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Cheap OTG Cable!

Thought I would share this with you all. Purchased this OTG USB cable for my Motorola XOOM so that I could connect my camera and usb flash drives to it.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005QX7KYU
Ordered it from Amazon for only $2.25 with free shipping. I ordered it Monday (1/16) and got it today (1/21) and it shipped from CA to MA.
I also like the right-angle fit connector that plugs into the XOOM. It puts my mind at ease as from accidentally breaking the port (as could happen with straight connectors).
EDIT: Just in case you're curious, the build quality is pretty good! Only time will tell on its durability, but for less than $3, I couldn't pass it up.

you try a drive yet?
does it block other ports
thx

Ordered, same price as you paid.. Can't wait to get it. Thanks for the great tip, and it came right as I got 3 1tb Toshiba usb drives formatted in ntfs AND eos just added ntfs write support to ICS.. Woot woot
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liftman- said:
you try a drive yet?
does it block other ports
thx
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The picture shows that it is angled to the left so it shouldn't cover other ports so long as the pictures are accurate.. Should work with my otterbox but if not I'll post back when I get it.

Thanks I search for it here in Egypt
but didn't found it
I think I will buy Male to Famale USB and connect it with Micro-USB Cable ..

No more OTG needed

Did anyone check this out!
No more OTG needed!!!!
The pend drive connects directly!!
"What makes this Flash USB Drive so special is that it has USB 2.0 (male) port on one end and micro-USB (male) port on the other, with 16 to 64 GB of flash storage in between. "
"There is also the free SanDisk Memory Zone app that allows for quick backups either to the memory card or online storage services like DropBox allowing you to free up your Android device’s internal memory."
Capacities available in 16, 32 and 64 GB and comes at suggested retail price of Rs 1,199 to Rs 3,800 in India
- See more at: http://www.techtree.com/content/new...-friendly-pen-drive.html#sthash.WsNaH48h.dpuf
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Meenova do this too - but smaller & better

Agree on the meenova solution, plus it comes with a micro USB to full USB adapter to be able to plug in a full size stick right into the phone.

techguyone said:
Meenova do this too - but smaller & better
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mvnsnd said:
Agree on the meenova solution, plus it comes with a micro USB to full USB adapter to be able to plug in a full size stick right into the phone.
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Ohh is it? Didn't know about that!
M gonna check out!
Thanks anyways
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mvnsnd said:
Agree on the meenova solution, plus it comes with a micro USB to full USB adapter to be able to plug in a full size stick right into the phone.
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My mistake here. I looked again and the adapter is micro usb that plugs into the phone with a exposed USB A. A lot like this:
sgcdn.startech.com/005329/media/products/gallery_large/GCUSBAMBM.B.jpg

I got a Iball hybrid pen drive. Great for storing all movies and music.
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Im using this
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fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/049/9/0/otg_by_viperxtreme-d76zj1c.jpg
micro usb on the other end and a full size usb on the other, a microsd slot fits on the mouth of the full usb head.

Otg type-c adapter problem

Hello everybody, i just received a usb type-c to female usb adapter (made by Victsing®) from amazon on this link amazon.fr/VicTsing-Adapteur-Convertisseur-Chromebook-appareils/dp/B017I8A40CUnfortunately it is not working on my oneplus 2. I plugged a mouse, xbox 360 controller, usb pen drive and it didn't even turned on. No lights, nothing...
Is there any tweak or app to instal to make it work? My opt is rooted and xposed is installed.
Thanks in advance!

karimfilal said:
Hello everybody, i just received a usb type-c to female usb adapter (made by Victsing®) from amazon on this link amazon.fr/VicTsing-Adapteur-Convertisseur-Chromebook-appareils/dp/B017I8A40CUnfortunately it is not working on my oneplus 2. I plugged a mouse, xbox 360 controller, usb pen drive and it didn't even turned on. No lights, nothing...
Is there any tweak or app to instal to make it work? My opt is rooted and xposed is installed.
Thanks in advance!
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after looking through many forums, it seems that the issue is that OnePlus has used a slightly different setup with a 2.0 usb type-c connector so it doesn't work with anything other than their first party connectors. I have tried to connect a kingston data traveler microduo 3c and it isn't recognised either

So the issue is a hardware problem i guess, only solution is to buy their usb type c to micro usb adapted and then plug OTG cable?
So there will be no software fix...

