How do i use a usb otg cable with a flash drive to listen to music or watch movies? Can you do this?
OTG storage was confirmed to work on another thread. I haven't tested it out with my cable, but you may need Stickmount or similar (if so, you will need root). You will also need a third party player to play other media.
Another possibility is to create a "file bridge" or similar to make the stock player see the media on the external storage. This was a little difficult to do at first on 4.2 with the introduction of multi-user, but someone may have found a way around it. Something to research.
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Root your device and download rootmount by chainfire. Works flawlessly.
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Awesome thanks that works great!
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so no external power is needed??? And My cheap lexar 16gb flash stick will work with an otg cable. Or is a Y-cable need with external power like my N4?
I realize an app and root are needed.
Cuzz1369 said:
so no external power is needed??? And My cheap lexar 16gb flash stick will work with an otg cable. Or is a Y-cable need with external power like my N4?
I realize an app and root are needed.
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A regular USB flash drive should need no additional power, I have yet to find one that can't be used with the OTG cable due to power requirements.
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Cuzz1369 said:
so no external power is needed??? And My cheap lexar 16gb flash stick will work with an otg cable. Or is a Y-cable need with external power like my N4?
I realize an app and root are needed.
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I used a OTG and the app Nexus Media Importer and it works perfect.
slyr114 said:
How do i use a usb otg cable with a flash drive to listen to music or watch movies? Can you do this?
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Hi:
I've been using Nexus Media Importer on my stock, non-rooted, Nexus 7 2012 for almost a year. It also works flawlessly on my stock, non-rooted, Nexus 7 2013. I wish people would STOP saying OTG use requires root.
Tom
thenrik said:
Hi:
I've been using Nexus Media Importer on my stock, non-rooted, Nexus 7 2012 for almost a year. It also works flawlessly on my stock, non-rooted, Nexus 7 2013. I wish people would STOP saying OTG use requires root.
Tom
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Well, I tried Nexus Media Importer without root and it didn't work for me. If you follow NMI troubleshooting links you will find that the author has found that it is very problematic with Android 4.3. He claims he has found a macarena-like workaround but I couldn't get it to work for me.
I will try rooting and stickmount tonight.
Cuzz1369 said:
so no external power is needed??? And My cheap lexar 16gb flash stick will work with an otg cable. Or is a Y-cable need with external power like my N4?
I realize an app and root are needed.
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I use a 16 GB Lexar Echo flash drive with Chainfire's stickmount and a regular USB OTG cable and everything works okay with me.
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I'm using 32 GB USB drive to backup my twrp backup and movies...using chainfire
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Well, I tried Nexus Media Importer without root and it didn't work for me. If you follow NMI troubleshooting links you will find that the author has found that it is very problematic with Android 4.3. He claims he has found a macarena-like workaround but I couldn't get it to work for me.
I will try rooting and stickmount tonight.
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Hi:
I am sorry that you are having problems with Nexus Media Importer. The author did not say that NMI was very problematic with 4.3. He said that a few people were having random problems with 4.3. Aside from you, looking at reviews on the play store, there were no reviews that couldn't be straightened out with the work around. I support six other Nexus 7 owners and none of us ever had any problems nor had to use any work arounds on 4.22 nor 4.3. Again, you may have been one of the few with a problem but looking at play store reviews and the many, many reports on this forum with 4.3, Nexus Media Importer works with OTG on stock Nexus 7 tablets.
It streams and copies with NTFS and does the same and writes with Fat32. It does not support exfat.
I have an extensive section on Nexus Media Importer in my Nexus 7 guide:
http://goo.gl/iaOek
Hope that rooting works out for you.
Tom
thenrik said:
Hi:
I am sorry that you are having problems with Nexus Media Importer. The author did not say that NMI was very problematic with 4.3. He said that a few people were having random problems with 4.3. Aside from you, looking at reviews on the play store, there were no reviews that couldn't be straightened out with the work around. I support six other Nexus 7 owners and none of us ever had any problems nor had to use any work arounds on 4.22 nor 4.3. Again, you may have been one of the few with a problem but looking at play store reviews and the many, many reports on this forum with 4.3, Nexus Media Importer works with OTG on stock Nexus 7 tablets.
