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[Galaxy S II General] FreshFreddie53:
Hi there,

Got my £2 cable from Hong Kong (ebay purchase today).

Works great - even runs my 500GB HDD (this has to be plugged in to operate anyway - not sure USB powered HDDs will work).

If anyone's interested, the item description was:

Micro USB Host Cable for Nokia N810 OTG on the go N 810

No mention of the SGS2 - but I can verify that these work just fine!!!

Jamie
[Galaxy S II General] nilezon:
Any Nokia compatible OTG cable seem to work. I've successfully tested several different cables (all from eBay) with usb sticks, optical mouse and usb based memory card reader. However, usb based wifi sticks, fast ethernet dongle and tv-card didn't work. We probably need some new drivers and possibly more power (an usb hub could fix this).
[Galaxy S II General] dervomsee:
I bought the Nokia USB OTG adapter too. With FAT32 Sticks ists working. But without NTFS support it is nearly useless for me.
[Galaxy S II General] kryp2nyt:
umm...i have a nokia n8 and i took off the OTG cable that came with it before selling it in favor of buying a new Galaxy S 2.

However, the nokia OTG cable is perfectly rectangular, whereas the Galaxy S 2 cable connector is a bit "broken off" two edges, hence, using them is impossible together...but i managed to get them to work (in the shop where i tried the Galaxy S 2 at least, i didn't buy the phone yet).

I used a rasp, and filed off the edges of the Nokia OTG cable carefully to match the "broken edges" as the Galaxy S2's connector shape...took that cable to the shop where there is a working Galaxy S 2 unit, and connected it with a flash disk on the other side aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand......it worked !

If you have the caution and a rasp, i think Nokia's OTG cable should work too..they're cheap off ebay too, aren't they ?
[Galaxy S II General] thehrushi:
Just ordered one of those off ebay (The Nokia N8 compatible one). Would receive it by tomorrow. I hope it works!
[Galaxy S II General] anonymous572:
Here is mine ****ty review of USB mouse, USB keyboard and USB lamp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQn1DCA0PRQ
[Galaxy S II General] antz88c:
here's mine, got it also from ebay.

[YOUTUBE]58eQ_XItYlY[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S II General] AspenMan:
If you can't get it to recognize USB mass storage I would suggest using USB Mass Storage Watcher: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skidmrk.umswatcherotg. It will let you mount any type of external storage (NTFS, FAT 32/16, EXT, etc... It's free.

Also, this is a good USB host cable: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GGBYJ4?ie=UTF8&seller=A76FR6O1NBAXV&sn=T & S Electronics, LLC
[Galaxy S II General] Akez42:
I seem to get a "Clear USB" error when I plug in certain usb drives. I'm not sure if this is related to the drive being NTFS or if it is above a certain size. I can't for the life of me find any specs on the whole feature, including its maximum output power.

Could anyone shed some light on the subject from their trial and errors?

Thanks,

Alex
[Galaxy S II General] hkwildboy:
It works with a lot, but not all USB devices.

It doesn't read NTFS format.
[Galaxy S II General] Tokl:
Maybe this will help you guys ;):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15167790&postcount=41

Greetz Tokl
[Galaxy S II General] lavazzabg:
I have modded a Nokia CA-157 too. I can confirm it works but just with usb 2.0 devices. My USB 3.0 flash memory didnt work - S2 says high voltage device, unable to access.
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
Or just plug a powered hub into the OTG cable then everything else into the powered hub ;)

Makes it less portable, but lots of stuff seems to work as long as you add udev vendor id rules.
[Galaxy S II General] Akez42:
That looks useful! May have to give this a try.

On a side note - does anyone know how to unmount a mouse connected with usb otg? Or if it is possible to disable auto-mount of usb otg devices? Ive tried looking for just unmounting a mouse but couldnt find much.

Cheers,

Alex
[Galaxy S II General] Sleepycat3:
Just pull three mouse connector off. The mouse cursor disappears and everything still works fine, so turret it's no need to unmount the mouse.
[Galaxy S II General] Akez42:
Sorry, I didn't really explain why i need to unmount it. I've got backtrack running on my phone (used this guide) and recognizing usb devices via OTG, but I want to unmount the mouse from android so I can then mount it in backtrack.

