Recent experience (first) with a Lenovo Tab 8 had me scratching my head.It's USB (~charging) port could communicate with a PC for file transfer, but couldn't read a memory stick.This with all the recommended OTG cabling.Why would you stick a communicative USB port on a battery-operated device and then restrict it from acting as a USB host?Is this normal?Is this sane?I know there are a multitude of other methods of com available for these devices, but why not simple USB stick transfer?RL

legg > wrote in news: Isn't a tab 8 about 8 years old?Also some chip reader/usb port devices do not mandshake nicely in every case.As old as I remember those being, that may have been back in the virus on a stick days. So they put extra security in. No connection is as secure as it gets, eh?

torsdag den 10. februar 2022 kl. 01.10.36 UTC+1 skrev legg:but then it can't be a device anymore so you can't connect it to a PC

cell phone / tablet USB host ?

Feb 06, 2022 Last reply: 4 years ago 26 Replies

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno 4 years ago

whit3rd snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Yeah, one has to have a "fully jailbroke" phone to get access to those areas, but some carriers do not allow such 'behavior'.

I have a phone I never used that had two sim card slots in it and Verizon would not put it on their plan or system. I was so pissed. It is for folks that travel to Europe a lot or Israel. No need to switch phones or have two or any of that nonsense. I still want to get it and see if ATT will let me use it. It is only about 5 years old now, but it was a top notch "Viewsonic" phine. I don't know if they are still is or ever got going in the cell phone world, but it was cool for its time.

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legg 4 years ago

OK - I finally found a micro-usb 3 to USB adapter with the correct pin grounded (connection between ground and adjacent 'I/O' pin, NOT the center pin)

With this usb pin connection, the TAB 8 reads memory sticks on the usb port without system setting adjustments. It just recognizes the connecting - flags a notice to the user and opens the drive when the notice is tapped (maybe tapped a few times - hard to tell with this screen).

All the other micro-usb hardware I had was missing this connection. I asked Mohamed at the cell phone shop next door to keep an eye out for one. His supplier had just that - one adapter. Now it's mine. Nobody else can have it.

I actually went through a couple of places checking to see if ANY of their micro-usb connectors or peripherals had this connection. (have socket with pin sensors attached) NADA.

So when someone says it's USB OTG, measure it.

Might be worth kludging the contact permanently if ever the TAB 8 is in the shop for battery, screen or other repairs.

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Lasse Langwadt Christensen 4 years ago

but then it can't be a device anymore so you can't connect it to a PC

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Clifford Heath 4 years ago

Or you can just open the Google Files app, or whatever other file manager you prefer.

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legg 4 years ago

Yeah, well, finding files after transfer is another issue.

Files and folders don't seem to show repeatable navigation - dependent on where listed and how approached in the GUI

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徐鑫 4 years ago

在 2022年2月6日星期日 UTC+8 23:33:28，<legg> 写道：

I have dozens of brand new Ipads in LA and I want to sell them wholesale, great deals, please write me back if you can work with me

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徐鑫 4 years ago

在 2022年2月7日星期一 UTC+8 00:13:11， snipped-for-privacy@decadence.org 写道：

I have dozens of brand new Ipads in LA and I want to sell them wholesale, great deals, please write me back if you can work with me

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