Where do we find this orignal convertor

karimfilal said:
So the issue is a hardware problem i guess, only solution is to buy their usb type c to micro usb adapted and then plug OTG cable?
So there will be no software fix...
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It may be possible for them to provide an update that creates a workaround to the problem however that does not seem very likely, i guess we just have to wait and see
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izzikiorage said:
Where do we find this orignal convertor
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the original converter would be on the oneplus site or i have heard they are also available on Ali Express

So not in India yet i guess

Hmm... I have the original OTG cable from oneplus, 2 other OTG cable ( 1 is USB 2 and the other works both with USB2 and USB3 with power up mass storage) and none of them work for my OPT.... HOWEVER they work for my OPO.... fking oneplus....

Thank you for your responses.
Hope that android MM or CM will give a solution!

i asked the oneplus official, they said ONLY THEIR OTG adapter can work with OPT...
and what's worse, they are currently out of stock of this stupid adapter! They told me to visit offline shops. oh are you kidding?

well that sucks. I was planning to buy a OPT but decided not to. they decided to leave quick charge/turbo charge alone and made some modifications on their port so only their product would work. what about the countries where it's hard to ship a product. damn this is lame

I bought a third-party USB-C to Micro-USB adaptor from Amazon that works with Micro-USB OTG drives and my old Micro-USB OTG cable with a USB mouse & USB memory sticks.
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com

karimfilal said:
Hello everybody, i just received a usb type-c to female usb adapter (made by Victsing®) from amazon on this link amazon.fr/VicTsing-Adapteur-Convertisseur-Chromebook-appareils/dp/B017I8A40CUnfortunately it is not working on my oneplus 2. I plugged a mouse, xbox 360 controller, usb pen drive and it didn't even turned on. No lights, nothing...
Is there any tweak or app to instal to make it work? My opt is rooted and xposed is installed.
Thanks in advance!
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I have 3 party adapter and it does not work!

@b.age Stick mount by chainfire on play, should work for you. OTG c seems to be okay on booted devices the problem for me is twrp

Archtects said:
@b.age Stick mount by chainfire on play, should work for you. OTG c seems to be okay on booted devices the problem for me is twrp
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Thanks for reply I'll try this method.
Anyway I bought an OTG adapter (uUSB) and an uUSB-TypeC adapter (Xiaomi) and it works! (seems the problem is type C otg are always 3.0 op2 does not support USB 3.0 standard)

Mmm tbh I only use my USB stick and that always seems to work okay. USB C is just future proofing got to wait for rest to catch up now.

Is the htc10 OTG capable?

I'm trying to find out if one of these OTG flash disks (sandisk.com home mobile-device-storage ultra-dual-usb-type-c) will work with the HTC 10 (I own the unlocked US version).
I tried an older micro-USB version of the OTG flash with a USB-C adapter but that did not show anything mounted when plugged in (the flash disk does work on a Galaxy S5 phone).

I'm probably wrong, but I believe it's a Type C thing. I tried my old OTG cable with adapter on my phone with a couple of USB sticks, nothing. I tried it on my tablet (Type C) also nothing.

Are the adapters OTG-capable? Like this?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018G6IK7E...UTF8&colid=2KEXJKFPFJXF&coliid=I3G5S0122G03X3

I can mount USB drives formatted in FAT32 fine.

spicypixel said:
I can mount USB drives formatted in FAT32 fine.
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Can you let us know if you used an OTG adapter cable or something?
>Are the adapters OTG-capable? Like this?
Nope. I would like to know if those adapters you linked to work with the HTC10.
Also, I'm trying to find out if the Sandisk USB-C OTG drive will work (without any adapter of course).

