Hey everyone,
I just ordered an USB HUB device and I tested it on both my PC and my tablet (Nexus 7), and everything worked flawlessly (tested with mouse, keyboard, usb stick and gamepad usb at the same time and everything worked fine on both devices).
When it came to the Galaxy S2, for some reason only the USB memory stick works, while it gives power to the keyboard/mice/pad but doesn't recognize them or something.
I've tried all those separated one by one and they all work without a problem with the same OTG cable I am using for this. I also tried a keyboard/mouse combination with PS2 ports and an USB adapter into my SGS2 via OTG and both works at the same time..
Anyone knows what could be the problem here? I can't understand why SGS2 can handle mouse/mice at the same time via PS2-USB-OTG converter but not via USB-HUB-OTG, while they work for separated (and the entire combination works via PC and Nexus 7).
I checked and people reports they all work in the sgs2 too, and I can see videos with keyboard/mice usb hub working.. ¿what can be happening here? Maybe my USB Hub is for some reason not complatible with sgs2?
The USB hub I'm using is this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/AmazonBasic...NURK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354732888&sr=8-1
Thanks a lot in advance!
Anyone?
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Today, a friend asked if I had an extra laptop. He needed one for his 10 year old son.
While rummaging through my closet (you know, the one with all the old computers, shotguns, and half empty Jack Daniels bottles) when I found one of these.
Two Pics … http://db.tt/GY4wfof6 and http://db.tt/rzkodoMi
Now, I have no idea as to how, where or when I got this. I had to search the net to even know what it was.
Ebay link … http://www.ebay.com/itm/230328510631?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2648
Continuing my search of the closet I also found a 2.5 inch 160 gig IDE hard drive. Assembled the two and I now have a portable battery powered drive that works great with my Flyer.
That looks kinda old school. =)
So you connect to the flyer via bluetooth or microUSB?
It connects with microUSB.
Now that I’ve had a chance to use it a while I’ve found I can set its switch to PC or DC.
When set to PC I just plug it in to my Flyer and can copy files both ways.
When set to DC it will function as a standalone unit (because it has its own battery power). I can plug thumb drives and USB sdcard adaptors into it to move files both ways.
It will even plug into my camera and copy the pictures.
Kind of handy as the Flyer doesn’t supply power at its microUSB port to spin a hard drive.
It’s not what I call well built but seems to work.
At least it does the job! I didn't know we could use OTG harddrive for the flyer...
That's very cool. Vastly increases the number of movies I could take with me on a long trip!
ARRR
Ok so spent about £40 on one of these and it doesn't work with my Flyer(32GB WiFi 3G). Flyer is not rooted and running the latest official version of HC. I have tried both DC and PC but device still does not detect the OTG drive. My samsung mobile finds the device fine.
Are you using a standard micro usb cable ??
simtech1976 said:
Ok so spent about £40 on one of these and it doesn't work with my Flyer(32GB WiFi 3G). Flyer is not rooted and running the latest official version of HC. I have tried both DC and PC but device still does not detect the OTG drive. My samsung mobile finds the device fine.
Are you using a standard micro usb cable ??
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Yes using a standard micro usb cable
Try this ... Shut down your Flyer (make sure Fast Boot is unchecked in settings) then turn on your drive in DC mode and restart your Flyer.
Your Flyer should find it then and will work from then on.
Using your file explorer of choice you should see a new folder called USB
Hi, tried this but still no go. Ran a USB host and USB OGB diganostics app which still fail to detect the device. The drive works with my camera/Samsung phone and brothers PSP. May have to fork out for WIFI drive.
Still no go with the OTG device. Tried with a friends Flyer and same results. I am going to try this device, is fairly cheap.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-2-5-For-OTG-LCD-Partner-Storage-Backup-HDD-/260990399369?pt=UK_Computing_HardDrives_RL&hash=item3cc43d7389
simtech1976 said:
Hi, tried this but still no go. Ran a USB host and USB OGB diganostics app which still fail to detect the device. The drive works with my camera/Samsung phone and brothers PSP. May have to fork out for WIFI drive.
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Strange … My Flyer is the 16 Gig Best Buy wifi model and is rooted I wonder if that makes a difference
I use an OTG USB cable on my US BB Wifi Flyer , the standard usb cable doesn't work for me.
DigitalMD said:
I use an OTG USB cable on my US BB Wifi Flyer , the standard usb cable doesn't work for me.
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I have an OTG cable from my samsung but this did not work. what OTG cable are you using? I gather you are connecting the USB device into the OTG cable via a powered hub?
Got it working but it's a hackjob, was going to root but having to downgrade then upgrade again was a pain and was not guaranteed to work. Tried running the OTG cable into a powered hub but for what ever reason would always come up USB device not recognised when plugging in any memory device. Tried 3 USB hubs with the same result. Ended up cutting up an OTG cable and a few other USB cables so I could provide power to the device and then power to the tablet as well. For whatever reason i need to provide power to he memory stick before plugging into tablet. I have tested 4 different memory pens and 1 external harddrive and they all work.
