I want to use a 1TB WD My Passport portable USB HDD on my Galaxy Note 2
I have managed with an OTG cable and portable card reader, to connect with a 4Gb CF card but but the same rig (substituting the card reader with the HDD separately powered with USB Y cable) won't . The drive was reformatted to FAT 32 even though I'd prefer it as NTFS.
I've seen mention of rooting etc etc. It's above me at present and a bit scary as it's new territory and a new phone.
Any help please?
The device can only read Ex-FAT and FAT for the external volumes
Install thst
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter
and if still no go try to use powered usb hub
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Hi again
I was also wondering if it's possible to swap internal memory with a microsd card connected via a micro to USB cable using a card reader or can it only be done with internal microsd slot ? And also a stupid question but thought to just ask. Is it possible to transfer videos or files from a microsd card (card reader)/flash drive to the galaxy note 2 using that same cable ? I don't currently own the note 2 but I will soon. I'm just waiting to see if a 32gb will become available by the end of this month. Thanks so much for all your help !
What you're looking for is an OTG (on the go) cable... It'll allow you to connect usb devices to the micro usb, including keyboards, mouse, hdd, and even usb drives. You'll need to be rooted in order to use one though.
Swapping memory .. Etc
walord said:
What you're looking for is an OTG (on the go) cable... It'll allow you to connect usb devices to the micro usb, including keyboards, mouse, hdd, and even usb drives. You'll need to be rooted in order to use one though.
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No that's the cable I'm referring to when I say 'micro to USB' cable. I'm wondering if you can swap internal memory of the galaxy note 2 for a microsd card connected by that cable using a card reader (with the microsd in it) or can you only swap internal memory with the microsd card in the phone and also if files or videos can be transferred from the microsd or a flash drive using that cable to the galaxy note 2. Thanks !
Having trouble accessing external hard drive. I have a USB thumbdrive, formatted to FAT32, and the tab will not even detect it. I tried a external hard drive, it has its own power adapter, formatted to fat32, still can't see it. The USB and External Hard Drive works fine on my S3 and my Note 3. Is this a hardware limitation?
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Having trouble accessing external hard drive. I have a USB thumbdrive, formatted to FAT32, and the tab will not even detect it. I tried a external hard drive, it has its own power adapter, formatted to fat32, still can't see it. The USB and External Hard Drive works fine on my S3 and my Note 3. Is this a hardware limitation?
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AFAIK yes, the ground pin is left out, so no hardware support plus kernel support is missing in standard ROMs as well. See this thread as well. Someone said you can build a special USB OTG cable with own power support, but I haven't tried for myself.
My S3 and 3 8.0 both detect my 16gb thumb drive using the Samsung dongle.
I will probably get a 32gb thumb drive today, and also test it.
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I was wondering if anyone has been able to access their external HDD via a otg cable. My hard drive is usb 3.0 but 2.0 compatible. The HDD is self-powered and I have the usb-Y otg cable with regular female usb for drive, micro usb to phone, and female micro usb for external power. I think my problem lies in the fact that the external drive is fat32 because the mounting apps require NTFS and HFS+.
When I power it with my 5V 2.0A samsung charger I get nothing no drive noise or motion. When I connect the otg "power" to a usb hub I hear the drive running.
Any ideas?
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I have no problem using hd with my note2. Im using
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter
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I have the Samsung galaxy tab s 10.5 and I would like to know if a 256g flash drive will work? I watch movies and TV shows on the go, 64g is not enough (the Simpsons season 1 - 25 needs about 100g) I don't have a computer anymore just my tablet. I bought the seagate wireless plus 1tb and I couldn't get it to work, don't want to order a 256g flash drive and have same trouble. Any help would be great
Sorry no I am not rooted and due to the fact that I use my Samsung allshare cast hub daily and root items can't use the hub
Anyone?
Don't you mean SD card.? Some people say the highest you can go is 64 or 128gb
128 GB is the highest you can go
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He probably means OTG cable with a hard drive. Simple drives tend to work the larger drives need more power to work via USB.
