I use my X96 Mini plugged into a spare USB port on my TV without any additional power. I don't know for certain but I think the USB port on the TV is a standard USB2.0 outputting at 5V 500ma.
The X96 Mini can handle any USB stick I've got without fail, but 2.5" portable HDD's don't work without additional power.
Now I'm wondering if it can handle an SSD which - unless I'm mistaken - shouldn't use much more power than a USB stick.
I'm thinking about getting a cheap 240GB SSD like this Kingston SA400S37/240G SSD but I can find no way of verifying if it'll receive enough power to work on my X96 Mini.
If anyone with the necessary hardware (ie, a similar android box with a similar SSD) and could test this for me I'd be incredibly grateful.
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Hello,
Does someone know how archos managed to block certain devices from the 3G usb port? I am studying the kernel source codes and the filesystems of several roms and a cannot find any references to some blocked devices. (Yes I am a expeienced C(++)/linux developer) Most devices do work on the OTG port.
Memory sticks seem to work but when i plugin a mouse of keyboard the folowing line appears in dmesg:
hub 1-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
What is different on the 3G Usb port?
Joris
Good question. I'm not a developer but I have had that happen on a few (older) USB drives as well. Surely it couldn't be and old usb1.0 standard or anything that isnt enabled?
I just figured that it was a power issue thumb drives use almost no power, I'm thinking that archos designed the 3g stick/port to provide power on the low end of USB spec 5v DC and 0.5-0.9 amps.
I'm just going to link to my other post HERE about a powered USB hub. has anyone use a external battery to charge tab and do you get fast or slow charge?
I was just wondering about the compatability of the lg g5 with a usb hub in this way. I already have a usb hub(just an amazon basics one) and wanted to make a little media/gaming setup using an otg cable and miracasting it to my firestick. I don't know if it would be compatible with my controllers and pendrives etc. Or will i need a specific type c usb hub?
Ooops sorry for double post but i understand i may have posted this in the wrong section and it should have been in accessories. Not sure how to move it though. Sorry again.
well I think it might work but the hub needs to have additional power to do that
5V is needed to power it since the phone will not be able to power all mounted storage
I have a Ugreen HUB that I also recommend if you want to try it as it supports additional 5V power supply (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ugre...-LED-indicator-for-PC-Laptop/32526640882.html)
Thanks for the reply,
So the since the hub is bus powered you are saying the phone will not be able to power the mounted storage and say a gamepad or something? Is it that the phone is not capable of supplying it or that it will drain the phone quicker. For example if i had a usb otg cable that supplied input too the phone would it be possible?
If it is the case i should go for one of these hubs are there any you can recommend on amazon as I would rather not wait 2 or 3 months delivery?
If you plan on connecting gamepad, storage and so on at the same time, you will most likely lack enough power since the phone alone can not supply it therefor you will need additional power to the hub
So far the phone should be able to support powering a USB storage device (USB stick) but if you plan adding a external HDD for example, it will not work (I managed to test with a 1TB external HDD and was not able to fully power it)
As for a amazaon suggestion for a HUB, well not sure but you can try one that supports additional power supply (https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Port-2-5A-power-adapter/dp/B00DQFGH80)
Thanks very much for the reply i might purchasr that as well and see if there is a difference between using both. Anyone have any recommendations on type c otg cables?
My otg cable got delivered. And i used it with my current usb hub that was bus powered... It doesn't work reliably(it has worked once for me). I'm not sure why this is, I assume its because of the power. So if i was to buy a usb hub now that was powered such as the Ugreen 4 port usb hub will i see better results with that? Also anyone know the best gamepads i can buy for otg as i dont have a usb x360 or ps3 controller.
I was interested having a otg setup for my car, usb dac for audio, plus phone charging, but i dont think its possible to have otg + charging.
Even if you get otg working on a hub, chances are you wont be able to charge at the same time which is an issue for gaming?
Anyone who knows the capabilities of the USB-C port?? Is it possible to use USBpens, external harddrives, card-reader etc? And how about USB-C to HDMI, a seller in a store told me he did it with his m5... But I have my doubts to whether that was "salesmens talk"...
Don't have an M5 yet (tomorrow), but the Mate SE (micro usb) port can be used for many things people are not aware of. For many things all you need is an OTG cable (usb-c or micro to usb). I've plugged in usb thumb drives and even a wireless keyboard and mouse using a logitech unifying receiver (first set usb connection to midi).
A quick search turned this usb-c to hdmi adapter on amazon, looks like there are many different ones available. Have never tried this with any of my android devices, but if they make these adapters, well it certainly gives one hope that it *might* work, it certainly must in some circumstances.
https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Supporting-Thunderbolt-Compatible/dp/B00X4S5C7G
I have a HDMI adapter I use for the Nintendo Switch (which also should work with Samsung devices) and that one doesn't work with my M5 8.4.
I also have a USB-C OTG adapter and a USB memory stick works, but I haven't yried anything else.
It doesn't appear that the M5 is capable of hdmi output. Mhl and slimport seem to be absent.
I used a USB c combo dongle , it had USB A female and sd card slot.
On holiday I used it to copy my gopro videos to ssd. It wasn't pushing usb 3 speeds and the system acts a little weird when it is plugged in - movies that are downloading on amazon or Google play would go to the ssd or sdcard plugged in from otg, even though I have an sdcard in the external asd slot
Doesn't seem to work as USB DAC with Hugo using UAPP
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Doesn't seem to work as USB DAC with Hugo using UAPP
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Weird, I've tried it with Hugo 2 / UAPP playing hi-res flac and it seems to work fine. I set it in bit perfect mode and the bit rate indicator LED showed the correct bitrate. I did have to try a couple of unplug/replug to get the tablet to do some permission requests. It also worked with Youtube and the default Android audio system - though I did have to stop UAPP kicking in.
