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Is there a way to connect two phones together, either with bluetooth or wifi and have the camera from one display on the other?

i think you need to hard-reset your mobile phone...i mean first you shut down your device and then push down both the vol+up and vol+down button and press the power button until a 3-color screen shows up... then release both vol buttons and push vol+up button to reset, then your system will go back to the first time use condistions...
caution!!!! remember to backup before you do.!!!!

Don't do it.

xiamilo said:
i think you need to hard-reset your mobile phone...i mean first you shut down your device and then push down both the vol+up and vol+down button and press the power button until a 3-color screen shows up... then release both vol buttons and push vol+up button to reset, then your system will go back to the first time use condistions...
caution!!!! remember to backup before you do.!!!!
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Umm, wrong post to reply to?

Do you mean something like Skype?
And for this to work via bluetooth the phones would have to be very close to each other since bit rate drops for bluetooth the further you get away.

I assume Skype needs net access. Was wondering if it exists (or is possible) for two phones to be connected directly in the same room/house.
Wanted to check something in one room while doing something in another and thought a remote display type thing using two WinMo phones could be handy.

Defect power button.

Hey guys.
Ive been having a lot of trouble with my power button. At first it became less responsive (Having to push the button 2-3 times to activate the screen).
Now it seems like it is not working at all (Having to push 6-7 times).
Anyone seen this problem before and knows of a way to fix it?
Or does anyone know a workaround? (Like using the search button to act like the power button perhaps?)
Thanks in advance.

I don't really have any suggestions on how to fix the power button itself, but I do have a few workarounds if you're interested
The first is Smart Screen ON. This app was featured on the main portal not too long ago, and I have to say, it works quite well. It uses the proximity sensor to turn the screen on and (optionally) off. In the span of two weeks, it's saved my phone over 2000 power button presses (the app keeps track). I have been running the app 24/7 since I installed it and have not noticed any impact on battery life. I'd say it's worth a try.
As an alternative, you may have some luck with ButtonRemapper (requires root). It should let you remap the search button like you had wanted. You could just edit the keyboard files directly, but this app makes it pretty simple. : )
Also, in case you didn't know, the home button will wake the phone by default, but it obviously doesn't turn the screen back off.

Aightu said:
Hey guys.
Ive been having a lot of trouble with my power button. At first it became less responsive (Having to push the button 2-3 times to activate the screen).
Now it seems like it is not working at all (Having to push 6-7 times).
Anyone seen this problem before and knows of a way to fix it?
Or does anyone know a workaround? (Like using the search button to act like the power button perhaps?)
Thanks in advance.
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Happens to me, i just got a wooden splint, cleaned the inside, sucked it out (the dirt) & banged it a few times, now works like a charm
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Same thing with me mine is fully broken my work around is download button rempaper and I have made the search button act as the power button.
This is great but to turn my phone on I have to plug it into a charger and launch into Cwm then click reboot phone.
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clewis said:
Same thing with me mine is fully broken my work around is download button rempaper and I have made the search button act as the power button.
This is great but to turn my phone on I have to plug it into a charger and launch into Cwm then click reboot phone.
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Thats what im trying to avoid.
What program did you use to remap the button?
Thanks for the info man!

Yeah it's a ***** how the phone only lasts a year before it starts breaking but glad i can get rid of it in 2 months.
I use ButtonRemapper, i take it you have root access so just download the .APK i have attached and its pretty simple just find the search key in the app and change it so it acts like the power button (It's simply you will get it when you open the app). Once you have done that the phone works fine when in normal use you just gotta tap the search button not the power button.
But as my power button is fully broken im not sure if the power button works if the phone turns off. So my work around is plug the charger in then when you see the sony logo keep taping the volume down until you launch in CWM and then just tap reboot now and it will boot up, hope this helps.
It's the only work around without having to spend money i could think off, so defiantly a good temp fix.

Yeah i think the build quality of this device isnt what it could've been. Although im happy the screen hasnt broken yet.
Thanks for the APK!