USB stick I use that works and the usb cable I used to mount my regular usb memory stick and sd card reader

I use this, works great. Dash Micro G3 Type-C: Mini MicroSD Card Reader with USB Type-C Plug, keychain case included, Gray, for Nexus 6P/5X, Macbook 2015, LG G5, and others https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C5JJN2Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_CYIpxbJG7NQ8M

[email protected] said:
I use this, works great. Dash Micro G3 Type-C: Mini MicroSD Card Reader with USB Type-C Plug, keychain case included, Gray, for Nexus 6P/5X, Macbook 2015, LG G5, and others https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C5JJN2Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_CYIpxbJG7NQ8M
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Appreciate the links. That really helps.

Look for adapter that says 'OTG' capable. I think these are those non-conforming (wrong or no 56k pull up resistor) that is the Buzz for charging issues. The pullup tells that phone that it is to act as the slave, not host side, and current limit it's charging.
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av911 said:
Are the adapters OTG-capable? Like this?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018G6IK7E...UTF8&colid=2KEXJKFPFJXF&coliid=I3G5S0122G03X3
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Pretty sure I have one identical this one and it only works for charging Quick Charge works
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I'm using this http://www.tinydeal.com/dtech-metal-shell-usb-31-type-to-usb-30-adapter-for-macbook-p-156237.html it works.
My micro usb to type c adapter doesn't work as well.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B018...0_SR100,75_&psc=1&refRID=NJN4G6HTD267Q2T3015K
Hct10 good to go
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I'm having the same issue here. I bought a Kingstone OTG USB TYPE-C pendrive, 64gb. The system reads the files, but when I want to use those files, such as music, no apk will find them in the folder's directory. Is there any way to get it to work? I tried the same OTG USB TYPE-C on a Samsung Galaxy 5 and it does work automatically.
Thanks in advance.

i have some pro versions, but only two apps found usb stick and/or music on usb stick.
GoneMad MusicPlayer: not found
JetAudio: not found
n7Player: found
PlayerPro: not found
PowerAmp: found
Stelio: not found

CareRaja said:
I'm having the same issue here. I bought a Kingstone OTG USB TYPE-C pendrive, 64gb. The system reads the files, but when I want to use those files, such as music, no apk will find them in the folder's directory. Is there any way to get it to work? I tried the same OTG USB TYPE-C on a Samsung Galaxy 5 and it does work automatically.
Thanks in advance.
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If you're rooted then use stickmount if not then I don't find it to be friendly.
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starbase64 said:
i have some pro versions, but only two apps found usb stick and/or music on usb stick.
GoneMad MusicPlayer: not found
JetAudio: not found
n7Player: found
PlayerPro: not found
PowerAmp: found
Stelio: not found
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I contacted the dev of player pro several times and he told me there wad no way to do it. Complete bs..... I love poweramp, it works very well and I find is the best.
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so htc 10 is supported otg,is it right?

likliknuno said:
so htc 10 is supported otg,is it right?
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Yes

USB OTG Poorly Supported

USB-C to USB-A OTG Cable -
Not able to power a simple external USB MSata Drive or External USB HDD - I plug these drives into a LG V10 or a Galaxy S8 and work perfectly fine. What gives? I have only able to get a flash drive to work.
Any known work a rounds? Anyone else try this?
Thanks,

No answers for this?

XE-Cherokee said:
No answers for this?
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I tried this just now and am shocked it doesn't work either.

I wonder if OTG power support was removed due to the decrease in battery size? Has anyone tried OTG "audio output", say through a device like the audioquest dragonfly, to see if that works??