USB C can power external hard drive, and ive got one of those USB to 2.5in adapters that powers a 1tb toshiba laptop drive and that's ok too, the tablet also give me the option to reverse charge, so i presume it is capable of high amp output on the port, maybe up to 1A or more
I've tried an USB type-c to hdmi cable and it doesn't work , the same cable works on a P20 Pro.
Yeah the USB port isn't working correctly. It's supposed to be USB 3.0, but i am copying at 18MB/s (onto an SD card capable of 100MB/s)
Confirmed with Huawei it's USB 2.0
Seriously dissapointed, and I know it sounds silly but this device isn't useful without USB 3.0, I have an action camera and hence I copy video to internal SD card. What use is a device if you can't input/output to it fast enough.
email:
"Thank you for contacting Huawei Support.
The USB specification on the M5 tablet are:
HDM-Out does not work. I tried adding the necessary lines to the build.prop file as well with no success. Seems the hardware physically does not support MHL. We're stuck with MirrorShare which works pretty well.
Huawei M5 HDMI CABLE not supported
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I've tried an USB type-c to hdmi cable and it doesn't work , the same cable works on a P20 Pro.
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Have same experience. Really regret buying high end Huawei M5 and then realised I could not use it with HDMI cable. Wireless projection is really lag!
For folks with slow USB data issues, it mat be that you need a powered hub for it to work optimally. I've had this issue with a few Android devices over the years.
Gadgets + Adaptors - how much do you gain by replacing them with "native" gadgets?
Rather than "how much" the question should be "do you gain anything"?
So I have USB 3.0 dongles out the wazoo. An ethernet adaptor, a serial port adapter, an (unpowered) 3 port USB 3.0 hub + card reader, etc. And I have USB-C to USB 3.0 adapter.
Is there any reason to replace these gadgets? For instance, will a USB-C card reader transfer data faster than a USB 3.0 card reader plus an adapter cable? How about USB 3.0 thumb drives on the 3.0 hub?
I've found only one non-starter so far. I have a 100gb USB 3.0 power-over-USB hard drive that requires too much power. I didn't expect it to work because it draws too much power for my laptop unless the laptop is plugged into wall-power. My Insignia USB-C to hdmi/USB/usb-c power also doesn't support the hard drive. So I guess I need to look for another adapter! It _will_ work with a powered micro-USB to USB 2.0 dongle + micro-USB to USB-C adapter, but even I know that is a kluge beyond the pale.
I don't have a bluetooth keyboard, but both a USB keyboard and a Logitech keyboard with Universal RF / USB receiver work fine (although I can see the advantage to Bluetooth over both)
Besides HDMI, which seems to be touchy because of the power requirements (my Insignia adaptor seems to have "slow charging" issues), what kind of gadgets are you finding useful, and which ones do you need to update to USB-C?
Take care,
Joe
At least from the card reader perspective, I have speed tested using the adapter and no difference. I also use an adapter for my smart card reader without issue...and cheap adapters at that.
I think you need an all in one adapters (like USB's, SD card reader, ethernet, HDMI and usb type-c for charging) and effective internal components for transfer speed and power delivery.
I have an adapter from Ugreen 7 in 1 adapter and works great but if you can't find it you can probably get the same things from different brands.
For a keyboard and mouse, going with the all Bluetooth or one universal dongle like Logitech make sense but don't forget that if just use the keyboard and mice with the all in one dongle drains your battery a lot but if you have just type-c to usb 3.0 adapter or type-c to otg (whatever you call it) it is much for useful and you don't toggle Bluetooth always. But for Bluetooth you don't need to carry the adapters.
For HDMI, i am using the all in one or HDMI and power delivery adapter (from Ugreen too) but it depends on what i need.
So you always need different adapters for what you do. But i don't know about pluging the hub to a hub, but it is not useful and not looking good so one adapter is more effective.
But there is a problem with these adapters, they need power and it is not fast charging the tablet(but not slowly charging too just normal) with the adapter that come with so i think you have to have a PD charge for tablet when using adapters because it doesn't support QC3.0 (i tested but not fast charging).
Berkowich,
PD and QC3 charging is not something I'd heard of before. I've read some web pages now but have questions.. Because this is sort of a different topic I'll start a new thread. If you can respond, that would be great!
Thanks,
Joe
Hi,
I have this tablet: http://en.senter.com.cn/products_detail/productId=183.html
It has this type of https://www.graperain.com/ARM-Embedded-MSM8916-System-On-Module/ SOM with MSM8916 CPU. Actual SOM inside the tablet has different marking on it but it looks exactly as the one in the picture. Dimensions are also the same. I googled a little bit and the SOM probably contains PM8916 power management IC. The board that SOM sits on contains ADP1612 boost converter that genereates 5 volts for OTG (at least I think so).
The tablet runs 5.1.1 Android (32 bit) with 3.10.49 kernel.
The problem is the tablet can't be charged while the USB is in OTG mode (I want to connect USB webcam to the tablet and at the same time to charge the tablet). This functionality is called accessory charging adaptor (ACA). I tried to connect OTG cable with 124 kohm resistor and to supply 5 volts for USB webcam externally but this way tablet doesn't enumerate the webcam.
Do you think ACA can be enabled in software? I don't need the tablet to generate 5 V for OTG, I can supply it externally. But I want it to enumerate the webcam and to charge from my external 5 V supply.
I extracted device tree that the tablet uses - http://gaminn.sweb.cz/dt.txt . Do you think it is possible to edit it in order to enable ACA?