Using a laptop keyboard with the A500 - Acer Iconia A500

Is there any way to use my laptop keyboard with the A500?
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Have you looked at droid vnc (don't know if there is something else similar). I thought I saw another app that would also work, but haven't tried anything yet.

I did. I couldn't get DroidVNC to run on the tablet without crashing.
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Ugh, sorry, I was planning to try it out myself but hadn't had a chance yet. There is another thread on androidforums about this also with some possible usable apps:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/8858-remote-control-my-phone.html

You dan do it wit WiFiKeyboard that is in the market

Just tried that wifikeyboard and seems to work well for me. hopefully it is what the OP was looking for too

I use it to get cheats in gta 3 ;p

There is this... haven't tried it.. http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...blet-android-phone-your-pc-other-android.html
And other than that I have a Microsoft keyboard that has a little 2.4 ghz dongle and it works great. Mouse works too. If you really want the keyboard-tablet experience. Lags in not-native roms.. perfect in gmail, talk and a few others.. My two cents.
And of course there's always the transformer..

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Your feelings of Android 3.2 on your Motorola Xoom

What are your uschescheniya from Motorola Xoom Android 3.2?
Speed ​​and so on?
I have a feeling that runs less smoothly than before the upgrade.
I get the opposite feeling. The keyboard pop and retraction iw super fast and smooth. Everything on the desktop and in app drawer is incredibly smooth now.
When I got 3.1 a lot of people said it improved so much but mine ran worse. I had horrible keyboard lag too, so I did a reset on the device and it worked just fine after. So that is a suggestion you could try.
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after few times of soft resets, it runs much more smoothly than 3.1. even home screen in portrait mode run smoothly now =) although sdcard is just readable, i dont mind it too much as i use the internel storage always.
anyway, i did notice that it eats more ram when i enable the auto screen rotation, and the benchmark decrease too - thats weird, cause the overall performance increase greatly
It seems to run a bit smoother for me, though it may be a placebo effect. Network throughput on wifi also seems to be improved with the same caveat.
Netflix stopped working which only bothers me because this would be the easiest way for me to test the qualitative nature of the wifi performance.
I have not had a chance to mess with the sdcard yet. I am interested in the implementation details.
I also have noticed an improvement in battery performance, and that apps load faster and that graphics across the board are far more improved and impressive. The app drawer is amazingly smooth now along with the desktop.
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Netflix ain't working!? Well now that makes for even more reason not to update! SD card can't be read by apps, Netflix not working, I suppose it auto rents movies too! What kind of crap is this?
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Netflix ain't working!? Well now that makes for even more reason not to update! SD card can't be read by apps, Netflix not working, I suppose it auto rents movies too! What kind of crap is this?
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Too bad I'm watching a movie on Netflix on 3.2 on my 3g xoom as we speak, just sayin.
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Yeah that will teach me to read! Wife kept running her mouth so I jumped in! It works. Just can't use the 500gb USB hdd with otg cable for some reason. I can use root explorer to open my work files from the SD card, so that works for me. Just gotta figure out how to get the otg crap working again.
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This app... 10x better looking on 3.2
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Scrabble works! And it is a lot better with the browser.
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RadDudeTommy said:
This app... 10x better looking on 3.2
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So true.
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I seem to get USB flash drives working great but not my 500GB exterrnal SATA
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Yeah I think the app for otg mount needs to be rewritten. I am going to work on getting my hdd back when I get off work today. Not too big a loss right now, but it will be in the future. After all the rants I am still gonna get the wife a xoom. My typing lag is gone and still can access the USB flash cards, so that keeps me happy. I also understand this update has the 4g radio software. All we need now is the radio.
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I just migrated a bunch of my movies to my SD card so I'm happy, always love more room.
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I reinstalled Netflix and it is working again. In my case the video performance over wifi is noticeably improved.
Overall the more I use it, the more I am of the belief that 3.2 is a marked performance improvement. Not huge but things definitely seem to be running smoother.
So does OTG still work on 3.2 ?
OTG works for some things. Not my usb hdd any more.
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OTG works for some things. Not my usb hdd any more.
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I rebooted with my HDD plugged in, you may want to try that.
I tried that, didn't work. I wonder what would happen if I changed kernels now?
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OTG also works with external mice and keyboards but given you can't dock the Zoom and use the micro USB that's hardly useful.
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Anyone with the Touchpad here?

