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Ext hard drive with dock.

Hi,
I just wanted to relate my findings when using external hard drives. The Gtab puts out limited milliamps of 5 volt power which sometimes isn't enough to power up external drives all the way. The leds light up and the motor spins but no read / write = no works!
Yesterday I received my malata / gtab dock and had hoped that it would be able to power up a external drive since it had the power supply plugged directly into itself. This in itself did not work. However using a USB Y Power cable plugged into both the Gtab and the base unit usb ports did the trick! Seems the Y cable can pick-up enough power using both ports to power up the drives!
The drives that didn't work before (sata) now were found and worked properly.

Could I get a link of your dock you are talking about?

The dock -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865038

Y cable
Bit Banger said:
Hi,
I just wanted to relate my findings when using external hard drives. The Gtab puts out limited milliamps of 5 volt power which sometimes isn't enough to power up external drives all the way. The leds light up and the motor spins but no read / write = no works!
Yesterday I received my malata / gtab dock and had hoped that it would be able to power up a external drive since it had the power supply plugged directly into itself. This in itself did not work. However using a USB Y Power cable plugged into both the Gtab and the base unit usb ports did the trick! Seems the Y cable can pick-up enough power using both ports to power up the drives!
The drives that didn't work before (sata) now were found and worked properly.
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How about a link to which Cable you purchased/used....

Anything like this will work.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0736&cm_re=USB_Y_cable-_-12-200-736-_-Product

Odds are you are not going to be walking around with the external HD and dock attached to your "G so why not just get a $10 power supply from RS and power the HD with it. If the HD doesn't have a power port, connect the Power side of the Y cable to the supply.

Tablet Gpad 9.7 capacitive screen NO START!

I just got a tablet IMX51_BBG Gpad 9.7 capacitive screen. And since I no longer loaded it on if not plugged into the mains.
I think it is because I tried to connect a cable from my original Apple iphone, to check if it served, and since then not start.
The specific model is that of a single speaker with 30-pin to switch.
I wanted to know if there is any way to reset the entire system, since it seems that it is as if I did not recognize the battery, because with the cable plugged in and lights work perfectly.
Thanks and regards.

Up
I need you help, please!

Nobody?

I also use an original apple cable, so this should be no problem. Be aware, that the connector is reversed, so don't use too much force to plug it in, try to turn the connector. If it works only if a power source is plugged in it sounds more like a battery problem. Does it still have warranty?

[Q] USB host mode, specifically via Nebtop

So, I purchases a USB OTG cable in an attempt to try and expand the functionality of Webtop while using Nebtop. I've been unable to get any response from the phone when I plug in this cable. I've tried my wireless Logitech mouse and keyboard that worked off the bat with my TF101 using the Unifying remote they came with as well as an external TB drive.
Has anyone else had any experience with this? It seems logical that the phone supports host mode since the actual dock has 3 full sized USB ports.
All the information pertaining to this sort of thing I've come up with seems extremely phone specific but if there's a simple solution I'm missing thanks all the more.

ri4naire said:
So, I purchases a USB OTG cable in an attempt to try and expand the functionality of Webtop while using Nebtop. I've been unable to get any response from the phone when I plug in this cable. I've tried my wireless Logitech mouse and keyboard that worked off the bat with my TF101 using the Unifying remote they came with as well as an external TB drive.
Has anyone else had any experience with this? It seems logical that the phone supports host mode since the actual dock has 3 full sized USB ports.
All the information pertaining to this sort of thing I've come up with seems extremely phone specific but if there's a simple solution I'm missing thanks all the more.
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The problem actually lies in the usb port of the phone itself. The dock was designed for this purpose, and the dock app handles most that for you, the one thing that the dock is able to do that a straight USB cable can't do, is provide enough "bus" power to use a mouse or even a USB stick directly from the phone. If you want to use a Mouse you will need to get a dock. I got mine directly from wireless.att.com, and it was only $49.00 back in Nov. when I got it. It works VERY well with webtop.
P.S. Motorola is very famous for doing things like this to force you into a dock, or to lock out certain features that everyone really wants to use.

