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[Q] WiFi USB adapter with OTG cable?

Is there any software that will allow me to use WiFi without the built in wifi tuner but instead using a usb wireless adapter? Is this even a possibility on android?

Why would you even want to do that?
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jkhayworth said:
Why would you even want to do that?
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To improve WiFi strength
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This is a really cool idea. I'm getting an Ota adapter cable soon and I also have a portable router. I'm going to see if I could get anything to work with it. I don't know though.

powerpoint45 said:
This is a really cool idea. I'm getting an Ota adapter cable soon and I also have a portable router. I'm going to see if I could get anything to work with it. I don't know though.
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I don't think a portable router is going to let you connect to another wireless router. I think you would need something like a wireless bridge to connect to the wireless router. And that wireless router would probably need to have the bridging enabled or something like that. And that seems like a pointless endeavor to improve wireless signal unless the bridge is halfway between the router and your tablet.
I would like a wireless adapter that has stronger signal reception.

using otg adapter coupled with usb extension cable and wifi dongle to tablet
Vibrate said:
I don't think a portable router is going to let you connect to another wireless router. I think you would need something like a wireless bridge to connect to the wireless router. And that wireless router would probably need to have the bridging enabled or something like that. And that seems like a pointless endeavor to improve wireless signal unless the bridge is halfway between the router and your tablet.
I would like a wireless adapter that has stronger signal reception.
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Did you ever figure this out?
I am also trying to bring a signal into my apt that's only making it to the outside of my apt. I currently have a 15 foot usb extension cable hooked to a dlink n dongle and have it mounted just outside my window. I have that hooked to my laptop and am using connectify to bring in the free city wide wifi into my apt.
I have not had any issues, but am having a hard time keeping any other devices connected to my connectify as trying to get a valid IP is buggy due to restrictions and various issues then with the city wide server.
I need to find android drivers for a non android device I guess?
Have you had any luck?

Problem with hdtv adapter atention to everyone

My friends, i bought the original samsung hdtv hdmi mhl adapter for my samsung S3 and please everyone that has one please verify if you have the same problem!!
When connected with the hdtv adapter it only works connect to the original charger, so far so good, the problem isif you notice while connect to this adapter the phone slowly keeps droping the battery level.... i think that means that the energy provided by the charger is inferior, not enough than the one that is being spent by the adapter...!!
When i use my adapter usually i have wi fi and bluetooth on because of mouse and keyboard..
Tryed with energy save mode on and off and made no difference...
HELP PLEASE!! THIS CAN BE A PROBLEM TO EVERYONE!!
How do i contact samsung for further help?
Thank You

Tiago374 said:
My friends, i bought the original samsung hdtv hdmi mhl adapter for my samsung S3 and please everyone that has one please verify if you have the same problem!!
When connected with the hdtv adapter it only works connect to the original charger, so far so good, the problem isif you notice while connect to this adapter the phone slowly keeps droping the battery level.... i think that means that the energy provided by the charger is inferior, not enough than the one that is being spent by the adapter...!!
When i use my adapter usually i have wi fi and bluetooth on because of mouse and keyboard..
Tryed with energy save mode on and off and made no difference...
HELP PLEASE!! THIS CAN BE A PROBLEM TO EVERYONE!!
How do i contact samsung for further help?
Thank You
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I don't have an MHL adapter and i could be mistaken, but i though i read that power supplied to the MHL does not charge the phone.

mdcarter67 said:
I don't have an MHL adapter and i could be mistaken, but i though i read that power supplied to the MHL does not charge the phone.
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I didnt see nothing about that but the phone icon says it is charging and the led of charging on the phone cones on and everything....
Im confused because i dont know if the adapter is defective or everyone has the same problem..

I didn't have bluetooth on but when I was last watching a film(1hour 20mins) the phone charged to about 90% from starting around 40%.
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harryville said:
I didn't have bluetooth on but when I was last watching a film(1hour 20mins) the phone charged to about 90% from starting around 40%.
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i have to do some further testing..
Im gonna try to connect and not doing anything with all wifi bluetooth etc off.....

