USB Host Cable

[siscim23]

I just bought my 3G xoom yesterday and the Motorola Camera connection Kit. (micro to standard cable) It is $20. I am using a microsoft wireless mouse. (comes with a mini usb bluetooth plug.
the mouse works great. My only issue is that I cannot get the on screen keyboard to worrk but my bluetooth keyboard works fine with the mouse.

Why did you buy the host cable if you have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard? The Xoom already has bluetooth.

 

[NewAge]

Those are bluetech dongle. Its a 2.4 ghz mouse. Or bluetrack or something.

 

[Nchaka]

I have the Motorola camera adapter kit and I am able to transfer pics to my Xoom. But I can't get the Xoom to recognize a usb thumb drive. Anybody have any luck with a thumb drive without rooting?

 

[timber2k]

you all are right about it it is not able to recognize thumb drive

 

[NewAge]

Did you doubt us? The USB hosting is pretty limited on stock OS. If you need to read external drives through micro USB then root.

 

[dirt4444]

I might give this a try for $3.

Amazon.com: USB 2.0 A to Micro B Female / Male Adaptor: Electronics

I bought this same one but when I try to connect anything it doesn't work. Bad cable maybe?

 

[JohnnyBlaze]

The amazon item has been reviewed by multiple Xoom owners that says it does not work as an OTG cable.

But I am wondering about this

Amazon.com: Motorola Camera Connection Kit for MOTOROLA XOOM (Motorola Retail Packaging) 89454N: Electronics

It says for cameras but the reviewer says it works for a USB mouse and PS3 controller. Anyone know if this will allow the Xoom to be able to read a flash drive?

 

[dirt4444]

The amazon item has been reviewed by multiple Xoom owners that says it does not work as an OTG cable.

But I am wondering about this

Amazon.com: Motorola Camera Connection Kit for MOTOROLA XOOM (Motorola Retail Packaging) 89454N: Electronics

It says for cameras but the reviewer says it works for a USB mouse and PS3 controller. Anyone know if this will allow the Xoom to be able to read a flash drive?

Is it just this certain one that doesnt work? Im just looking for a cheap adapter that allows a camera or phone to connect to the xoom to transfer pictures and stuff.

 

[derekw68]

Play it safe and go to Best Buy and get it for 20.00.

 

[aspenman]

I use this USB host cable and it works great. Have tested it with my 750gb Oyen and 320gb WD Passport esternal HDD's, several usb flash drives (8-16gb), San disk USB memory card reader, and a USB keyboard.

For those having issues getting their Xoom to recognize USB storage devices here's what I've got and did to get it to work: I flashed my XOOM (3.1) to the 2.6.36.4 Tiamat_Xoom-v1.4.4-Full_Throttle Kernel and was unable to get the USBMount to recognize drives or storage at first. I installed USB Mass Storage Watcher from the market (it's free) and it works awesome! Can mount any storage I want (NTFS, FAT16/32, HFS, HFS+, EXT2, ETX3, EXT4) with any capacity. I think this app will work with any rooted Xoom (or other devices). Under my Kernel my USB host is located under/usbOTG.

Hope this helps.