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[Galaxy S III Accessories] aznmode:
If you don't have "fit to screen" option on your TV it may not be possible. Usually it coinside with widescreen, 16x9, 4:3 settings. No option on the dongle at all.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] prinzhernan:
Funny thing is this dongle doesn't consistently work. When it does it's okay. I guess the wireless solution is convenient.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] rkadve:
I too had the same problem, my tv is Sony. This what I did on my tv.

Settings>screen> display area > set it to minus 1.

Try something similar for other tv's.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] sms2000:
Not sure if it's known or not, but...

If you have problems with a rooted S3 and a AllShare Cast dongle perpetually disconnecting try to use the TriangleAway APK and zero the flash counter (or whatever counter).

It helped me with 4.1.1 rooted.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Phenomenon:
My own personal opinion of the device.

In all honesty I see the Allshare Cast Dongleas a neat toy, but honestly it is overpriced for its limited capabilities (like most Samsung products IMO). The biggest thing people look forward to is being able to share what is on their phone to the TV. That makes a lot of sense, but then again, that's all that it can do. From what I've learned this is very limited to your phone. At first, I thought with this it would be like DLNA. As it turns out, no other devices can broadcast to this dongle (unless it's another Samsung phone/tablet). Is it worth 100 to broadcast from your phone to TV? It can be, but the fact is there are device out there (with their programs) that can achieve this too. It's overall a decent product, but in my opinion look for other options.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] xero187:
Absolutely atrocious!

wonderful idea. Seemed too good to be true, it was!

My God the quality sucks, and the connection is quite unstable. All this with the latest hardware, T-Mobile Note 2.

Samsung, this should be very embarrassing for you.

FIX IT.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Deus_ex11:
I was hoping for a update to the AllShare Cast function with the official Jellybean firmware from Samsung but after flashing it last week the problems with AllShare Cast continued. So I thought I'd try and find a solution myself.

I have finally found the reason for the disconnection and lag issues we've been having. It seems to be a power issue. I believe the power adapter is not providing enough power to the dongle for some TV's.

The travel adapter that came with it only gives out 4.75 volts but the dongle is rated at 4.75 to 5.4 volts.

I have tested this on my dongle and 2 TV's and it disconnects on my 37 inch but not on the 47 inch with the power adapter they provide. There is a very slight delay on both TV's and I even experienced a 3 sec delay on the bigger TV.

At first I thought it was the supplied HD cable but changing that to a thicker shielded cable did not stop the lag during game's and disconnections when playing a video. So I thought maybe it's a power issue so I tried the power adapter that came with the GS3 rated at 5 volts and BOOM. No it didn't explode. :)

It didn't disconnect again. I tried hard to make it disconnect but everything I tried games, 1080p video and browsing web pages with video didn't stop the connection to the dongle. The lag when playing games is now gone. I am currently addicted to a pinball game called pinball arcade and if it's lagging in that you will notice right away.

So there you have it. The dongle now works as intended for me. Once it's connected it's completely stable. Yes it's not perfect. It doesn't connect sometimes but a reboot of the S3 fixes that. I suspect a software problem on that front.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] dnsgtr:
I have tried the dongle with the phone power adapter and it was worse. I experienced random disconnections. With the original adapter i have stable connection but low quality pic and lags in all games. My tv is samsung 40"b650 and I am on stock firmware ICS.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
thanks, will try this tonight and let you know how it works.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SS2006:
my note 2 is working with the allshare cast, but its cropped a bit, the left/right and top/bottom are a little cut off, any ideas

ALSO, i nkow you can't connect anything to the allsahre cast hub but samsung phones (i tried my laptop, no go)

but is the opposite true, can samsung allshare cast(on the phone) connect to any widi 3.5 (miracast) dongle, as in the netgear PTV3000?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Deus_ex11:
Look on your remote control for a screen aspect ratio button. You need to set it to native or PC mode. You can also look in the settings of your TV to set that. Turning off auto aspect ratio will also mean you don't have to use your remote to set it every time you use the dongle. Well at least on my TV it does this.