I'm one of the lucky ones who scored a Touchpad last weekend. That is a great machine.
I am trying to use wifi tether from my epic 4g to the touchpad but the touchpad does not see the connection. (my ipod touch and PC see it). Anyone knows what's the problem? I heard it might something to do with some ad hoc stuff...
Use the wifi tether that says "with more infrastructure" its somewhere in the epic forums
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found answer to my question. Posting here in case someone else looking.
just download this version of wifi tether
http://code.google.com/p/android-wi...tail?name=wifi_tether_v3_1-beta2.apk&can=2&q=
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I'm one of the lucky ones who scored a Touchpad last weekend. That is a great machine.
I am trying to use wifi tether from my epic 4g to the touchpad but the touchpad does not see the connection. (my ipod touch and PC see it). Anyone knows what's the problem? I heard it might something to do with some ad hoc stuff...
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Yes use that version of wifi tether. I had mine running last night from my EVO 3d. I just chose epic 4g under settings and for the device profile. Seemed to work fine. Touchpad is nice, I am just itching to put some version of Android on it. Even with a media player app that says it supports avi and other files, I can't seem to get videos other than mp4 format to play on it.
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Google touchplayer, or get it from preware if you have it installed on your touchpad...HP touchpad forum here on xda has info on performance tweaks and stable overclocking as well, lots of good stuff done through preware app
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Google touchplayer, or get it from preware if you have it installed on your touchpad...HP touchpad forum here on xda has info on performance tweaks and stable overclocking as well, lots of good stuff done through preware app
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I have the preware and some of the tweaks. I also downloaded touchplayer and tried to play avi movie on it and it was all distorted and the formatting was all messed up. Like it was playing in three separate boxes at the same time. Nothing I tried worked.
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Opps I replied in the wrong thread lol. Well I am hoping HP has some touchpads soon. Would love to put Android on it but I am sure it will look kind of weird in a 4x3 screen.
I am also one of the lucky ones who scored a 32GB touchpad on the firesale. What I would really like to see is the SMS/call integration with the touchpad. Anyone know what kinds of protocols the pre3 and touchpad use for SMS/call integration? I am guessing that it can all be done through bluetooth? I have done ROM and theming stuff, and have mild experience with C++, but this kind of project is a bit out of my league.
Well, the CM7 team has made a lot of progress getting it onto the TouchPad already. Here's a video from android police showing it booting into CM7. It's super quick too!
Lots of quirks to work through still. The guy said that the touchscreen input isn't working yet.
Ohhh mannnnn
I got one. Haven't even messed with preware but its def slow. Webos has 0 apps lol
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I was teathered to my epic and activating my webOS account on morning of firesale while still in parking lot of Wal-Mart. And browsing while on way to 2nd and 3rd store pickups.
no issues at all.
running acs latest release with emotionless beast on top.
removed 10 and 1/2 char
Dad called from Wal-Mart out in the boonies. "Hey, they just got a box of these touch pad thingies here, they weren't expecting them... Ever hear of them? You want me to grab one for ya?"
Score.
Missed the boat...
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Got a 32GB from Best Buy, and let me just say that Android cannot come soon enough. Holy hell I can see why this thing failed horrendously. Not gonna go into a full review, but damn. Love WebOS though.
As for those still looking, HP is supposed to have more coming in sometime this week. Apparently there will be a limit of 1 per customer so they shouldn't sell out instantly like last time, but if you aren't on the page within an hour or two of it going live they will probably be gone.
16gb
http://www.shopping.hp.com/store/pr...umpid=in_r329_personalization/browse2/PDP_PDP
32gb
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...n/HHO_r329/Affiliate/FY11/TouchPad&aoid=35252

