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[Galaxy S III Accessories] gilo27:
AllShare Cast Dongle / Audio Issue

Hey everyone, sorry if this problem was already answered somewhere else, but I couldn't really find anything that related to the issue I'm currently having.

I have an S3, running PACman ROM (jellybean 4.2.2). Since it's not a Samsung based ROM, I don't have the Allshare app, although I do have a wireless display feature. I can connect to my dongle, hence, I can see my phone's display on my TV. But the sounds are always coming from my phone, and not from the TV's speakers. I tried youtube, recorded videos, sounds, music and games, nothing works.

Is it the ROM's fault, TVs? the APP?

Thanks in advanced :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mertzi:
Can your tv receive audio through HDMI from other sources? If so then it must be rom related.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jorv976:
Off topic.. i connected my GSIII w mhl adaptor and Game Klip. Now i can play PSone emulators on my big tv w my PS3 controller through bluetooth. Pretty cool i think. (Must be rooted for ps3 controller to connect through bluetooth).
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
Thanks for sharing, I guess we all know that this is working very well. But anyway interesting for people that don't know yet...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] silkshocker:
Just got mine yesterday and tested it out with a bunch of mkv movies. The sound is horrible. No DTS at all. I tried connecting the phone native app allshare cast with my Samsung LED smart TV and the movie played and sounded much better. Complete with surround sound. For some reasons, the dongle does not transmit HD sound. The quality of the movies and games suffered quite a bit but they are definitely watchable and playable. There is a considerable lag when playing Real Racing 3. It made me crashed several times. I don't recommend playing games with it. Movies are ok. Some minor lags initially but they went away afterwards. Video is ok but audio is a major disappointment considering it is connected through an HDMI cable. Overall, a good buy at $69.99 from Amazon but I would have waited for the price to lower. Connecting to the dongle can be a pain as it can take a bit long to connect depending on its mood. Sometimes I get connected instantly and other times I had to reset and reconnect multiple times.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] gilo27:
The only other device I have is a PS3 which the audio works perfectly when connected via HDMI.

PS. I also tried with it with the latest AOKP Rom, same thing :S
[Galaxy S III Accessories] MOEMBAMBA:
Allshare cast hub

Try resetting you flash counter , mine did that and after using "triangle away root app" the issue was fixed .:good:

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I beleive its the rom . im using stock jb rom and no issues , I just had to reset the flash counter and it worked
[Galaxy S III Accessories] gilo27:
I tried resetting the counter with triangle away but still same thing :'(
[Galaxy S III Accessories] DC_MTP:
I finally got mines to work on a rooted phone with out the help of triangle away (which never worked for me) after trying pretty much everything out there. I simply flashed the leaked MC3 all in one .exe (stock with root) I think the key was that I kept stock recovery. I usually flash cwm or twrp right away. I believe you can use the stock recovery to flash a custom rom.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
with the newer versions of the boot loader & an custom recovery you will have an increased flash counter (1) which cannot be set to 0 with triangle away as far as I remember, hence you might have problems connecting to the dongle. So you are correct that with new boot loader you should use stock recovery.

You can flash the custom rom via Odin or Mobile Odin, but not via stock recovery I think.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] gilo27:
hmmm I'll definitely give it a shot. Thanks for your replies, I'll keep you guys updated whenever I try :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] rock99rock:
tiny audio sound

Hello All!

I am having a major issue with audio playback through the dongle. It sounds "tiny", as if being filtered through a bandpass that has no bass or topend frequencies. Sounds like AM radio. I read in an Amazon review that if you plug in headphones then unplug them, the sound gets better. That actually works, but its a pretty big pain. It just makes me think something is wrong with the BT audio stack? Does anyone else have this issue?

As I'm using this method for my car audio, I'd rather not have to deal with plugging/unplugging the headphone jack every time i get into the car. I'm running stock rooted, JZO54K.L710VPBMD4

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] da.trute:
Got mine yesterday, seemed a decent enough deal for £40, wast so much when it was nearer £70. I have mixed feelings about this, it was a ball ache to setup even though I had previously dropped back to wann stock ROM with triangle away, it simply wouldn't connect on any of my TV's on my S3 or my Note 10.1.