Out of interest what TV do you have? It's interesting to know that the note 2 works without problems.

On your second query. I believe there is a thread in General that's asking about that. I read one members post and I believe they tried and failed.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] zulu99:
When you play a game with allshare cast / miracast what do you see the phone or the TV ?

Because I think that the onscreen game buttons are too small and always in different positions and we are forced to see the phone.

But if we see the phone why we mirror it on tv ?

If the allshare cast / miracast will not produce many lags on games, the only mode to play well with this game is with an external controller.

For videos and photos the DLNA is better because not scale the resolution, instead allshare cast /miracast scale and we can see pixelate videos and photo.

The solution is to buy an android mini PC with minor price of the allshare cast dongle.:laugh:

Like the new MInix Neo G4 that have already inside DLNA Server, Airplay Server and other. But very very good for playng games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1el4kqRv3gU
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
Tried to switch the dongle charger with the phone charger, same result, riptide (my reference) still choppy. :(
[Galaxy S III Accessories] seanvree:
I'm still unable to get my SGS3's screen to appear on my TV through the Dongle. I'm using Wicked's V.7 ROM. When I activate AllShare Cast in settings it picks up the dongle right away and connects, but then shortly after I get the error "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped (see screen shot). however, even after settings FCs, it's still connected. On the TV it switches the display to say "Connecting" but never connects. See pic.

Any recommendations?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
strange message as usually you would get "the connection will end" or something like that which has nothing to do with "settings" and is a known issue (2nd time connecting always works for me).

I assume your flash counter is 0? In addition did you try it with a stock rom?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] seanvree:
Yeah flash counter is 0. Never tried it with stock. Always been using Wicked.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Soccout:
I have never rooted my S3 but Allshare Cast dongle hast connection issues anyway. Couldn't get a picture on screen even once :(

I have got an LG TV
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
did you try the following:

reboot S3

turn on allshare cast

phone will do an automatic connection -> cancel it

scan manually again

connect manually

that usually works for me (and others) to get a connection
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Soccout:
will try later brah
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
Tried the dongle now with 4.1.2, seems to have less lags (or it is a placebo) but picture quality in games still less then good (e.g. riptide)...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] seanvree:
I can get it to connect, but the screen doesn't mirror. The phone says it's connected, but on the TV screen it just sits there and displays the splash screen.

I'm using Wicked's V.1 JB Rom.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] db4d1988:
I had to flash a counter reset mod to get mine to work. Even though my phone shows zero, I still have to do it every time I flash a new rom. Great piece of hardware and I'm experiencing very little lag on Samsung 46" lcd while playing games and videos.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] seanvree:
Yeah, I also reset my flash counter, but still no dice. The dongle connects, but nothing happens on the TV screen. WTF?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] zen0s:
Are you using the HDMI cable that came with the dongle? In my case, the cheap HDMI samsung included was faulty. As soon as I used my own cable everything worked as it should. One minor issue I still have is, I still can't get it connected first try though. I turn on allshare and it connects it but disconnects it soon after, second attempt always works, I have no idea why...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] farhanali_:
Hi All,

I am using the dongle with note 2 and note 10.1 with hdmi cable and the charger that was provided in the box and i have tried 2 big screen TVs and a projector without any issues what so ever. Both note 2 and note 10.1 are stock (no root) and i haven't had any lag or disconnection issue so far.

One thing that bothers be a lot is that the moment i plug in the headphones the connection stops :( I would like to use it with my projector to stream movies and my projector has no audio out..just a tiny built-in speaker. Is there a way to send the audio to me receiver through the 3.5 aux cable from the headphone jack while using allshare cast dongle connected to the projector using hdmi? I searched around and couldn't find anything:( What are my options?

Cheers
[Galaxy S III Accessories] seanvree:
Yeah, I'm using the HDMI cable that came with the dongle. Where did you get a replacement HDMI cable?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] atilla88:
I will sell this weekend the dongle on ebay and buy for the money an hdmi dock and a bluetooth mouse,same wireless effect,no lags and connections issues....
[Galaxy S III Accessories] leonardoquesada:
What would dock?

