USB On The Go! The most important forgotten feature of the Jelly Bean update.

[opec]

Finally... dear god finally....
The jelly bean update for the one x is alright, but the biggest improvement seems to be unmentioned. We finally got usb on the go.
Why is this a big deal? For me personally, I study at the library a lot and have a lot of lectures that I watch. Now I don't have to swap out the large files on my phone before I leave the house, I can just keep all of them on a usb thumb drive, and plug that into my phone whenever I want to watch something.
This can also be useful for storing movies and shows when you are travelling and need tons of stuff to watch. Jelly bean has native drivers for keyboards and mice, so you can use that for whatever purpose you need it for. There's also native game controller support, so you can make your own project shield clone with a usb controller.
Opening up usb for your phone is actually a gigantic game changer, and nobody makes a big deal about this feature. Oh well, I guess I'm the only one geeking out over USBOTG.

 

[Bizzle69]

Finally... dear god finally....
The jelly bean update for the one x is alright, but the biggest improvement seems to be unmentioned. We finally got usb on the go.
Why is this a big deal? For me personally, I study at the library a lot and have a lot of lectures that I watch. Now I don't have to swap out the large files on my phone before I leave the house, I can just keep all of them on a usb thumb drive, and plug that into my phone whenever I want to watch something.
This can also be useful for storing movies and shows when you are travelling and need tons of stuff to watch. Jelly bean has native drivers for keyboards and mice, so you can use that for whatever purpose you need it for. There's also native game controller support, so you can make your own project shield clone with a usb controller.
Opening up usb for your phone is actually a gigantic game changer, and nobody makes a big deal about this feature. well, I guess I'm the only one geeking out over USBOTG.

It supports it, but you have to use Stick Mount app, and it has to be formatted in fat 32, if you want ntfs support you'll have to root

 

[opec]

Hmm, interesting. I don't need to get stick mount, it just is recognized and mounts as a drive.
Luckily, my thumb drive is fat32 (for some reason), I may have done that for work related reasons. I think now that the jelly bean update is here, I think I'm going to root again, if not just for using AutomateIt.

 

[Bizzle69]

Not sure if the exploit still works or not, check out that thread over at xda to see if anyone has tried it

 

[opec]

Dang, it looks like the xbox wired controller does not work. That's strange, because there should be native drivers for it in jelly bean.

 

[Bizzle69]

Dang, it looks like the xbox wired controller does not work. That's strange, because there should be native drivers for it in jelly bean.

Ya I had to install a custom kernel to get that to work,

 

[JFetch]

What are you using to plug things into your phone? Is there a cable that you use or something?

edit: I see there are cords you can buy from Amazon for a couple dollars.

 

[Jason Miller2]

USB on the go cables. I have one but can't seem to find the files on my thumb drive. It shows up in storage menu but I'm not sure how to open them.

 

[Bizzle69]

USB on the go cables. I have one but can't seem to find the files on my thumb drive. It shows up in storage menu but I'm not sure how to open them.

Use a file explorer.. es file explorer works great

 

[Jason Miller2]

ThanksI used Astro file manager. There it was. This is great!

 

[opec]

For some reason ES file manager won't let me browse anything but my "mnt/sdcard". I have to use Astro to access my thumb drive.

 

[Bizzle69]

I use ES file explorer and it works great, it puts a folder labeled USB on the storage partition ... either way, glad you got it to work out with the other file explorer :thumbup:

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