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Hey I currently havea Western Digital 500gig external hard drive formatted as HFS and I tried plugging it in to my USB cable and nothing appeared. Does anyone know of a way to get the GS3 to recognize HFS-formatted drives over USB OTG?
kthung said:
Hey I currently havea Western Digital 500gig external hard drive formatted as HFS and I tried plugging it in to my USB cable and nothing appeared. Does anyone know of a way to get the GS3 to recognize HFS-formatted drives over USB OTG?
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You would need a custom kernel that has built-in support for the filesystem. Same thing goes for NTFS.
Hello, I'm using Ubuntu 12.04
When I connect my kindle (and SE X10 mini) to my pc and turn on USB storage on the phone Ubuntu mounts my SD and I can access the files in my SD normally (no problem yet).
However there is just /dev/sdb, there is no /dev/sdb1. When I connect it in my archlinuxarm machine (and turn on USB storage on the phone) I can't access my files because I don't know how to mount the SD card without /dev/sdb1.
Does anyone know how to mount it also in ArchLinuxArm?
Thanks a lot.
Note: already tried this but no luck.
Hello,
For anyone having the same problems, I was able to solve them using this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1814660
I think its the same as previously stated but on a script.
I have a stock jellybean 4.1.1 how I Am able to run USB ON the go on my HTC One X ??? any suggestions. is it ok to install custom kernels on a stock rom to run usb OTG ??
It works on stock kernel.
Sent from my IceCold One X
just connet usb otg cable and it works (most usb otg cables from ebay works great)
if it doesnt work, check file system on your usb disk (for me works only fat32 on stock)
Mato_K said:
just connet usb otg cable and it works (most usb otg cables from ebay works great)
if it doesnt work, check file system on your usb disk (for me works only fat32 on stock)
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I got 16 gb kingston Usb when ever I plugged that it hanged and restart my phone otherwise mouse and card readers memory cards working upto 32gb
did you try format it?
Mato_K said:
did you try format it?
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yes i tried every format on usb and is perfectly working on pc !!
how can i use that 16gb usb on USB OTG ?? whats the reason for working
Hook it up and check in settings - storage. Scroll all the way down, there should be info about usb on the go
annus9214 said:
I have a stock jellybean 4.1.1 how I Am able to run USB ON the go on my HTC One X ??? any suggestions. is it ok to install custom kernels on a stock rom to run usb OTG ??
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1-trying istalling Lidroid File Managar
2-connect OTG cable and mass storage
3-enjoy
elmanortega said:
1-trying istalling Lidroid File Managar
2-connect OTG cable and mass storage
3-enjoy
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mouse and micro sd card via card reader is working except my 16gb usb and i tried with every format but still the same result phone restarts !! any reason or seggestion please ??
you said that is working...so i think that can be the 16gb sdcard that can be corrupted or damaged i think so...also try installing original software
I have a strange request, it has happened that after removing a usb drive, the phone no longer recognizes photos and music stored to sdcard?
With es file manager I see the files, but there isn't in galley or music
Anyone can help me??
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Follow up on USB Host
I too am using an HTC One X running 4.1.1
I've got an OTG cable and have tried connecting a thumb drive and card reader. Both work. The drives are visible and accessible on the phone. That's USB storage which isn't the same as USB Host, but it shows that the port is active.
I can plug in the dongle for a wifi mouse, it too is recognised and I'm able to use the mouse to navigate around on the phone. This, as far as I understand, is actually USB Host in action.
The problem arises when I try to connect a DSLR and use a camera controller app like Helicon Remote or DSLR Dashboard. The app doesn't recognise that the camera is connected.
What's the difference between the wifi mouse and the camera?
Thoughts appreciated. Thanks.
In fact, there is a problem that any USB storage device on the phone creates the following folder structure:
/ storage / usb / Android / data / com.htc.album / .thumbnails /
Then create multiple copies, can be found in the internal memory, same-path, including folders that contain thumbnails, but empty.
So because of these being used constantly sticks, so when the capture traces of the settings, then any writes to the phone to choose from, but it can not happen, but the capture button will be disabled, but only while again not I step into the menu.
The above mentioned directories erased because the phone reboot always create them again.
If the phone was not rebooted since I've used it and the flash drive has been physically removed it, then if I connect again, it appears no file until you restart the phone.
ya i have the same problem...im using 4.2.2 custom ....and when i use my otg cable n plug my usb it works the 1st time then if i disconnect the connect it back or use another usb it wont work unless i restart my phone....not sure why its not working....but it works for samsung note 3 i tested on my friends phone...
and when i try to unmount the usb it just says unmounting in progress
sudhanmalla said:
ya i have the same problem...im using 4.2.2 custom ....and when i use my otg cable n plug my usb it works the 1st time then if i disconnect the connect it back or use another usb it wont work unless i restart my phone....not sure why its not working....but it works for samsung note 3 i tested on my friends phone...
and when i try to unmount the usb it just says unmounting in progress
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Exactly the same.