Gta III

Anyone got it running?
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Yes i did and it works ok controls a lil choppy but they said you could use a ps3 controller but i have it for ps3 so a lil more of a challenge but still good
Gta 3 with a ps3 controller on the phone?? Wtf
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20357000
Yea been playing it, can get a little laggy on the shift but no where near as bad as the OG EVO (heh)
PS3 controller will be a nice addition, just gotta be on CM7
I can't get it to load into a new game.
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It installed fine and ran good for me. Gets laggy somtimes though.
Edit: I was messing around and discovered the cheats on the same for PC. Like GUNSGUNSGUNS for all... Guns work. Lol and im gonna mess around with the img file today to see if i can add car mods and etc. Like PC.
Got it running on mine, took quite a while to get all the extra files downloaded but it runs. Albeit a bit laggy at certain spots.
Well this sucks. I was going to purchase this today and now it's not even showing up in my market. When I go to it online it keeps saying that my device is not compatible with this app.
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Well this sucks. I was going to purchase this today and now it's not even showing up in my market. When I go to it online it keeps saying that my device is not compatible with this app.
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Same for me, just clear market Data and cache in the manage applications menu and reload the market. Then search for GTA 3 and it should be like the 2nd or 3rd app in the market search,
Although I can say it doesn't run smooth enough for me on the shift to play it. Works great on A100 tho
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Same for me, just clear market Data and cache in the manage applications menu and reload the market. Then search for GTA 3 and it should be like the 2nd or 3rd app in the market search,
Although I can say it doesn't run smooth enough for me on the shift to play it. Works great on A100 tho
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Still a no go for me. I'm thinking they removed the shift from the list of supported devices
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Still a no go for me. I'm thinking they removed the shift from the list of supported devices
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Your right...they finally filtered it out. It really wasn't that playable honestly. couldn't play it for more than 10 minutes before i had to quit because of lag
notsointeresting said:
Your right...they finally filtered it out. It really wasn't that playable honestly. couldn't play it for more than 10 minutes before i had to quit because of lag
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even oc it still was laggy?
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
even oc it still was laggy?
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Once I clocked it up to 1.6ghz I played with it for another 30 minutes , and I can say it played better at that point (was playing at 1.4 before). Although there still were noticeable framerate drops alot of the time, but it was alot better than getting 10 frames a second 70% of the time.
At 1.4 there were times that the sound would keep cutting in and out, and I probably got 1-2 fps. Most of the time it was when I hit other cars or started speeding as fast as I could. (thats what GTA is about tho right? xD)
Keep in mind too I was on Sense so that may make the experience different from AOSP users.
So, I bought the game when they first launched but never downloaded it, when I tried to download it my device wasnt supported anymore lol so I had to google it up and found version 1.1 apk and I had the issues like the ones described in this post already.
Luckly enough a couple days ago the apk got updated to 1.2 and all I can say is that is very playable if you are in my situation you just need to download the apk (google it) I had installed the SD files already ( the ones for adreno gpu) because I actually bought it.
But if you want to try it you can get the sd files too from the black internet market :0
Im running Supreme sense, dodge kernet at 1.6 on demand, I bet the version 1.2 runs way better on a AOSP room plus you can use an external controller, but still I'm already progresing thru the game almost to the second part of it.
- Desik
I run it fine with no lag at all
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thronnos said:
I run it fine with no lag at all
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How did you achieve this? Lol
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How did you achieve this? Lol
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Yea im sure we would all like to know, it's not really needed but id love to play it on my shift perfectly just so I can say I can lol
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Yeah I would like to know also
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Yeah, I have it on the A100 too, its runs like a beast, I can't say for my shift though, since I'm waiting on a replacement. On my A100 though, the buttons don't quite scale right, making movement a little wierd other than that, fine though. Someone on AOSP (a mostly clean, not bloated AOSP) should try it and see how it plays.

Desktop control

Hi guys
Need advise on a app that can control my Android phone(galaxy Note) on my desktop pc via a USB cable. After searching I can only find Web based apps
Thanx
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I've also been trying to find one and nothing...
There is nothing that fits the bill. Been looking for a long time. Nit even a good vnc client for android
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myphoneexplorer - fjsoft.de
RealVNC.
Works, No Issues. Dont know whether it will work over a USB Cable.
I'm curious as to what purpose you want to be able to do this? What are you wanting to do?
And why not just connect a keyboard and mouse via USB OTG or bluetooth? Saves having to install another app on your phone.
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thanx for the heads up. ive downloaded it and gave it a try on my personal laptop. It works ok even if its a bit slow. Il give it a serious shot tomorrow at work
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Mphonexplorer works pretty well. Only gripe a have with it. Its the lag, Its a bit slow. But until something better comes along it will do.
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[HOWTO] Use your Epic as Mouse/Keyboard for other Android devices

