Hi, i have gotten a new phone some months ago. Now my s4 is just laying there, use it sometimes for testing apps and xposed modules.
Anyone have an idea for what i could do with it? Some cool modifications!
There ain't much. You could use it as a retro gaming console. Hook it up to your TV and a controller and welcome back to old school gaming.
The only other useful thing I see is using it for media and web surfing, thus saving battery of your new phone.
Home automation and Media systems
Hi,
You could use your phone to set up Home automation systems and device/geofencing recognition. Basically, you could "mount" it to your wall in the hall way or living room, and use it to control bluetooth/wireless temperature controllers, you could use it as a "area" beacon, such that when your "regular" phone detects it, it switches to home modes. You could use it for "generic" (edit: voice) searches as you walk around the home (weather, movies, tv series, etc.).
As for media systems, you could also just place it in front of your TV, and use it as a multimedia controller to a NAS, chromecast, or remote controlling of your computer (if this is hooked up to your TV screen, you could sit in the sofa and basically use your computer just like you were sitting by it).
These are just some suggestions Hope they gave some inspiration.
Hi
Why don't you just look around you and find someone who can't buy a phone and give it to him as a good thing you done in your life :angel:
Bye bye
wouldn't you like your own personal VPN server or media server/android TV box ? perhaps you'd prefer a baby monitor or online security camera feed ?
the options are pretty much endless if you enjoy tinkering. it's also good to have a half decent backup phone too lol...
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Has anyone been able to get the wing to work as a remote control? There are a few programs out.
I know one of the programs is called VITO Remote.
Is it possible?
The Wing does not have infrared, so therefore the Wing cannot be used as a typical TV remote.
I have tried Pocket PCs that have infrared. However the experience was not great because Pocket PCs typically have infrared that was meant for high speed data transfer, not physical distance. So a person had to literally be within 10 feet of the TV in order to control it.
I gave this thought too, but the wing does not have the IR port.
Now if you're talking about a wifi type of Tivo or DVR or some device, then poooossibly.
Although, for me, I watch most movies off the laptop via s video, I also have LogMeIn setup, and my computer has an onscreen remote, I can log into that and press the remote from my wing and it'll respond on my pc and the TV infront of me. But thats kind of pointless since I have a Media Center Laptop with a built in remote, AND a seperate remote that controls everything else and the pc.
bah,
I just wanted to anger one of my professors a bit by turning the TV on/off.
Thanks anyways
hahaha now that you mention that.. i know some kid in my literacy class that shut the projector off every 10 mins until the prof just cut the class short becuase he couldnt present anything X-) that was a classic
not really a "TV" remote but a pc remote using bluetooth I use is here
http://www.jaylee.org/
It links up with most applications really well.
aseme3 said:
bah,
I just wanted to anger one of my professors a bit by turning the TV on/off.
Thanks anyways
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A Universal remote will work easily
www.tvbgone.com
Hey folks so I am trying to do something that I am not entirely sure I can do. I will try my best to explain it clearly and I hope one of you may be able to direct me in the right direction as I am having little luck on google.
Basically I have IPTV through my phone company. I have the option for a second box and am looking for a way to stream that feed through my computer. From my computer I would like encode the feed into a mobile feesable compression and feed it to my phone through.
Is anyone aware of anything like this that will work or something capable of doing this??
If someone even knows of a service provider that works directly with TV feeds over the internet for mobile I would be even happy with something like that. But of course ideally it would be better to be able to use my own services that I already pay for.
On a last note. My cell phone provider DOES offer tv for mobile but NOT for pdas. LOL and the TV service itself is lousy.
I think the solution is on this web-site orb.com
I'm using it successfuly all the time.
Thanks I am gonna check out that software whenI get home.
On further research while here at work. I came across the Slingbox media option. I was curious if anyone has tried this for there home system yet? The website states that it can be connected to your satellite or digital cable boxes but I have to admit I am confused with the interaction of the two. Mainly the remote control portion.
If you have a Sling box which is acting like a "tv" but actually defering that signal to a remote location like a laptop or phone how does this box change the channel if it's just receiving signal? Does the slingbox itself act like a uber remote control and has to be placed directly infront of the digital box to act like a remote to relay the information back to the remote device?
I apologize if this seems on the border of being off topic but the goal is to stream live TV to my PDA which I suspect one of you techy people may have tryed such a solution!
I have used the Slingbox mobile player extensively with my Mogul over the Sprint EVDO network...I LOVE IT!!! Occasionally it's a memory hog and I may have to reset the phone...but all in all the Slingbox will do what you are asking about.
I have loaded and been running orb now for the past week and have to admit I am extremely happy with this application. It is fantastic so far and the intereface is great and easy to use!!
