Hi all,

got my n800 from amazon a few days ago. loaded os2008 on it, and heaps of great apps. used flasher to get it into rnd mode, and got root. I got the usb into host mode using the sysfs interface.

So my problem is that I never modified any usb cable or anything like that. I just got a female to female connector from frys and hooked up my usb thumb drive to it directly. It works fine, but the last time I tried it with my cousin's usb thumb drive. It didn;t work and I noticed a burning smell. The n800 works fine still. The Nokia cable smells a bit, but it might just have smelled like that from the begining or something. Basically when I unpluged everything, the smell went away from the n800 but the tip of the nokia cable smells a bit funny.

Anyways, everything still works fine. I'm just wondering if I need to modify a usb cable for safe use in host mode? Why? I'm no ******, but im definetly no hardware person or enthusiast. I just want to read my usb thumb drives.

I just tried it again, with the mini usb from my camera, and my normal thumb drive that's always worked and copied a bunch of files. No smell, no problem. Is there anything wrong with what im doing?