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A500 (or any droid tablet) as input/output device on PC

First of all, think of the ramifications for artists. Obviously there are tons of drawing apps out there, but imagine being able to use your 10" tablet as a drawing device. Obviously most tablets are not pressure sensitive, but, being able to use it as an input device would be sweeeeeeet.
Anyhow, point is, where would one begin to look into finding/making a driver to enable the A500 to be used as an input device (or output for that matter) on a windows PC?
Thoughts on the same subject line:
Use for drawing tablet
Output from pc to tablet to hdmi
throughput from pc to wireless nic for pc lacking/broken network card
Secondary display
external speakers (for pc's with broken/missing speakers)....

I don't think this or any of the capacitive touch tablets are very good for drawing. They are just not precise enough. Resistive touch is way better for drawing.

whatsitsnamenow said:
I don't think this or any of the capacitive touch tablets are very good for drawing. They are just not precise enough. Resistive touch is way better for drawing.
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This. I have a Nokia N900 phone with resistive screen and, well, I can use almost anything to draw with it. Compared to A500 it's also very, very precise. On A500 I'd need to buy a specialized stylus that works on capacitative screens, and it'd still be imprecise due to the large block of rubber at the end.
While it may sound tempting to be able to use the A500 for such I'd still much rather recommend you to just buy a proper drawing canvas and be done with it.

2nd hand vega

hi,
I'm going to buy a 2nd hand vega and wondered if anyone has any advise on what to look for in terms of faults or known issues.
Also in USB host mode can you connect anything? thinking about my usb competition pro for amiga emulation?
TIA

Ah classic answer when buying 2nd hand devices...
Test every peripheral that's in the device!
In Vega there is:
- LCD --> weak viewing angles are OK
- WiFi --> try to connect to an open / home router, or at least try to find/list a Wifi router nearby
- Accelerometer --> try pivoting the Vega left/right/upside down (I have trouble with this)
- Touchscreen --> try tapping in every 4 corrners of the display, or test it by typing something on a virtual keyboard (I must add that the display is not ultra-responsive!)
- USB --> have a USB key with you, plug it in and check your files in file manager.
Also if you're interested in connecting other peripheral thru the USB port, why don't you unplug your mouse/keyboard from your computer and test it on the Vega?
- HDMI --> if you have a TV + HDMI cable nearby, test it
- MicroSD --> if you have any spare MicroSD card, test it
- Other things I might forgot to mention (see specs for more).

Thanks
I've read about the general issues with the device like the viewing angle and touchscreen.
Dont really understand why viewing angle is an issue for a tablet. As for touchscreen sensitivity I'm sure my sausage fingers will work fine
I was wondering if there are any common faults that develop over time which could be missed initially or is the vega generally either working or not working?

l00k said:
I've read about the general issues with the device like the viewing angle and touchscreen.
Dont really understand why viewing angle is an issue for a tablet.
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Well in general the viewing angle wouldn't be a real problem.
But the problem on Vega is that viewing angle is like 10-degrees.
If you want to show a pretty picture/video to someone on the tablet you need to point it directly to that person.
l00k said:
I was wondering if there are any common faults that develop over time which could be missed initially or is the vega generally either working or not working?
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See my post above.
I have trouble with accelerometer. After 6 months it stopped working and now after 8 months sometimes it's working and sometimes it's not working.
Oh, and forgot about the buttons, especially the "power" button is a real rebel.
Quite a lot of people have trouble with it here on XDA.

well I got it and it all works.
Only problem....there was no a-a usb cable so had to do a bit of gender bending on two old cables
worked a treat just flashing vegacomb and copying some stuff onto my SD have to say even from playing round in 2.2 its gooooood

its a good device, my POV mobii tegra2 is very handy at night time, youtube and gaming is very nice on it. i got it new for £132 inc vat, was well worth it. here's me hoping to get windows 8 working on it in the future.

totally blown away by how good vegacomb is.
I've had a keyboard and mouse hooked up to it via the dock all day. Its great.
Will test my competition pro usb tonight

[Q] Are Note 7 Touch-Screen Issues Hardware or Software?