However after continuing research I will definetly be investing into a sling box as I have a second digital box collecting dust and would love to be able to channel surf lol!! Will just have to run both I suppose. Orb for movies and audio and Slingbox for tv surfing!!
Thank you for your input everyone!
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... how does this box change the channel ... ?
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The Sling hardware has an IR transmitter dongle, (or two), that you point at the decoder boxes IR reciever. The Sling client app, (both mobile and PC), have a software controller counterpart that can even actually looks like the remote control, (PC version). All IR functions work great from the mobile and the PC clients!
I love the slingbox and use it fine on my titan, although have had issues on other HTC Smartphones. It basically captures any video signal and sends it over the internet for remote viewing. whbell is right, it has a IR blaster that you put on the front of the device you want to control remotely and it sends your remote control codes to the box. You don't need a seperate set top box as long as the people at home are ok with watching whatever you are watching. I have mine hooked up to my pvr and can pull up all my recorded movies, or more importantly, setup a recording remotely if I forgot to do it at home.
Definitely a must have.
mrkawphy said:
I have loaded and been running orb now for the past week and have to admit I am extremely happy with this application. It is fantastic so far and the intereface is great and easy to use!!
However after continuing research I will definetly be investing into a sling box as I have a second digital box collecting dust and would love to be able to channel surf lol!! Will just have to run both I suppose. Orb for movies and audio and Slingbox for tv surfing!!
Thank you for your input everyone!
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ORB is great for TV, just install a TV tuner / capture card in your PC. Sling box is okay for people without PC's, but if you already have one setup with ORB, there is no need for Sling box.
BTW, if you use Windows Media Center,you could also check out WebGuide.
..and how has it worked out for you?
I used it a lot, but there are just too many things I need a computer for. So, even though most everything I do is on my phone, there is still a need for a PC
Ymmv, but try typing anything longer than a couple paragraphs on the phone. It sucks.
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I think within the next 5-10 years you will see the cell phone replacing the laptop, especially for business users. Instead of lugging heavy laptops around airports when travelling we will have a phone, HDMI cable, soft BT keyboard, and BT mouse. Head to your hotel room, place of work, plug into a LCD via HDMI, and good to go.
Right now, replacing a laptop with a phone such as the Atrix would be counter intuitive, as there are so many things you still cannot do on a phone, plain and simple. It's going to happen though..............just not yet.
Actually, I thought of doing that when needed to replace my old laptop. I checked for lapdock abilities and performances. However, as mentioned above, android OS lacks to many features that I need (Especially office features, and some games) so I left it aside.
I believe that the Atrix marks the future in the technological world, and slowly laptops will become useless, especially with quad-core devices, and the coming of WIN8. Mobile device hardware will be powerful enough to run everything that a laptop runs, and WIN8 is expected to support ARM processors.
I think that phones will come with a lapdock-like station, and the phone will power it. The incompatibility of android will be replaced by WIN8 while connected to the dock, and voila a mobile phone that has PC capabilities.
I bought the lapdock for my atrix and have since stopped taking my toshiba laptop to school.
I only really use google docs. notes and such. lapdock is much lighter than my laptop. it's thinner.
i keep my laptop at home now... only using it to download stuff, really.
I use the lapdock to watch netflix, go online, and it handles it well.
The lack of ability to multitask on the lapdock is the crappy part. I liked being able to be online on different webpages at once and listen to music on my laptop.
with the lapdock, I can really only be on 3, maybe 4 sites before I it starts lagging. but i just started listening to music on my mp3 player while I'm online.
so for more involved tasks, laptop. simple tasks, lapdock.
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Only as my computer at starbucks. Works great for surfing the net, checking facebook, answering emails, texting people back with a full keyboard, watching youtube/flash videos...
Other than that, I really cannot replace a full laptop with it. There isn't enough cpu power yet for it to be used for everything. Plus the webtop needs to be really hacked with webtop2sd or something similar in order for it to be really useful beyond the basics.
Motorola is defiantly on the right track with this. This can grow if they play their cards right.
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Only as my computer at starbucks. Works great for surfing the net, checking facebook, answering emails, texting people back with a full keyboard, watching youtube/flash videos...
Other than that, I really cannot replace a full laptop with it. There isn't enough cpu power yet for it to be used for everything. Plus the webtop needs to be really hacked with webtop2sd or something similar in order for it to be really useful beyond the basics.
Motorola is defiantly on the right track with this. This can grow if they play their cards right.
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Yeah, this is identical opinion as mine. For those who is expecting the Atrix (as well as anything eslse) attaching with a laptopdock can be able to replace the laptop then pls give up right now.
But I also confirm that: As for some popular need of entertainment such as internet surfing, gaming, social net browsing..., and for some simple need of office such as noting, word/pdf/xls viewing/revising... you guys can completely leave the laptop at home to carry the Atrix along with its lapdock.
