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I have a tmobile sgs3 with a stock rom (it was rooted, but latest update seems to have killed that), and after seeing the androidNZ connectivity demo I decided to play around with the usb otg. I am having some problems however. I have tried with 2 external hdds and a thumb drive and all three light up, but do nothing to the phone. I get no pop ups, and when I use astro to check the external usb drives, they all show up empty.
What am I missing?
Thank you!
I do not have that issue, but did you check USB debugging mode in Developer options?
I haven't tried to connect to an external HD, but USB Flash card works fine, as well as USB keyboard & mouse.
I've bought a $2 USB adapter for my phone and I have been able to mount a pendrive or a HD (when it is plugged to an external power source).
But when I try to connect a Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepad, etc., nothing happens. Not even an error message.
I'm using an official Android 4.03 rooted ROM (Claro Argentina).
Does anyone know what could be happening? The problem is my ROM (and it's drivers)? Is my USB otg adapter that is not compatible with mouse and keyboard?
I attach a screenshot of my system
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I bought this usb adapter with have on one side micro USB and on other standard USB and I tried to connect PC mouse with my phone but the phone didnt reconize that i connect mouse with it.
Can you tell me what to do?
Let me get this right maybe I read wrong are you trying to connect phone to your pc to either transfer files flash roms etc or are you trying to connect a computers mouse to your phone? If its the second one as far as I know you can't connect a mouse to a phone with a usb, phones don't have the software or drivers to do this and to be honest why would you want to.You can on the other hand use your phone over wifi as a mouse to control your pc or even Xbox with the right software many apps in the market for this.
i want to connect pc mouse with my phone and it IS possible. if u dont belive check youtube or google it. Its possible to connect keyboard and controller too.
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Let me get this right maybe I read wrong are you trying to connect phone to your pc to either transfer files flash roms etc or are you trying to connect a computers mouse to your phone? If its the second one as far as I know you can't connect a mouse to a phone with a usb, phones don't have the software or drivers to do this and to be honest why would you want to.You can on the other hand use your phone over wifi as a mouse to control your pc or even Xbox with the right software many apps in the market for this.
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It is possible. It is called USB On-The-Go.
OP: Does mouse appear on the screen? What firmware and kernel are you using?
im using stock. i dont see and mouse cursor cuz it dont detect that mouse is connected. For USB OTG u need rooted phone and i didnt root it yet. And i noticed that you can burn phones motherboard if u using this for i dont know how long.
hyper200 said:
i want to connect pc mouse with my phone and it IS possible. if u dont belive check youtube or google it. Its possible to connect keyboard and controller too.
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It is possible. It is called USB On-The-Go.
Sorry guys! Well thats why I love XDA learn something new everyday:good:
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hyper200 said:
im using stock. i dont see and mouse cursor cuz it dont detect that mouse is connected. For USB OTG u need rooted phone and i didnt root it yet. And i noticed that you can burn phones motherboard if u using this for i dont know how long.
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Incorrect, incorrect.
USB OTG does not require rooted phone. USB OTG is a fully implemented script for SE devices, as it has official support from Sony aswell (*cough* LiveDock *cough*).
Also, mouse only requires minimum amount of power, so there is very small chance of burning your SoC (system-on-chip). If you want to use external HDD, then it would be whole other story, but mouse shouldn't be a problem at all.
AW: Mouse on Arc
My HP Mouse is working without problems with my arc.
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so do i have to unlock bootloader or somthing like that?
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so do i have to unlock bootloader or somthing like that?
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No. I have two devices, arc s and Neo. Every mouse I tested work, including apple, dell, HP etc. It DOES NOT matter if it is rooted or bootloader unlocked. Sounds like a faulty USB otg cable to me. Or use a different mouse.
If all is working well, you should end up with a mouse+keyboard combo like mine. Thumbdrives require root.
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than i think my usb otg is broken...
Hallo everyone,
I'm new in this forum and I hope I am right here.
So the Fire TV is new in Germany and I preordered it.
It would be fine if I will be able to use my wireless Xbox 360 Controller with it.
I have read that it is possible to use the original wireless receiver for PC.
But what's about the remake from it (the version from China)? For PC I have to install the drivers manually.
Is it possible to use? Has somebody tried it?
For example like the "White PC USB Gaming Receiver Adapter White For Xbox 360 Wireless Controller" on amazon.com
Sorry I'm not allowed to post links.