Thanks,

Alex
[Galaxy S II General] VEDA2810:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddeynnz0XR8

Here is my Video Showing USB HUB support

this is AWESOME .. !!
[Galaxy S II General] sleeco:
Hi, how do you open up a thumb drive/SD card, when connected it shows in notification bar, i then have to find it via a file explore to open it, there must be an easier way than this?
[Galaxy S II General] Chef_Tony:
open up file explorer, then usb_storage. doesn't get easier than this.
[Galaxy S II General] tjempeng:
Hello,

Somehow I can't seem to get OTG to work on my SGS2. I have purchased a second OTG cable from a different brand and different supplier, but my SGS2 doesn't seem to recognize the cable when inserted like many videos shows. Also nothing happens when I plug in a USB Stick.

Also the app in the link below doesn't seem to be compatible with my phone and so i

can't install it :S

Does anybody have any ideas ?

I'm running my SGS on original 2.3.4 and it's rooted.

Thanx in advance !
[Galaxy S II General] psusi:
Is this cable some sort of proprietary nonsense? I just got a generic USB gender bender and tried plugging in a flash stick and nothing. I assumed there should be some sort of software switch somewhere to put the usb controller into host mode, but I can't find it.
[Galaxy S II General] Rollies77:
Most generic USB gender bender left the 4th micro USB pin untouched. You need to make a little mod for it to work as this thread explains. I tried, it works.
[Galaxy S II General] Nirvana388:
FYI I got 2 mice working at my work today with this adapter:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/140613635091...X:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2648#ht_1336wt_1071

As long as it's Micro B it should be fine.

The trick was to connect the mouse first to the adapter, then to the phone. When I did this the mouse pointer came on the screen but I was unable to move it. Upon restarting the phone it worked fine! Testing keyboards next using this method!
[Galaxy S II General] Prankey:
Is there anyway to enable charging when connecting USB OTG? I have tried generic powered USB HUBs and it works fine (except for usually unstable connectivity as I observe with HDTV adapter - I have got a replacement phone as both have the same connectivity issue through OTG and Official HDTV Adapter).

Sometimes the mouse reconnection freezes the phone and have to reboot!

Also, I wish OTG and HDTV adapter can work simultaneously (when connecting a powered hub through OTG to the MicroUSB charging port on the HDTV Adapter, phone does start charging, but OTG doesn't work).
[Galaxy S II General] Nirvana388:
The phone has to power the device it is running, and therefore can't accept power over the same pins at the same time. I feel like this should be a dead issue.

You can use a powered hub though to power your devices and lessen the battery drain. Definitely physically impossible to power the phone while in host mode.

Same goes for trying to use the hdmi and otg at the same time, the usb connection only has so many pins, and they can't be used simultaneously for hosting a usb drive, and driving an hdmi out controller, it's physically impossible.
[Galaxy S II General] dglaboi:
Same here, took a perfectly good Samsung USB cable and modded it as shown in the pics.....still nothing recognized. Bought 2 different OTG cables (title clearly said to work on SG2) without success. Tried it on 2 SG2 phones (bought them at the same time so probably same batch). Do you thing my phones are defective???
[Galaxy S II General] akbarirfan:
This would be so useful!

These cables should have been included in the box!
[Galaxy S II General] dglaboi:
I agree....I have a Nokia E7 and everything was supplied, HDMI adapter AND USB OTG adaptor.

For such an expensive flagship phone Samsung could at least provide us with those....
[Galaxy S II General] Gorjess:
The S2 usb otg is good, but it lacks compatibility and usage.. not all flashdrive that i test worked.. same goes to mouse.. i mainly use it as a dslr controller.. thats it..

i don't think that the $29 price tag is worth a buy unless you're a dev and capable to use it to it's full potential.. not a deal breaker, just a tool..

For those who can't get it to work try to revert back to stock rom and kernel..

Sent from The Center of The Earth
[Galaxy S II General] pepemosca:
Mouse works on my SGS2 running CheckROM 4.0 and SiyahKernel 2.5.2 and the DealExtreme.com (http://www.dealextreme.com/p/micro-...-samsung-galaxy-s2-i9100-nokia-n8-more-101894)
[Galaxy S II General] guitarmafia:
Hello

@for all users who can not get otg to work-

First switch back to the stock rom,,,some custom roms do not support otg..

then buy even the cheapest otg cable from ebay or somewhere else(should cost you approx 3-5$)... :D cuz i have tested so many cheap ones and they all seem to work well...

NOw connect the usb device with the cable ,,then connect it to the phone...and u are good to go....

If u have connected a pen drive,,,all the data should be in the usbStorage folder...

