I hooked up my Transformer to my LCD TV. The TV is full 1080p.
I noticed that a sizable area around the edge of the display is clipped off. For example I cannot see the status bar on the TV, but it is still there on the transformer screen as well.
I was wondering is anyone else having this problem? or even better a solution?
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It does this because the display on the transformer is 1280x800, so it cuts the display down to 1280x720 (720P). This way it displays full screen on the tv what your trying to watch.
Is there anyway to have the transformer output to 1280x800? I also do not like how the output appears zoomed.
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first check so the TV shows 1:1 pixel ratio/full pixel and not "normal". My TV cuts of the hdmi signal somewhat, even with computers attached, call it overscan if you like, unless i choose "full pixel" (sonys name for it).
So try hunting in your settings on the TV. When i tried on my TV i didnt loose anything but the statusbar is not shown on tv, i guess thats not realy important as it is the video/app you want to see and they are not aware of the statusbar anyway.
Great!! Thanks a couple of things to try.
hmmm
I thought that hiding the bar was a feature!
I have this issue also. It not only cuts off the bottom bar but both sides are croped a little. I have tried the HDMI out on 3 different TV's and they all show the same croped effect. This is weird to me because my laptop displays 720p or 1080p perfectly on the same TV's Is there a fix for this?
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I can get my homescreen on my TV, but no matter what size TV I put it on, a little bit on each left and right side is cut off. I couldnt even watch a movie
any ideas how to make it fit?
I haven't even tried connecting my Xoom to TV, but maybe you have Overscan turned on for your TV, check TV settings.
More than likely a TV setting. I had to futz around with my TV when I connected my HTPC to it... and again when I nuked/paved my HTPC and installed a different OS on it. There are still a few pixels of black on each side, but it still plays HD pretty well.
DroidHam said:
I can get my homescreen on my TV, but no matter what size TV I put it on, a little bit on each left and right side is cut off. I couldnt even watch a movie
any ideas how to make it fit?
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I think you can go on the TV and use the option fit on screen, it will stretch your display to fit all side of your TV.
Hi everyone. I am having a few issues with the miniHDMI output. I just got a cable for it today, and these are the problems I am having:
- The spec sheet says the Transformer should be able to do 1080p output, but mine only does 720p. I read that this was to be fixed in Honeycomb 3.1, but I did the update and there is no difference.
- When displaying in 720p, the top, left, and right sides of the screen are all cut off. This makes browsing my RSS feeds in Pulse impossible in 720p, because when I go to read an article the article shows up on the right side of the screen and has about three letters cut off and unviewable. This also makes programs like AKNotepad unusable, since I cannot see the left side of anything I am typing. The TV I am outputting to supports up to 1080p, and I am in its native format (all the other options zoom in).
Are there any solutions for this?
No idea how to bump the output resolution but check to see if your TV supports different aspect ratios in the picture settings. For my LG and Samsung TVs at home the default 16:9 and 16:10 doesn't quite cut it, so i had to select an option called just scan, and it filled the screen properly then. It may also be called overscan correction as that would be the technical term for this.
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Wondering if anyone else is having my problem?
If i can remember right, my hdmi out to my tv would completely mirror my xoom screen. This was when i first got ICS 4.0.
Now i have had the updated 4.04 since release, but i noticed my hdmi out to tv appears to be cropped. The screen appears to be zoomed in and it is not mirroring my xoom screen anymore.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there some kind of setting that i need to change?
Also would my hdmi connector cord cause this? I am using a different cord then before?
Tikal769 said:
Wondering if anyone else is having my problem?
If i can remember right, my hdmi out to my tv would completely mirror my xoom screen. This was when i first got ICS 4.0.
Now i have had the updated 4.04 since release, but i noticed my hdmi out to tv appears to be cropped. The screen appears to be zoomed in and it is not mirroring my xoom screen anymore.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there some kind of setting that i need to change?
Also would my hdmi connector cord cause this? I am using a different cord then before?
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Try turning off overscanning on your tv
Yaarp, aspect ratio too.
same problem with me (and tried adjusting screen aspect ratio) doesn't show system/notification bar and a slight amount of screen real estate above it. I can see all of the first row of icons though, just nothing below them.
Same problem for me... Missing half the icons on left and right hand side...
Very noticable when watching videos as well....
Just an fyi guys its a TV thing, I have two TVs on one I can change and adjust the picture size and aspect ratio and no matter what its cropped and cuts off left right top and bottom... however on a newer insignia I have I can have it set to 16/9 and it cuts everything off as well, however if I turn it to "fit scree " I have the hole picture without any missing area
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I would agree but my HDMI socket is shared between my xbox/blu-ray and Xoom and the others are fine.. no cropping at all only the Xoom has the problem...
