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Yes, I know there have been cabled ways to hook up monitors to smartphones for years, for echoing media content if you're lucky and a straight screen mirroring if you're less so. But I did wonder what would happen if I wired a Continuum-capable phone from its USB Type C jack to a monitor or TV's HDMI port directly, i.e. without a Continuum Dock. The result surprised me...
This was all prompted by the PR folk at Choetech sending over a review sample of their new USB Type C to HDMI cable. Curiously, availability seems patchy as I write this, but hopefully it will improve, along with a sensible price. Anyway, go via our link and keep an eye on it in the coming weeks.
It turns out that wiring up a Lumia 950/XL or Elite X3 directly to a TV or monitor gets picked up by the Windows 10 Continuum routines as a generic 'Plug 'n' Play' display, and this is OK, as the bare minimum for Continuum to work, i.e. using it as the phone's secondary display.
There are some caveats, as you might expect, not least there being no way to plug in a wired mouse or keyboard. Which is why I referred to it as 'Continuum Lite'. But used with care, there are still plenty of use cases here and the standalone cable is going to be a lot cheaper (and lighter) than carrying around either Acer's, Microsoft's or HP's official (weighted) Continuum docks.
The Choetech cables are well built, as usual, with gold plating to make sure of a good earth, plus I'll bet there's some active electronics in that elongated HDMI connector. Partly explaining the cost, perhaps - this isn't a simple straight-through wire. Upcoming in 2017 is the new HDMI 'Alt mode' which will let simpler cables do the same job, but we're not there yet.
Tapping through to my Lumia 950 XL's Connect pane shows, after a few seconds, a 'Generic PnP Monitor' and seems happy to work with it, complete with the usual Continuum 'Tap to control' toast - tapping this gets through to using the screen as a virtual mouse/trackpad, in the normal Continuum fashion:
And here's the proof of the pudding, below. Again, I want to emphasise that this is just with one cable - no dock of any kind is needed. The cable shown coming out of the top of the Lumia 950 XL is just audio, as I note below:
In this simple scenario, we've just got virtual mouse control, so browsing through photos (below), web pages and maps are all a doddle - you still get the full multi-touch (i.e. two finger') gestures for scrolling around too, which is pretty cool. (Look, Ma, no dock!)
On my initial test TV, the audio was missing when I tried to play a game or a video. All wasn't lost though, since you can route audio from the headphone jack and into headphones, a speaker or amplifier or whatever you need to make it louder in your set-up. Which is what I did above. Subsequently, I got access to another HDMI-capable TV and this did indeed accept both audio and video from the Lumia over this cable. So.... it seems that whether you get audio depends on the receiving/host equipment!
It all adds up to a very workable Continuum experience for some use cases and you only have to carry around a single cable - any HDMI-equipped TV becomes your application-running display surface for your Windows 10 Mobile phone. There's a limit of 720p when going via this USB Type C direct route though - if anyone gets this working on a 1080p TV then do please drop me a line!
It's true that you get slightly more functionality by going wireless with the likes of the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter, but this isn't as fast in my experience (as you'd expect) and uses more battery power.
The next stage on from this is to hook up a Bluetooth mouse and/or keyboard to the phone. This is a little fiddly (and cumbersome, in terms of carrying bits around), but you're then getting a lot more of the Continuum experience, for example using Outlook and Office.
Mind you, if youre going to go that far then you're better off buying one of the Continuum docks (e.g. from Microsoft, Acer and HP) and having the functionality above plus top-up charging for the phone, wired accessories (faster and they won't need recharging), easier networking (e.g. via Ethernet) and even access to wired storage media (e.g. hard disks).
Still, that the basics of Continuum could be achieved with one 'simple' cable caught me by surprise. If this was all obvious to you then I apologise, but hopefully this 'Continuum Lite' and its use cases might be of use to someone else out there.
So far I had 5 pcs Lumia 640. All had the same problem: they did not charge anymore. It was not the connector. The internal battery charger circuit was defective. It is repairable. The first 3 phones were simply replaced within warranty; the fourth one was repaired within warranty. I keep it as spare now.