Actually, I have been using my Atrix standalone in the class, library and seminars with amazing conveniences, where the Notes app, OCR app (eg. CamSanner, Scan2PDF...), voice recorder and internet are very important tools for my own job. When I'm at home, I have the wireless keyboard and mouse to use with my Atrix over the TV every evening for facebook, news, XDA...
With the rest of need especially for office taks such as Autocad, Photoshop, rich text editor,... you cannot entrust them for any smartphone like Atrix even when our Google provided good office services such as GDocs, or the power app Open Office for Linux is free out there...
Just as my own experiences.
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I would like to add my own thought of this question. As my many years experiences of smartphone and laptop, office applications are divided into two groups by usage level as follows:
1. Essential applications includes:
- Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Pdf viewer/tuner
- Files Manager
- Calendar/Task Reminder/Alarm Clock/Contacts manager
- Note/Memo/Voice Recorder...
- OCR Scanner/PDF Converter, Calculator/Dictionaries/Currency, Unit converter...
- TeamViewer/VNC client...
- Stock/RSS/News/Weather app...
- Skype/Yahoo/Facebook/Twitter and other text/voice IM client...
- POP3/IMAP/Web Email client
- Web Browser/Google/Yahoo Search...
- And ofcos, all functions of a feature phone
2. Professional applications includes:
- AutoCad
- Word/Xls/PowerPoint creator/editor
- Photoshop/CorelDraw/3DMax/Visio editor...
- ERP softwares (Accounting, POS, CRM...), Programming (Java, Oracle...)
- Heavy Web surfing
- Full features PC remote
- All kinds of studio application (photo, audio, video)...,
- And any other professional application which requires high memory, large storage, powered CPU, strong GPU, multiple I/O ports, heavy multi-task operation, etc...
You guys are working only on applications in the first group, you can completely sell your laptop to save the money for purchasing a power smartphone like Atrix along with some valued accessories, eg. wireless keyboard/mouse, multimedia dock, laptop dock, high capacity battery...
But if you guys have any need of application in the 2nd group, you will be disappointed if using a smartphone like not only Atrix but also hi-end Android/iOS tablets such as Galaxy Tab, iPad, Transformer Prime... for it.
And for myselft, I am using two devices simultaneously for works.
Just as my own experiences...
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Cell phones with accessories still have a long way to go before I could replace my laptop. I need Visual Studio, Visio, and my company's software that I use for consulting purposes. I would love to get rid of a heavy laptop, but I had to go with a quadcore i7 sandy bridge because I really do need the performance. The thinner laptops only have the dual core i7, which cuts my primary apps speed in half (multithreading).
Funny, I actually didn't have a choice about a month ago. I'm a student at UCF in Orlando, FL. My lapdock had actually just come in 3 hours before my hard disk in my laptop bit the dust and I had to wait a week for the replacement to come in, so I had to use the lapdock as my computer for a while. I bought the lapdock to take to class(my laptop is a 17" beast and a pain to carry around with all the other crap I lug around.. I really didn't think that through when I bought it back in 09) and it did the bare essentials. There's no way I'd replace my computer with the atrix lapdock though. Not a chance. The speed, multi-tasking ability, rendering, none of it is up to par to replace a purpose-made computer. It does just enough for the money, IMO.
I have replaced my personal laptop that I used to carry around, I mostly use my full laptop only to burn dvds, rip music, create and edit videos for Youtube and such tasks.
But for day to day things like browsing the web for research, typing memos and multimedia stuff (Photoshopping with GIMP, youtube, Netflix, etc) also I do a lot of Torrenting from my Atrix remotely onto my QNAS home server and website managing through FTP and many other things.
Cheers!
Rayan
Guys I just got a great idea.
I can play GTA 4 on a N4 with splashtop right?
Thing is I wanna carry around a ultra mini itx PC in my backpack. They can now carry a AMD richland A10 APU that play everything in medium setting and HD resolution. Its great for work because I work split shift with american airlines and the waiting period between shifts can be anywhere from 4 to 6 hours and if the plane delay well even better more time to kill even if its $3 US an hour I make.
But how would you log on in the PC side? would you need a monitor or can you put it to autostart when you press a button and auto login so you can then control it with a phone
because carrying around a monitor defeats the purpose of why I want to build this.
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Guys I just got a great idea.
I can play GTA 4 on a N4 with splashtop right?
Thing is I wanna carry around a ultra mini itx PC in my backpack. They can now carry a AMD richland A10 APU that play everything in medium setting and HD resolution. Its great for work because I work split shift with american airlines and the waiting period between shifts can be anywhere from 4 to 6 hours and if the plane delay well even better more time to kill even if its $3 US an hour I make.
