I'm used to connect SD cards or hard drives to my phone with OTG to quickly edit videos or work on pictures. But unfortunately the stock Gallery app and also others such as KineMaster, Power Director, Google Photos etc don't see the drive connected with media in it. Is there a way to force these apps to show it?
What's your experience?
Thanks
I have never seen in gallery files stored outside the device, tbh, I had always copied them into the device to work on them
I got it to work with Samsung's "My Files" app.
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winol said:
I have never seen in gallery files stored outside the device, tbh, I had always copied them into the device to work on them
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That is such a disappointment. I use it to quickly connect and edit videos from my action camera, or to edit videos stored in a HD with terabytes of files! I can't believe all the people using galaxy devices to actually work have all the necessary files in the internal storage!
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I got it to work with Samsung's "My Files" app.
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True, file managers can see the external storage, but you can't access that same storage from gallery or media apps to work with video edit or photos.
Yes and no.
The Gallery app doesn't see external USB devices. But when you use My Files to open a photo, it will ask which app to use; Gallery is one of those choices.
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Yes and no.
The Gallery app doesn't see external USB devices. But when you use My Files to open a photo, it will ask which app to use; Gallery is one of those choices.
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Yes, but you can't do much. There's no edit button. Same thing if you open a video from "my files" with the video player app. The editor feature is gone.
I basically bought the note 10+ to do these things. Can someone check if using DEX is the same? Can you edit a video with Adobe Rush working on files stored in an external hard drive?
It is easier to transfer the files you need into the device
5ne1ke said:
Yes, but you can't do much. There's no edit button. Same thing if you open a video from "my files" with the video player app. The editor feature is gone.
I basically bought the note 10+ to do these things. Can someone check if using DEX is the same? Can you edit a video with Adobe Rush working on files stored in an external hard drive?
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I'm not sure you can "manually" trigger DeX on the Note 10+. The only way I know is to either plug it into a DeX supported USB-C hub, DeX dock, USB-C to HDMI adaptor, or plug it into a Windows or Mac running Samsung DeX.
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I usually work with terabytes of video files, transferring everything in the internal memory is obviously not an option.
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I'm not sure you can "manually" trigger DeX on the Note 10+. The only way I know is to either plug it into a DeX supported USB-C hub, DeX dock, USB-C to HDMI adaptor, or plug it into a Windows or Mac running Samsung DeX.
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Of course I mean connecting the phone to a monitor or a computer. I currently have no chance to try, can someone check if it's the same thing in DEX mode, eg. video editing apps can't access media stored on an external drive?
I can't believe this is how it works. There's an incredible amount of videos on YouTube showing off the video editing capabilities of this phone (and that's why I got it in the first place) and I can't believe nobody has pointed this out.
It's one of two things: either I'm missing something to make it work, or all those people are just showing off and they actually don't do any serious work on the phone. (Just marketing?)
5ne1ke said:
I usually work with terabytes of video files, transferring everything in the internal memory is obviously not an option.
Of course I mean connecting the phone to a monitor or a computer. I currently have no chance to try, can someone check if it's the same thing in DEX mode, eg. video editing apps can't access media stored on an external drive?
I can't believe this is how it works. There's an incredible amount of videos on YouTube showing off the video editing capabilities of this phone (and that's why I got it in the first place) and I can't believe nobody has pointed this out.
It's one of two things: either I'm missing something to make it work, or all those people are just showing off and they actually don't do any serious work on the phone. (Just marketing?)
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It seems to be a problem with apps not the phone or the OS. Many if not most apps are optimized to use internal or microSD storage. The whole point of OTG isn't to do the editing on the files stored on the external device, but to share files between devices.
I am a photographer and I don't edit files on an external device like a USB drive or thumbdrive. I copy them to a NAS for both storage and editing. If I am away from my main system for an extended period, I copy them to my Surface Pro and do basic editing on that and then move them to my NAS when I get back.
The Note 10+ is a beast of a phone, but it still isn't quite as good as video editing on a Windows or Mac (or even Linux) PC.
My only reccomendation for now is to copy the files to the microSD card then edit from it. The connection between the phone and the microSD card is faster than an external USB device.
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It seems to be a problem with apps not the phone or the OS. Many if not most apps are optimized to use internal or microSD storage.
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I don't agree on this. Also, they are the same apps that worked flawlessly on previous devices I had. On the LG phone I had before, I could see ask the folders containing pictures or videos in Google photos, perform a backup, or edit video in those apps I mentioned. So my guess is that it's a Samsung restriction.
I wonder if rooting might allow a workaround. Anyone with root with this experience?
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I don't agree on this. Also, they are the same apps that worked flawlessly on previous devices I had. On the LG phone I had before, I could see ask the folders containing pictures or videos in Google photos, perform a backup, or edit video in those apps I mentioned. So my guess is that it's a Samsung restriction.
I wonder if rooting might allow a workaround. Anyone with root with this experience?
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I used a USB-C hub to trigger DeX and plugged in a thumb drive with a small video file. All I could do was play the video from My Files. Samsung Gallery did not see the video until I copied it to internal storage. The same goes for the SD Card. At that point I could open it and edit it.
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I'm looking for an app that would let me display photos from my phone to my PC.
Specifically, I'm on my phone, I select photo and show it on a desktop.
Samsung AllShare does exactly this, but the interface is so crappy it's not usable. I mean who browses photos by filename??? Give me something like the android Gallery and I'd be good to go.
There are countless ways of browsing the files and photos FROM a PC and I even tried remote controlling the pc while it fetches the files remotely but the controller freezes too much while downloading the files. Surely someone has already created such an app... I just can't find it.
Have you tried imediashare? Its for free in market and shows you thumbnails of your photos on your devic. It have also some other nice futures.
