Hi I recently purchased a Diztronic case but I'm finding it a bit annoying having to take the case off to get to the Micro SD tray I know I can use the USB C cable for file transfers but having compared speeds using a USB 3 card reader my overall transfer time reduced by 2.5 hours! So I would like to know if there's any good cases out there that has a cut out or flap for easy Micro SD access?
im just curious what are you transferring that takes over 2.5 hours?
When I do a full format and I throw my pictures and videos back onto my phone, over 6gb of data is moved with 2000+ files and it only takes about 10 minutes at most. I also have game emulators that together have over 10,000 files 7gb approximate size and that takes about 10 minutes also to move all those files.
Now the display on the pc will say 1 hour or something remaining but that's completely wrong if that's what your going off on your time (2.5 hours) and it'll be much, much shorter than that.
On my pc I use a A-C cable that USB-C 3.1 to USB 3.0 claims speeds up to 5gb/s on devices and my card is 128gb Samsung with 90mb write 95mb read.
I have not seen any cases that have access to the sd card unless you get a flip style one that's easy to take off or don't not attach to that area of the phone. I guess a cheap tpu case would work if you cut out the side.
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Im looking for a good micro SD reader/write so I dont need to constantly shut my Phone down to take the MicroSD card out & move/delete files..
Also, the charging cord that came with my phone only works when my phone is upside down..lol it seems its the pin that goes into the phone that is messed up. Is there any place I can get just the cord that is reliable?
There are a few apps that you can manage your phone files wirelessly, what is it, airdroid I think. Im sure there are others.
It could be the cord, thats what I thought at first and some cords did charge my phone, but in time my charging port would not work at all no matter how hard I tried to angle the cord and put the right amount of pressure. Its nice to have a external battery wall charger now, be good for you if the case is your port is becoming loose, would be better to not wear it out more for the time you may really need to plug it in to charge with a cable.
I am 100% its the cord bc I used the cord from my sis HTC EVO Shift & it works 100%. Fly which wall charger do you use? Is it 100% reliable? Ive been reading on amazon & it seems everything is basically hit or miss....I just came across this: http://www.amazon.com/Seidio-Multi-...er-Incredible/dp/B003N1915S/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i
It comes with a brand new cord plus a charger that can both charge a separate battery & the phone/battery at the same time. Im not sure if it can also charge higher capacity batt like 3500..Anyways do you happen to know where I can find a good miCroSD reader/write too? Kinda leaning to order it all on amazon to save on shipping.
Bumpp anyone??!
Thats a expensive battery charger. Id just go grab those two 1700 ankers with the charger for 16 bucks on amazon.
And by microsd reader/writer, you mean a external device where you can pop in your sd card in to manage your files? I don't know much about those, as my computer and laptops have had them built into the case the past 5 years, im sure ebay or amazon will have some cheap ones all over.
Fingers crossed :fingers-crossed: my shiny new HTC One should be arriving tomorrow. Thanks to HTC's idiotic decision not to supply either a removable battery or a memory card slot, I am going to need both some form of external storage that the phone can access - perhaps a flash drive accessed via OTG, but I'm open to other suggestions - and an external battery/charger of some kind; and (which may be the tricky part) it has to be possible to access both of these things simultaneously.
With regards to power, capacity is clearly important (i.e. the number of mAh held) but it does also need to be reasonably portable - not something that weighs over a pound! - and, if at all possible, it should be something that can be charged or replenished very quickly. Ideally it should be able to charge the phone's internal battery as fast as a mains charger can.
For storage, I need a decent amount - 32GB is the absolute minimum, but 64GB or more would be better. It would also be helpful to have something not too big and heavy (I'll be carrying it around at all times). And, if possible, it should also be fast - especially when transferring files from a PC.
I may be acquiring a case at some point as well - not sure about that yet.
Advice, please!
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Advice, please!
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http://www.seagate.com/em/en/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/wireless/wireless-plus/
http://www.expansys.com/samsung-portable-battery-charging-pack-9000mah-241435/
Damn..the Seagate Wireless Plus looks nice
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For battery bank what's most advisable?
HTC's official 6000mAh battery bank £44.99
or
Anker 10000mAh battery bank £37.99
Seems like a no brainer, but the Anker seems to be really bulky in comparison.
HTC reckon their battery bank will give 2 full charges......and that Anker one is nearly a foot long !!
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http://www.seagate.com/em/en/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/wireless/wireless-plus/
http://www.expansys.com/samsung-portable-battery-charging-pack-9000mah-241435/
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What is it about the Samsung battery pack that makes it worth £70? There may very well be something, but I'd like to know what.
