usb on the go - Is OTG support on a phone is a Hardware dependent feature

I will be buying a Xolo Q800 -X-Edition Phone that has a MediaTEK MT6589 chipset. Searching on all forum sites, i found that this phone does not support OTG.

So i want to ask that does OTG availability depends upon the hardware or the chipset on the phone ?

Or it can be enabled in any phone via rooting and some under the hood tweaking.

Thanks in advance

Answer

Yes, USB OTG requires capable hardware, software on which it's enabled and the right drivers.

For example, the Nexus-Series of Google don't allow USB OTG from software-side. However, if you're rooted (and the hardware would support it) it's an easy way to enable it.

Chainfire made an application which enables/disables USB OTG.

This only works, if your hardware would support USB

You can find it on Google Play