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[Q] How to run USB OTG on HTC ONE X ???

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.
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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??

[Q] WDD HDD to note 8.0

Hi,
I am not able to connect note 8.0 to an external HDD (ED) through micro-usb OTG. I think I may need a Micro USB Host OTG Cable with USB power. I just want to know whether anyone has tried it for note 8.0 and does it reads NTFS ? I think my HDD is in NTFS format and I don't want to change it to FAT 32. (Actually I don't know how to do it) Any ideas ? Any help is really appreciated
Regards,
Pushkar

See here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42127190
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Paragon exFAT, NTFS & HFS+ will allow you to access your NTFS drive without having to format it to FAT32 so you do n ot lose your data. It's Free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5wYXJhZ29uLm1vdW50ZXIiXQ..

Root required ?
p107r0 said:
See here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42127190
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The application says root is required...I am not able to figure out whether the external HDD (1 TB WD) is not working because the note 8.0 is not supplying it enough power or because it is not able to read the file system (NTFS).
Should i simply root my device & install the application or buy a OTG cable with external power port and then see whether it's a power issue ?. The problem is usb otg with external power is not available in this country (India) and amazon doesn't ships this particular product to India
Thanx a ton for all the help..really appreciate
Regards,
Pushkar

Root required
The application says root is required...I am not able to figure out whether the external HDD (1 TB WD) is not working because the note 8.0 is not supplying it enough power or because it is not able to read the file system (NTFS).
Should i simply root my device & install the application or buy a OTG cable with external power port and then see whether the external HDD works irrespective of the file system? The problem is that usb otg with external power is not available in this country (India) and amazon doesn't ships this particular product to India
Thanx a ton for all the help..really appreciate
Regards,
Pushkar

I found That the Note 8.0 is not able to power external Hard Drives if they receive Thier power via Usb. A Powered Drive is fine. I use a Powered Usb hub to read my WD My Passport 1TB,which is also NTFS. My device is rooted and I have the paragon app installed.

pushkarsingh said:
The application says root is required...I am not able to figure out whether the external HDD (1 TB WD) is not working because the note 8.0 is not supplying it enough power or because it is not able to read the file system (NTFS).
Should i simply root my device & install the application or buy a OTG cable with external power port and then see whether the external HDD works irrespective of the file system? The problem is that usb otg with external power is not available in this country (India) and amazon doesn't ships this particular product to India
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FaeMinx said:
I found That the Note 8.0 is not able to power external Hard Drives if they receive Thier power via Usb. A Powered Drive is fine. I use a Powered Usb hub to read my WD My Passport 1TB,which is also NTFS. My device is rooted and I have the paragon app installed.
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IMO all may depend on power necessary to run the drive - my HDD was running ok with no external power.
So first I'd suggest rooting + ntfs app, and only if it does not work looking for powered Usb otg cable.
In the worst case you can do it yourself - in all Usb cables two external wires are for 5V power supply (same as provided by standard chargers), so it's just a matter of finding which is +/- and bit of soldiering
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Did anyone managed to mount USB-OTG in TWRP?

I never managed to, clicking on it does absolutely nothing.
It's quite annoying because i cannot copy stuff to my tab from recovery, i have to use ADB command line instead..
Is it just me?
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Latest TWRP ofc, 2.6.3.1

Anyone? How do you copy stuff in recovery without ADB?

For accessing files on my USB I use Stickmount and can copy files with my File Manager. I can also flash Roms that are on the USB with TWRP..
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But you are talking about app , when you are booted in Android correct?
I'm talking about moving stuff to sdcard in Recovery. e.g. connecting it with my PC in recovery using USB cable wont show me any storage in "my computer", and mounting "USB-OTG" does nothing.
I have no problems copying stuff when i'm booted in Android, storage is properly detected/mounted.
But in recovery i have to use ADB to copy anything to my tab, is there solution for this?

k3lcior said:
But you are talking about app , when you are booted in Android correct?
I'm talking about moving stuff to sdcard in Recovery. e.g. connecting it with my PC in recovery using USB cable wont show me any storage in "my computer", and mounting "USB-OTG" does nothing.
I have no problems copying stuff when i'm booted in Android, storage is properly detected/mounted.
But in recovery i have to use ADB to copy anything to my tab, is there solution for this?
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You can't mount to your computer in TWRP. USB-OTG is something different.

