Here is what I'm needing/wanting to do. I have a wildlife cam that takes pictures and stores them on a sd card. This unit has a usb connection to download to a laptop. I'm wanting to connect a cell phone to this unit. As the cam takes pics, it stores them to it's sd card. I wanting to connect my cell phone to the cam with the usb cord. It would be nice to be able to ask the cell phone the transmit or sync somehow with a "cloud" type storage.
My issues that I can think of is if I have a usb cord plugged into my wildlife cam, if it will be able to write to the sd card while the cell phone is plugged in. If I'm lucky and it will, how can I get my cellphone to grab these pics and upload to the web. I'm thinking I might have to sync the wildlife cam sd card with a folder on my cellphone, and then somehow synce this with the net.
Does anyone have any better ideas or know if this is possible? Thanks in advance
Kevin
So I'm still waiting for the 3.1 update sadly. And I'm curious if anyone attempted to hook up their xoom to any dslr or camera of any sort. This would certainly bring my dslr to a new level.
Yes I have. I've not a dslr but a digital camera capable of using the host function. What do you need to know?
Just basically how it handles the transfer. Do I need a file manager program like astro file manager? Can I specify the directory from and where the images go.
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i pretty much got told i was an idiot in this post, and had my thread hijacked. screw those retards, im doing way more with my XOOM then they will dream of.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1073396
i hooked mine up, works great. you dont need astro. it asks to import in gallery. If you want to move your photos around to edit on photoshop mobile, youll need it since galley puts the imports into a "imported" folder in the /sdcard root. photoshop mobile does not look there, it goes to DCIM.
apologies i missed this post but good answer from above there.
and photshop mobile.. is it any good? (partial thread hijack.. )
Also, be aware, it doesn't prompt for overwrites. I was testing it at work doing product photography. I imported the first batch of photos, picked the keepers and started the next batch, another person had disabled the sequential numbering on the camera so deleting the first batch from the SD card reset the counter. Upon importing the second batch, I lost all of my first batch.
Beyond that, it works quite well.
My rooted xoom on 3.1 does not even 'see' my canon 60D (and vice versa) when connected with my OTG cable
I know my OTG cable is fine because it works with all my flash drives, external HDDs, and card reader
Normally when I plug in the 60D to the computer, the camera turns itself into USB mode (cannot shoot photos), but when plugged to my xoom, it appears as if nothing is plugged in (still shoots photos properly)
Works great with pro SLR's!!!
Love it! I plugged my Nikon D3S, D3X and D700 pro SLR cameras into it and my pictures showed up in the gallery!!! This is a HUGE benefit since now I can leave my tablet PC at home and use the Xoom to quick email some proofs.
Now if only the Micro SD slot would work without rooting!
how about connecting usb hd webcam? (if powered from external source...)
is it possible to record videos from such camera?
Using Tiamat and Sony DSLR's hook up no problem as long as you use the special cable. I read that 3.1 will allow usb host too but I do not know how much more or less will be supported with stock vs the Tiamat kernel. Will you still need the special usb cable with 3.1 so that usbhost will work, or will any usb cable work? I know I tried with the Tiamat one and it did not work, which is why I ordered the special cable.
I've a Canon T2i and I can only import pictures as long they are jpgs. Does anybody imported RAW pictures (.CR2) into the xoom? I can't find the directory where my camera is mounted so I can move my pictures manually, it would be awesome if I can see my raw images but at least I want to use my xoom as a storage.
Thanks
ptewee said:
My rooted xoom on 3.1 does not even 'see' my canon 60D (and vice versa) when connected with my OTG cable
I know my OTG cable is fine because it works with all my flash drives, external HDDs, and card reader
Normally when I plug in the 60D to the computer, the camera turns itself into USB mode (cannot shoot photos), but when plugged to my xoom, it appears as if nothing is plugged in (still shoots photos properly)
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Your camera most likely is in a USB Host mode and not PTP mode. I had the same problem with my camera. Its a simple fix just go to your camera USB options and set it to PTP. Also my camera needed power, it didn't when plugged into my MAC.
I have a video that shows this basically works. This highlights all the 3.1 features so I apologize for it not having just a video on that. But to see the OTG Camera Picture Import go to 6:20 in the video.
http://youtu.be/8CunvScq0rw
rfreddy said:
I've a Canon T2i and I can only import pictures as long they are jpgs. Does anybody imported RAW pictures (.CR2) into the xoom? I can't find the directory where my camera is mounted so I can move my pictures manually, it would be awesome if I can see my raw images but at least I want to use my xoom as a storage.
