In case anyone was looking at this option down the road, saw this mentioned by a poster over on Phandroid...apparently it only mirrors on the Q rather than giving full Webtop functionality:
http://androidforums.com/motorola-photon-q-4g-lte/615217-weptop-support.html
Also, I read elsewhere within the past few days that Moto is doing away with the Lapdocks going forward anyway, so whatever is out there currently in stock is pretty much it.
sorry, just wandering.. is lapdock 100 or 500 suitable to be use with photon q?
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No, the early/immediate reviews on the phone were wrong unfortunately....the Photon Q doesn't have Webtop. I'm guessing the HD Dock is nothing more than a mirror mode, haven't really seen anything reviewing the usage on that yet.
Would have been nice if they provided an hdmi to mini hdmi cable .. I think the atrix was the only box I've ever seen come including that. And has anyone tried hotspot or tethering without paying extra to Sprint for these "features"? tHX,
I hate the fact that i'm staring at a photon q and a lapdock 100 and can't get the keyboard/trackpad to work with it. I don't care that it only mirrors since it doesn't have the webtop partition but it would be cool if the keyboard/trackpad would work.
Herby6262 said:
And has anyone tried hotspot or tethering without paying extra to Sprint for these "features"? tHX,
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Bluetooth tethering used to work before the "stability" update they released in November. Now it silently fails. (Computer/tablet can connect and get an IP address but no traffic gets routed out to the internet.)
Buslova said:
I hate the fact that i'm staring at a photon q and a lapdock 100 and can't get the keyboard/trackpad to work with it. I don't care that it only mirrors since it doesn't have the webtop partition but it would be cool if the keyboard/trackpad would work.
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...keyboard and touchpad problem - inside lapdock is classic usb hub...usb hub is connected via otg to usb on photon.
keyboard and touchpad is connected to usb hub - and here is problem. As i have tested - phq can mount only one device via usb otg....
I have tested mouse - it works, keyboard - works...but when is connected both to hub works nothing
Here is problem inside system
well as of right now im on ASA-14 (deodexed if that makesa difference) and both the touchpad and keyboard work on my lapdock as well as all the function keys. my wireless mouse and thumbdrive work too
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well as of right now im on ASA-14 (deodexed if that makesa difference) and both the touchpad and keyboard work on my lapdock as well as all the function keys. my wireless mouse and thumbdrive work too
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ooooh super ...ond usb flash ???
oliverpuczyk2 said:
well as of right now im on ASA-14 (deodexed if that makesa difference) and both the touchpad and keyboard work on my lapdock as well as all the function keys. my wireless mouse and thumbdrive work too
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I think you are in the wrong forum section. You seem to own the Photon 4G not the Photon Q 4G LTE, so your statement about the usable touchpad and keyboard is not correct for the Photon Q 4G LTE
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I think you are in the wrong forum section. You seem to own the Photon 4G not the Photon Q 4G LTE, so your statement about the usable touchpad and keyboard is not correct for the Photon Q 4G LTE
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No im in the right section, i do indeed have it working without any other modification than previously stated. There is the problem with the phone randonmly unmounting all the devices thatre plugged in (keyboard trackpad wireless mouse and usb stick). It could probably be easily fixed by someone that knows kernel/usb otg stuff
so... today was in my work mr Skrilax_CZ.
Has new ASA firmware and i have tested usb host otg.
I have not found powered otg cable, so i have tested it with normal...and when i connect
flash disk on it led diode start flashing.
So i think than with new firmware mass storage works and so touchpad/keyboard must works too on lapdock
Just going to add that I have the ASA14 firmware (DL here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2095536)
which lapdock is the best one to get?
droid dock
dock 100
dock 500
bionic dock
does it all work ok now with the update? minus the webtop
thanks
I bought a motorola atrix lapdock, connected motorola photon q and it works in mirroring mode. Work touch pad and keyboard. I plugged the flash drive in usb port of lapdock, installed the "stick mount" app from market and photon see the files from flash drive. Two problems,
1 - image is not visible on the full screen. (see the image)
2- in lapdock, screen of smartphone always is turned on.
I do not know how to change this.
Sorry for my english.
i have a lapdock 100 all is working fine if i run the original rom.
at the lapdock 500 the ethernet connection and the sdcard slot work 2.
but the webcam not work atm. maybe its a part of webtop. or just need to add some files.
there is a way to run webtop from sd if u make a single partition for it. u can also run a normal linux this way.
other trick is to use the recovery partition. but i not test it with the photon q for now.
@ _olimp_ : to get the screen in full size look into settings->display->overscan
that should fix it
i wanne try to add a touchscreen. someone has done it already?
