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Offline ihabelnaccash

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Will rockboxed players show up as drives if connected to android devices on usb?
« on: September 27, 2013, 09:40:48 AM »
Im not looking to run rockbox on android, or even run the installer on android- just wondering if my devices (sansa 200  and 5.5gen ipod) would appear as a drive (like they do in windows) if connected to an android tablet with a usb port?
Thanks! IE
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Offline saratoga

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Re: Will rockboxed players show up as drives if connected to android devices on usb?
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2013, 11:37:42 AM »
Assuming your tablet can act as a USB host device, it should work.  You won't be able to run rockbox utility on Android though as it has never been ported to that OS.
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Offline cereal_killer

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Re: Will rockboxed players show up as drives if connected to android devices on usb?
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2013, 11:43:10 AM »
I cant think of any reason, why the device would not show up as a drive. I never tried Android, but on Linux I can see my rockboxed players as a drive.

By the way there is Rockbox as an Application (RaaA) for Android. See here: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AndroidPort and for .apk files see here: http://rasher.dk/rockbox/android/

Greetings

c_k
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Offline ihabelnaccash

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Re: Will rockboxed players show up as drives if connected to android devices on usb?
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2013, 03:53:08 PM »
Thats what I was thinking/hoping. (that if it can host it should work) I just havent got my hands on a tablet that can host yet to find out... just trying to see if anyone has actually done it...
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Offline evilnick

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Re: Will rockboxed players show up as drives if connected to android devices on usb?
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2013, 10:27:51 AM »
I've tried this on an Asus TF700 (the Transformer Infinity) and the Gigabeat F40 appeared as a drive as expected.

So the answer is: yes, RB devices do show up as standard storage :)
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