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Micro/Mini Android music device?

So, I know about the Wimm One, the Sony sports one, and the motorola one. Those aren't exactly what I'm looking for. I do a lot of walking at work sometimes during the week and my Samsung Note does fine for it, but it's a bit bulky to pull it out everytime I need to look at the screen. Batt life isn't much an issue thankfully. Is there such a device that...
1. can play music directly from the device
2. connects to a bluetooth headset
3. has a Micro SD card storage up to 32gb
4. has decent batt life
5. minor I suppose connect to my phone for txt and other notifications while still being connect to my BT headset (dunno if this is possible)
Thanks for your help.

Android mp3 players and other small devices
What maximum size screen screen size can you accept? I am not familiar with the products you mentioned, but it seems you are looking for the Android equivalent of an iPod Touch, which has a 3.5" diagonal screen. (I would not want a screen smaller, even for just an mp3 player.)
There are models of Android tablets with 5" or smaller screens. IMO, If an Android device has a screen large enough to function as a decent mp3 player, there is no point to limiting it to only playing mp3s, so I suggest you look for small Android tablets, game consoles, pocket computers and mp3 or media players.
I did a quick search, and Archos has some Android tablets with small screens that they sell as multimedia players in the range of $150-200, as well as smaller models (I found one with a 2" screen) that may not run Android. (They don't say, so I assume not.)
Also, there are the Samsung Galaxy Players, with screen sizes down to 3.6". They run Android and look a lot like an iPod Touch. The prices I'm seeing are about $130-150, which seem quite reasonable.
I did not check if any of the above support Bluetooth headsets or SD card storage; I just wanted to give you some ideas of where and how to start looking. I hope that was helpful, and didn't just tell you things you already knew.
Also, if you find a model that has Bluetooth, make sure it supports headsets before buying. ;-) I hope someone here can give you a specific product recommendation!

I'm looking for a device the size of the current touch nano. The wimm one and equivalents are the size of a large watch.

whats about that?
ww.w.imwatch.it/at-en/
delete the point between www
you have a 3,5 audio plug, tiny touchscreen, phonebook, can call peaople from your watch, write messages, check facebook and it makes you breakfast in the morning

^Man that website fails...
I've looked at that before and it didn't seem to fit the bill. Doesn't really matter anyway.
I went with a Motorola MotoActv w/ 16gb.
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Thanks all for your help.

Other Android device as 'motion controller'?

Hello everyone, long time lurker at XDA but this is my first post in the forums.
I recently stumbled across android stick PCs and immediately knew I needed one. My main goal is to replace my WD live hub with one of these and use it for media streaming from windows shares over wifi. But then I stumbled on yet another Android stick called the GV-21 on ebay and then in a review I found out there was an app that let you use your android phone / tablet as a remote INCLUDING the ACCs / gyros for motion controlled games. I started wondering if the other devices I am considering (iMito MX1 and MK808) could use this app.
As near as I can tell the GV-21 uses an app called biggifi, the client apk can be downloaded from the manufactures site; not sure if its the same client that is in the play store or a modded one. I could not find the host apk anywhere online and it sounds like it is either built into the ROM or kernel anyway.
The GV-21 uses a Nufront NS115 CPU where as the other devices I'm using run RK3066 CPUs. Not sure if that would affect the use of this motion control app or not. The app I'm talking about along with the firmware for the stick is located at kimdecent.com/application/107.html
Questions:
Has anyone purchased one of these GV-21's or T21s (appear to be the same)
Will the GV-21 motion control app work on other android sticks?
Anyone used biggifi? Is it worth worrying about?
Thanks for any help and sorry for the long first post; wanted to give as much info as possible. If anyone has any suggestions regarding which stick to go with, Im open to advice on that as well.

There's a similar app called droidmote that works on these sticks, including the MX 1/2. Geekbuying have also made their own which they send you for free if you buy from them. The server component is built into their firmware. It works well, although gyroscope doesn't work for me, as my phone doesn't have one!

fr0d0#2 said:
There's a similar app called droidmote that works on these sticks, including the MX 1/2. Geekbuying have also made their own which they send you for free if you buy from them. The server component is built into their firmware. It works well, although gyroscope doesn't work for me, as my phone doesn't have one!
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I've heard about the geekbuying one but couldn't find if it supported motion control or not.
Also looked at droidmote and was concerned about a couple comments of it using a lot of LAN bandwidth as well as some people saying it didn't work on a couple of various devices. Might have to install it on my tab and phone to test it out.
Right now I'm leaning towards the imito device I think. Seems like it has more support and common hardware then the gv-21 and the mk808 is lacking BT. Its a tough choice tho.

