Ok so I have a Playon wireless controller for pc (I cant find any reference to this brand online) which I Bought a few years ago. It has a usb reciever and has an LED on it that indicates that it is communicating with the usb dongle and has small text under it saying RX 2.4 ghz. The problem is that I would like to connect it to my HTC desire s but I've had problems with using usb host ( an easy way to use an otg cable would be appreciated) is there a way to connect it to my desire s, as I also have several wireless ps2 controllers but I think they use the same system.
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Rudolph Venter said:
Ok so I have a Playon wireless controller for pc (I cant find any reference to this brand online) which I Bought a few years ago. It has a usb reciever and has an LED on it that indicates that it is communicating with the usb dongle and has small text under it saying RX 2.4 ghz. The problem is that I would like to connect it to my HTC desire s but I've had problems with using usb host ( an easy way to use an otg cable would be appreciated) is there a way to connect it to my desire s, as I also have several wireless ps2 controllers but I think they use the same system.
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Rudolph, I have the exact same problem!
I have a Logitech Cordless Precision Controller, apparently made for the PS3, and it says it runs on 2.4ghz wireless.
If Bluetooth is on the 2.4ghz spectrum, then surely it should be able to cross-connect with a little bit of freeware.
XDA Developers should try to come up with something like this, because that would open a whole new spectum of devices that could be connected.
In any case, there should definitely be some way to connect these devices.
My controller doesn't have a usb port, but I have another older one that I got from a thrift shop that works amazing on my laptop, but when I try to plug it into my kindle through a coupler and the actual kindle cord, it doesn't give power to the controller, as its a normal usb-only controller, so it doesn't have batteries.
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So, it seems the solution may lie in the controller, maybe it would be worth getting a cheap controller somewhere and adding a battery to the circuit. That is if the phone would recognise it.
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I'm attempting to use an Android phone as a WiFi adapter for an Xbox 360. I know it's impossible to do via the USB sockets, so I'm not even going to breach that. However, I think I may have found a new approach that may be more successful.
While digging through some junk at work, I found two adapters that got me thinking. The first was a mini-USB to USB, and the second was an ethernet to USB. The two fit together perfectly.
So now I'm attempting to get internet sharing to work on the phone to the 360 via a jerry rigged chain of adapters. it can be summed up as
XBox -> Ethernet cable -> ethernet to USB -> USB to mini-USB -> Droid Eris(running OMGB, an AOSP 2.3.3 rom)
Can anyone think of a way to get it to pass the internet connection down the line from Eris to Xbox? At the moment, the native USB tethering isn't working. I can't seem to find useful apps when searching the market.
Why not get a wifi adapter for the xbox and then tether using your phone as a wireless hotspot.
fosselman said:
Why not get a wifi adapter for the xbox and then tether using your phone as a wireless hotspot.
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two main reasons...
1) don't feel like spending $90 on my roommate's 360(the two adapters would have cost me $4 total if I were to buy them in a store, but I got them for free through work)
2) it's way more fun to see if something hand made works than it is to go out and buy a freakishly overpriced adapter to do the same thing.
I think you can find the wireless G adapters fairly cheap on eBay as the new ones are N, but G should do you fine as long as your phone(hotspot) is in the same room.
Hi All,
I'm trying to get a USB device connected to my phone (specifically an OBDII reader with Torque Pro). No matter what I do, I can't get it to recognize on my Nexus S 4g. When I run USB Host Diagnostics, it basically says it can't find anything.
I'm running a flavor of Cyanogen 10 with its stock kernal.
My questions are:
Do I need to go through a powered USB hub to get the proper power?
Do I need a specific kernel with the correct host modules enabled? (if so, can someone point me to one)
Thanks,
Torque Pro worked fine with my NS4G with a cheap ebay bluetooth adapter with no hassle. That adapter had no batteries at all, it was powered through the ALDL port on the car. I couldn't imagine needing power since no scanner I know of needs power at the ALDL port, it pulls it from the port itself. I would bet it is USB driver problems, or problems reading the USB adapter through Jellybean because of this new MTP protocol that sucks
Good to know.
