Motorola: Droid X’s HDMI Port Is Only Active In Gallery App

The Droid X’s vaunted HDMI out seems to be of extremely limited utility at the moment, as a Motorola developer has said that it is only ever active within the Gallery application on the phone — essentially limiting it to media recorded on the phone, or media you’ve managed to slip in there. Wait, what about using a Netflix or YouTube app? And what if you want to watch a .MOV or .AVI off your SD card?

While it’s not exactly a crippling issue, it is bothersome in phone the tagline for which is “Droid does.” Not as bad as that refresh rate cap issue on the EVO, though. That would have really bugged me.

Of course, you’ll likely be able to get around it once a safe and reliable workaround or root method is distributed (contrary to early reports), but it still sucks for the end user who doesn’t want to have to worry about this kind of thing.

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This post was written by admin on September 1, 2010

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2 Comments so far

  1. Biser Markov September 1, 2010 4:52 pm

    Never tried

  2. Jorge G. September 1, 2010 10:51 pm

    Haven’t u heard about real HDMI. here is the link http://www.intomobile.com/2010/08/30/droid-x-gets-full-hdmi-output-courtesy-of-real-hdmi

    I guess moto has to hired this developer since clearly he can do a better job than the ones they have

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