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DLNA via "Play To" app. Specific to LG hardware?

Does anyone more familiar with DLNA requirements know if this will be exclusive to the LG phones for hardware reasons or will this same app be able to work on phones from, say, HTC? This sounds like it could potentially be a great feature with my Onkyo DLNA AVR. Could be a deciding factor for me in which phone I ultimately decide on.

As i understand it LG developed it together with Microsoft and is only available on LG phones. If it will show up on other phones later i don't know but we can sure hope so. Right now i would buy the LG just because of that feature.

n8huntsman said:
Does anyone more familiar with DLNA requirements know if this will be exclusive to the LG phones for hardware reasons or will this same app be able to work on phones from, say, HTC? This sounds like it could potentially be a great feature with my Onkyo DLNA AVR. Could be a deciding factor for me in which phone I ultimately decide on.
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I think so, unless another phone has the DLNA hardware. LG is great! If you have a LG tv, stereo, surround system you can control them all with any LG remote. Im willing to bet that if you have a LG tv you won't have to set up your phone or tv to use the app.

Oh so it is a hardware issue? I thought hopefully, just maybe, it would just be software... damn, I really like the surround. Wish it had dlna

There's no such thing as DLNA hardware.

Awesome, that's what I was hoping. So all that is needed is wi-fi. Theoretically, this should be able to be ported from the LG to any wp7 device, correct? If that's the consensus, it will make my decision much easier.

It may/will be ported when/if WP7 is jailbroken. Apart from that, DLNA isn't something that belongs to LG and can't be done by someone else. When Microsoft provides access to socket APIs there may be third party solutions.

Dlna is using wifi it has nothing to do with any kind of hardware , and it havebeen ported to hd2 with Dhd android port

So I can connect my phone to my tv wireless now?
Damn thanks for the info! I thought I needed one of those players.

vetvito said:
So I can connect my phone to my tv wireless now?
Damn thanks for the info! I thought I needed one of those players.
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Your TV must support DLNA.
I knew DLNA wasn't proprietary to LG (my Onkyo receiver, Samsung blu-ray, and wmp11 all have it), I just don't really know how the internal phone stuff works like drivers and stuff so I wasn't sure if it would ever work even after the imminent jailbreak. HTC Surround, here I come! Thanks for selling me on it guys!

but if you have windows 7 that could be a stand in

Any way to side-load "play to" to a Samsung Focus yet?

I have to check it out at some point. I have LG.

I can sideload Play To to my Focus, but when I start the application, it's always said that I need the update my OS to the latest version (and I''m on 7392 at that time).
I can search for DLNA device, but since I don't have any DLNA device, I don't know if it's worked or not. Can I use my Windows 7 laptop ??

[Q] Samsung TV remote app for Desire HD

Hello all,
I have seen similar questions around here, but not for this phone yet.
We own a Samsung ue32C6730 LED TV. I myself have a Desire HD. I am wondering if there is any possibility to use my phone as a remote control for this TV.
Hope anyone can help me out

The TV uses infrared for remotes the desireHD doesn't have an infrared port.

I meant remote control through our home network. The TV is connected to our router and my phone has Wifi.

This first app should work for your Desire HD (if you have the right TV set):
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.samsung.remoteTV&feature=search_result
This second one only works on some samsung smartphones, I'm trying to get it to work on my HTC Desire (original):
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.samsung.smartview&feature=search_result
If anyone knows how to get this second app to work, please let me know,
Grtz

List of devices with possible HDMI output?

Hi!
I am currently looking for Android devices that have working HDMI output - a dedicated one, no MHL adapter.
Is there a list of devices which have both CyanogenMod support and a working HDMI port? As of now I think the only devices that have a working HDMI port are the Motorola Atrix 4G (which is discontinued), the HTC Evo 4G (only Sprint, not international) and the LG Optimus 2x (maybe).
Right now I am trying to get HDMI running on the Xperia neo, which should also enable HDMI on the Xperia neo V, Xperia Pro, Xperia Arc and maybe more, but I could use help here because I am stuck on the binary drivers (gralloc, overlay, surfaceflinger etc.).
To sum up: Is there a list with HDMI-supported devices available? And is anybody working on HDMI support for other devices? I'd like to exchange knowledge and to dig in deep.
Thanks in advance & kind regards
Marc

marichelt said:
Hi!
I am currently loo:r Android devices that have working HDMI output - a dedicated one, no MHL adapter.
Is there a list of devices which have both CyanogenMod support and a working HDMI port? As of now I think the only devices that have a working HDMI port are the Motorola Atrix 4G (which is discontinued), the HTC Evo 4G (only Sprint, not international) and the LG Optimus 2x (maybe).
Right now I am trying to get HDMI running on the Xperia neo, which should also enable HDMI on the Xperia neo V, Xperia Pro, Xperia Arc and maybe more, but I could use help here because I am stuck on the binary drivers (gralloc, overlay, surfaceflinger etc.).
To sum up: Is there a list with HDMI-supported devices available? And is anybody working on HDMI support for other devices? I'd like to exchange knowledge and to dig in deep.
Thanks in advance & kind regards
Marc
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It will be hard to find any serious efforts towards existing devices, mainly because Motorola was the forerunner of that technology and most of those devices have locked proprietary sources.. Xoom wifi has been unlocked for ages and very little hdmi functionality- you'd have to build your own source from scratch to effectively incorporate the hdmi into the user experience (ie webtop RIP)

The Motorola Triumph has one. Though the hardware is getting old on that device.
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bdjam2 said:
The Motorola Triumph has one. Though the hardware is getting old on that device.
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Yeah - and it's US only and CDMA. So no option for me. :-/

Aldi (Bauhn) tablets have HDMI port and a switching app.

Suport

I've been looking at various sites that the XL has hardware support MHL ... Though not work I think it is lack of software support. Would not create a rom with such support since the hardware has this support?
Does no one cares for a TV-OUT? Nobody is interested in connecting the XL tv?

I'm connecting my XL without MHL If I wan't to show a picture,play a movie or song on my tv I just use "Throw" option. Be serious most of the people is using Smart Tv's this days so there's no problem with using an DLNA.

The problem is that I do not have tv with wifi: (
Only TV with HDMI.

Maybe you could think of Chromecast ?
No other idea comes to my mind.

Moto g no dlna(smartphone phone without any smartness)

Hi
I was a day away from buying this incredible phone and suddenly realized that it doesn't support dlna(so no streaming from other devices wirelessly)....this is a major setback as the beauty of any android is dlna as I have 6 devices which all go well with each other and if this my phone which is important of all refuses to not talk with my other devices then its basically dumb
So I want to know if there is any app which will work like dlna(client and host)
Also why did moto didn't this basic functionality???(you don't have to answer this)
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DLNA works perfectly fine. You can use this if you want to use your phone as a server or this if you just want to play the contents off of another server.