Hi, can anyone who owns a XOOM pls let me know if you can plug in:
1) a USB flash drive to the XOOM, and view and open files on the drive?
2) an external hard drive and view and access files from your XOOM
Many thanks
masrinz said:
Hi, can anyone who owns a XOOM pls let me know if you can plug in:
1) a USB flash drive to the XOOM, and view and open files on the drive?
2) an external hard drive and view and access files from your XOOM
Many thanks
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Does the Xoom have a USB port? Pretty sure it only has MicroUSB. I guess they do have microusb flash drives not that I look.
Hi. Yup its only got micro USB, but I guess you could use the included adapter cable to plug in a flash drive.... we don't have the XOOM here yet, but the functionality of being able to connect a flash drive, move files e.g. PDF or .doc and then view them is important to me.
masrinz said:
Hi. Yup its only got micro USB, but I guess you could use the included adapter cable to plug in a flash drive.... we don't have the XOOM here yet, but the functionality of being able to connect a flash drive, move files e.g. PDF or .doc and then view them is important to me.
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As of today what you want is not avab. The cable it comes with doesn't take input. They do have a cable online that will do this one day, but doesn't do it yet.
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The cable that Motorola "will" be selling is a micro-usb to standard usb (female) adapter. I'll look around for the sources, but I know that I saw this detailed in a few videos from Motorola techs and at least one reviewer site.
The cable is not just a straight conversion of form factor, but has the necessary pinout to instruct the Xoom to jump into usb host mode. From the reports that I saw, it would absolutely provide the ability to plug usb drives, cameras and other accessories into the xoom for direct access. In fact, the reviewer that I saw, made a comment that they had verified the functionality by plugging in a couple usb keyboards... supposedly worked like a champ.
Lame that we need a "special" adapter, but I can imagine that if it is just a pinout issue, it may be possible for the good folks here at XDA to craft a software solution that would allow us to bypass the motorola-branded cable... It would have been WAY cooler if it was a standard usb port, like some of the other tablets on the horizon.
Thanks. They mention in many reviews and I think Google mentioned it too that you can attach a mouse or keyboard by cable (I know about Bluetooth) which suggests that it should support input, so is it just a hardware interface thing or an actual firmware OS/software issue?
Edit: thanks for the great response gigglebox.... we posted simultaneously
Is this it?
http://www.clove.co.uk/motorola-xoom-camera-connection-kit
masrinz said:
Is this it?
http://www.clove.co.uk/motorola-xoom-camera-connection-kit
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Visually, yeah. Looks like they took it off their site for some reason. In fact the only times that I saw this on Moto's site, was in the day or 2 leading up to the launch... when typing in xoom into the search bar on their landing page, it would spit out a drop-down menu listing the Camera Connection Kit (by name and pic).
I dont like the fact that they call it a "camera connection", but they werent pulling any punches about it serving as a host. They did note that the external storage (thumbdrives, etc) were not yet supported, but that they would be. The cameras and (according to them) keyboards were working now.
I believe it is possible but right now it is a software limitation.
More info here: https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/329075
Droid4All said:
I believe it is possible but right now it is a software limitation.
More info here: https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/329075
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Agreed, the engineer from moto definitely says the hardware should accept any usb 2.0 or higher device, but it's a software issue. Toshiba have a straight usb and a micro usb port on their device so hopefully they're working on this.
We don't have the XOOM here yet, but hopefully by the time it becomes available (approx April) we might have the option of the Toshiba as well.
I use this USB host cable and it works great. Have tested it with my 750gb Oyen and 320gb WD Passport external HDD's, several usb flash drives (8-16gb), San disk USB memory card reader, and a USB keyboard.
For those having issues getting their Xoom to recognize USB storage devices here's what I've got and did to get it to work: I flashed my XOOM (3.1) to the 2.6.36.4 Tiamat_Xoom-v1.4.4-Full_Throttle Kernel and was unable to get the USBMount to recognize drives or storage at first. I installed USB Mass Storage Watcher from the market (it's free) and it works awesome! Can mount any storage I want (NTFS, FAT16/32, HFS, HFS+, EXT2, ETX3, EXT4) with any capacity. I think this app will work with any rooted Xoom (or other devices). Under my Kernel my USB host is located under/usbOTG.
Hope this helps.
FYI ... I've checked it and stock ROM Xoom without root is able to operate standard PC keyboard/mouse using basic one-to-one usb->microusb adapter (without any electronics onboard).