You can just use the hone button to wake the screen. Give the power button a break
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You can just use the hone button to wake the screen. Give the power button a break
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Yeah im doing that and using the search button to sleep the screen.
This way i hope it wont die on me for another year

Ouys switches on all the time.

My ouya is doing it all the time. I switch it off from the menu it goes alive after some time. When I switch it off with a button the situation is the same. Has anyone got the same problem?

Mine doesn't since the update. Before the last update it did after I touched the controller.
Keep in mind you can turn the ouya off now by pressing the Y button in the main menue (since update). Then it stays off.
Or you can HOLD the Ouya button and then select "off" in the popup.
Pressing the Ouya button just enables stand-by.

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Mine doesn't since the update. Before the last update it did after I touched the controller.
Keep in mind you can turn the ouya off now by pressing the Y button in the main menue (since update). Then it stays off.
Or you can HOLD the Ouya button and then select "off" in the popup.
Pressing the Ouya button just enables stand-by.
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I have the same issue after the update. I use the "Y" button at the main screen to turn it off and select OUYA. The console will be on when I come back to the tv.

When you "turn off" the OUYA via the Y button at home screen, its essentially putting it to sleep, then when you leave and switch back to the input that your OUYA is attached to, your TV will send a "wake up" signal, which effectively turns the OUYA back on...

Yep, Using the Y button from the menu doesn't shut the Ouya off and neither does just pressing the button. Both will put it into sleep mode and it's VERY easy to wake from sleep. With earlier controllers just pressing a controller button will wake the controller and then the Ouya (the later rev controllers I got after they replaced my originals don't wake up unless you press the center OU button so they're less susceptible to this.) And the Ouya will wake if it senses activity on the HDMI port. With my TV I don't even have to change to the input the Ouya's on, just turning on the TV apparently causes enough activity on the ports that it wakes the Ouya up each time I turn the TV on if the Ouya is just sleeping.
I was really excited that they finally added the ability to put it into sleep mode from the controller. But it's so ridiculously easy to wake up that it's kind of senseless and I'm still stuck getting up and either pressing the button for 2-3 seconds and then using the controller to confirm the power off, or more commonly just holding the button for 8 seconds until it shuts down.
I really hope they do something better with the whole power thing before commercial release but there's not much time left for them to fix it.

I noticed the same and I'm on the newest update.

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I noticed the same and I'm on the newest update.
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I'm having the same problem as well. Keeps turning on even though I don't even touch it. This sucks double cuz the ouya doesn't have any cpu governing so it's always running at full speed.

this is a FEATURE of the OUYA! It is NOT running in the background all the time! It turns back on when you activate the input. Someone has also stated that it is part of the official "features" list of the OUYA.
Here is a quote of what i posted over on ouyaforum.com
After messing around with this for a while I messed up my controller to where it was stuck on no matter what I did. Luckily it was temporary and a hard restart fixed it but it did help in determining exactly what triggers the OUYA to turn on!
This is something built into Android, every phone/tablet has it. It's bringing it out of sleep. Some phones only allow it to happen by the power button, others it's any physical button, but as far as I know all of them turn their screen on when plugged in to charge, and that's what's going on here.
The OUYA turns on whenever I activate the input it's in. If I switch to it, the OUYA turns on, if I turn on the TV when it's already on that input, the OUYA turns on.
When my controller was stuck on, I would use the Y button to "turn off the ouya" and then any button press or movement of the controller would turn it back on, just as physical buttons do with phones.
So yes, it is actually a feature, but it's built into Android and not just the OUYA. It is most likely that it does have to do with CEC, since the HDMI is looking for anything active on that input, so the OUYA sees it as being plugged in.
With that said I think it's pretty cool that it does that! I mean I know it doesn't save any time or anything like that, as you still have to turn on the controller, but it is just cool to put it onto the input or turn on the TV and the system is already ready to go.
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JLCollier2005 said:
this is a FEATURE of the OUYA! It is NOT running in the background all the time! It turns back on when you activate the input. Someone has also stated that it is part of the official "features" list of the OUYA.
Here is a quote of what i posted over on ouyaforum.com
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Ah, so there's a sleep feature and a power off feature. I see.
The sleep feature is not working well. Comes out of sleep by it self it seems. While on sleep, is it turning off the 4 main cores and only running on the 5th low process Tegra core?

