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So it seems that the Kingmax 64gb microsdxc card doesn't work with the Tab. Hardly unexpected but hey you never know until you try. It just keeps asking me to format it over and over again.
Oh well, it works fine on my gs2
As far as i know, the tab only support 32GB sdcard.
More specifically, the microsdhc spec supports up to 32gb. Usually when they say a device only supports 32gb it's because it uses this spec so it implies this limit. But some newer devices specifiy microsdhc however they can use more than the 32gb limit. So that was my hope here.
Got it, so is a limitation about the sdcard tec, not a limit of tab hardware...
Well maybe both. Who knows. Maybe it's a good excuse for me to start cooking roms and writing kernels.
Back in the day...
Back in the old days, my old HTC XDA Exec, was not compatible with the new fangled technology of SDHC, and was only able to read SD until some enterprizing folks here at XDA created some updated drivers for it.
Remember the form factor is identical, only the file system (I believe, I may be wrong) of the SD/SDHC/SDXC system changes.
Hopefully someone can get the drivers from a device that does support SDXC to work with the Tabs SDHC reader.
I think your hardware actually has to support the new format, not just the software. My guess is that your old HTC actually supported SDHC at the hardware level, just not at the software level yet. I have a card reader in my desktop as well as one in my laptop that will only read SD, not SDHC, regardless of the size. I am pretty sure SDHC slots will never be able to read SDXC unless the hardware was actually built to support it, but we'll see.
What are you filling your Tab with?
I have been using my tab for over 6 months now and still have not used over 4GB, so the 16GB it has internally was always more than enough. I wonder what all of you are using the space for? Are you loading it with movies & Music or what else?
Any way you can always get the connector to attach a USB storage to your tablet and plugin an extra storage when needed. I mean you can archive your old movies & music to an external USB Drive!
digg1980 said:
I have been using my tab for over 6 months now and still have not used over 4GB, so the 16GB it has internally was always more than enough. I wonder what all of you are using the space for? Are you loading it with movies & Music or what else?
Any way you can always get the connector to attach a USB storage to your tablet and plugin an extra storage when needed. I mean you can archive your old movies & music to an external USB Drive!
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Yeah, but who the $*%& want's to carry around an external when it could all be internal
Another idea, and I read through the thread and didn't see this mentioned. Would it matter if the card was broken up into two 32GB partitions?
This just made me think of this, does anyone know a partition type for android that would allow file transfer to SD Card over 4 GB? I've always thought that was a FAT limitation (which it is) but hadn't considered other supported format types that might allow for the bigger transfers but also be recognized by Android.
Now that's a burning question!
Most roms are ext4. Try using that. Downside, your windows boxes won't support these out of box
Thanks for the advice about the custom rom. I might give that a shot.
As for why I use this much, this tab is my car stereo so that means lots of music and movies for long trips. It's easy to eat up a lot of space that way.
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Most roms are ext4. Try using that. Downside, your windows boxes won't support these out of box
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Tried it, didn't work because I think Android is expecting it to be FAT32 when it's inserted. I wonder if there is a ROM out that would allow for EXT4 SD cards instead of having to use FAT32? Anyone heard of anything like that?
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Tried it, didn't work because I think Android is expecting it to be FAT32 when it's inserted. I wonder if there is a ROM out that would allow for EXT4 SD cards instead of having to use FAT32? Anyone heard of anything like that?
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My understanding of this might not be correct but I think fat32 shouldn't be an issue. The 64gb card I got is fat32 and my gs2 seems to use it fine.
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Tried it, didn't work because I think Android is expecting it to be FAT32 when it's inserted. I wonder if there is a ROM out that would allow for EXT4 SD cards instead of having to use FAT32? Anyone heard of anything like that?
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Also, which custom rom did you use?
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My understanding of this might not be correct but I think fat32 shouldn't be an issue. The 64gb card I got is fat32 and my gs2 seems to use it fine.
