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USB micro to USB 2.0

Has anyone tried to use a micro/full size usb male/female cable with the fire. I know it works with the xoom but how about the fire?
http://www.amazon.com/USB-Micro-Female-Male-Adaptor/dp/B0023FTRUO

No I can't say that I have, but this is very interesting indeed!
What would be the benefits? I'm technologically inept sometimes, but I am assuming you might be able to expand it's memory?

This has been tried. As far as I know, we are not aware whether or not the hardware supports this (usb to go) but we are sure the stock kindle kernal does not. A rom or kernal in the future may remedy this eventually, but as of now usb is only for pc to kindle data transfer and charging.
Edit: You asked about the benefits, I didn't mention them. You might be able to use card readers, flash frives, cd rom drives, bluetooth dongles, anything you can imagine (given the drivers). Sometimes you need a powered hub, depending on the device being plugged in. I wouldn't hold your breathe on getting this on the kindle. It seems unlikely to me, but some brilliant dev may work a miracle!
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Kind of a usesless adapter no? What exactly are you supposed to plug that into..

altitude909 said:
Kind of a usesless adapter no? What exactly are you supposed to plug that into..
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That is exactly what Kapurnicus tried to cover. The full size USB end is female so you can plug in USB cables that are normally meant to be used with a desktop or laptop. I just bought a similar adapter for my Nook Color and I will use it to pull photos directly from my camera, which will be especially useful on trips without a laptop for viewing and uploading. Being able to carry a really large music, movie and tv library on an external hard drive and switch out what I have on my tablet would be cool, but I don't really have that need. Keyboard and/or mouse could come in handy for some people. Lots of things can be done

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Kind of a usesless adapter no? What exactly are you supposed to plug that into..
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It's so you can plug things INTO the Fire, assuming the get a USB host mode working.
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I have and no luck at all using it. Yes straight usb to computer works fine.
The problem the port on the kindle sends no power. So keyboard,mouse,sd card reader, usb fan usb light do not work with it. DVD drive I have not gave a try will in a few.
I will post on dvd drive once I hook it up. But I do not think it will work.
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dvd cd drive does not work at all.
Also have samsung printer and it does not work even with there app.

borborpa said:
It's so you can plug things INTO the Fire, assuming the get a USB host mode working.
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Oh i get it, but that USB host thingy is kind of a big deal

I have a phone charger that is usb on one end and micro usb on the other that one works great. I have not tried the method that you are speaking of I will try later and get back to you

troydog said:
I have and no luck at all using it. Yes straight usb to computer works fine.
The problem the port on the kindle sends no power. So keyboard,mouse,sd card reader, usb fan usb light do not work with it. DVD drive I have not gave a try will in a few.
I will post on dvd drive once I hook it up. But I do not think it will work.
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dvd cd drive does not work at all.
Also have samsung printer and it does not work even with there app.
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Host mode support is not part of the stock kernel or any of the custom kernels yet, and it won't work until developers can get those parts configured and debugged to work with the Kindle.

Confirmed: Card Reader Straight to HDD (No Root)

I just wanted to put this out there for any other photographers searching. With this powered USB hub- Anker® Uspeed USB 3.0 4 Port Compact Hub with Power Adapter and USB 3.0 Cable
I am able to connect a FAT32 500gb HDD. a CF card in a card reader, and then connect to OTG cable.
Read and write works with Nexus Media Importer, as well as being able to transfer straight from card to HDD with out putting any files on the
Nexus7. Write speeds are better than I expected too, about 1-2 seconds for each 25mb raw image.
All stock 4.3 no root. No more bringing a heavy laptop on surf trips. I always ended up editing on my desktop once I got home anyway. Badass little device! Can do basic raw edits of the embeded jpegs for facebook/instagram too with the RawVision app. As well as the DSLR Controller app using it as an external monitor for filming!
Hope it helps anyone searching.

Sweet. Thanx for the tip.
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Got my tn7, what now?

I can't root, since I bought a 1yr warranty, but what cool stuff can I do with this beast? I'm loving every bit of it, but what apps, games, themes, etc should I give a try? How far can it be pushed?
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Not Much From Me, But . . .
It is an Android tablet, and it can do what most any Android tablet can do, and faster. I mostly use mine for taking notes and reading/studying. Don't play many games. Video playback is great. Surfing the Internet likewise. Speakers are loud. This thing is fast. Download the AnTuTu benchmark app from the play store and impress your friends. I've been using mine everyday for over a month. No complaints. Enjoy.

It can basically chew through any game you throw at it, and I personally use it for a lot of note taking as well for work. I also use it to watch movies at my desk at work as well.

