nexus 4 Adapter

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Arielrahammi

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Hello , i bought sometime ago a female usb to aux adapter to connect my usb headphones to my nexus4 but sadly it doesnt work.
while i connect them i hear nothing from my device and nothing in my headphones , any ideas?
 
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WyomingKnott
Try it with your PC and see if it functions at all. If it works with the PC and not with the Nexus 4, it's probably because the Nexus 4 expects to be connected as the client, not the host. But it does support USB On-the-go, as in this article: http://www.androidcentral.com/android-advanced-usb-otg-nexus-4 .

So with the right cable it might work.

Brief, probably wrong explanation of USB OTG: A USB connection requires one host device and one (or more for a hub) client device. USB sticks are clients and can't act as hosts. Cell phones were originally clients, you could connect them to your PC and the PC could use them as a mass-storage device. But connecting to clients (your phone and your audio device) results in no activity...
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Try it with your PC and see if it functions at all. If it works with the PC and not with the Nexus 4, it's probably because the Nexus 4 expects to be connected as the client, not the host. But it does support USB On-the-go, as in this article: http://www.androidcentral.com/android-advanced-usb-otg-nexus-4 .

So with the right cable it might work.

Brief, probably wrong explanation of USB OTG: A USB connection requires one host device and one (or more for a hub) client device. USB sticks are clients and can't act as hosts. Cell phones were originally clients, you could connect them to your PC and the PC could use them as a mass-storage device. But connecting to clients (your phone and your audio device) results in no activity, because no-one is acting as the host.

A USB OTG device will usually act as a client, but with a proper cable with the correct circuitry to prompt it it will act as the host.

If you want a better explanation, look up USB OTG on Wikipedia.
 
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