Step by step guide to USB Host

[Guest Drizz]

Also in an unrelated note how many programs can you have pinned to a taskbar before it becomes silly.

I have them there and not a single one on the desktop, clean and efficient ;) Nothing worse then a desktop full of shortcuts :)

[Guest simonta]

Folks, the flash image - it's Clockworkmod right? If so, will probably skip. I'm one of the unlucky ones who gets a black screen boot with it.

Edited December 19, 2010 by simonta

[Guest What If]

stuck on stage 7

open up gscript but nothing happes - just a blank screen

You need to press the menu button up near the top right corner of the screen looks like 3 lines I think.

This will take you into the gscript settings then carry on with what the stages tell you to do.

[Guest trevor432990]

To Drizz

Before you started to try and apply the USB Host mod what version were you running on? You need to have been at v1.04 minimum to have the correct drivers for the devices in the screenshot to work properly.

[Guest amarko5]

Working fine on my Tablet ;)

thanks guys for being the guinea pigs and sussing it out, also big thanks for the dump provided in the first instance. :)

[Guest Drizz]

To Drizz

Before you started to try and apply the USB Host mod what version were you running on? You need to have been at v1.04 minimum to have the correct drivers for the devices in the screenshot to work properly.

I thought I was on latest as I have r5 installed. Going to start from scratch.

Thanks

[Guest Gregga]

finally got it working!! :)

[Guest xathras]

Folks, the flash image - it's Clockworkmod right? If so, will probably skip. I'm one of the unlucky ones who gets a black screen boot with it.

I tried ClockworkMod as a test before upgrading from 1.04 to 1.06.5. It installed o.k. but after 2 reboots I also got the black screen boot. However, flash_image wiil not do this AFAIK. I've been using it to swap between USB host and slave modes for several days without a problem.

[Guest gr_66]

You won't get any feedback from that.

When you add the scripts to gscript there's a tickbox called enable su - that NEEDS to be ticked.

My advice start over. Before running gscript dl and install terminal emulator. Type in su and click return. A superuser prompt should appear if not do not proceed!

Hello,

have same problem, everything did acc. to the guid, but them I select USB Host script and run it, it give permissions error

any thoughts, was it resolved?

EDIT: Checked with iExplorer on Vega /data/local - No file have been copied to this folder, any Idea Why? (I have the flash_image file in the same directory as adb. Also then i push file it gives "0 bytes in 7874xxs"

Edited December 20, 2010 by gr_66

[Guest gr_66]

Still not working, I can only think I'm missing something or Win 7 is blocking the vega from being visible.

Heres how far I get:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.


C:\Users\Mark>cd c:\android


c:\android>dir

 Volume in drive C has no label.

 Volume Serial Number is F893-E14C


 Directory of c:\android


19/12/2010  00:09	<DIR>		  .

19/12/2010  00:09	<DIR>		  ..

15/12/2010  16:05		   577,335 adb.exe

15/12/2010  16:05			96,256 AdbWinApi.dll

18/12/2010  23:54		   787,448 flash_image

			   3 File(s)	  1,461,039 bytes

			   2 Dir(s)  188,427,034,624 bytes free


c:\android>adb devices

List of devices attached

c:\android>

I got it working after restarting laptop and vega + powering vega (plug the power cable)

[Guest gr_66]

I got it working after restarting laptop and vega + powering vega (plug the power cable)

I think need some help,

I'm trying to run this USB host, started all over again from flashing 1.06.05 ROM and so on, but still no success. What i researched is: trying to install root explorer, market enabler, etc but the problem is that I don't have superuser permission. Regularly after you run app which need a SU permission it should ask. But my doesn't ask. So it might be a cause why I can't copy flash_image and change it's permissions.

Please advice

Edit1: Successfully rooted with Paul's application, after that USB host was resolved. Thanks to the help in anther post. This link is for the people who has a problem with rooting http://android.modaco.com/content/software...one-click-root/

Edited December 21, 2010 by gr_66

[Guest flyingscotno1]

Can I just say thanks to the OP and the folk involved.

Tremendous effort and the Vega gets better and better. The best sensibly priced Android Tablet out there for me at the moment.

[Guest bear807]

this is so difficult :)

i dunno what i have done wrong it just says flash_image cannot stat :no such file or directory ??????????

i have my device connected and is showing up

i have been trying hours and hours still no joy

[Guest arad85]

this is so difficult :)

i dunno what i have done wrong it just says flash_image cannot stat :no such file or directory ??????????

i have my device connected and is showing up

i have been trying hours and hours still no joy

Copy/paste what commands you are doing and what the command line says when it is run. Can you also provide a directory listing (dir) of the directory ytou're trying to do this from.

[Guest bear807]

hi i have almost given up hope on the windows 7 one and jump on to the xp where i install my r5 from

i have done a print screen

adb does show up my devices however when i try to push image it say it cannot stat image no such directory and when i ttry to adb shell only a # key has shown up????

