two hosts under one android device - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi
I just wonder it is any chance to connect two host to one android device?
I would like to connect 1x portable HDD and 1x SD Card reader to my Samsung Galaxy Note to get connection between hdd and sd card reader, just to simple transfer files between them. I already tryed connect them together via a SD Card reader with bultin host adapter via a USB socket in this device, but when I plugin a HDD to already connected sd card reader host I get an error and only a second connected device is working, so it looks like only one storage device can work in a same time. So maybe it is possible to apply some spllitter before two hosts and connect each device to different host adapter?

an usb hub, maybe?

If I understand you correctly, the problem is there can only be one host in any USB connection system.
In this case that host device should be your Galaxy Note.
You will have to be using an OTG cable and a USB hub.
The most I've ever connected at one time to my little device
was a card reader, a flash drive, 2 keyboards, a mouse, an audio adapter and a GPS.

I already have a OTG cable and the usb hub. But only one storage device at a time can be recognized by galaxy. When I plugin another one, the one already connected is automatically switched off and galaxy showing an error

I found the solution, the problem was with insufficient power, so I rebuild a otg cable a little bit to give it a +5V, and another +5V to a portable HDD and now I have exactlly what I need... a simple USB OTG BRIDGE fully controlled by GALAXY NOTE. I was need this to use a portable HDD as a photo bank (copy all of files from sd card to hdd in a travel). Thanks for your posts anyway.

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Hi,
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You need to get power to it. There's a thread about this here somewhere.... search should turn it up.
This thread shows you how to get it working in Android/CM9. I never tried it from within WebOS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1582771

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