N800 USB support - external hard drives,keyboards,etc
 

I was wondering what the usb support for the N800 was. Can the N800 be connected to an external hardrive, keyboard, gamepad, etc.

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Not thru USB.

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so the usb port is not powered??

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Is not hostmode.

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I posted about a great solution for this problem a few weeks back, not sure if anyone saw it...

http://www.gethitch.com

It's called a Hitch by Sima, and it is basically a powered USB-To-Go bridge that works with *any* two USB mass storage devices, including direct iPod-to-iPod song transfer. I have been using mine with great success with a combination of external hard drives, thumb drives, iPods, card readers, and my 770 and other handheld devices.

Works great with the N800 also...too bad the N800 won't charge via USB, because the Hitch will charge devices thru *both* of its USB ports at the same time, since it has it's own rechargeable Li-ion battery...

Cool little accessory, not the fastest thing around, but it does the job and bridges the incompatibility gap between most devices...

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I can confirm that there is no host-mode support on the n800. Enabling it with the flasher does nothing (remains in slave mode) and there's no /proc entry like the 770 has. Lame. That was one of the 770's nicer hacking features and I had a blob consisting of a USB hub (wired to feed power back to the 770), hardwired to a 10/100 network adapter and USB SD adapter. Hooking it to a USB keyboard or 30GB hard drive was also fun.

Larry

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Are we missing the actual hardware or just the Kernel support? Can anyone confirm. If the support is not in the kernel, then you would not have the proc entries correct? So even enabling it would do nothing witout the kernel support when running.

Re: N800 USB support - external hard drives,keyboards,etc
 

Correct. However, I haven't gotten around to setting up a kernel build environment to see if it's simply a option that hasn't been turned on so we'll have to rely on someone else to confirm this for the time being.

Larry

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Aren't there adaptors for that? I think thoughtfix used one for his 770 laptop mod.

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Sorry, the only thing he used was circuitry to feed power into the 770 as well as the other devices he hooked up. The 'Hitch' is a slave-to-slave intelligent copying device and acts as a master to drive the slave devices.

Larry

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Yup, that's all the Hitch does...just eliminates a computer as a go-between for two USB devices...

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My goodness, it would be a dream come true if the USB port in the N800 would support usb Thumb Drives and even be able to recharge the battery. As a student I just can imagine having my N800 all day at school and while typing up at the desktop in the computer lab I can connect it there and recharge it while working. Even beeing able to transfer my work to and from the PC.

Does anybody know whether it can be hacked or modded to do that? Or maybe even a new application that will allow that?


P.S. I just ordered my N800 and this is my first time purchasing an Internet Tablet. This product will replace an old IBM ThinkPad laptop I used for just email, IM, and web surfing.

Re: N800 USB support - external hard drives,keyboards,etc
 

It is less hassle to simply pick up a charger cable that has a USB port on one end and nokia barrel connector power plug on the other. That way your USB port is still free to use...

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Will this really work for N800? Where can get something like that?

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Sure, but as USB ports don't HAVE to support more than 500ma, your IT would charge somewhat more slowly than from the wall adapter, which is rated at ~800ma, I believe. Still, it might be convenient in a pinch, especially when traveling.

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This is my current setup

http://www.flickr.com/photos/konstan...-nokiatablets/