I know I have the MHL cable, but that is not a dock.

I've seen and believe Note2 dock that works with the s3, but have not found confirmation of this. Is this dock, you're talking about?

thanks!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] atilla88:
This is the dock i will buy,price is ok and its available in black what matches to my s3.

Its a simple hdmi and charging dock

http://www.amazon.de/Multimediastat...-Dockingstation/dp/B0087VSDX0/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt

And then there is the special pc like dock which is a hdmi/charging dock and has 2 usb ports which is a nice feature.

But its just available in white and actually not in stock

http://www.getgoods.de/smartphones-...100?zanpid=1709336321811887105&userid=1524187

Since i use a ps3 controller to play my games and will buy a bluetooth keyboard and mouse this is the perfect multimedia combination for gaming and because of the possibility to connect it straight to a A/V reciever even for high quality sound output

Greets
[Galaxy S III Accessories] leonardoquesada:
then this dock Note2 works even with the s3?

This is very interesting ...

This showed another dock that I did not know ... cool but is much more expensive than a cable MHL and not see much advantage to get it ...

and what a pity it's Note2 be hard to find. I live in Brazil and I look for these things on eBay. But it is difficult to obtain, man ...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] WhiteiceDMSTech:
I am on my second dongle and having the same exact issue as the first, my phone wont connect to the dongle.

Troubleshot with Samsung and they thought the dongle was defective and after a few weeks, received my replacement.

I use Wickeds rom, Team Sonic's, Phanton Hackerz and stock. None will connect. I can see the dongle when I enable the sharecast via settings. My counter is at 0 via Triangle Away and shows official.

I am on the LJ7 if that matters.

Is there anything else I can try to do to get this piece of crap to connect? I am so frustrated with this thing as well as the horrible experiences with Samsung's customer support that it's almost not worth it anymore and to late to return it.

Thank you,

Whiteice
[Galaxy S III Accessories] seanvree:
I'm in the same boat as you man. Suck!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Greatminds:
I had similar issues when i first tried connecting (i was on a custom ROM at that time).went back to stock..still the same ..flashed stock ROM again from scratch (odin)..then reset flash counter & rebooted. It worked fine.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] studentjunk:
I had a similar problem at first. I'm on sprint and was using a rooted stock jellybean cwm recovery. Did triangle away, and still no go. Then flashed a rooted stock rom with odin and it started working. I'm still sending back though. Has an audio lag, and crashed my phone.
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
I-SCREEM-BLOOD-SANDWICH

This is for NRGZ sense3.6 ics4.0.3

1.dowload

2.flash & reboot

3.apply STOCK skin

4.for google search widget go into system apps with root explorer & delete the blue google search then reboot & apply

Theme> http://db.tt/ootj5u6u

Stock> http://db.tt/tN9k3THM

CREDITS:

DARK KNIHGTMARE

ECLIPZE

NRGZ

ALL OF XDA
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
ENJOY
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
ON TO SPEED ROM NOW :cool:
[HTC Amaze 4G] EclipzeRemix:
If you want my input on how to theme speed Rom red, ONLY change whats blue to red, all the blacks,whites,grays etc leave them be, that way it would look cleaner and more eligent. Those are my 2 cents anyway
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
Will do thank u
[HTC Amaze 4G] G1Master:
I would love a JB blue theme or even a Black/white theme! The red is nice to a degree but too much red for my taste. But non the less its awesome work and I appreciate you taking time to theme our Popular roms.

Thanks again.
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
I started to theme & did not look good so I have start from scratch. I'm gonna take my time on this one but I actually started already to port an cm9 green theme over. Speed rom of coarse.
[HTC Amaze 4G] ddloco:
Damn I heard that :eek:

Sent from my HTC_Amaze_4G using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheCrow1372:
@JL, can't I just replace the files you added in 'Red' with those of the Energy ROM on my pc than just flash it all over again so it shows up in red instead of blue and nothing against blue but I am a bit evil minded so RED is my thing lol (sorry) or how would you suggest other than what you wrote in OP?