Probably with proper dual socket usb adapter (also without electronics onboard) it would be possible to connect both keyboard and mouse at once.
irekd said:
FYI ... I've checked it and stock ROM Xoom without root is able to operate standard PC keyboard/mouse using basic one-to-one usb->microusb adapter (without any electronics onboard).
Probably with proper dual socket usb adapter (also without electronics onboard) it would be possible to connect both keyboard and mouse at once.
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if you have a Logitech keyboard and mouse that connect by the unifying receiver,or mostly any keyboard+mouse combo that connects by one receiver, then only a standard OTG cable should work.
wifi xoom running 3.1 (non-rooted)
I bought the Motorola Camera Connection Kit (OTG Cable), connected my digital camera and it worked perfect. However, I'm trying to see if i can plug in a usb thumb drive... but I can't get it to work? Do I need to do anything special to mount it? What filesystem would it mount as?
Thanks in advance
I may be wrong on this but I didn't think 3.1 stock had flash drive access...?
maybe I'm confused too then? I thought 3.1 added usb host support...
only for cameras, video game controllers, mouse and keyboard.
ahh, that explains it... thanks!
Is it using the camera protocol? My cameras have always shown up as mass storage on my computers. I haven't tried a camera on my xoom yet.
i just tried with my camera. it still won't work. guess we have to mount the drive.
yiyehhu said:
i just tried with my camera. it still won't work. guess we have to mount the drive.
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got my Camera to work with Xoom. Just set the camera USB setting to MTP/PTP mode.
It cannot recognize raw image files.
works with my canon 5d m2 instantly without any setting changes
Anyone have a flip camcorder who could test that out?
Edit: I went and bought the camera connection kit. Was able to get videos off my flip by navigating to /mnt/usbOTG (with the flip attached obviously). I'm rooted and using the latest Tiamat kernel though. US WiFi model.
recently i tried to connect my nikon D7000 to my xoom, but it just couldn't recognize the camera. the camera can be read by my laptop through the same cable and my xoom can mount thumb drivers and hard drivers, which implies that the otg cable and the usb cable are ok. so i searched a lot about the problem. i found that many people faces the same problem. see the following thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142257
but there is no solution to it.
then i made a test. my mobile phone is nokia n78. it supports both massive storage protocol(is that right?) and picture transfer protocol . when i use the massive storage protocol to connect to my xoom . it works nicely, just like a thumb driver. however ,when i use ptp to connect my xoom, nothing happens to my xoom(just the same as my d7000). so i doubt whether there is some problems with ptp?
i also found that many people can connect their dslr to xoom
see
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1095828
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1EwD375itw
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1287194.html
so maybe the problem exists in the rom ? or the kernel? or i need some drivers?
does anyone know how to solve the problem? or it is a known bug of tiamat rom?
anyone can help ?
Hi,
is there any update on this issue?
I have a Xoom running the UMTS_everest Nightly Build 45 of Team EOS.
I have no problem connecting USB devices to my tablet, but when I connect a camera in PTP mode to my tablet, nothing happens.
Regards
Jim
Hi,
Been using the Tiamat ROM (Moray 2.2.2),for a while now and am very happy with the results. However I have recently attempted to attach my Canon 7D via my OTG USB cable and realized that it is no longer recognized. I have tried several other cameras, all with no response. My Xoom (before Tiamat),used to automatically recognize my camera being attached immediately and allow me to copy the pictures/video onto it. My mates Xoom running stock 3.2, recognizes all cameras without any trouble.
Is there any solution to this as I am about to head out on a trip and would like to be able to both backup/review my photos and remote tether my 7D via my Xoom(using one of the available Android tethering apps). I can use a USB card reader, but this will not allow me to tether the camera for taking time lapse sequences etc.
If anyone knows a fix for this it would be great!
Cheers,
I know the TF has integrated webcams, but due to the nature of the project I'm working on I need external ones.
I'm wondering if anyone has plugged in a USB video capture device like a webcam into the dock USB ports. What happens on the stock ROM? any other ROM have better results? If anyone has Ubuntu running, any success there?
I have two Lifecam Studio HD webcams that I'd like to get working, one on each USB port. The Lifecams require each to be connected to a different USB root hub. That means that I'd also like to know the hardware configuration of the two USB ports. ASUS could have one controller and a integrated hub (as is done on many laptops). Does anyone know how this has been setup? The only way I know of to test this is to either get two devices that don't work on the same root hub to work or to look at lsusb.
I doubt that the kernel has support for external USB web cams but it is worth trying I suppose.
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