Post by thread:[EE] USB mass storage accessed by Android Phone?

If you take care of power could you hook up a usb mass storage to the USB port of an Android Phone? Curiosity mainly... How about specifically on a Dell Streak mini? Thanks for any enlightenment caused... Tobia

On 6/4/2012 2:37 AM, Tobias Gogolin wrote: > If you take care of power could you hook up a usb mass storage to the USB > port of an Android Phone? > Curiosity mainly... > > How about specifically on a Dell Streak mini? > Thanks for any enlightenment caused... > > Tobias It will depend on the specific device and what drivers they used for the USB storage support. I have seen where some devices recognize up to 16GB mass storage but not larger and other devices that recognize 500GB +. Mark Hanchey

Not sure what app/etc you'd need to access it, but I can tell you that Android OS only added USB host-mode support in 2.3.5, which I'm sure you'll need for this. Cheers, -Neil. On 6/4/2012 2:37 AM, Tobias Gogolin wrote: > If you take care of power could you hook up a usb mass storage to the USB > port of an Android Phone? > Curiosity mainly... > > How about specifically on a Dell Streak mini? > Thanks for any enlightenment caused... > > Tobias

I use a pogoplug and access my files from my droid anywhere. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Neil <spam_OUTpicdude3TakeThisOuTnarwani.org> wrote: Not sure what app/etc you'd need to access it, but I can tell you that Android OS only added USB host-mode support in 2.3.5, which I'm sure you'll need for this. Cheers, -Neil. On 6/4/2012 2:37 AM, Tobias Gogolin wrote: > If you take care of power could you hook up a usb mass storage to the USB > port of an Android Phone? > Curiosity mainly... > > How about specifically on a Dell Streak mini? > Thanks for any enlightenment caused... > > Tobias

Most phones only have Slave mode; my tablet (running 2.2) only has Host mode. A lot of the newer tablets now have both Host and Slave. I think it may be doable if the source code for your phone is available, someone's probably come up with an alternate ROM; I've seen older phones with a kernel modification, that if you boot with a diy USB dongle attached (a couple of resistors I believe) it would switch to Host mode for that session. Others have added a boot option to choose between Host or Slave (default) Lee >Neil wrote: >Not sure what app/etc you'd need to access it, but I can tell you that >Android OS only added USB host-mode support in 2.3.5, which I'm sure >you'll need for this. ------------------------- Msg sent via Webmail - http://hosting.myob.com/ Links: ------ [1] .....picdude3KILLspam@spam@narwani.or