Thread: dongles and power hubs

Hello, i read somewhere that if you have an external hard drive that plugs in directly without having to plug into an outlet, you need a usb power hub for it to work. I was just wondering if I plugged a usb power hub into my ps3 and plug, for example, a true blue dongle or cobra usb into the power hub, will it work? Has anyone tested this? Thanks

I have another question, will true blue dongle and cobra usb work at the same time?

dongles work fine thru usb hubs.

Thanks for the response, will true blue and cobra usb work at the same time?

Originally Posted by SladeShooter

Hello, i read somewhere that if you have an external hard drive that plugs in directly without having to plug into an outlet, you need a usb power hub for it to work.

This is not true

I have two external hdd without their own power source and never had any problems with either of them

However I do not think you can operate cobra and tb at the same time, I'm pretty sure each of them require their own fw (or rebug 3.55.2 4 for tb).

The two dongles, unfortunately, was tested to see if this very situation would work. Sadly they don't as each needs their specific CFWs to get to their own feature set. Then again it's not exactly that big of a deal to swap firmwares as needed. Just keep both firmwares on a USB stick and install the one you're about to use as needed. It takes maybe a few minutes MAX to do this, and you don't need to swap firmwares for most games anyway.

Going off what dcjoedog has said. Here goes a useful option if you QA flagged your system.
Just turn on Debug System Update in the Debug Settings. Now you can copy multiple firmwares on the HDD through System Update.
After their copied Update via Hard Disk will now highlight. This way you can shoot to and from different firmwares right at the XMB.

Originally Posted by MOST Hated

Going off what dcjoedog has said. Here goes a useful option if you QA flagged your system.
Just turn on Debug System Update in the Debug Settings. Now you can copy multiple firmwares on the HDD through System Update.
After their copied Update via Hard Disk will now highlight. This way you can shoot to and from different firmwares right at the XMB.

So that's what that does. I always wondered about that.