I was just wondering, other than a USB Stick, external keyboard and mouse, what other uses are there for the USB ports on the Transformer's dock? I'm just not aware of what drivers Honeycomb has for external devices.
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Hooking up controllers for your various emulators and playing games the way god meant for them to be played- with physical controls and buttons.
You could charge your mobile phone for example (no kidding!). I also successfully mounted an external NTFS-formatted (self-powered) HDD and an old MP3 player. Soon they will add camera detection and maybe there will be a way to print too (but that's just me talking).
Can you add an external USB wireless card on those USB ports?
Plug in a 3 MiFi dongle, have wifi anywhere as well as four other devices.
Hi checkbox111,
I don't think I understand your reply properly. Are you saying that you plugged a 3mifi wifi dongle and it worked?
Did you also try plugging a normal external USB wirelless adapter and connect to the internet with it instead of using the internal wifi on the tablet?
Thanks
Senheiser said:
Are you saying that you plugged a 3mifi wifi dongle and it worked?
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Plugging in a mifi dongle just gives it power to transmit, you can then just pick up the wifi/mifi signal just like any wifi signal.
Senheiser said:
Did you also try plugging a normal external USB wirelless adapter and connect to the internet with it instead of using the internal wifi on the tablet?
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No! two reasons
1 why would i try when a mifi dongle works OK, i don't need both
2 I don't think these work with android anyway
Has anyone tried a USB headset? I would, sometimes, like to make Skype calls and I don't think the onboard mic is good enough and would therefore prefer a headset? Would a USB headset work? Or any way of connecting a headset with 2x 3.5mm jacks?
Thanks
G
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could be interesting if someone can try a USB->ethernet dongle.
chrispazz said:
could be interesting if someone can try a USB->ethernet dongle.
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You mean USB-wireless dongle, right?
I am also curious for it.
no, i mean usb to ethernet cable....
funnycreature said:
You could charge your mobile phone for example (no kidding!). I also successfully mounted an external NTFS-formatted (self-powered) HDD and an old MP3 player. Soon they will add camera detection and maybe there will be a way to print too (but that's just me talking).
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Olay... I dug out my simpletech 160GB hdd, checked it formatted NTFS, plugged it in (It has msuic on it)...
How do I find it? I tried google music, but couldn't find anything.
Thanks!
Adam said:
Olay... I dug out my simpletech 160GB hdd, checked it formatted NTFS, plugged it in (It has msuic on it)...
How do I find it? I tried google music, but couldn't find anything.
Thanks!
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When you connect a device it will appear in the menu bar at the bottom. Click on it and then on the folder icon. This opens the File Manager. you can also open the File Manager directly and navigate to /Removable/ and you'll find your SD cards and external HDD there. Just make sure it gets enough power!
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funnycreature said:
When you connect a device it will appear in the menu bar at the bottom. Click on it and then on the folder icon. This opens the File Manager. you can also open the File Manager directly and navigate to /Removable/ and you'll find your SD cards and external HDD there. Just make sure it gets enough power!
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Thats what i thought...must be something with the usb port as sd card works, dock works. i'll try another usb device (maybe mouse) to see if that works to narrow it down.
I can always reformat dirve too as last resort.
thanks.
Has anyone tried to tether to a phone using the usb port? If it works, it would be good for people with WM6.5 phones.
funnycreature said:
You could charge your mobile phone for example (no kidding!). I also successfully mounted an external NTFS-formatted (self-powered) HDD and an old MP3 player. Soon they will add camera detection and maybe there will be a way to print too (but that's just me talking).
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I thought TF doesn't recognize NTFS file system?
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I thought TF doesn't recognize NTFS file system?
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Not sure where you read this but I could see my HDD and play videos off it. I have the Prime V1.3 kernel installed so maybe that was part of it. But I am pretty sure that when ASUS offered the dock with TWO full-size USB ports they prepared the software for NTFS drives...
Has anyone tested any USB game pads? Do any work?
Has anyone tested any USB-key 3G modem? Do any work?
Well, thanks for all the ideas. I do hope that some of these controllers and other devices will be supported.