Finally got it working by by doing a 30 second reset as someone mentioned on this thread, although I am not really sure this did it, didn't connect straight away, just sat for ages and then connected on my S3, still wouldn't connect on my 10.1 until I re-flashed the ROM a second Time.

What's good.

I'll start with the positive aspects as I feel there are more then the negs.

1. As both my devices can cut through HD movies like butter playback is awesome, even for an audiophile like me I thought the sound was good going through my system, not poor as some people have suggested. Even playback from my NAS in full HD was good using BSPLAYER (the best there is) - I expected lag or sync problems but there was nothing, well impressed.

2. Internet is good, lag is minimal and web pages are bright and very readable, being able to zoom in and out on a big screen also feels great.

3. Music - no problems here at all, sound is good.

Whats Bad

1. 3D games, pretty much all of them have lag making them more difficult to play, found my eyes moving back to my phone several times.

2. Web based video apps have sync problems, audio lag, this is a big problem and if you watch a lot of internet video this really isnt for you. However there may be fixes for this I am not aware of.

There hasn't really been a rollup of this or other threads so nobody really knows what the best way to use this is, can anyone recommend a ROM / setup that alleviates these audio sync problems?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SportingChap:
I'm surprised at this. The audio on mine has always been really weak and partially washed out. I ran mine through my receiver and not directly to the TV, but I can't believe it would have made that big a difference. I had to turn the volume so far up to be a decent level that there was too much background buzz. Hmm...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jamalkhaffaf:
I have update issue

I just got my dongle yesterday brand new. I connected it to my samsung TV and my device picked up the dongle right away but after the connection (TV screen still says connecting....) i got a message on my phone saying I need update. I clicked yes and came up with this message

"unfortunately AllShareCast Dongle S/W Update has stopped"

Please help me how can I fix this.

I have a T-Mobile note 2 with Jedi Master 13 Rom. I also have a custom recovery TWRP.

Please help,,,,

Thanks in advance :o
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
Download/Reinstall the AllShareCast Dongle S/W Update app.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jamalkhaffaf:
I already did that. I even changed it to system app but same thing happened. I reinstalled Allshare cast and nothing change either.:eek:
[Galaxy S III Accessories] frotna:
You have to have stock rom. It worked for me when i changed to stock rom and didn't work when i was on custom rom...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jamalkhaffaf:
Thanks guys for the replay and ur time. But I have another question. Does this have anything to do with Flash Counter? I read previous posts and they mentioned some problems because of flash counter is more than "0".

Thanks again guys. Really appreciate your help.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
Yes, usually you should have a 0 flash counter, otherwise AllShare Cast won't connect.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kjay1031:
Should I need smart PC or TV with this dongle?

My old tv support HDTV But i have no idea

could anyone help me?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mertzi:
Nopes, just an HDMI input. If you had a smart tv or pc you wouldn't need the dongle as you could use DLNA or upnp.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Eudeferrer:
After reading over most of the pages here I just tried something that worked for me. I believe the problem has nothing to do with the "Status" or even the "Counter" setting, but with the fact that the dongle will not work with Deodexed roms. I have the T-Mobile Galaxy S3 and was experiencing the same problems that many here were expressing with failure to connect after trying for a few seconds. Here are the steps I followed. Note that I am rooted:

Step #1: I flashed Jovy's Stockorama Version 2.

Step #2: I then preceded to install Triangle Away and cleared my count to Zero. (Just in case this was the problem). I also checked the "Autoreset at boot" setting.

Step #3: I used an app called: "com.modaco.Odexme.apk" which I got from one of these forums to odex my ROM. This will make it faster as well. I believe you can also use the app called "Kuban odexer" from the app store.

Step #4: After it booted up (about 5 minutes that appeared to be frozen but was actually odexing in background) then, I flashed the stock Kernel (UVDMD) using Mobile Odin. Wiped data and cache and also Wiped Dalvik cache

Step #5. Rebooted and set up system again. Cleared count away to Zero with Triangle Away (just in case).