It streams and copies with NTFS and does the same and writes with Fat32. It does not support exfat.
I have an extensive section on Nexus Media Importer in my Nexus 7 guide:
http://goo.gl/iaOek
Hope that rooting works out for you.
Tom
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Apparently I am not the only one to have this difficulty. It's great that you have had a different experience, I wish mine was that way.
This issue was with the 2013 Nexus 7. I had no problems with the 2012 version. Based on your comments about version 4.2.2 (which the 2013 version never shipped with) I wonder if your experiences are based on 2012 hardware?
Here is a quote from the developer's site "It appears that the Android 4.3 update broke the USB Host on some Nexus 10 and Nexus 7 2nd gen. devices. In Nexus Media Importer and Nexus Photo Viewer, these appear in the Connect screen as "Protected". It does not appear to affect a particular model, but devices at random. The issue has been reported to Google via the link below:"
You can find this at: http://nexususb.blogspot.com/2013/07/android-4.html along with his workaround (which requires multiple reboots so I view the workaround as macarena-like, certainly not a straightforward method)
mmarquis said:
Apparently I am not the only one to have this difficulty. It's great that you have had a different experience, I wish mine was that way.
This issue was with the 2013 Nexus 7. I had no problems with the 2012 version. Based on your comments about version 4.2.2 (which the 2013 version never shipped with) I wonder if your experiences are based on 2012 hardware?
Here is a quote from the developer's site "It appears that the Android 4.3 update broke the USB Host on some Nexus 10 and Nexus 7 2nd gen. devices. In Nexus Media Importer and Nexus Photo Viewer, these appear in the Connect screen as "Protected". It does not appear to affect a particular model, but devices at random. The issue has been reported to Google via the link below:"
You can find this at: http://nexususb.blogspot.com/2013/07/android-4.html along with his workaround (which requires multiple reboots so I view the workaround as macarena-like, certainly not a straightforward method)
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Hi:
You are indeed not the only one having the problem but I still say the majority of users are not having any problems. Nonetheless, it's not very useful for me to say, "It works for me and not for you--nyah, nyah, nyah." So, let me say what works for me instead. All testing was done on a Nexus 7 2013, today. All flash drives were formatted with Fat32.
First of all, make sure you have write enabled in advanced preferences. If not, all flash drives will show up as Protected.
There are four variables, the OTG cable, adapters, the flash drive/sd card and the tablet.
We know that Asus production is uneven. As an owner of the TF101, 201, Nexus 7 2012 and Nexus 7 2013. I've been lucky to receive tablets without production defects but there are many folks who have been unlucky.
My OTG cables all come from the following vendor:
SANOXY Micro USB Host Mode OTG Cable $1.50
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005FUNYSA/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I use this Microsd Adaptor:
C2662 Black Micro SD SDHC TF USB card Reader Adapter Support 32GB Mini Hi-Speed $4.98
http://www.ebay.com/itm/C2662-Black...pter-Support-32GB-Mini-Hi-Speed-/200731336666
I use this flash drive as it's small and doesn't weigh down the OTG cable:
SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB Flash Drive (SDCZ33-032G-B35) $21.49
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00812F7O8/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have a couple of Sandisk 64gb Microsd Class 6 cards formatted to NTFS, not useful as they are no longer for sale.
I tested my friend's SanDisk Class 10 Ultra 64gb MicroSD XC I, formatted with great difficulty to Fat32. Sandisk Class 10 cards have a hidden partition, only come formatted with exfat, are difficult to format to fat32--designed incompatibility. I am done with Sandisk MicroSd cards. Instead I recommend
Kingston Digital 64GB MicroSDXC Class 10 Flash Card (SDCX10/64GB) $59.99
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-64GB-MicroSDXC-SDCX10/dp/B009X0G304/ref=sr_1_1
In addition to the above, I tested it with several SanDisk cruzer usb drives, 16 and 32, a four gig PNY flash drive and even an odd fish-shaped flash drive that my friend had trouble reading on some laptops.
All of the Microsd cards worked, the NTFS cards worked with copying streaming, not write. All of the flash drives worked with write. None showed up as protected.
