Hey guys,
I recently purchased a micro hdmi to regular hdmi. I plugged it in my television and it recognized that it had made an hdmi connection but nothing was showing up on the tv.
I unplugged it and figured although it had over 30 5star reviews for a 3 dollar cable it must be garbage. I re-plug in my hd cable box and xbox 360 and now no hdmi inputs are working on the television.
I swapped the tv out with my brothers and replug the hd box and 360 and it still isn't working! I have no idea what the problem may be. Could I have somehow shorted the inputs on the 360 and hd box?
I did try and use a new cable on the swapped tv and still nothing! I am starting to worry that somehow my home entertainment system is now shot due to just plugging in my damn phone into my tv, but I have no idea how it would effect my brothers television.
It could be a loose connection/cold solder joint. It may have just happened when you plugged that cable in. Do you have a warranty on the TV?
was the TV on when you did this?
I got my transformer yesterday. Plugged it into the tv through a recently bought cable, and everything was working fine.
I take out the cable, tried to root (without success) and reformated my tf. Now the hdmi cable does not send signal anymore to the tv.
Any suggestions? Thank you
I have an A500 with the Acer stock rom on it (3.2), and I'm having problems getting the HDMI out to work. Is there a special setting somewhere that sends the screen output to HDMI? Or should it automatically appear?
I got a micro HDMI to HDMI adapter off of eBay, so I don't know if that's the cause of the problem. I know the HDMI on the TV works because my XBox works fine on it.
I would appreciate anyone's insight into this problem.
mightyorbots said:
I have an A500 with the Acer stock rom on it (3.2), and I'm having problems getting the HDMI out to work. Is there a special setting somewhere that sends the screen output to HDMI? Or should it automatically appear?
I got a micro HDMI to HDMI adapter off of eBay, so I don't know if that's the cause of the problem. I know the HDMI on the TV works because my XBox works fine on it.
I would appreciate anyone's insight into this problem.
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Have you tried turning off your tab, plugging in the HDMI cable to both your tab, and TV, then booting up tab?
It should just work as soon as it's plugged in. You'll see a notification that an HDMI display was detected or somesuch. My A500 had a loose HDMI port so it would flake out with the slightest touch. Cables are cheap, so it may be worthwhile to get another cable from a place like monoprice.com and see if that makes a difference. If not, it's either the device or TV. Maybe a friend has an Android phone with micro-HDMI you can test with?
I found plugging into tv first then connecting to tab worked best, before that I only had a blank tv screen... Seems the A500/501 needs the tv connected first, at least mine does...
mine to just works..
WELL it does on my SAMSUNG SMART TV..
ON MY LAME BUT Huge screen SANYO.. (DONT LAUGH IT WAS ON SALE) tv in the living room i have to sometimes plug the cable into the tv.. set the tv to hdmi 4.. IT WILL ONLY WORK ON PORT 4 .. then when i have black screen saying no input found or something like that i plug in the tablet.and all is well..
ALSO PAY GOOD MONEY FOR THE CABLE.. THE CHEAP TINY Connector is not equal on all cables my iconia only works on the gold plated high end cable
i use the same one as i do for my cell phone...
ACER WAS LAME BY PUTTING SUCH A SMALL PORT. there is room in that spot of this tablet for atleast a mini port if not full size I hate micro ports...
I bought a micro to standard HDMI cable (by PNY) last night at Staples and it works fine. I got 10ft for $29.00, compared to the Monster micro 4ft for $39. It worked fine at the hotel I was at on the flat panel in my room. No complaints from me.
I'm surprised at the diameter of the cable, as it is very thin. But, it works! Hellooooo Netflix!
I'm about to try it at home on my old Sony XBR...
Cheers!
I bet he's using a Westinghouse TV if I'm right for some reason the Westinghouse brand doesn't like any android hdmi out this goes for my a500 and my evo. Mine doesn't work and I have had it working with my Sanyo as everyone mentioned just by plugging it in
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adambomb_13 said:
I bet he's using a Westinghouse TV if I'm right for some reason the Westinghouse brand doesn't like any android hdmi out this goes for my a500 and my evo. Mine doesn't work and I have had it working with my Sanyo as everyone mentioned just by plugging it in
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I also had a problem of not getting my Westinghouse TV, that is only a few years old, to recognize the HDMI input from my A500. Tried everything and it didn't work, but the A500 works on my other three tvs.