Thanks!
McDin1988 said:
Hallo everyone,
I'm new in this forum and I hope I am right here.
So the Fire TV is new in Germany and I preordered it.
It would be fine if I will be able to use my wireless Xbox 360 Controller with it.
I have read that it is possible to use the original wireless receiver for PC.
But what's about the remake from it (the version from China)? For PC I have to install the drivers manually.
Is it possible to use? Has somebody tried it?
For example like the "White PC USB Gaming Receiver Adapter White For Xbox 360 Wireless Controller" on amazon.com
Sorry I'm not allowed to post links.
Thanks!
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Hello
Yes, i have one from ebay (chinese clone) and it works fine. Lights in the controller doesn´t light up as usually but that happens with the official receiver also.
Hey,
I'm using a knockoff chinese receiver. I got mine on amazon for about 13 USD and it works great. It can be a little tricky to configure the controls with Mupen 64 or whatever emulator you are using, and the 'x' home key always takes you back to the games section of the kftv launcher (despite having xbmc set as the launcher, for example), but it works in game just fine.
Let me know if you have any questions- I'd be happy to help.
Can you connect more than one Controller on that adapter? I read, that 4 Controller + 4 headsets are possible with this adapter (on a PC). Whould be nice for multiplayer games...
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I haven't tried headsets, but I've used at least two controllers at once, and I also understand up to 4 per receiver works (theoretically more receivers = more players, but I'm not buying another one to test that theory).
How to hook up third party controllers correctly
I was searching the web up and down in order to get my third party controller (china) to work without a solution. Actually it was easier than I thought:
- connect the dongle
- restart the Fire TV (5 sec hold of Play+Big Button)
- press X on controller
The controller doesn't stop blinking but if you are able to navigate through menus everything worked well.
I bought this receiver from amazon (www (dot) ebay (dot) com/itm/271687378076?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT) and it's not working when I plug it into the Fire TV. I believe the receiver works though because when I plugged it into my mac and I was able to see all the keys responding using 360Controller.
Everybody seems to have minimal issues connecting controllers to their Fire TV. Any ideas?
(Sorry, I don't have enough posts to post links.)
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I bought this receiver from amazon (www (dot) ebay (dot) com/itm/271687378076?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT) and it's not working when I plug it into the Fire TV. I believe the receiver works though because when I plugged it into my mac and I was able to see all the keys responding using 360Controller.
Everybody seems to have minimal issues connecting controllers to their Fire TV. Any ideas?
(Sorry, I don't have enough posts to post links.)
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I'm sorry, but it'd be tough to replicate the issue without a device to test with. That receiver looks identical to the one I purchased, but I don't know if it is actually the same on the inside.
I don't know about on OSX, but I found that I could pair the xbox controller with the receiver on my windows PC (using the generic driver). Once I had paired on Windows, I could plug the adapter into anything running android and it would work just fine.
That's the first place I would start- try pairing a controller and making it work on a machine running Windows or OSX or whatever is 'supposed' to work. That way, you can at least tell if the hardware is bad. If you are able to pair and use it on one of those machines, plug it into your Fire TV and use the same controller and see if it recognizes it.
If it works on OSX or Windows but not on the Fire TV, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe pick up a USB OTG adapter and see if you can get it running on another android system. I haven't found a phone / tablet yet that hasn't been plug and play with the adapter.
Lastly, and this is unlikely, it could be that you are running a USB hub that isn't able to provide sufficient power. If that is the case, unplug all other USB devices and test it in the port. If it works there, the hub / draw of other devices is your problem. I'd recommend getting a powered USB hub in that case.
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I'm sorry, but it'd be tough to replicate the issue without a device to test with. That receiver looks identical to the one I purchased, but I don't know if it is actually the same on the inside.
I don't know about on OSX, but I found that I could pair the xbox controller with the receiver on my windows PC (using the generic driver). Once I had paired on Windows, I could plug the adapter into anything running android and it would work just fine.
That's the first place I would start- try pairing a controller and making it work on a machine running Windows or OSX or whatever is 'supposed' to work. That way, you can at least tell if the hardware is bad. If you are able to pair and use it on one of those machines, plug it into your Fire TV and use the same controller and see if it recognizes it.
