Hello everyone.
So today we're going to take a look at
probably something on the more cutting edge of smartphone use.
We're going to take a look at how you hook up a Samsung Galaxy Note 2
to a larger display device such as a television set.
a monitor or any real input that can take a HDMI connector.
So that can also be like a HDMI capture card for instance.
But today we're going to have a look at getting our Galaxy Note 2 up on
to a television set.
So to do that we require, four things
well, five including the television.
We need our Galaxy Note 2
we need an adaptor called an NHL adaptor
and you can pick these up for between
£5 and £30 depending on what make you get etcetera.
Samsung do their own version,
it's quite expensive it's obviously at the high-end
or you can go onto eBay and you can find these for around £8. This one
was £8.
The adaptor requires its own power
it has a separate power piece at the side, you don't usually get any power adaptor with these
and the idea is you provide your own so
you'll also need a micro USB cable.
Now you can either power this NHL adaptor
off a USB port so you can plug that end into a PC
that end into the adaptor and you're good to go, or
you could actually plug it in using the
wall adaptor, works just as well there as well.
In this configuration we'll be using a wall adaptor so we plug it into the mains we plug that end into
our NHL adaptor
and then our phone.
We also then need to plug this end into the bottom of the Note 2
and this cable into the bottom of here
and the other end into the TV.
And that completes the setup.
So the next thing we need is our television set.
OK, so the first thing we need to do is plug in our NHL adaptor
We then need to plug in our HDMI cable into
the NHL adaptor
our power cable which is plugged into a wall socket
is going to go into the power adaptor on the side of the NHL
And that's going to provide some partial power to the device as well as we do this.
The other end goes into our television set
into a spare HDMI socket
and that is everything connected. Now you'll see actually on the screen itself
an alert pops up saying this cable is now connected.
We turn on the television and the other input
You can there see, we have got
the Galaxy Note 2 being displayed. If I just hit the device to
change the orientation on it there we have the full screen.
I'll come into here
and I can interact with this device
as I would normally so you've got all your touch controls and so on.
But also if I want to I can boot up a game
quite happily. I'll just play that one.
One of the most useful things you can really do with this particular set-up is
watching videos or playing games so for instance I have a
touchpad keyboard and mouse which I can use if I want to play the game or equally I can
just sit here on the device itself
bashing away on touchpad.
But as you can see
a very very quick
and easy way to get your Galaxy Note 2 up and running on a larger device or
any HDMI input source where you may want to capture from.
The actual output is 1080p even though the Galaxy Note 2 display
is a 720p display the output coming off the device is 1080p so you can actually
improve the quality in many respects by outputting to another device.
It's very very simple
very very quick, you can then also quite happily watch videos and movies on here
without any problem, or absolutely any piece of
content that can display on the Note 2
you can get onto your television set as well.
What I would recommend is there is an application you can get which turns
off your screen so that when you're plugged into a television you don't also have the
screen running as well.
You can just see that there.
The screen
on the Note 2 is also running in real time.
What the actual application does is it doesn't turn the screen off
but it turns
the backlight off which the backlight is obviously allowing us to see everything that's going
on here but it's also the element that burns out quickest on the screen.
So anything you can do to kind of not run effectively two screens simultaneously when
you're only watching the big one is a great boost to the overall
life expectancy of the phone.
But that's it. A very very simple way of getting your Galaxy Note 2 to
display on any device.