I plugged my A500 into an older Sony 52", using the side-mounted HDMI input, and it 'just worked'. Mind you it freaked out momentarily when I flipped the tablet around and the screen auto-rotate kicked in, but once I oriented the tablet in it's normal "upright" (volume buttons on top) position, everything looked great.
On this same topic, I noticed that standard/full-sized HDMI to HDMI Micro cables are hard to find in the retail chain, so I bought mine (dirt cheap prices/shipping and excellent quality) from monoprice dot com.
Really? Huh. Rotation is disabled for me when i plug it into my 25" hanspree
And it 'just works' for me too
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Hello,
My husband has an Acer 500 that's about 2 years old and I have an Acer A110 that's about 10 months old. I hooked up an HDMI cable from the A110 to the tv the other night, and it didn't work. I've only used the HDMI port twice before, but I have noticed that the battery port is awfully wiggly and frequently when the charger is plugged it, it's often a poor fit and not really connected/charging. Anyway, I did find that if I wiggled the HDMI cable, a snowy picture is very briefly delivered to the tv.
Then today, I discovered that the HDMI port doesn't work now on the 500. This we've used quite a bit. I switched cables, switched to different HDMI ports, and tried on 3 different tvs. Nada. Then I hooked up a computer via HDMI to the tv and it works just fine. So it doesn't appear to be the cable or tv, yes?
I can only conclude that the HDMI ports are a weak aspect of the Acer tablets, but obviously I don't know for sure. The one is still under warranty, I think, so I'll be returning it for repair. But I'm wondering if anyone else has had similar problems or if anyone has alternative ideas as to what might be going on? We haven't had any power outages or anything, and the tablets aren't left plugged into the tv unless we're watching it.
Thx.
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Hi - I just got a brand new HD 8 Tablet. I purchased it specifically to play movies to a projector because it is capable of HDMI output.
The tablet charges fine when I plug it in.
But when I plug in the USB-C to HDMI cable I have (which worked fine with all my other devices), I keep getting a message on the Tablet "Moisture Detected" and it wont allow anything to play. There is no moisture, I took it out of the box Friday and it has been sitting untouched for 2 days. And again, it does not say this when charging, only when I try to use the HDMI cable.
Very frustrating and puzzling - any ideas? Thanks!
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Hi - I just got a brand new HD 8 Tablet. I purchased it specifically to play movies to a projector because it is capable of HDMI output.
The tablet charges fine when I plug it in.
But when I plug in the USB-C to HDMI cable I have (which worked fine with all my other devices), I keep getting a message on the Tablet "Moisture Detected" and it wont allow anything to play. There is no moisture, I took it out of the box Friday and it has been sitting untouched for 2 days. And again, it does not say this when charging, only when I try to use the HDMI cable.
Very frustrating and puzzling - any ideas? Thanks!
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my guess is amazon screwed that up in their OS. I would use scrcpy or casting. But it sounds like you wanted the HDMI option, i didnt even know it was able! Sounds like a amazon tech question that may require a rom update that fixes a HDMI issue. But maybe someone else has something, but this seems more of a amazon fix... IMO
lirong said:
Hi - I just got a brand new HD 8 Tablet. I purchased it specifically to play movies to a projector because it is capable of HDMI output.
The tablet charges fine when I plug it in.
But when I plug in the USB-C to HDMI cable I have (which worked fine with all my other devices), I keep getting a message on the Tablet "Moisture Detected" and it wont allow anything to play. There is no moisture, I took it out of the box Friday and it has been sitting untouched for 2 days. And again, it does not say this when charging, only when I try to use the HDMI cable.
Very frustrating and puzzling - any ideas? Thanks!
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You can use TeamViewer instead of using video output through USB-C.
TeamViewer can remotely mirror your Fire tablet screen to your PC.
For anyone else who may encounter this, I think the issue is that this generation of Fire Tablet does not support HDMI out...