[Q] Conect a 1 Terabyte hard drive through OTG cable. - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

I'm having problems getting my terabyte hard drive connected to my phone with my home made otg cable.
It works just fine with my 2 gig sandisk flash drive, and my USB mouse. So I know it's not the cable.
I'm on Ravers blackedition Rc6 ICS. Just wondering if there's a workaround.
Oh, and I can't get my x-box controller to regester with my emulators, is there an app for that.
Sent from my very own Galaxy.

You need more power to power that external drive. Flash drives do not require that much juice.

Sorry I had to retype the post a few times due to my connection timing out and left some key stuff out.
The terabyte drive is self powered with an AC plug.
When I plug it in it gets as far as telling me that its connected, then reboots my home screen. I go to access the drive and it says its empty.
I can hear the drive working so I guess its scanning media.
If I leave it plugged in it will freeze the phone. And I have to pull the battery or hold the power button. Then I can't access cell or SD card functions. But a few reboots brings it back.
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Probably formatted ntfs and the kernel is lacking proper support.

i have the same issue with my 1TB external harddrive. it also has the ac plugged into the wall then i hooked it up to my phone and it showed this...
also mine is formatted to NTFS.

it is probably only reading a fat partition on the external, as mentioned above if the drive is NTFS formatted, your phone probably wont read it.

This is irrelevant but I really don't see the need or the practicality of plugging in a massive (both storage and physical size) hard drive to a handheld device.

s10shane said:
i have the same issue with my 1TB external harddrive. it also has the ac plugged into the wall then i hooked it up to my phone and it showed this...
also mine is formatted to NTFS.
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Mine wont get that far, just freezes the phone.
iLeopard said:
This is irrelevant but I really don't see the need or the practicality of plugging in a massive (both storage and physical size) hard drive to a handheld device.
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All of my music and movies are on the hard drive. its easier to copy the files from drive to the phone, instead of mounting both to the computer and copying that way.
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mikeheartless said:
Mine wont get that far, just freezes the phone.
All of my music and movies are on the hard drive. its easier to copy the files from drive to the phone, instead of mounting both to the computer and copying that way.
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Ok I see, why not get a 64GB SD instead then? Save the trouble of having to plug in your phone to the hard drive all the time.

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[Q] Car Charger makes SD card unavailable

Hopefully someone can help... When I plug my Evo into my (off brand) car charger, it makes the SD Card unavailable (like it was plugged into a PC). At first, I thought it might be the charger, but my wife's EVO works fine. Any ideas???
Here are the things I have tried...
- Restarted the phone
- Moved all apps back from SD card to phone memory
- Disabled USB debugging
- Restarted phone again
Update...
When I unmount my SD card, plug in the charger, and then re-mount the card, it works. Pain in the rump though... and in case anyone was wondering, no my phone is not rooted or modified in any way. My wife's EVO works fine with the same charger.
Anyone have any ideas??? I would really like to be able to access my music while the charger is plugged in without having to unmount/re-mount.
Go into settings and change the default USB Connection action from USB Mass Storage to Charging. You must've changed that a while ago and forgotten about it.
Are you using DoubleTwist? It has a feature that automatically mounts the SD card to be used from a PC over the USB cable. For some reason it thinks a car charger is a PC.
This probably holds true for other programs that can auto mount SD to USB.
drmacinyasha said:
Go into settings and change the default USB Connection action from USB Mass Storage to Charging. You must've changed that a while ago and forgotten about it.
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Already thought of that... That wasn't it. Thanks for the help though.
afazel said:
Are you using DoubleTwist? It has a feature that automatically mounts the SD card to be used from a PC over the USB cable. For some reason it thinks a car charger is a PC.
This probably holds true for other programs that can auto mount SD to USB.
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DoubleTwist was it! I went into the settings and disabled that option. Thank you! This is why I love forums!
THANK YOU!
The same issue was driving me nuts.
DoubleTwist is great; but the xda forum is even better ...