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i have a lapdock 100 all is working fine if i run the original rom.
at the lapdock 500 the ethernet connection and the sdcard slot work 2.
but the webcam not work atm. maybe its a part of webtop. or just need to add some files.
there is a way to run webtop from sd if u make a single partition for it. u can also run a normal linux this way.
other trick is to use the recovery partition. but i not test it with the photon q for now.
@ _olimp_ : to get the screen in full size look into settings->display->overscan
that should fix it
i wanne try to add a touchscreen. someone has done it already?
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very glad that someone else is trying to bring it to mind, since Motorola has thrown us all! I understand it so that the app can Webtop saw out of the old firmware of devices and try to run on the new ones? have not tried anyone do that?
I really like the concept of webtop and would like to make it fully earned. Unfortunately so far I have not bought the device, just because support for Motorola said that my device is not compatible with any docks.
i got the verizon droid lapdock and with my photon q i could never get the keyboard and mouse to work properly, it mirrored but thats all it did. i did get it to work with my sony phone so the lapdock was fine.
How about the CM? should you only use the stock rom??
@SwitNJ: that isnt so easy ;( the internal memory is splitet in diffrent partitions. There are between 15-39 single partitions in internal memory in a motorola (android) smartphone. /system is one of them. Also /cache, /data and the recovery is a own partition.
One of them is named /osh. This is the place for Webtop. If u have a phone with webtop the /osh has space for 1,5 - 2 gb.
In our phone (xt897) there is no /osh partition since motorola say good bye lapdock/webtop.
And no other partition is big enough to install webtop. All is used because the phone isnt made for it. I think its possible to reformat the internal space and rip some megabytes from all other partitions to make +1 that is big enough for webtop. but this is really dangerous and i not wanne brick my phone :[
As example there is safestrap recovery for the xt894 (droid4). That give u the possibility to install 4 roms at the same time. so u can choose what rom boot if u start the phone. befor u can install them u have to make a new partition (with safestrap). so i think it must be possible to do the same for webtop.
@palmwangja: for me in CM the mirror not work. but it is possbile to add it. stock rom (4.0.4) is the only that mirror with lapdock 500. stock rom (4.1.2) work with my small lapdock. but the lapdock 500 only give me a black screen. dont know whats wrong for now. would be great if someone know the answer.
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sorry if this has been posted before but is it possible in anyway to connect a usb flash drive to my desire using an adaptor or something :? saying that is there an app available to browse and external USB
No. It is impossible.
possible, yes...worth the hassle, nope.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=702742
my frined has a galaxy 2 and he has a cable for it, we tired a lot of things, but nothing works.
its a shame really
xoom usb host works pretty well - keyboards, mice, ps3 controller - out the box too
but for the desire - everything was picked up as an in-car device (without flashing new kernels)
I saw somebody last week connecting a usb flash drive to on his mobile but I didn´t had the time to see and ask which phone it was.
Have been thinking about it ever since. Would be so handy to push your date to a flash drive on the go.
I been to the same bar in the hope I would see that person again but I haven´t saw him again. I´m afraid it was a tourist.
mercianary said:
possible, yes...worth the hassle, nope.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=702742
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It looks a big hassle indeed if you have to switch kernels to get to slave mode again.
it's nokia i believe
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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.
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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 ?
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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
(Moved from One X general)
I cannot find any new posts on this, so please excuse me if I missed it somewhere. I (like most One X owners) got extremely upset at the delayed launch of 4.1.1 for our devices. I don't know exactly who to blame for that one. We HTC One X owners, At&t specifically, waited for 6 months for an update to be available. I got so tired of waiting, I took action, rooted my phone and put a stock 4.1.1 JB on it, and I'm loving it. And guess what? The usb OTG WORKS!!! Now comes a new challenge. Usb OTG plus charging. I know this is possible, I have read the forums. I know the One X is capable of doing this. I just need to be pointed in the right direction. For the love of Android, please help me!
P.S. I am willing to install/modify software, NOT willing to modify hardware.
Full powered OTG is now supported on the latest base. Not sure which one you're on, but try a 3.18 rom.
3.18 rom? plz elaborate...
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3.18 rom? plz elaborate...
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The new AT&T base.
No he wants to charge at the same time as otg
Had to dig back far to find this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31733062
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Yes sir...What he said ^(area51avenger)
I want to use both otg and a charger at the same time. Charging my phone while using a flash drive.
Usb otg works fine, I just want to charge my phone while using it. I have a "y" cable from ebay (http://www.ebay.com/itm/360595771170?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649) and it won't charge but the otg works fine.
