USB OTG support for lumia series...

Anonymous
2012-07-03T16:53:31+00:00

Does lumia series support usb on the go?

If not are there any chances in d future?

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-06-12T08:03:31+00:00

    A DAC is normally a USB-Audio device, which is covered both as source and sink according that MSDN blog entry. Final testing with your particular USB device is required – but theoretically it is supported. Update (December 2015): My Sennheiser 3D G4ME1 works with my Lumia 950. However, I had to insert a power supply to the USB adapter. Furthermore, I have not tested a DAC which follows USB-Audio Class 2.0 (UAC2), yet. That Sennheiser uses the original version of the USB-Audio Class specification.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-06-11T13:55:01+00:00

    Don't forget Win 10 for phones suports BT HID (Mouse and Keyboard) so that feature has a solution now. Works well BTW, (L920 tech Preview). Actually found that more convenient back in the PPC/Win Mobile days, than wired stuff that would need a hub. I think your DAC remains to be seen. Certainly possible, but I would guess more than just the OTG needs to happen. The audio system needs to be set up to deliver the data to the USB host port. Hope someone does that for you. For me, although I have more cloud storage than I know what to do with (O365 unlimited) I think the mass storage is what I would use the most.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-06-11T13:23:59+00:00

    You're welcome. The suggestion to add OTG supporthas about 22.000 upvotes on the WP suggestion forum, I only found the confirmation from Andrea that they will include it at the very bottom of the first page of comments. One more comment and it will jump to the next page. Seems like they are not doing much of an effort to get the information out there.

    Btw, I saw your comment from last year about what people will actually use this feature for. USB mass storage is perhaps not very needed, but other features (like USB-hub with mouse and keyboard) are useful. Personally I was wondering whether I could connect an extarnal USB DAC (like the Fiio E10k) to my Lumia or not.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-06-11T12:51:04+00:00

    Good find. Thanks for posting the link. I'm glad they are supporting it, as it is one of those things that others have that just detracted from the platform being absent. Hopefully the OEMs, one of which is MS, will include the hardware  required.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-06-11T12:42:11+00:00

    I am well aware that this thread is old, but in case anyone (like me) googled 'Windows phone otg' and found this thread, I'll save you the hassle of going through Microsoft's suggestion forum. This is the current status on this question:


    In Windows 10, Microsoft is introducing support for USB Dual Role. USB Dual Role refers to the ability of a system to behave as a USB Device or a USB Host. This is a really exciting feature as it adds the ability to use your USB devices with your Mobile phone for the first time ever in Windows!

    Please note, this feature will only be available on new Windows 10 devices that support USB Dual Role. This is because of the hardware changes required for the USB port to support device enumeration. While there are devices in the market today that have USB Dual Role capable controllers, the platforms were not designed to support USB Dual Role. New hardware may advertise that they are Dual Role capable.


    Meaning it will be supported, but only in new Windows 10 phones. That should rule out any chances of ever getting USB OTG support on our current Lumia phones...

    To read the whole blog post where I found this info, click here.

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