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Offline Alex EisenhutTopic starter

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Can I connect a USB 3.0 microscope to my phone?
« on: May 23, 2021, 09:59:04 pm »
The idea being to use a Samsung S10 as the screen. I have ordered what is claimed to be a USB-C to USB 3.1 cable which is blue, so it's not a USB2.0 adapter, which I already have.

I know the usual mouse / keyboard stuff works fine in any phone, but I never tried a USB 3 microscope.

Do you think it would work?
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Re: Can I connect a USB 3.0 microscope to my phone?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2021, 10:08:43 pm »
The only way to know for sure is to test it.

Samsung and other Android phones support a surprisingly large number of external devices including displays, storage devices, network adapters, even USB floppy drives!

I routinely use my Dell laptop dock on my Android phone.
 

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Re: Can I connect a USB 3.0 microscope to my phone?
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2021, 07:34:02 pm »
Is there a word for "there's no reason it can't, but we do it on purpose to be needlessly complex"?
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Re: Can I connect a USB 3.0 microscope to my phone?
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2021, 08:18:22 pm »
Most likely not, or at least not directly. I bought a cheap endoscope for pipes (camera + LEDs at one end of a 15 ft semi-rigid cable, USB at the other end) advertised to work on any MacOS or Windows computer and on selected Android devices. Android required an app called "OTG viewer" or "OTG endoscope" or similar. There are quite a few of them on Google PlayStore (most of them free). Per seller's advice, I tried a few until I found one which worked on my combination of Android device and camera. I remember the seller mentioning that the endoscope does not work on Samsung phones (but it might have been specific to that camera).

Maybe you should ask the seller?
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Re: Can I connect a USB 3.0 microscope to my phone?
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2021, 04:23:54 am »
Great, my cable arrived and it's just a blue USB 2.0 connector on the other end.  ::)
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Re: Can I connect a USB 3.0 microscope to my phone?
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2021, 03:59:56 am »
Great, my cable arrived and it's just a blue USB 2.0 connector on the other end.  ::)
Complain that the item is "not as described" or "not working" and you'll probably end up getting a refund with no return needed. (It might not cost much but it helps to discourage sellers from using that sort of trick.)
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Re: Can I connect a USB 3.0 microscope to my phone?
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2021, 02:45:53 pm »
Oh yeah, already done. I think the keyword is "OTG", cables described as USB 3 OTG seem to have the real USB 3 connector....
If the description doesn't show a real photograph of inside the connector, it's suspicious.
I finally found a cable where they do show the right connector.
In another week or two I'll find out.
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