phone to recognize external hard drive

I just recently purchased a contour roam POV camera. It has no screen to view videos or anything so basically u shoot vids and wait till u get home to see what u got. I want to plug the camera directly into my lgog and have it recognize it as a drive just as my laptop does when I plug it into it. I can then go to dcim/100media and see the videos. Is it even possible to do this? Or is there an app that would make the phone a USB host, so I can see the videos without a PC? Thanks for ideas or help.
bowhunt2005 said:
I just recently purchased a contour roam POV camera. It has no screen to view videos or anything so basically u shoot vids and wait till u get home to see what u got. I want to plug the camera directly into my lgog and have it recognize it as a drive just as my laptop does when I plug it into it. I can then go to dcim/100media and see the videos. Is it even possible to do this? Or is there an app that would make the phone a USB host, so I can see the videos without a PC? Thanks for ideas or help.
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You can't mount any external devices to this phone. I can mount flash drives and usb hard drives to my N7, but when LG was designing this phone, they left out the ability for the phone to power the mountable devices.
j4g3rb0mb3d said:
You can't mount any external devices to this phone. I can mount flash drives and usb hard drives to my N7, but when LG was designing this phone, they left out the ability for the phone to power the mountable devices.
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So is that a hardware issue then?

ion dk20 dock vs jelly bean

I was wondering if any of you have the same problem as me.
Just bought the dk20 ion dock and pluged my ion jelly bean to it and:
- first nothing happens wen pluging it in, if mouse and power cord connected it charges and cursor appears.
- doesnt autodetect dock
- hdmi (for me most important) does not work..
- pendrives and/or flashdrives are detected ok
so the dock is as for now a nice charger and that is about it!
let me know if any of you are having the same issues, and lets see if wll together we can do something about it.
I have had zero issues with mine. USB capability seems to be hit and miss. My cheap mouse and old Logitech keyboard work fine. I could not get a Logitech k400 to work though. As for getting hdmi to work make sure the cord is plugged in and tv on. Device screen should be off while plugging it in. Once in turn on, unlock, and it should show up. Then you can pull the notifications down and hit tv launcher. You can also set it with smart connect to auto launch.
zackspeed said:
I have had zero issues with mine. USB capability seems to be hit and miss. My cheap mouse and old Logitech keyboard work fine. I could not get a Logitech k400 to work though. As for getting hdmi to work make sure the cord is plugged in and tv on. Device screen should be off while plugging it in. Once in turn on, unlock, and it should show up. Then you can pull the notifications down and hit tv launcher. You can also set it with smart connect to auto launch.
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Are you using Jelly Bean on your Ion as me?
I have followed your steps and nothing, pluged the HDMI cable into the dock and turned the TV on with the HDMI 1 channel on, with phone screen off connected it (with only the HDMI cable plugged in) and nothing happens. If I use Smart Connect App, when choosing dock it does detect the dock, but the TV mode does absolutely nothing.
Im beggining to think it could be the HDMI port on my Dock that doesn't work properly, I did buy it on ebay.. so you never know!
Let me know what you think, the whole idea was using my Ion as an additional basic PC, but without hdmi it's not going to be to useful..
Yes I am running the Rogers jelly Bean. It is very easy to disturb the hdmi connection when you mess with the dock. I am using a hdmi to micro hdmi adapter. I plug my phone in then hit the power button and unlock it. It then recognizes and shows on the tv. If you pull down the notifications you have options for tv launcher and also hdmi settings.
One thing you can try is connect the hdmi to your device directly and see if it works.
zackspeed said:
Yes I am running the Rogers jelly Bean. It is very easy to disturb the hdmi connection when you mess with the dock. I am using a hdmi to micro hdmi adapter. I plug my phone in then hit the power button and unlock it. It then recognizes and shows on the tv. If you pull down the notifications you have options for tv launcher and also hdmi settings.
One thing you can try is connect the hdmi to your device directly and see if it works.
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I think it's the HDMI port on my dock then, because it just doesn't even notice the HDMI connection, I'm using the cable that came with the phone, I have a factory unlocked lt28h Ion that came with all the extras, hdmi micro to hdmi cable and smart tags..
I may try doing a downgrade to see if it works ok on the ICS, I have read it had less problems with that version of Android.