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There is an available of cable that's a "y".....one leg is the USB and the other is another female micro USB for your charging cable. Can't remember where on ebay I got mine but it does work for my external hard drives with my GS5
128gb sd card is not big enough so I thought k would try a 256gb OTG flash drive. Has anyone tested?
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128gb sd card is not big enough so I thought k would try a 256gb OTG flash drive. Has anyone tested?
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This question left me extremely curious, so I have just purchased an OTG cable which will arrive in a few days. I will test out a few different EXT HDD sizes and post what the maximum my OTG will allow.
I do however forsee an increase in the discharge of the battery for larger storage devices, but we shall see.
Can't wait to see what u find
I'm gonna buy a sandisk ultra 64gb microUSB otg and I was looking for a bigger one but this must be the biggest one they have, can't wait to test it out. What I'll do is if my shows or movies won't fit I'm gonna have to erase the ones I've seen then try to make them fit. I suggest you get a 128gb micro SD card plus a big sized flash drive then you should be okay.
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So I bought an OTG cable off ebay, and it arrived. I didn't change the format of any of my external drives as I don't have the space to store anything currently anywhere else. The tablet registers there is a drive connected however it can't mount the storage device due to an unknown format. The externals I tried were 2 portables (1x 500Gb usb2.0 and 1x 1Tb usb 3.0) and 2 desktops (1x 1.5Tb and 1x 1Tb both usb 2.0). Over the next few days I will attempt to reformat the 500 Gb and 1Tb portables, and the 1Tb desktop and see if that produces any results. Due to work constraints this may take a few days, so thank you for patience. Results will be posted as soon as possible. Current format of all the externals is default NTFS.
Another Option
There's another option in which would require multiple devices unfortunately due to the limited storage. Its a product I currently use myself called "Toshiba Duo 2 in 1.
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/...flash-drive-toduo64grd?searchTerm=Toshina Duo
Unfortunately I am still working on my other drives. There's is a lot of moving data around (limited to USB 2.0 speeds), so please keep posted on my other externals.
So I just bought my Nexus 7 yesterday and it's really nice. I bought an OTG cable to connect my keyboard dock. It worked perfectly but I am now trying to connect an IDE 320GB HDD using a Sabrent HDD SATA/IDE to USB adapter. I managed to get it connected only ONCE for a second or two to the tab. Using StickMount it told me that the drive was located in SDA1 but I am trying to look for but nothing is there mounting it again in StickMount shows that there is no drive connected. I have it hooked up to a power supply and I can hear it whirring so I don't know what the problem is. Pic:
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Hi!
What file system do you use? NTFS?
Try "Paragon NTFS & HFS+".
I find USB Mount All works best properly lists partition types and sizes, remember stickmount doesn't support ext4 also.
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So I just bought my Nexus 7 yesterday and it's really nice. I bought an OTG cable to connect my keyboard dock. It worked perfectly but I am now trying to connect an IDE 320GB HDD using a Sabrent HDD SATA/IDE to USB adapter. I managed to get it connected only ONCE for a second or two to the tab. Using StickMount it told me that the drive was located in SDA1 but I am trying to look for but nothing is there mounting it again in StickMount shows that there is no drive connected. I have it hooked up to a power supply and I can hear it whirring so I don't know what the problem is. Pic:
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Look under/sdcard/usbstorage/sda1/
I thought we couldnt connect an external HDD to the tablet because it will not supply enough power through the micro usb connector to power it up. I have a 1TB Toshiba USB external HDD, will I be able to mount it using stickmount or any other app?
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I thought we couldnt connect an external HDD to the tablet because it will not supply enough power through the micro usb connector to power it up. I have a 1TB Toshiba USB external HDD, will I be able to mount it using stickmount or any other app?
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No - needs EXTERNAL poser added to the process. Some OTG adapters allow for this.
External hdd needs to be formatted to FAT32 NTFS wont work