I believe it is a WOL (wake on lan) from the router but I could be wrong.

Controller Sleep Logic?

So out of curiousity, how does the controller decide when to sleep/wake up? It seems like every few minutes of inactivity (say I'm watching a movie and I want to turn down the volume) I need to long press the button in the middle to get the controller to turn on/pair, which all takes about 5-6s, which isn't always convenient (or say pause the movie if someone calls).
Is there a way to increase the timeout or turn it off completely via some software trick? I'm fine with running the batteries down, I will just recharge them when necessary.

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So out of curiousity, how does the controller decide when to sleep/wake up? It seems like every few minutes of inactivity (say I'm watching a movie and I want to turn down the volume) I need to long press the button in the middle to get the controller to turn on/pair, which all takes about 5-6s, which isn't always convenient (or say pause the movie if someone calls).
Is there a way to increase the timeout or turn it off completely via some software trick? I'm fine with running the batteries down, I will just recharge them when necessary.
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You know, I was having the same issues until I figured something out. I don't believe the controller goes to sleep immediately even after 5 min of non-use. If I turn it on for the first time today, I have to long press like you described. But lets say I set it down and watch a show on netflix or listen to a song. Whether I set the controller down for 5 min, or 30 min, the next time I need to wake it up, all I have to do is press the home button once. Not a long press, a regular press - which in turn wakes it up. Now, If I don't use the controller again till the next day, it will need a long press...hope this helps.
It's like shortly after use it goes to sleep with an instant on feature, but after an extended period of time it shuts down.

The CTRLR timeout is after about 2min of inactivity. If its gone to sleep, you can usually wake it up with single tap of Home button. If it doesn't wake up, you can do the press and hold Home button for 5 seconds to turn on.
Bonus tip: Press and hold Home button for 1 sec brings up the Recent Apps screen.

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Bonus tip: Press and hold Home button for 1 sec brings up the Recent Apps screen.
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:good: It's a great feature, I use it a lot, even in gamesmart mode it works!
Shame you have to switch to mouse mode to select an app.. is there any chance of better navigating the android UI in gamesmart mode in the new Android 4.4?

@vostok4 thanks for the post
 @mherma thanks for explaining how this works
I was doing long press every time I wanted to use the controller. Was getting frustrated with this and started to wonder if there was a way to disable sleep mode on the controller. The short press seems to work
It would still be nice if there was a way to customize how long you need to wait until the controller goes to sleep.

moved to Constantly Updating List of Wanted Features :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49857945&postcount=18
And I don't know how to delete a post

@paulobrien,
I came across your review, Nice! ( http://www.modaco.com/topic/368609-review-mad-catz-mojo/ )
The controller switches itself into standby when not in use to save power, when the power / home button will glow red (it's normally blue). Switching the controller out of standby seems to be something of a black art, it doesn't 'wake up' as quick as I'd like, but after a few weeks of use i've got used to it.
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The CTRLR timeout is after about 2min of inactivity. If its gone to sleep, you can usually wake it up with single tap of Home button. If it doesn't wake up, you can do the press and hold Home button for 5 seconds to turn on.
Bonus tip: Press and hold Home button for 1 sec brings up the Recent Apps screen.
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I keep the thumbscrew on my at all times, for fear of losing it to.
I agree about the mode switch being difficult at times.
For comparison purposes, a Nvidia Shield is currently £279.99, also on Amazon UK and shares pretty much the same internals but adds a screen. You'd probably want a HDMI cable to play it on your TV.
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You'd need a bluetooth controller for that 'similar experience' :laugh:
They are similar experience, but how you get there is night and day.
Ie, Yeah, the shield has HDMI out, I have a hacked PSP with tv out, but I could never be bothered setting it up (A/V and power).
And the same with my tablet with HDMI out, did it a few times mostly for movies.
IMO, the mojo is convenient for TV topset box, desktop gaming and moga style gaming, all ready to go out of a single box (with exceptions lol).
Actually, I wrote on my blog about all the 2013 micro-consoles, and none were perfect out of the box experiences either.