***Result: I am still rooted. Status shows as modified but my AllShare Cast dongle works like a charm.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
and how should we now know which of your actions made the dongle work?

Currently I am on Wanam's 4.2.2 leak and it is working fine as well. (his ROMs are deodexed if I am not wrong)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Eudeferrer:
Like I said, I think it has to do with odexing the Rom. I don't think the dongle will work on deodexed Roms.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
as you can see in my previous post, my rom is deodexed (Wanam 7.0 I think is deodexed as per the thread isn't it?). You could try to increase your flash counter and try again if the dongle works, at least than we can dismiss the flash counter.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Atsco:
Allshare dongle works fine with rooted device, or Samsung based custom Rom, if you use stock kernel and Triangle Away. Now I using Omega Rom, works fine, but if I tried custom kernels, dongle stopped working. Flashed again stock kernel back, used triangle away (must use after EVERY flashing, doesn't matter, are you flashing theme etc) and Allshare Cast Dongle working fine again.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
the custom kernel issue can be related to the fact that, with the new bootloader, if you use a customer kernel, the counter will be automatically set to 1 at boot, there is no trick yet, as far as I know, that can set it to 0 all the time. Hence custom kernel works as well if you reset the counter every boot, or use as you said stock kernel.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] fred1976:
Hello,

Not sure if it's already been replied, but you need to reset your flash counter with Triangle away. Then it will work. Had exactly the same problem on my SG3.

HTH
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mrmrmrmr:
Hi,

I had successfully connected 2 S3 and 1 Note 10 to my dongle.

Today I am trying to connect from my new Note 8 but it disconnects.

The Note 8 has a rooted, deodexed stock rom installed.

So I installed TriangleAway and tried resetting the counter to 0.

However, the flash counter always shows 1

I installed stock recovery to make sure but that didn't matter.

So how can I solve this issue ?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mrmrmrmr:
I'm looking for help desperately. Is there anything that I could try ?

Is there anyone who used Triangleaway on Note 8 (N51XX) for this purpose (allshare cast dongle not working) ?

thx.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
maybe ask in the Note 8 forum as the users there should know more about it.

for the SIII, if I remember well, the new bootloader + custom recovery increases the counter to 1 every boot, only solution stock recovery
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Danny044:
After flashing some lockscreen effect allshare cast stop working..this pops up "unable to start screen mirroring because of a hardware issue". Any idea how to solve this problem without reflashing my rom?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] RobSalgado:
Hi, I got the gadget a few days ago.

This is my technical information:

DONGLE:

— AllShare Cast Dongle

(the box dont say "For Galaxy S3" or something)

— Model: EAD-T10UDEGXEU

— Version: 7.0 110902

Name: Dongle-BCC7AB

— Firmware: LJ02 (fresh of the box, no updates).

— Manufacture Date: March 21, 2013

DEVICE:

— Galaxy S4 International Version, Unbranded/Factory Unlock i9500

— Firmware: Stock JDQ39.I9500UBUAMDK

— Root: Never

ALLSHARE APP:

— Updated to "Samsung Link app" now.

— Version: 1.6.0705

HDMI Cable:

— Brand: Master Cable

— Full HD 1080

— Speed: 10.2 Gbps

— Model: MC-HDMI4

— Length: 4 meters

SOURCE POWER

— Galaxy S4 Stock Charger

TV:

— Phillips LCD 50" (great Tv, better quality image than the new LED Tvs, seriously).

Now, my experience is this:

I dont have connection problems.

I have a live wallpaper (Nexus Revamped) and I can see how the particles stucks every time in the screen.

Playing games, I make a try only with Dead Trigger (I dont have games in the phone, just in the tablet). The experience is laggy mainly with the sound.

But my main problem is with YouTube. There is always lag between the vídeo and the audio, aprox. 3 seconds (that's unnaceptable). BTW, this is on music videos. I mean, fails in any vídeo, but in reviews or unboxing vídeos for example, you can't notice how big is the lag, even most people dont notice any lag, so try with the most classic videos of music, and you will see.

