Screen Mirror Not Working via Google Home (Chromecast)

[Samdroid18]

I'm getting the same issue, it's almost a week now. My phone is Le1s, I tried everything restarting phone/ cc still no luck. Even this is very common problem you can check Google cc forum. According to Google developers it's related to Google play services microphone permission.
What's your take ?

 

[jameskchurch]

I have the same issue (Samsung Galaxy Note 8 casting to built-in Chromecast in my Toshiba TV).

The Issue: I could connect via "Smart View" once, but then after disconnecting, wasn't able to connect again.

I found a temporary solution - at least, a better temporary solution (for me) than restarting my phone each time I want to cast. I have a Google Home in the same room.

The Solution: After connecting my Note 8 to my TV successfully, when I'm ready to disconnect, rather than disconnecting directly, I push the Smart View bubble and press "change device" to my Google Home. Once connected to my Google Home, I can disconnect. When I turn on Smart View again, it auto-connects to my Google Home first, and then I can change devices to my TV again. No issue and no need to restart the phone now. I just need to remember to move to the Google Home again to disconnect each time. Annoying? Definitely. But better than restarting the phone each time, at least.

 

[Atlem]

Mic premission on google

I'm getting the same issue, it's almost a week now. My phone is Le1s, I tried everything restarting phone/ cc still no luck. Even this is very common problem you can check Google cc forum. According to Google developers it's related to Google play services microphone permission.
What's your take ?

This was so anoying bug. But was a easy fix. Enable the mic premission on google apps did solve this issu tnx alot

 

[Junaidtayyab]

Grant all permissions to Google play services. Disble and enable mic services. And voila it will work. Mind just did

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Grant access to all permissions to Google play services. Specially disable blw and again enable mic permissions

I have samsung s7 edge. This solution fixed my connection problem .

 

[mristic]

If you want screen cast to work without restarting the phone, all you need to do it to disable/enable Microphone in Google Play services.

 

[Yorgosphere]

I had the same issue with a galaxy s7 edge. All chromecast enabled apps work fine but after a while the screen mirroring through google home would immediately say "disconnecting" then fail.

I found 3 workarounds 1- restart the phone, 2- change the screen resolution on the phone, 3- disable and then enable microphone permission (or any permission) for google play services.

I seem to have found a solution. After doing 2 things this has worked perfectly for 2 days. 1- I enabled all preloaded google apps that I had disabled (google play music, hangouts, drive, etc.) and then made sure the play store updated them to the current versions. 2- Go to settings-google-cast media controls: and make sure "media controls for cast devices" is turned on.

 

[BaronKrause]

I have this same issue with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3.

I have 2 Chromecast, an old Original and a new Chromecast Ultra connected to a 4k TV and also using the wired network adapter.

I can use Google home to mirror to the old original one fine, but when trying to mirror to the Ultra it does that insta disconnect issue that others here described.

Unsure if it's because it's the Ultra and the issue is resoloution (I think Ultras can receive higher resoloution mirror casts?). Or maybe it's due to the wired adapter, which i normally wouldn't even consider since screen mirroring works fine to it from my Nexus 6, but if there is any truth to that earlier claim that this issue only occured for someone when one device was connected to 2.4ghz and the other on 5ghz then it's possible this is related.

[Edit]
Ok I went and tested another chromecast at a different location and it also worked fine. So i I went ahead and unpluged the lan cable from the problematic Ultra and it went into new setup mode (since it never had a wifi network added) and joined it to my wifi network. The Samsung tablet then connected perfectly to it with screen mirroring through google home. Plug in the network jack and its back to doing the same insta disconnect issue. Unplug it and wait for it to pop back onto wifi and it works great again.

Why would that be the issue? The wired adaptor works great for all native streaming from all my devices and screen mirroring from my Nexus phone so I doubt its bad. Im tempted to plug in a usb lan adapter to the tab and try it again and see if it works when their both wired.

 

[sll1313]

I don’t know if this is the way to do it. But I was having the same issues as the posts on here. Eventually I pushed Smart View and my phone was now mirrored to the TV. It won’t work hitting the cast button in the Home app, even though it says it’s ready to cast. It’s working with this, but I don’t know if this is technically the correc way to do it. What does everyone else think? If someone found out something else please let me know as well. Thank you in advance for your help!

I happened to restart my phone and now the cast will work in the Google Home app. I thought maybe the only way It mirrored the phone was through Smar View, but now I realized I’m wrong because I looked that’s not even enabled. So now I’m really confused because I hope that it will still work both ways and second I now don’t really know the difference between Smart View and casting through Google Home app. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Oh and BTW my tv is a Sony in case that matters, which I think it does. That’s actually why I got the chromecast in the first place.

 

[juston80]

It had been my head banging for several days. However this solution worked perfectly (Note 8). Thanks so much

If you want screen cast to work without restarting the phone, all you need to do it to disable/enable Microphone in Google Play services.

 

[Hollopeti]

Samsung A5 2017 - Chromecast 2

It had been my head banging for several days. However this solution worked perfectly (Note 8). Thanks so much

My son's phone had the same problem and I reached to this solution on each forums that I found with this screen mirror problem.
This was not enough in our case and even full cache deletion didn't help.
I finally could manage this by deleting the cache directly on the Google Play Services application itself, from the Apps settings while the Google Home application was force stopped before.
After the deletion it started to work immediately.
Before the deletion it has shown only a "Connecting" text for a second, then nothing happened.
Hope it helps ... good luck!

 

[str0ngw4ve]

SOLVED (at least it worked for me)

The issue is with your smartphone's screen resolution. I lowered it from WQHD (2560x1440) to FHD (1920x1080) and it worked immediately. Hope this helps you too...
[My phone, btw: Samsung Galaxy S7]

 

[Creepy mail]

Had a problem where I could stream only YouTube and not my whole screen. I would say cast to phone had ended when I pressed the button to cast my whole screen. The fix was to make sure Google play services had all permissions.

 

[elizamay]

Galaxy s8. Have smart view after installing wearOS for a smart watch, old chromecast. Can cast from an app but not mirror (casted facebook mlb blue jays game in high res just fine).
Into Google Play svcs, disabled and enabled microphone, worked immediately.
BUG IN SOFTWARE IMHO.

 

[siganid]

I had the same issue with a galaxy s7 on oreo. This (plus toggling Google Play Service microphone permission) worked for me:

2- Go to settings-google-cast media controls: and make sure "media controls for cast devices" is turned on.