I have an extensive section on Nexus Media Importer in my Nexus 7 guide:
http://goo.gl/iaOek
I have seen no difference between Nexus Media Importer on my Nexus 7 2012 or on my Nexus 7 2013.
That being said, it doesn't mean you aren't having problems. I can only report on what's working for me.
Best,
Tom Henriksen
thenrik said:
Hi:
You are indeed not the only one having the problem but I still say the majority of users are not having any problems. Nonetheless, it's not very useful for me to say, "It works for me and not for you--nyah, nyah, nyah." So, let me say what works for me instead. All testing was done on a Nexus 7 2013, today. All flash drives were formatted with Fat32.
First of all, make sure you have write enabled in advanced preferences. If not, all flash drives will show up as Protected.
There are four variables, the OTG cable, adapters, the flash drive/sd card and the tablet.
We know that Asus production is uneven. As an owner of the TF101, 201, Nexus 7 2012 and Nexus 7 2013. I've been lucky to receive tablets without production defects but there are many folks who have been unlucky.
My OTG cables all come from the following vendor:
SANOXY Micro USB Host Mode OTG Cable $1.50
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005FUNYSA/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I use this Microsd Adaptor:
C2662 Black Micro SD SDHC TF USB card Reader Adapter Support 32GB Mini Hi-Speed $4.98
http://www.ebay.com/itm/C2662-Black...pter-Support-32GB-Mini-Hi-Speed-/200731336666
I use this flash drive as it's small and doesn't weigh down the OTG cable:
SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB Flash Drive (SDCZ33-032G-B35) $21.49
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00812F7O8/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have a couple of Sandisk 64gb Microsd Class 6 cards formatted to NTFS, not useful as they are no longer for sale.
I tested my friend's SanDisk Class 10 Ultra 64gb MicroSD XC I, formatted with great difficulty to Fat32. Sandisk Class 10 cards have a hidden partition, only come formatted with exfat, are difficult to format to fat32--designed incompatibility. I am done with Sandisk MicroSd cards. Instead I recommend
Kingston Digital 64GB MicroSDXC Class 10 Flash Card (SDCX10/64GB) $59.99
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-64GB-MicroSDXC-SDCX10/dp/B009X0G304/ref=sr_1_1
In addition to the above, I tested it with several SanDisk cruzer usb drives, 16 and 32, a four gig PNY flash drive and even an odd fish-shaped flash drive that my friend had trouble reading on some laptops.
All of the Microsd cards worked, the NTFS cards worked with copying streaming, not write. All of the flash drives worked with write. None showed up as protected.
I have an extensive section on Nexus Media Importer in my Nexus 7 guide:
http://goo.gl/iaOek
I have seen no difference between Nexus Media Importer on my Nexus 7 2012 or on my Nexus 7 2013.
That being said, it doesn't mean you aren't having problems. I can only report on what's working for me.
Best,
Tom Henriksen
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Glad we are not engaging in a tit-for-a-tat exchange. The OTB cable I had worked with my 2012 N7. I will order the one you used and see if that is any different.
Mike
UPDATE: I ordered one but it looks just like the one I have.
I noticed one problem with stickmount and videos: Apparently something gets a little too sleepy when the tablet sleeps. I was using a nightly build of VLC, and paused the video playback for about 10 minutes, when I woke up the tablet and it tried to resume, it couldn't do it. I tried the same video and pause after copying the file to the /sdcard, and the resume from pause worked fine. Definitely an obscure case, but there was a difference with OTG.
mmarquis said:
Glad we are not engaging in a tit-for-a-tat exchange. The OTB cable I had worked with my 2012 N7. I will order the one you used and see if that is any different.
Mike
UPDATE: I ordered one but it looks just like the one I have.
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Hi:
The cables take a little while from Hong Kpng. If there's anything I can test for you in the meantime, quote me in a post or send me a pm and we can continue via email.
Best,
Tom
Thanks, Artood2s and blitzz3434 for this. I was unaware of Stickmount but it sure ended my floudering around trying to mount my book-loaded SD card.
