Hey has anyone gotten a mass storage driver to work on the G-Tab? Or something similar?
Want to be able to take files off of a USB memory stick (or my external USB drive for that matter) but the table doesn't recognize them when I plug in.
Thanks
BN
bnovak said:
Hey has anyone gotten a mass storage driver to work on the G-Tab? Or something similar?
Want to be able to take files off of a USB memory stick (or my external USB drive for that matter) but the table doesn't recognize them when I plug in.
Thanks
BN
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I've been using an 8GB USB thumb drive with my G-tab and it reads the files on it just fine. I think it has to be formated to fat32 before it will read it though. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I do it daily with several different thumb drives. Use esfilemanager and hit the flashcard-looking icon and look for a folder called USBDISK. Your stuff is in there.
FAT is standard for most flash drives and you should leave it that way for compatibility, but you can format in FAT32 also. NTFS or exFAT won't work for flash drives on G-tablet. Also don't try to power an external hard drive from that USB port, not nearly enough juice.
(Use FAT32 rather than FAT if you need to put video files or something larger than 2GB on the drive, limit is just under 4GB for FAT32)
I know there are people using NTFS on some ROMs but most users won't have the chops to accomplish this.
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Curious if there is a way to hook up either a flash drive or an external hard drive through the usb port on a rooted nook color?
Since the underlying OS is Linux I don't know why. Don't you just need to know what mount point to use?
Homer
I guess I am just curious about power, like if it will power a flash drive or an external hard drive with/without a power supply. The mount point would be great too
jonahstepro said:
I guess I am just curious about power, like if it will power a flash drive or an external hard drive with/without a power supply. The mount point would be great too
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Do you have a flash drive or external hard drive with a microSD connector? I've not encountered these on anything but mobile media.
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I guess I am just curious about power, like if it will power a flash drive or an external hard drive with/without a power supply. The mount point would be great too
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Internal power for an external drive might be a bit much to ask, considering that to charge the nook in the first place takes a special cord with extra power. Should be enough for say a standard USB flash drive with the right adapter though. No idea if that is the right one, but you get the idea.
Homer
I was thinking about this today. I was wondering if I could use a SD card with say pictures or video and one of those usb card readers like the one included with this SD card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...208516&cm_re=transcend-_-20-208-516-_-Product
Anyone out there have a powered USB hub, they used to be common as dirt. I suspect if you connected tablet to hub and drive to hub you could create a way to do this with some creative thinking. Assuming the ful usb driver stack is in android/book rom it should work with the right mount commands. It all depends on the drivers though, usually usb stacks use different drivers for being targets like the book is in usb mode, rather than for mounting other devices as targets.. it's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure there would be much of a benefit, it might prove to be slower than USB mode since the book CPU would be doing all the work.
I have a Nook Color, and I made a 4gb SDram that allows me to book to Android 2.3. It is possible to plug that thing into my PC and read/write to the free space on the SD card? I tried plugging in a generic Micro SD cable, and it comes up with 2 drives that it says are not formatted.
If you used the "size-agnostic" instructions or a derivative, then all you have to do is plug the charger cable into a PC.
Two drives will appear, one that's your /sdcard partition, the other is your /emmc partition. They should both be fully accessible from the PC like thumb drives, and you will need to tell Windows when you're done with them, like any thumb drive.
Windows has trouble with partitioned SD cards, and generally doesn't support the ext filesystems Android uses for some partitions; when you plug a card like this into a Linux PC, you get four drives, all fully accessible. Going through the NC exposes only the two partitions that everybody can use.
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You can but only able to access it via usb cable plugged between your NC and your PC.
Wow, I spent a lot of time chasing this problem, thinking it was some setting in my HD+. (Since I tinker a lot disabling services.)
I have USBHost Switcher installed and it has worked fine. (With a gender changer of course.)
So I tried a brand new 32 GB Kingston USB 3.0 thumb drive I just got. (Supposedly compatible with USB 2.0.)
Nothing. I get a warning that the USB drive was "unexpectedly disconnected." (A race condition? Too fast?)
It's formatted FAT32, with 16kb clusters from the factory. (If cluster size matters to the Nook.) But I can mount a 32 GB FAT32 card with 32 KB clusters, and I can mount an old 256 MB USB 1.0 thumb drive. So the problem seems to be following the USB 3.0 drive. Any thoughts about this and what I can do to get it to play?
Before I concluded that the problem is with the USB 3.0 flash drive, I had tried my Passport WD 1TB external drive as another test of USBHost Switcher. That drive had worked before, but in the meantime I had reformatted it to exFAT. Can't see it on the Nook HD+ anymore. (Bad experimenting. Changing too many variables at once.) I'm guessing not seeing exFAT is a kernel problem?
Sigh. I'm not doing too well here with external storage. I thought I was being smart when androidpolice announced an Amazon sale on this Kingston flash drive. But maybe there's a reason it was on sale?
Some things need to be behind a usb hub. Don't know if that's one of them.
I have an OEM 16gb USB flash drive and a SanDisk 32gb flash drive. Both are USB 2.0, but the OEM doesn't work on my nook.
Have a look around this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2307585&page=9
The app TPUSBUmount can fix power issues removing the need to hide accessories behind a hub. Turn on the USBhostswitcher, open TPUSBUmount and connect your thumb drive. The TPUSBUmount will tell you if power if the problem
kylewieder said:
Have a look around this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2307585&page=9
The app TPUSBUmount can fix power issues removing the need to hide accessories behind a hub. Turn on the USBhostswitcher, open TPUSBUmount and connect your thumb drive. The TPUSBUmount will tell you if power if the problem
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Thanks for the info. I tried the TPUSBUmount app and it reported a power problem with the Kingston USB 3.0 flash drive. Unfixable.
It turns out that the same flash drive also do not work with a Lenovo desktop machine.
Hi,
I have the HTC One and I am trying to get it to read several sd cards/thumb drives at the same time. I have the HTC One connected via USB OTG to a powered hub. The powered hub has a thumb drive and sd card reader plugged into it. Both the thumb drive and sd card reader light up... but I can only see one device on my phone. Is there any way I can set it up so I can see all devices connected to the hub? I want to be able to transfer photos from an sd card to the thumb drive, on the go without a computer. All drives/cards are formatted to FAT32, I am not rooted and do not want to be.
Thanks.
pmp6nl said:
Hi,
I have the HTC One and I am trying to get it to read several sd cards/thumb drives at the same time. I have the HTC One connected via USB OTG to a powered hub. The powered hub has a thumb drive and sd card reader plugged into it. Both the thumb drive and sd card reader light up... but I can only see one device on my phone. Is there any way I can set it up so I can see all devices connected to the hub? I want to be able to transfer photos from an sd card to the thumb drive, on the go without a computer. All drives/cards are formatted to FAT32, I am not rooted and do not want to be.
Thanks.
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One advice
Put your One on gas and burn it up !!
You wanna add two things simultaneously to a phone they will suck its voltage and motherboard
yatindroid said:
One advice
Put your One on gas and burn it up !!
You wanna add two things simultaneously to a phone they will suck its voltage and motherboard
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Why would it suck its voltage if its a powered hub...
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
For anyone else looking for a solution try Nexus Media Importer... it seems to work pretty well.
Is it possible to connect my External Hard disk to the phone? If yes, then do I need any separate accessories?
Currently I have an ext HDD which has multiple partititons, one of them is 32GB FAT32 partition. When I connect the charging cable's USB end to the HDD, nothing happens. All partitions are detected when I connect it to my laptop.