No UI reaction in Sailfish to attached USB drive

asked 2015-08-10 05:12:17 +0200

shmerl
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updated 2015-08-10 10:36:12 +0200

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I tried attaching a USB flash drive to Nexus 5 with Sailfish installed (through USB mirco-B host mode adapter). Apparently the system recognized it (i.e. USB host mode is functional), but there was no reaction in the interface. It's a major usability deficiency. There should be some UI acknowledgment that USB storage was attached and the system should propose to do something with it (for example open it with file browser and so on).

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The Jolla Phone doesn't support USB host mode

No? Is it a hardware limitation? Nexus 5 supports it just fine when used with Sailfish.

shmerl ( 2015-08-10 08:06:00 +0200 )edit

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@shmerl There is no UI reaction in Sailfish for attached SD-card either. Also, there isn't a file manager if you don't download one.

jollailija ( 2015-08-10 09:08:58 +0200 )edit

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there isn't a file manager if you don't download one.

@jollailija: That's pretty wrong as well. File manager is such a basic tool that it should be always present by default. I noticed that it's missing, but Jolla Harbor is broken on Nexus 5 now, so I didn't check if it's available.

shmerl ( 2015-08-10 09:10:34 +0200 )edit

@shmerl Well, so is email and you have to download that by yourself. There used to be Jolla's own "Fileman" but it is no longer supported. Try downloading one from OpenRepos and see if you can access your storage device with it.

jollailija ( 2015-08-10 09:23:10 +0200 )edit

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answered 2015-08-10 07:11:42 +0200

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It's possibly implemented for SFOS 2.0 as the Tablet is the first commercially supported sailfish device with USB host mode.

The Jolla Phone doesn't support USB host mode. so for Commercial SFOS 1.x the GUI didn't need to worry about USB drives etc. Though reports are that the underlying OS does support USB drives.

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Just tested a USB OTG + flash drive with my tablet. It was recognized, but i had to manually mount the new /dev/sda1 to use the drive. Hopefully that will change when we get the full SFOS 2.0...

Andy Branson ( 2015-10-18 18:55:46 +0200 )edit

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answered 2017-03-03 15:11:10 +0200

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Does the OTG Support Present On Aqua Fish Hardware ? ( One Youtube video is showing that nothing Happens when otg connected) , Please confirm, so that I can buy a OTG Cable happily.

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No OTG on Aqua Fish and Jolla C

coderus ( 2017-03-03 15:40:20 +0200 )edit

Bad Luck ! Is it so From Hardware End?

p_pahare ( 2017-03-03 16:39:48 +0200 )edit

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hardware. no way to enable it.

coderus ( 2017-03-03 16:48:13 +0200 )edit

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answered 2017-03-03 17:09:58 +0200

Dylan Van Assche

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The Oneplus X port supports this out of the box.

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Might be good to point to a source on how the OpenPlus X Port did it and maybe it can be implemtned upstream in SailfishOS or in other ports.

leszek ( 2017-03-03 22:03:35 +0200 )edit

Also support for keyboards via OTG is supported, I don't know if this is also available on Jolla devices.

Dylan Van Assche ( 2017-03-03 23:30:57 +0200 )edit

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