I have a huge issue with the 'sling box for phones' app and its ability to cast to the nexus player. I literally only works half the time. You have to do this weird thing where you start the app, hit the cast button, realize it's doing nothing, restart the app, and then maybe casting will work. Its never worked the first time. Then to boot once you finally get it working it has a huge tendency to lag and force close back to the nexus player home screen. Sometimes this happens so frequently I just give up in frustration. It's ridiculous. I don't have the greatest WiFi connection (your basis Comcast package) but it seems like the quality of the software is not there and I really don't know who or what to blame because all my other casting apps seem to work fine even with a mediocre connection.
The worst part is I have two high end phones (nexus 6 and note 4) which makes it extremely frustrating that I'm running the latest and greatest hardware but it simply just doesn't work like its supposed to.
So after messing around I have found that if you simply just start the slingplayer app on your phone and then do the screen mirroring functionality within the Chromecast app it works flawlessly and doesn't seem to force stop or lag at all. This furthers my confusion as to why the original cast functionality within the slingplayer app just doesn't seem to work. Its just an extra step that is annoying because you cant use your phone while its mirroring unless you happen to have an extra device lying around.
Didn't mean to rant for so long. Hope this was somewhat useful.
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I have the same problem where the sling app on the nexus player will just sit there doing nothing. It will work after a few tries but annoying nonetheless. Otherwise I'll use the lollipop screen mirror feature but that's a battery killer and you can't multitask. At least it works...
I would blame the slingplayer devs, we only get one update a year. My HD Pro is sitting pretty useless because i can't use it with casting at all. I guess they want me to buy a M1.
Just curious but can't you sideload the slingplayer app onto the nexus player? Does it not work? it would be much easier than casting?
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I just received my TF about 5 days ago and I'm a little disappointed with some things. Maybe it's my fault for not doing enough research, but I thought I had. I spent about a month reading and watching reviews. Anyway, I read that honeycomb was so great at multitasking. Yet, I feel like I have a first generation IPhone when it comes to multitasking. I was using Skifta and Moboplayer to watch television from my windows media center. I thought maybe I could fire off some emails and just listen to the show in the background. As soon as I choose gmail my video stopped. I noticed that with a lot of programs. I choose one and the other stops. Is there a settings that I'm missing? Also, after play my video files using skifta and moboplayer I lose the sound after about 10 seconds. I thought it was completely gone, but when I had the bluetooth headset on last night I could hear the sound really breaking up, like the TF didn't have enough processing. Well, I really doubt that because I would suspect the video would go before the sound.
The google voice recognition on my HTC hero with Cyanogenmod nightly build 6/27/2011 (112) is just superb. On my TF I have to talk really slow and it is rare if it gets it right. I don't know if it has to relearn my voice or if the microphone isn't as good?
I purchased the keyboard for the TF. It is very slow with delays. Sometime it just flakes out. It causes my cursor to jump to different spots quite often. I thought maybe I was bumping the touch pad, so I started to peck type and it was still happening. It gets better if I shutdown the TF and restart it with the keyboard attached. Is this normal or do I have a defective keyboard? Also, It seems like I have to hit the keys extra hard to make sure it registers.
Video chat?? Where is it? I thought this was Google proud OS. I can't get Google voice, Google talk video to work? Why do we have two cameras on it?
Granted I'm new and many of these things I'll probably discover along the way or there will be fixes. I only mentioned a few, but there are other issues with this device.
Is there a better rom than the default one that someone would recommend that might resolve some of these issues?
this may not explain all screen issues, but it may explain the issue of the screen freezing and also the issue of it reacting on its own. i believe that this screen is highly sensitive. my current theory is that dirtiness and dullness cause screen lag. this can result in freezing, but i think more commonly what happens is for it to cause a delay in the screens responsiveness. so lets say you touch the screen and it doesnt respond right away. so you tap the screen again, and it does respond. but maybe its responding to the first time you touched it, and then you exit out of that screen or do something else, and forget that you touched the screen again. but the phone remembers and responds, and the phone does something odd, seemingly on its own. now remember this is just a theory of mine, and i am no expert on touchscreens. it just occurred to me that this could be a possibility, because i cleaned my screen really good and the screen seemed a good bit more responsive than usual. feel free to share your thoughts and opinions on this.
There are times when a greasy/wet touchscreen will misbehave, but I think the majority of our touchscreen problems stem from a buggy driver which tends to crash during low memory conditions.
yea i definitely think its just a buggy phone. wish it was as simple as keeping it clean, but i have these problems even when clean sometimes. its not a deal breaker though, at least not for me.
i just wish we could have custom lock screens or AOSP lock screen that wouldn't break the damn auto-rotate.
i know this is a different subject than my op, but i have a question. i converted several apps to system apps. two browsers, opera mobile and dolphin mini, dolphin to replace my stock browser and opera for desktop browsing, as well as a volume control app and a few others. i use an app called optimize android toolbox to clean my cache. before converting these apps to system, they all stored a cache. now, opera and dolphin dont. the volume control app still does though. i dont think its a problem, it just perplexes me. any possible explanation for this?
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yea i definitely think its just a buggy phone. wish it was as simple as keeping it clean, but i have these problems even when clean sometimes. its not a deal breaker though, at least not for me.
i just wish we could have custom lock screens or AOSP lock screen that wouldn't break the damn auto-rotate.
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Ayoteddy got us the aosp lock and the puzzle lock, using it right now no prob.
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When it's cold mine never responds.
I put a screen protector on my phone and I haven't had any touch screen problems since. Might just be a coincidence, though.
before i got this phone, i read a review that said only one android phone has a more functional lock screen than the sidekick. of course, that statement is based on phones with stock roms, but still, thats definitely saying something. i like the stock lockscreen a lot. i like the media room lockscreen widget. tried other music players with lockscreen widgets, but they take up the whole screen. then you have to exit the widget to unlock the screen. plus you can slide down to unlock or slide up to launch an app. thats pretty tight.
