. The edges of the Pine64's screen aren't showing on your TV. It's as if you are zoomed in.
Let's fix that, shall we?
Method 1: Settings of your TV
You can adjust the settings of your TV. You may have already tried that. Can it be done on
your TV, you wonder? In most cases, yes, it can.
Which menu and sub-menu?
There's no standard method of organizing the settings of TVs. Many TV settings menus
appear to have been designed by confused rabbits running late. Poke around, and definitely
try these menus and sub-menus:
Look for any of these.
necessary with your TV, but I'd avoid it if I could.
What is the correct setting?
The correct option could be:
away, it's probably there, somewhere. Look again.
Succeed with method 1, and the issue is fixed for that TV, even if you later use a different
OS image. Plus, it fixes this for Android, RemixOS and Linux. But will it affect your other
uses of the TV, like, say watching? It might.
Method 2: Settings of Android -- Screen Scrap Edge
Here's another option that works only for Android using HDMI. Both DD images and rooted
DD images can use this method. RemixOS cannot.
Go to Settings / Display / Screen scrap edge. Set width and height to ~96%.
With Screen Scrap Edge, you must apply this fix every time you change the Android image.
That is, if you upgrade to a new Android image, then you have to do this over again. But it
wasn't that hard, was it?
Don't use both methods, unless you want a black frame of unused space.
I hope this helps. Don't forget to give this a thumbs up, if it helps you, and definitely
add your own TV settings experience below.
Let's fix that, shall we?
Method 1: Settings of your TV
You can adjust the settings of your TV. You may have already tried that. Can it be done on
your TV, you wonder? In most cases, yes, it can.
Which menu and sub-menu?
There's no standard method of organizing the settings of TVs. Many TV settings menus
appear to have been designed by confused rabbits running late. Poke around, and definitely
try these menus and sub-menus:
- Picture
- Video
- Advanced Video
- Screen
- Screen Adjustment
- Picture Size
- or who knows, just try exploring...
Look for any of these.
- Overscan
- Scan
- Screen Fit
- Screen Fill
- Format
- Title Safe / Safe Title
- Action Safe / Safe Action
- TV safe
- Aspect Ratio*
- Resolution*
- Size*
- Wide / Width*
- High / Height*
necessary with your TV, but I'd avoid it if I could.
What is the correct setting?
The correct option could be:
- Just scan
- Dot by Dot
- Fit
- Off / uncheck (for Overscan)
- 1x1 pixel ratio
- Full
- Auto / Auto Config
- On / check
- 4:3 (or even 16:9) *
- 1080p / 1080i *
- or other options (experiment)
away, it's probably there, somewhere. Look again.
Succeed with method 1, and the issue is fixed for that TV, even if you later use a different
OS image. Plus, it fixes this for Android, RemixOS and Linux. But will it affect your other
uses of the TV, like, say watching? It might.
Method 2: Settings of Android -- Screen Scrap Edge
Here's another option that works only for Android using HDMI. Both DD images and rooted
DD images can use this method. RemixOS cannot.
Go to Settings / Display / Screen scrap edge. Set width and height to ~96%.
With Screen Scrap Edge, you must apply this fix every time you change the Android image.
That is, if you upgrade to a new Android image, then you have to do this over again. But it
wasn't that hard, was it?
Don't use both methods, unless you want a black frame of unused space.
I hope this helps. Don't forget to give this a thumbs up, if it helps you, and definitely
add your own TV settings experience below.
NexusDude of Central Texas
- Setup: Pine64+ 2GB, On/Off button, RTC battery, 5V fan, LG 1.8A power adapter, Cat6 Ethernet, HDMI to TV, USB keyboard & mouse, SanDisk Ultra mSD "32GB" (28.7GB). Using Win32DiskImager.
- Best OS experiences: Debian XFCE >> Android Lollipop > the rest