I made my own dock by using a powered usb hub I had sitting around (it was actually the one that came with Rock Band for my Xbox 360). I did have to modify it slightly so that the 1 pin was powered from the 5V (a simple shunt from the 5V inner pin of the power supply solder joint to the solder joint of the 1 pin worked fine--although it might be wise to insert an inline fuse since it also charges your phone while plugged in).
Otherwise, the only other thing needed is coming in the form of your otg adapter that should short the 5 pin (common) with your 4 pin (ID). I did this by cracking open an extra micro usb cable and soldering a wire between the two.
So, my setup was like this:
1. Modified usb cable to short the 4 & 5 pins to let the phone know to go into host
2. Use a female A-female A usb coupler to join the usb cable to the powered hub (I got mine here from Monoprice
3. Get 5V to the 1 pin in the usb hub to provide power to your phone and for whatever is plugged into the hub.
With this, I was easily able to run a usb mouse and a wireless keyboard that had a usb dongle. Paired with a micro hdmi cable to hdmi-dvi adapter, I am able to use my office monitor and the webtop linux. I honestly haven't really used it much yet (if I found it really useful, I probably would have just paid for the dock).
The obvious easy way is to just get the dock. However, I really like being able to do this on my own and since I had this stuff already laying around. Also, the cheap prices from monoprice (I actually made $4 off of the purchase from a PayPal bill-me-later promotion).
So, you should be able to get it to work if you get power to the bus on your usb (but again, it might be safe to pass an appropriate fast-acting fuse, ferrite core, or something to protect from surges). I haven't had issue yet, but I also don't use it often...yet .

It sounds like a bit of yes and a bit of no. The OTG cable I got is microUSB to female full USB, am I going to need to modify this cable as you've described by crossing the 4th and 5th pins?
I'm thinking about ordering this "7 Port USB Squid Hub" since it has the 5v power adapter, do you think it might work?
Just one more question and thanks for all the help but should I not see any response from the phone when I plug in the cable? I read through some of the reviews for cheap cables on Amazon and apparently sometimes they're just useless.

ri4naire said:
It sounds like a bit of yes and a bit of no. The OTG cable I got is microUSB to female full USB, am I going to need to modify this cable as you've described by crossing the 4th and 5th pins?
I'm thinking about ordering this "7 Port USB Squid Hub" since it has the 5v power adapter, do you think it might work?
Just one more question and thanks for all the help but should I not see any response from the phone when I plug in the cable? I read through some of the reviews for cheap cables on Amazon and apparently sometimes they're just useless.
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The OTG cable have should work. The OTG cable, to my knowledge, should already have pins 4 & 5 shorted together. I'm not completely certain, but if it's designed as an OTG, it would probably already have that done. If you have an ohmmeter/multimeter, you could try to check (it's hard to isolate the small pins, but you can try). If it's already going to the USB female (type A), you will then be able to directly attach your hub when you get it (without the need of the coupler I had to get).
When I used mine, there was no notification that said "Hey, I'm in USB Host Mode!". However, if you successfully have a mouse attached, you'll see a mouse cursor arrow on your screen.
Have fun with it and if you can't get it to work, let me know and I'll try to explain with even more detail (perhaps with some pretty pictures) of what I did. I more or less went off of what I could glean from reading what others did.

It works great! Also, it is weird to see the mouse on this little a screen, it seems oversized.
I just plugged everything in and it worked off the bat. I'm using just two items from Amazon I got for under 12 bucks (plus, of course, the keyboard and mouse I already had for my computer). I don' think I can post links to the forums yet but the ASINs for the items if people want to do this on the super cheap are as follows:
B0043TBCDS 7 Port USB Squid Hub, a whopping $5.19
B005N55WHI Micro-B USB OTG Cable... $5.99
I chose these because of their Prime eligibility and also for their form factor so as not to cover the HDMI port, I bet it's not impossible to get these even cheaper.
While this isn't technically a replacement for the dock since I had to root the device and I have to press "Load" in Nebtop if I want to go to Webtop I'm extremely pleased with the results.
I also love that all the soft keys are available. The ones I've discovered are that right button on the mouse as well as Esc are Back, the Home key is Home, clicking the wheel as well as Ctrl, Cmd, Alt and a whole slew of others bring up the Menu, but all I can find is F5 for Search.
On another note, while the phone does charge when hooked up, a practical boon, the screen still times out despite having the "Stay awake" feature checked. This is annonying when the phone is on it's side accross the room and I have to squint to see the cursor and swipe it unlocked sideways as well as click back into Mirror Display.

