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Smart TV / Phone
« on: 22 February 2016, 16:53:40 »
Managed to get the display of my Samsung Galaxy to display on my TV when I 1st bought the TV but never managed to sort it since.

Am turning on Bluetooth on both devices, the phone finds and can see the TV and allows the pair.

TV just searches and searches, last night I tried my S4 and a friends S6, am I doing it right or is old age well and trully kicking in. :-\
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Re: Smart TV / Phone
« Reply #1 on: 22 February 2016, 17:47:52 »
Isn't this done with the 'screen mirroring' function?  :-\
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« Reply #2 on: 22 February 2016, 18:45:16 »
I think I got it to work with my S5 and a Toshiba TV using Wifi  :-\
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Re: Smart TV / Phone
« Reply #3 on: 22 February 2016, 18:50:26 »
Quote from: Mr Skrunts on 22 February 2016, 16:53:40
Managed to get the display of my Samsung Galaxy to display on my TV when I 1st bought the TV but never managed to sort it since.

Am turning on Bluetooth on both devices, the phone finds and can see the TV and allows the pair.

TV just searches and searches, last night I tried my S4 and a friends S6, am I doing it right or is old age well and trully kicking in. :-\

Please explain to an old fart the reason for wanting to do this? I have the same items, but cannot imagine why I would need it, no doubt I do, but just haven't discovered why. :-\
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Re: Smart TV / Phone
« Reply #4 on: 22 February 2016, 19:05:52 »
Quote from: Shackeng on 22 February 2016, 18:50:26
Quote from: Mr Skrunts on 22 February 2016, 16:53:40
Managed to get the display of my Samsung Galaxy to display on my TV when I 1st bought the TV but never managed to sort it since.

Am turning on Bluetooth on both devices, the phone finds and can see the TV and allows the pair.

TV just searches and searches, last night I tried my S4 and a friends S6, am I doing it right or is old age well and trully kicking in. :-\

Please explain to an old fart the reason for wanting to do this? I have the same items, but cannot imagine why I would need it, no doubt I do, but just haven't discovered why. :-\

I'm struggling to understand why, as well, unless its for viewing photos, videos etc  :-\
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« Reply #5 on: 22 February 2016, 19:09:12 »
Quote from: TD on 22 February 2016, 19:05:52
Quote from: Shackeng on 22 February 2016, 18:50:26
Quote from: Mr Skrunts on 22 February 2016, 16:53:40
Managed to get the display of my Samsung Galaxy to display on my TV when I 1st bought the TV but never managed to sort it since.

Am turning on Bluetooth on both devices, the phone finds and can see the TV and allows the pair.

TV just searches and searches, last night I tried my S4 and a friends S6, am I doing it right or is old age well and trully kicking in. :-\

Please explain to an old fart the reason for wanting to do this? I have the same items, but cannot imagine why I would need it, no doubt I do, but just haven't discovered why. :-\

I'm struggling to understand why, as well, unless its for viewing photos, videos etc  :-\
Even an old fart like me can get my photos on the telly, but I have a compatible Samsung telly.
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« Reply #6 on: 22 February 2016, 19:09:34 »
Well how else do you stream porn to your TV from your phone? Duh..  ::) ;D
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Re: Smart TV / Phone
« Reply #7 on: 22 February 2016, 19:47:57 »
Quote from: Mr Skrunts on 22 February 2016, 16:53:40
Managed to get the display of my Samsung Galaxy to display on my TV when I 1st bought the TV but never managed to sort it since.

Am turning on Bluetooth on both devices, the phone finds and can see the TV and allows the pair.

TV just searches and searches, last night I tried my S4 and a friends S6, am I doing it right or is old age well and trully kicking in. :-\
Don't have a Galaxy but guessing you need to do over the WiFi Network either direct or through your Home Network Router rather than Bluetooth.
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« Reply #8 on: 22 February 2016, 19:48:26 »
Quote from: aaronjb on 22 February 2016, 19:09:34
Well how else do you stream porn to your TV from your phone? Duh..  ::) ;D
It's better on your phone. You can knock one out when you're out and about.  ;D
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« Reply #9 on: 22 February 2016, 19:48:46 »
Quote from: iZirk on 22 February 2016, 19:47:57
Quote from: Mr Skrunts on 22 February 2016, 16:53:40
Managed to get the display of my Samsung Galaxy to display on my TV when I 1st bought the TV but never managed to sort it since.

Am turning on Bluetooth on both devices, the phone finds and can see the TV and allows the pair.

TV just searches and searches, last night I tried my S4 and a friends S6, am I doing it right or is old age well and trully kicking in. :-\
Don't have a Galaxy but guessing you need to do over the WiFi Network either direct or through your Home Network Router rather than Bluetooth.
Yep  :y
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Re: Smart TV / Phone
« Reply #10 on: 22 February 2016, 22:43:08 »
Screen casting from Samsungs done via MiraCast, nothing to do with Bluetooth or pairing.  ;)

Have a read of this...

http://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/miracast-everything-to-know-about-mirroring-android/
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« Reply #11 on: 22 February 2016, 22:54:54 »
I have a cable which allows me to connect to any TV with a  Hamilton input.  It is handy when always travelling and living in hotels.   Cost about a tenner off ebay I think.

On the subject of Bluetooth and TV sets.  The ones in Heathrow T2 are completely open, no security nowt.  Had some fun last time I flew from there ;D
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Re: Smart TV / Phone
« Reply #12 on: 23 February 2016, 01:51:35 »
Either way, I would still like to know why the phone will pair to the TV but the TV wont recognise the phone.

Every now and again when I have company and we might need to look someting up on the net, it was fine as I allways used my TV as my PC screen.  Then I got a 4K screen and now run the PC on that (and occasionally run the TV as a 2nd screen, but have to reset the graphics output accordigly which is a bit of a fuss)  By using the phone I was hoping just to flick both into blutooth mode so everyone in the room could see the display from the phone onto the TV.

As said in opening post, it did manage this once, but when it work did I didn't have wi-fi so it wasn't done that way.

Screen mirroring cant find a compatable device, but I thought was was over blutooth anyway. plus there was an S6 available that neither my S4 or the TV would mirror with.
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Re: Smart TV / Phone
« Reply #13 on: 23 February 2016, 05:50:26 »
Maybe it is a bandwidth issue.  If you connect via Bluetooth and the bandwidth is there but too small for screen sharing it may prevent the phone being displayed as an option.  Try wifi direct instead as the potential bandwidth is much higher.
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Re: Smart TV / Phone
« Reply #14 on: 23 February 2016, 10:33:52 »
Quote from: Guffer on 23 February 2016, 05:50:26
Maybe it is a bandwidth issue.  If you connect via Bluetooth and the bandwidth is there but too small for screen sharing it may prevent the phone being displayed as an option.  Try wifi direct instead as the potential bandwidth is much higher.

Good point, but wouldn't have thought it was a bandwidth issie just to pair the 2 together.
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