Good morning,
just a quick question:
It seems (after stumbling over various press releases) that a tv-out feature for the Leo was at least considered by htc. So, did anyone ever give it a try? and if it´s not natively suppored, is there any chance that it could be achived with a patch/drivers from the raphael?
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Hy everyone,
First of all, thanks for this great forum which never fails to impress me.
I have a question which some of you might help answering: I'm wondering if it's possible to use the mini-usb port of my smartphone to get some data input.
Let me explain myself a bit more: I know that smartphones (HTC Touch for me) aren't USB hosts. However, the data connexions are still present.
Here's what I'd like to do: even though the smartphone can't control another peripheral, I'd like that external peripheral to send data to the smartphone, and the smartphone to use that data to control the screen. That would give an alternative way of controlling the screen.
The input would come from another touch surface, so my guess is that using the data to control the screen shouldn't be much of a problem.
So? Any idea if it's possible? What kind of platform/language would be nice to do that? C#?
(I have JAVA development experience, but I'm quite a newbie as far as Win Mobile devs are concerned. I'm willing to learn though
I think I searched this forum (and others) quite extensively before posting. If by any chance I missed a related post, I'd be glad to know about it
No ideas? Anyone?
Last up before I stop...
prob. not
i dont think that is technically possible. i think one has to be the host, and that host provides power. so to power the input device(im thinking keyboard) it would need the smartphone/ppc to be a host....
but i have no clue in this area...maybe someone could prove me wrong?
Hey, thanks for your answer.
The powering issues could be overcomed by cutting the cables and giving power from an external power source (I think several people have tried doing it, I need to find the links again). By the way, the peripheral itself is plugged on 110V, so there's plenty of available power
I'm not seeking here to "control" the device, just to aquire the signal it's sending... Does that seem feasible, or does the peripheral need to be somehow "activated" by a Host before sending anything?
Well, in order to get data, the host must ask the slave each time it needs some. Other things must be done by the host, like usb enumeration. That means there has to be a host or it won't work, unless you use usb on-the-go, but I do not know many devices that support it.
according to the qualcomm website, the msm chipsets support otg
Hey guys,
I want to know what is possible with our USB-Connector.
What does it support/not support? (Host-Controller, driver...)
How is it build up? (beside the specs in the Wiki)
I'm happy with all helpful answers!
greetz
playdo
usb
It's a mini ext USB and dispite the bumff from HTC will work with any ext mini USB device.
My friends got a USB charger for his car , this works fab in our phones.. have a look in teh interweb , as long as it's gto our connecter it will work .. ( however there are some issues with poliarity as some of the pins are set up diffrently ..
I searched the internet about this topic (because forum search seems to be a bit crappy )
So I found a thread about USB-Host in Touch HD.
Now my question:
Is there a possibility to use the Touch HD as USB-Host device or is our Touch HD just a pure Client?
I thought about a mouse or external Harddisk. But if there is no Host-Controller, it's impossible
PS: I just found some thread about this topic (search funtion is weird finds "usb host" but nothing with "usb")
So from what I see, there is no host capability with our Touch HD?
Nobody tried Zeno driver?
There is an old 3D about HD USBHost: you could search.
HD has Host capability by chip but extUSB lacks of output power: serch 3D to confirm that
D'rath
Many thanks D'rath, that mainly what i want to hear
I think it's possible to bypass the lack of power by an Y-Cable or something like that. If not, i'm going to solder it together
Lets hope it works
I tried it
But I got bad news so far
Just soldered a USB cable together, so power supply is provided and I installed Zeno USB Host Drivers to get mouse support.
But it didn't worked
Just got the popup with "New USB Mouse" but nothing more.
Maybe there is some hope, that it will work, but I didn't get it to work.
greetz
playdo
playdo said:
I tried it
But I got bad news so far
Just soldered a USB cable together, so power supply is provided and I installed Zeno USB Host Drivers to get mouse support.
But it didn't worked
Just got the popup with "New USB Mouse" but nothing more.
Maybe there is some hope, that it will work, but I didn't get it to work.
greetz
playdo
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Did you try using a flashdrive and see if it gets recognized ? I'll be interested in that.
I have just flashed a new ROM and I'm experimenting a bit.
But i try to test it in the next days, if I find the time
By the way, my car is rusting and i got little time because I gotta repair all the **** >.<
Hi Guys,
Is the HD2 come with an USB Host ?
Thx
Rgds
Plnf
I believe I saw somewhere that a usb host was a confirmed feature.
means we can use it without any tweak or it needs some configurations ?
the german press release of the HD2 mentioned something along the lines of 'you're able to plug in a keyboard and the-like'. But there's no mention of such a thing on the HTC homepage..
also B3ler3fonte confirmed it has one (he had/has the test unit though).
I guess we'll have to wait for the finished product to land in our hands.
Anybody has tested if USB host on the HD2 could work with the cables that come with the Toshiba TG01 ?
Somebody tried that on another forum (in Russian, so I won't post any links). He says that the TG01 connector doesn't fit, it has a slightly different shape.
according to this post : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5009199&postcount=18 the HOST-Pins arent connected ...
Hey guys!
Seen a similar thread based on a different phone ..
Audio out (to the best of my knowledge) has been hacked on other phones using mini or micro usb connections.
Have/has/can it also be hacked for video out?
This was actually one of the reasons I got the Xperia - feel kind of failed by Orange (mis-sold put nicely...)
Let's see the input here..... cheers!
The kernel given in this Thread may work on our HD2, as it has, just like the Nexus One, a QSD8250.
As I don't have time at the moment I kindly ask for a tester who is willed to test this awesome feature
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1468531
Nothing to do...as long as our Leo doesn't sypply ext devices with power WITHOUT any modded wire it is (at least for me) absolutly unusable.
It would make difference to connect HD2 to TV or connect devices like printer etc.
You can buy Y-cable with 9V battery external power or just make it yourself(which is very simple imho)
i will!!!!!!! if you provide some instructions! the page you linked is not exactly average-user-friendly!!!!!!