I'm not saying the stock lock screen isn't clever. It's really is quite cool... when it works.
So often I've had to struggle to unlock the phone because the screen was lagging badly. Or the home screen has come up for a second before the lock screen. This is especially a problem when text messages come in, and often result in my phone doing crazy crap in my pocket. Next time I pull it out I discover that it's gone to CNN, changed my brightness, turned on bluetooth, etc.
Hey guys so I have a Infuse 4g running Aeon Rom v1.4 and I have to say I love how fluid it is. My only problem is that my phone will randomly lock up become unresponsive and the screen will shut off and the phone will turn off and not turn on for about ten seconds. It usually happens when im using the music player app and using the internet while doing so. Sometimes it will lockup while opening an app. It will hang there at the black screen until the app loads up which sometimes takes longer than it usually does. Sometimes it will go really slow and move choppy instead of fluid like it usually does. Anyone know how I can fix this? Also sometimes when im listening to music and opening a browser window it will stay at a grey screen for a few moments before opening the page. My phone is rooted and I unlocked it with the SGS unlocker tool PRO version. Thanks in advance for any advice I might receive about these problems.
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Hey guys so I have a Infuse 4g running Aeon Rom v1.4 and I have to say I love how fluid it is. My only problem is that my phone will randomly lock up become unresponsive and the screen will shut off and the phone will turn off and not turn on for about ten seconds. It usually happens when im using the music player app and using the internet while doing so. Sometimes it will lockup while opening an app. It will hang there at the black screen until the app loads up which sometimes takes longer than it usually does. Sometimes it will go really slow and move choppy instead of fluid like it usually does. Anyone know how I can fix this? Also sometimes when im listening to music and opening a browser window it will stay at a grey screen for a few moments before opening the page. My phone is rooted and I unlocked it with the SGS unlocker tool PRO version. Thanks in advance for any advice I might receive about these problems.
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Two things that that reminds me of: Overclocking and or undervolting. Have you done either of those? The browser window thing could just the CPU showing its age. It is a single core processor, so it does have to switch back and forth between tasks. Do you have the issue with the browser when not listening to music?
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So, I really really wanted to love this tablet. The disappointments have been many, but this focuses on the most severe and frustrating one.
Whenever I am using Dabbler, Skecthbook Pro, ArtFlow, or any other pen-enabled apps, the weirdest things start to happen. It works OK for a while, but then the tablet only starts receiving input from the stylus. Not even UI elements are usable with my fingers. PLEASE NOTE: I do know the tablet has a stylus-only mode, and this is NOT enabled. PLEASE ALSO NOTE: No, the stylus-only mode in the apps is not enabled either.
After a fresh reboot, I open the drawing app and everything works. Palm-rejection is gorgeous, pen accuracy is spot-on, multitouch gestures as pinch to zoom and panning work flawlessly. But after a while, or after I exit the app and return, it starts progressively degrading performance. At first it only accepts pinch to zoom like 50% of the time. Then it gets worse, until I can't do a thing without the stylus - not even the back, home and multitasking buttons.
I spoke with an nvidia tech support rep, and after a back and forth of emails (mostly me giving him info about the proof of purchase, serial number, etc) he told me to contact the seller (Amazon) and ask for a replacement.
I was about to go ahead and replace it, but I wanted to know if any of you are getting the same issues. On the latest official ROM, can everybody use Dabbler, Autodesk Skechbook, etc. for PROLONGED periods of time, and with a high tablet up time, without issues? Is this issue device-specific?
THANKS so much for any help and sorry for long post.
Is anyone else having trouble casting Netflix from their Pixel 3? I can cast YouTube and Google Play fine. Hulu usually works, and if it doesn't, I can close the app, relaunch it, and that fixes the problem. But Netflix will not give me the option to cast. If I do not have my tablet handy, I have to find what I want to watch on the Pixel 3, then ask my Google Home to play it for me. Pretty frustrating, especially if I am trying to watch a specific episode that may not be the next one up for that show. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I've looked around on Google, but I've seen nothing but generic responses, like "make sure you are connected to the correct wifi." I am definitely connected to the correct wifi, because I can cast from the other apps, and I can see and connect to my chromecast in the Home app.
I think there's a bug in the Netflix app. I don't have the Cast FAB anymore when I open it. I just start playing it on my phone and then start casting from there.
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I think there's a bug in the Netflix app. I don't have the Cast FAB anymore when I open it. I just start playing it on my phone and then start casting from there.
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You get the cast icon once you start playing the video? I will try that when I get home. I thought I had tried that, but it's worth another shot.
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You get the cast icon once you start playing the video? I will try that when I get home. I thought I had tried that, but it's worth another shot.
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Yeah if you tap the screen it shows up at the top like you'd see in YouTube or similar when the video is already playing. It's mildly annoying because if you don't do it quick enough you might have to back up the show a few seconds but it works. I believe it to be an app issue because the same thing has happened to my fiancee who is using a Pixel 2 and it happens to me on my 3 XL.
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I have the same problem on my Pixel 3 XL. I have to open the Netflix app, start the show, hit the screencast icon, then it just freezes. So I have to close the app, clear it from memory (swiping up from the recent apps screen), then reopen Netflix. After that it works. But I have to go through this procedure every single time I want to watch Netflix. What gives? How can companies as big and successful as Netflix and Google not be able to make an app work with basic functionality?
I have the same issue with every device at home (pixel 3, huawei p10 and Moto X Play). Hope it'll get fixed soon...