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Chromecast Question - dang!
On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 10:55:31 -0500, Paul
wrote: wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 08:30:48 -0500, wrote: I am really disappointed. I am becoming convinced that this Android 5.1.1 cannot cast to a TV what I show on my tablet screen. IE 'screencast'. Even tho it looks like I can cast nicely from any app that includes support for casting. To wit, Google Home, Youtube, ... They have an icon on the tablet screen to select such casting. I can do the latter but not the former. Oh well. I wasted my money. JW My booboo. I missed the menu on the tablet screen that starts so-called 'screen casting'. New problem tho - the casted display on the TV stays sideways. I can't get it to rotate upright. I wonder what is causing that? JW It's a bad sign, when someone has to make an App for that. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...roidlock&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ocalcast&hl=en Not really encouraging. Maybe there will be a difference between rotation at the application level, versus the entire desktop of the Android ? http://forums.androidcentral.com/gen...0-degrees.html You would need the equivalent of an Arch Linux article, only for Android. Something a Googlean should write. Paul The screen cast from my tablet to TV is working, BUT the TV screen is 90 degree sideways. Nothing I do to the tablet changes that. Whatever I did (run other things on the tablet), the TV dupe was still sideways. I got to thinking...I will install Chromecast on my W7 PC that has wireless, and see if it works and is sideways. I left Chromecast screen casting from the tablet, so I cud see how two simultaneous screen casts wud react. Guess what? The PC screen cast worked and was NOT sideways. Further when I turned the PC screen cast off, I found the tablet screen cast to already be off. And when I turned that back on, it was not sideways any more. What does all this mean I wonder.... JW |
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Chromecast Question - dang!
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On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 10:55:31 -0500, Paul wrote: wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 08:30:48 -0500, wrote: I am really disappointed. I am becoming convinced that this Android 5.1.1 cannot cast to a TV what I show on my tablet screen. IE 'screencast'. Even tho it looks like I can cast nicely from any app that includes support for casting. To wit, Google Home, Youtube, ... They have an icon on the tablet screen to select such casting. I can do the latter but not the former. Oh well. I wasted my money. JW My booboo. I missed the menu on the tablet screen that starts so-called 'screen casting'. New problem tho - the casted display on the TV stays sideways. I can't get it to rotate upright. I wonder what is causing that? JW It's a bad sign, when someone has to make an App for that. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...roidlock&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ocalcast&hl=en Not really encouraging. Maybe there will be a difference between rotation at the application level, versus the entire desktop of the Android ? http://forums.androidcentral.com/gen...0-degrees.html You would need the equivalent of an Arch Linux article, only for Android. Something a Googlean should write. Paul The screen cast from my tablet to TV is working, BUT the TV screen is 90 degree sideways. Nothing I do to the tablet changes that. Whatever I did (run other things on the tablet), the TV dupe was still sideways. I got to thinking...I will install Chromecast on my W7 PC that has wireless, and see if it works and is sideways. I left Chromecast screen casting from the tablet, so I cud see how two simultaneous screen casts wud react. Guess what? The PC screen cast worked and was NOT sideways. Further when I turned the PC screen cast off, I found the tablet screen cast to already be off. And when I turned that back on, it was not sideways any more. What does all this mean I wonder.... JW Now *that's* some mighty fine experimenting... :-) Good work! I would never have thought of trying that. Paul |
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