USB Host Mode - Android

[Guest Jason Patel]

Looks pretty interesting, admittedly the Droid and not Nexus but given time we should all benefit.

USB Host mode on Motorola Droid

Yes, it’s true – Android (at long last!) has access to USB Host mode. I had been waiting for this to happen on the Nexus 1 or N900 some time soon, but as it turns out it’s the Droid that takes the crown. It’s a neat little hack that I heard about at Shmoocon; I’d like to thank to Mike Kershaw from Kismet and Mike Baker from OpenWRT for sharing ;) Here’s how it works.

The USB hardware on the Droid is actually capable of USB-OTG (meaning that it can act as both host and peripheral), however it only possesses a standard USB Micro-B port instead of the Micro-AB port that you would normally get from an OTG device (such as the N810). With a minimal amount of effort (and tolerance of a few bugs) it’s possible to enable the B port as a host interface (as OTG says you should be able to do), meaning it supplies power and acts as the bus controller. It’s actually pretty easy; I can easily think of about a hundred million ways to make this useful on the Droid (think: plug any USB hardware you like into your Droid, as long as it works in Linux it should work in Android).

Full Details follow link

http://www.tombom.co.uk/blog/?p=124

Edited July 20, 2010 by Jason Patel

[Guest Jason Patel]

Well we now have USB host mode on the Nexus One

http://hackaday.com/2010/06/08/nexus-one-a...-host/#comments

http://sven.killig.de/android/N1/2.2/usb_host/

The guy even got a USB DVB card working and dispalying on the Nexus One.

Sorry for all the links but I dont have anything to add.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694427

Edited July 20, 2010 by Jason Patel

[Guest rcadden]

Sounds pretty cool - I'll have to test this out. Anyone got this running on their N1?

[Guest zone]

I second that - this is potentially a very interesting feature.

I wonder if Paul is looking at this and whether there is any chance that this could be built into some future version of the Modaco Custom Rom?