[XDA Flame]USB Host (what works and what doesn't)

[Believer]

What are the USB devices that people have got working with their devices?

Ive tried (all successfully)

- USB mouse
didn't display a pointer but when I moved it around and clicked in work it positioned the cursor, right click brought up the context menu

- USB keyboard
Worked a treat

- USB memory stick
Got recognised as a "Hard Drive" but worked no problems

What else have people tried

[p.loong]

Memory Card Reader work as well even runs with CF and SD together.

[jimlau]

Hey great.. thanx for the info. I tried a 200GB hard disk but it didnt work. Any solution?

[leek]

Hey great.. thanx for the info. I tried a 200GB hard disk but it didnt work. Any solution?

You need a powered USB hub in-between the Flame and hard drive to power the hard drive if it doesn't have its own power.

You also need to reformat the drive to FAT16/32. If it's larger than 32 GB, you'll need Win98 or Linux to do this (2000/XP/etc. refuse to format over 32 GB except NTFS).

I got a Seagate FreeAgent Go 160 GB drive to work fine.

[leek]

Gotten to work:


External hard drive (see above).
iRiver h140 MP3 player
SD card reader
Multiple card reader
Keyboard

[Crash Pilot]

Guys

Has anyone had any luck getting a mouse to work on the flame. I have tried every driver I can find.

Some display cursors but don't move and other drivers work but dont display cursor.

One come up with a Transparent Color Error.

If anyone has managed to get a mouse working (USB preferably) can you please advise your setup.

Also has anyone got COD2 to work on the flame

Thanks

Crash Pilot

[Rudegar]

this guy got a mouse to work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=313580

[Crash Pilot]

Rudegar

Thanks for the reply. I tried the same thing as in the post you posted but no luck. Don't think he was using a flame.

I'm new to the PDA scene and get the feeling that there may be a software problem due to the Rom or the VGA screen.


Crash Pilot

[Rudegar]

yeah think he had an Athena

[ianpac]

Since USB mice work except that no pointer is displayed, I suggest that all Flame owners start petitioning O2 Asia to have a default driver written that displays the pointer. Tell O2 that this could be a major selling point for the Flame and well worth the small cost of having a tiny driver written. It would just be a few KB in size.

There was a free program released years ago called mpointer which should work - download at www.freewareppc.com/utilities/mpointer.shtml

PocketDos has a mouse driver included

Try the international keyboard/mouse driver here http://www.pfaadtsoft.de/keybd.htm

Also Microsoft has a mouse driver in the Windows CE as described:

"The Embedded Toolkit for Windows CE contains source code for a sample driver for USB mouse devices. This driver uses interrupt-driven transfers. OEMs and IHVs are encouraged to use the mouse sample driver source code as the basis for other USB device drivers. Note that the registry is already set up correctly for the sample CE/PC platform to load the mouse driver, so that plugging in a mouse should load the driver."

I think the mouse driver for the Flame may have a problem because of the Nvidia chip otherwise it would have displayed properly. I read WM6 has upgraded device drivers including those for a USB mouse so when WM6 arrives this may solve the problem.

[Tabbe]

Hey great.. thanx for the info. I tried a 200GB hard disk but it didnt work. Any solution?

tested 250gb
worked

[Crash Pilot]

Still no luck. Tried everything. Has anyone else had any luck.