If it works on OSX or Windows but not on the Fire TV, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe pick up a USB OTG adapter and see if you can get it running on another android system. I haven't found a phone / tablet yet that hasn't been plug and play with the adapter.
Lastly, and this is unlikely, it could be that you are running a USB hub that isn't able to provide sufficient power. If that is the case, unplug all other USB devices and test it in the port. If it works there, the hub / draw of other devices is your problem. I'd recommend getting a powered USB hub in that case.
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Thanks for the suggestions but I don't think the adapter will work with the Fire TV. I'm not using a hub anywhere in the setup.
I can pair the controller to a Windows machine using the adapter and the generic driver. I'm able to see the computer register all the inputs using the joy.cpl (app?) in Windows. When I plug the adapter into the Fire TV afterwards, I still can't control anything with the controller. Does the ADB debugging switch make a difference? I have the adb over usb set to OFF.
What's an USB OTG and where can I get one? What adapter did you pick up that worked? It might be better if I just picked up the same one instead of troubleshooting this one. Open to any other ideas though.
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Thanks for the suggestions but I don't think the adapter will work with the Fire TV. I'm not using a hub anywhere in the setup.
I can pair the controller to a Windows machine using the adapter and the generic driver. I'm able to see the computer register all the inputs using the joy.cpl (app?) in Windows. When I plug the adapter into the Fire TV afterwards, I still can't control anything with the controller. Does the ADB debugging switch make a difference? I have the adb over usb set to OFF.
What's an USB OTG and where can I get one? What adapter did you pick up that worked? It might be better if I just picked up the same one instead of troubleshooting this one. Open to any other ideas though.
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I'm still not convinced the device is not malfunctioning. Did you actually connect and use a controller to control the PC? It could be that the device is connecting and sending some information, but the part that actually connects to the controller is broken. On Windows, you can just download the driver and install it as per these instructions: https://krisrowland.wordpress.com/2...eless-controller-adapter-in-windows-7-64-bit/
I'm pretty sure this is the controller I bought. Like I said, it looks the same as yours. I'm confident you just got a bad unit.
I had one question:
-Does the rumble function work? (The vibration)
Greetings by Idijt
I_did_it_just_tmrrow said:
I had one question:
-Does the rumble function work? (The vibration)
Greetings by Idijt
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It's been a while since I've actually used it, but if I remember right it does work if you map it properly in the emulator you are using. For example, Mupen 64 has support for rumble packs, and I'm about 80% certain it works.
hi mate did you ever get this working, i have the same issue, bought a cheap receiver from ebay. hooked it up to laptop, installed driver, worked fine. connect to fire tv, nothing!
ARGH!!!!
The cheap china clones just making problems with Android aka FireTV. That's what I heard.
But the original adapter makes me sometimes Problems too. Sometimes the Box Start in security Mode (grey written in the left corner of the screen) or had to replug them After Start to let the Box recognice the adapter again.
I bought two very great Bluetooth Controller from "mi". Really nice. Like Xbox 360 Controller. You can buy it cheap @ allbuy.com.
Greetings by Idijt
manikm303 said:
hi mate did you ever get this working, i have the same issue, bought a cheap receiver from ebay. hooked it up to laptop, installed driver, worked fine. connect to fire tv, nothing!
ARGH!!!!
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I got it working!!!! Make sure all developer options are turned off in settings.
Hi there, I'm having the same issue here.
HARDWARE: - FireTV 2.0
- xbox 360 wireless chinadapter
- xbox 360 wireless controller
I've turned off the dev settings on my firetv, connected the 360 controller via my chinadapter to my pc to verify that it's paired and working. Plugged my adapter into my firetv. Restarted firetv. Pressed the silver X button, the blue x button, the ))) connect button... Still nothing. I've gone into the "Add a new controller" area (where it tries to establish connectivity) and tried everything I can think of. I was really excited about this and am kinda bummed. Not wanting to buy extra controllers really.
- something noone else has mentioned running into - the firetv seems to crash or reset itself when I push the ))) connect button on the chinadapter receiver. . . weird. . .
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UPDATE:
I got it to interact randomly. Unfortunately it was unacceptably buggy. Crashing games, not recognizing inputs and, well, everything that might be awful about a controller. So I guess I'm looking into cheap bluetooth controllers. def not spending $50 on Amazons controller to play freaking android games lol let alone games in the amazon app store. Thanks for the thread and any advice on getting it to work properly you may have discovered.