Mad Catz Nate said:
The CTRLR timeout is after about 2min of inactivity. If its gone to sleep, you can usually wake it up with single tap of Home button. If it doesn't wake up, you can do the press and hold Home button for 5 seconds to turn on.
Bonus tip: Press and hold Home button for 1 sec brings up the Recent Apps screen.
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Hey, what does holding down start do?
I noticed it disables the controller for a while.
I was doing scorpions fatality on Mortal Kombat 1 on md.emu, block up, where block is start and the home light started flashing.

gwaldo said:
Hey, what does holding down start do?
I noticed it disables the controller for a while.
I was doing scorpions fatality on Mortal Kombat 1 on md.emu, block up, where block is start and the home light started flashing.
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Holding the Start button for 5 seconds will have the Home button flash purple, clearing pairing for the CTRLR. It will then flash the usual red and blue, putting the CTRLR in Discovery Mode until it connects to a host. If the USB dongle is plugged in, it will usually immediately connect to that.
Otherwise, you can have it connect wirelessly to Bluetooth 4.0 PCs with Windows 8 (including the Microsoft Surface Pro) and Bluetooth 4.0 Android devices that have KitKat (like the Nexus 5 and 7). Just go into the device's Bluetooth settings and make sure the USB dongle is not plugged into anything.
For emus, I've been playing around with setting R3 as Start. Still trying to get used to it. :x Hope that helps!

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For emus, I've been playing around with setting R3 as Start. Still trying to get used to it. :x Hope that helps!
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R3 = Right analog click in, Interesting.. never thought of using those!
I'll leave it as start tho, as it plays just like the original pads :laugh:

Played around with L3 as Select and R3 as Start since Back button was usually the emu menu.... Unfortunately, didn't work out for me as I kept pressing L3 by accident whenever I was doing quick movements with the Left Analog. T_T
I've revised my control scheme to R3 as Select, and Start as the regular Start button now.

FWIW I usually just assign the Back button to the Select function - if I ever need to bring up the emulator menu I switch to mouse mode and click the back button in the soft menu bar.

HELP! Controller constantly scrolls now.

I don't now what's happened to my controller but when it's set in the mouse mode the pointer will always just scroll towards the top. I've tried to recalibrate it several times and nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? I'm about to pull my hair out!
Thanks!

Mine is the other way - constantly scrolling to the bottom. I take it as a signal my batteries need changing!

blue71 said:
I don't now what's happened to my controller but when it's set in the mouse mode the pointer will always just scroll towards the top. I've tried to recalibrate it several times and nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? I'm about to pull my hair out!
Thanks!
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I've had the same problem. Please try the following:
Recalibrating the pad:
1. If the pad is on, press and hold the home button for 5 seconds until the pad powers down.
2. Press and hold all four face button (a, b, x, y) down at once, then power the pad on.
3. The Home LED will shine purple, when it does press the Select button on the pad.
4. The Home LED will blink purple. When it does, move both analogue sticks and both triggers through
their full range of movement four times.
5. Press the Start button and the pad will continue to pair to its host.
Worked for my C.T.R.L. R which was included to my M.O.J.O.!

Jan, that is a fantastic tip! I just assumed the batteries needed refreshing.
I presume by "select button" you mean the "back" button on the stock CTRLR? There is no select button on this pad.

K-Project said:
Jan, that is a fantastic tip! I just assumed the batteries needed refreshing.
I presume by "select button" you mean the "back" button on the stock CTRLR? There is no select button on this pad.
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Oh sorry, you are right. Its the "back" button.
Did this work for your gamepad, too?

I can certainly confirm it performed as you state. I haven't played a great deal but it does seem to work. Thanks so much, adding this to my list of handy hints!
On another note, do you know of any other controllers that are fully compatible with the MOJO? I've tried wired USB pads but they don't seem to be detected, certainly not by something like Retroarch. I like the CTRLR a great deal but I think I'd feel "safer" if I knew I could replace it easily if I need to in the long term. I have an official PS3 pad that would be nice to link up if possible. Any advice much appreciated.