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?
Bus-powered USB hubs draw electricity from the incoming USB connector and output up to 100 mA per port (that's milliamps, a measure of electrical current). Self-powered hubs draw their own power or, in the case of the root hub in your PC, get it from the PC. They provide up to 500 mA per port. Keyboards, mice, and other low-power USB devices use 25 mA to 40 mA and run well on a 100-mA port of a bus-powered hub. More-demanding devices need to use a self-powered hub.