I just bought a generic OTG cable, its about 6 inches long. I think it may have come from HP. I have used both a powered hub and a y-usb hard drive cable and both worked for me.
You have to have power on the device before you plug it onto the FLyer so that on connect the Flyer software knows what type of device it is and can load the driver. Otherwise the Flyer will label it unknown and disable the device.
Managed to get USB on the go to work on my Jetstream. See the following post. as the flyer very similar, should work for flyer too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24814701
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i bought a usb otg from ebay he work perty fine a periode of two mounthes but now when i plug the usb otg its notifed (usb connector connected ) but there is nothing i pluged usb stick i pluged mousses keyboards nothing and i have tested that on many phones (galaxy s2 and note and s3 ) so i think the problem is in the otg how can i fix that ?
Buy a new one. They're all of five bucks.
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Buy a new one. They're all of five bucks.
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i know that but i live in algeria there is not who i can buy it
Well you said you've tested different USB devices with it, and you've also tested it on 3 different phones. Which obviously means the cable itself is cactus.
Not really anything you can do about it.
A quick Google search for 'repair USB OTG cable" brings up a bunch of results, some of which detail how to repair USB cables (apparently). Looks like you have a lot of research/work to do if you can't buy another one then.
I've got a similar problem with OTG USB driver on SGN.
I bought OTG cable which work fine when I connect pendrive device, but doesn't work when i try to connect usb mouse, keyboard, pad ect.
It worked when I had a stock samsung software 4.0.3, but I changed it because of its battery drain problem. I've installed 4.0.4 Paranoid Android v05 (CM9). I found in Market application USB Host Controler, and itshows "S3C USB Host driver NOT found!".
Is it possible to add this driver to OS ? Or is there any other way to use external hardware device like mouse or keyboard?
Hi there.
I got my Galaxy S3 about 3 days ago and love almost everything about it.
I've been experimenting heavily with USB OTG, and it's such a great feature to have. I have got a Mouse, keyboard and USB flash drive all working over the USB OTG cable. I can also get the Mouse and Keyboard connected at the same time over a USB hub. However, USB flash drives refuse to work over a hub on USB OTG, even though they work directly from the phone to the USB. This is pretty confusing to me, considering two higher power devices work over the hub.
I've tried two different varieties of hub, both giving the same result and have also tried two flash drives. I'm using an un-powered hub and I honestly don't see how just because I'm using a hub the USB Flash drive isn't working. There is no way that it can have a higher power usage than a mouse/keyboard at the same time.
Just to note, I'm using the hub unpowered externally, it's going directly into the phone. I can't seem to find the power cable to try.
I have the UK (GSM) variant of the phone in blue and am running on the Stock 4.0.4 ICS firmware (i9300XXLF2) and haven't tried to root or anything.
Could someone suggest what might be the issue I'm having, or some things to try?
Thanks
Hello! I'm using an Atrix MB860 with CM7-MROM, rooted and unlocked. I have a USB-female to micro-b-male USB-OTG cable (yes it is an OTG cable with pins 5 and 4 shorted or whatever), a powered USB hub where the red +5v line is coming from a 5v, 600mA power supply, not the usb cable, and 3 different USB OTG host controller apps.
My powered USB hub works just fine on both of my computers, so I know that its not the issue. But I can't get my Atrix, or at least the USB OTG apps I've tried, to recognize any device I plug into the hub, or even straight into the cable. I've tried 2 different wired keyboards, a wireless keyboard/mouse, an xbox 360 wireless controller receiver, and 4 different USB flash drives, and NOTHING works on the Atrix (but they all work on my PC through the same hub). I have tried restarting the USB OTG apps, I've tried pressing the 'refresh' button in them, I've tried restarting the entire phone with the USB OTG cable plugged in on bootup, but nothing works!
What am I doing wrong?! I know this phone supports USB OTG, I've seen videos of it working on youtube.
EDIT - Okay, my powered hub + otg cable combo is confirmed working just fine on my friend's Motorola Xoom tablet running stock Android 4.whatever firmware. It recognizes both my keyboard and my flash drive plugged into the hub, at the same time. But when I unplug it from the tablet and plug it into my Atrix phone, so that the keyboard/flash drive are plugged into the EXACT SAME ports on the hub, my Motorola Atrix does not recognize them at all.
What. The. Hell.
i dont think atrix does OTG. sorry mate.
Whaaat? But there's numerous threads in here about people getting it to work just fine on the Atrix!
Also, there's videos like this on youtube of it working fine on an MB860:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRa9aXO3Tog
I think it only works on blur gb. You need nebtop.apk, so you can simulate docking the phone. That should enable otg with your powered hub
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Hello guys,
I'm having a problem with my Paladin.
I bought USB OTG cable and it look's like it doesn't work. When I connect any of 3 pendrives only one will blink but still no result in tablet.
I've tried runing it many times but without luck. USB OTG Helper shows theres No Drives Found!.
I saw person got it working: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiBli8zBwsc but I cannot understand him.
Do you have any idea how to get it to work ?
Forgot, to tell. It does supply 5V via USB. As USB Hub is lightning works and pendrive led does work too.
Maybe missing drivers in android ?