Tiago374 said:
i have to do some further testing..
Im gonna try to connect and not doing anything with all wifi bluetooth etc off.....
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Had any luck with this. I have the same problem

Issues with Ethernet and Micro USB ports

The ethernet port on my KS Ouya seems to not be correctly attached to the board and thus can be moved up and down a lot. I've also noticed that it has no way of locking an ethernet cable in. On top of that i've noticed that the micro usb port used to connect the ouya to a pc only allows cables to go halfway in and the contact is sketchy at best (as of now I have yet to get the connection to stay for more than a few seconds).
Has anyone else ran into these issues, or is mine just a manufacturing defect and should be replaced?

I have the same problem with the micro usb port. My Samsung cables plugs are too short, but I have a slightly longer plug on my Kodak cable from a pocket videocam.
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I've heard others over on ouyaforum complaining about similar issues, so you're not alone. I don't have any of these problems myself. I wish you luck getting it resolved!

Thanks for the replies JLCollier and Tadeo. The micro usb port issues turned about to be just that specific cable (weird).
Regarding my ethernet port, i'll probably try contacting support, see if they can send a replacement board. Will post here if I can get them to replace it; maybe others with the issue will be able to succeed too.

Kiba Urufu said:
Thanks for the replies JLCollier and Tadeo. The micro usb port issues turned about to be just that specific cable (weird).
Regarding my ethernet port, i'll probably try contacting support, see if they can send a replacement board. Will post here if I can get them to replace it; maybe others with the issue will be able to succeed too.
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in regards to the thernet port, has anyone been able to exclusivly use ethernet in stead of wifi? I noticed that some apps/games will give me a not connected to wifi error even though im hard lined.

Ramzes13 said:
in regards to the thernet port, has anyone been able to exclusivly use ethernet in stead of wifi? I noticed that some apps/games will give me a not connected to wifi error even though im hard lined.
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I use the ethernet exclusively 99% of the time, but there are some sideloaded apps that require either wifi or mobile network (which we don't have), so at that point I switch over to Wifi. Nothing on the OUYA itself should require wifi, however.

With both ethernet and wifi connected, wifi seems to take priority.
For example, transferring local files only achieves 1mb per second (which is what i'd expect on wifi)
Ethernet should get close to 10mb per second.
Hopefully they are working on a fix for this.

[Q] Slimport & USB OTG dongle

Hi All,
Has anyone tested the new nexus 7 (2013) with a slim port and tried USB OTG at the same time?
I am very keen to find out if i can use a Nexus 7 as a portal Media machine to play back movies from a thumb drive on Hotel TVs when i travel without the need to move the file.
I understand I'd lose ability to charge the nexus 7 using USB OTG (OTG limitation) but I can live with that.
Thanks for any results
Tony.

Acuum2 said:
Hi All,
Has anyone tested the new nexus 7 (2013) with a slim port and tried USB OTG at the same time?
I am very keen to find out if i can use a Nexus 7 as a portal Media machine to play back movies from a thumb drive on Hotel TVs when i travel without the need to move the file.
I understand I'd lose ability to charge the nexus 7 using USB OTG (OTG limitation) but I can live with that.
Thanks for any results
Tony.
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AFAIK the Slimport cable needs to be directly plugged into the USB port so it can switch the Nexus 4 from standard microUSB to Slimport broadcast mode on negotiating with the hardware. If you attempted to run the Slimport adaptor through a hub or Y-cable it wouldn't work.

Thanks,
I was wondering if I could plug an OTG cable into the female on something like:
(sorry if direct product links aren't allowed)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slimport-HD...=UTF8&qid=1378228626&sr=8-2&keywords=slimport

Acuum2 said:
Thanks,
I was wondering if I could plug an OTG cable into the female on something like:
(sorry if direct product links aren't allowed)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slimport-HD...=UTF8&qid=1378228626&sr=8-2&keywords=slimport
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I have attempts to connect an OTG cable to the female port on my Slimport without any luck. The Slimport worked well otherwise.
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vcallas said:
I have attempts to connect an OTG cable to the female port on my Slimport without any luck. The Slimport worked well otherwise.
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Thank you for the test results.
shame... oh well!
T.

vcallas said:
I have attempts to connect an OTG cable to the female port on my Slimport without any luck. The Slimport worked well otherwise.
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Yeah, the microUSB port on the Slimport is for power only, the data pins aren't even wired up.

