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[INFO] USB host works with female to female USB gender changer

I bought a USB female to female adapter to plug on the end of the charging cord, some things work, some things don't.
List of devices that work:
HTC Hero - Mass Storage mode (works 2 out of 5 tries aprox.)
Logitech G9 - Works, although only default buttons (left, right, scroll, middle) seem to work
SanDisk Cruzer 4GB USB Stick - Works
Generic Logitech wired keyboard - Works, although not all keys do.
List of devices that DON'T work:
Logitech Wireless Keyboard K250
USB external DAC
Generic Logitech USB mouse

I hope it can read usb flash drive too !!! already bought my female-to-female adapter too

I just tried hooking up my HTC hero with mass storage enabled and it seems to be hit and miss? It recognizes it 2 out of 5 times or so.

How about finding and wiring USB from the 40 pin connector
It is a given the 40 pin connector has USB. Does anyone have pinout / mating connector info?

Sweet, can you check external HDD? Powered 3.5 and portable 2.5in if possible?

buri73 said:
Sweet, can you check external HDD? Powered 3.5 and portable 2.5in if possible?
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Don't have any on hand at the moment, I will possibly have access to an ext HDD tomorrow though and will check it then if I can.

That's great news. I did like having USB host on my GTab.

i'm assuming it's all fat32. it would be nice if ntfs worked out the box.

madsquabbles said:
i'm assuming it's all fat32. it would be nice if ntfs worked out the box.
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NTFS SHOULD be supported, but yes mine are all FAT32/FATex/ext4

i will have to try again, i built a gender changer, tried it with one mouse, and it did not work so i assumed it would not work for anything, i'll have to try some thumb drives or something.

T3rry1 said:
i will have to try again, i built a gender changer, tried it with one mouse, and it did not work so i assumed it would not work for anything, i'll have to try some thumb drives or something.
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it seems really picky, it recognized my G9 mouse but not a generic logitech one.

Just speculating, but I would guess that it isn't up to spec. So devices that have looser requirements will work (say it can take 4V instead of requiring 5V), but devices with stricter requirements fail.

did you try a all-in-one type card reader?
or connect digital camera to it?

T3rry1 said:
i will have to try again, i built a gender changer, tried it with one mouse, and it did not work so i assumed it would not work for anything, i'll have to try some thumb drives or something.
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Isn't that because USB mouse support is not in Honeycomb yet?

FrayAdjacent said:
Isn't that because USB mouse support is not in Honeycomb yet?
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No, Usb mouse is supported by HC. You can use one with the dock. This is more likely a power thing. The port's main use is power in and data, not power out. It may have strange limits.

cyberguest said:
did you try a all-in-one type card reader?
or connect digital camera to it?
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don't have any of those, sorry.

Picked up a USB female to female plug today, and proceeded to plug in various drives, mice, Phoness etc, but no sign of anything happening at all. Is there something else I'm missing here? Cheers.

Can anyone with an SD/card reader see if it's recognized?
I'm going on vacation soon and would love to back up my photos to the TF.

Thought about this 2 days ago and bought one yesterday. Tried to plug in my Inspire 4G, external USB HDD and USB jumpdrive. None of them worked.

Merlin_AZ said:
Can anyone with an SD/card reader see if it's recognized?
I'm going on vacation soon and would love to back up my photos to the TF.
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I tried a multi card reader and it didn't work. I didn't try a card reader that reads only SD (don't have one) but I doubt that it's gonna work given everything else I tried didn't (usb mouse, usb flash drives, Nikon DSLR)

Galaxy S2 USB OTG

Ok, in theory Galaxy S 2 supports USB On-The-Go which means, it can be a USB host device for things like pendrives, digital cameras etc.
Granted of course, that you have the necessary cable.
Has anyone tried this feature?

Also, does the connected device have to be formatted as fat32?

valdigre said:
Ok, in theory Galaxy S 2 supports USB On-The-Go which means, it can be a USB host device for things like pendrives, digital cameras etc.
Granted of course, that you have the necessary cable.
Has anyone tried this feature?
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Look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrKkklO_Fok
Greetz Tokl

According to you, would also be possible to connect to galaxy s2 an usb device such a keyboard or a mouse like in nokia n8? This wuold be really great!

