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?
F9zSlavik said:
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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Hey guys I bought a usb otg cable and everything connects fine, except this 300gb hard drive I have, I've tested with several different 300gb+ drives and none of them connect, could it be because they are NTFS?
I'm on stock, not rooted
I think that may be the problem. Android likes FAT. I know that for older phones there have been threads on XDA with mods for allowing android to mount NTFS volumes (called NTFS mounter), probably just a matter of time until that functionality is brought to the S3.
Thanks, I guess I'll wait
You need a mod or app of some sort to handle NTFS drives. There are some in the Play Store that people have reported will do this...
However, there might be another problem. When I connect my 1TB WD Passport with USB OTG, it beeps and the HD light flashes...I believe it's indicating that the phone does not supply enough power via USB to run the hard drive. I can tell the drive is not spinning.
I'm not sure if this is the case for all portable drives...and I imagine it's not an issue with a larger externally powered drive.
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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
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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 !
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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I have been trying to get my N7 2013 to mount a usb stick and SD card to no avail. All my sd cards and usb sticks are formatted as fat 32, different OTG cables and connectors have been tried and stickmount installed. I have tried various alternetives to stickmount with the same result. I can mount the same SD cards, USB sticks and OTG cables on various Roms and Kernels on my 2012 N7. I am wondering if there is a setting that I am overlooking. Has anyone with a similar problem tried a dual USB stick, micro and normal USB connectors, this would eliminate the OTG cable. All other functions of the N7 USB port are working. Any help would be appreciated.
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I have been trying to get my N7 2013 to mount a usb stick and SD card to no avail. All my sd cards and usb sticks are formatted as fat 32, different OTG cables and connectors have been tried and stickmount installed. I have tried various alternetives to stickmount with the same result. I can mount the same SD cards, USB sticks and OTG cables on various Roms and Kernels on my 2012 N7. I am wondering if there is a setting that I am overlooking. Has anyone with a similar problem tried a dual USB stick, micro and normal USB connectors, this would eliminate the OTG cable. All other functions of the N7 USB port are working. Any help would be appreciated.
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You need an app for that. Try Nexus OTG file manager
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Thanks for replying Gotham. I tried your suggestion and it didn't work, I have tried various USB OTG Apps with no success. I am able to connect keyboard and mouse I can also connect an old Huawei E160 modem and my N7 2013 reads the micro SD using Nexus Media Importer.
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I had already tried various apps Stickmount, the one that you suggested and others none worked with my OTG cables and USB pen drives or with my micro SD card and my USB drive reader. As stated before, I tried an old Huawei E160 USB HSDPA stick modem and it worked using the same OTG cables that I had tried before. I found an old multi card reader and that was recognised by Stickmount and Nexus Media Importer.
This means that it depends on the card reader used or the USB sticks. The USB pen drives that I was using were both 32 GB Kingston DT Micro drives.
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I've had no issues with my SanDisk dual USB stick on stock rom and kernel.
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.