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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Checked about 10 pages of threads and couldn't find anything related to this. But does anyone know if it is possible to use USB OTG while the phone is docked. For example could you just plug a USB OTG cable into the microUSB slot in the back of the dock and connect that to a powered USB hub?
If anyone has a dock and a USB OTG cable could you test this out for me? Thanks
kthung said:
Checked about 10 pages of threads and couldn't find anything related to this. But does anyone know if it is possible to use USB OTG while the phone is docked. For example could you just plug a USB OTG cable into the microUSB slot in the back of the dock and connect that to a powered USB hub?
If anyone has a dock and a USB OTG cable could you test this out for me? Thanks
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what is OTG...i only know of On The Go.
I am curious myself
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That's exactly what it is... USB ON THE GO. Basically let's the phone act in usb host mode to support external peripherals like mouse, keyboard, game pads, thumb drives etc
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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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Not sure if this is the correct place for this, first time posting.
So I'm having a hell of a time getting my Western Digital 2TB external drive to connect to my Nexus 7 2013. I have both Stickmount and Nexus Media Importer installed, and I'm rooted with Cyanogenmod, and I have a working OTG cable.
I know that the Nexus 7 doesn't have enough power to support most external hard drives that use a USB for power. So I bought a 12000mAh external battery with a 5V 2.1A output USB port, and a 4-port (unpowered) USB hub from Radioshack.
Along with those, I had to hunt down a male-to-male standard USB cable in order to connect the female port on the hub to the female port of the OTG cable (using the standard USB-to-micro doesn't work, because for some reason the OTG cable is specifically required to mount USB devices on Android, as you guys probably know).
After finally getting the male-to-male cord today, I tried hooking it up and still no luck. NMI detects the OTG cable but cannot detect the external drive. It works just fine with a flash drive.
Now after looking at the reviews of the USB hub on the site that I linked to, I'm thinking it may be the problem. If you look in the comments you have multiple people stating that this specific hub doesn't play well with many external drives. I haven't had any troubles with it through my PC, but you never know. I've also tried switching between the USB 3.0 cable that came with the drive to a standard USB-to-micro charge/data cable (with no luck), because I've read that NMI doesn't support USB 3.0
Does anyone have any advice or experience with this kind of thing? I'm thinking I may need to find a Y adapter that has one female and two male plugs so I'm not having to go through a potentially-crappy USB hub. But I'm not sure if that'll actually fix the problem or not. From searching around on the web a bit, it seems that connecting this specific drive with the Nexus 7 shouldn't be all that difficult, there's plenty of simple guides out there to demonstrate.
Just to recap, here's my connection process:
- Connect USB hub to external batter (2.1A port), make sure battery is ON
- Connect USB from External Drive to an open port on the hub
- Connect male-to-male USB cable to another port on the hub
- Connect M2M cable to the OTG cable
- Connect OTG cable to Nexus 7 (while on, with 90%+ battery)
- Nothing happens
EDIT - Would have included links to the specific devices, but I'm new to XDA so they won't let me post link yet.
I have a WD 1TB USB3 external drive. The only way I got it to work was by installing Paragon exFAT, NTFS & HFS+ (Available on the Play store), connecting the drive through a normal OTG cable, and rebooting the Nexus WITH the cable connected. Yes, I have to reboot every time with the OTG cable plugged in. I can plug/unplug devices as much as I want, but once the OTG is unplugged, I have to do another reboot; it's annoying, but it is better than nothing. Give this a shot.
Also, what ROM/Kernel are you running?
is the drive formatted as NTFS or exFAT? maybe try the ElementalX kernel as it supports both formats for USB OTG and see if that helps?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389022
edit- just remembered that i came across extra files on the Stickmount XDA page a while back that lets Stickmount support NTFS and exFAT drives, if flashing a custom kernel isn't your thing then you could try that..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400034
I finally got it to work, and now I just feel foolish.
I just needed to switch two cords. I had the male end of the USB hub plugged into the battery, and then the external drive and male-to-male USB plugged into the hub. The male-to-male cord then went to the OTG and the tablet. This apparently didn't let the data/power through correctly.
I went down to the local computer shop and the guy showed me that I was doing it wrong. Instead of using the hub's male end to hook up to the battery, I needed to use the m2m cord for that. The male end of the hub now connects to the OTG, and it works like a charm. I have to make sure to power up the drive and give it a second before connecting it, but Stickmount detects it right away and I have all my content.
I was pretty sure I'd tried every configuration and that I'd need a Y cable for sure, but I'm glad that's not the case even though I feel like an idiot now, haha.
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
Is it possible on stock device? I have tried all my tricks, no luck so far. Thanks for any idea on how to make it work.
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adapters or usb drive with the C connection? Also have to be formatted as fat32
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adapters or usb drive with the C connection? Also have to be formatted as fat32
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Using the usbc adapter. I have also tried fat32, the otg device is still not detected. I have tried stick mount but that fc instantly when I select mount.
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Something wrong with your port? It works fine for me with the included adapter. Suggest you try on a store display model for comparison.
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How it respond when u put it in?
All right. I am getting somewhere I think. Otg does work with the usbc to usb adapter (the big one). It's some long setup here as I have a microsdcard enclosure plugged into regular usb adapter (for pc) and now this usbc to usb adapter. But it works! However, the c to micro usb adapter (the small one) doesn't work unfortunately.
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I was testing this today, trying to connect a USB memory stick, and it didn't work with the USB on the Go adapter
Note 7 might need something different to be compatible with USB sticks
Mine worked no problem. With USB to USB-c adapter I plugged in a USB stick and it came up instantly. I even have a 6 in one card adapter that's USB I put I an SD card plugged it in and it came right up. Now the USB-C to micro USB adapter is not OTG certified I had to by one off Amazon that was so I could use my seek thermal camera that is a micro USB camera. With the Samsung provided adapter it will not work.
Well I know last time i tested mine it work fine then I picked it up in a safe location just in case I need it and used the one I bought on ebay call Rankie. Imo it could be a bad port as mention, could be a bad adapter, or something else. I have not tested it with my microsd card adapter to the usb adapter....
Fyi...plug device into the connector first then plug the connector with device attached to the phone.
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Fyi...plug device into the connector first then plug the connector with device attached to the phone.
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Tried. Not working