Has anyone tried plugging in a USB HDD?

[JamesHolden]

i was wondering, what if i got a USB harddrive, and plugged it into my hermes?

would WM6 even notice its there?


this is assuming i've got a externally powered HDD that uses the normal USBHOST.

i searched "usb harddrive" in the hermes forums and not many things turned up..

[mrvanx]

If you have one lying around, give it a go?!

[shogunmark]

i searched "usb harddrive" in the hermes forums and not many things turned up..

that might be the clue to your answer..... the usb port in the phone lacks the capability to host an actual usb device, whether the external device is powered or not... But give it a go anyway... i cant think of any harm in trying... unless there is some kind of major power backflow, but that shouldnt happen unless your external device is faulty :D

[alfred_jp]

the OS may support it, but hardware-wise - i dont think the Hermes supports USB hosting? or does it?

[Centurion]

My brain says no...
But the hope in me says yes...

[4Site]

Wondered about this myself before.

Doesnt the HTC have the ability to act as an external UsB drive through the USB port when connected to a PC using the Advanced USB settings. Maybe its just a question of reversing the settings maybe with an added utility or something i have an external hard drive but not converter to convert the full usb to a mini usb

[shogunmark]

Wondered about this myself before.

Doesnt the HTC have the ability to act as an external UsB drive through the USB port when connected to a PC using the Advanced USB settings. Maybe its just a question of reversing the settings maybe with an added utility or something i have an external hard drive but not converter to convert the full usb to a mini usb

having the device mimmick and external drive and plugging in external storage through USB are 2 completly different things... and it all comes down to the USB host... when you plug your phone into your pc your computer then is able to act as a usb host, as it has the power and the drivers necessary for that... the phone itself lacks the abiltiy to be able to become a usb host...

but hey, at least your thinking :D

[mrvanx]

So it may be possible to access a USB HDD if we catered for it using a driver of some sort (written by us guys ofcourse). This may even show up in the file manager as something like /Hard_Drive.?

[sinmae]

main procesor (and also OS itself) have support for USB host, but for some reason HTS decide to not enable this feature, it was asked many times, but solution doesnt exist yet... I used this functionallity on my old Fujitsu-Siemens LOOX n500 without necesity to install any drivers, or registry hack, after connection device had available after few second. It was WM5 device.

[JamesHolden]

well think about this:
keep a laptop usb HDD in your car, 160GB of music at your command, with TCPMP who needs a ipod?

i've already modded my stock headset cable to have a 1/8" miniplug AND RCA's on it, so i'm set for the output, but my 4GB of microsd cards just don't cut it

so i'm working on tryin' to find a usb mini b male to usb b male cable right now, might just have to solder one up myself-- i'll post to see how it goes.

[chymmylt]

I think I've seen them for sale at Radioshack and Compusa - might try peaking in there though if you have a bunch of USB cables kicking around probably cheaper to solder

[shogunmark]

IF you look around on the net somewhere, someone successfully made a wifi hard drive, and i think it was fairly inexpensive... He loaded tons of mp3's and would access them from his phone via wifi.

[skunker]

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/consumer_electronics/DAVE/

How about this?

[jcb_home]

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/consumer_electronics/DAVE/

How about this?

Now I got to get me one of these. So many toys, not enough time.

[joef]

Now I got to get me one of these. So many toys, not enough time.


Looks nice!

[ScottC]

I just tried this. And nothing happens. Tried a usb memory key (low power), an external HDD (on its own power supply) and a card reader, none of them did anything.

[JamesHolden]

thanks for the go.. after my weekend spent messing with *nix and tryin' to get into locked up wifi, i was spent.