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Sorry, I kinda hijacked your thread. I was just thinking if you created two 32 GB partitions to see if it was a capacity limitation. I'm not using a custom rom right now, I was just wondering if there was a rom that would allow you to use ext4 on an as card for large file transfer. 64 GB would do me little good without alleviating the limitations of fat 32.
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I think TAB support maximum SD card is 32G... or u can try different format, it might be work....
Well after much wrestling with Odin I managed to flash Roderick's ef17 kernel and now the 64gb card works, Sky Wizard be praised!!
I don't know if it was the kernel or if my Tab was messed up. And video seems choppy, I'm not sure if it's a slow card or something else yet.
Hi guys,
I have using these forums since i got my milestone. I really want to thank everyone for the unending support for this phone. Its really amazing that this community has been so nice and that so many talented have either hellped developed or have developed from their work.
That being said. I have a request for anyone that can help me. It appears my phones sd card reader is fried. 2 different cards have been tried both confirmed to have contents on my laptop. My phone says no sd card is present.
Any suggestions? If it is the cardreader how much is it to replace do you think?
Can i do it myself?
Thank you all again.
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Try cleaning the sd contact points on the phone itself by blowing in it or with compressed air
This is because the gold contacts are very sensitive and small amounts of dirt may compromise the functionally of the SD card
Hope that helps
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TL;DR I have a cool, but hypothetical, idea for an alternate non-cloud way to access your data
There are many threads in which people are asking (and a few hyper-ventilating and a few ranting) about how they are to access non-cloud data on an N7 in light of the Nexus 7's lack of an SD-card reader. Just to name a few threads, there are: OTG USB cable, Questions About Specs OTG or WIFI Direct, The N7 Supports OTG Through Root, HDMI out and OTG Support and For Those Worried About Lack of Storage (USB-OTG Discussion Thread). And that's just for starters. As of this writing (which may be expired, null and void by tomorrow), the options seemed to boil down like this:
1. OTG (on-the-go) use of USB-based storage. Whether this refers to a way to read a memory card, such as an SD Card, or reading from a thumb/jump/flash drive or from an external USB HDD (hard disk drive) or external USB SSD (solid-state drive).
Concerns and Disadvantages: We don't know yet the voltage of the USB port (or the electrical current load it can sustain), but it's starting to look like maybe 3.3 volts is all she wrote. If that's true, then virtually nothing that is currently available will run off the USB port unless you put a powered USB hub between the N7 and whatever you're trying to read-write from.
I don't know how you feel about dongl'ing a powered hub (or battery-powered hub) between your N7 and your storage (whether that's an SD card in a card-reader or a thumb/jump/flash drive or whatever) , but that's a lot of stuff daisy-chained onto your tablet. Perhaps acceptable when you're at home, but it's sort of Rube Goldberg-ish to think of doing that on the road, in a plane, at a coffee shop. at work....
2. PRIVATE CLOUD. Devices such as the Seagate Satellite (500gb) and the various models (64gb, 32b, 16gb) of the Kensington Wi-Drive have an on-board server and WIFI wireless access point. The Seagate claims 7+ hours (6+ in my experience based on heavy ues) and the Kensington about 4 hours. Other than turning it on, you can leave it in your pocket, backpack, purse or attaché, and it will serve, by wifi, whatever you want.
Concerns and Disadvantages: The 500gb Seagate Satellite is about $150 (if you shop hard). The 32gb Wi-Drive is about $85 and the 64gb Wi-Drive is about $180.
The Satellite is bigger than than the Wi-Drive, but both are bigger than you probably want to haul around with you.
I might... maybe... possibly... have a better idea. But it's hypothetical for the moment.
The Satellite and Wi-Drive have on-board computers (on a chip) and WIFI hardware, but their overall size is maybe more than you want. But if you removed the drive (on the Satellite) or the flash memory (on the Wi-Drive), it would not be so big, even with the battery.
