a drop of display quantity if the image is quickly changing, and I watch closely enough. But considering I only need to display static images, this is not a problem. The display quantity of static images is great. Compared with the TeamViewer + computer solution, the dongle uses less resources on the tablet and gives much better image quality. The usage of battery is not heavily affected either. I used in total 7% battery power per hour for light usage of the tablet with dongle connection (and among which the tablet screen still used most of battery as usual).

[Q] How to mirror my PC screen to my Nexus 5?

Hi Everyone,
Most people are asking how to mirror their phone's screen to a TV or PC monitor. Well I need to do the opposite. Does anyone know how I can mirror my PC screen to my Nexus 5? I am looking for the option with the least lag, even if it is via USB and not wireless.
Thanks in advance!

I would say your best bet would be to use Chrome Remote Desktop. Download the app on your phone, and download the chrome extension on your PC.

PsychDrummer said:
I would say your best bet would be to use Chrome Remote Desktop. Download the app on your phone, and download the chrome extension on your PC.
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Thanks. I will try that. Do you know if it is laggy?
Actually I don't need to be able to work with my desktop through my phone. All I need is to see what is displayed on my PC with the least lag possible.

StarSquall said:
Thanks. I will try that. Do you know if it is laggy?
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It has worked the best for me out of all the similar apps (i.e teamviewer). However, it depends on what you need it for. For example, if you want to mirror videos it might not work well.

You can try splashtop, it usually is pretty smooth https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.splashtop.remote.pad.v2&hl=en
or even microsoft's own remote desktop app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.rdc.android

You can try splashtop, it usually is pretty smooth
or even microsoft's own remote desktop app
Thanks a lot, splashtop works reasonably well. I have an AMD video card, so I suppose that helps a bit.
I do not need the desktop controls, etc. I need so to say, just use my phone as a monitor, so if I can find something with even better quality and sacrificing those controls it would be even better

StarSquall said:
You can try splashtop, it usually is pretty smooth
or even microsoft's own remote desktop app
Thanks a lot, splashtop works reasonably well. I have an AMD video card, so I suppose that helps a bit.
I do not need the desktop controls, etc. I need so to say, just use my phone as a monitor, so if I can find something with even better quality and sacrificing those controls it would be even better
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The quality will all be down to the network on both ends.
So the download speed of your phone and the upload speed of your home internet. If these are weak you will always experience problems.
Apps like teamviewer help as they connect to a middle man server which means you are less likely to see as big a delay than connecting directly where the connection as I said above is more dependant.
Not used splashtop personally. Microsoft's RDP is alright but I'm happy with Teamviewer i use it on all my pc's i work on. Having it on my mobile just means I can work from anywhere remotely.

brichardson1991 said:
The quality will all be down to the network on both ends.
So the download speed of your phone and the upload speed of your home internet. If these are weak you will always experience problems.
Apps like teamviewer help as they connect to a middle man server which means you are less likely to see as big a delay than connecting directly where the connection as I said above is more dependant.
Not used splashtop personally. Microsoft's RDP is alright but I'm happy with Teamviewer i use it on all my pc's i work on. Having it on my mobile just means I can work from anywhere remotely.
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Ok. So I was wandering if there is a way to do that via USB in order to avoid the internet issues, of course only if it can get better. I am not sure exactly what bandwidth is needed to stream my 1080p screen and if it can be done smoothly via micro USB.
Other than that I have an acceptable amount of lag with splashtop, yet it crashes if I go full screen on my PC for some programs (I tried a few games too). But running in windowed mode works fine.