Longer demo of Galaxy S2 USB OTG using a USB drive, mouse, keyboard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giJXF5pIITc

K5TRX said:
Longer demo of Galaxy S2 USB OTG using a USB drive, mouse, keyboard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giJXF5pIITc
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FYI, mouse and keyboard are bluetooth.
I agree with the reviewer, big black mark on Samsung for not including the required cables with the phone for USB and HDMI.

at about minut 4 he says that usb mouse and keyboard doesn't work.
this is really a bad news for me

Cinner said:
Also, does the connected device have to be formatted as fat32?
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I am also afraid so When my phone arrives, I'll test it with ntfs & ext3.

Update on USB Mouse - some are working. Check my thread in the accessories forum for more details.

Hi there,
Got my £2 cable from Hong Kong (ebay purchase today).
Works great - even runs my 500GB HDD (this has to be plugged in to operate anyway - not sure USB powered HDDs will work).
If anyone's interested, the item description was:
Micro USB Host Cable for Nokia N810 OTG on the go N 810
No mention of the SGS2 - but I can verify that these work just fine!!!
Jamie

Any Nokia compatible OTG cable seem to work. I've successfully tested several different cables (all from eBay) with usb sticks, optical mouse and usb based memory card reader. However, usb based wifi sticks, fast ethernet dongle and tv-card didn't work. We probably need some new drivers and possibly more power (an usb hub could fix this).

I bought the Nokia USB OTG adapter too. With FAT32 Sticks ists working. But without NTFS support it is nearly useless for me.

umm...i have a nokia n8 and i took off the OTG cable that came with it before selling it in favor of buying a new Galaxy S 2.
However, the nokia OTG cable is perfectly rectangular, whereas the Galaxy S 2 cable connector is a bit "broken off" two edges, hence, using them is impossible together...but i managed to get them to work (in the shop where i tried the Galaxy S 2 at least, i didn't buy the phone yet).
I used a rasp, and filed off the edges of the Nokia OTG cable carefully to match the "broken edges" as the Galaxy S2's connector shape...took that cable to the shop where there is a working Galaxy S 2 unit, and connected it with a flash disk on the other side aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand......it worked !
If you have the caution and a rasp, i think Nokia's OTG cable should work too..they're cheap off ebay too, aren't they ?

Just ordered one of those off ebay (The Nokia N8 compatible one). Would receive it by tomorrow. I hope it works!

Here is mine ****ty review of USB mouse, USB keyboard and USB lamp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQn1DCA0PRQ

here's mine, got it also from ebay.

If you can't get it to recognize USB mass storage I would suggest using USB Mass Storage Watcher: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skidmrk.umswatcherotg. It will let you mount any type of external storage (NTFS, FAT 32/16, EXT, etc... It's free.
Also, this is a good USB host cable: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GGBYJ4?ie=UTF8&seller=A76FR6O1NBAXV&sn=T & S Electronics, LLC

I seem to get a "Clear USB" error when I plug in certain usb drives. I'm not sure if this is related to the drive being NTFS or if it is above a certain size. I can't for the life of me find any specs on the whole feature, including its maximum output power.
Could anyone shed some light on the subject from their trial and errors?
Thanks,
Alex

It works with a lot, but not all USB devices.
It doesn't read NTFS format.
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Akez42 said:
I seem to get a "Clear USB" error when I plug in certain usb drives. I'm not sure if this is related to the drive being NTFS or if it is above a certain size. I can't for the life of me find any specs on the whole feature, including its maximum output power.
Could anyone shed some light on the subject from their trial and errors?
Thanks,
Alex
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hkwildboy said:
It works with a lot, but not all USB devices.
It doesn't read NTFS format.
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Maybe this will help you guys :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15167790&postcount=41
Greetz Tokl

external hard drive?

