Expanding your storage
Posted on March 13, 2008
Filed Under Maemo, N810, Tutorials |
I know this is and old topic by blogging standards, but because I found so simple and cheap to use external usb flash-drives with N810, I decided to write a quick walktrough.
- Get yourself a female-female usb adapter. I ordered from this funny sounding store on eBay, and it took 1-2weeks for it to ship to Finland. Total cost: 2-3€ delivered. Plus the package is often very pretty if you order from Hong Kong
Just search for example “usb female to female adapter” and sort by price. - Install Kate’s usb-otg-plugin.
- Select host mode.
- connect your usb cable, adapter and the flash drive.
- Enjoy the warm pseudohackerish glow deep inside…
This image shows dmsg output after connecting the drive. My N810 opened the file manager automatically upon connecting. The USB flash key is a 2GB Kingston DataTraveller Mini.
Next up arduino….
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hmm, i wonder if the cable that came with my N800 will work with the right adapter…
Sure.
N800 with the included cable + USB A female to female adapter works just fine.
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No need to wait 1-2 weeks, go to your nearest Class Ohlson.
Good to know, but I really just like to click around a few minutes and then get the stuff delivered to my home.
It’s really not about being busy, more like lazy
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will this work with the n800 through the female female adapater Targus ACP50US
As you can hopefully see from the picture, the small adapter is only used to connect two male USB cables together. Or in this case male Nokia USB cable and your flash thumb drive.
Please don’t buy the Targus docking station, it wont do the job.
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Why I cant instal usb-otg-plugin . There is info that I cant do that couse I mis somthing ? what do I need before instaliung usb-otg-plugin ?
I tried this with my n810. USB sticks worked for me, but SD cards in a USB cardreader didn’t. A bummer, because my goal was to be able to use the n810 as a kind of camera companion - move files from camera to device for backup and viewing. BTW, connecting my camera directly to the device did not work either. Does anyone else have an SD card reader working?