See the 3rd icon from the left above control and exit... "G sensor"
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From the instructions...

The above pictures are also the freely available mk802III remote app you can get from the play store. I've got it installed and it works well but have just tried installed a g sensor app and couldn't get it to work. That said I only tried 1 app with the mk802III app.
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Need an Android TV box with DVB T-2. Tired of Amazon Fire. Suggestions?

Hi all!
I've been using Amazon Fire TV for a while. It's a good machine, but I'm tired of them blocking Kodi/Firestarter, introducing ads, and refusing to fix bugs and provide support if you have Kodi installed. I also want something that's got DVB T-2 built in.
Requirements:
- Android
- Fast & good image quality/rendering
- NO FAN
- DVB T-2 built in
- Good quality & simple remote like the Fire TV one, or the possibility of adding it separately
I mostly use it for streaming, playing local videos, Netflix, Amazon music.
Any suggestions?
Thank you!
:fingers-crossed:

Hi there, I just got my hands on a KII Pro TV Box 2G 16G Android 5.1 Amlogic S905 Quad-core 4K*2K 2.4G&5G Wifi Bluetooth 4.0 Androidtvbox from alibaba. It's the best spec I could find on a DVB-T2 tuner box, also has DVB-S2 tuner.
Not too much info on it around the web and the sellers of these types of boxes here in Ireland seem to still be selling last years models.
It's running Android 5.1.1, 16gb of storage of which 10gb are available, 2gb of ram, 4 USB ports, a wireless keyboard (which has a very poor touch pad) and an IR remote control. It comes rooted and has kodi 16 preinstalled which I had to uninstall it completely to be able to get kodi 17 on there.
Another little annoyance with it was the DTV app that is used to control the DTV t2 and s2 when I was first setting it up I couldn't find anything for the with the DTV t2 automatic scan and this kept saying it was scanning for Europe and it doesn't look like there is any options but on the IR remote there is a menu button and clicking this brought up the settings to be able to pick what region and other options, once I changed to uk it picked up the channels. On other thing is that you need to come out of the DTV app to switch between t2 and s2.
So far so good for my needs but only have it since last Friday so not sure about shelf life. Below is a link to where I bought it plus some photos of what came in the package and the interface. Also it has PVR but I've yet to test this. Image quality is really good but I'm coming from a dreambox for my dvb s2 which didn't support hd channels.
https://goo.gl/photos/ZZcHPJdA5d5sYUWi7
https://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/8030655867.html?orderId=77860993448115

Amazon fire ?
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[DESKTOP MODE] gathering info about that :)

Dear All,
I bought a oneplus7 not that long ago, and I wanted to play with the so called desktop mode. Idea is, back from work, to put the phone on a dock, being able to use my tv for browsing web with a wireless keyboard/mouse, maybe watch stupid yt video etc. Replacing my old laptop for very basic tasks.
The idea is to buy this 30euros dock station so I can have a convenient way to get internet on my tv :
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So before buying any hardware stuff I wanted to know if some of them already played with this mode, does it worth giving a try or is it just too early ?
thx
Nico

So I got a Oneplus 7 and currently running Android 10. I enabled the Desktop Mode in Developers and have tried it out a little bit. For me the it isn't very usable. It is stuck in a certain resolution and I want to change it but haven't figured it out. A guy (who is busy right now until the end of the month) has been working on a launcher to use called Flow Desktop found in Google Play Store. It does have some promises and would love to see his app become more than just a concept right now.

swehes said:
So I got a Oneplus 7 and currently running Android 10. I enabled the Desktop Mode in Developers and have tried it out a little bit. For me the it isn't very usable. It is stuck in a certain resolution and I want to change it but haven't figured it out. A guy (who is busy right now until the end of the month) has been working on a launcher to use called Flow Desktop found in Google Play Store. It does have some promises and would love to see his app become more than just a concept right now.
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You need the secondscreen app to change the resolution.
BTW it seems that if you want to use [email protected] there's no compatible hub yet.
So i bought a simple adapter and BT keyboard

Shiki~ said:
You need the secondscreen app to change the resolution.
BTW it seems that if you want to use [email protected] there's no compatible hub yet.
So i bought a simple adapter and BT keyboard
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I don't need 4k. 1080p would be nice. Do you have an app to recommend?

