Originally Posted by Litesorrows

There's an app that allows you to connect a PS3 controller to your phone via bluetooth. Its called 6 axis. Its 1.69 USD. But if you download there aplication for the PC/Mac/Linux. You can change the bluetooth adress to yours, then not have to have the app. little secret.

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I bought the sixaxis app, and have a sixaxis controller, but the free sixaxis test app says it won't work for our device.

Are you telling me that you have a sixaxis controller working on the doubleshot?

I read someone posting that they couldn't get one to work, and I haven't looked further into it because it was cited as a kernel limitation that prevented it from working.

I don't have time to charge the controller and test it now, but I am eager to hear what your answer is.

Originally Posted by sixtninecat

Here is a quick and dirty of the cable I got that works perfect all colors are in the right place etc... It is an aux cable from my clarion VX401 car stereo

Thanks so much for posting this. I was able to juryrig a cable together using your diagram. Works great. It's definitely SD though, so anyone else trying it, don't expect great gains. Next I'll be researching that MHL or HML or whatever it is you can get from the USB port... See if we even have that or if it's just bad documentation...

im using bulletproof 1.1 and when I connect a 4 pole to my tv all I get is horrible noise and no image to the tv ... any ideas?

Originally Posted by Some_dude36

im using bulletproof 1.1 and when I connect a 4 pole to my tv all I get is horrible noise and no image to the tv ... any ideas?

faulty cable or wrong plug order. Also first connect to TV, then to your phone.

Also not all plugs will work even though they look the same. Get one that works for a Zune, or an old classic iPod. I got mine on Amazon for 40 cents

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Originally Posted by yellowjacket1981

Also not all plugs will work even though they look the same. Get one that Oscar for a Zuni, or an old classic iPod. I got mine on Amazon for 40 cents

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i got the 4 pole I got off amazon for .10

this one http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...00_i00_details

I made mine from an old set of cellphone earbuds (for the 4-pole 3.5mm male connector), a spare unused yellow RCA cable (3 feet, 1.5 feet when cut, soldered to where the "microphone" wires are), a 3.5mm-stereo-male-to-dual-RCA-female adapter (so I don't have to cut more cables/I can reuse them later for other stuff), and a pair of regular red/white stereo RCA patch cables. Oh, and one really long stereo headphone extension cord I made a long time ago to use as an audio component patch cable -- I know not the best but it did what I needed when I needed it to. I just needed the female end, so I cut it off. I now have a really long male end that I need something to do with. Like, several feet long.

Nah, that doesn't sound creepy at all.

I realize it's ghetto geek and not quite chic, but I happened to have these parts just laying around not doing anything. Cost me nothing but time, a nicked finger, some solder, and a foot or two of Tartan 1710. Plus, I get the benefit of ruining only one RCA cable, and putting to use at least part of some things I was no longer using. In fact, I just realized what I'm going to use that really long male end for. I've got a pair of voice coil headphone speakers that I pulled out of a set of phones a long time ago (they were busted, but the speakers still worked). I'm going to hotglue them into a set of hearing protectors ($7) I have after soldering them to the wires in this cable, to make some very nice sound-deadening headphones.

Dude, score.

Heres a demo with my new Adapter . the 2nd one i bought works Dynex " mini phone " 3.5mm to RCA

Originally Posted by Blue6IX

I bought the sixaxis app, and have a sixaxis controller, but the free sixaxis test app says it won't work for our device.

Are you telling me that you have a sixaxis controller working on the doubleshot?

I read someone posting that they couldn't get one to work, and I haven't looked further into it because it was cited as a kernel limitation that prevented it from working.

I don't have time to charge the controller and test it now, but I am eager to hear what your answer is.

BUMP

I tried the sixaxis app and it couldnt config bluetooth .... so i guess maybe litesorrows was maybe referring to a different device?