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Running "Random Rom". Specs say it supports otg cable. Trying to use sd card reader to view trail camera pics. The reader did not power up (led indicator) so I built a y cable to use power from laptop to verify the sys would operate. Got the reader to power up. Using Otg helper or stick mount from the app store neither recognized a drive. If it were to work I was going to get an portable battery source to get power for the reader. The card reader is an old one but works fine when hooked to a computer.
Has anyone been able to do what I am trying?
Do I need a newer reader?
Any info would be appreciated.
Hi all, I'm on MRA58K stock build.
Some issues or I'm just plain dumb.
1. OTG is not working.
When I plugged in OTG with logitech gamepad receiver, it shows as the battery is charging. Same for XBox 360 receiver.
They work perfectly fine on Nexus 6.
Do I need to root? Can't see myself buying Shield Controller
2. External SD card
As Portable storage, I am not able to move files from internal to external, not able to copy from network to ext sd and when plug into PC, i see neither storage.
If I set it as IntSD, i am not able to move large files into it. It is as it doesn't exist.
All above using Estrong file explorer.
Any help and advise is greatly appreciated
Any helpful? Especially with OTG
For the external storage I've had the problem.
The solution I found:
-enter in developper mode,
-set the usb configuration to PTP and back to MTP.
For all the transfers I'm using root explorer, and my device is rooted.
For OTG:
I've no problem with my logitech mouse M185.
I know they make the SanDisk dual end android otg flash drive that supposed work without proprietary software ,but I also know that particular one is junk.
I got a sandisk extreme pro and ordered the otg cable separate Will this work transferring files once plugged in or does this otg..a tuff only work wirh a certain dedicated type of flash drive and or app that's needed on top of the flash drive .
My theory once I get it was plug in the otg cable that's connected to the sandisk drive and attach the micro usb end to s6 I should see the drive inside a file manager app .But some YouTube videos show the usb otg dual drive not coming up within the phones settings or storage options .
Has anyone used a regular flash drive with otg cable to transfer and what's the method ?
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Hi, has anybody tried usb otg used with other usb type c phones.
I am wanting to know If anybody has transferred data between usbtype c hard drive and the Honor 8 phone without the need of laptop don't want to buy another hard drive but with type c if it won't work with the phone.
I have no clue why it won't work maybe Honor not put software in for it but just want to see if any body done it if so is it easy what's transfer speed like ..
Etc..
Thanks guys
Yeah,
I had a USB Type-C Male to USB 3.0 Type-A female adapter. Plugged in a USB 3.0 Toshiba Hard Drive and it worked. Notification popped up and I was able to use it in the built in file manager.
Works very well and is very fast as well.
That's good, official support of otg
Muhdol said:
Yeah,
I had a USB Type-C Male to USB 3.0 Type-A female adapter. Plugged in a USB 3.0 Toshiba Hard Drive and it worked. Notification popped up and I was able to use it in the built in file manager.
Works very well and is very fast as well.
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1. Didn't work for me
2. What theme is that?
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1. Didn't work for me
2. What theme is that?
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It's called Material VUi , it's available on the Honor 8's XDA forums under themes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/themes/theme-material-vui-material-design-t3441165
Link to the thread.
Otg works for me plus microsd, awesome
I don't find my self using otg if I had sd card expansion
Honor 8 supports USB OTG.
Refer the document given for further reference on its usage.
Official Honor 8 USB OTG Document Link - https://community.hihonor.com/docs/DOC-1613
Here are some steps you can take to transfer files from your phone to an external device or microSD.
Connect a USB OTG cable to your phone to access data on USB flash drives, card readers and other storage devices.
- Connect your phone to a USB flash drive with a USB OTG cable.
- Touch [click to enlarge] > Local > USB drive to browse data on the flash drive. You can select and copy data to a destination folder. For more information, see Copying, moving, or deleting files.
- When you have finished browsing, touch Settings > Advanced settings > Memory & storage > USB drive > Eject.
Disconnect the USB OTG cable from your phone and the USB flash drive. (NS)
Stock ROM (not rooted): Huawei built-in Files works very well for OTG USB flash drives. However, if you have X-Plore File Manager installed, do NOT accept the message as shown (see he attached), otherwise USB drive will disappear and neither the Huawei's Files nor X-Plore would be able to access the USB drive. If you ignore that message or "Cancel" it, X-Plore would be able to read USB drive but not write to it.
The same here
I wonder if there is any relation between emui5 "android" and the service activation