Once again thanks ever so much for your help and interested, ill keep the post updated just in case other people are having the same problem as me.
Pd: The HDMI port on my device works fine directly to TV, the only thing is I have to adjust the screen dimensions to 95% now I'm on Jelly Bean so the picture is ok on the TV.
Regards, judgefargo
Finally the new Dock arrived yesterday and guess what.. It works like a charm!!!
So in the end the problem was a faulty HDMI port, the seller was kind enough to send a new one for free.
Thank you all for your help, as compensation ill leave a few discoveries I have made so you can use your ion as a spare PC.
For ROOTED devices i strongly recommend Screen Standby App, that lets you turn the screen of whilst the phone is docket and uses 1/3 of the battery, as well as not bothering you whilst watching a film or other tasks.. it has many other functions to.
Another great app is Paragon, which lets you connect external usb and hard drives in any format, specially NTFS, please note that for usb and hard drives to work the power cord has to be connected, due to the drain of power, as device warns.
That's it for now, hope this info is useful for other Dock owners and users!
Awesome I will try this out. Glad you got a good dock to work with. If you come up with other interesting stuff let us know.
judgefargo said:
Finally the new Dock arrived yesterday and guess what.. It works like a charm!!!
So in the end the problem was a faulty HDMI port, the seller was kind enough to send a new one for free.
Thank you all for your help, as compensation ill leave a few discoveries I have made so you can use your ion as a spare PC.
For ROOTED devices i strongly recommend Screen Standby App, that lets you turn the screen of whilst the phone is docket and uses 1/3 of the battery, as well as not bothering you whilst watching a film or other tasks.. it has many other functions to.
Another great app is Paragon, which lets you connect external usb and hard drives in any format, specially NTFS, please note that for usb and hard drives to work the power cord has to be connected, due to the drain of power, as device warns.
That's it for now, hope this info is useful for other Dock owners and users!
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I also got the Sony Xperia ion SmartDock DK20,no problem here connecting to tv while charging and connect mouse and keyboard...well,it can connect with an external hard disk?I didn't know that
Can give me more deep tutorial?My External HDD is WD version
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UchihaDareNial said:
I also got the Sony Xperia ion SmartDock DK20,no problem here connecting to tv while charging and connect mouse and keyboard...well,it can connect with an external hard disk?I didn't know that
Can give me more deep tutorial?My External HDD is WD version
Sent from my LT28h using xda premium
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I have not tried a drive yet but it will work. Think it has to be formatted in fat and not ntfs.
zackspeed said:
I have not tried a drive yet but it will work. Think it has to be formatted in fat and not ntfs.
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Any different between fat and ntfs?
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UchihaDareNial said:
Any different between fat and ntfs?
XDAプレミアムを使用 して私のLT28hから送ら れてきた
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NTFS is standard format for Windows and for it to work in Android it needs to be fat32 format. Don't think there is much of a difference other than just the type of format. So you would right click your drive you want to use and format it as fat32. Then put what you want to on it and plug it into the dock. The phone should be able to see it at that point but you will need a file browser to access the drive. I will try it in a bit to confirm it works but from what I have read on the Z forum it should work fine.
zackspeed said:
NTFS is standard format for Windows and for it to work in Android it needs to be fat32 format. Don't think there is much of a difference other than just the type of format. So you would right click your drive you want to use and format it as fat32. Then put what you want to on it and plug it into the dock. The phone should be able to see it at that point but you will need a file browser to access the drive. I will try it in a bit to confirm it works but from what I have read on the Z forum it should work fine.
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Can I change the format without literally format my ext HDD?
XDAプレミアムを使 用して私のSK17iのか ら送られてきた
No. You will have to backup or move what is on the drive and do a format. Formatting wipes the drive and no way around that I know of.
The problem is Android is not programmed to read NTFS format which is a windows format.
But if you install PARAGON app it makes the OS able to read NTFS drives without having to format your hard drive to fat32.
I also have a WD 500GB Hard Drive and faced the same problem, there is other programs but paragon seems to be the one that works best.
Hope that helps, regards and good fortune!