I dont use the stock HDMI cable because gives a very poor image quality. Neither use the stock charger, because is for UK or Europe, or something, and I'm in America, exactly in Mexico. BTW, I try with the stock charger of my Nexus 7 and dont works, and I dont know why.

I pay about 140 dollars for the gadget, from UK (handtec) including shipping, and two taxes for the importation deal.

CONCLUTION:

The reason I buy this is because my new girfriend likes (I dont know why) see movies in YouTube (WTF), but with the delay issues... you know, this is no a go.

I recommend buy this only if you want impress to someone a few minutes in your man cave, but nothing else, and if the money is not a problem. But if you are married (LOL) and you want a really mirror effect, and watch movies with your couple, or your children in a correct way, just use your MHL adaptor and waist your money in other things for the happiness of your family.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jonmorris:
I've concluded, as it seems have a lot of tech journalists, that Miracast is a disaster. If it works at all, the experience is pretty awful bordering on unusable.

What a shame SlimPort on some devices is also pretty bad, compared to MHL. I found a cable at CES (tested on the stand of a manufacturer) caused by Nexus 4 to freeze and reboot. Never had that with a phone using MHL, or older devices with a dedicated HDMI out.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Atsco:
Dongle works really, REALLY good with my Note 2, so I'm glad, that I bought it! Only little problem for them, who like flash custom ROM's, themes etc is, that Dongle works only with stock kernel, but this is not problem for me either, because my favorite ROM is Omega, and Omega uses stock kernel and that's why everything works fine! Had to buy Triangle Away and have to use it, after flashing new themes etc, but this few euros & minutes isn't big deal for me either.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
You should test before assuming, dongle also works with custom kernels as long as the counter is 0. I had this setup for a long time. At least this is the case for the S3 :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SportingChap:
Haven't been able to use my Allshare Cast dongle since I moved to AOSP based ROMs, but I think the Chromecast will put this thing to pasture anyway. :)

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast/
[Galaxy S III Accessories] RobSalgado:
The AllShare Cast dongle App is updated today. It fix my delay with YouTube, and i'm very happy for that.

But, it disconnects for a few seconds while is playing. Nothing mayor.

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[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
what is the firmware version?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mertzi:
ME29, the last one was LJ02 if my memory doesn't fail me.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] skuffle:
The update doesn't seem to want to download on my phone. Is there any chance you could send me the file that is in the wdh_update folder on your internal sdcard?

This is where it puts the downloaded firmware update (version ME29), but it ends up a zero-byte file on my phone for some reason :(
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mertzi:
EAD-T10_ME29.sbin is 0,00 on mine too but updating worked for me. Try downgrading the AllShareCast Dongle S/W Update via playstore, connect to your Allsharecast, then download the S/W update while stile connected to the dongle, and then disconnect and reconnect. That's what I did.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
yes, LJ02 was the latest.

thanks, I guess I have to dualboot a Samsung ROM to test then :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] skuffle:
Thanks for the reply! I tried as you suggested, but continued to have the same problem - the update is detected, downloads, but when I connected I got 'Updating screen mirroring firmware' very briefly, with a counter go up to 27/100, then disappeared. The TV showed 'connecting' until I reset the dongle.

I was able to get the dongle update to work by upgrading my S3 firmware to XXEMG4. As soon as I did this, the update worked and the dongle now shows version ME29.

Unfortunately, I now cannot get the phone to stay connected. It connects, nothing is displayed on the TV for about 10 seconds, then it disconnects. Looking at other threads, it seems I'm not alone.