Connect to your TV wirelessly using an EZCast dongle so you can stream movies etc.
Connect to your TV using a micro HDMI cable, then connect a keyboard and mouse via Bluetooth and you can use it like a little PC. Or you can connect a USB OTG cable to the micro USB port and plug in a keyboard, a mouse, a game controller, or the dongle for a wireless keyboard/mouse combo set and do the same thing. You can also plug in a USB hub to the tablet via a USB OTG cable, then plug things like a mouse or a hard drive into the USB hub....all while the tablet is connected to a TV.
You can also use the magnets in the back to stick it to a fridge. Your life is now complete.

Play some GTA like games with MAX graphics setting!!! Watch movies over wifi, no need to copy onto sd card, this tab has very very goooood battery performance when wifi is on!!!!

Looks like USB storage is indeed supported [Updated]

Phil Nickinson from AndroidCentral has posted that USB storage doesn't show up properly on the Nexus Player:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PhilNickinson/posts/MiyoNJmtGK8
Of course, it looks like he tried to directly plug in a USB key into the micro USB slot instead of using an OTG cable, if I'm not mistaken. If anyone who gets their shipment today could verify one way or the other that'd be very useful for those of us who can still cancel our pre-orders if USB storage is a no go.
Update: it is indeed supported but needs root for better visibility across apps.

The ADT-1 has a full USB port and a USB Key is unreadable in that as well. It doesn't mount.

Mi|enko said:
The ADT-1 has a full USB port and a USB Key is unreadable in that as well. It doesn't mount.
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Thanks for that. On the ADT-1 is their a way to make its USB port a master with a hub attached? Have you tried keys, hard drives, etc using a hub?

Mi|enko said:
The ADT-1 has a full USB port and a USB Key is unreadable in that as well. It doesn't mount.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjuanw_KLTc&feature=youtu.be
this guy is running emulators on an adt1 with all the roms on a flash drive he plugged in, so there must be a way to read it on the dev unit, if not the nexus

jnrbshp said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjuanw_KLTc&feature=youtu.be
this guy is running emulators on an adt1 with all the roms on a flash drive he plugged in, so there must be a way to read it on the dev unit, if not the nexus
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Interesting! I wonder what he's got it formatted as. . . time to start some testing (note: I tested this on the original OOB firmware, but haven't tested it since updating to 13D).
Update: Just used a jump drive and tried Fat32, ExFat, and ext4. . . no dice.

I've just opened a USB stick and installed an APK off it with my Nexus Player. I used OTG Disk Explorer Lite, which I had to sideload. I imagine StickMount will work great once we've got root, and any app could also do the same USB mounting probably.
USB drive was formatted FAT from Windows 7.

Good to hear the OTG cable works. Now I wonder if it'll take a keyboard or ethernet adapter.
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I'll be damned. So, I never bothered to root my ADT-1 (silly me). So, I just spend 2 minutes doing that, pushed the USB OTG apk over, and voila. I now have external storage. Holy hell. Let's see if my 1TB HDD works. . .

reverenddak said:
Good to hear the OTG cable works. Now I wonder if it'll take a keyboard or ethernet adapter.
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Keyboard, mouse, and Ethernet all work. Some new gigabit Ethernet adapters won't work though; you have to get one that was supported as of Linux kernel 3.10.

xBIGREDDx said:
I've just opened a USB stick and installed an APK off it with my Nexus Player. I used OTG Disk Explorer Lite, which I had to sideload. I imagine StickMount will work great once we've got root, and any app could also do the same USB mounting probably.
USB drive was formatted FAT from Windows 7.
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Question for you. Have you tried navigating to the external storage using Root Explorer or anything similar? The only way I can seem to access the content on my drive is through the OTG app, which is kind of a bummer for what I have in mind.

Mi|enko said:
Question for you. Have you tried navigating to the external storage using Root Explorer or anything similar? The only way I can seem to access the content on my drive is through the OTG app, which is kind of a bummer for what I have in mind.
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So far I've only got it working through the OTG app. I think if I got StickMount working, that would enable it to work through other apps.
Interestingly, I installed XBMC (Kodi 14 Beta 1) and then used the OTG app to select an MKV file off the USB stick. It then opened it with XBMC and played. But when I tried to navigate storage with XBMC, it couldn't find the USB stick by itself.

xBIGREDDx said:
So far I've only got it working through the OTG app. I think if I got StickMount working, that would enable it to work through other apps.
Interestingly, I installed XBMC (Kodi 14 Beta 1) and then used the OTG app to select an MKV file off the USB stick. It then opened it with XBMC and played. But when I tried to navigate storage with XBMC, it couldn't find the USB stick by itself.
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Problem solved. So, the rooting and installing an OTG app was only half of it. You also need to disable SELinux. This app did the trick. After installing it, setting permissive, and rebooting, I'm in business.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mrbimc.selinux
Note: This is on the ADT-1, but I would think the implementation should be nearly identical once the NP gets root.

