Enable webtop without dock?

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Anyone figure out how to get webtop to work on an LCD monitor without the dock? My dock didnt ship yet and I want to test it out...

Thanks.

if it won't give you a prompt when an HDMI cable is connected, then i'm betting that they are telling the phone it's in the dock with a certain resistance on the USB connector. many manufacturers do this to allow devices to know when it's connected to an official accessory or not. For instance, my contourHD helmet cam will charge and record at the same time only if the official usb charger is used. If you use any other one it just charges and refuses to record. there is some talk of it in the USB wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus

If someone could figure out the resistance value on an official dock (assuming this is in fact how it's done) you could wire up your own USB cable to trick the phone into thinking it's in a dock.

that's my only idea at the moment.

Figured maybe it was a magnetic trip... couldnt find anything :\

I stopped by Best Buy/Radio Shack after work today to try and find a 'USB 2.0 A to Micro B Female / Male Adaptor' (google it, it's my first reply so I could not post the link).

I was going to try and use my existing laptop dock so I could have additional USB inputs to connect the USB/Mouse, and then use the HDMI cable that came with the phone to plug into my monitor.

Is this something that most likely will not work, because of the reasons stated above?

Originally Posted by iaregalado

I stopped by Best Buy/Radio Shack after work today to try and find a 'USB 2.0 A to Micro B Female / Male Adaptor' (google it, it's my first reply so I could not post the link).

I was going to try and use my existing laptop dock so I could have additional USB inputs to connect the USB/Mouse, and then use the HDMI cable that came with the phone to plug into my monitor.

Is this something that most likely will not work, because of the reasons stated above?

Don't buy it just yet.

In the Dev section, they're working on allowing the Webtop to be accessible sans dock.

Here's a link to the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=963938