If u have connected a mouse,there should be a pointer on the screen,,,,,Note that not all mouse work with our S II.....But almost all of the Logitech mouse works with the handset,,,,even the wireless ones(that was so cool when i found out)...So if u have a Logitech Keyboard+Mouse wireless combo like me,u have a perfect setup,,, :D
[Galaxy S II General] 007xico:
Tried it but won´t work.
[Galaxy S II General] guitarmafia:
Can you provide the exact details?

If u r having a prob with pen drives then try formatting it to fat32..

or else try buying some other cable.

Also when you connect your otg cable with the phone(even without connecting any device to the cable) does it says in the notification bar that "Usb host cable connected"???

If not then the problem is either with the ROM or the cable.

If it shows this message then the problem is with the device(i mean it may be not compatible and stuff)..

Hope that helps..
[Galaxy S II General] quincy6688huang:
it works with usb memory stick, all you need is make the phone understand what is FAT/FAT32/NTFS
[Galaxy S II General] 007xico:
I am using stock 2.3.5 XWKJ1.

I read somewhere that samsung removed the OTG.

Nothing happens when i connect the cable.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] guitarmafia:
ok,well there is one last thing u can do,,that is to unroot ur device...

unrooting solved the problem for some people(not a majority...but still there is a hopefull chance)

If that doesn't work and if what u r saying is true(that 2.3.5 doesnt have otg) then flash another ROM that supports otg....

But according to me 2.3.5 supports otg because Samsung Note comes with 2.3.5 and it has this feature..

And if that also doesnt work,, :confused: well,,then u should either try an original samsung usb otg cable or claim ur warranty :D ..sorry but i have no other idea...
[Galaxy S II General] y17dt:
For me USB-OTG works fine on Checkrom v4.0 (Android 2.3.6) with Speedmod K2-18.

But I´m wondering whether it is possible to make printers of other brands working with the OTG-Cable. I think this Problem could be Driver related.

It would absolutely great if I could use HP(or other) printers with my S2.

Does anybody have an Idea?
[Galaxy S II General] michaelb51:
I could read usb key on galaxy note, but not mouse or keyboard.

I changed kernel, not full rom.

And now everything works.

May be the same on galaxy S2...
[Galaxy S II General] foxbox:
you may use any device as long as you have appropriate module loaded or the device is supported by the kernel. Some ppl managed to run joypads etc.
[Galaxy S II General] cloud596:
yeah no wonder, why everyone said galaxy s2 has usb on the go, no its no usb on the go , it just usb host mode, usb on the go has ability being an enslave and slave , usb host mode just slave , thats why u cant connect usb modem , or usb tv , even headset as ability as antenna tv digital ah some tweak may be able,( cmiiw )
[Galaxy S II General] rab1412000:
has anyone tested this with siyah kernels?

edit :

at first it didnt work with my sd card reader. so i headed to the mall and tried it out with different flash drives and a few other sd card readers and it worked. so i just bought a new card reader :)

now if i could just make my logitech mx with wireless reciever work with it.

=>on siyah 2.6.7
[Galaxy S II General] cata1693:
i also use siyah 2.6.7 with VK Rom, and it doesn't work:(

any rom suggestion that i could use?
[Galaxy S II General] rab1412000:
I think it's really a known issue of. 7

I have since switched to 2.6.9 and it mounts more consistently with my card reader, although sometimes it takes some time to be recognized.
[Galaxy S II General] cata1693:
switched to 2.6.11(last version) and still no results:(

could it be the rom?
[Galaxy S II General] rab1412000:
I would test it first with a different card reader or usb stick.
[Galaxy S II General] E:V:A:
I read in some hardware thread that it only works properly with USB-2 devices, and very rarely with USB-1. (Sorry, I can't recall where...)

[That, said, most basic keyboards and mice, are usb-1...]
[Galaxy S II General] dglaboi:
Sama here, nothing happens. I tried stock rom 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.6 and also while rooted and tried some custom roms......nothing. And now I'm on 4.0.3 and still no OTG......
[Galaxy S II General] rab1412000:
My otg works fine on VillainROM 3 and the siyah and neak kernels
[Galaxy S II General] wolf200828:
OTG Not Working

hello i went and got a female to female usb adaptor and used my charger cable but still not working am i doing something worng ----rooted samsung galaxy s2 t mobile usa
[Galaxy S II General] roymustafa:
My custom binary showed 222 :). I hadnt USB OTG. Today i tried Chainfire's TriangleAway apk and now it shows 1...I am soooooo happy now and i dont need that usb otg...:D
[Galaxy S II General] Kamacho:
Hi there.