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stiflingcobra said:
I would agree but my HDMI socket is shared between my xbox/blu-ray and Xoom and the others are fine.. no cropping at all only the Xoom has the problem...
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If u look close enough it does, u just can't tell because how do u know what "should be displayed if u don't ever see it, the only reason u say it does it only on the Xoom is because u know what should be there.
I deal with this on a daily basis,
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Tikal769 said:
Wondering if anyone else is having my problem?
If i can remember right, my hdmi out to my tv would completely mirror my xoom screen. This was when i first got ICS 4.0.
Now i have had the updated 4.04 since release, but i noticed my hdmi out to tv appears to be cropped. The screen appears to be zoomed in and it is not mirroring my xoom screen anymore.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there some kind of setting that i need to change?
Also would my hdmi connector cord cause this? I am using a different cord then before?
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motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/prod_answer_detail/a_id/63776/kw/hdmi/p/7901%2C8013
HDMI Mirror mode
When using HDMI, the bottom 80 pixels of the display where the navigation keys and notification menu are displayed is not projected on the external display. This is done by design and is not a defect with either the device or the external display
Just got a work and play kit for my Xoom 2 ME and it does the same thing. Bit of a shame really, I hear notifications come in but either have to look at my phone or recognise the notification sound to try and find em.
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Although I can just put my mouse in the bottom right and click, doh!
Find what your TV manufacture calls over scanning and turn it off. In my lg the option to turn off is to select just scan. FYI you should do this anyways in order to get true pixel mapping from all your sources
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same problem here :/
Using my Acer A500 whenever I connect it using the Micro HDMI it does appear on the screen but it seems to have part of the screen cut off. The status bar on the bottom of the screen and then about the same space on the top and sides.
Is there anything you can get for a root ICS tablet to change the output?
Could it be the cable I am using a 10ft cable?
Or this just what it looks like does the whole screen just never fit.
The TV is a 37 inch HD ready Beko
It outputs at 720p. Does your TV support that resolution?? I have had none of the problems your describing while using the HDMI out.
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It outputs at 720p. Does your TV support that resolution?? I have had none of the problems your describing while using the HDMI out.
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It does support it as my Xbox output is 720p and when the tablet is connected it says on the tv its output is 720P 60HZ.
any other ideas?
I have the same issue butnot with my TV. My TV will show the entire screen but when I plug into a projector it cuts off part of the screen. I would not think the HDMI out is device dependent but it is certainly looking like it.
Not sure if you checked this, but this happened to me yesterday. What had happened was that the zooming on the TV was causing the problem. It was on 16:9, and cut off some parts. Went through the zooming options until I found one that showed the entire screen (can't remember what it was called).
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Not sure if you checked this, but this happened to me yesterday. What had happened was that the zooming on the TV was causing the problem. It was on 16:9, and cut off some parts. Went through the zooming options until I found one that showed the entire screen (can't remember what it was called).
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on a,LG,phillips its original zise a samsung: full screen
Im having the same issue as well, 37" Panasonic LCD. Its fully capable of 1080p as well as 720. I remember connecting my motorola atrix and droid bionic to the TV and both those phones have an HDMI setting --> Overscan setting that you adjust using a slider. With those 2 phones however they problem wasn't the screen getting cut off, it was too small, and adjusting the overscan as high as it could go made the output from the phone fit the tv PERFECTLY.
In our instance, we would need that same overscan slider, and to turn it down. BTW: that setting on the phone was set in the middle by default (say at 50%), so the phone would need it adjusted to 100%, where as our tablet would need it at 0 or near zero...
hello
i have a little problem
i connect my tegra with tv and im not getting full screen
i have two black lines on each side and the center is stretched to up and down..ill take a photo
blade_ said:
hello
i have a little problem
i connect my tegra with tv and im not getting full screen
i have two black lines on each side and the center is stretched to up and down..ill take a photo
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This has been discussed already. Have a search of this forum.
Basically it's due to the difference in aspect ratio between your TV and the tablet.
