HTC Hero and Micro Printers (USB Host)

[Guest GateheaD]

Hey,

I'm off to a festival on Sunday (2 Days away) and would love to use the Dell Wasabi printer with the HTC Hero.

I know Host Mode for USB is able to be enabled at the moment, just wondering if anyone has ever tried anything like this?

I don't mind trialing things out on my phone if people don't have access to a similar USB device.

Hope you can help,

Thanks

[Guest GateheaD]

Note: It does Bluetooth printing but I cant find an app that will let me send pics via bluetooth on the Hero that works (bluetooth file transfer app doesnt work)

[Guest kouray]

Hi GateheaD.

I don't think that you can do it by plugging your printer to your phone (because drivers probably won't work on android).

Did you try apps like PrinterShare or CyPria ? I don't know about bluetooth but it supports wifi.

[Guest Dr Hotdog]

Hey,

I'm off to a festival on Sunday (2 Days away) and would love to use the Dell Wasabi printer with the HTC Hero.

I know Host Mode for USB is able to be enabled at the moment, just wondering if anyone has ever tried anything like this?

I don't mind trialing things out on my phone if people don't have access to a similar USB device.

Hope you can help,

Thanks

I think you're out of luck, I'm afraid. The Android bluetooth stack is very rudimentary, especially in the Android 1.5 that our Heroes run. Android 2.1 supports a few more protocols, but I'm not sure whether or not you'd be able to use a BT printer even with that.

USB Host mode is also not supported by Android yet, I know there are some hacking efforts going on to try to enable it but I don't think they've gotten very far yet. There are some hardware limitations as I understand it, you'd also need a custom kernel to enable the Linux drivers for the USB devices you want to use, and then you'd need special apps to interact with those drivers.

[Guest GateheaD]

From my nokia N81 I can BT send a file to the printer and it comes out fine.

Wish BlueX or BlueFTP worked, they both just crash.