But how would you log on in the PC side? would you need a monitor or can you put it to autostart when you press a button and auto login so you can then control it with a phone
because carrying around a monitor defeats the purpose of why I want to build this.
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You could have the computer have no login password so it automatically logs in on boot, and put a shortcut to splashtop in the startup folder so it starts when the computer boots. The main issue with it would be getting the computer internet access so that you could actually connect to it
so splashtop needs internet connection?
Remember I work in the airport so I have WIFI internet in both the office and in pizza boys. Ethernet is a no no I only have access to the WIFI password for AA So internet is a non issue for me but if you mean it needs monitor and mouse to connect to the wifi first and then use splashtop I see the issue.
Cant I just autostart it with windows like you said and then control it with my phone from there?
there are monitors in work I could disconnect one and bring my mouse for one day and connect to the wifi and save it? so it always auto connect when the PC starts?
My solution must be cheap and very portable for playing PC games on my N4. This PC must not have any mouse and keyboard and or monitor the only cable it must have is a power.
http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Inte...8600621&sr=8-1&keywords=Gigabyte+Brix+Mini+PC
This is incredibly attractive for what I want aswell. Just need that splashtop to control it with my N4 man. Dude this can fit in a big pocket wtf
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Computi...8600621&sr=8-3&keywords=Gigabyte+Brix+Mini+PC
john5220 said:
http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Inte...8600621&sr=8-1&keywords=Gigabyte+Brix+Mini+PC
This is incredibly attractive for what I want aswell. Just need that splashtop to control it with my N4 man. Dude this can fit in a big pocket wtf
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Computi...8600621&sr=8-3&keywords=Gigabyte+Brix+Mini+PC
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I recently built a a10 6800k inside a antec isk 300 case just for tbis purpose. The only problem is splashtop doesnt work unless a monitor is attached to the computer. It is so dumb
Hello all,
The main reason I bought an Nvidia Shield Android TV was to replace my PS3 as a media server and most importantly to free up my desktop so my wife could use it for her work.
However, I've since discovered that the shield game streaming facility uses up the monitors, keyboard and mouse, rendering the desktop PC a complete slave to the shield console, it doesn't stream the game silently in the background like say a media server would like plex or whatever.
I've tried installing the drivers for the onboard graphics card, sticking a HDMI cable in the back of one of the monitors and using the onboard HDMI, using that monitor's interface as the primary one so my wife could use it, but when I try and stream a game on the shield it just tells me that the GeForce GPU needs to be the primary source.
A bit annoying, I might need to fork out some money on a new machine just so she can use the desk, we don't have much room in the house.
I can't really think of any other way to get around this. Anyone else had any luck??
any help would be greatly appreciated!!
many thanks
Antóin
As far as I have seen there is no software to do what your wanting.
darhoade said:
As far as I have seen there is no software to do what your wanting.
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That is truly a bummer...
antoin_currie said:
Hello all,
The main reason I bought an Nvidia Shield Android TV was to replace my PS3 as a media server and most importantly to free up my desktop so my wife could use it for her work.
However, I've since discovered that the shield game streaming facility uses up the monitors, keyboard and mouse, rendering the desktop PC a complete slave to the shield console, it doesn't stream the game silently in the background like say a media server would like plex or whatever.
I've tried installing the drivers for the onboard graphics card, sticking a HDMI cable in the back of one of the monitors and using the onboard HDMI, using that monitor's interface as the primary one so my wife could use it, but when I try and stream a game on the shield it just tells me that the GeForce GPU needs to be the primary source.
A bit annoying, I might need to fork out some money on a new machine just so she can use the desk, we don't have much room in the house.
I can't really think of any other way to get around this. Anyone else had any luck??
any help would be greatly appreciated!!
many thanks
Antóin
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I guess you misunderstood what they meant by streaming the game form your pc. All your Shield TV is doing is being a controller basically. Your PC is actually sending a h.264 video of what is on your PC to your Shield TV.
lol
I agree, I wish it did it in the background as well. Hopefully that is the option in the future as streaming matures. I'd take a slightly lower quality (720p 60fps) if it meant my wife could use the PC while I stream a game.
try this with most of your games on your current machine as is. while yes there might be a few you can multitask with, alot of apps and programs require "focus". focus is what happens when your background windows jump to the foreground. you cant click on and interact with background windows without putting them into focus. yes you can leave them running but games require this same interaction. its just the way most operating systems and programs work.
again, yes i realize that some games do allow this, but not all, as it comes down to how the game is programmed, therefore its not nvidia's fault. Some games dont even allow you to play with the gamepad if the game is not in focus. Hope this helps better understand the situation.
Hello, do you can turn monitor off?