Hi people,
I read in a review that you can connect an external hard drive to the nexus 7 (the usb powered ones) via a USB Host Cable.
Could any of you tell me if this is correct or not? As i have an Archos 80 g9 and i know it cant do it off the micro usb only the USB 2.0 slot it has.
Thanks a lot for the help
Regards
Kurpter

Yes, it is possible but you may need to provide external power to the drive. Use a powered usb hub or something like that. The Nexus 7 most likely won't be able to output enough current to power a spinning drive.

Ah ok, so you are saying that you plug the usb host connection from the nexus to the usb hub and plug the hard drive in to another port on the hub?
I just want to know if this works as 16GB isnt much space when you want to take it on a trap to watch films.
cheers

you need to be rooted. my understanding is flash drives or micro sdcards are good to go, not sure an external hd will work unless powered as previous poster alluded
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Since N7's have been out for a few days, has anyone tried hooking up a portable hdd using a micro otg cable? I could plug my portable Toshiba hdd into my Acer A500 tablet without rooting and it would read the contents of the drive just fine. I would watch movies and view pictures as if it were an sd card. Wondered if the N7 unrooted could do the same?

ezzkmo said:
Since N7's have been out for a few days, has anyone tried hooking up a portable hdd using a micro otg cable? I could plug my portable Toshiba hdd into my Acer A500 tablet without rooting and it would read the contents of the drive just fine. I would watch movies and view pictures as if it were an sd card. Wondered if the N7 unrooted could do the same?
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No it does not mount the external storage nor does it have an option to do so. You need to root and install chainfire's stickmount app for this to work.

clockcycle said:
No it does not mount the external storage nor does it have an option to do so. You need to root and install chainfire's stickmount app for this to work.
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Yes, root and stickmount. Does anyone need me to test an external hard drive? I can if you guys want.
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I use a Seagate Wireless Drive
kurpter said:
Hi people,
I read in a review that you can connect an external hard drive to the nexus 7 (the usb powered ones) via a USB Host Cable.
Could any of you tell me if this is correct or not? As i have an Archos 80 g9 and i know it cant do it off the micro usb only the USB 2.0 slot it has.
Thanks a lot for the help
Regards
Kurpter
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Hi. I decided to use a wireless drive to store all of my music, movies and documents. So, I purchased the Seagate GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage. You can use with Android or IOS devices. I love it.

Yes, its a no-go out-of-the box connecting to a USB thumb drive or a powered HD with a microUSB OTG cable. This doesn't really surprise me, though, because they would need to dynamically detect the device type and mount it on the system. What I haven't tried is a USB keyboard. Anybody do that?

wiithepeng said:
Yes, root and stickmount. Does anyone need me to test an external hard drive? I can if you guys want.
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yes could u test it out? i was thinking of buying a portable hard drive but not sure if it will have enough power to use it
does usb 3.0 work? or do i need to buy a usb 2.0

I've tested mine with an old 60GB WD Passport and a new 500GB Freecom XXS. Both are 2.5" USB powered external HDDs, and both worked fine.

chris100575 said:
I've tested mine with an old 60GB WD Passport and a new 500GB Freecom XXS. Both are 2.5" USB powered external HDDs, and both worked fine.
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great thanks for the info. btw is the new one using usb 3.0 or 2.0? do u know if usb 3.0 will work?

I just plugged in a full-sized USB keyboard using my OTG cable and it works fine. I can touch type, use the cursor keys including ctrl+arrows to skip words, bring up menus with the context menu key just to the left of the right-hand ctrl key, etc, etc. I'm sure it must be using up my battery at a faster rate, though.
Edit: It's just occurred to me that there's a problem with using a USB keyboard to type when the N7 is in portrait mode: finding a stand to hold the tablet upright at the right angle when the USB-OTG cable is sticking out of the USB port at the bottom of the tablet.
Mind you, it's great being able to type at full speed without a soft keyboard hiding a large chunk of the screen.
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garryknight said:
Edit: It's just occurred to me that there's a problem with using a USB keyboard to type when the N7 is in portrait mode: finding a stand to hold the tablet upright at the right angle when the USB-OTG cable is sticking out of the USB port at the bottom of the tablet.
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You can get OTG cables with a right angled micro-USB plug on them, which might help your stand problem. I have one on its way as I was concerned about knocking/bending/snapping the straight plug when its sat on my lap in portrait mode.