I am having the issue of not being able to connect my 360 controller via the Chinese adapter to the fire tv....I have got it working in windows but it wont connect on the fire tv. I have disabled developer options restarted the fire tv and hit the x button to try to connect but I get nothing.
Anyone else with sideloaded apps experience their key/mouse not working since the 1.5 update? (IE: Xfinity TV Go / HBO Go, all of the "must-have-a-keyboard-and-mouse" apps). Same goes for Firefox and Chrome, browser ability. Now it has signed me out of TV Go / HBO / other sideloaded (content) apps and will NOT allow me to access the login fields to even get back in.
I'm able to open the app(s), but the mouse buttons do nothing when trying to select something / menus and I'm often unable to esc out. Also, I've noticed almost all of the old key command abilities (alt+tab, FN+down, etc) are completely disabled machine-wide.
What the hell happened and how do I repair this? I purchased FTV over other set-top devices specifically for these certain apps. I could've just used my playstation if I wanted an expensive Netflix player.
(Important to know: I'm NOT rooted and using a Logitech K400 USB key/mouse.)
Not me
anyone else?
My Logitech K400 works great on the 1.5 update
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My Logitech K400 works great on the 1.5 update
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It still works great - just not on any app that REQUIRES a mouse and keyboard, like TV Go and HBO Go / Chrome, Firefox, etc. You're not having problems with apps not natively supported by the stock Fire remotes?
Is USB Debugging turned on? If so, turn it off.
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Is USB Debugging turned on? If so, turn it off.
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Good suggestion - however, it is off.
I guess I can summarize it as the mouse buttons do nothing machine-wide. Every app that previously accepted mouse-click input no longer does. Are you guys still able to click things?
Also, I can tab between input fields (username, password, etc) to type, but tabbing to the "submit" or "done" (etc) button and hitting enter doesn't react either.
Everyone: I've figured it out and it's now a totally different (albeit more concise) issue.
Someone on another message board said this:
Was your USB mouse/keyboard connected when the Fire TV updated?
I have read reports that the update killed the USB mouse/keyboard drivers if they were connected to the Fire TV during the update.
I have also read some people have been able to re-install the driver but not sure.
After I read about this problem, I took my USB mouse/keyboard out of my Fire TV before I got the update. I did get the update recently but I haven't hooked my USB mouse/keyboard back up yet. I will try it tonight and see if it still works though.
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I swapped out the K400 hub for my wireless Logitech mouse I use on my desktop computer and sure enough, works like a dream again.
It was totally a driver thing. Well.. now I either need to get a new key/mouse combo that'll function correctly or learn how to reinstall the drivers for the K400.
Obviously, the easy way out is to buy a new combo and get rolling right away - but how would I go about the proper way (reinstalling mouse drivers to the Fire TV)?
Do you have to be rooted to reload mouse drivers, or is that something that can be sideloaded in?
kylebrauch said:
Everyone: I've figured it out and it's now a totally different (albeit more concise) issue.
Someone on another message board said this:
I swapped out the K400 hub for my wireless Logitech mouse I use on my desktop computer and sure enough, works like a dream again.
It was totally a driver thing. Well.. now I either need to get a new key/mouse combo that'll function correctly or learn how to reinstall the drivers for the K400.
Obviously, the easy way out is to buy a new combo and get rolling right away - but how would I go about the proper way (reinstalling mouse drivers to the Fire TV)?
Do you have to be rooted to reload mouse drivers, or is that something that can be sideloaded in?
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There are no "drivers" to install or reinstall. The USB input drivers are part of the kernel. Having something plugged in or not plugged in while doing the update has no effect on them.
rbox said:
There are no "drivers" to install or reinstall. The USB input drivers are part of the kernel. Having something plugged in or not plugged in while doing the update has no effect on them.
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Well I just purchased a Logitech MK520 key & separate mouse combo and functionality is completely restored. Everything works as it used to.
My old K400 works perfectly fine on any other device I use it with.. what happened? why does THIS logitech device suddenly work but my old one lost FTV capability?
I recently received my Lenovo / Motorola Moto Z Play and I am very happy but....
the USB OTG/host function does not seem to work anymore. This has worked fine from day one, but last Saturday suddenly no longer. I have no idea why it no longer works, there was no update, and I have not seen or heard weird things or done anything to it.