I've got a NAS with TB's of storage so the 26GB usable 'limit' is irrelevant.
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I've got a NAS with TB's of storage so the 26GB usable 'limit' is irrelevant.
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Does it fit in your pocket?
Anyone have any other suggestions? I'm somewhat tempted by that Seagate drive, but I'm a bit uneasy about using storage that has its own onboard battery and needs to be charged independently of the phone - combined with a rechargeable battery pack, that's an awful lot of things to charge up. It's also bulky and probably mechanically rather fragile - hard drives don't much like being bounced around while they're operating. And then there's the cost....
Has anyone come up with a cable which lets you connect OTG USB storage and an external battery or charger simultaneously?
The one works well with my sandisk cruizer extreme, and it's seriously quick provided you have usb 3.0
I believe maxell have a wireless flash drive, kingston have a wireless ssd as well.
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The one works well with my sandisk cruizer extreme, and it's seriously quick provided you have usb 3.0
I believe maxell have a wireless flash drive, kingston have a wireless ssd as well.
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The Maxell device is an interesting possibility. It's essentially a wireless adapter for a memory card - not a micro-sd card of the sort you get in a phone, but a full-size sd card of the kind designed for digital cameras. You then transfer files (or stream them) via wifi rather than a direct connection to the phone. You can (I think) move files onto it from a PC via USB (USB 2.0 only, though). I get the impression it's designed more for iOS than Android....
http://www.airstash.com/#specs
But I'm still not sure a wireless device is the way to go - like I said, that's one extra device you have to remember to charge up, not to mention the complications of getting the phone to connect to the Internet over wifi and to the external drive at the same time, plus possible security implications, etc. I would have thought there must be some sort of adapter to allow a USB storage device and a charger or external battery to be connected to the phone at the same time...?
For example, suppose you had a cable like this: http://einfiniteshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/usb-otg-cable-with-external-usb-power.html
Or this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009YPYORM
I think these cables are designed for situations where you want to use an external power supply to power your OTG device; but could the external power supply charge the phone as well (or instead)? Or is that not possible?
was browsing through the pages and i saw this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2262053
now the concept is good but i think it would be cooler if it was in a case....then I would back it on Kickstarter if anyone made it a reality. Also, i think it would be good that it still retains a micro USB slot for charging though i have no idea if you can have 2 separate devices plugged into 1 port.
I had thought about a simple connector to flex cable and either a reader or solder card. That could be tucked into the case fairly easily and connector glued to my case flap in order to charge. In the end I decided to not be such a data horder. Though it would be nice to have movies and tons of music the only thing my old Rezound's 64g card was full of was ROMs and nandroid backups.
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So I have a note 3 currently and happy, best phone to date personally, I had mine in my cart about to buy my new note 4 today! however today as I was helping a friend who wanted a solution to use his phone to do his job which requires moving files from a USB drive from a device to his phone to be emailed, I sent him to get a note 4 he calls me and tells me the plug is not like my note 3,(I use an adapter from Phone to a USB 3.0 harddrive currently on my note 3) so I start looking into this and seems they have changed back to the single plug now and will only be a 2.0 USB connection, is this correct and can anyone who has used a note 3 with an adapter and a USB drive and now use a note 4, how much performance loss do you see?
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
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Honestly, I didn't see a difference. In fact, it surprised me how fast the transfers were when I was uploading music, videos, and pictures.
If you have USB 3.0 ports in your computer, it's a big difference you can read and write easily 150 megabytes per second, with the USB 2.0 nothing above maybe 20 megabytes, having said that how often do you need to transfer large files from your phone to your computer..
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... helping a friend who wanted a solution to use his phone to do his job which requires moving files from a USB drive from a device to his phone to be emailed. ...
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I concur with DarkShadow said. And in regards to your friend, the time difference between USB3 and USB2 for file size restriction for email attachments will be negligible; most email services only allow to around 5MB.
Unless you're moving files that a GBs in size, such a blu ray movie rip, it won't be bad. The only time I have issues, when I'm moving a lot files, such as when changing phones and I need to get a lot files off the microSD card to before placing it the new phone to format the card, and transfer the files back it. This is usually in the 20 to 35GB of data, and can take up to an hour on my PC. A USB3 on both the phone and PC would significantly reduce the time. But since this only occurs about once a year, not a major issue.
There are only a few files with Andriod applications that you may considering moving, copying, etc. Off the top of my head, and in my experience, is some of the extra data files such as the GTA games with the cut scenes. That files tends to be around 1.3GB.