I'm rooted using Otg helper and confirm my WD 1tb passport is working and can watch movies and listen to music
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shortyboy said:
I'm rooted using Otg helper and confirm my WD 1tb passport is working and can watch movies and listen to music
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Same, 1tb WD and otg helper
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I've been thinking abit during christmas and searching ebay after the ultimate product for theese new devices that has micro USB with OTG capabilities.
I wish for a small OTG cable with built in micro SD card reader. Now I use an OTG cable and a small reader which ofcourse gets a bit lumpy.
With todays micro SD card readers integrated into a USB shell it shoud be easy to make it as a msall unit that goeas straight into the micro usb port, eiterh as a mall dongle with all integrated or as a coonnector with up to 2 inches of cable.
Or has someone already made this and I ca't find it ?
Thats the set up I'm using. There is no 'integrated' version I can think of but I'm trying to strip mine down and integrate them into a case.
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A case with integrated microSD a great idea. Would be perfect for a GN, especially my GSM version haha.
Maybe Radio shack has some small case for projects and we can put the innards in a small form factor.
okay this isn't exactly what your looking for, but it's my setup and it works perfectly.
i'm using this cable. there are cheaper ones available but i wanted one that had comments saying it worked. (the cheaper one also goes the other direction.)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GGBYJ4/ref=oh_o01_s00_i00_details
and this reader:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HGFKR8/ref=oh_o02_s00_i00_details
with this setup i used a class 10 16GB patriot memory microsd and it worked perfectly and incredibly fast. also i played standard def WMV and AVI files with no issues, in addition to a 720p episode of transformers prime and a 1080p movie trailer with no lag at all.
i'm looking into buying a 32GB, but i'm sure it will work considering microSD cards to not require a lot of power.
I was hoping that the phone would read my 1TB hard drive, but unfortunately it doesn't, so this is now my backup.
I have the same otg and reader...
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Interesting. Pretty slick. This would be great for those that want extra files on the go.
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neok44 said:
okay this isn't exactly what your looking for, but it's my setup and it works perfectly.
i'm using this cable. there are cheaper ones available but i wanted one that had comments saying it worked. (the cheaper one also goes the other direction.)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GGBYJ4/ref=oh_o01_s00_i00_details
and this reader:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HGFKR8/ref=oh_o02_s00_i00_details
with this setup i used a class 10 16GB patriot memory microsd and it worked perfectly and incredibly fast. also i played standard def WMV and AVI files with no issues, in addition to a 720p episode of transformers prime and a 1080p movie trailer with no lag at all.
i'm looking into buying a 32GB, but i'm sure it will work considering microSD cards to not require a lot of power.
I was hoping that the phone would read my 1TB hard drive, but unfortunately it doesn't, so this is now my backup.
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does work on widows 7 and does it support 32gb hc sd???
It's not too big of a deal for me since mine is an adapter vs a cord.
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Kryptonian_Knight said:
does work on widows 7 and does it support 32gb hc sd???
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mine do
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Kryptonian_Knight said:
does work on widows 7 and does it support 32gb hc sd???
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works perfect on windows 7. just shows up like a flash drive would. as far as 32GB. can't say since my max card i own is a 16.
*edit* ah just saw the other post lol. Good to know a 32gig works. i'll be picking one up eventually now.
Do you think your sdcard reader draws less energy from the phone than a USB stick?
It's not handy for me using my old big USB stick and your solution seems better.
calubren said:
Do you think your sdcard reader draws less energy from the phone than a USB stick?
It's not handy for me using my old big USB stick and your solution seems better.
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That's a good question... never thought of that! My thought is its probably the same or more than a usb
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i can pretty much guarantee you that the microsd reader and card use less power than a USB stick.
i've confirmed a 16GB card, and another user has confirmed a 32GB card.
But in my flash drive tests, NOTHING over 8GB would work. i tried 3 different brand 16Gb and 2 different brand 32Gb and none worked. Additionally no portable hard drives worked either.
pretty much confirms that the cards use a lot less power than the flash drives.
neok44 said:
i can pretty much guarantee you that the microsd reader and card use less power than a USB stick.
i've confirmed a 16GB card, and another user has confirmed a 32GB card.