When I insert my USB C type SD card reader, nothing happens anymore. The LED of the card reader / stick doesn't even light up.
Preferably I solve this by myself, but I have no idea what to do, I did a factory reset but that brought no solution.
The data connection to PC and charging function both work fine.
It seems that the telephone does not power the USB port (anymore?), but I can not test it. All cables/adapters/SD cards/USB sticks do work in my other phone, so there must be something going wrong in the moto Z Play.
Can anyone advise me? Does anyone else have this problem too?
I need this function during my work occasionally.
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dirkzelf said:
I recently received my Lenovo / Motorola Moto Z Play and I am very happy but....
the USB OTG/host function does not seem to work anymore. This has worked fine from day one, but last Saturday suddenly no longer. I have no idea why it no longer works, there was no update, and I have not seen or heard weird things or done anything to it.
When I insert my USB C type SD card reader, nothing happens anymore. The LED of the card reader / stick doesn't even light up.
Preferably I solve this by myself, but I have no idea what to do, I did a factory reset but that brought no solution.
The data connection to PC and charging function both work fine.
It seems that the telephone does not power the USB port (anymore?), but I can not test it. All cables/adapters/SD cards/USB sticks do work in my other phone, so there must be something going wrong in the moto Z Play.
Can anyone advise me? Does anyone else have this problem too?
I need this function during my work occasionally.
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It has been fixed, like a cat! Google supports it not!
Here is what support for USB Audio player said in response to why the app cannot see my drive:
Android basically does not support USB drives. Some file explorers have made their own USB mass storage driver and FAT32 handler. They set up a local HTTP server for other apps to access the selected file.
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See my recent posts. This in Dumb
Yeah, well guess what, that may be true, but it WORKED and then since last saturday it doesn't anymore. If I use a powered cardreader, it works again, and same goes for connecting a USB mouse or keyboard.
To me that means that the power supply to the USB port is defective.
Does your Moto Z Play support a USB mouse? Please let me know, cause that would make my case.
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Yeah, well guess what, that may be true, but it WORKED and then since last saturday it doesn't anymore. If I use a powered cardreader, it works again, and same goes for connecting a USB mouse or keyboard.
To me that means that the power supply to the USB port is defective.
Does your Moto Z Play support a USB mouse? Please let me know, cause that would make my case.
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Hmmm....
Post a link to the product that stopped working?
I had funny behaviour about internal storage being seen by Jetaudio. It played from /music for a while then it quit being able to find it (as well as most of internal) a reinstall does not help.
I think only a firmware reflash might reveal a problem....
You could help me too. See if my complaints about OTG drives is true for you also. Do you have an OTG / memory stick adapter? If so post that link too.
The only product that stopped working is the power on the USB C port from the Moto Z Play itself. I have checked all cables, adapters, USB sticks, card readers and mice, they ALL work fine on other phones.
I can't check for you, since I can't connect to USB card reader anymore.... In my case it's simply the power that isn't provided anymore on the USB C port, while earlier it worked ok, therefore it must be broken. I'm going to have it fixed with the seller.
In your case I would say try ES file explorer or TotalCommander. Both did work great (until the power issue).
If you can use a mouse on your Moto Z Play, then you're OK. OTG should work fine then also with ES or TotalCommander.
Same problem happened to me.
After few days back, all seems to work fine but suddenly same OTG USB stopped working.
Kindly let me know how to solve this problem if anyone has done it.
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Nov 1, 2017 security update applied on 7.1.1 Android.
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Hello, I have the same problem, OTG used to work normally before. Now I found out the only way to make it work is to supply the 5V power from an external source using USB extension cable with a extra power plug (2 males, one female), which I plug into a powerbank/wall adaptor. Not perfect, but still better than nothing, OTG seems to work.
Hi all !!
I have the same problem! OTG not working, but CQATest tells DEVICE is in USB HOST MODE
And console output with otg inserted:
addison:/ $ lsusb
lsusb: /sys/bus/usb/devices//usb1: Permission denied
lsusb: /sys/bus/usb/devices//usb2: Permission denied
lsusb: /sys/bus/usb/devices//1-0:1.0: Permission denied
lsusb: /sys/bus/usb/devices//2-0:1.0: Permission denied