Should I try a HoneyComb ROM? I guess it COULD be the OTG cable I got from amazon. Maybe it's not plugging in all the way.
thx
DizturbedOne said:
Torque Pro worked fine with my NS4G with a cheap ebay bluetooth adapter with no hassle. That adapter had no batteries at all, it was powered through the ALDL port on the car. I couldn't imagine needing power since no scanner I know of needs power at the ALDL port, it pulls it from the port itself. I would bet it is USB driver problems, or problems reading the USB adapter through Jellybean because of this new MTP protocol that sucks
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shelbydz said:
Good to know.
Should I try a HoneyComb ROM? I guess it COULD be the OTG cable I got from amazon. Maybe it's not plugging in all the way.
thx
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No Honeycomb roms for Nexus S...
I highly suggest a OBDII bluetooth adapter. They're 15$ on the net and will spare you the trouble. Make sure you find one that has good reviews, some cheap ones have problem connecting to some cars because of broken J1850 PWM (i think it's PWM, might be VPW) protocol.
SO I read on here in a different section that some one did have some luck pairing a PS3 controller via an OTG cable, but here is where I have a problem, the OTG cable I have is mini to standard, not micro to standard, so the option I have would be sort of reversed. I would plug in the charging cable from my phone, plug the USB end of that into my OTG cable where it would connect to my PS3 controller at the other side.
I didn't see how there could be a problem with this but something doesn't seem right, I haven't been able to get it to pair.
I have tried USB/BT Joycenter and scanned for deviced both bluetooth and USB but nothing shows either.
Is there something I am missing? Do I need to reset the PS3 controller because it may be searching for a PS3? Or is it just not going to work and require root.
For the first time ever I have been hesitant to root a phone as I am quite liking this recent android version and just came back from the horrific windows phone. There are obviously still some connectivity issues in the Moto G so I wanted to wait until they were ironed out and then see how I felt about it.
If some one can enlighten me as to what I can do to fix this, Please explain in full, I don't want to just hear "You can't", If I can't, I want to know why I can't and some other people can.
Thanks, David
PS here's what I mean
LeftHandedScot said:
SO I read on here in a different section that some one did have some luck pairing a PS3 controller via an OTG cable, but here is where I have a problem, the OTG cable I have is mini to standard, not micro to standard, so the option I have would be sort of reversed. I would plug in the charging cable from my phone, plug the USB end of that into my OTG cable where it would connect to my PS3 controller at the other side.
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If some one can enlighten me as to what I can do to fix this, Please explain in full, I don't want to just hear "You can't", If I can't, I want to know why I can't and some other people can.
Thanks, David
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I used the otg cable
Connected it to the normal USB to mini USB , connected that to the controller and it was recognised, I even played some games
Sent from my MotoG using Tapatalk
I have absolutly no money, so even spending 2 bucks on a bluetooth dongle from ebay or something is out of the question. I don't even have a way to pay for things online so don't mention buying anything even if its dirt cheap.
I have a rooted Samsung Galexy Note II with Android 4.1.2, and of course bluetooth (works with PS3 controllers via the Six Axis app). While I can use a USB cable and DS3 tool with my PS3 controllers on the PC, I only have one working micro-usb cable and I rather like having a wireless controller now.
So is there any thing out there that could let me use my phone as a blue tooth reciever/dongle? I do have USB debugging enabled. I'm not afraid of doing some technical stuff, I can read and follow directions and I know a few things about computers and my phone.
Hello.
I recently came into possession of an LG G5 Android phone, T-Mobile variant H830. I was planning to use it for software development, and I was wondering if there's a way to get it to connect to the internet using my ADSL connection. I'm fairly new to the wonderful world of Android, so please bear with me.
I realize Wi-Fi is the path of least resistance... but it's not the best option in this particular house and I have a fine Ethernet network just sitting there waiting to be used. Also, my old Windows Phone (ducks) is able to use it just fine.