But in my flash drive tests, NOTHING over 8GB would work. i tried 3 different brand 16Gb and 2 different brand 32Gb and none worked. Additionally no portable hard drives worked either.
pretty much confirms that the cards use a lot less power than the flash drives.
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I suppose your right.. good deduction
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neok44 said:
i can pretty much guarantee you that the microsd reader and card use less power than a USB stick.
i've confirmed a 16GB card, and another user has confirmed a 32GB card.
But in my flash drive tests, NOTHING over 8GB would work. i tried 3 different brand 16Gb and 2 different brand 32Gb and none worked. Additionally no portable hard drives worked either.
pretty much confirms that the cards use a lot less power than the flash drives.
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What about formatting? If I recall correctly, the phone won't read anything that is NTFS formatted, as its not in the kernel.
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External hard drives require a startup power, that's why some of them have 2 USB connections. Even though they should only require one connection to work, depending on the computer you are connecting to, you may need to connect 2 USB ports to supply enough power for the hdd to spin up. After that it works fine.
I doubt the GN will ever supply the necessary power for an external HDD to work though. Best to stick to FAT32 flash drives and SD cards.
I have successfully connected a fat32 16Gb flash drive to my GN with a USB OTG adapter without any problems. Just make sure it's formatted as fat32 and not NTFS.
@esoomenona: i tried both fat32 and NTFS, on 16GB neither worked. my 32gb are all NTFS. did not know about the formatting kernel though. hope my kernel supports it since i plan on formatting my incoming 32gb microsd to ntfs.
@flakz0r: figured as much about the hard drives. my transformer can run it, so now it just needs to get ICS so it can play 720p videos without lag.
interesting that you got a fat32 16gb flash drive to work. guess the phone just doesn't like mine.
and since were on the subject of formatting, does anyone know any specific kernel that supports NTFS. i know stickmount just added support but it says you still need a kernel that supports it.
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What about formatting? If I recall correctly, the phone won't read anything that is NTFS formatted, as its not in the kernel.
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My micro SD cards came in FAT32 format and it works fine
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and since were on the subject of formatting, does anyone know any specific kernel that supports NTFS. i know stickmount just added support but it says you still need a kernel that supports it.
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You can bug the kernel developers to try to add it for you?
Is it possible to connect an external hard drive through an OTG cable?? If so would it have to be a hard drive that can be powered through 1 usb cable
Yes it's certainly possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9MSX10RZRE
Skip to 1:04 where he starts testing hard drives. First a USB powered 250GB model, and after that a 2TB disk with its own power supply. Both work.
Kiahnlliya said:
Yes it's certainly possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9MSX10RZRE
Skip to 1:04 where he starts testing hard drives. First a USB powered 250GB model, and after that a 2TB disk with its own power supply. Both work.
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Another option, which I have done with my Xoom2 tab, and which should work with the Note 2...is to use a main-powered USB hub, then you can connect as many USB devices as you like, all at the same time.
At one point I had a camera, keyboard, mouse, usb stick and external drive all connected and all working...I have used an SD card reader as well =]
Just plug in the hub through the OTG, then everything else in to the hub...job done!
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Is it possible to connect an external hard drive through an OTG cable?? If so would it have to be a hard drive that can be powered through 1 usb cable
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I've managed to successfully connect drives up to & including 64gb, but not higher (it claims 'external drive is corrupted' - but drive works fine in all PCs etc.). It may be dependent on the format of the external drive.
Ramsfan_Jim said:
I've managed to successfully connect drives up to & including 64gb, but not higher (it claims 'external drive is corrupted' - but drive works fine in all PCs etc.). It may be dependent on the format of the external drive.
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It does indeed...needs to be formatted in FAT32 I believe, I'm not sure if it will recognise NTFS.
I use Swissknife, it lets you format big drives e.g. 500GB in FAT32 =]
That should let you use it with the OTG cable.
It will recognise hard drives formatted to exfat, as long as they are independantly powered - no file size limitation.
It works with thumb drives, so I would assume also hdd: paragon ntfs. Free in the app store, requres root.
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Has anyone tried a 128 GB thumbdrive?