hi can you please add instructions on how to sideload applications because I'm getting mine shipped next week and would like to sideload xbmc thanks in advance to however helps this site has helped me alot in the past. I don't plan on using my player for games just tv

Mi|enko said:
Problem solved. So, the rooting and installing an OTG app was only half of it. You also need to disable SELinux. This app did the trick. After installing it, setting permissive, and rebooting, I'm in business.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mrbimc.selinux
Note: This is on the ADT-1, but I would think the implementation should be nearly identical once the NP gets root.
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so what exactly is solved now?? can you browse the drive using xbmc or any file explorer app?

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so what exactly is solved now?? can you browse the drive using xbmc or any file explorer app?
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Yes that's what he meant.
Sent from my Nexus 5

According to Phil Nickinson over at Android Central, it looks like external storage is possible via a USB OTG cable. I'd post the link...but, the 10 post limit thing is holding a brutha back.

Y2Dre said:
According to Phil Nickinson over at Android Central, it looks like external storage is possible via a USB OTG cable. I'd post the link...but, the 10 post limit thing is holding a brutha back.
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Thanks for the heads up... this is very good news. Here's the link:
The Nexus Player works with external storage and USB ethernet

I have an ADT 1 and my hard drives and all things work after mounting from USB OTG Helper. Needed to root first.
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It's possible for Nexus Player too. Just wait until you get the root

Harkunwar said:
I have an ADT 1 and my hard drives and all things work after mounting from USB OTG Helper. Needed to root first.
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It's possible for Nexus Player too. Just wait until you get the root
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so usb otg is supported for the adt-1 ? everything is working well ?

For me it does

one stop thread for problems that most people encountered. Please share your solution

Instead of new comers squandering around looking for solutions to set up the nexus player for gaming and media streaming. Lets simplify things a bit to see what accessories to get and what software to use to get our nexus player to its maximum capability.
Lollirock 1.5 rom (OTG micro usb cable and a usb mouse or keyboard are required during first bootup. It will not detect nexus remote during first bootup)
Stick mount pro(Play Store) Make sure it's the pro version or else it won't work!-
- A must have for external storage. This app enables storage drives to mount into a specific location using symbolic link option which isn't included in the free version. By default, it will mount storage devices under sdcard/usb folder instead of usb:// mount location (apps like emulators or xbmc that uses file explore do not search to this location usb://)
- I have tested it on xbmc, my boy, fpse, and ppsspp.
Known issue: external storage formatted under ntfs will not mount properly. Files will not show up under mount folder.
I'm currently using exFAT format and it seem to work fine so far.
For those who uses stock Nexus Player rom, you have to download stick mount pro from a third party site since the license won't transfer(I'm assuming that you paid for it)
Sixaxis controller(Play Store)
- Can pair up to 2 controllers for two players games. There's also a setting to set dual shock 3 or 4 to run as native android controller, so you don't have to deal with mapping everything manually.
My suggestion
Accessories : Rii 8 wireless touchpad keyboard(Amazon) mini keypad with track pad and qwerty keyboard.
Logitech keyboard k700
Ps4 controller
Inateck card reading+Hub(Amazon) -
- It very important to choose the right otg micro usb cable because it can effect read/write speed for external storage drives, including low power consumption drives such as usb flash drives and sd cards. This hub can run with or without a secondary power source.
I thought something like a flash drive with a low power consumption didn't require a decent otg cable, but it does. I was testing a psp rom off my usb storage with a much simpler micro usb otg cable and the frame rate wasn't that great also the loading time. Transfer files were also very slow. So keep that in mind, make sure to get a decent micro usb otg hub or card reader. At least get one that you can supply power to from an outlet.
For those who are looking to run Amazon prime video, download Kodi (xbmc) and Amazon prime video add-on zip.
-Amazon instant video app is crappy on android to begin with compare to IOS version which has a more user friendly UI similar to Netflix. Kodi improves that with cover arts and tv-friendly user interface.

I couldn't get sixaxis to pair my stupid ps3 controls I don't know what I did wrong...
Sent from my Nexus 6

trvbone said:
I couldn't get sixaxis to pair my stupid ps3 controls I don't know what I did wrong...
Sent from my Nexus 6
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Have you used sixaxis before? I'm just wondering., so I can help you figure out the issue.

I have but I think the problem is I didn't see a Bluetooth address when I set it up on the Nexus player maybe I have to fix the zoom setting in the overscan setting on my Nexus player to see it
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