There is one thing you should know about NTFS file system. It belongs to Microsoft and nobody was allowed to use it. This means that only a Windows os system will read a ntfs drive. To use a flash drive with a Tv, xbox, ps3 or dvd player you must use the fat32 file system. But since fat32 has a 4gb per file size limit there is not much you can do with it.
[Galaxy S II General] vishnu531:
I want to know My Sony Ericsson Live with walkman supports otg or not?

I want to know my sony ericsson live with walkman supports otg or not? I tried but it didn't detected but in my phone specifications otg is supportable..plz some one help me out...

thank you.
[Galaxy S II General] rahulsuneja:
Mine works ever since I discovered this feature on my SII. I've got wireless headphones from SteelSeries and they work perfectly.

Also, there hasn't been even one incident where my phone wouldn't detect a USB Storage. The key her is:

1. Connect your pen drive/mouse/keyboard to the USB OTG Cable 1st & theb plug the cable into the phone. It usually takes upto 10 seconds to detect it. However, if I connect the cable to my phone before connecting it to the device, it just doesn't show up.

2. To access files on the USB drive, you need to goto My Files > USBstorage.

PS: If it doesn't work for you then try using some other cable or pen drive. I bought mine from Ebay.in for Rs. 150 from a seller named "tsi_india" and it reached me the very next dat after purchase.
[Galaxy S II General] VEDA2810:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddeynnz0XR8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

this is the video review of how I used my usb otg.... i was surprised to see that a hub was supported too... ;-)

Sent from GT I9100 running ICS.
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
I tried as well. Cable mouse works even through hub, wireless mouse and keyboard not working. Just a question: if you connect a powered hub does it recharge the phone? In my case not but maybe it depends on the usb otg cable...

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] digiflash:
I use the CM9 nightlys... USB-Stick works perfect but no usb keyboard or mouse. Is there any working kernel that I can use?
[Galaxy S II General] karan999:
in my case usb keyboard and mouse are working.but the pendrive isn't working.its not getting detected.any help ?

Regards,

Karan.
[Galaxy S II General] Simonetti2011:
That is not quite accurate.

Although the rights to NTFS belong entirely to Microsoft, they have allowed third parties to develop for NTFS following MSFT's specifications. There is a license agreement the developer must obey. That is NTFS-3G has created R/W drivers for several platforms.

It is not, however, openSource.

Back to the Galaxy S II question:

I have successfully mounted and read NTFS partitions both from my Galaxy S II and my Motorola Xoom. Both devices use the very same type of USB OTG adapter. The only thing is that in the GSII mounting a NTFS partition must be done through a command shell using regular Linux commands. I have used flash drives and external HDDs formatted with NTFS in my GSII.

So, the bottom line is: the USB OTG adapter works for NTFS.

BTW, I am NOT using custom ROMS, only stock ones.
[Galaxy S II General] Tye:P:
I can confirm USB OTG is working with SGS2. Working with flash drives, SD Card reader, mouse, keyboard and even 2TB external HDD.

The only thing is I've been having difficulty mounting my HDD as RW as it is mounted as RO by default. Does anyone here know how to do this? Does anyone have a script that they could share to mount the HDD so I don't have to keep doing it manually? A conditional one would be good (eg 'if this condition is meant' mount/unmount HDD).
[Galaxy S II General] playlet:
Hi!

I have SGSII with stock ICS installed. How did you manage to get USB mouse working? I tried 3 different mice and none of them worked.
[Galaxy S II General] duff91:
siyah kernel
[Galaxy S II General] Flint2:
Worked with Card Reader and Arduino

I have a non branded adapter, works very well with a USB external card reader (for backups) and also lists the Arduino Uno board (for DYI electronics), but i did not find any app that works with Arduino in this mode.

Works well with external powered hdd.

Does not work with external hdd usb powered like the WD My Passport.