Thanks
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
What do u want to change? The red text or red png's. ??? & what apk.
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheCrow1372:
Well all the folders u created that are in the original ROM, I want to see if I can just swap them out to make it BLOOD RED :):thumbup:
[HTC Amaze 4G] chozyn:
Great theme! Any chance we can have a zip to revert for when we want to change up?

Live and Die on this day....
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
Go right ahead :good:
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
I'll put one soon.
[HTC Amaze 4G] misfit61871:
Bad ass theme man, only issue is I lost my all apps icon in the dock bar and the dock bar doesn't look like the one in your screen shots. Other than that it's awesome, black and red are my two favorite colors!

Also noticed the my notes widget dies not appear at all, all you can see is just the letters.

Oh, I should mention I'm running NRGZ blue themed ROM, is this theme only for the stock NRGZ?

Sent from the morgue.
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
every theme i attemp to do i start from a new rom all my themes are not 100% but are usable i would recommend flashing a theme on a new fresh rom. the rest when im done with speed rom ill come back and check out a few bugs and see what i can do about them... thank you all for using my theme.
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheCrow1372:
U could try what I'm going to attempt, just have the NRGZ Blue ROM as well as this theme on ur desktop pc or laptop than open both up and check each folder see what each has that are named the same than replace each with the opposite folders than re-flash. I'm going to try it later, u can try that or just wait till he comes back to finish it up just my 2cents

"It Can't Rain All the Time", sent from my AMAZE 4G/ENERGY
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
Added nrgz blue stock zip. It'll revert only apks that I moded
[HTC Amaze 4G] chozyn:
Thank you, now we can go back and forth although with your theme it may not be so often for me.

Live and Die on this day....
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
new theme

As much as I appreciate the hard work exclipze & all the devs work for all working rims/ software I'm sorry I'm sense person all the way even though I can't stand HTC themselves but nevertheless of course I'm doing something new again. I'm a person who always love change & that means anything & everything including my amaze . So in regards thank you eclipze but back to nrgz
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hero_Guy:
I just got the Sprint Gnex and am really annoyed by the MMS compression and SMS limit. What ROMS get rid of both and is preferably on JB?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ReFLeX135:
Hey guys.

So I came to VZW after being on Sprint for like 10 years. Signal is way better in my area on Verizon. Except on this GS3 - can't send texts, breaking up calls, dropped calls... you know of it on these boards. Sprint was better by 100%. I've always had HTC's and knew Samsungs have the weakest radios but wow! anyway... I read some other sites and threads here - seems I need a new phone, and it MAY fix it if I get a good one...

I may be able to get an exchange even though I'm out of the 15 days because I used to work at a phone store - I'm good with the managers. But lets say that doesn't work. Should I quick add insurance to make a claim, or go the manufacture warranty route? Or what is the best way to get a replacement? I don't keep up on much on Verizon and Samsung - have there been any statements about this issue, or any fixes you guys have come up with?

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ssignature:
There's no need to go either route. Verizon will replace a defective phone for one year, provided you purchased it from them. Many stores don't do instant swaps, but call Verizon Tech Support, and most of the time, you'll have a refurb next day. They won't replace banged up or wet phones, though. I just went through 4 GNexs and have a S3 waiting for me when I'm home from business, now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ReFLeX135:
I see, but I actually got the phone from a Wal-mart, I'm fairly certain that will matter right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Zalithian:
The signal isn't that great, but if it's a no SIM problem I think that's a firmware/software thing Samsung or Verizon needs to handle. It's not an uncommon issue, and it's sometimes maddening.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] toy028:
It won't matter if its from Walmart. I bought mine from best buy and got it replaced with a refurbished that was actually brand new. You might not get as lucky as me but a used working phone is still better then what you got.Your looking at either a hardware or sim issue. Mine was hardware.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ReFLeX135:
Thanks that helps to know that! Has anyone sucessfully corrected the problem with SIM replacement?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nadcicle:
I'm 3 Sims and 3 phones in and still get no sim when calling/texting in downtown Nashville. I'd like to know a resolution myself.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ReFLeX135:
Ah mine doesn't say no SIM but rather just drops service completely, just breaks up in conversation, loses data in good 3g and 4g, and won't pick up 4g sometimes. I even called my wife 1 foot away and the first call dropped before she could answer and the second worked for 20 seconds, then she couldn't hear me, and it droppped a few seconds later. She talks for hours in this spot on a Reality.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrthisguy1111:
Since WebOs was recently/is still being open sourced, does anyone have plans to port it to the Samsung Gnex? I would be very excited to see how a WebOs build would pan out (very well I would like to think). If anyone has plans/ information, let me know.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] El Daddy:
In general http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1863730
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TECK:
Hi guys,

