Connecting Phone to TV

dipsomaniac

i have the cast icon in top right corner of google photos but i have dumb tv
+ chromecast with google home app installed on phone. can't see why you can't cast google photos if you can cast youtube. have you got google home app installed?

lindabea

dipsomaniac wrote: »

have you got google home app installed?

NO - I don't have google home app installed. The reason I can cast with utube is that there is an option for casting within utube, but I don't have the casting option when I'm in photos. And the cast option from settings>cast tells me that it can't find any devices. The whole thing is not making any sense!! I'll load the google home app and see if that makes any difference. Thanks for your help

lindabea

I looked at the google home app and it seems to work with chromecast which I don't have. My TV has miracast widi, Soft Ap and wifi direct, somehow, utube can cast automatically when I select casting. Also, I can 'project' my laptop (W10) to my TV. I don't understand why the phone is proving so difficult - I think I may be missing a piece in the puzzle!!

dipsomaniac

have you tried the suggestion above re installing the lg tv app?

lindabea

dipsomaniac wrote: »

have you tried the suggestion above re installing the lg tv app?

I looked at it on the google store and a lot of people gave it a bad review. Comments like it doesn't work or keeps failing, so I thought I may explore other avenues first. Perhaps I'll use a cable, but don't know what to get as my phone does not have HDMI; or I'll get a chromecast. Don't know what to do yet

DavidFx

The problem is that Google removed Miracast support with Android 7 (Nougat).

My tablet (Android 6) works but my phone (Android 7) does not.

Google wants everyone to use Chromecast

https://nokiapoweruser.com/casting-screen-nokia-2-5-6-8-needs-chromecast-support/

lindabea

DavidFx wrote: »

The problem is that Google removed Miracast support with Android 7 (Nougat).

My tablet (Android 6) works but my phone (Android 7) does not.

Google wants everyone to use Chromecast

https://nokiapoweruser.com/casting-screen-nokia-2-5-6-8-needs-chromecast-support/

Thank you DavidFx for your help. Now that I know it's a problem with google (especially as it's a deliberate greedy action), I'm loathed to purchase a chromecast. It seems a rather expensive solution, when I think that I don't need chromecast for anything else. Is there a cable I can use to connect the phone to the Tv - my phone does not have a mini hdmi port

lindabea

After more consideration, I think what I'll do is transfer the photos/videos content from my phone to my laptop and connect to my TV which I know works well. It's nice to know though, that it wasn't my lack of tech knowledge that was causing the problem.

Thank you all for your help.

dipsomaniac

just open google photos on laptop, you photos/videos should be there to cast to tv

dipsomaniac

DavidFx wrote: »

The problem is that Google removed Miracast support with Android 7 (Nougat).

i didn't know that. google is becoming more like apple every day with this and also removing nas drives from their back up & sync software.

having said that dumb tv + smart box(es) has always been the best option imo