I have the same problem. I wrote message to HTC so I'm waiting for respond
sudhanmalla said:
ya i have the same problem...im using 4.2.2 custom ....and when i use my otg cable n plug my usb it works the 1st time then if i disconnect the connect it back or use another usb it wont work unless i restart my phone....not sure why its not working....but it works for samsung note 3 i tested on my friends phone...
and when i try to unmount the usb it just says unmounting in progress
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Got any solution for this??
Hello everybody,
I have the following problem appearing recently:
Whenever I connect a USB stick through OTG cable to my Galaxy Note II I always receive the message “USB Storage damaged. It may need reformatting” in the status bar, no matter which stick or other mass storage device I'm using. On my PC, the files are perfectly visible.
I didn't tamper nor change anything on my phone, it's been running the original Samsung ROM, rooted but otherwise unchanged, for the last six months.
Could any of you help? I explored several threads with reference to the same error message on other Android devices here and in other Android forums but none of them matched this problem.
Thanks in advance!
Sarmate
Hi,
Have you tried smaller sized USB sticks?
Because my 1 terabyte SeaGate hard drive works but turns off because it needs more power.
Simone said:
Hi,
Have you tried smaller sized USB sticks?
Because my 1 terabyte SeaGate hard drive works but turns off because it needs more power.
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Yes, I tried with a 1GB and a 4GB sticks that worked quite well on OTG last week.
Both these sticks still work well on my PC.
Sarmate said:
Yes, I tried with a 1GB and a 4GB sticks that worked quite well on OTG last week.
Both these sticks still work well on my PC.
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Is USB Debugging ticked on settings?
Simone said:
Is USB Debugging ticked on settings?
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It wasn't.
I did tick it but it doesn't change anything in the behaviour.
(BTW, thank you for taking the trouble to help me!)
Sarmate said:
It wasn't.
I did tick it but it doesn't change anything in the behaviour.
(BTW, thank you for taking the trouble to help me!)
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No problem helping :highfive:
Well, I had no problems with USB OTG yet (except the 1 tb)
I suggest you factory reset or change the OTG cable.
Simone said:
No problem helping :highfive:
Well, I had no problems with USB OTG yet (except the 1 tb)
I suggest you factory reset or change the OTG cable.
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I tried the cable as well...
Factory reset is a bit radical.
Does anyone else have an idea?
solution
Hi I had the same problem. I found the solution myself. Android doesn't support NTFS format actually. Format the USB with fat32. There u go. :good:
Use NTFS mounter app.....it needs root....
The problem is caused by kernel and USB drivers. Depends what kind of ROM is installed on your phone.
Some of the ROMs dont recognize big variety of card readers. Now I am using some cheap china phone,
so i had hard time to find the correct SD card reader.
Before, I was using Paranoid Android on Nexus 7, I didnt have problem with mounting any size of card, any kind of card reader.
Try different card readers , play around, you will fing the way.
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I have the same problem but both the cable and drives work fine on my Verizon G3 but not on my T-Mobile G3 running 6.0.1 mm based Turbo ROM.
My S5 suddenly refused my Usb Otg drive for no reason. It was working fine. It also corrupts the drive so BE VERT CAREFUL before connecting any mass storage to Android. Why is that?
Hello all
Did any of you managed to get an usb flashdrive working on TWRP?
I tried two different devices, and none of them worked on recovery as OTG drive.
However... all my computers and MIUI itself, detected the usb flash drives and performed data copy with no issues.
i tried to change the filesystem on the drives to exFAT, FAT32 (default) and NTFS... no luck. Rebooting to twrp with the flashdrive connected or disconnected doesn't make a difference either...
Providing any help, idea, tip or usb make/model you may tried before with success is appreciated.
thanks and regards
-infor
I have no problem with USB OTG in TWRP.
Kingston 64 GB USB flash drive formatted to FAT32 with generic OTG adapter...
Can you provide recovery.log in order to analyze the problem?
Hi - thanks for the answer.
I will be glad to provide recovery.log - if you can help me out with it.
I checked over the file system and didn't find it. Thanks
el_infor said:
Hi - thanks for the answer.
I will be glad to provide recovery.log - if you can help me out with it.
I checked over the file system and didn't find it. Thanks
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When you are in TWRP, plug the USB, try to mount it (it will fail, yes, but this is important). And then go to Advanced menu -> tap the Copy Log button. Your log will be on /sdcard/
You can post it here, or on sites like pastebin.com
funny thing... after a third format... it started to work. for the very same reason it didn't work before...
anyway. thanks for your time!
regards
-infor