Anyone know if this is possible with the USB OTG cable?
I would imagine that if you flash a kernel with USB tethering built in you could. I remever someone had success with a Novatel USB stick. I think I read it in a thread about OTG. It was like a all in one breakdown of how it works.
Check this out it may help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1040366
Any updates on this? I was about to make a new thread when I noticed this one. I just got a Videotron mobile internet stick for 6$ a month, no commitment (500mb/month) and wanted to see if it'll work on the 'ol XOOM.
it's a HUAWEI Mobile Broadband E1831
would be epic if it worked on the XOOM !
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Hi Folks
I have an Asus Transformer arriving in the next few days and in anticipation I bought a Telstra Ultimate Mobile USB modem.
Now I am hoping like hell I can use in on the tablet when it arrives .... can it be done ?
Thanks for reading and Mods can move this to somewhere else if I posted in the wrong area
Cheers
Android has no support for USB network devices.
That said some rom builders for some devices have got some USB 3g dongles working on devices that have USB host mode ports (The TF doesn't have a USB host port without the keyboard dock)
Overall I'd say there is vanishingly small likelihood it would work out of the box and it's unlikely it will ever work.
Honeycomb 3.1 is supposed to include support for a much wider range of devices and I've seen reports that USB modems may be among these devices.
I'm planning to try my old Huawei E220 modem (if any device is supported it's going to be the E220) as soon as I get the update applied and see how I get on.
SilentMobius said:
Android has no support for USB network devices.
That said some rom builders for some devices have got some USB 3g dongles working on devices that have USB host mode ports (The TF doesn't have a USB host port without the keyboard dock)
Overall I'd say there is vanishingly small likelihood it would work out of the box and it's unlikely it will ever work.
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I am getting the dock as well so are you saying it may work on the USB off the dock ?
Matchstick said:
Honeycomb 3.1 is supposed to include support for a much wider range of devices and I've seen reports that USB modems may be among these devices.
I'm planning to try my old Huawei E220 modem (if any device is supported it's going to be the E220) as soon as I get the update applied and see how I get on.
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Please let us know how you get on mate
Sadly I've tried both a Huawei E220 and E160G without any success.
I haven't tried checking logcat etc when I plug in the device but at the moment the transformer doesn't recognise them as modems (or seem to show the micro-sd card reader on the E160G either but that may be down to a dodgy micro-sd card)
I can't say I'm exactly surprised as USB modem support wouldn't exactly help Asus to sell the 3G version of the Transformer (when it's finally released), but maybe the extra device support in 3.1 will make it easier for the dev community to add this functionality.
EEE use with Telstra Ultimate USB modem
Thanks for this thread.
Unfortunately, I have been caught on this too and have been searching for some answers. This site was the closest I found to something that applies.
I have tried it on the docking station host port and it does not even see it.
I tried fooling it by putting a copy of the installation software on a thumb-drive using another port, it saw the folder but would not execute any of the auto run files.
Looks to me like either Telstra or Android need a firmware version put into the hardware before we get any joy. It's too bad because it is a great tablet and the docking station is great.
Cheers
Hello
I know this has been asked before, but no conclusion was presented.
I have an Huawei E173 3G usb modem i primarily use for my car stereo(Parrot Asteroid, this runs Android 1.5/1.6 this has support for a lot of usb dongles)
I want to to use this with my Wifi Xoom via an usb OTG cable.
As of now i doesn't work.
This because the lack of drivers and APN settings on the Xoom.
I have read the thread over at the XDA acer iconica tab forum about this, and they got it to work. ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14603952 )
The android drivers for a lot of usb dongles exist, but how to get them to work on the xoom?
Tiamat kernel has the needed modules (usb_wwan.ko), so, you need just the script to set up connection. You can try with this one, maybe you need to change something...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058846
I dont have, the otg cable, but as soon as i can get one i'm trying to get this work...
I'll check it out.
For the moment i don't have an OTG cable either. Waiting for a new one from ebay.
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Tiamat kernel has the needed modules (usb_wwan.ko), so, you need just the script to set up connection. You can try with this one, maybe you need to change something...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058846
I dont have, the otg cable, but as soon as i can get one i'm trying to get this work...
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Hi, I have got a Tiamat 2.1 rom, and I have a uk wifi only version XOOM. However, I can not find any setting about APN. How can I make a 3G USB model work on my wifi only XOOM?