The only trick to get it work is plugging first the device in the adapter and then de adapter in the phone.
[Galaxy S II General] Flint2:
NTFS Mounter

Or you can install an app like NTFS Mounter http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1654024 (requires ICS)
[Galaxy S II General] julle131:
That is how it works. First put device to adapter, and then adapter to phone.
[Galaxy S II General] drraptor:
where can I find drivers for Hp printer for OTG
[Epic 4G General] impoc:
first off, I'm running stock EC05, rooted

Problem:

yesterday my Epic started jumping to the pause screen while I was playing Collapse! which I had gotten off of the Amazon App market, at first I thought it might be the hardware fault when the back button presses automatically, but it wasn't as it continued to do it without the haptic feedback or blinking, so I ruled that out and tried reinstalling

unfortunately it continued, so I though it might be a bad download that needs an update on the market, so I uninstalled and decided to play Robot Unicorn Attack which I got off the Android Marketplace, however it does the same thing, right in the middle of gameplay, it will jump to the pause screen

so now I thought it might be some other app that I updated that is causing some kind of interference with the system, so I uninstalled all apps that had been updated or installed over the past 2 or 3 days, the problems remains

I tried Fruit Ninja from that Amazon App Store as well, same problem, I'm really not sure what is wrong as there had been no problems with any of the games before yesterday, I also did a scan for malware just for kicks but nothing showed up

when I tired searching for people with similar problems, the closest I found was someone who was having what seemed like an identical problem on a Galaxy S Tab, any help that doesn't require a complete rom flash would be awesome

thanks!
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
The only thing I can suggest is going into Clockwork and clearing data and Dalvik cache. Sounds like some data corruption somewhere if you are running stock with no overclocking or undervolting which usually causes this kind of behavior.
[Epic 4G General] greezestain:
Are you running an overclocked kernel? I have a similar problem with Words With Friends whenever I'm running an overclocked kernel. If I disable overclocking and reboot, the problem goes away.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
His OP said he was running stock. Switch to Word feud, you can overclock all you want and still run Adfree.
[Epic 4G General] impoc:
I will give it a shot and let you know how it goes

question though, can I restore anything from my Titanium Backup? or would that just bring the problem back once it was restored?
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Was it OK when you did the backup? If so you can certainly try. Just to clarify you are on full stock, just rooted?

Do you BONSAI?
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
I'm at sprint right now returning a completely stock refurb they gave me. Apps are randomly opening and backing out of themselves
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Nooooo! Something wrong with a Sprint refurb?!! That is unheard of! Rightttt! That is how I got talked into Black Tie insurance...they promise a new phone.

Do you BONSAI?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Z7722:
Hey guys!!!

I know there are a lot of powerful guys among you, who can pack kernels that enables your DHDs to run stable at 1.5GHz! 1.5GHz!!!

Now we need your help! We people who have a HTC Incredible S need your help!!!

Most of the guys working on the Incredible S haven't got root or s-off yet, BUT in China, MOST of us have already got s-off when we buy our phones!!!

We s-off Incredible S owners need you to pack a kernel that can overclock!!! Even just to 1.2 GHz will do!!!

I know f***ing nothing about packing kernels, but I know that the Incredible S and the DHD have the same QSD8255 and 768 MB RAM!!!

So could anyone do us a favor please??? We'll be very very very very very grateful!!!

Thank you!!!!!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flussen:
you need the source code from the Incredible S kernel. as long as HTC doesn't release the kernel source, there is no chance to compile your own kernel (you can try to port the kernel, but thats a huge effort).

Edit: just checked http://developer.htc.com/ and it seems that HTC has released the source code of the kernel. so it shouldn't be that hard to compile an OC able kernel
[Wildfire General] Takudenatsu:
As the title suggestes, I'm looking for an XTC clip in South Africa. If anyone has one, please contact me.
[Wildfire General] Takudenatsu:
Bump: Still nothing?
[Wildfire General] 3ight8all:
Did you manage to find one? I've been looking everywhere in CT for someone who can root the phone, but haven't had any luck.
[Wildfire General] Takudenatsu:
Nope, I used the AlphaRev X way...was one of the beta testers.
[Wildfire General] Gandolff:
Your not likely to find one in SA. To expensive, why not use revolutionary, it's quick and easy, just need a of with internet connection.
[Wildfire General] 3ight8all:
Revolutionary doesn't support the wildfire S and they told me today that they don't plan on supporting it in the future.
[XPERIA X8 General] lito15:
Hi, i want to know if its possible to turn an xperia x8 (e15a) to a e15i?

i've switched from telephone company A to telephone company B, and now i'm not able to use the 3g network on company B because they use 900 Mhz band (Band VIII). :(

If i take an e15i firmware and flash it into my e15a, will i be able to use the 900 Mhz 3g band?
[XPERIA X8 General] diegofox:
Could you do that?