What about a device like the Satellite / Wi-Drive that just reads SD Cards instead? The Satellite and the Wi-Drive are just Linux computers-on-a-chip with a battery. They're sort of like this, I guess. Anyway, what if someone manufactured a battery-powered device whose only job was to serve up, by WIFI (and to create the WIFI environment, as needed) whatver storage appeared on a memory card, such as an SD Card?
What would you pay for something like that?
Heck, I bet that many... several... a few people on this forum could take off-the-shelf components (a Linux computer-on-a-board, WIFI circuitry and a battery, plus a card reader/writer) and make it all work -- and sell it for under $99.
Google / Amazon / Apple / Big Brother, may want us to live within a "cloud envionment" but we don't have to accept that.
Like this?
http://www.airstash.com/
Although I don't think this one will allow wifi passthrough unfortunately.
NikonUser said:
Like this?
http://www.airstash.com/
Although I don't think this one will allow wifi passthrough unfortunately.
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Hmmm... perhaps... maybe... I'm not quite the genius that I pretend to be. But thanks, though, I'll look into the AirStash. It seems just a tad overpriced, but it (and the Wi-Drive and the Satellite) is still a solution to nearly everbody's gripe about the N7 with respect to lack of an SD Card slot.
Not sure if i am missing something here but i just use the 64gb sd card on my galaxy note and my to it to access data stored there. I'll do the same with the nexus 7
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animatechnica said:
Not sure if i am missing something here but i just use the 64gb sd card on my galaxy note and my to it to access data stored there. I'll do the same with the nexus 7
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It doesn't have a SD slot not have the support for USB OTG storage (per Anandtech.com).
hey i found the wi drive 16gb for $48.95 its not bad considering that going from 8 to 16 gb cost $50 from the google play store
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Wi-Drive-External-WID-16GBZ/dp/B00576APBQ/ref=pd_cp_e_1
If I tether my phone (razr retail.en.eu stock) i can use wifi file explorer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dooblou.WiFiFileExplorerPRO&hl=en to browse the files on my phone including the sd card.
Total price £0.59 no extra equipment needed. Not sure if the free version works.
Tested on transformer
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NikonUser said:
Like this?
http://www.airstash.com/
Although I don't think this one will allow wifi passthrough unfortunately.
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That thing is really cool! I might just have to order one According to their website they do have a beta app that allows wifi passthrough.
foxbat121 said:
It doesn't have a SD slot not have the support for USB OTG storage (per Anandtech.com).
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Note: it will not be supported natively. I'll bet XDA users will have this soon...
gbroon said:
If I tether my phone (razr retail.en.eu stock) i can use wifi file explorer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dooblou.WiFiFileExplorerPRO&hl=en to browse the files on my phone including the sd card.
Total price £0.59 no extra equipment needed. Not sure if the free version works.
Tested on transformer
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ES File Explorer will also allow you to do this. It let's you read from LAN, FTP, BT....etc. I was just streaming a movie from my laptop to my Cappy using ES before checking in here. So I'm thinking it may be a viable option when tethering the tablet to my phone except I'll be serving the content from either my phone's internal storage or it's ext sd card.
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SoonerLater said:
TL;DR We don't know yet the voltage of the USB port (or the electrical current load it can sustain), but it's starting to look like maybe 3.3 volts is all she wrote.
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Maybe I'm missing something but isn't the USB standard 5V? Seems to me nothing would run, including the controllers and such that are supposed to work(?), if 5V was not there. Unless it is something nasty like proprietary accessories only.
As far as current goes, I would think it would support at least a unit load of 100mA if it is standard compliant. I figured this would be enough for sticks or card readers but surprisingly I checked the units that I have and apparently the card reader wants 250 mA, the 8 and 16GB sticks want 300 mA and the tiny 32GB stick I bought last week for cheap wants the full 500 mA. No idea they were so hungry (maybe they aren't and just set high amounts anyways), that might blow my hopes of hooking up that tiny 32GB stick on the go out of the water... I wonder what the guys have have been playing with hooking up mass storage have been using.
NikonUser said:
Like this?
http://www.airstash.com/
Although I don't think this one will allow wifi passthrough unfortunately.
