I have a USB Connector for my Galaxy Tab on the way and I just wondered if it would allow me to connect an external hard drive (powered from the USB port, no external power) to my tab?
I know that pen drives work, but just wondered what the experience with hard drives were?
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Stewart
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Nope. The Acer I had would power my external hard drive, but the Galaxy Tab will not.
The hard drive has to supply it's own power.
I ended up getting a new thumb drive with more storage space, along with cloud storage.
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cdf3 said:
Nope. The Acer I had would power my external hard drive, but the Galaxy Tab will not.
The hard drive has to supply it's own power.
I ended up getting a new thumb drive with more storage space, along with cloud storage.
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What we you using as cloud storage? Dropbox?
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Can you do some weird stuff using a powered usb hub?
StuMcBill said:
What we you using as cloud storage? Dropbox?
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Yes, I'm using DropBox.
I have the 50 GB plan so that I can have access to all of my files that are synced to my PC.
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Can you do some weird stuff using a powered usb hub?
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Yes. Powered hubs let you connect any FAT32 drive, and you can connect NTFS drives if you are running a custom kernel like pershoot's and have the additional modules installed.
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Yes. Powered hubs let you connect any FAT32 drive, and you can connect NTFS drives if you are running a custom kernel like pershoot's and have the additional modules installed.
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I am running pershoots kernel, how would I go about installing the NTFS module?
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I hear that honeycomb and ics support this function. So has anyone tried this out or does this version of ics have this functionality? I'm wondering if this device can read and explore external mass storage devices such as usb thumb drives or memory card readers and such. Would definitely be a deal breaker for me when I'm due for an upgrade.
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Searching these forums would give you the answer
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yes, and you need a proper correct usb-OTG cable.
not all cable works.
Works great on bigxie v. 5, using stickmount to mount my usb key. Haven't tried mouse etc, just wanted storage to work.
Just bought a usb otg cable but the results are a bit of a let down:
- The main purpose of using it to play nova using ps3 command worked flawlessly, but the experience with storage hasn't been the best.
- Some Kingston stick work at first try while another Kingston stick doesn't work at all and the 1T wd passport drive isn't recognized (even with ntfs software in the phone)
What do you think? Can it be from the cable? Is it possible that is a matter of power drainage?
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well, for harddrives, they NEED to be powered externally... if that helps.
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well, for harddrives, they NEED to be powered externally... if that helps.
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make sure that your sticks and drives are in FAT32 otherwise some procedure have to be made, google up how to do it.
Me too, was disappointed with the OTG and the ability to use Generic Game Controller as ordered to play Dead Trigger, luckily it was just a $2 cable...
Almost everything could be set but the 'button to move the player' which should be set to the left analogue control, this game can't do it.
The problem is that the hard drive is USB charged. Can I add extra juice to the usb otg by using a splitter and add a charger to it?
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The problem is that the hard drive is USB charged. Can I add extra juice to the usb otg by using a splitter and add a charger to it?
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you could try. do you have a powered USB hub? the S3 can't supply enough power to spin up a harddrive.
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Is anyone us a multi-port usb hub with their OTG cable?
I tried to use a normal otg cable that is micro USB to USB 2.0. It never detects the USB drive and I can't seem to mount the drive either. USB debugging is enabled in the developer settings. Any tips to get this to work?
Thanks!
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Mine works only when in recovery and after I mount it.
I haven't used a multiport
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Any chance that this will be fixed in the next nightlies? It seems like quite a few people have problem with USB OTG.
HTC one. CM 10.1
aspast said:
I tried to use a normal otg cable that is micro USB to USB 2.0. It never detects the USB drive and I can't seem to mount the drive either. USB debugging is enabled in the developer settings. Any tips to get this to work?
Thanks!
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I‛m using the original stock ROM HTC one....and usb OTG work fine without any hard setting, just mount usb storage when you use it...
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I'm all stock and all I do is just plug in the drive and it reads it and ready to use.
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I have one of those OTG cables from when I had another device that could use it, never considered trying it on my H1 with a thumb drive as external storage.
Can anyone confirm that the HTC ONE (M7) will charge via the OTG a cable while using SD function. If someone has successfully done that which cable was used.
Would like to use my SD while keeping the phone charged.
So I'm wondering if I can hook up my 2TB USB powered external HD to read music from the Nexus 7. Since there's no expandable slot for SD or mini SD, I want to be able to plug in my HD and have it read all my music.
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So I'm wondering if I can hook up my 2TB USB powered external HD to read music from the Nexus 7. Since there's no expandable slot for SD or mini SD, I want to be able to plug in my HD and have it read all my music.
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I remember there being a microsd USB stick made for androids a while back, if you have the cords for it might as well hook it up and see what happens, won't do any harm
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daigled said:
So I'm wondering if I can hook up my 2TB USB powered external HD to read music from the Nexus 7. Since there's no expandable slot for SD or mini SD, I want to be able to plug in my HD and have it read all my music.
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I had to use a powered USB hub to even get the device to recognize the drive. However I couldn't read anything. It may be because the drive is NTFS. Unfortunately all of my hard drives are formatted NTFS so I can't test for you.
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So I'm wondering if I can hook up my 2TB USB powered external HD to read music from the Nexus 7. Since there's no expandable slot for SD or mini SD, I want to be able to plug in my HD and have it read all my music.
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I haven't tested, but with a USB OTG cable I can get it to read a USB stick so I would guess a HD would be the same type of thing
My old N7 would be fine with my usb powered external WD HDD, with the otg cable, don't see why it wouldn't this time as otg is still supported
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So does it matter what USB otg adapter I get? And will still work without root? I won't root for a while'
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Use a powered USB hub and plug the drive into that. If the drive is NTFS use USB OTG Helper and then reboot. You should then be able to access the files on the drive.
I don't even need a hub, the otg powers my external hdd
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Anyone trying and getting external portable usb 3.0 based hard drive to work on N7 2013? Just wondering, mine won't do anything, no detection as in mounting.
My drive is WD passport 2tb silver.
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Not sure if the nexus 7 could power an HDD, its worth a shot I guess. Have you considered uploading your entire library to Google? I've done it it works great!
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Anyone trying and getting external portable usb 3.0 based hard drive to work on N7 2013? Just wondering, mine won't do anything, no detection as in mounting.
My drive is WD passport 2tb silver.
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As it's ntfs format, you'll need an app, like nexus media importer, to see the drive.
Has anyone tried to download and upload to an external HHD using a micro USB to usb ? Any type any size
I use my other cable with my 16 gig flash drive. I'm sure it will work with any size as long as it's fat 32.
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I use my other cable with my 16 gig flash drive. I'm sure it will work with any size as long as it's fat 32.
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That's what I heard from reviews
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if we can get root then we should be able to mount ntfs drives with paragon. i hooked up my portable hd and it spun up and recognized it but said it was an unsupported format. i haven't tried exfat.
External hdd
Hi.
Has anyone tried external hard drives, do you recognize?
Thank you!
OK so I got a micro USB to USB female and plugged in my 3gig external HD and it read as unsupported I the reformatted the drive to fat and it works well the only problem is you can't play back on your TV so now the question is how to get NTSF on my tablet?