Hi guys,
I recently purchased a used Tegra Note 7 on eBay. As I'm in the UK it's the Advent Vega variety, although I don't know if that is relevant as they all appear to be the same unit; can someone confirm?
Anyway, I have noticed that every so often I lose touch response along the left or bottom edge of the screen, where the nav-bar would be in either portrait or landscape modes. This sometimes results in me having difficulty pressing the back or home button, or having difficulty selecting the settings button in the bundled camera app (this sits at the top-left of the screen). Another annoyance I found in the YouTube app; when scrolling through videos to watch, it would load the first video my finger landed on, but then continue scrolling. It's like it registers my first touch as a 'click' then realises I actually want to perform a continuous movement.
Having read a few posts scattered across the net about various touch-screen issues and some apparent software fixes, I wonder if I should stick with the tablet and wait for Lollipop to fix everything(!), or send it back on the assumption that this is an inherent fault. Because I may end up sending the tablet back, I'm hesitant to try any software fixes that require unlocking the bootloader and installing a custom recovery.
So what is the general consensus? Is the hardware flaky on these devices, or is software to blame?
I wasn't pleased when I found out that the UK models are Advent Vega (I experienced many issues with their first budget device, which was pretty horrible), but hoped all Tegra Notes were built equally regardless of the market.
Thanks in advance.

Today I was watching YouTube in reverse-landscape mode (so that the hinge on the flip case was at the top), and I couldn't click the search button at the top right of the app. It just would not register. Five minutes later, it starts working.
What's the deal with these screens?

Well, it's going back to the seller. I had no confidence in the device being able to give me hassle-free use throughout its life.
Plus there doesn't seem to be much of a community. Weird how this tablet seems to have gone under the radar.
HELLO-O-O-o-o-? ECHO-O-O-o-o-.

I get the touch screen issues occasionally too. I find that just turning the screen off and then back on usually fixes the issue.
Still it is bloody irritating!
I am miffed at the lack of community support for this device too. I thought that given the price and the fact that unlocking the bootloader is so easy that the dev community would have been all over this tablet. Shame.

Yeah it's a strange one for sure. It's still one of the most powerful tablets around, runs almost pure Android, has front-facing speakers, a half-decent stylus, easy to unlock like you say, and is an absolute bargain.
The Shield Tablet looks absolutely awesome though, hopefully that ends up with more of a following.

Need help controlling phone with broken screen

I know there are a lot of these threads but my intention is a bit different. This phone I gave to my daughter a few months ago and she cracked the entire screen (no touches register whatsoever). I want to take the phone and repurpose it to simply act as a webcam and point at my 3d printer. The phone is rooted and nothing on the phone needs to be saved. I bought an OTG cable without really reading into it enough to see the default one won't work.
So here's what I want to do. Somehow get some kind of vnc server/anything installed so that I can control it. The wifi currently connects so I'm good in that regards. The one damn hurdle that has stopped me is that the phone does not currently have debugging enabled so I cannot install apks over adb.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. The value of this phone is far outweighed by the price of a new screen so an actual repair is not in the cards.

Shield Portable 2 Prototypes

Hey, question to anyone who can answer - I just got my hands on a couple of Shield Portable 2 prototypes. They seem a bit less complete than the famous one that showed up at a pawn shop a couple of years ago, but one of them turns on and can connect to the internet. The other turns on, but only has a black screen and heats up quite a bit until I hold the power button to shut it off. I want to see if I can make them usable - the one that turns on is still quite buggy, crashes whenever it tries to play a video, and obviously doesn't have any google apps installed. I can't seem to access any data about the specs, since settings and other developer applications crash when I try to view them - but based on my research these are probably both K1 prototypes, with the smaller screens and capacitive buttons. I'm very new to working with android, and it's understandably difficult to find any information on these things - I'm just a guy who was a big fan of the original portable and would love to get these working to play some emulators on. Would it be possible to root this device or flash a custom ROM on this? I'd imagine it's difficult since there is 0 support for this device anywhere
If anyone can help me out with these, or point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!