@DanHulme "That would go a little beyond the scope of this site. Though we try our best to help our fellows, we do not intend to be a all-inclusive technical documentation site, nor we are a "laymen's translation service" :)"

@Izzy Thanks for that suggestion. I didn't follow it exactly but it got me started.

@DanHulme Glad to read. Didn't expect an exact copy-paste either, so intention meets implementation :)

:-)

Very well put – much better than my text :)

(just placed my +1)

How is this non-touching stuff on Samsung devices named? Air-gestures?

@Izzy that rings a bell, but I'm not sure

OK, never mind: "air gestures" seems to be close enough. I just remembered there were a couple of apps on Play imitating this (you know, for that "VTC question which is on-topic"). Using "air gestures" as search term indeed brought them up. Made that an answer ;)

I nearly answered with, "Sure, just wave your hand up to the power button"

but that's just because I'm in an unhelpful mood this morning

@DanHulme LOL Yeah, I was short of this kind of answer a couple of times last week as well #D

well, look on the bright side

if you think we get a lot of stupid questions, try reviewing Stack Overflow's queues

Another point for you. But we have our share in the SO stuff: "Here's my code, fix it for me" questions are no rarity here either...

Yo. There they come. Just from the title, I'd say: If you can use it, it's working. If you can't, charge the battery... #D

@Izzy true :-(

it does seem like we have a few up-and-coming 1-2k users who will be able to close-vote soon

but we need to attract more Android experts

Also true. Though we have a few, those few can't cover all areas of expertise.

I'm beginning to wonder if we need a canonical "Windows can't see my device" question. We get a lot of very similar ones.

I suppose there are enough cases with different answers (e.g. manufacturers' own drivers) that it would be unwieldy.

@DanHulme Not a bad idea. I remember a lot of those where Koush's universal adb driver solved the issue, with different devices.

or pda.net, it's always solved it for me as it is bundled with drivers for everything too

@BryanDenny Ah, that's good to know – thanks for sharing!

if only we had some way of putting this information where people having problems getting their device recognised might find it...

anyway, I wasn't so much thinking adb as normal USB stuff: we get both sorts of question

Linking from the tag wiki, so at least we find it. Matching tag would be usb.

WTF: org.androidideas.permission.SIGNATURE_OR_SYSTEM – that dev is playing games or what? #D (TaskBomb)

@Izzy seems like it's for plugins

Sure it is. I was rather playing at the name of that permission corresponding with a protection level.

yeah, I imagine he's thinking about it in the same way: it's a permission that only his apps will have

i have one but haven't really been using it

I ordered mine today, mostly because my 10" Android Thinkpad Tablet won't boot any more and I used it mostly for watching movies because of it's HDMI output, so I thought a chromecast would be a cheap alternative

Although it's with 50€ no really cheap at all

It'll be more useful when the dev SDK opens up

such as the work Koush has been doing for it to stream anything at it

until then, it's just a glorified youtube and chrome browser tab and netflix

and I need an HDMI splitter lol

my current process is that I just have a windows home server with videos and I stream them to my xbox360

@BryanDenny Isn't it possible to also stream google music content to chromecast?

I believe so, yes

I hadn't tried that yet

If it plays Google Movies and Music I am happy. For everything else I have my HTPC with XBMC :)