Suppose I connect Nexus 7 to a monitor through SlimPort. This monitor has USB ports built in. If I connect a keyboard or mouse to this USB port, will it work with the tablet?

unni_kmr said:
Suppose I connect Nexus 7 to a monitor through SlimPort. This monitor has USB ports built in. If I connect a keyboard or mouse to this USB port, will it work with the tablet?
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No - this wont work.
As stated above the data pins on the slimport are not connected so the USB can't be used for anything other than power.
ie. Tablet can't do anything else over usb when the slimport is in use.
Bluetooth keyboard + mouse could work for you though

Acuum2 said:
No - this wont work.
As stated above the data pins on the slimport are not connected so the USB can't be used for anything other than power.
ie. Tablet can't do anything else over usb when the slimport is in use.
Bluetooth keyboard + mouse could work for you though
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Thanks. My intention was to use the tablet as a PC alternative for my parents. I have dropped the idea. Now I am thinking about getting one of those Android mini PCs instead (thread here).

The issue is the limited number of pins on the Micro USB port are multi-purpose.
A Micro USB port has 5 pins, one is power and another is ground, that leaves 3 for data. These 3 "flip" (for want of a better word) between USB mode and Slimport mode, So it can only do one or the other at any time.
So the lack of data pins on the slimport pass-through port (as stated above) is not the issue. They didn't bother wiring them up because they share a couple of pins in common and so wouldn't work anyway.
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Just to clarify a slimport Micro USB connector has 5 pins. Samsung on the other hand are now using MHL 3.0 and they are pushing on with an 11 pin connectors that open up all sorts of options such as simultaneous data connections and even multiple displays! nice!

normskilight said:
A Micro USB port has 5 pins, one is power and another is ground, that leaves 3 for data. These 3 "flip" (for want of a better word) between USB mode and Slimport mode, So it can only do one or the other at any time.
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Exactly. SlimPort™ Technology White Paper has a nice explanation along with the good picture showing SlimPort architeture (see page 4)

USB-C Dock

Does Samsung have a USB-C Dock similar to the one attached, or any recommendations?

Dex. It will be launching with the phone for $150

You can pick up plenty of generic usb-c docks. Not sure if they will do the same thing, but I'm thinking there will be plenty of knockoffs

Is there a third party dock with gigabit ethernet, hdmi, a couple of usb and power pass through? Do all usb c docks work with s8 e.g. the ones for macbook or dell? Thanks

toothpasteandroid said:
Is there a third party dock with gigabit ethernet, hdmi, a couple of usb and power pass through?...Thanks
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I've tested my Huawei MateBook MateDock with my S8+. It has power pass through that works. Both USB ports work. HDMI works. I've been unable to get the Ethernet port to work with the S8+ (probably needs a driver).
https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Huawei-MateDock/productID.4236426900

rabilancia said:
I've tested my Huawei MateBook MateDock with my S8+. It has power pass through that works. Both USB ports work. HDMI works. I've been unable to get the Ethernet port to work with the S8+ (probably needs a driver).
https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Huawei-MateDock/productID.4236426900
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I guess my thing is, what can you do on the phone, that people will do, that a hard wired ethernet line is needed over wifi?

nosympathy said:
I guess my thing is, what can you do on the phone, that people will do, that a hard wired ethernet line is needed over wifi?
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I don't disagree--just answering a question.

rabilancia said:
I don't disagree--just answering a question.
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Didn't mean it that way, just legit curious. Seems everyone is making a big deal about ethernet.

nosympathy said:
I guess my thing is, what can you do on the phone, that people will do, that a hard wired ethernet line is needed over wifi?
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Maybe copying movies or even large files for work. Sure it will work on WiFi, but it won't be as fast.
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they have a 3rd party ethernet adapter that works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwxeKQDzCyk&list=WL&index=58
I am curious if there is a 3rd party with all the features. thanks

The USB-C Dell Dock (WD15) has a working fast charge, ethernet connection, keyboard + mouse, display replication on monitor (miniDP).

Rapid charging dock for S8 on Amazon.... $24.99.....
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019HOG9DG/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3JIA99F8YWL7D