[Guest arad85]

hi i have almost given up hope on the windows 7 one and jump on to the xp where i install my r5 from

i have done a print screen

adb does show up my devices however when i try to push image it say it cannot stat image no such directory and when i ttry to adb shell only a # key has shown up????

Yup, that's working. The # is the command prompt on the Vega. Try typing "df" (without the quotes) and pressing return.

Can't stat image means the directory/file image isn't in the directory you are running this from.

[Guest bear807]

Yup, that's working. The # is the command prompt on the Vega. Try typing "df" (without the quotes) and pressing return.

Can't stat image means the directory/file image isn't in the directory you are running this from.

thank you df has work :(

however i still cant get the push image to work if you see my print screen above i have got the image file under the same directory is it meant to be in same folder or inside the vega itself?

[Guest arad85]

thank you df has work :(

however i still cant get the push image to work if you see my print screen above i have got the image file under the same directory is it meant to be in same folder or inside the vega itself?

You are running the command in C:\Documents and Settings\mao mao. This is the directory it is expecting to find the file image. It looks (although I can't confirm it) that the image is in C:\Documents and Settings\mao mao\desktop\android. That's why it's failing.

If you do the following two commands (from the same command prompt):

cd desktop\android

adb push image /data/local

it should work.

[Guest bear807]

thank you very much yea you were right i have to put the image file under maomao :( thank you finally is slove

oh is looks not finish yet i do see light when i plug in the usb but in file manger my card is not detecteed??

Edited December 24, 2010 by bear807

[Guest bobby_stills]

I was having a nightmare trying to connect using USB

Downloaded "adbwireless" from the market.

it gives an internal ip address which you can enter into you cmd from your pc to connect to the vega wirelessly

e.g adb connect 192.168.0.6:5555

once connected i was able to run the commands to transfer the flash image as per the previous instructions.

all working well now. flash drives tested and work... now onto my logitech mx keyboard

this is a great community.... i dont normally post but i hope this helps someone

[Guest TeaTimeSoon]

Tried this today and didn't work.

Selected the USB Host GScript and when rebooted the only thing I had on the screen was

Starting fastboot USB download protocol. and nothing else.

{snipped}

Just had the exact same experience - about to follow your fastboot procedure... fingers crossed I can recover this seemingly dire situation

J

[Guest TeaTimeSoon]

Tried this today and didn't work.

Selected the USB Host GScript and when rebooted the only thing I had on the screen was

Starting fastboot USB download protocol. and nothing else.

Plugged in USB to PC (XP) and it recognized the Vega as a device but couldn't do anything.

Managed to find some information about fastboot Here and here

Extracted the contents of the 1.06.5 image to a folder (run the exe without the vega plugged in and it will show you the path where the contents of the exe file were extracted to. e.g. c:\docume~1\Mark\locals~1\Temp)

Then managed to restore the boot image from the extracted exe and reboot using command below

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot reboot

{snipped}

Hi Cwmdu86

I tried your fastboot procedure but could not get it to work.

I followed simonta's advice for getting recovery mode operational:

- Connect by USB to your PC

- Have device manager open on the PC

- start while holding down back button 2 seconds, hold down power button for 2 seconds without letting go of the back button, then releasing the power button

- Watch in the USB section of the device tree on the PC device manager for the NVidia recovery device to appear.

The presence of the driver, and therefore a USB connection, is the only indication that you are in recovery. The screen should remain black.

Running a full stock flash exe file - the Vega is found and flashed.

I am relieved I no longer have a brick - and find that the USB switcher has been added to the kitchen (Thanks Paul!) so I do not have to go through this process again.

J

Edited December 31, 2010 by TeaTimeSoon

[Guest Sanddancer75]

I just got the "starting Fastboot USB download protocol" when trying to switch to host mode running 1.06.5. I take it the easiest way to recover is to reflash?

That'll teach me to see if you can play Kwaak3 with a keyboard & mouse! :D

[Guest extrememonkey]

Hi Cwmdu86

I tried your fastboot procedure but could not get it to work.

I followed simonta's advice for getting recovery mode operational:

- Connect by USB to your PC

- Have device manager open on the PC

- start while holding down back button 2 seconds, hold down power button for 2 seconds without letting go of the back button, then releasing the power button

- Watch in the USB section of the device tree on the PC device manager for the NVidia recovery device to appear.

The presence of the driver, and therefore a USB connection, is the only indication that you are in recovery. The screen should remain black.

Running a full stock flash exe file - the Vega is found and flashed.

I am relieved I no longer have a brick - and find that the USB switcher has been added to the kitchen (Thanks Paul!) so I do not have to go through this process again.

J

I have the same problem - Screen stuck at "Starting Fastboot USB download Protocol"

I cant get into recovery as described above, any help would be seriously, and I mean SERIOUSLY appreciated.....

[Guest tjz1100]

I'm beginning to thinjk I'm an idiot. After failing miserably to install the USB switcher (Paul's) I tried the gscript version. For some reason my Vega is not beint detected and adb devices shows no Vega attached, so step 5 in the guide is a bust!!!!!

Tired, going out for coffee.