I've seen a few videos of folk connecting their Nexus to an external monitor with a SlimPort HDMI cable. Would a 10 or 7 inch touchscreen work the same way? Or would it need a different cable connection?  If this is possible I can extend my Nexus 4 to a tablet :)
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I need to buy new monitor for my PC and I'm thinking about touch enabled monitors like  or . I recently bought Gooseberry Board with Android on it and it would be great if I could connect it by HDMI cable to one of these monitors and use touch screen like i would on a tablet. Does anybody know if Android can work with such touch enabled monitors? Maybe someone have touch enabled monitor and could check it somehow?
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I am trying to install Android 4.0 on a tv box. I just need to know whether Android 4.0 will have the HDMI drivers.  Thanks
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I have bought a no-brand, passive HDMI Male to VGA Female adapter, to link up a PC with a more dated monitor. It did not work.  After doing some reading, I have learned that buying such an adapter is often discouraged because in many cases it will not convert the signal from Digital to Analog, or the Motherboard/CPU on a specific computer might not be compatible with that particular adapter.   So my question is: seeing how there are so many of these passive adapters on the market, are there circumstances under which they actually do suffice to connect an HDMI output to a VGA input? Or are they generally just a rip-off?  Example of the kind of adapter I bought:
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I looked for 20 minutes for a post similar to mines, and couldn't find one. Which is interesting to me, because I don't understand why people want to use the display to HDMI instead of using thunderbolt USB-c port natively instead. Before I get to this...I shall ask my question.  I plan on buying a MacBook Pro-2018 15 inch for my home-based business. I need to connect 3 monitors to this laptop. I understand the 15 inch MacBook Pro comes with 4 thunderbolts 3 ports. I plan to buy 3 24-27 inch monitors that are 4k display. Also, I understand that the charger for this laptop uses a Thunderbolt 3 port, which leaves me with 3 left. Will connecting 3 monitors that have Thunderbolt 3 ports leave me with performance issues? Will the refresh rate lower?  Finally, why do I see a lot of post with people using old 2.0 display port to HDMI; why they can use Thunderbolt 3 port natively?
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The Nexus 7 3G is out and I'm wondering whether Android 4.2 tablets are still data-only devices.  Can I install a custom ROM or apk to this tablet so that I can send and receive GSM calls and text messages on it?  If not, why not?  What's missing?  Added: Nexus 7 3G has many  of phones, but not all: It has gps, bluetooth, headphone jack, accelerometer, gyroscope, ambient light sensor, compass and nfc, but does not have a receiver (earpiece), haptic feedback (vibrate) or a rear camera. IF the 8"x5" tablet can be used as a phone, you won't look funny putting it against your ear because it has no earpiece.  Added: The question is about GSM calls and texting, not VOIP or SIP calls or tethering.
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I recently got a Nexus 4, and I've got a question regarding the volume warning that pops up if you raise the volume too much. Is it possible to disable or remove this warning? I want to be able to raise the volume with the phone in my pocket (with the volume buttons) without having to pick up the phone. I listen to podcasts with low or bad audio and need to raise it above the warning level.
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I am looking to display my iPad screen wirelessly to an external display to demo applications.  I found  showing exactly what I want to do with an iPhone but no explanation as to what the hardware dongle used was.  The main thing is that there isn't a wire tethering the user to the external display.
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Because Apple Thunderbolt Display reflects the whole room, I still use the matte 30" Apple Cinema Display. (Two cables are required for 2560 resolution due to some obscure technical constraints!)   MacBook Air (Mini DisplayPort + USB)  Apple Cinema Display 30" (DVI)   How do I connect the MacBook (USB-C) to the 30" screen with 2560 resolution?   MacBook (USB-C) (What goes here?) Apple Cinema Display 30" (DVI)
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One of the products being shown a CES is a  intended to let you charge a tablet from a laptop USB port that normally wouldn't work because it didn't provide enough power.  The CNET writeup implies that it's actually boosting the power output from the port beyond the normally available amount.  This seems improbable to me because the ports should have current protection to protect themselves from shorts.  Also, if it was possible to bypass the current limit externally, I'd've expected at least some tablet vendors to have included the ability to do so directly in their cables.  One possibility that occurs to me is that the dongle is just spoofing responses to the tablet when it queries the laptop about the maximum power it can deliver while only providing a trickle charge that the tablet would otherwise reject as too slow to bother with.
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I have a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. I plugged in my external 1080p display (HP 25bw) in clamshell mode and it almost works great - except the screen is too large for the monitor. My dock is too far down off the edge, and my menu is too far up.  For example, when I took the attached screenshot, the Chrome window fills the entire screen I can see:  I have checked and the display options are using native resolution of the monitor (1920x1080 @60hz).  Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Thanks so much.  Note: For any with this same monitor model in the future, thanks to @bmike I found the steps for disabling overscan for this particular monitor model here:
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There doesn't seem to be a chromium (or Google Chrome) port available in Ubuntu Touch (OTA10.1, bq M10). Does one exist, or are there any plans to have one (even without touch / small screen optimizations)?
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A number of Android tablets are powered through the Micro B USB port but also provide USB Host support through the same port (e.g. Motorola Xoom 2, Acer A510/700). I need to be able to use USB Host support while charging, at the full power the device accepts (or at least sufficient power to keep the tablet from draining under modest use).  I have rigged up a system with splitter cables and a powered hub. This works on some devices (HP TouchPad, Archos) but not others (Google/Asus Nexus 7, Coby Kyros). And when it does work,  it slow charges (probably at USB 2's 500ma).  How can this problem be solved? Are there any solutions on the market that will solve my problem? I see there are some USB chips by Silego (their Battery Charger ID line) that may solve the problem, but I don't know of any cables, hubs, etc. that use it.
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I've recently been reading about new peripherals for the Mac (such as ). I'm very attached to using an external display, but since the DisplayPort is now combined with Thunderbolt, how is it expected that we use an external display and a device?  As I understand it, Thunderbolt supports daisy chaining up to 7 devices, but it would appear that the display/device doesn't support this. Are we going to start seeing ThunderBolt "hubs" anytime soon, or am I asking this question too early?
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I just bought a new HP Pavilion dv7t Quad Edition laptop that has HDMI out. I already have a couple of monitors that are VGA and I'd like to hook up one of these to dual monitors.  I've read some sketchy reviews of products that try to convert directly from HDMI (digital) to  VGA (analog), so I was wondering if someone has a good recommendation on how to hook these two together.
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I am having trouble with Bluetooth Low Energy (BT 4.0) on a Nexus 7.  I think I may have a 2012 model.  How to tell if I have a 2012 or 2013 version of the Nexus 7?
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Is there any harm in using a USB data cable of any other phone (say LG) for charging up a Nexus S? "Any harm" here means will it adversely effect my battery life or the Nexus S device in any way?
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I would like to be able to set my "default" monitor to be my external 25' monitor instead of my laptop one when I have my external monitor connected.  Many applications always open on the laptops monitor instead of the "big" one. Currently, the only way I know to disable this behavior is to disable the laptop monitor, however, as I use a laptop stand to bring it higher, Id like to be able to use my laptop monitor as a "secondary" monitor, without dock (launcher) and without any windows opening on it.  The only way for a window to reach it would be to actually manually grab it and drag it over.  Some known applications that ALWAYS open on the laptop monitor and drive me crazy: Slack, Rocket Chat, Thunderbird, Sky, System Settings, Guake (specially annoying since i cant move it).