Hey there, I have problems using OTG since I changed the rom to the offical lineageos (no matter which version). The FP2 doesn´t recognice any OTG devices… With the unoffical version I was able to connect it.
I`m happy for any hint…
Sorry, I have no such problem here, tested with
- this Fairphone 2 setup
- this USB OTG cable
- 2 USB sticks - 1x FAT32, 1x NTFS
- Edit: Logitech wireless mouse + keyboard combo
USB sticks get mounted and I can use the file browser on them.
NTFS is a positive surprise, back with Fairphone Open OS I used a Total Commander plugin by Paragon for this. Seems I no longer need that.
Edit: Mouse and keyboard work immediately after plugging their receiver into the USB OTG cable.
Thanks for the fast answer… is there any way to find out why it doesn`t work?
Hmmm … I didn’t do anything to make it work, it just works.
Does your cable support USB OTG use?
What kind of device do you want to connect via USB OTG? A wireless mouse + keyboard combo works for me, too.
And you can immerse yourself in Google and Youtube tutorials suggesting and doing a lot of things, as one would expect if one mess (Android) meets another mess (USB) 
…
Edit: I found this here with several methods given to make it work … one of them involves Open GApps. I use Open GApps pico. Could that be the key?
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These diagnostics are dependent on what you actually connect to the phone.
When I connect my wireless mouse and keyboard dongle, nothing happens (although mouse and keyboard work).
When I connect my NTFS stick, however …
The thing is with the unoffical version I was able to detect and use an Atmega32U4 as an HID-device to control my phone and now I`m not…
I´m not even able to flash the normal fairphone os … I wipe everything and want to flash the original rom and twrp says the zipfile is damaged… Don´t know what to do…
My first guess is, you downloaded the file again to make sure it isn’t really damaged.
My second guess is, you are using the wrong file.
To install the current Fairphone OS in TWRP, you need the OTA files from here (note that you currently need to install version 1.13.0 first and then install the update from 1.13.0 to the current version) …
If you got the file from the “Manually install Fairphone OS” page instead, it will not work with TWRP. To install it manually means to follow the steps on that page (basically you boot your phone into fastboot mode and then start a script on your PC which uses fastboot to flash the OS to the phone) …
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Hi,
is this true? So it maybe won’t work with the new screens for devices sold since summer? Or can you workaround from adb on your desktop?
I don’t know, I don’t use Fairphone OS.
I just looked at the page and noticed that 1.13.0 is the newest version they offer a complete OTA install file for, everything else are just update files from 1.13.0 to newer versions or from already installed newer versions to newerer versions.
As I see it, it wouldn’t have to … You don’t boot 1.13.0, you stay in TWRP and install the update file from 1.13.0 to the current version over the installed 1.13.0, and then you have support for the new screen.
If in doubt, there’s still the manual installation via fastboot, there’s a complete current version install file for that.
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USB Host works for me on lineage. I didn’t test many devices, but USB stick e.g. works fine.
Chris
Please post logcat and dmesg after inserting your USB devices.
I changed my os to the normal fairphone os and now my hid-pcb seems to work just perfect again…
Could it be that the drivers for Atmega32U4 were not installed or whatever?
Thanks for your response!!
@Cherry97, are you sure you mean USB OTG? Because this suggests you use the USB back connector. This evening I tried many things for about an hour to get the USB back connector (5 pogo-pins) working. My final conclusion was that it would probably be LineageOS. I’m still using 20171016 (didn’t know it had gone official), but this probably didn’t change. Is there anything I could do to diagnose within LineageOS why it doesn’t work? Or perhaps there is a driver missing? Logcat & dmesg don’t seem to do anything when plugging in something into the attached USB port.
I will update to the latest LineageOS when I have more time BTW, and re-test.
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Yeah you are right I used the back connector 
but isn’t that also otg, I mean FP is in host mode to handle my device ?
FP2 is in host mode usually only with a special USB-OTG-Adapter.
Any news about a fixed lineageOS? Or any idea his we can get these things fixed?
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… so perhaps just the new modem files are needed? Should be coming soon I guess.
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but also with the special update the phone is sometimes crashing (with the PCB-attached) …
I think somehow the FP2 can´t handle the serial communication sometimes… or a task is crashing which is related to the serial communication …
Maybe it´s about baud-rate?
What I have noticed:
-> FP is not rebooting until serial communication has started
(PCB has voltage -> draws current)
-> FP is not rebooting if USB-cable is attached (connected PC)
-> on any OS version the FP didn´t reboot until I rebooted it once or the battery was low an it
rebooted
They came out today … updated my phone with it … everything works normal but the back-pcb is still not recognized …
As it is working with the 18.3.1-Update - is there a way easily to find the differences between that image and lineage-os? To get a point where to look?
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