An update on this issue…
After trying everything, including factory reset my Samsung S24 Ultra, I could not get it to work with the digirig lite. Yesterday, I bought a cheap Samsung A7 tablet for $100. It works perfectly! I also like the larger screen and I don’t have to bring my expensive S9 tablet with me anymore!
Hope this saves someone a bunch of time!
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Dave (KO4FRZ)
Thank you for the update. I successfully tested these with $60 Fire Tablets.
I will keep researching the issue with select Samsung devices.
I picked this USB-C Hub up at the nearest Best Buy since they had it in stock. It is a bit big but was the only one in stock. Here is a picture of it.
Pixel 8 pro here as well with issues. Have any of the usb hub combinations allowed the digirig lite to show up as another sound source?
Adding a hub in between allows it to work, but its also screaming full volume over the phones speaker at the same time.
Fyi Android 15 is coming today/tomorrow
Audio people hope that it contains fixes for USB DAC’s like digirig lite
Edit:
It doesn’t work with android 15 either, but I im at least getting it to not squawk through the phone while sending a APRS. All audio is going though the digirig now. Still requires a USB hub in-between the phone and the digirig, but I think this is the audio experience everyone has right? notifications and everything go through?
So for whatever reason we need a USB hub in-between. Has anyone found a nifty solution? Powering the phone at the same time would be best or things will have a time limit.
Also I can confirm it’s the phones issue…I can plug the digirig lite into a old chrome book (of all things) with no issue. Granted the chrome book likely has a internal USB hub.
Pixel 9 pro xl same issue on android 14 and 15. Does not show up as an audio device…can see a connected USB device and phone says it is sending power. DigiRig Lite has just a green light.
Works no problem on my old Pixel 7 pro.
crazy…this is a CM108 DAC and that seems to be a very common chip. Furthermore every generic USB hub seems to be able to negotiate with it so we aren’t asking for anything exotic or cutting edge. We may be asking for something a little old fashion, but certainly not that rare.
Silver lining and it might ring true for most. I don’t have any use for digirig on any android device if I cant charge at the same time, so there was always going to be a hub in between just for PD charging.
I can confirm this is also an issue with the Pixel 8a - it simply doesn’t recognize the Lite. However, plugging in the Digirig Lite via an Anker USB-C hub I had lying around fixes the issue just like others have reported. I was able to connect to a Winlink gateway using WoAD no problem.
It seems from looking online that Pixels are uniquely bad when it comes to external DAC support. There are many, many issues filed by the hifi community relating to external DACs with Pixels since at least the 6 series.
One more data point: it seems to work fine on an old Pixel 6a so it looks like Google broke something between then and now! It also works flawlessly on a junky old Amazon Fire tablet that I gave to my kids 
Just got my pixel 9 after my pixel 5a tanked on me. I’m having a similar issue. I get a green light on the digirig showing that it has power, but that’s all I get. When I go to usb preferences, the device states that it can’t switch. I do see the lights on the device turn off, then both red and green flicker on for a moment before we hit persistent green status.
I was mostly using it for winlink. When I try to choose the audio device, this option simply isn’t there.
I tried usb debugging, developer mode (always midi), and an anker usbc hub to bypass the issue and had zero luck. My next steps are to get with my local ham group and make sure that it’s not the digirig by swapping with some other members and see if mine works on their hardware.
I’ll also try a standard digirig because why not at this point.
Has anyone reached out to Android about this issue? Is it a handshake problem? Is there an internal android driver issue? Do I need to root this phone to side load a driver?
Has google been kind enough to offer a solution or are they ignoring the problem?
Yeah this is an on going issue with the Pixel phones. It is frustrating. I think I posted previously the hub I found that worked.
This is only an issue with the Digirig Lite. The Digirig Mobile works as expected on my Pixel 8 Pro. If you can get with your club and try someone’s Digirig Mobile that may be the way to go and the newer version is not much bigger than the Lite.