I am thinking about buying one in order to store movies and then share it between the Note 2 and a Nexus 10 (perhaps). Since I found Mizuu, it has been really interesting to carry a big movie library for travelling and access them through a nice interface.
E90 Commie said:
Has anyone tried a 128 GB thumbdrive?
I am thinking about buying one in order to store movies and then share it between the Note 2 and a Nexus 10 (perhaps). Since I found Mizuu, it has been really interesting to carry a big movie library for travelling and access them through a nice interface.
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Yeah, it works for me!
E90 Commie said:
Has anyone tried a 128 GB thumbdrive?
I am thinking about buying one in order to store movies and then share it between the Note 2 and a Nexus 10 (perhaps). Since I found Mizuu, it has been really interesting to carry a big movie library for travelling and access them through a nice interface.
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No problem with mine.
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E90 Commie said:
Has anyone tried a 128 GB thumbdrive?
I am thinking about buying one in order to store movies and then share it between the Note 2 and a Nexus 10 (perhaps). Since I found Mizuu, it has been really interesting to carry a big movie library for travelling and access them through a nice interface.
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Didn't work for me
Hey Guys,
I will buying the new Nexus 7 an i have little Question from new Nexus 7.
Can a new Nexus 7 OTG/USB-Host or it same Problem as Nexus 4 ?
Thank you
Greetz from Luxembourg
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You have to root it and use stickmount or buy nexus media importer.
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I have an issue with OTG on my new nexus 7, I plugged in a Microsoft wireless mouse nano transceiver, and the nexus thinks it's a keyboard as well, so it disables the on screen keyboard. What can be done to fix this?
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I've been scouring the internet looking for an answer about USB host mode on the 2013 Nexus 7 as well, and I can't find anything about it, other than one stray comment on the Google Play store saying that it does not. I'm still hoping that it will though. I ordered two of them at work, they will be here on Tuesday. I'll try a USB device on one of them first thing, and I will let you know.
If the 2013 Nexus 7 doesn't have host mode, I'll be sticking with a 2012 Nexus 7. That's a dealbreaker for me.
Nexus Media Importer is supposed to work. Otherwise rooting and using an app like Stickmount will give you full functionality.
Same situation with Gen1 Nexus 7.
Got my hands on one. An Apple USB keyboard and USB flash drive works, a USB mouse did not. By default it provides 8 mA, and the Apple keyboard drew 80 mA.
This should work. It's an MicroUSB OTG cable (It came with an Android Stick), and attached to it is one of the little USB MicroSD card readers that are often included when you buy the SD Card.
(The card is shown pulled out from the reader).
I cannot verify that it works, because I just got my N7(2013) tonight, and I have not yet rooted or installed Nexus Media Importer.
For right now, I stuck my old tablet's card in the Micro-reader, and stuck the micro reader in the USB port on my NAS, and I am pulling everything back down with ES File.
I'll try mounting OTG Storage - perhaps from the command line, once I get some time to play with this thing.
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I've been scouring the internet looking for an answer about USB host mode on the 2013 Nexus 7 as well, and I can't find anything about it, other than one stray comment on the Google Play store saying that it does not. I'm still hoping that it will though. I ordered two of them at work, they will be here on Tuesday. I'll try a USB device on one of them first thing, and I will let you know.
If the 2013 Nexus 7 doesn't have host mode, I'll be sticking with a 2012 Nexus 7. That's a dealbreaker for me.
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The review on engadget says it does support OTG.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/29/nexus-7-review-2013/
I have the new 2013 Nexus 7 and the only way I can get OTG to work is to start up the tablet w/ the OTG cable connected.
It's a bummer. Does anyone else have this issue?
sph042 said:
I have the new 2013 Nexus 7 and the only way I can get OTG to work is to start up the tablet w/ the OTG cable connected.
It's a bummer. Does anyone else have this issue?
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I bought Nexus Media Importer and it doesn't work for me either. There's a massage on their website about problems with certain devices under 4.3.
http://nexususb.blogspot.fr/2013/07/android-4.html
the app USB OTG Helper app in Play works fine on mine. My Nexus 7 FLO is rooted and unlocked.
as posted previously by another member, stickmount will also work too, and free from Gplay
Mine works really well with Stickmount. No needing to start the tablet with otg connected, etc. Just plug and play.
