Anyone think our phones might be able to open up USB host mode? I have an OTG cable sitting here and would love to be able to use it on my phone.
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hi there,
it does mention somewhere that the Trinity has USB host enabled, just wondering how this might work? can i connect a USB keyboard to it?
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if it does have host
and the you got a driver for it
then yes
What USB devices can android froyo phones directly connect to at the moment (as host)? Any known printers, keyboards or game controllers?
If I were to chop the usb plug off my usb keyboard or PC game controller and replace it with a micro usb plug, then directly connect it to my phone, would the phone pick it up?
Would I need to write some kind of drivers for this? Has ANYONE else tried anything similar?
Bump.. I too would be interested to know if a usb keyboard or game controller can be plugged into an Eclair or Froyo handset?
I have a 2.2.1 (rooted) Mesmerize and I can't get it to recognize anything plugged into the Samsung Micro USB to USB Adapter I just bought.
The phone is set to "Mass Storage" for USB and I've tried both USB Debugging on and off.
I can't get it to recognize any of 5 thumb drives that I've tried connecting to it. So either it's a bad cable, or something else in the phone is preventing the connection. Help, please!
EDIT: I'm possibly naive in assuming that this (reading a USB thumb drive from the phone) will work at all, but since they (Samsung) sell the cable and tout it as being capable of it, I must just be missing something such as a setting or the necessary version of Android or a wonderful hack from this group.
I wonder if there is a way to enable usb host mode on my xoom, and use a mouse, gamecontroller etc. without an otg cable?
Hi I made this thread to find out how I can get USB OTG to work. I have cm 11 s3 mini and want to control my phone by a remote and plug ? flash drives in but have no idea how this works. Also if you could provide a link for a USB OTG cable it would be greatly appreciated. thank you
AndroidGangster said:
Hi I made this thread to find out how I can get USB OTG to work. I have cm 11 s3 mini and want to control my phone by a remote and plug ? flash drives in but have no idea how this works. Also if you could provide a link for a USB OTG cable it would be greatly appreciated. thank you
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Hi
Its just plug and play. You plug in the USB OTG cable to the phone's micro USB port and on the other end its a female USB port (the same like in your laptop or pc). So you just put in a pen drive and it will get detected on its own. You can open a file manager app and access it, or you can access it directly from any of your other apps (for example if you use MX player for seeing videos then the pen drive videos will automatically load up in the app as well).
To control your phone remotely I am guessing you mean keyboard/mouse?
If you plug in a mouse, a cursor shows up the next second and you have a working mouse. Same with a keyboard, works on its own. If you want to use both together, you need a wireless keyboard and mouse so that you can plug in the dongle to the otg cable, and then both the keyboard and mouse will instantly start working.
If you have a PS3 controller you can even connect that to your phone and use it to play many games - but this does not work via plug and play, you need to follow instructions to set this up and you can search on xda or google for that.
If you search USB OTG on amazon or ebay you will find loads of places to buy it from in your country.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...0.TRC0.H0.Xusb+otg.TRS0&_nkw=usb+otg&_sacat=0