In my opinion, the 640 has problems with overvoltage. When I used the original 230V charger, there was no problem. But I often use a car charger: Ansmann USB2DRIVE 5V 1000mA. It gives 5V, so this should be OK. But I suspect there are higher voltage spikes than 5V, and they kill the 640 charger. Now I added a 5.1V zener diode (limiting diode) inside my car charger, and the problem is solved. Well, so far, so good.
So now I stick to the car charger and the original 230V charger, and never connect something else. I even suspect PC's. When I remember it correctly, one of my phones did not charge anymore after connecting it to my home PC.
Hi all, I am Karthik Jayavel and I work in MPSD on Settings Management (Desired Configuration Management), Power Management and Mobile Device Management. In this blog entry we are going to walk through the implementation of Exchange Connector feature. Before System Center Configuration Manager (Configuration Manager) 2012, Microsoft IT did not manage mobile devices using Configuration Manager. With the addition of light management feature for mobile devices in Configuration Manager 2012, we now have the ability to manage mobile phones that are connected to the Exchange server using Active Sync. In addition, enhancements to the traditional mobile device management feature enable Microsoft IT to start managing Windows Phone 6.1 and 6.5 devices.
Mobile device management provides the ability to collect basic inventory data on cell phones and few additional management options. Based on the compatibility, these are mainly broken down into to two management roles.
Now what is this Exchange Connector? Well, in its simplest form Exchange connector establishes the data feed between Configuration Manager and Exchange and extract the mobile device details from Exchange in to Configuration Manager Database. This data comes to the server as discovery record. Exchange Connector configuration is pretty simple; all that is required is a service account and the Exchange server name. To achieve this we use a service acct that has necessary rights to an exchange server to discover basic asset management information from devices connected to it.
Configuration Manager 2012 has a built-in wizard for Exchange Connector which allowed us to easily setup the connection to one Exchange server for discovery. The wizard also provides settings for discovery frequency and policies to manage. We have configured discovery at a primary site level. Due to global data replication, mobile discovery data is available across all sites in the hierarchy.
The Exchange connector feature also comes with out-of-box SRS reports and one of the important reports is devices count by platform. This report shows the count of different device platforms in a graphical view along with the percentage.
Exchange Connector based mobile device management has provided a greater visibility to Microsoft IT on the count of mobile devices using Exchange and also their model and type. The rich reporting that comes out of the box has only paved way to a more structured representation of this data but also in getting rid of some of the old legacy/scripted solution that was in place. Our stakeholders and partners in Microsoft IT truly appreciate the richness of these out of box reports coming through one authorized source which they are accustomed to.
Thanks for reading about how we implemented Exchange connector and how we manage mobile devices. Let us know your feedback and any other topics to share by our Configuration Manager client management team through this blog.
Alternatively and additionally, it may be ineptitude. I have a SharePoint online list that no longer provides the 'Title' field in a new item and they couldn't figure it out. It's all web based, nothing I could do to break that other than not having added anything new to the list since early 2022. Maybe it got rusty? Maybe they have no idea how to fix anything because the only help I received either had nothing to do with the question or it was, "Oh well, what are ya goin to do" Create a new list.
And some feedback to the morons at Microsoft: the P in PC stands for PERSONAL computer. Meaning it's MY fracking computer, and I get to decide what is installed on it, and what -- because it's a badly designed piece of garbage -- I may want to remove.
Where are the instructions? I need to remove phone link that causes me to lose many incoming phone calls to my Iphone 14 and does not work well anyway. Uninstall is greyed out. Whoever provided a method to remove, please forward to me as well. Thanks a lot
I cannot see what is wrong with above, but it did not work copying & pasting to PowerShell when run as admin, but this that looks the same (spacing or characters different?) from another Ms. page did work:
Tried and received the following error: Get-AppxPackage: The 'Get-AppxPackage' command was found in the module 'Appx', but the module could not be loaded due to the following error: [Operation is not supported on this platform. (0x80131539)]
P.S. to bring up powershell, enter 'powershell' into your windows search on your taskbar. You will see ' Windows PowerShell'. Right-Click Windows power shell and then select 'Run as administrator'. If your login profile of you computer is NOT an Administrator account, it should prompt you for an administrator account and password.
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