Originally Posted by cal3thousand

Just picked up one of these on eBay:


3.5mm to RCA AV Audio Video out CA-75U Cable for Nokia

Looks like it should work and it's Nokia quality for less than $3 delivered. It's just going to take a couple weeks to get here from China/HK

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5mm-RCA-AV...#ht_4489wt_915

Just heads-up: actually THIS Nokia CA-75U CABLE IS A NO GO.
I have this cable, it was for my Nokia N97, so I found it today and tried: it does NOT work with my MT4GS. All I can see is very distorted/flickering picture.
Interestingly though, with this cable any of the wires (white, red and yellow) when connected to yellow connector on tv will give out this same flickering picture.



THIS CABLE DOES NOT WORK





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Since I had bunch of a/v RCA cables from my old gear, I tested them all one by one.
I found out that for as long as they have 4-prong 3.5mm plug almost every one of them will work (some of them need to be swapped, i.e. yellow with red, but most worked exactly as color-labeled).
Any 3-prong 3.5mm plug "mono" tv-out cables are always detected as "audio" (even though they have white and yellow connectors) with one exception: a 3-prong 3.5mm tv-out RCA cable from one of my old Canon PowerShot cameras (not sure for which model tho, I think it was A480), with a black (mono audio) and yellow (video) RCA connectors kinda works too: video is there, but there is no sound at all (just buzz).



These are the cables I can confirm working:
(all of them are 4-prong 3.5mm plug with white/yellow/red RCA connectors)
- BEST: cable for JVC GR-D750 DV camera
(best because creates no distortion on tv when rotating the plug in the phone's socket, while all other get some distortion when moving the phone or rotating the plug in the phone)
- other JVC and Canon DV camera cables (have 3 of them, all work but 2 of them I had to swap colors)
- Sony DV camera cable
all of them look similar or exactly like this one




These three cables I can confirm NOT working:
- Fuji FinePix S7000 cable
- Canon PowerShot "mono" cable (came with model A480 or G10)
- Nokia N97 tv-out cable CA-75U




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TV-OUT

Picture is 4x3 in portrait mode and 16x9 in a landscape mode.
Note: my TV (plasma LG brand) had to be set manually to "16:9" or "Just Scan" because when I kept it on automatic detection it stayed at 4:3 even when I rotated the phone into landscape, so I'm sure this may happen on other TVs too. I guess the analog tv output on our phones doesn't send any "flag" or "info" to TV about video's aspect ratio.

(Sony cable)


with TV's all enhancements turned on (boost black, filters etc) it is actually OK:
(JVC cable)




yes, my phone's screen appears slightly soft because of matte anti-glare screen protector



(forgot which cable it was when I took this picture)




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Movie playback

I had no problem playing downloaded XViD-encoded AVI files using the built-in player (stock ROM 1.63), as well as any 1920x1080 HD videos I took with this phone.
(and no, I didn't experience any problems as described earlier in few posts - could it be due to newer stock ROM version?)
But even though the picture quality is acceptable, of course it is NOT HD quality since it is scaled-down to 720x480 through the analog RCA connector.
Another thing I found out is that the "built-in stock player" doesn't support external subtitles.
So I downloaded Mobo Player which supposedly does support SRT text subtitles.

However, as seen above, when using hardware decoding, Mobo Player does NOT output the subtitles to tv! Subtitles are layered only on the phone's screen.

When I changed Mobo Player's playback settings to software decoding, the subtitles appeared on tv too, but there is a drawback to software decoding: the picture quality is visibly worse than using hardware decoding (unless it has to be set up somewhere in the settings? Like XViD codec's options on a computer?):

which really surprised me, because MT4GS has dual core processor powerful way-more-than-enough to beautifuly decode any standard-resolution XViD picturtes, so what gives?
I read somewhere that "Mobo Player Codec for ARM V7_VFPV3" supposed to help on MT4GS, so I installed it - but I didn't notice any difference.
Film's picture quality is still so-so, all boxy with jaggedy edges and basically unacceptable...


I have only plasma TVs so I couldn't test it with any old style "tube" TV, but I'm pretty sure the picture quality on those must be comparable to what I see on plasma and probably as good as professional DVDs playback on "standard TV" (since it is the same resolution).
On LCD TVs you probably get similar upscaling resolution as on plasma, just less black and lesser color palette of course (than plasma or old "tube").