I'm rooted and have used Triangle Away to reset the flash counter. Maybe the new ME29 detects rooted phones better? Either way my dongle is now useless :(
[Galaxy S III Accessories] a32quaeler:
I have a S3 GT-I9300 with XXEMC2 which is NOT rooted and worked perfectly for the last months with the dongle with firmware LJ02. Yesterday I could update the ME29 firmware for the dongle without any problem (I now wish it would not have worked) but then I encountered the same problems:

Connection for a few seconds with the dongle reporting "connecting" and then loss of connection. I tested some HDMI display devices - all of them worked flawlessly with LJ02 - and the only device which works (most of the time) stable is a LED-projector. The full HD TV (from Samsung) works most of the time but may lose connection after some minutes. At one of these connection losses (while displaying the home screen) the dongle kept displaying something like "HDCP not supported" on the TV screen (which is of course wrong). Displays with more exotic resolutions that worked before (Dell LCD monitor and an Atrix Lapdock) do not get any connection at all. I assume that they messed up the HDMI-HDCP detection (at least for non-nominal HDMI-resolutions) and/or the time-out for the dongle to report a connected device.

Has anyone an idea how to downgrade the firmware to LJ02?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
I guess the only thin you could try is a hard reset, this should reset the dongle to factory defaults, whereas it also could mean just to ME29 defaul settings or something like that. to hard reset you have to hold the small button if I remember well.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] a32quaeler:
Thanks for the hint but I tried the reset (and power cycles and different cables ...) and it does not help (the firmware is not altered by that anyhow) :(
[Galaxy S III Accessories] vishaljh:
All,

I got my samsung allsharecast dongle couple of days back. I am also only getting 720P.

Has anyone managed to get this running on 1080p. Is this not an issue that samsung is advertising this as 1080p device but no one is getting 1080p.

Cheers,

Vishal
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Seronez:
I tested it with my s4 and only getting 720p too

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phone status has to be official sometimes triangle away can only reset to 1

try to flash stock kernel and then reset flash counter again with triangle away

if it shows status official the dongle will work for sure
[Galaxy S III Accessories] skuffle:
I no longer think this is to do with root issues. The phone connects perfectly to the dongle when it is connected to my Sony TV, and holds the connection (watched multiple films without issue). It is when the dongle is connected to that same TV via an Onkyo AV receiver that it cannot connect - yet this used to work with the old firmware.

I think Samsung have optimised/broken the connection routine, and it no longer waits long enough to connect to the Onkyo when using ME29 firmware. I'm hoping they sort this, as it doesn't look like I'm alone judging by other threads.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
You are correct I also see quite a few comments of people who have this issue with different TV etc whereas you still need the counter to be 0 though, nevermind if rooted or not.

Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] stroker38:
My allshare cast dongle was connected to my sony str-910 a/v receiver which is connected to my sony 60a2020 tv. This had worked fine with my sgs3 for several months until I downloaded the at&t 4.1.2 ota upgrade this past week. right after i finished the upgrade I was watching a video clip on the tv testing everything when all of a suden, a message popped up and said the allshare app would be upgraded and away it went. After the upgrade it would connect then disconnect in about 5 seconds.

Long story short - I connected the HDMI cable from the dongle into the TV, instead of going through the a/v receiver, and it works fine. Go figure......
[Galaxy S III Accessories] dindindores:
Hi, do you know have 720 or 1080p on your TV?

I manage to have only 720p...

thanks
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrismast:
Anyone got only 720p, I would be surprised if he got more, if so please share what you did :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kapustowicz:
My dongle stopped working after last actualisation - ME29.

Is it possible to downgrade the firmware in dongle? How to do this?

I suppose that the DHCP is responsible for any problems with connection after last upgrade.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] RobSalgado:
Well, like you know, the S4 is FullHD 1080p. Also my TV.

I watch the mirroring in full screen... I really dont know what are you mean.

The only thing I can say is the FullHD vídeos in YouTube looks greate, really awesome, hands down.

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[Galaxy S III Accessories] socalwrx:
see, I wish they would make a tablet with this feature built in: Just a nice sized HD screen and the allshare feature. Id easily pay 100 bucks
[Galaxy S III Accessories] dnsgtr:
Have you tried the dongle with a stock rom?

Because I use the dongle with stock rom and I have lags in all games which make them unplayable. I just installed the Wind-up knight for my kids and that is horrible thru the tv screen.

Even my pictures on the big screen are not that sharp. If I play them thru the DLNA connection then it is fine.

At the moment I am disappointed.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] btemtd:
How does it look on a big screen?, Im thinking wether or not to buy it for my 80inch Sharp TV