This might be of interest to other Dell Venue 8 7840 owners/users.
Dell has a two port dongle that allows connection of both data transfer (e.g. flash stick with standard USB connector) and a charging cable (micro-USB) at the same time.
Dell product code is: 470-ABES.
The cost from a UK trade distributor was about £12, but by the time tax and shipping were added it was far cheaper, about £18, from flea-bay.
Just tested this with a 64-GB USB3 flash stick and worked perfectly.
The trade distributor lists it as being compatible with: Dell Venue 10 Pro (5050), 10 Pro (5055), 8, 8 7840, 8 Pro, 8 Pro (3845)
Just ordered mine. Took forever for me to find it (happened before I found your post). Thanks for posting g about it.
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I have dell mini for few years, and now my dell mini PDMI port (and data cable) are broken...
There's a mod for dell 7 to change PDMI port to USB. I try to do the same thing for dell mini, but dell mini and dell 7 have different layout, so i can't use dell 7 tutorial to do the same trick for my dell mini 5.
Did some one can help me how to mod dell mini 5 PDMI port to USB port (power and data)? I had a lot search with google, but i can't find how to do that mod specialy wich point (pict below) i have to connect (soldering) with each cabble on USB port because i think i can't soldering directly to pin because it's to small..
Thx... Forgive me for my poor english...
If you're looking to use a standard mini-USB cable with the Streak, the best way to go is to purchase an adapter similar to this one for the purpose. That is assuming you can find one. They were available for a short time back in 2012, but a current search only turned up the articles on the homemade versions.
I recommend the adapter because, as you noted, the pins are too small to allow soldering.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
If you're looking to use a standard mini-USB cable with the Streak, the best way to go is to purchase an adapter similar to this one for the purpose. That is assuming you can find one. They were available for a short time back in 2012, but a current search only turned up the articles on the homemade versions.
I recommend the adapter because, as you noted, the pins are too small to allow soldering.
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Thank you for your reply but thats not I'm looking for...
Because default port for charging ang data are broken so i can't use any adapter, i wan to replace PDMI conector with usb or micro usb conector...
Just like picture below...
Thx...
You'll have to search Google for the PDMI connector pinout. From there you should be able to figure it out. Of course, you could purchase a replacement port and solder it onto the board.
Got one of these for my mother for Christmas, I was under the assumption it was Qi compatible but when I set it on my Nokia wireless charger, nothing? Is the Dell wireless proprietary? What am I doing wrong? Any help appreciated.
Figured out the answer to my own question, Lol. The charging "receiver" or whatever you call it is at the extreme bottom of the device, the good thing is my Motorola charger doesn't have to be flush with the bottom of it for it to work, even through the Dell case I got with it.
I must say, so far, this is a impressive tablet. All the talk of freezing Chrome was cured by just using the stock Android browser instead. Nice little tablet, especially for $125!
I have been a little disappointed when the last few "breakthrough" smartphones were announced. I am a bit of inpatient type and I hate it when it takes time to copy videos from my phone to my computer and when it takes time to copy music from my computer to my phone.
Galaxy Note 3, the first USB3 phone was released in 09/2013. Galaxy S5 (certain variations..?) was the next one to get it. Then in autumn 2014 a suprise: USB3 was removed from Galaxy Note 4, and the recent Galaxy Note 5 still was in microUSB 2.0.
Lets see what is currently possible and with what price. I have a Sandisk Extreme USB stick. 32GB version costs 24eur and 16GB version costs 16eur. This stick has sequential read speed of 200MB/s and write of 89MB/s (according to crystaldiskmark).
Then I did a test for my LG G2. Androbench and A1 SD both give read speeds of abt. 154-170MB/s and androbench gave write speed of 77MB/s (sequential).
When I transfer a movie from LG G2 to my computer the transfer speed is about 27MB/s. So I have a strong reason to believe that the USB2 connector is a bottleneck. From past experience I know that USB2 maxes somewhere around 30MB/s.
The feedback from Galaxy Note 3 was that the microUSB3 connector went easily broken so I was under the impression that this was the main reason Samsung removed the connector from the next model and set its sight to USB type-C, which should be more durable and support speeds up to USB 3.1.
Now USB type-C is finally here but the first four phones I bumped to (Oneplus 2, Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X Lenovo ZUC Z1, or whatever) all of them do NOT have USB3 controller. According to most of latest sources all of them support only USB 2 speeds.
If a 16eur USB stick can do it, why cant a 600-700eur smartphone? I read many different hypothesis of what might be the reason. I just really dont believe any of them
I have a venue 8 7000 (venue 7840). Its usb port has broken mechanically. I want to get it repaired. It is out of warranty. Dell would charge $270.00 for the repair. A local shop will do it for $150.00. Both of these seem too high for the task to be performed. Do you know of a person or business that would repair it for a lower price? Thanks in advance!
PS I am in the USA
Same issue, but they wanted to charge me $299! I paid that for two tablets before...
Buy another tablet from eBay. I bought mine for $100. Dell sold them for $149 new before it was discountinued. So, there are plenty of them solve around that price on eBay.
Hi.
I just bought my mate 10 pro and love it.
But I just notice that the otg doesnt wotk, or I dont know if hauwei needs a apecial adaptor or what.
I come from a LG V20 and I normally use a 4 in 1 card reader to conect it directly and it was great, now I try it in my mate and it doesnt detect, I bought a ner 4 in 1 card reader and is the same, do I need to enable something or any one has an idea of what could be the problem.
Thanks
mate 10 alp L29 8.0.0.129 (C185)
i hav two type c dongle nd an adaptor,it reads/detect the sd card but goes blank just as quick.when i plug in two notification pops up one sd/usb ready to use nd the other is 5 options like reverse charging,transfer.....
dunno where the prob is
Mine works fine (BLA-L29)
im having the same problem. just got this phone, and trying to use a protable hdd which worked with my Galaxy Note 8, Oneplus 6 and laptop. It just comes up with reverse charging. When i select MTP it just reverts back to reverse charging straight away. Please, any help or info would be appreciated. TIA
Looks like your adaptor is not supported. The Mate 10 Pro support anything (mouse, storage, keyboard.. ), got USB 3.1 and display port 1.2
ALP-L29 8.0.0.141 (c636)
Moving this thread up.
For the past two days now, I have encountered the same problem. When I plug in my HD via the OTG adaptor, I only get a notification for how the USB can be used, but I am unable to toggle between reverse charging and file transfer. It only goes to reverse charging. Any time you select file transfer, it goes back to reverse charging.
This also happened yesterday, and after unplugging and plugging the device again, I was able to mount the HD. Today, I don't have the same luck.
I'm using a uGreen OTG adaptor and a 1TB WD hard drive which I used flawlessly even with my old phones (Huawei P8 and P10Plus). I've used the same combo with my current Mate10 before, but I have encountered this problem after the latest update (for GPU Turbo).
Help?!
I try 2 different OTG and neither work. One for Radio shack and another Xtech. my Cellphone model BLA-L29. Any clue?