• @[email protected]
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    371 year ago

    It’s ridiculous that Google has disabled this feature. Even if we assumr it’s in preparation for desktop mode, that’s still unacceptable. Mirroring is a perfectly valid feature in its own right and it shouldn’t be held back by Google’s “plans”.

    It’s crazy that my old Android phones from a decade ago could do this and the latest pixel cannot. We have been bleeding hardware features for years.

      • @[email protected]
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        151 year ago

        The same reason they removed the SD card, to get you using Google Drive, and the headphone jack, to get you to buy pixel buds.

        I wish there were other options but most smartphone makers have dropped out of the game, cost a fortune, or have terrible updates.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    In any case, display output works, and enabling it is as simple as running a shell command (after rooting the device):

    If the hardware actually has this capability, why lock it behind root, which practically disable display output feature for almost all users?

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Wait this is news? My Pixel 2 supported it years ago. Are you telling me that they disabled it the last few years… these bastards!

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      it never did. That was display link which isn’t proper display out. its literally a wired-up version of Chromecast.

      • @antizero99
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        11 year ago

        It was literally screen mirroring. I remember using this with a nexus iirc. Whatever was on the phone screen was on the bigger display.

        It wasn’t exactly chrome cast as with cast it doesn’t play the same video locally.

  • ubergeek77
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    51 year ago

    I really hope this will let my AR glasses work. I was bummed they didn’t work with my Pixel 6 Pro, and half the reason I went for an 8 Pro were the initial display out support news from July.

    When this workaround was reported to not work, I was pretty bummed, but this seems like a good sign. I’ll be building my own ROM anyway, so I can easily set this property enabled by default with no need for root.