Oh, and I am using 3.17 atm
odex-JB-Sense4+.zip rom by tachi91
I got it from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35647985
Elemental has supported powered OTG for a while, but I don't think there's a way to charge the phone at the same time.
Please by all means correct me if I am wrong in assuming this:
I know for a fact that what I want to do works on newer samsung phones. I don't think that this is a proprietary hardware issue as everything I've seen done on a GS3 I can do on my own phone. Usb otg didn't work until updating my phone, but it worked for those samsung phones straight out of the box. I'm just hoping there's just some hidden "switch" or update that I have to do to get this to work. Like I stated, I have seen this cable adapter work, I just want it to work for me.
Did you read the thread I linked you?
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If there's a way to do it with the Evita, I don't think I've seen it here. It's been discussed and my recollection is that it won't work.
You might ask in the ElementalX kernel thread.
Coincidentally avenger, that was one of the threads I read before resorting to this. I don't want to do anything fancy like using a mouse/keyboard with my phone, my ideal situation is this: Being able to charge my phone while I sit on the couch, switching from one flash drive to another, to watch movies wirelessly on my HTC Media Link HD connected to my 56 inch flat screen lcd tv. I just want to have a charger and a flash drive connected at the same time. Is that too much to ask? (rhetorical at this point)...lol
Flar would know.
For what it's worth, I can charge my phone while playing stuff through my mhl adapter.
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Yeah but I wanted to do this sitting away from the tv. The crappy thing is, my friend just came over and I gave him one of the adapters I had. He plugs a charger and flashdrive up and then his phone (SG3). The drive pops up and the phone starts charging...sigh...lucky s.o.b. Is there a way to update my kernel from 3.17 to 3.18 with out starting my rom over? Maybe a new kernel is my fix. Btw I have an mhl adapter also.
Did we ever find a solution? I have an m8 and the same needs, well, similar. Just need to charge with OTG connected.
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Did we ever find a solution? I have an m8 and the same needs, well, similar. Just need to charge with OTG connected.
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Nopes, no progress
Bummer
Well guys im about at my witts end with this. My troubleshooting steps have led nowhere and dont know what to do next.
I am trying to hook up my Razr Maxx HD to my Lapdock 500. From what ive read this should work no problem just without the webtop software interface. This is fine as i have already found a tablet ui module for xposed. anyways when i hook up my phone the mouse and keyboard work perfectly but all that comes up on the display is gray lines. i have tried 2 separate lapdock 500's with the same result. I have also hooked up an original razr with the same gray lines.
now heres the twist...my brothers bionic works perfectly fine with webtop 3.0. I have double checked the hdmi port in my razr with a full sized hdmi adapter to my tv and it worked perfectly. i have also tried forcing 720p through a module thinking that it was possibly an out of range issue but it produced the same gray lines.
a little about my phone...my phone is rooted through the motochopper root and was rooted for the first time on 4.1.2. it was not rooted before it was updated.
System Version: 9.18.79.XT926.Verizon.en.US
Android Version: 4.1.2
Kernel Version: 3.0.31-g101ca72
Build Number: 9.8.1Q-79
Im not sure what of this information is relevant but i am desperate to get this to work or at least find out what the problem is so i can plan what to do next. My plan was to take this thing on my cruise with me on monday as i dont want to take my laptop with me...plus lets face it lapdocks are cool. so does anybody have any clue as to what could be happening here?
I'd continually call Motorola until you reach someone who will help. On more than one occasion they promised me the 100 and 500 would go full screen and switch to a tablet ui even without webtop.
Maybe you should try removing the tablet mode. Motorola says it is built in to Android to resize automatically so maybe your framework is the culprit.
I think on slick deals I reading something similar to your issue. Spread the word and get the bounty going from my thread in the development section.
My atrix lapdock works just fine but it will not go full screen.
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jfriend33 said:
I'd continually call Motorola until you reach someone who will help. On more than one occasion they promised me the 100 and 500 would go full screen and switch to a tablet ui even without webtop.
Maybe you should try removing the tablet mode. Motorola says it is built in to Android to resize automatically so maybe your framework is the culprit.
I think on slick deals I reading something similar to your issue. Spread the word and get the bounty going from my thread in the development section.
My atrix lapdock works just fine but it will not go full screen.
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I have tried it both with and without framework...on and off tablet mode...directly after a factory reset...even tried forcing 720p output through the hdmi with no luck. and correct me if im wrong and im sure you've tried it but isnt the issue with it not going full screen a dpi issue?
I tried using a script to modify the dpi. All it did was shrink everything down on my phone display but still had black bars.
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