Thank you
I'm totally curious too. I have a WIFI XOOM and I just got a nice USB HSPA+ stick from Videotron and I wanna see if I can get it to work via OTG - I checked OS Monitor (Tiamat ROM) and it seems the stick is detected, with a dead IP 169.254 etc...
so I just need a dialer! Any news at all?
Thanks in advance!
any solution yet?i have tried everything possible, bricked my device couple of time, its teasing me :'(
I also wanna to try. But two problems here:
(1)"/etc/ppp/peers" is Read Only file system, so it is impossible to put dialing scripts there.
(2)I don't have proper drivers.
Can anyone help?
About the question (1) above, I've got done with it from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1341585.
Any solution with dialers yet? Really need this to work
My son is stationed in Afghanistan. He has (pays for) an internet connection. He is not allowed to install a wifi access point. He must connect via Cat5 cable.
He had a laptop which just had the power adapter connection break off inside the laptop. (Thanks for that great engineering, ASUS!) While he sends that back stateside for us to get fixed, he wants to get a tablet so he can still get on the internet, message friends and family back home, etc.
Originally, he was thinking iPad, but that seems to only allow connectivity via wifi. So do most tablets I've seen. I've seen a thread on here where someone is working on a USB driver which would allow the USB2Internet devices to work, but that requires rooting a device and installing custom drivers, and I'm not sure he is savvy enough to do that.
Are there any tablets that you would recommend that could connect to the internet via an internet cable instead of Wifi? (The only one I have found is the Gigabyte Win7 tablet.)
What does everyone recommend? (Ideally, something I can find on amazon, because I can dropship straight to him that way...)
Thanks!
This might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983680
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Thanks Hooride707. I searched for similar threads but somehow didn't see that one...
I did find that the Toshiba Thrive can do it via a USB 2 Ethernet adapter:
Thrive Forum
So far that seems like a pretty good choice...
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Is it possible to make working 3G USB-modem on Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 by USB OTG cable.
What we needed? Custom ROM or something? Some terminal tricks?
I saw it possible on many of cheap chinese tabs, so what about Galaxy Tab 2?
I have USB OTG cable that works flawlessly with USB hub(active) and usb memory sticks, have ZTE MF622+ and HUAWEI E219 modems in "modem only" mode, but they doesn't work.
Any suggestions?
I'm sure, I'm not the only one who need this.
Thanks!
Poll has been started in this thread.
Please? feel free with oppinions.
I think the biggest issue here is there is no software on the device to support the connection to the 3g modem. I worked in the cell phone industry for 10 years and 5 of those where when mobile broadband became popular. EVERY usb dongle modem has software that has to be installed on the device you want to use it on. So I would think for someone to make this work they would have to rewrite an access manager for the different companies for the device to work like that.
Many of the cheap chineese tabs works fine with various usb-modem dongles, right off the box. You just need to switch a 3g usb dongle to "modem only" mode with special AT commands.
Up this thread please!
barmalei7 said:
Many of the cheap chineese tabs works fine with various usb-modem dongles, right off the box. You just need to switch a 3g usb dongle to "modem only" mode with special AT commands.
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Could you please elaborate on how to accomplish this. SOme of us are less versed in the subject - but we are good in following instructions.
Thanks
Has anyone been able to hook up a flash drive yet with USB OTG? Been waiting for my cable to arrive to test out. Just wondering since I didn't order a powered hub with it, since half the forums I have searched require it to work. If anyone has had any luck please let me know.
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Has anyone been able to hook up a flash drive yet with USB OTG? Been waiting for my cable to arrive to test out. Just wondering since I didn't order a powered hub with it, since half the forums I have searched require it to work. If anyone has had any luck please let me know.
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Nevermind figured it out myself. Need the powered hub.
On another note I am starting to really hate Samsung after seeing this. SamSung
Yep, we have a guide posted in the General section. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1629134
official RUU is neccessary？
Will there ever be a chance that REAL usb otg is enabled? Which means without connecting external power? (I dont consider using an y cable and then externally powering usb to be "on the go")
While most modern phones made by samsung and some other manufacturers enable it by default but htc doesn't is beyond me.
soulcrusher said:
Will there ever be a chance that REAL usb otg is enabled? Which means without connecting external power?
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I really want this too... i could control my dslr. and with power connection needed, it gets so worthless, because there isnt always a socket around...
Apparently Qualcomm does but HTC removes that feature.
in the leaked one x jb update you can use usb otg without external power, hopefully they will do the same for our phone.