In order to use USB OTG I just short them together. What I did was locate pin 4 on the microUSB socket on the PCB and trace it to a point where I could solder on a wire, luckily I found a test point and used that, I also attached a 2nd wire to GND and brought them both out (The orange and white wires). Ok, so the bodge that I did to get USB OTG up and running is based on instructions I found here: Next I try a USB mouse, the only one I have at hand is a cheapo wireless once from Dollarama, this appeared to work fine, I tested it and had a quick game of solitaire to test it. Maybe it was drawing too much current and was disconnected by the tablet after initialising, I will find a USB keyboard and try again later. The only spare keyboard I have is an old PS/2 Style keyboard so I plugged in my PS/2 to USB adaptor, the keyboard initialised (as noticed by the lights coming on for a second) but I did notice the display flickered while doing so but it didn’t seem to do any kind of input. I heard that you can plug in a mouse and/or a keyboard and use them with Android based devices, I have never seen this before myself so I was curious. Next I turn my attention to the USB OTG situation. I found that I could use the tablet by pressing on the touchscreen but it’s somewhat hard to know where your touching when the LCD is broken and your watching it on a TV. Nothing appeared on the screen until it was a good minute into the booting but it worked ok, it was a little too large for my screen but I have an old TV so I found that with a lot of things, but the main point is that it works on HDMI! Next I got a HDMI cable, turns out I purchased a MicroHDMI cable □ but I went out today and got the MiniHDMI cable and plugged it into the tablet and switched it on. They haven’t arrived so I did a quick bodge to use USB OTG without the proper cable as you will see in the picture below. (Actually ordered a set 4 months ago on ebay and not seen any, and ordered a set 2 months ago and still waiting for both). a fraction of the size of the case it is in.įirstly I have already ordered in some USB OTG cables. I decided to order some items in to see if I could use these ports instead of relying on the LCD/touchscreen interface. Looking at the bottom edge of the tablet you notice there is a nice selection of features.įrom left to right: Headphone/Headset (Covered by my thumb), Mic, Micro USB, Mini HDMI, A 5V charging port, reset button, microSD card socket. The screen didn’t like it very much and refuses to work now due to a crack. Ok, so the Hipstreet Phoenix tablet that I repaired the power button on a few months back got knelt on.
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