My friend wants to know how to connect a tablet to a computer. She has this kind of cable: https://www.usbgear.com/USBG-MICRO-B-1M.html However when she connects it nothing happens. So what should she do? She would also like to know if it is possible to connect them so that you would see in the screen of the computer what would you be doing on the tablet. Do you need a special software for it? In the tablet she has has Windows. My friend says that she has always only had PCs that have Windows.
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25 May 2015, 6:10 am
That is the correct type of cable but she might need to use a different USB-port instead. Try plugging into the back instead of the front of the PC.
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Windows tablet is not seen as tablet or phone so it won't be that easy to connect them. Connecting such tablet with a PC is basically like connecting 2 PCS. More info there: http://forums.windowscentral.com/asus-v ... t-usb.html For example you need different kind of cable or at least additional USB hub. (OTG type - just A or B won't do)
If you only want to see the tablet screen on computer screen I don't think you need physically connect the devices though. All you need is having both of them access to Internet connection and use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... jmpp?hl=pl .
Windows tablet is not seen as tablet or phone so it won't be that easy to connect them. Connecting such tablet with a PC is basically like connecting 2 PCS. More info there: http://forums.windowscentral.com/asus-v ... t-usb.html For example you need different kind of cable or at least additional USB hub. (OTG type - just A or B won't do)
My friend told me that she has a right cabel because it has been used to connect a smartphone to a computer. This is probably what she should do:
guitarman2010 wrote:
They would need the tablet's specific drivers installed on the PC so the computer can communicate properly with the tablet.
My friend has an Acer Aspire Switch 10 and she has visited the webpages of the manufacturer. However she found a list where she should have selected the right model but she couldn't find it there. She tried to find those drivers elsewhere. She found some list of downloadabple drivers like this one: http://www.notebook-driver.com/acer/ace ... -software/
However she isn't sure which one of them she needs.
Kiriae wrote:
If you only want to see the tablet screen on computer screen I don't think you need physically connect the devices though. All you need is having both of them access to Internet connection and use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... jmpp?hl=pl .
What you had linked does something else than what my friend would like to do. It allows you to access an another computer remotely. However she would like be able to do the same than what is done in this video: [/quote]
However this man has an iPhone. My friend would like to know if you could do the same with a Windows tablet and a computer. Do you know if there is a free software that could be used for it? Could it be done with the cabel she has or should it be done in a network? Her modem gives a Wi-Fi connection.
Windows tablet is not seen as tablet or phone so it won't be that easy to connect them. Connecting such tablet with a PC is basically like connecting 2 PCS. More info there: http://forums.windowscentral.com/asus-v ... t-usb.html For example you need different kind of cable or at least additional USB hub. (OTG type - just A or B won't do)
My friend told me that she has a right cabel because it has been used to connect a smartphone to a computer.
A smartphone/tablet and a computer can connect through this cable but not every smartphone/tablet can connect with every computer through it. The smartphone that was connected to a computer using this cable was probably an android smartphone, not windows smartphone.
My android smartphone and my android tablet can connect to any computer (and each other too) using pretty much any cable as long as the cable have plugs fitting their slots. But they are android devieces. Windows devieces have their quirks.
cherryblossom wrote:
My friend has an Acer Aspire Switch 10
It's not a tablet. It's a laptop with a touchscreen and unplug-able keyboard. It's even categorized as a laptop by it's producer so don't call it a tablet anymore.
cherryblossom wrote:
Kiriae wrote:
If you only want to see the tablet screen on computer screen I don't think you need physically connect the devices though. All you need is having both of them access to Internet connection and use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... jmpp?hl=pl .
What you had linked does something else than what my friend would like to do. It allows you to access an another computer remotely. However she would like be able to do the same than what is done in this video:
However this man has an iPhone. My friend would like to know if you could do the same with a Windows tablet and a computer. Do you know if there is a free software that could be used for it? Could it be done with the cabel she has or should it be done in a network? Her modem gives a Wi-Fi connection.
I haven't tested it but apparently:
Reflector(the app from the video) http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/ or Airparrot(the same website, you need to read what is the difference) can mirror other devieces too, not just iPhone. Unfortunately it isn't free.
Mirroring 360 http://www.mirroring360.com/ seems similliar to Reflector. Even the price and trial time are the same.
TightProjector and TightReceiver http://www.tightprojector.com/documentation.html do the same between 2 computers (and the "tablet" is in fact a computer - laptop to be precise). But they are not free - free use is apparently limited to 20 mins but I am not sure if it's limit "at a time" or "sum up".
TightVNC http://www.tightvnc.com/ might have this feature but its more like the Chrome thing so probably not what you are looking for.
They all work through local network.
Btw. The chrome thing(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... jmpp?hl=pl) isn't that bad. True it also allows you to control the device you see a screen of but you won't control it if you don't intentionally try to control it. As long as you don't use the controls all you have is the view of what is being done on the other deviece. The deviece remains fully controllable by its ow controls unless you choose to take the control (its like connecting 2 mouses and 2 keyboards to one computer and having 2 people fighting over one cursor and typing in one window, lol - as long as one of them stops moving/typing the other can do whatever he needs). I remember I used to have a lot of fun when I connected my computer and my friends laptop. We could both see the same screen (I could see the laptop screen in one of my Chrome browser tabs) and we were texting using system Notepad on his laptop. Typing in it was the only thing I used the remote control feature for.
The only problem with chrome thing is that it goes through world wide web, not local network so it's probably more laggy than the other programs.
USB A connectors on the front of Gateway computers go bad. Never tracked it down.
USB A to Micro B cables, cheap ones bought on Amazon, go bad, after repeated use.
Might want to try the cable using a different computer AND different device, just to rule it out. Then the same computer, different portable device, to rule out the computer's A connector.
Sounds like Kirae is onto the main problem, its Windows Tablet.
If it was Android, I know of several programs and methods, including sending files over WiFi or blue tooth. Also remote control software.
USB A connectors on the front of Gateway computers go bad. Never tracked it down.
USB A to Micro B cables, cheap ones bought on Amazon, go bad, after repeated use.
Might want to try the cable using a different computer AND different device, just to rule it out. Then the same computer, different portable device, to rule out the computer's A connector.
Sounds like Kirae is onto the main problem, its Windows Tablet.
If it was Android, I know of several programs and methods, including sending files over WiFi or blue tooth. Also remote control software.
Are you saying that it couldn't be done with a Windows tablet or are there still ways to do it also with a Windows tablet?
My friend is looking for softwares that could be used for this. However she wouldn't like to pay for foreign software publishers.
My friend would like to ask also about this: When you network two computers what kind of things you are able to do then? Are you able to mirror to the computer screen what you are doing with a tablet when you have networked two computers?
25 May 2015, 3:44 am
