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harddrive expandsion

Nope, the hero (and every other phone with a USB connection) is a USB slave/peripheral device, same as the external hard drive itself - as opposed to a PC which is a host/controller.
 
For all intensive purposes, no, it's not possible.

But...If you were to write a custom driver for the Android platform and use an exturnal hard drive with its own power source, yes, it could be possible. It would take a lot of work and a lot of techinical know-how though.
 
quantumrand said:
But...If you were to write a custom driver for the Android platform and use an exturnal hard drive with its own power source, yes, it could be possible. It would take a lot of work and a lot of techinical know-how though.
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Not sure even that's possible - IIRC the hardware is different at each end. Been a while though, I may be mistaken.
 
daveybaby said:
Not sure even that's possible - IIRC the hardware is different at each end. Been a while though, I may be mistaken.
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Theoretically, you could write a driver that would allow it to use it's little connector down there as a USB host port, but like I said, it would take a lot of know how, and probably spec sheets and pin-layouts that only HTC devs will have.
 
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