Help Sync ipod using galaxy s directly?

[jdizzler]

I hardly ever use my computer now i've got my galaxy s and download all my music directly onto my phone so was wondering if i could sync my ipod directly with my phone?
could i use a female to female usb to just connect the two stock cables? and would the ipod pop up on my phone as an external memory i could drop stuff into? maybe an app that does the job?
thanks in advance, JD

 

[snapper.fishes]

Nope. It won't work.

 

[jdizzler]

Nope. It won't work.

thanks for the blunt reply, just wondering why it wont work?

 

[snapper.fishes]

For the moment the Galaxy S can't read anything through USB. There's a group of people at XDA who are trying to figure out how to make it work so that they can expand the memory by plugging a portable HDD into the Galaxy S, but so far no luck.

 

[PSkeptic]

For the moment the Galaxy S can't read anything through USB. There's a group of people at XDA who are trying to figure out how to make it work so that they can expand the memory by plugging a portable HDD into the Galaxy S, but so far no luck.

Ugh... I don't think it will ever work (But good luck to them), as I think the USB chipset is all wrong to be used in host mode. It's a device chipset, not a host chipset AFAIK.

Which, interestingly, is the reason why the iPod <--> Galaxy wouldn't work. Two devices trying to talk to each other with no host.

 

[snapper.fishes]

Actually the chipset has the capability, it's the software we need.

 

[PSkeptic]

Actually the chipset has the capability, it's the software we need.

Really? That's the craziest thing I've ever heard of really, to put a host bridge in a device. I guess it's not outside the realm of possibility though, since it's a small computer...

 

[snapper.fishes]

Really? That's the craziest thing I've ever heard of really, to put a host bridge in a device. I guess it's not outside the realm of possibility though, since it's a small computer...

That's what I thought when I first read the post, but they actually pulled out the chipset configuration to show that the potential is there. The Nexus S developers are also doing the same thing at the moment, but without much success.

 

[jdizzler]

ok so by the sounds of it you cant currently do it!

another angle you could attack it from would be is it possible to directly sync your ipod with an sd card? if so you could save music on your phone onto sd then from the sd onto ipod?

I see there is an sd to ipod adaptor but it looks like its directed at picures rather than music?

perhaps somone could enlighten me on this? cheers, JD

 

[mikedt]

That's what I thought when I first read the post, but they actually pulled out the chipset configuration to show that the potential is there. The Nexus S developers are also doing the same thing at the moment, but without much success.

Maybe the chip has the capabilities. Perhaps it's just not enabled in hardware, like the necessary connections and/or components are missing, e.g. a physical pin on the chip which decides if the USB controller is 'host' or 'slave'. PCs are 'host' and no need to be 'slave' at all, phones, cameras, etc, are 'slave' and normally have no need to be configured otherwise. No software can ever fix that.

One can get leads which can connect two 'host' devices together like PCs for networking and data transfers, but that wont help of course with connecting 'slave' devices together like phones and MP3 players.

Also the fact is that 'host' USB devices provide power, and normally 'slave' USB devices consume power and sometimes charge batteries from a 'host' USB devices. My thinking is it probably is a difference in hardware here.