Tablet I-JOY Draco

Hello everyone,
Here I've got a I-Joy Draco tablet That won't boot. It wasn't with me by the time it worked correctly so I have no idea what its specs are, other than ports, a DC-5V for charging and a USB one too like for most Samsung phones. No Sim card slot but a Micro SD one on the side.
So as mentioned before the tablet won't boot up. I've left it to charge overnight but still no answer when power button is pressed. I tried to boot into recovery but it won't work either.
When I plug it in a computer thou, there's a sound, like the one that lets you know you've plug something in. I get that sound too when I long press the power+volume button while plugged in computer. That makes me believe the issue might not be hardware related.
Problem is I don't know where to find ressources for that device so if you guys could direct me I'd really appreciate it.
Cordially

Oops... I think I just bricked my new Xperia 5 ii...

I bought this new phone on Nov 6. This is how I bricked it....
Xperia 5 ii won't work with Type-A to Type-C cable at all and my computer just don't have a type-c port, so I tried OTG with USB disk. Although the disk was mounted, I couldn't find it in a third party explorer (ZArchiver/SolidExplorer), however the built-in explorer couldn't copy the file into the phone somehow, so I tried to reboot the phone, aaaaand it is bricked...... Push the power button for a looooong time, no response. Plug in the power cable, no response, LED not even lighten up.
well I guess OTG is a pretty dangerous feature since it mess up with voltage in the power module, and two of my previous phones died of power problems, namely Samsung S2 and Xiaomi Note.
Is there any way to confirm whether it is a dead brick before i go and return the phone?

Not the solution, but mine works fine with usb a to usb c cable connection to my computer. Had been using that for transferring old data into it.

viperc said:
Not the solution, but mine works fine with usb a to usb c cable connection to my computer. Had been using that for transferring old data into it.
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oh I should change my description into "my Xperia 5 ii won't work with any of my A to C cables" lol, maybe they are too old to be compatible? no idea though

Have you tried pressing power button + volume buttons for 30 seconds?
Also OTG should only be able to charge another device, so you might be lucky and didn't fry your Sony phone.

SeriousFlash said:
Have you tried pressing power button + volume buttons for 30 seconds?
Also OTG should only be able to charge another device, so you might be lucky and didn't fry your Sony phone.
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!!!! long press power + volume really did work XD my phone vibrated 1x following 3x then I could power it up again ~~~
after looking up on Google i found that power + volume up would force shutdown the phone, which quite surprised me because i've been using android since 2012 and somehow never heard of this before. I know that long pressing power button would force reboot though, but it never came to my mind that there could be a way to force shutdown.
Thank you very much! That saved me a lot of time and saved me from a bad day lol

dejavu_walnut said:
I bought this new phone on Nov 6. This is how I bricked it....
Xperia 5 ii won't work with Type-A to Type-C cable at all and my computer just don't have a type-c port, so I tried OTG with USB disk. Although the disk was mounted, I couldn't find it in a third party explorer (ZArchiver/SolidExplorer), however the built-in explorer couldn't copy the file into the phone somehow, so I tried to reboot the phone, aaaaand it is bricked...... Push the power button for a looooong time, no response. Plug in the power cable, no response, LED not even lighten up.
well I guess OTG is a pretty dangerous feature since it mess up with voltage in the power module, and two of my previous phones died of power problems, namely Samsung S2 and Xiaomi Note.
Is there any way to confirm whether it is a dead brick before i go and return the phone?
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This is odd since my works with Type-A to Type-C cable. It's a short Sony cable which i received to charge my WF-1000XM3 earbuds.

vyp54 said:
This is odd since my works with Type-A to Type-C cable. It's a short Sony cable which i received to charge my WF-1000XM3 earbuds.
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I was online with Sony Support this morning because my Xperia 5 II had shut down, wouldn't power on, wouldn't charge. In my chat we the support guy he said you should not charge your phone from a laptop. After 12 hours of panic my phone showed a graphic for zero battery. I plugged my cable in and got the red LED light. Phone went on and fully charged. I have to idea what happened but don't try to charge with a Thunderbolt4 cable.

patrickt said:
I was online with Sony Support this morning because my Xperia 5 II had shut down, wouldn't power on, wouldn't charge. In my chat we the support guy he said you should not charge your phone from a laptop. After 12 hours of panic my phone showed a graphic for zero battery. I plugged my cable in and got the red LED light. Phone went on and fully charged. I have to idea what happened but don't try to charge with a Thunderbolt4 cable.
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I had my Xperia 5 II for a year now. 70% of total charging was done using USB C to USB C cable from a laptop Thunderbolt port.
I have no idea why Sony has autistic support that scares users. I almost charged my Xperia from any USB socket I could find (be it either A or C) and it still runs like a charm.