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!
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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.
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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
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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
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 !
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
I'm currently working to add support for the DM9620 USB network adapter to the Android 4 kernel, specifically for the Samsung GT-I9100 (Galaxy S2) running CyanogenMod 9.
The driver can be found here: code.google.com/p/dm962x/source/browse/dm9620.c
I have added and compiled the driver into the kernel, along with enabling USB host mode. However, plugging the adapter into the phone does not cause a new device to appear (both `lsusb` and `ip link` show nothing new, and dmesg has no relevant messages).
I'm guessing that I didn't actually enable USB host mode correctly. Or maybe it's something else. But I don't really know enough to debug this on my own. Any insight provided would be very helpful.
Hey, go into the General section of Samsung Galaxy Nexus, there is a thread for "aircrack-ng", the original post show a couple of links + on page 2 there is another post from the same guy explaining on how to compile for Android.
Hope it could help.
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This turned out to be a pretty stupid hardware issue, unrelated to the kernel or the driver. I was lead to believe that the adapter was a 5 pin USB OTG cable, when it was actually a standard 4 pin. A quick hardware hack later and the device is recognized just fine.
Mind making a tutorial of this? Im interested in testing it out myself. Also, can you tell me how to add support for the Galaxy S III? Id be happy to, myself, but I dont know how right now. Thanks
CJJohnson said:
Mind making a tutorial of this? Im interested in testing it out myself. Also, can you tell me how to add support for the Galaxy S III? Id be happy to, myself, but I dont know how right now. Thanks
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I second the request for a tutorial of how to do this. Thanks!
Does anyone know if this phone supports OTG?
I'm thinking it does not as I have been unsuccessful plugging in mice, USB flash, or PS3 controller (I did try using Sixaxis Enabler). So before I drive myself crazy I thought I would pose the question and see if anyone knows for sure or not?
EDIT: I found my answer sorry to bother. Didn't even consider just finding an app to check this for me, duh moment. For those interest it does not support OTG, though the app I used claims to have found the classes needed but they are not loading or enabled I guess. Maybe if the device is rooted at some point it can be enabled like a few other phones I have read about (I know if the hardware actually supports OTG just software disabled).