Hey guys,
So I know the GN is MTP only for now and that's the way google want it, but I was wondering if it might be possible in the future to make a mod that allows it to be mounted as a disk drive? A lot of computer applications (such as the ones that allow syncing music from iTunes, and many more) do not support MTP. In fact, most things don't. Even saving things from the web or extracting things, I have to copy them to my desktop first then to my phones storage. It seems only Windows has such support.
So, could this be possible in the future? And does anyone fancy having a go at it!?
Cheers
I personally use DLNA to transfer music from my collection on nas over wifi. Works well.
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I have a bunch of MKV files that when I try to copy them to my Note, it crashes Windows Explorer. I typically get the dialog that says "Do you want to convert this file?" with all of my MP4/AVI files (and I always say "no"), but I don't even get that option with these MKVs. According to MediaInfo, the MKV is using Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC and the MP4 is using "avc1".
I can, however, zip up the MKV file, copy it over to my Note, unzip and it plays fine...but that's a huge pain, IMO. I also don't want to have to re-encode any of my MKVs (all under 720p), since they actually do play on my phone via MX Video Player.
Is there any way to get my phone to just connect as a mass storage device, like with my SII, instead of as an "MTP device"?
Anyone? This is the same for the TF300 tablet as well.
Do you have all the right drivers? As well you could adb push and it should copy successfully.....I have done this before with a video but not an mkv before.
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You have kies running
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Yes, I have "Samsung USB Driver for Mobile Phones 1.5.14.0" installed.
I'll try and adb push a .mkv here tomorrow and let you know how it works
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What I've always found the fastest method is to pop out my sd card, plug it into my computer, and transfer it that way.
I prefer to keep my media on my sd anyway.
swyped all these spelling errors fro card m my galaxy note 2
There is an app on xda called GS3 ums mount or something like that. Google it. It will let you access the sd card in your phone as a external drive when you plug it into your computer. You can then drag and drop files as you wish.
Format your sd card to exfat to copy files larger than 4GB. The built in player from Samsung plays mkv or you can try mx player.
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There is an app on xda called GS3 ums mount or something like that. Google it. It will let you access the sd card in your phone as a external drive when you plug it into your computer. You can then drag and drop files as you wish.
Format your sd card to exfat to copy files larger than 4GB. The built in player from Samsung plays mkv or you can try mx player.
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Unfortunately, you need to be rooted to use that app...sounds like it's what I'm looking for though.
I need to edit the tags on some MP3 files on my GS3. I've tried Tag & Rename, but it doesn't recognize the device when connected via USB.
Can someone point me to a good desktop app for editing MP3's on my phone via USB connection. I know there are some apps that can do this, but I have quite a few and doing it on the phone can be a strain. I would also like to avoid offloading all the files from the phone- editing them- and reloading them..
Thanks..
ddiehl said:
I need to edit the tags on some MP3 files on my GS3. I've tried Tag & Rename, but it doesn't recognize the device when connected via USB.
Can someone point me to a good desktop app for editing MP3's on my phone via USB connection. I know there are some apps that can do this, but I have quite a few and doing it on the phone can be a strain. I would also like to avoid offloading all the files from the phone- editing them- and reloading them..
Thanks..
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I use MP3 Tag Editor. It's free and the best I've used. Google it
Edit: Here is the website: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
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pipergca said:
I use MP3 Tag Editor. It's free and the best I've used. Google it
Edit: Here is the website: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
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No go.. It sees songs on the computer just fine but not on the device..
Thanks anyway..
This app (DroID3Tagger) isn't a desktop app but a Play Store app that tags your music automatically, I've used it a few times and can say it will tag most songs accurately but does take a while to complete. It'd be easy to leave it tagging music files overnight.
you could try these apps. iTag and MP3dit (both in playstore). iTag helps you find album art as well
ddiehl said:
I need to edit the tags on some MP3 files on my GS3. I've tried Tag & Rename, but it doesn't recognize the device when connected via USB.
Can someone point me to a good desktop app for editing MP3's on my phone via USB connection. I know there are some apps that can do this, but I have quite a few and doing it on the phone can be a strain. I would also like to avoid offloading all the files from the phone- editing them- and reloading them..
Thanks..
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Doesn't poweramp allow you to do this ?
I first purchased the GN/2014 Edition in the 16GB version. After finding out about the external SD limitations, I upgraded to the 32GB version. However, I would still much rather save my hdd drive space by putting movies on the SD card (preferably in a format my BluRay player can play read them but it not, I don't care what format it is as long as I can find, convert and move movies to the external SD card. I've been around long enough to know practically everything can be found (no matter how deep it's buried) and converted to a more user friend format.
So can anyone here direct me to where I can find the movie files and a converter that can make them playable outside the tablet
Thank you!
Monica
Open My Files - Settings - Check Show Hidden Files - browse to .samsungmediahub (or videohub something) - contents and move downloaded movies to extsdcard..
The movies can only play with the device, since its DRM protected and can use MHL 2.0 adapter/allsharecast hub to play up to TV.
How to convert and remove DRM, that I dont have a clue. Have never heard about .pvy format until today. Maybe someone else can answer that.
dt33 said:
Open My Files - Settings - Check Show Hidden Files - browse to .samsungmediahub (or videohub something) - contents and move downloaded movies to extsdcard..
The movies can only play with the device, since its DRM protected and can use MHL 2.0 adapter/allsharecast hub to play up to TV.
How to convert and remove DRM, that I dont have a clue. Have never heard about .pvy format until today. Maybe someone else can answer that.
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Thank YOU! I just knew it could be done. If nothing else I've got them off the internal storage and onto the external SD card AND I can store them on my backed up desktop computer.
Does anyone know of a DRM ripper and converter for pvy format. I've been looking but all my hits are misses