950Xl and OTG

[hardywang]

According to The Lumia 950 and USB OTG: Thumb drives, microphones and keyboards | Windows Central and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkgh-GMoraY the phone should support OTG out of the box.

I bought a "USB 3.1 Type C to USB 3.0 Type A Male-to-Female OTG Data Connector Cable" from eBay. I plugged the cable to my phone, a USB stick to the other end of the cable, but nothing happened at all. I cannot see a new drive from File Explorer. I confirm the USB stick itself is good, since I can read it from my PC.

Is there some setting I need to turn on the OTG feature or the cable might be a defective one?

P.S
I can use display dock properly, phone also finds keyboard/mouse.

 

[ttsoldier]

According to The Lumia 950 and USB OTG: Thumb drives, microphones and keyboards | Windows Central and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkgh-GMoraY the phone should support OTG out of the box.

I bought a "USB 3.1 Type C to USB 3.0 Type A Male-to-Female OTG Data Connector Cable" from eBay. I plugged the cable to my phone, a USB stick to the other end of the cable, but nothing happened at all. I cannot see a new drive from File Explorer. I confirm the USB stick itself is good, since I can read it from my PC.

Is there some setting I need to turn on the OTG feature or the cable might be a defective one?

P.S
I can use display dock properly, phone also finds keyboard/mouse.

As far as I know, the phone is capable of OTG but it needs to be enabled via firmware/software update which Microsoft has not pushed out yet.

I could be wrong

 

[YC Neo]

OTG confirm supported. Working out-of-the-box since the very first version of the OS & firmware, direct Type-C flash drive or via a Type-C to Type A female converter.

 

[xandros9]

I would suspect the cable since its the only different factor when OTG fails.

Check to see if plugging the USB into the display dork works.

 

[daimv]

What file format is your USB memory stick using?
For example, do you have a Mac? I say this because there is a possibility that your USB stick is formatted in Apple's file system which Windows can't read natively. In PC you can enable it via 3rd party software, but I don't know if this can be done on mobile.
If this is the case, you'd need to format your USB stick to exFAT, NTFS, or FAT32. (I suggest exFAT)

 

[hardywang]

What file format is your USB memory stick using?
For example, do you have a Mac? I say this because there is a possibility that your USB stick is formatted in Apple's file system which Windows can't read natively. In PC you can enable it via 3rd party software, but I don't know if this can be done on mobile.
If this is the case, you'd need to format your USB stick to exFAT, NTFS, or FAT32. (I suggest exFAT)

I ddon't have Mac, the USB stick was formatted to FAT32. I will do as suggested to plug it into my e display dock first.

 

[JW888]

Just plug and play........music, picture and video

 

[realwarder]

Probably the cable.

 

[Danobe]

Yes, I agree, it's most likely the cable.
USB OTG works splendidly on my 950 - I use it every day. I also have the Victsing adaptor and a couple of other cables. I also have one of those dual usb sticks (the one with type C in one end, and type A in the other), I connect normal flash drives and harddisks at least a few times a week, and it all works as it's supposed to.

I haven't tried connecting non-storage things as of yet (mice, keyboards, etc.).

 

[farhanaxiq]

if you have display dock, you can also use it as otg when it's not connected to a screen but it required power

 

[Danobe]

I didn't know that, and I have that dock. Splendid solution if everything else fails for me at some point.

 

[hardywang]

if you have display dock, you can also use it as otg when it's not connected to a screen but it required power

I connected the USB drive to my display dock, it works fine. I have contacted the seller on eBay.