Amd4life said:
I wonder if OTG power support was removed due to the decrease in battery size?
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I don't think so, since the notification that pops up when I connect 32 GB ADATA USB 3.0 flash drive -> USB 2.0 A female to micro-B male OTG cable -> micro-B female to USB-C male adapter -> Z2F says the Z2F is providing power to the connected device. The problem is you can't do anything else BUT that.
Amd4life said:
Has anyone tried OTG "audio output", say through a device like the audioquest dragonfly, to see if that works??
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I'm wondering this myself. The fact that the Z2F outputs analog audio over USB-C leads to me to believe that it isn't fully USB-compliant.* Both the HTC U11 and Google Pixel 2 output digital audio, which, based on Google's crowing about USB-PD and the existence of devices like the dragonfly, appears to be the right way to do things (albeit with the tradeoff of more expensive audio peripherals, which much now have their own onboard decoding hardware.)
*Can anyone with knowledge of the USB spec comment on this?
BTW, I started a support thread about this at the official forum, where it's received several replies and suggestions from a mod. Kindly chime in there too so Lenovo can see this is a real issue they need to address.
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Amd4life said:
Has anyone tried OTG "audio output", say through a device like the audioquest dragonfly, to see if that works??
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So based on this Motorola mod post and the OP's statement that USB-C flash drives work, the Z2F and Z have the same (lack of? LOL) OTG functionality. The Moto Z subreddit has a pretty extensive thread about Moto Z DAC functionality; it appears the Dragonfly is supported, among others.
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Interesting development: another Motorola Forms mod now says powered USB hubs are rumored to work. We're making progress, folks.

Okay fellas,
I so far have been able to get certain drives to work and others not! I have tried 2 different USB-C to USB-A cables and get the same results, 1st ones an HP cable and 2nds an Anker USB-C to USB 3.1 Adapter
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01COOQIKU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have been able to get a 256gb M2Sata Drive, 500gb WD Mypassport, and a 2TB Mypassport to read.
I also have a 256gb MSata Drive that will not power up or read without using a powered usb hub. However the Msata Drive will read without an added powered HUB. On the Samsung and LG Devices.
Only thing I can think of is that certain drives have higher amperage that the Moto Z2 simply cannot push through its USB-C Port.

Good to know it isn't just me experiencing broken USB OTG support.
I've got a PS3, PS4, and Xbox one controller I hook up with USB OTG. Normally it's as simple as plug n play and I'm good to go. However, that doesn't seem to be the case here. I can still pair the PS3/4 controllers in sixaxis just fine and get power to the PS3/4 and Xbox one controllers. And yes, that bit about supply power to device rather than transfer and you can't pick something else, happens to me too. Sometimes I can plug my thumb drive in and I can explore through the storage file explorer, but I usually have better luck with an app called X-Plore.
This one time I even had said thumb drive take out my entire OS to the point where I had to use that June ROM to reset me back to start. Spoiler alert: I kept getting "Android.process.acore keeps crashing" over and over; various other apps kept crashing as well.
On a side note if I can at least get PS3/4 controllers to work for a long time within say, sixaxis (or similar) I'd appreciate any tips. Otherwise I either gotta wait for this to be solved in a future upgrade, future sixaxis, or when we start getting custom ROMs..

XE-Cherokee said:
Okay fellas,
I so far have been able to get certain drives to work and others not! I have tried 2 different USB-C to USB-A cables and get the same results, 1st ones an HP cable and 2nds an Anker USB-C to USB 3.1 Adapter
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01COOQIKU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have been able to get a 256gb M2Sata Drive, 500gb WD Mypassport, and a 2TB Mypassport to read.
I also have a 256gb MSata Drive that will not power up or read without using a powered usb hub. However the Msata Drive will read without an added powered HUB. On the Samsung and LG Devices.
Only thing I can think of is that certain drives have higher amperage that the Moto Z2 simply cannot push through its USB-C Port.
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This is excellent information, thanks a lot man.

So FYI I tried the Anker adapter @XE-Cherokee linked to and it worked perfectly. That seems to be the solution for now.