I have a USB type C hub (a Microsoft HD-500 display dock) and a small collection of USB to Ethernet adapters (Realtek RTL8153, ASIX AX8872B). Unfortunately, the LG G5 has no interest in recognizing any of them.
I've also played around with reverse tethering to my PC, but apparently it requires root access to even work, and even after that it doesn't even work very well.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make this work? Should I be looking into flashing LineageOS? Or maybe I just have the wrong phone?
Thanks.
Today's progress: I played with an app called ReverseTethering, which works by establishing a VPN connection to its host PC over an ADB-controlled USB pipe. Most apps seem fine with it. However, the Google Play Store insists on using Wi-Fi to download apps and won't recognize a reverse-tethered connection. It does resume in-process downloads over the connection, but won't initiate new ones. My conclusion is that this is an app bug, and that it is checking for Wi-Fi when it really should simply be checking for a valid connection.
There's an app called Fake Wifi that will apparently hack apps into thinking their connection is over Wi-Fi when it's not. However, this app needs a framework that requires a rooted device. So, back to square one.
(NB: I'd prefer not to root my device for security reasons.)
Today's progress: connecting a Sharkk UH-SKRJ11 (RealTek RTL8153 chipset) directly to the phone using a USB C-to-A adapter works. A couple of apps seem iffy about it, including the Google Maps offline downloader, but the Google Play Store and the LG updater work. So this is probably as good as it gets without major surgery.
This suggests that the problem was in fact the Microsoft HD-500 display dock. It would charge the phone, but the phone didn't seem to recognize it as a USB hub.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a USB Type C hub that works with this phone? Ideally I'd like to use Ethernet and charge at the same time.
Hello,
I work on the desktop team at a company and we started using Dell's DW-15 USB-C docks since Dell is phasing out the E-port. Out of curiosity, I plugged my phone into one a couple of months ago and everything but the display output works. We also have Dell 96NPS USB-C to Ethernet adapters that work fine with the G5.
I have this here.
Bought from eBay. Works on both G5 and V20. Should work on any phone that supports SlimPort.
I have connected it to the phone with display and various peripherals. Did not try ethernet dongle though.
I'm a bit puzzled that the Microsoft dock did not function right. I though that too was simply a display/slim-port design. Or maybe it's only the hub/otg functionality that's unavailable?
@askermk2000: thanks for the note. Any idea what the model number is on that device?
The Microsoft dock situation is quite odd. Before fully patching the OS (the phone arrived with the March security patch, I think) it wouldn't see anything at all on the dock (which has a Surface Ethernet Adapter aka RTL8153 plugged in). After patching, it suddenly started working, and working fine. Then after patching up to latest, it sort of half-works. It connects and data flows, but the phone pops a "Connecting" message for a minute every so often, as if it were pulling a new DHCP address or something. When connected directly to the Ethernet adapter, things work fine.
(And when I say fine, I mean mostly fine. Every now and then I plug in the adapter and nothing works. Disconnecting and reconnecting sometimes works. Changing USB connection settings sometimes works. Sometimes rebooting works. <shrug>)
@Keynesian
I'm sorry but there is not a single marking on that thing. A truly generic device.
That exact one seems to have become rare now. This looks like the successor, though it has one less usb port than mine.
Here's a listing of mine.
There are many generic types, with or without hdmi, one or more usb etc
One option with aluminum housing, 1 usb 1 hdmi and usb-c power input should cost no more than about $10
I think I got mine for around that (which is a more expensive model), but I got lucky and found a lonely expiring auction. Saved maybe $20
Weird about that dock of yours. Hopefully you'll have better experience with another one.
If I had an ethernet dongle I'd try to confirm if it works with or without the dock on my H850, but that could also depend on the type of chipset and driver used (and LG's flavor of the month it seems).
Just ordered one of these off Ebay. We'll see how it goes in a month:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/UBS-3-1-Ty...-Charging-Port-OTG-Adapter-Cable/162309246619