So, the situation of time difference between USB3 vs USB2 is significant will be limited, unless you're one of those people who complains that it takes the PC a minute to boot because of it using HDD versus fifteen seconds because of SSD. Most likely, you biggest concern is using up all the space on the microSD.
Thanks for all the replies, I don't USB to 3.0 to my pc I do so to a 1tb harddrive.
And it is not often but I do use this function in my job roles as a network and system administrator. And it is not uncommon for me to have a few gigs of data and videos and pictures I move to that external hard drive.
@love nope I'm not one of "those people"
I deal with them daily.
Thanks to all for the information.
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HI I have a note 4 I formatted a 2tb western digital to fat 32 and it works fine with a otg to a normal charge/ data cord to a hub. Then I power the hub and everything's is working fine and the hard drives getting adequate power and my phone battery last longer than hooked up but I'm having problems finding a way to keep my phone and hdd powered while using everything together. The otg seems to only put power out and wont let it in . Even with a otg "with power cord" with the extra male usb cord spliced in for apparent simultaneously charging/transfer . it still won't charge at the same time for me . I just wanted a self suffiencent setup where I could have power indefinetlatey on it all. Only thing I can think of is powering it thru the battery pack terminals somehow or using a mod threw where the battery is like a dummy bat that's just a direct power to the device or something .or even a real one with a mod that's charging it . I'm stumped if anyone has a idea let me kno
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Maybe a wireless charging pad ? But I' don't know if it would keep up or is supported on a note 4
I've been reading to try and solve this issue for long enough that I've managed to send myself into a spin. I know there are a few threads dotted around and I've had various bits of information, but I still haven't bought a lead because I don't have a conclusive answer.
I'm trying to use a Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1tb HDD with my bone-stock Galaxy Note 10.1 2014.
What I've learned so far...
The Hard Drive needs to be formatted to FAT32 as Android doesn't handle NTFS natively. I know there are apps that can help, but as I'll be using this HDD pretty much only with the tablet, can I not just have the Tablet format the HDD, as I do normal SD Cards? Or would it be stupid to expect the tablet to format 1tb? I can't see any issue with it being FAT32, so that's a possibility too.
The HDD needs external power. I gather the lead will need the facility for adding power as the tablet either cannot power the HDD or the HDD will roast the tablet battery in no time at all. It's hard to understand which leads provide power to the 'Host' (i.e. the Tablet) and which provide power to the Peripheral (i.e. the HDD). Some look obvious in the direction the cables run, but is it that simple? Ideally, I'd like to buy a decent quality lead, all the rubbish on eBay looks very substandard.
Has anyone actually done this successfully? If so, how did you do it?
Edit - I've just read the memo about no questions in 'General'. Sorry, I'd move it if I could.
I'm currently using a 1TB WD MyPassport Ultra with my Note 2014.
Format it as exFAT, not FAT32.
http://ntfs.com/exfat-comparison.htm
I believe you need to do the initial format (to change the file system from NTFS) from a computer. You can format the drive (to erase data) from the tablet.
My tablet provides enough power to the HDD for it to operate with no issues.
Idle battery draw without HDD connected was approximately 600 mA
Idle battery draw with HDD connected was approximately 900 mA
I've never attempted to use a powered lead with the HDD, and I've never noticed a substantial decrease in battery life when using the HDD, but a small powered USB hub should do in a pinch.
I got this;
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005QX7KYU?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00
My WD600U017 works on my Note 2014's and S4's.
The format on the WD is as it came out of the box. If you are talking about one of the large drives that uses a brick for power no cable will provide power to run that. You will always need to use the brick.
This is the one that the cable work with for me.
http://www.amazon.com/WD600U017-Wes...UTF8&qid=1433898755&sr=1-1&keywords=WD600u017
The cables are cheap enough you can give it a try.
I also have a Passport Ultra Metal edition and it works without any external power :
Passport Ultra Metal
Battery life does take a hit, however its not as bad as I thought it would be. Its probably reduces my uptime to about 75% of normal.
you can find a powered otg cable. this will keep your tablet from draining so quickly, but, obviously, requires a power source.
i've been using a wifi hd for the last seven months and love it. i got the seagate wireless plus 2TB. the real use time (straight data transfer time) is about 4-5hrs for me. but since you can pre-buffer videos it can last up to 10hrs (i've never seen it happen, lol). it does dlna, smb, and if you get the hacked firmware for $35 you can do quite a bit more.