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Thanks for not calling me a dumba~~. If I'd posted the same thing on Reddit.com/r/android, within 15 minutes there would have been 20 people calling me an idiot for being unaware of the AirStash.
While XDA isn't immune to the occasional flame war or troll, the level of discourse here and the desire to help each other is really fantastic. I am so thankful for XDA.
I don't get why this is even being discussed. Either 8/16gb is enough for you or this tablet is NOT for you. If you need more storage, you either need 3/4g or an SD card slot and you need to move on. Who is going to walk around with a wifi hard drive in their pocket (not to mention keeping both charged)? Who is going to use a tablet with a hub and a hard drive attached to it? Who is going to use a tablet with a flash drive hanging out of it held in place only by a fragile little micro USB plug? All these solutions mean you'd be better off using a computer.
Either tether it with your phone, only use it at home or forget about it.
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I don't get why this is even being discussed. Either 8/16gb is enough for you or this tablet is NOT for you. If you need more storage, you either need 3/4g or an SD card slot and you need to move on. Who is going to walk around with a wifi hard drive in their pocket (not to mention keeping both charged)? Who is going to use a tablet with a hub and a hard drive attached to it? Who is going to use a tablet with a flash drive hanging out of it held in place only by a fragile little micro USB plug? All these solutions mean you'd be better off using a computer.
Either tether it with your phone, only use it at home or forget about it.
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I might just because I can.
For the most part I just want a bigger screen to watch movies, browse the internet, and remotely connect to my computer and server and display the x11 using nvc, my phone is too small for it.
16 GB should be fine. I have 2TB on my server for cloud at home and on the go.
But if I could just plug in a usb to the tablet then that would be fine too.
When I go on trips I find myself taking my digital camera and Nexus 10 with me. I'm still pretty new to the Nexus 10 and I'm wondering what might be the easiest way to transfer pictures from the digital camera's SD card (not micro SD) directly to the Nexus 10? I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Nexus 10 needs to be "rooted" to effectively use the USB port...is that true? If not, is there a consensus on what adapter / cable / card reader might be best to achieve this?
Look fro a thread on OTG cable or something like that for a SD Card reader links. You'd need the StickMount app for that and need to be rooted to use that app.
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Look fro a thread on OTG cable or something like that for a SD Card reader links. You'd need the StickMount app for that and need to be rooted to use that app.
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So "Yes," it must be rooted to have the Nexus 10 see an SD card via the micro USB port?
Woh neddy. No need to root. Use nexus media importer app, my device is stock unrooted with otg SD card reader. Works good.
I mention a USB reader I got today in another post, titled something like "USB otg multi SD card reader, working n10" etc. It streams video off the card nicely too.
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2089109
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No you don't need to be rooted to see the SD card. However if you want to write to the SD card you must be rooted.
You could also try an Eye-Fi card. It goes in your camera and transfers photos through a wireless network setup by the card. I have one for my DSLR and love it. Transfers on the fly as you take photographs if your tablet is on near the camera.
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nexusktm said:
You could also try an Eye-Fi card. It goes in your camera and transfers photos through a wireless network setup by the card. I have one for my DSLR and love it. Transfers on the fly as you take photographs if your tablet is on near the camera.
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Thanks! I've seen those before and considered it, but they seem a little pricey and I've noticed quite a few people complaining about stability issues and that the transfer rates are pretty poor. If you have DSLR I suspect the file sizes are pretty large. I would be curious to hear what your experience is with transferring pictures from your DSLR to your Nexus 10? Is it fairly quick?
Also, I noticed on Amazon.com that Transcend has a wireless SD Card as well. They cost quite a bit less than Eye-Fi. I wonder what makes Eye-Fi different from Transcend's product? If anyone knows please let me know.
As you asked about transfer from cam to nexus 10 you do only need an otg cable/reader and nexus media importer app to do that. Been doing it most of yesterday from canon eos 550d SD card to n10.