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Good to know that OTG works, as they still make these things with too little storage and no MicroSD. Thanks for the info.
Have had success on the stock ROM unrooted with Nexus Media importer. Was initially having some problems but it turned out to be a bad cable. Changed the cable and no problems.
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on rooted N7v2:
StickMounts does not work for me - it mounts but can't see any files
USB OTG Helper works...i used ES File Explorer to navigate to storage/usbotgdrives and then played SD x264 mp4 and 720p x264 5.1 mkv using MX Player
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.shajul.usbotg&hl=en
Has anybody successfully mounted a 64gb usb 3.0 drive? I have no problems with a SanDisk 32gb usb 3.0 drive but when I try a Silicon Power 64gb usb 3.0 drive it can't be found. I've tried Stickmount and USB OTG Helper and the LED indicator blinks and both programs start up automatically when I plug in the drive but it's not found. My USB OTG cable works for the Sandisk 32gb but not the Silicon Power 64gb.
Tryptonite said:
Has anybody successfully mounted a 64gb usb 3.0 drive? I have no problems with a SanDisk 32gb usb 3.0 drive but when I try a Silicon Power 64gb usb 3.0 drive it can't be found. I've tried Stickmount and USB OTG Helper and the LED indicator blinks and both programs start up automatically when I plug in the drive but it's not found. My USB OTG cable works for the Sandisk 32gb but not the Silicon Power 64gb.
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I've got the same issue with a lexar 64gb usb 3 drive. Smaller drives mount fine but this one appears blank when mounted via stickmount on my nexus 7 2013 edition.
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Tryptonite said:
Has anybody successfully mounted a 64gb usb 3.0 drive? I have no problems with a SanDisk 32gb usb 3.0 drive but when I try a Silicon Power 64gb usb 3.0 drive it can't be found. I've tried Stickmount and USB OTG Helper and the LED indicator blinks and both programs start up automatically when I plug in the drive but it's not found. My USB OTG cable works for the Sandisk 32gb but not the Silicon Power 64gb.
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ncotton said:
I've got the same issue with a lexar 64gb usb 3 drive. Smaller drives mount fine but this one appears blank when mounted via stickmount on my nexus 7 2013 edition.
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How's the drive formatted? I imagine here's a good chance a 64GB flash drive will be formatted with exFAT, which stock Android can't deal with.
(That said, I have a 64GB drive here which came formatted with FAT32... and no tablet to plug it into yet...)
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How's the drive formatted? I imagine here's a good chance a 64GB flash drive will be formatted with exFAT, which stock Android can't deal with.
(That said, I have a 64GB drive here which came formatted with FAT32... and no tablet to plug it into yet...)
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The 32gb that works and the 64gb that does not work are both formatted with NTFS. I can't use FAT32 because of the file size restrictions.
Why is Nexus 7 2013 not in the compatibility list of leef and pqi micro usb drives
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Why is Nexus 7 2013 not in the compatibility list of leef and pqi micro usb drives
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IIRC, a stock, out-of-the-box, N7 can not use any USB drives. It requires helper apps, like Stickmount, which usually require, at a minimum, rooting the device. My understanding is that Nexus Media Importer (available as a paid app in the Google Store) does not need root. I have not tried it personally, though.
Leaf and PQI dual drives
PJ Clifford said:
IIRC, a stock, out-of-the-box, N7 can not use any USB drives. It requires helper apps, like Stickmount, which usually require, at a minimum, rooting the device. My understanding is that Nexus Media Importer (available as a paid app in the Google Store) does not need root. I have not tried it personally, though.
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Thank you for the response.
I have taken a regular usb drive, connected with a micro usb OTG cable to the drive and used "Nexus Media Importer" and it works. My question is if I were to take one of these new Leaf or PQI drives which already have a micro usb connector and stick it into my Nexus and use the "Nexus Media Importer" will it also work? And if so why have Leaf and PQI not mentioned Nexus 7 2013 in there list?