OTG / Stickmount sleep mode question.

I have been using an OTG cable (which was not specifically purchased for the N7 - I had one from another device) and Stickmount to mount an SD card reader w/ SD card loaded with videos to view. This, generally, has been working fine, but yesterday I encountered a situation where, while trying to watch something, I was continually interrupted for several minutes at a time. Of course the N7 went into sleep. When I woke it up, I noticed that the SD reader (which has a power./activity light on it) did not get repowered. To restore it I had to unmount it, pull the OTG cable, then reconnect it.
While not THAT big of a hassle, since I was continually getting interrupted yesterday, I was wondering if this is normal behavior for N7/OTG/Stickmout.
Ok, this is a bit strange. I replaced all the hardware components (excepting the N7 itself, of course) -- new OTG cable, new portable SDHX/SDHX Micro reader and the card and it is doing the same thing. The reader has a power light on it, that remains on when it is in use. When the N7 times out (I have it set for 2 minutes), the light on the reader extinguishes as well. When I wake up the N7, the power light on the reader does NOT come back on. Stickmount reports it is still mounted and I can traverse the tree to get to it with a file manager. However, when I try to access anything on the card, it errors out.
I repeated the test with a standard USB drive (a rather small one that would not do for what I am trying to accomplish -- media storage/play to save on space on the internal "SD" card). When the N7 timed out, the light on this unit remained on. I was able to wake the unit and continue on accessing the flash drive without issue.
What the heck is the difference between a portable reader with an SD card in it and a flash drive. And, is there anyway to get the reader to behave like the flash drive.
If anyone has any insights into this, I would appreciate it!
PJ Clifford said:
Ok, this is a bit strange. I replaced all the hardware components (excepting the N7 itself, of course) -- new OTG cable, new portable SDHX/SDHX Micro reader and the card and it is doing the same thing. The reader has a power light on it, that remains on when it is in use. When the N7 times out (I have it set for 2 minutes), the light on the reader extinguishes as well. When I wake up the N7, the power light on the reader does NOT come back on. Stickmount reports it is still mounted and I can traverse the tree to get to it with a file manager. However, when I try to access anything on the card, it errors out.
I repeated the test with a standard USB drive (a rather small one that would not do for what I am trying to accomplish -- media storage/play to save on space on the internal "SD" card). When the N7 timed out, the light on this unit remained on. I was able to wake the unit and continue on accessing the flash drive without issue.
What the heck is the difference between a portable reader with an SD card in it and a flash drive. And, is there anyway to get the reader to behave like the flash drive.
If anyone has any insights into this, I would appreciate it!
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At the point where the light does not come on, I would test removing and replacing the media in the reader. Curious if it then works.
Bob Smith42 said:
At the point where the light does not come on, I would test removing and replacing the media in the reader. Curious if it then works.
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Nope, light doesn't come on, card is not readable. Thanks for the suggestion, though...
PJ Clifford said:
Nope, light doesn't come on, card is not readable. Thanks for the suggestion, though...
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Interesting. This sounds like the software loading the drivers for the reader are not working. Each version (over the years) of Linux has different ways to mount USB. I am not sure which method Android uses, so I am not much help. Probably someone on XDA knows the details if they will contribute. Or, you might get support from one of the popular Android OTG media sharing app makers to help explain it.
Have you tried a powered (and/or) non powered USB hub in the middle? Curious if your results would be the same.
Unfortunately I don't have one. I NEED to get one, but not yet.
Yea, I noticed the same problem when I was using android vlc to play videos from OTG mounted stick. If I paused and went away for a while, it couldn't resume when I came back. MXPlayer works better, but only because you can start playing the same video again and it will ask if it should resume where it left off, so at least there is a way to get back to where you were after remounting the stick.
If I copy the video file to the local /sdcard storage, none of these problem with sleep crop up, so it is definitely OTG that goes funny in the head.

3G/USB dead

Hi all,
I purchased an Eonon ga2114, installed it, everything except the weather widget (witch will be soleved) worked fine until I've plugged a 3g dongle.
No reaction of the unit after plugging, tried with USB memory stick - no, the same, not visible in the explorer.
The cable is properly inserted in its place on the back. Is there any way to check whether it's a software of hardware issue?
Every advice how to proceed will be greatly appreciated, since I can't connect the unit to Internet.
Thank you in advance.
Memory sticks must be formatted FAT32 or exFAT.
3G USB modem compatibility is limited to some models only.
Ridgebackmrak said:
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Every advice how to proceed will be greatly appreciated, since I can't connect the unit to Internet.
Thank you in advance.
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Are the USB ports getting power? try with a thumb drive that lights up when it gets power to check.
3g can be a challenge but that shouldn't have any effect on thumb drives.
Also try the front USB if you have one
pants001 said:
Are the USB ports getting power? try with a thumb drive that lights up when it gets power to check.
3g can be a challenge but that shouldn't have any effect on thumb drives.
Also try the front USB if you have one
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Hi pants,
I followed your advice - no power, I assume. The dongle is blinking when plugged in the front USB port, the stick is read.
Thanks to all.
pants001 said:
Are the USB ports getting power? try with a thumb drive that lights up when it gets power to check.
3g can be a challenge but that shouldn't have any effect on thumb drives.
Also try the front USB if you have one
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Solved! Thank you all.
New challenge appeared - mounting the 3g modem

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