Best Try that before spending more on eyefi or rooting etc . just to be able to save to SD which I'd not see a use for in a camera situation. You'd be only reading off card onto nexus.
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But would you be able to delete files from the card, to make more space? I'd like to pull videos from my GoPro. They are pretty large so the MiFi card won't work.
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After i've Copied pics to n10 then i just use the delete feature of the camera to empty the card. The card has to go back in the camera so its no inconvenience. I don't know if you can delete from your go pro. Any old cheap SD card holding camera would do for deleting however.
Ok sure if a meteor strike was looming or something, being rooted may be advantagous but for most scenarios involving a camera SD card this is a simple solution, I had to choose a simple one as its for my dads n10 and his camera and he and technology don't mix unless its piss easy.
OPs question is answered comprehensibly as far as I see it! Go forth get the cable/reader, the app and don't worry!
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I've never felt like the transfer rates were slow with my eye-fi card with my DSLR. Seems to only take a 3 or 4 seconds per pic.
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Thanks everyone for all the information. I've purchased one of the Micro USB OTG cables from Amazon. Hopefully, it will do what I need.
With stock (non-rooted) N10, I used an OTG cable to connect my camera directly to the tablet using its micro-USB cable (ie N10 <--> OTG <--> camera cable <--> camera). The camera uses PTP to transfer the files, and tablet recognized it and immediately opened the Gallery with the pictures inside the camera. I could browse and import the pictures, but not delete them. But deletion is not necessary, you can still use the camera's menus for that.
The above does work quite well, but doesn't see video files to import or give chance to view them immediately like you can with SD card reader and media importer app. At least on our canon.
Handy to have that 2nd option though for pic import.
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hi
JPW1 said:
When I go on trips I find myself taking my digital camera and Nexus 10 with me. I'm still pretty new to the Nexus 10 and I'm wondering what might be the easiest way to transfer pictures from the digital camera's SD card (not micro SD) directly to the Nexus 10? I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Nexus 10 needs to be "rooted" to effectively use the USB port...is that true? If not, is there a consensus on what adapter / cable / card reader might be best to achieve this?
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Write to SD card without root
vMAC said:
However if you want to write to the SD card you must be rooted.
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Look at the "USB Stick Plugin-TC (noroot)" in the Play-Store.
It allows write access to attached USB sticks for devices which are not rooted.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/150982440847 try that one ，it works great
Can anyone recommend a seller on Amazon or EBay that sells a good quality and inexpensive OTG cable?
DizoAZ said:
Can anyone recommend a seller on Amazon or EBay that sells a good quality and inexpensive OTG cable?
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It's like buying a any cable for your computer. Pretty much any one will do. I bought the cheapest OTG 90 degree cable that amazon had good reviews for, it works just fine. Amazon search OTG cable, if it has some good reviews, just buy it, it's pretty hard for a company to screw up making a usb cable.
DizoAZ said:
Can anyone recommend a seller on Amazon or EBay that sells a good quality and inexpensive OTG cable?
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I bought mine off monoprice. I had to pay shipping but I included a bunch of other cables i needed.
So I'm currently driving an OG EVO 4G, and was REALLY excited to get a class 10 32GB SD card for Christmas last year. My rationale in asking for it had been that it would go with me to my next phone.
LOVE the ONE in so many ways, but kind of balk at the fact that it doesn't have an SD card that can be swapped out.
So what do you ONE owners think? Is it an issue?
Well it depends on your storage needs. I used to have a 32gb card in my DHD, but it only had 8 GB internal storage and I used it with app2sdext. When I got my one x last year I never worried about storage (32gb model).
I had most of my music on there and still had more than 10gb free.
If you really really need 64gb of movies with you you can still use usb otg and an sd reader or an external hdd/usb sticks.
That's my 2c
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Yeah, I guess I'm less concerned about it from a capacity perspective, and more from a backup, and maybe switching between ROMs angle... I'm just used to being able to pop a chip and pop another one in if I need to, y'know? Safety net and all that rot.