Yes I do it all the time. I only have the 8GB so I use USB Flash Drives, or microsd cards through an adapter all the time. I have 3 cheap USB OTG adapters I got from eBay. And one Meenova SDCard adapter. But I use micro SD's with a USB adapter with the USB OTG cables as well.
I pretty much always do this when I backup in TWRP, or am Flashing a rom.
There is two ways to do it really.
One. Go to the advanced and select Mount. On that page I just unselected everything and select USB OTG. Then you don't have to do anything else. Its just like when u select the radiobox it is marked as being mounted, you can then access any files on it using whatever means depending on the circumstances, it will be located at the root of your device, at the bottom there is a dir named 'USB-OTG' select that and your files should be in there.
The second way, go to mount, but below all the options there is a box that says 'Storage 1xxxxx mb'. Etc. Just tap that box and it let's you select either USB-OTG or the devices storage. I use this option to make a band backup so it just defaults to a TWRP/Backups/ dir on the drive. Instead of having to fiddle with all that backing up to get to a custom dir.
It should work. There is no indication that it is mounted if that's what you mean, unless there is an led on your drive of coarse.
Just head to the root dir and USB OTG should be there and you be all good.
But yeah your computer is not a hard drive so you can't just mount it like one. You could technically if you took your hard drive out and connected it with adapters, but a Flash Drive is like $5 these days for one that can hold even the biggest of files you would ever need in recovery.
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k3lcior said:
I never managed to, clicking on it does absolutely nothing.
It's quite annoying because i cannot copy stuff to my tab from recovery, i have to use ADB command line instead..
Is it just me?
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Latest TWRP ofc, 2.6.3.1
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All you have to do is, Re-Format the MicroSD card in your computer (I use windows 7) using SDFormatter v4.0. Click the "Options" button and for "Format Type", Select "Quick" and for "Format Size Adjustment" Select "On". Thats it! And it will Surely be recognized in TWRP (i use v2.7). Hope that helps.

I have exactly the same problem. I have flashed a number of ROMs from a USB stick via an OTG adapter.
But now the tablet has stopped recognizing the USB OTG. As the tablet (a Nexus 7 Grouper) has no SD slot, there is no way of transferring the ROM files. So I'm stuck.

twrp otg
Hello, Im facing the same issues now, trying to back up rom to usb with otg. Twrp won't mount usb, I've tried everything to get it to mount...

bluboy88 said:
Hello, Im facing the same issues now, trying to back up rom to usb with otg. Twrp won't mount usb, I've tried everything to get it to mount...
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I never got TWRP to see the OTG if I inserted it whilst the tablet was running. Only when I booted with OTG did it see it.
If you are using an adapter, say USB-A to USB-micro then some don't work well.

twrp otg
Thanks for the reply
I just use a small otg adapter, usb c male on one side and regular usb female on other side.
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m+a+r+k said:
I never got TWRP to see the OTG if I inserted it whilst the tablet was running. Only when I booted with OTG did it see it.
If you are using an adapter, say USB-A to USB-micro then some don't work well.
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Well, i'm boooting with it pluged in and twrp still does not mount it. I have a tiny otg adapter, its just a male usb c on one side and a regular size female usb on the other...

bluboy88 said:
Thanks for the reply
I just use a small otg adapter, usb c male on one side and regular usb female on other side.
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Well, i'm boooting with it pluged in and twrp still does not mount it. I have a tiny otg adapter, its just a male usb c on one side and a regular size female usb on the other...
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I'm having this same damn problem. TWRP really sucks ass on mounting USB-OTG... sometimes it works and most of the time it doesn't... I don't know what to do either when I can't load any ROMS on there!!

external hard drive support

Iam considering buying an external 1 terabyte or more hard drive to keep my files so I can use my tab without a laptop
But I don't know if it will support that kind of storage via usb otg
Pls help if anyone tried
One other question is this will drain tab battery or what
Thanks

salahfathi said:
Iam considering buying an external 1 terabyte or more hard drive to keep my files so I can use my tab without a laptop
But I don't know if it will support that kind of storage via usb otg
Pls help if anyone tried
One other question is this will drain tab battery or what
Thanks
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I can use my WD USB HDD mounted via OTG and formatted NTFS using paragon app to mount (root required). This is tested with my SkyHigh kernel.
I don't know if device natively supports it with stock kernel, but should be able to mount at least fat formatted USB HDD without root and visible with Samsung file manager.
Not real sure about the battery, but would obviously use qite a bit. I haven't tested to quantify the "bit".

salahfathi said:
Iam considering buying an external 1 terabyte or more hard drive to keep my files so I can use my tab without a laptop
But I don't know if it will support that kind of storage via usb otg
Pls help if anyone tried
One other question is this will drain tab battery or what
Thanks
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I have a pair of 2 TB Seagate Backup Plus drives that I use with my tablet. I formatted them as exFAT on a Windows computer and they automount on the tablet when connected. The tablet does not provide enough power to spin the drive. I use a USB Y cable to supply extra power from another power supply.

PeteAlleman said:
I have a pair of 2 TB Seagate Backup Plus drives that I use with my tablet. I formatted them as exFAT on a Windows computer and they automount on the tablet when connected. The tablet does not provide enough power to spin the drive. I use a USB Y cable to supply extra power from another power supply.
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How do u do that can u show me a picture pls

UpInTheAir said:
I can use my WD USB HDD mounted via OTG and formatted NTFS using paragon app to mount (root required). This is tested with my SkyHigh kernel.
I don't know if device natively supports it with stock kernel, but should be able to mount at least fat formatted USB HDD without root and visible with Samsung file manager.
Not real sure about the battery, but would obviously use qite a bit. I haven't tested to quantify the "bit".
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Could ANYONE please confirm that ?
If it's true it means that a fix is possible via system files.
THANK YOU A LOT

Using usb external drive and ADB at the same time

Hello,
I have been able to successfully connect an external flash drive to my Nexus5x, using an USB-C OTG cable.
I was wondering if there exists any sort of Y-cable I could use to connect BOTH an external memory AND my pc (to use ADB) at the same time.
In particular I would need this to work in the TWRP recovery.
Any idea/suggestion?
Thank you.