You don't it's designed to stay on at the ready for cast requestsand uses very little power.
Root or not to root? I have a rootable one but don't have access to a computer at the moment thought. And I know there is some apps that I can use local files with and screen mirroring with but was there a way to root from a android terminal just curious or a imager app? Kinda wanna use this kinda been putting it off lol
dd if=/path/to/downloaded/image.bin of=/path/to/flashdrive/device bs=1m
Hi, if you don't have access to a computer, but you have a powered USB OTG cable, you might be able to root it only with your phone, even without a flash drive.
There is an app called Drivedroid which simulates a flash drive from your phone. Not every phone is supported, but I believe it works on most of them, it works on my old HD2 and on my 2012 Nexus 7 just fine. I haven't tested it, but you might be able to make your phone emulate the flashcast drive image and boot from that, and then root. This is just a theory, though. I don't know if DriveDroid supports the Flashcast image format. But there is no harm in trying.
If you do not have a powered OTG cable or anything similar, you are unfortunately still out of luck.
Post back if it worked.
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Or, I thought of a way that could be much easier.
If your phone is rooted and supports USB OTG, you can download the flashcast disk image and dd it from your phone to a flash drive. In Android Terminal Emulator type:
Warning: this will DELETE EVERYTHING on your flash drive and there is no way to get it back. You have been warned.Code:dd if=/path/to/downloaded/image.bin of=/path/to/flashdrive/device bs=1m
Also, if you are NOT 100% SURE with the path to your flash drive device, do not use this command, YOU COULD OVERWRITE SOMETHING IMPORTANT on your device and somehow damage it. In general, anything that begins /dev/block/mmc... is wrong, it is in the internal memory on the phone, not the flash drive. Really, be very careful. You have been warned.
You should find out where is your flash drive device in the filesystem (NOT /usbdisk or /storage/usbdisk or similar, it is probably somewhere in /dev). On my tablet, it was on /dev/block/sda, but this can vary across devices. You can find out by looking into /dev/block with a file manager, first with the flash drive connected and then with the flash drive disconnected, and see what files are missing there.
When you prepare your flash drive this way, you can continue with the flashcast guide.
I just tested this on my Nexus 7 and it works well.
Depending on your equipment, the TV may need to stay on for you to get audio to your receiver.My AVR has front HDMI(ARC compatible) and usb inputs. If I use those two to connect CC, is that all I need to get sound(google music) to play through my speakers powered by my AVR?
Depending on your equipment, the TV may need to stay on for you to get audio to your receiver.
Whether Chromecast can automatically turn on your receiver and TV, and switch to the proper inputs will also depend on your equipment.
My set up similar to yours though I have a multi-input sound bar rather than a full-blown receiver.
I have Chromecast connected to one of the HDMI inputs on my sound bar.
TV is connected to the HDMI output from sound bar.
TV is set up to accept HDMI control from the HDMI input connected to the sound bar.
TV is set up to turn sound bar power on/off.
Because TV doesn't support ARC, optical cable is connected from TV to sound bar.
When everything is off...
Cast to Chromecast.
TV turns on.
TV turns on sound bar.
TV switches to sound bar input.
Things play.
The cast request might be waking up both sound bar and TV, but I don't know for sure since my sound bar's display is not in a visible location. Regardless though, my sound bar still seems to pass the HDMI CEC commands through when it's soft off.
I would expect your receiver to act the same, but you never know with stuff.
Also, whether Chromecast can power everything up will depend on your receiver providing USB power while in the off state. If it doesn't, you won't be able to have Chromecast turn everything on for you. But everything should still work for playback once at least the receiver is turned on.
I like Denon.My receiver is a Denon AVR-X2000. When its "off" its always in standby(only way to turn off receiver is to unplug from AC power). All my components(PS3, Bluray, Satellite box), are all connected to AVR via HDMI, then HDMI out to TV(Pioneer Elite plasma, which does not support ARC). So if I connect CC to HDMI on receiver, I still need an optical to TV for audio from my HT speakers??
I like Denon.
Since your Elite doesn't support ARC, you might need to connect optical out from TV to optical In on your AVR.
Usually the TV is left to extract the audio stream from HDMI and pass it back to the receiver via ARC or externally via SPDIF or optical (TOSlink)
But I presume your other components are providing sound through your AVR, so I would try it without the optical/SPDIF connection first and see.
Let us know how it goes - I'm definitely curious as to whether your AVR can pull the audio without relying on the TV to send it back down. I can't really think of a technical reason it shouldn't be able to. The audio return is really meant for when the TV is doing on-board decoding, like when using an on-board QAM tuner.I was just gonna use DLNA function on my receiver and the UpNP app from bubblesoft for Google music. I figured the chromecast GUI on screen would look a bit nicer then the GUI on screen from my receiver.
Part 1, 1.nThis is probably obvious to several here, but when I first tried to set the 'cast up (just got it today) it cloned a 5g access points info over and of course didn't work now that I've done some internet searching it appears it does not support the 5g frequency. This would be something I think should be added to the FAQ.
Now that the SDK is released and all are there any news about the possibility to cast phone's/tablet's screen?
Google still controls the whitelist and developers still need to register. A few devs have made mention of Google not releasing some Android binaries yet as well.So where's the flood of third party apps that were supposed to follow in the wake of the SDK being released? Point me in the right direction please, cause I haven't seen even one new app!
Google still controls the whitelist and developers still need to register. A few devs have made mention of Google not releasing some Android binaries yet as well.
There's at least one new app released - AllCast from Koush. The prior beta doesn't count as he stopped development on it after Google turned off the outside mechanism he was using.
Sent from a device with no keyboard. Please forgive typos, they may not be my own.
Sure it is now that the SDK released, but it wasn't in the space between.
I guess maybe if you had mad electronics skills, an EEPROM programmer, and enough time
Let us know how it goes - I'm definitely curious as to whether your AVR can pull the audio without relying on the TV to send it back down. I can't really think of a technical reason it shouldn't be able to. The audio return is really meant for when the TV is doing on-board decoding, like when using an on-board QAM tuner.
Root or not to root? I have a rootable one but don't have access to a computer at the moment thought. And I know there is some apps that I can use local files with and screen mirroring with but was there a way to root from a android terminal just curious or a imager app? Kinda wanna use this kinda been putting it off lol
dd if=/path/to/downloaded/image.bin of=/path/to/flashdrive/device bs=1m