So, as far as I know, this should be able to control PC's too, and maybe PS3's. But, I've only tried this on other Android devices. Should control anything on CM7.X, or anything on any form of Android 3.0, 4.0, and 4.1.
Prerequisites(Epic 4G specific):
Has to be on an AOSP based ROM(CM, AOKP, Paranoid, etc)
Step 1.) Enable Bluetooth on your Epic 4G and other Android device.
Step 2.) Pair the devices together
Step 3.) Now, install "BluePutDroid" on your Epic from the Play Store.
Step 4.) Open BluePutDroid, hit the Start key on the top left
Step 5.) Swipe up the "Log" bar to make sure there were no errors. If there were, try step 4 again.
Step 6.) Tap the device you want to connect to(your other Android device)
Step 7.) When it finishes loading, the screen should be green. Swipe on this to move the mouse on the other android device. Tap once to click on the other device, and hold down till the screen turns red to do things like scrolling, drag and drop, etc.
If the S/W keyboard shows up, hit menu "Toggle Soft Keyboard" to hide it. If it keeps enabling itself, install "Null Keyboard" from the Play Store and set that as your input method while using BluePutDroid. Also, the H/W keyboard works great. So you can use that to type, or navigate with the Dpad
This app works on other devices as well, but I can't go into great detail on ROM compatibility and such.
If your device has CM7/9/10 or any AOSP based ROM, this will work.
This will work on the (rooted) stock ROM of some devices, such as Nexus S(all forms), Galaxy Nexus(all forms), and Galaxy S3 (all forms)
On other's it will not work on the stock ROM, regardless of root, such as Galaxy S(entire first series), and many older HTC devices(not sure of newer ones).
According to the app developer, this is kernel related and nothing he can do; if it works, it works. if it doesn't, get.cm
Thanks! I'll look into this.
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wwjoshdew said:
Thanks! I'll look into this.
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Thanks man!
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I can confirm that this works with windows and linux - I've been using this app for nearly a year, and it works well
But I didn't know it worked with other CM devices - that's an awesome find
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Would this work if the other device doesn't have bluetooth?
Amazing stuff though, I wish my netbook had bluetooth that would have made it even more amazing lol.
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lilajrestnom said:
Would this work if the other device doesn't have bluetooth?
Amazing stuff though, I wish my netbook had bluetooth that would have made it even more amazing lol.
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It connects through bluetooth and sends commands through bluetooth... so sure, why not?
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Lol. There is an app called WiFi Keyboard that'll let you type using your Epic, but its not near as awesome as this. And all text gets sent through in Caps lock
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Lol. The is an app called WiFi Keyboard that'll let you type using your Epic, but its not near as some as this. And all text gets sent through in Caps lock
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I'm assuming you meant "not near as awesome as this". lol
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I'm assuming you meant "not near as awesome as this". lol
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Oops, yes. That's what I meant lol I shall fix that.
Posted by Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
There's apps for PCs similar to this. Like RemoteDroid and gPad. I'd prefer gPad because it has many other uses, like controlling windows media player, microsoft powerpoint, and using it as a mouse/keyboard obviously. But again, it's over WiFi. Bluetooth is beta AFAIK.
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jeffreyjicha said:
There's apps for PCs similar to this. Like RemoteDroid and gPad. I'd prefer gPad because it has many other uses, like controlling windows media player, microsoft powerpoint, and using it as a mouse/keyboard obviously. But again, it's over WiFi. Bluetooth is beta AFAIK.
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This app has been around for at least a year - the benefit of bluetooth is faster response times than over wifi. I think that's partly the result of the direct connection, and partly because the wifi methods involve a computer-side server (often using vnc, which uses some processing time to send a live stream of the screen, even if the connected client app doesn't need it, such as with a remote kb/mouse app)
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I can also vouch for this on the ps3. Donate, help him out and no ads.
My wife was giving me **** "you are so techy, why can't you ruin the ps3 with your phone". So i googled and XDAed until i found this app.
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I love to log on while the wife is using the computer. Move the mouse as shes trying. Priceless. I use advance touchpad. Its via wifi but very responsive, and it gives me all the keys. I have to be able to windows key + p to switch to my TV.
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Keen to have a play with it..
Been testing lots of remote apps of late..
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