Under the original firmware, when using a video app like MX Player it was possible to zoom in on the tablet and this would allow the image on the TV to zoom to the point where the black bars on the disappeared. This no longer works on either the 4.3 or 4.4.2 firmware. If you use HDMI a lot and the bars bug you, you need to roll back to the 4.2 firmware. Bear in mind you will still get the black bars on the main GUI, but not in movie players that allow zooming.
thanks for your answer
i found this im not sure if working
http://www.modaco.com/topic/366783-hdmi-not-full-screen/ post #14
blade_ said:
thanks for your answer
i found this im not sure if working
http://www.modaco.com/topic/366783-hdmi-not-full-screen/ post #14
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Good find. For my part I decided to take another route. I now use a wireless dongle and the free companion app by EZCast to stream movies to my TV which works quite well now - when streaming in EZCast mode (basically WiFi direct) there are no bars on the left and right. The screen can be turned off to save battery. You can also minimise the app while you're streaming a film to allow you to open the IMDB app for those vital 'what has she been in before' arguments with your partner . The dongle was about £30 from Amazon. It also features EZMirror which, um, mirrors the whole tablet's screen to the TV but then you're back to having bars left and right, and there's too much latency for gaming. Also, when using EZMirror, there is a pronounced slow down in the tablet whereas when using an HDMI cable there is no performance penalty at all. It's a shame that Nvidia aren't taking advantage of the latter as devices that output images to a TV via an MHL port/adapter experience a considerable performance hit as the device has to work so much harder. Another negative factor here is that the Note doesn't seem able to take a charge when connected to a USB hub via an OTG cable which also limits the usefulness of the tablet as a media device connected to a TV or monitor.
To return to the original problem, my TV has an option in the settings menu to either 'just scan' or to display 16:9. The latter removes a big chunk of the bars on the left and of the screen, but it also hides part of the top and bottom of the picture, which is OK on a movie, but less so when viewing the home screen etc.
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Can you share us the photo?, I'm thinking on buying one and I want it to use for playing videos on my TV.
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Can you share us the photo?, I'm thinking on buying one and I want it to use for playing videos on my TV.
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Do you mean EZCast information?
If so, there's lots of info on YouTube that will explain/show you how it works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6_U44XUdJ0. Search for videos by EZCast themslelves - they have videos for various devices.
Bear in mind that there are two basic modes, EZCast and EzMirror. EZMirror literally mirrors everything you see on your tablet's screen (which also leads to vertical black bars on the left and right of the picture on the TV screen, just like when you use HDMI due to the differing aspect ratio of the tablet and the TV).
EZCast presents a menu on the tablet screen and then allows you to select different types of media to stream to the TV. This works well for films because it will fill the TV screen. It's less useful for streamimg music to a TV at the moment because it will only stream one song file at a time, after which you have to select another song.
If you buy one, there are different hardware versions available. Mine has 128MB of RAM. I have a feeling that those on offer that have 256MB RAM and a faster CPU will provide better streaming performance.
Hope this helps
Ouzo said:
Do you mean EZCast information?
If so, there's lots of info on YouTube that will explain/show you how it works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6_U44XUdJ0. Search for videos by EZCast themslelves - they have videos for various devices.
Bear in mind that there are two basic modes, EZCast and EzMirror. EZMirror literally mirrors everything you see on your tablet's screen (which also leads to vertical black bars on the left and right of the picture on the TV screen, just like when you use HDMI due to the differing aspect ratio of the tablet and the TV).
EZCast presents a menu on the tablet screen and then allows you to select different types of media to stream to the TV. This works well for films because it will fill the TV screen. It's less useful for streamimg music to a TV at the moment because it will only stream one song file at a time, after which you have to select another song.
If you buy one, there are different hardware versions available. Mine has 128MB of RAM. I have a feeling that those on offer that have 256MB RAM and a faster CPU will provide better streaming performance.
Hope this helps
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Thanks, but I meant the vertical bands when displayed the HDMI Output on the TV
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Thanks, but I meant the vertical bands when displayed the HDMI Output on the TV
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Oops, sorry. The exact size of the bands on the left and right of the TV screen will depend upon what formats the TV supports. For example one of my TVs zooms in slightly by default cropping a bit of the top and bottom of the phone or tablet's screen off (meaning you lose most of the notification bar and some of the soft keys, or whatever is at the bottom of the picture). I have another TV that allows different settings such as 'just scan' that shows all of the phone or tablet's screen. The downside of this is that on a phone/tablet with a 1280x800 resolution you have vertical black bars about an inch wide on either side of the picture on a 32" TV. I'll try and get a photo...
Unfortunately the camera on my HTC Sensation is struggling to capture the problem tonight, but here's a closeup of the right hand side of my TV with the tablet set to full screen mode, and the TV picture settings to 'just scan'. I might try and get a fuller photo the daylight tomorrow.