Flash Drive Experiment

This sounds interesting. I can't say that I think it'll work, since most USB drives draw power from the port, and Idk if the phone will output power. If not try using the little connector that lets you charge with headphones in, maybe that will allow it to get more  power?

This is also assuming the power drawn by a USB drive is anything more than negligible

Today, my usb adapter arrived. Joy!

The phone I'm using is a HTC Touch Diamond, since it does not have a removable storage card.

So first I hooked up straight to the flash thumb drive. My thumb drive glows when it's plugged in / drawing power.

Result: It did not glow. It did not show up in the File Explorer on the phone.

Then I hooked up my Archos PVR to it. When the pvr recognizes a usb connection, it goes into sync/hard drive mode.

Result: Neither the PVR nor th phone knew they were connected to each other.

I haven't hooked it up to the phones dual dongle yet, so it could be charged while connected, but I doubt it will change the results.

Conclusion: The experiment was a FAIL.

I believe, if it is possible to overcome the power issue, it would still need some sort of driver to allow for the INPUT of a secondary drive (that's why the computer files don't show up on the phone).

Thanks all who've followed my experiment. At least we can say: It's been tried.

Same story with the Touch Pro?