I've got no recommendation, Desktop Mode community is not really active for the moment. (Or a least it's just the beginning)
Here's a little something:
https://www.xda-developers.com/make-android-10-desktop-mode-useful/

Shiki~ said:
I've got no recommendation, Desktop Mode community is not really active for the moment. (Or a least it's just the beginning)
Here's a little something:
https://www.xda-developers.com/make-android-10-desktop-mode-useful/
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There is a comment about OP7Pro in the post:
"I just received my NexDock, and video works fine following above instructions. I can't figure out how to make keyboard/touchscreen work with my OP7T though. Keyboard/touchscreen work fine with a raspberry pi.
Any ideas?"
With no responses. Sad.

Anyone able and willing to create a modified version of the OnePlus Launcher with the following code implemented?
https://github.com/farmerbb/Taskbar/blob/master/lib/README.md

Question ANT+ ?

Reading on a few forums they say the Flip3 has ANT+ but when I tried the AntTester app it shows I don't. And it wont connect to any ANT+ devices.
Is this correct? we dont have ANT+

I found this:
samsung s21 ultra ant+ not supported
Just spent over an hour of wasted time on support chat Just trying to check on ant+ and why not working on the phone. Never got a straight answer. Why can't people just be clear and honest does it support or not. I mind me annoyed as doesn't but not as much as not getting straight answer. My...
eu.community.samsung.com
ANT+ support missing?!
Hello, I just received my new S21+ and transferred all data and applications to it. All good, but when I tried to start ANT+ connectivity... to my dismalness, I noticed that support seems to be missing: ANT Tester reports that built-in ANT was...
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Not sure if it's true or not. Samsung can be a squirrelly lot...
Some are saying it's Android 11 not supporting it anymore. Security, so secure nothing works right.
I never used it, but you got me curious.
Now you know why I got second N10+... not at all happy with the latest Samsung devices or Android 11

I found this, a site that has all the devices compatible with ANT+, not sure how current it is :
Directory - THIS IS ANT
ANT is a Wireless Personal Network protocol, by Garmin Canada, with small size, reasonable cost and very low power requirements.
www.thisisant.com
There's also an app in the Google Play Store to detect it on a device:
ANTtester - Apps on Google Play
Test your device for ANT+™ capabilities
play.google.com
There's various official ANT apps in the store as well, not sure if they will provide the functionality you're looking for.
@senergy
I know nada about ANT, your post piqued my interest.......

It's listed here https://www.thisisant.com/directory/galaxy-z-flip/
but doesn't look like it has the required firmware.
How it comes originally.
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After I installed the following
ANT USB Service
ANT Radio Service
ANT+ Plugins Service
And this is what it looks like my Tablet S4, where ANT+ works fine.

Interesting. On my N10+ Pie variant all of those are preinstalled except the Ant USB service.

I plugged a USB Ant+ stick and now it looks to be work. So after installing the extra services it can work with with usb-on the go.

@senergy
Does the USB ANT+ stick need to be plugged in to your phone at all times to achieve the connectivity you're looking for?
Also, is there a mfg's app that needs to be installed (ex:FitBit app)?
Just curious,as all my wireless accessories only need Bluetooth for functionality. I'd heard of ANT+, but, never had the necessity for it.
THX.

Yes the USB Stick needs to be plugged in for connectivity.
I have lots of equipment that uses ANT+, Heart Rate strap. Bicycle Lights, Bicycle Power Pedals, wheel pressure.. etc..
Depending on what your trying to do you need the apps.
My particular use case is I use Zwift on the phone connected to my indoor trainer or treadmil and wanted the HR monitor.
I got it working now, but without HDMI output it's kinda half arsed.. so back to the S9+ in the gym.

Not good. It's like others described.
Who dropped the ball, Google Android or Samsung?
Pretty slimy...