It could be that they have not tested these drives against Nexus 7. So before I bought it I wanted to know if some one in this forum had already tested it and it had worked.
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Thank you for the response.
I have taken a regular usb drive, connected with a micro usb OTG cable to the drive and used "Nexus Media Importer" and it works. My question is if I were to take one of these new Leaf or PQI drives which already have a micro usb connector and stick it into my Nexus and use the "Nexus Media Importer" will it also work? And if so why have Leaf and PQI not mentioned Nexus 7 2013 in there list?
It could be that they have not tested these drives against Nexus 7. So before I bought it I wanted to know if some one in this forum had already tested it and it had worked.
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I suspect that it will work and they haven't tested them with the N7. That said, I've never used one so I can't be certain.
This is a pretty neat idea, and is compatible with the new Droid line. For $12 you get a coin-sized micro SD adapter that attaches to your key chain. Supports up to 64Gb micro SD cards.
I have 3 of these, I'm an original Kickstarter backer & love this little thing
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I got a pair of them, too. I use them mainly for movie storage for my Nexus 7. You can use a 64GB card, but you (usually) have to reformat it as FAT32. The 64GB cards come formatted with exFAT, which isn't widely supported by Android devices.
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I got a pair of them, too.
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Sounds good)
What about battery drain with this adapter?
I've got one, but it hasn't worked since I upgraded to KitKat. Stickmount doesn't seem to work for me, either. Does anyone have this working with KitKat? What's the trick?
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Sounds good)
What about battery drain with this adapter?
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No idea. I haven't noticed much of a difference. What are you trying to do? The main reason to use an adapter like this seems to be to play videos stored on a microSD card. I would strongly expect that the screen and CPU/GPU would be dominating the power usage in that case.
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I've got one, but it hasn't worked since I upgraded to KitKat. Stickmount doesn't seem to work for me, either. Does anyone have this working with KitKat? What's the trick?
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Unfortunately, the 4.4 update removed USB-OTG support. You can't mount USB sticks anymore (unless you root and install StickMount). However, you could use a third party application like Total Commander with the USB Stick plugin. You still can't mount the card, but you can access files through the Total Commander app.
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What are you trying to do?
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you asked right question))
it will be not all time-plugged storage, but on demand to watch videos or show photos e.t.c.
Gonna buy! )
I use this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...20821&ef_id=UgAJZwAAAFmLfDUC:20140411193344:s
It's a flash drive with a USB 2.0 connector on one side, and a micro USB OTG connector on the other. It's awesome. I do TWRP backups to this drive and it works like a charm.
Also handy for storing tons of videos.
FYI. I got USB OTG support working on my Droid Maxx. I'm rooted, but otherwise haven't done anything out of the ordinary to the phone. I don't think you have to be rooted to get it to work, but I have no way to verify that myself.
Anyway, the instructions are over in the Moto-X forum, and they work fine for the Maxx.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/general/otg-supported-4-4-2-unrooted-via-t2709553
The trick is to create a shortcut to the "Qualcomm Settings" app, run it, and enable USB OTG support there.
An interesting idea. Thanks for sharing.
BTW-OTG works as is on 444.
I am from India and using this Sandisk 2in1 USB Disk to transfer files to and fro (b/w DroidMAXX and any computer)... It costs 599Rs when I have bought... Working fine on OnePlus ONE also...
LINK HERE
Just received my Kingston off USB it works fine. I use fx to view the drive and transfer files
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I use this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...20821&ef_id=UgAJZwAAAFmLfDUC:20140411193344:s
It's a flash drive with a USB 2.0 connector on one side, and a micro USB OTG connector on the other. It's awesome. I do TWRP backups to this drive and it works like a charm.
Also handy for storing tons of videos.
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Are you doing twrp backups in recover? If you did how did you get twrp to read ext SD?
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Are you doing twrp backups in recover? If you did how did you get twrp to read ext SD?
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TWRP would not recognize the external SD. I had to offer use CWM.
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TWRP would not recognize the external SD. I had to offer use CWM.
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What version are you using?
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The Newest version of twrp supports ext sd . helps out a ton when you want to back up your current setup just incase you do something stupid.