[Android General] jopema:
Dear forum.

Android phones are great laptop replacement but requires a wired monitor signal for persistence. Wireless screencasting tend to lag or disconnect after a couple of hours usage with bluetooth keyboard/mouse interfering with wifi so for repeated work you need a wired monitor signal.

By setting screen width to 4-500pixels in settings/developer options and using utility apps such as taskbar pc-style, leena desktop or sentio your phone becomes a highly usable desktop computer if connected to any tv, projector or monitor with hdmi capacity. Add to this a phones superior microphone for commands and voice to text funtion in google dox. Trouble is to find a phone with verified video capacity over usb, there are several standards and lots of rumors so Im hoping we may create a reference list of known devices with known capacity of video over usb with the good help of you folks.

Main Technology standards:

The two main tech standards are MHL and Displayport. MHL was early available on sony, samsung, LG and more devices via microusb ver 2. Displayport has grown later years with Huawei/Samsung devices over usb c ver 3. The older MHL over usb ver2 have difficulties handling more than video and sound, some devices such as sony Z5 may charge battery slowly when connected on MHL to external usb power but no guarantees. MHL over usb ver 2 have no capacity for keyboard/mouse or ethernet via usb, these must be connected via bluetooth.

Later usb ver 3 standard have capacity of video, sound, power and data, these devices can be connected to a hub with hdmi, keyboard, mouse, ethernet and still charge battery. There is plenty more to add about technology but lets keep to most basic info and focus on a list of devices with video signal over usb as I have not been able finding a complete list anywhere.

- There is also extra hardware available such as Displaylink which requires an app and displaylink chipped hubs but there is little information available so hopefully someone chips in with better info and proof of concept.

- There is windows phones with hdmi capability but I dont dare to mention so please contribute.

- Apple phones may have hdmi capability but there seem to be much rumors and guesswork without exact knowledge so please chip in if you have knowledge on this part.

- Several names/words are used referencing the function of connecting phone to external monitor. Samsung referencing as "Dex", Huawei "desktop mode", windows continuum, wired screencast, MHL, displayport, hdmi over usb,

All help completing the list is higly appreciated, please see this list as a suggestion this far while being completed/updated, the aim is to have a complete reference list of computer capable devices using the collective knowledge in this forum.

List of devices :

MHL, 5-pin microusb ver2 please see link att bottom for detialed list :

Samsung Galaxy 2/3/4/5/6

Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Sony Z3/Z4/Z5

Sony Z ultra

MHL, 11-pin microusb ver2 :

Samsung Galaxy Note 4/5

Displayport over USB C ver 3:

Huawei Mate 10 (huawei mate lite versions no video signal)

Huawei Mate 20

Huawei Mate 30

Samsung S8

Samsung S9

Samsung S10

LG G6

LG V20

LG V30

HTC U11

Devices rumored to have hdmi over usb but not verified (if you know please share your knowledge in comments) :

Samsung S7 (5/11 pin microusb ? MHL ?)

Xiomi redmi note 5 ?

Incomplete list at MHL tech.org : https://www.mhltech.org/devices.aspx?tid=1

Incomplete list of displayport devices : https://www.displayport.org/product-category/mobile/

All help to complete list is most appreciated, please be patient =0)