If I had to guess I'd say that the problem is likely that those phones only use the data lines of the USB cable, but do not feed power into the device. Have you tried simply powering the IOIO via the Vin plug or the Vin pins?
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Ilan Tal <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to ask about the IOIO OTG on the latest phones. > To my amazement many of the latest phones no longer seem to support OTG. > (What I see is that I can't make any connection with Hello IOIO.) > > There is a cable you can buy > https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009YPYORM?tag=won00-20 > that seems to solve the problem, but I'd like some feedback. > > Ideally, this might work: plug the micro usb into the phone and then make > a connection between one of the 2 male connectors to the IOIO. > I don't know who has experience with this. > > If that fails perhaps another possibility is to plug the micro usb into > the IOIO and use a male connector to blue tooth. > This is using the cable as a simple pass through, but I might be able to > use the other connector to supply 5 volts to the IOIO? > > Any suggestions? > Thanks, > Ilan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ioio-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