Edit: It's just occurred to me that there's a problem with using a USB keyboard to type when the N7 is in portrait mode: finding a stand to hold the tablet upright at the right angle when the USB-OTG cable is sticking out of the USB port at the bottom of the tablet.
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Or, just turn the tablet upside down so the cable is pointing up. The display will rotate appropriately.

I think but not sure that you'll want cm10 for the rotate from any angle thing...

chris100575 said:
I've tested mine with an old 60GB WD Passport and a new 500GB Freecom XXS. Both are 2.5" USB powered external HDDs, and both worked fine.
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how did you manage it ??did you use nexus media importer

Without a custom kernel, the external hdd won't work with Stickmount or NMI if it is formatted NTFS. I haven't actually used NMI, but others have posted about the NTFS issue.

OTG Working on 2015 Fire (kffowi/ford)

What is otg?
USB On-The-Go, often abbreviated to USB OTG or just OTG, is a specification first used in late 2001 that allows USB devices, such as digital audio players or mobile phones, to act as a host, allowing other USB devices, such as USB flash drives, digital cameras, mice, or keyboards, to be attached to them.
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-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go​
Required: OTG Cable
Amazon Link: Micro-USB 3.0 OTG Adapter
Amazon Link: USB 2.0 OTG Cable
These are just some examples of cables available, there maybe better, or cheaper options
What is a OTG cable
When attached to a PC, an OTG device requires a cable which has a USB Standard-A plug on one end and a Micro-B plug on the other end. In order to attach a peripheral to an OTG device, the peripheral either needs a cable ending in a Micro-A plug, which is inserted into the OTG device's Micro-AB receptacle, or the OTG device itself needs an adapter cable with a Micro-A plug on one end and a Standard-A receptacle on the other. The adapter cable enables any standard USB peripheral to be attached to an OTG device. Attaching two OTG devices together requires either a cable with a Micro-B plug at one end and a Micro-A plug at the other, or can be achieved using a combination of the PC cable and adapter cable.
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-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go#OTG_micro_cables​
Working
Full size Qwerty Keyboard
USB Mouse
USB to SD card converter
USB Ethernet
Not Working
USB to Serial converter
Parani-UD100a USB Bluetooth Adapter
Parani & TP-Link did not show in Network Info II app

How do we enable thee OTG interface?

trentonpls said:
How do we enable thee OTG interface?
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Don't need to enable OTG it is enabled by default.
You do need an OTG cable, I'll post a link to some in op

sd_shadow said:
Don't need to enable OTG it is enabled by default.
You do need an OTG cable, I'll post a link to some in op
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Oh OK, I have an OTG cable. Just didn't know if we needed to install anything.

trentonpls said:
Oh OK, I have an OTG cable. Just didn't know if we needed to install anything.
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Not in most cases, some usb devices may require an otg app to change settings

Thanks for your hard work on root/recovery. I was planning to try OTG print to USB printer tonight. I'll update here tonight after I get home and try it.

USB Serial adapter working here; FTDI chipset

Do you know if it matters if cable is usb 2.0 or 3.0 or are both supported?

I just wanted to report that when I connect an USB stick to the Fire (5.0.1) and try to use ES File Explorer to browse through its files, the Fire force-restarts.
Using Solid Explorer there's no such issue

OTG worked perfectly on 5.1.1 (rooted) using this drive. Same with a generic (cheap) OTG dongle similar to this. Plug-n-play.

regulusirius said:
I just wanted to report that when I connect an USB stick to the Fire (5.0.1) and try to use ES File Explorer to browse through its files, the Fire force-restarts.
Using Solid Explorer there's no such issue
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Don't think I tried it on 5.0.1 doesn't crash on my twrp updated 5.1.1 on ES though. I did run the sd fix but no idea if that's of any significance.

Pond-life said:
Don't think I tried it on 5.0.1 doesn't crash on my twrp updated 5.1.1 on ES though. I did run the sd fix but no idea if that's of any significance.
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Do you have the play store ES or the Amazon app store ES?

regulusirius said:
Do you have the play store ES or the Amazon app store ES?
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Play store's as it's newer.