Thanks
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Hey, I also have a Canon but a 7D, can you try something for me?, hook up the camera, on the gallery go as if you were to import the pics and deselect all, then double click one to view the pic in full screen, now click once on the screen to pull up the scroll at the bottom that shows all the pics, scroll all the way to the last pic (I have about 300 on it) and see if your camera shows an error message 70 Shooting is not possible, bla bla... let me know how it goes.
Thanks
What kind of cable or adapter do I need to do this. Everything I have is used for plugging into my PC and obviously the end of the USB is way to big for this.
Ideas for best video conferencing app?
I'm still waiting for my OTG cable.
ptewee said:
My rooted xoom on 3.1 does not even 'see' my canon 60D (and vice versa) when connected with my OTG cable
I know my OTG cable is fine because it works with all my flash drives, external HDDs, and card reader
Normally when I plug in the 60D to the computer, the camera turns itself into USB mode (cannot shoot photos), but when plugged to my xoom, it appears as if nothing is plugged in (still shoots photos properly)
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Having a similar issues with a rooted xoom running 3.1 and tiamat 1.4.2. as soon as i plug my t2i in it freezes the camera till it is unplugged. while plugged in nothing shows up in gallery to import. tried plugging in a samsung point and shoot also and no go. Trying to look into it further.
update:got bored and went back to 3.0.1 & relocked and got the ota update and my t2i works fine. now to reflash tiamat and see if it still works or if it is indeed the source of the problem.
rfreddy said:
I've a Canon T2i and I can only import pictures as long they are jpgs. Does anybody imported RAW pictures (.CR2) into the xoom? I can't find the directory where my camera is mounted so I can move my pictures manually, it would be awesome if I can see my raw images but at least I want to use my xoom as a storage.
Thanks
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do you happen to know how to use adb logcat? looking to see what your xoom is doing to access your t2i that mine isn't.edit: never mind i got it. and for your question: raw pictures are stored in a slightly different format for each camera and you would need a program that was compatible with the t2i's format in order to view them. The gallery simply doesn't have that functionality so you won't be able to import them. also, the t2i isn't mounted as a drive when plugged in so you won't be able to access the files directly.
thanks for the reminder, but unfortunately, i've checked many places, but the Canon 60D has no option to turn on PTP... guess i shall need to wait for a firmware update or something
Did anyone manage to hook the TF300 up with a SD card in another Android device (phone)? This should not be to hard right? What I've tried:
1. Connect phone’s USB cable to TF300 dock’s USB port
2. Choose Disk Drive mode on phone… FAIL!
The tablet won’t recognize the phone as a storage device. Presumably because it is not set as a storage device right away while you plug it in (like when connecting a SD-card reader first, and putting in the SD-card afterwards). Is there a solution to easily transfer files (music) between tablet and phone with the use of USB?
Alright, I got the Shield K1 a few days ago, so far it's an awesome tablet. I upgraded to 6.0 when I first got it, haven't rooted it yet(want to wait a little longer). So last night I decided to transfer some files by USB using a micro usb to otg cable. The flash drive connects fine, but I can only view the files through Androids "explore" option either in Settings/Storage or from the Notification Panel. Viewing the flash drive through a file explorer app shows the flash drive as empty. Is there any other way to go through the flash drive through another app? Also, when the screen times out, the flash drive disconnects, which is really annoying. Any fix for that?
Hi All,
I have the same problem! With K1 and MM, when I attach a USB drive via OTG cable, it is only possibile to browse the drive via the "stock" option (clicking on the notification message or going through Setting/Storage). All file explorers I tried (at least 7-8) simply doesn't recognize the drive as well all the various video players (kodi, mxplayer, etc.). The only exception I found is ES File Manager that recognizes the attached USB but it mounts the drive in some tricky mode since, clicking on a video file, kodi doesn't play it at all and mxplayer crashes in fast forwarding/backwarding
I would like to know what is the speed of the usb link when copying files. I would like to use a usb connector to connect a card reader and take a photo backup from a camera card. Can anyone test it?
The phone has USB 3.1 connection and fast internal storage, so the file transfer will not be throttled by the phone. It will be as fast as your reader/card, which we can't test.
When copying files from PC via MTP I get speeds like 70-80 MB/s.