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.
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Hi there,
I want to know if its possible to connect my Kaiser to a mass storage device (such an external usb hdd) and get access to the files on the device from the kaiser.
(I'm planning to connect the kaiser to an Usb multimedia-player hdd, and connect from my pc to the kaiser via wifi; This way i would transfer files from my pc to a far away usb hdd ... )
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Not unless that Mass Storage device is a microSDHC card (currently up to 16 GB) which you can put into a USB card reader and then transfer to the phone. The HTC proprietary extUSB jack on the TyTN II will not 'host' a USB drive (aside from the issue of finding a Windows Mobile compatible driver).
Thanks Flying Kiwi
What a pity....
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.
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.
The title says it all.I have a usb Kingston 8 gb and if i connect the device with my phone with otg cable it says that it is empty.The same with external HDD.The only usb that recognizes well is a cruzer blade 4 GB.Any suggestions"???
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The title says it all.I have a usb Kingston 8 gb and if i connect the device with my phone with otg cable it says that it is empty.The same with external HDD.The only usb that recognizes well is a cruzer blade 4 GB.Any suggestions"???
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I use 32gig micro sdcard with adapter every day. some 64 gig flash drives work fine also
I think it just has to be fat32 format
I am trying to get large SD or microSD cards to connect to my droid turbo via an OTG adapter but have not had much success. I can successfully mount a 64GB flash drive and a 128GB microSD but when I step up to a 200GB microSD or a 256GB SD it does not mount. The button in the storage section of the setting to mount OTG storage becomes un-greyed-out but it will not mount it. My phone is rooted.
I was eventually able to figure it out by formatting the drives in FAT32 as primary and with 32kb cluster size. I used minitool to format the cards.
My next task is to try and connect multiple drives at once as well as a usb audio dac.