Usbasp works. USB programmer for Atmel AVR microcontroller chips.
USB webcam works. Standard UVC webcam.

Pond-life said:
Play store's as it's newer.
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I tried with the play store version and the table didn't restart, but a few apps "greyed" out and they were impossible to launch until a restart

blueberry.sky said:
Usbasp works. USB programmer for Atmel AVR microcontroller chips.
USB webcam works. Standard UVC webcam.
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Interesting, how does the webcam work jw? Do you have to install an app for it to work? Or do you just use the camera app or something?

4t701 said:
Interesting, how does the webcam work jw? Do you have to install an app for it to work? Or do you just use the camera app or something?
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An app is needed as far as I know. I haven't actually used it for anything, was just testing what works. Tested with the "UsbWebCamera" app. There are also apps that will stream the usb webcam from your Fire to another device. I could think of a couple nice uses for a usb webcam. Cheap car rear view camera, constantly recording car dash cam (record to a SanDisk high endurance video monitoring microSD). Personally I wouldn't drive without a dash cam. Too many crazy drivers who will swear they weren't texting while they ran right into you.

Power+OTG
Has anyone found out if this tablet supports OTG while charging?

It does not appear to support OTG + charging.

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It does not appear to support OTG + charging.
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I believe a kernel modification could make this work.... I am looking into it, but I really have little idea of where to begin; A $50 tab for (semi)permanent car install would be incredible
Any help would be greatly appreciated

OTG can't get it to work. WTH?

Just updated to 4.5.3 hoping it would do anything good. Wrong, I still cannot access otg. It's the original adapter from oneplus and it's working with the op2.
Otg is activated in advanced settings.
Please help.

Go to settings > advanced > turn on OTG storage
Restart the device

sunnyhj said:
Go to settings > advanced > turn on OTG storage
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Thanks but I already did so as mentioned in the OP
Maybe some switch in the dev settings I missed?

The Onplus2 OTG cable is non-standard and different from the OTG cable sold for the Onplus3, 3T and 5.
Despite being USB-C they did something weird on the OP2 which prevents it from using any other cheap OTG adapter.

Han-Droid said:
Thanks but I already did so as mentioned in the OP
Maybe some switch in the dev settings I missed?
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Oh.. Okay. Might be a cable issue then. My OTG works fine. Been using this for a year now. Worked Perfectly with my Nexus 6P and now with OP 5

d4fseeker said:
The Onplus2 OTG cable is non-standard and different from the OTG cable sold for the Onplus3, 3T and 5.
Despite being USB-C they did something weird on the OP2 which prevents it from using any other cheap OTG adapter.
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O.k., thanks. I'm referring to this white oneplus adapter and a small SanDisk duo-usb stick ( micro and standard plugs (male) on both sides. No cable actually.

I've just tried OTG with my OP5. Works fine and I was able to read a micro-SD card with an adapter plugged into my Anker USB-C to USB 3.1 Adapter.
Alan

alan sh said:
I've just tried OTG with my OP5. Works fine and I was able to read a micro-SD card with an adapter plugged into my Anker USB-C to USB 3.1 Adapter.
Alan
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Thanks, I guess I'll return it considering I have that wobbly screen effect as well.... Oh my....

Mine didn't work either, despite using multiple working OTG cables/adapters, toggling the option (many times), a reboot (many times) and eventually resetting the device and was told to RMA it. Mine was a 128gb/8gb ram black one so apparently the issue is still there (incase someone is panic reading this thread).

Han-Droid said:
Just updated to 4.5.3 hoping it would do anything good. Wrong, I still cannot access otg. It's the original adapter from oneplus and it's working with the op2.
Otg is activated in advanced settings.
Please help.
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I have a thread relating to TV out for the one plus 5, standard MHL no longer works, I discovered that displaylink works perfectly for OTG purposes and TV out.
My thread is in the themes/apps section listed as Wired TV out.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/themes/wired-tv-one-plus-5-makes-displaylink-t3667974