XE-Cherokee said:
Okay fellas,
I so far have been able to get certain drives to work and others not! I have tried 2 different USB-C to USB-A cables and get the same results, 1st ones an HP cable and 2nds an Anker USB-C to USB 3.1 Adapter
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01COOQIKU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have been able to get a 256gb M2Sata Drive, 500gb WD Mypassport, and a 2TB Mypassport to read.
I also have a 256gb MSata Drive that will not power up or read without using a powered usb hub. However the Msata Drive will read without an added powered HUB. On the Samsung and LG Devices.
Only thing I can think of is that certain drives have higher amperage that the Moto Z2 simply cannot push through its USB-C Port.
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Appreciate the heads up, to confirm this adapter works perfect with my external drives, and as an added plus, also my external DAP/amps for audio playback.

Amd4life said:
Appreciate the heads up, to confirm this adapter works perfect with my external drives, and as an added plus, also my external DAP/amps for audio playback.
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This is huge, thanks!

jdrch said:
This is huge, thanks!
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The latest Neutron and USB Audio Player Pro will output bitperfect (non upsampled) audio perfectly to both my portable DAC/amp units.
USB Audio Player pro, has the benefit that you can stream tidal native, bitperfect if you have an acct. Which is awesome imo. Tidal still buffers SUPER slow on this device though. So I'd recommended only offline use (which you CANT do with USB audio player pro due to licensing)
I would also add that I get some scratchiness out of the stock USB C to 3.5mm dongle that came with the phone. I thought it was the port being "dirty",. but I have NO NOISE out of the USB audio output using the Anker otg cable. Maybe Anker makes a USB c to 3.5mm adapter.

One tip for getting USB powered OTG drives to work is to use as short a USB cable as possible. Like get a good quality 1ft USB cable. I used to have a similar problem with using an external drive on a Wii and found that a 1ft cable would allow me to use 2 different drives that otherwise would not work with a 6ft cable.

It worked!
I used a USB 2.0/type C adapter that cames with s8 and instead the original USB 3.0 cable, put another adapter, and transferred files with Total Commander.

On this subject but kinda off topic. How are you all getting your drives mounted? I cannot mount NTFS or fat32 drives. Only ext3/4 drives.

israelnobrega said:
I used a USB 2.0/type C adapter that cames with s8 and instead the original USB 3.0 cable, put another adapter, and transferred files with Total Commander.
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Yep, basically you created a 2 inch cable. LOL.
In essence, many USB powered hard drives approach the power limit of what the USB port can output. Power drops over the length of a USB cable, so longer cables may not provide sufficient power for the drive to function correctly. Better quality cables usually have less power drop, though it is not a guarantee.
Unfortunately most USB powered drives do not list their power requirements. The only way to really tell is to open the case for the USB drive and look at the hard drive inside it to find how many amps it draws. For the best compatibility you want the lowest amps.

I don't think that's otg power issue. I think it is locked by Moto becuase they want you to use their add-on devices. I have a wifi camera it doesn't work either, But it works in my all other phones

bobyang said:
I don't think that's otg power issue. I think it is locked by Moto becuase they want you to use their add-on devices. I have a wifi camera it doesn't work either, But it works in my all other phones
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Just because an add-on device works for one USB OTG implementation doesn't mean that it works on all USB OTG implementations. There is an enumeration of what devices and types are accepted. I have tested USB OTG audio microphones, USB OTG audio speakers, USB OTG Headphones, USB OTG Ethernet, USB OTG Keyboards, USB OTG Flash drives and those device types work. If there is no device driver for the device attached then it would need to be supplied by an app. OTG power drain is definitely an issue and is mentioned in the OTG specifications.

That's what I tried to say. It is locked by Moto. They want you to use their add-on mod. I have tried extrenal usb c endoscope camera, wifi endoscope camera, lg wireleas projector, Samsung projector. None of them work with Moto. However, the same apps work in all other phones. It is clear to see, it is not all otg related all the time or driver which provided by app. It could be just locked by Moto, becuase they want use to use their mod add-on. People who rooted the phone was able to turn on those supports.

I use a Belkin OTG adapter, it worked but it was extremely picky. The Built in files app only picked up my HDD if it was either Fat32 or exfat. But the ES File Explorer app only picked up NTFS.