First, I'm a developer who spends a lot of time with his nose into terminal windows and editors... so please forgive me if I'm used to the "boring" stuff. I was wondering if you could give me some suggestions what widgets should I use to fill few of the tablet screens. So far, the main apps I use on the tablet are the Terminal (go figure) to manage my Linux boxes and my 3 Google Apps accounts (drive, mail, etc.)

I looked on the internet at those "popular widgets" postings and they all show crappy stuff like Google Play, Beautiful Widgets, Facebook etc. With no disrespect, they are useless to me. I'm looking more into "geek" factor, like some nice tablet memory/kernel stats and other cool widgets I could make use of. I know is hard what I ask but I'm looking for input from tech people who use the tablet to manage mostly Linux related stuff, not just the Google Play library.

It sucks to have all those screens empty, thank you for your help.

Floren
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josjator:
You could actually design a fancy-nothing widget by yourself that could show random stuff, like stats, load, cool pictures, links to websites, etc, periodically. Resizable, and repicable. That would be nice.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ace7196:
For a self-proclaimed dev, this guy sure is lazy. ****, app inventor takes no time.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TECK:
I don't write Android apps. I did wrote from scratch the XDA search you use it every day and helped the guys to optimize their servers, so you can post your content easier. Thanks for the nice insults.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] player911:
Yea wth?

Anyway. I suggest Android Pro Widgets. Its free but I recommend buying it for themeing ablilities. They are scrollable Widgets for Facebook, twitter, calendar, favorites, etc. I have a page dedicated to these alone. I like my main homescreen very minimalistic.

Outside of that I use some sort of weather widget. I don't listen to music often and my status bar has toggles. Not sure what else you would need.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] durangatang:
Could try minimalistic text and create your own text widgets showing stats of the tablet.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZeroManArmy:
Does anyone got any good music widgets?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smelkus:
Battery Monitor Widget Pro and System Tuner Pro have some decent geeky widgets. Not great though. I'd like to find some more too.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mazubo:
Don't worry about responses like that one. They are a dime a dozen and provide nothing to these forums/communities. Best to ignore nay sayers...

Some suggestions for widgets would definitely be a weather widget, gmail/email widget, play music widget. Just to name a few :) a lot of it is personal preference from what I see...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante32278:
Has anyone tried elixr2? Has quite a few widgets like the OP asked for.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kieso:
You beat me too it. Elixr2 is good. I used to use it on my gtablet while testing roms. It was really helpful
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josjator:
I'm sorry if you understood my comment as an insult. I was actually giving a nice idea. I have developed some apps for diferrent purposes, and I found your post interesting - some widgets to beautify your screens. I could simply not mention any idea, but you know, I like brainstorming.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExploreMN:
I made a widget once for a friend that showed either his stats or his teams stats from World Community Grid, but it only seems to work on 2.1 and I'm not a Dev....no idea how to fix it. LOL
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrSchroeder:
I strongly recommend Elixir Widgets 2. Highly customizable, lots of options (more than any other), sips battery and CPU.

Here is my main 'reporting' page.

Also I reduced to 3 home screens... psychological reduction in empty space.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TECK:
I was quoting ace7196, not you. Thanks though.