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 all,
I have bluetooth for connecting my phone to pick up calls. Did anybody tried to connect Asus TF to car's bluetooth in order to listen frrom car speakers rather than from tablet itself?
Yes I have, using my car's oem stereo (renault), works flawlessly.
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Hey guys, has any of you guys trien the HDMI port?
I don't know if it's a software issue, but I have only tried Pandora, and the sound mutes a soon as I connect the TF300 to my TV.
I'll try some other programs later, but I was shacked this happened.
I haven't had any issues with sound when connecting my transformer to the tv...I haven't tried Pandora but netflix, gta3, max payne, and n64oid all work.
It's weird, I have no sound at all, in no app.
But its got solved by its own.
I guess it was the cable that wasn't plugged correctly or the adapter from regular hdmi to micro hdmi.
Pandora, netflix and poweramp working perfectly fine
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I had same problem. It is always fixed for me when I just unplug and plug the HDMI back in.
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Is this possible with the TF101? If I buy a receiver with HDMI inputs can I stream just audio from, say, my Rhapsody app on the TF101 to the stereo? I think I should be but was just wondering if anyone had any experience or issues doing this? Thanks.
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Is this possible with the TF101? If I buy a receiver with HDMI inputs can I stream just audio from, say, my Rhapsody app on the TF101 to the stereo? I think I should be but was just wondering if anyone had any experience or issues doing this? Thanks.
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Yes, this should work as it's just like passing A/V through, but in this case, just Audio.
You could test this before buying a receiver. Just try playing audio through the TF101 over HDMI to your TV.
Hello, id like to know if the transformer with 4.3 can do usb adio output? I have a nexus 4 connected to the Grom Audio adapter in my car and it will play all audio through my car radio but when i try with the tablet it doesnt work so id like to know if theres something i have to do to get it working or if its just not possible.
thank you