Thread: Other Half Feasibility
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2013-12-07 , 15:04
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Originally Posted by Larswad View Post
2. Since connection above take away the USB port on the phone, then provide a new USB port on TOH itself to become that regular USB-port that you connect to say computer or whatever.
Doing this is possible, but it would requiere a USB-Hub chip in the other half, to provide 2 ports : one for connecting to the other half device, and the second one to recover the phone port.
However, doing so, I think the phone can only be in host mode, not in device (so you couldn't connect it to a PC). Not sure about this, this as to be checked.

Originally Posted by Larswad View Post
Power-issues, to let the jolla power both ports, I haven't though of. But I guess other half also could provide some of the extra juice needed for the additional USB port by a power source itself.
It has to be done carefully, but should be possible. It depends on how the internal power system is done in the Jolla (not info on this yet), and what you want to do through this port: charging the phone, powering an external device, ...