Can you connect multiple devices to a USB hub (powered or unpowered) at once and transfer files between them? This would be using the USB adapter with a usb hub to connect a thumb drive or card reader and a usb hard drive and copying files between them.
Is this possible on the gtab with the stock rom?
My return period is coming very close and I haven't been able to get my hands on a USB adapter to try this myself.
I assume the software actually supports this since tables like the transformer with the dock have multiple USB ports...
I would also like to know... it would be awesome if I could hook up my camera and external hard drive to transfer the pictures - if that is possible, I will no longer have to take my laptop with me on vacation. I know transferring the files to the tap and then to the drive would probably work, but my CF card is twice the size of my tabs memory... I need to skip the taps memory all together.
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I would also like to know... it would be awesome if I could hook up my camera and external hard drive to transfer the pictures - if that is possible, I will no longer have to take my laptop with me on vacation. I know transferring the files to the tap and then to the drive would probably work, but my CF card is twice the size of my tabs memory... I need to skip the taps memory all together.
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Same reasoning here. RAW pics from my SLR when on vacation, etc. My 14 return period is up on friday and this is a make or break for me. No best buys within a 30 mi radius have the USB adapter still
also want know this,i got a card reader recently
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Same reasoning here. RAW pics from my SLR when on vacation, etc. My 14 return period is up on friday and this is a make or break for me. No best buys within a 30 mi radius have the USB adapter still
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Yep, same here... the RAW files from my 7D are 15-30 megs a piece. One vacation can reach ~60-100 gigs...
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Use of USB hub with stock GT-P7510
I WAS able to connect the EPL-1PLRBE (Samsung USB adapter) to the Samsung dock side port with the GT-7510 docked, then plugged in a SanDisk MicroMate SD card reader, plug in an 8GB SD card and my Tab opened up "My files" and gave me the directory for the SD card in 'Root/Storages/usb/...' whereupon I was able to access the files on the SD card, ie., view the pics, read the pdf's, play the wmv's, mp4's and 3gp's. This all was accomplished with NO power besides the Tab's internal battery. I can also copy from/to the SD card plugged into the MicroMate reader with no external power.
I then hooked up a Gigaware 4-port USB hub to the EPL-1PLRBE, plugged the SanDisk MicroMate SD card reader with an 8GB SD card inserted (you have to power on with the devices already plugged in to the hub for the TAB to recognize it-it will give the USB trident symbol in the systray if you are successful) and was able to duplicate opening "My files" and reading/writing to the 8GB SD card.
Immediately afterward, I powered down, added a second USB device, a digital picture watch, to the hub. I powered up and with the second device on the unpowered hub the TAB would not recognize either device or display the USB trident in the systray.
With the TAB still on, I added the Samsung USB power adapter to the hub, in the fourth slot. Without powering down, the TAB thought for 5-10 seconds, then displayed the USB trident in the systray and brought up "My files" which now recognized both devices, and which position on the hub it was located. I deduced this by the foldername in "My files" - the first device was in the first slot, and its folder name was 'sda' with the second device in the third USB slot with the folder name of 'sdc'
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Hi,
Has anyone try to import pictures from a camera directly to Asus transformer Prime?
Would love to know if this works.
Thanks
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i would also like to know.
i would try myself but i'm still waiting for amazon to ship me the dock
If it can do mass storage, probably. I know on my gs2 I had a $7 usb cf card reader (plus a usb otg cable, the Prime needs either a dock or the USB host adapter for $15 I think) and pulled my Canon 7D pics off for upload, worked like a charm. If it shows up on a pc as a disk drive, you're good. If it shows up as a camera you'll need a card reader, OR if the camera takes sd cards, you could get a microsd with an adapter to full size, shoot on that card, then pull the micro out of the adapter and into the prime. Ya dig?
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If it can do mass storage, probably. I know on my gs2 I had a $7 usb cf card reader (plus a usb otg cable, the Prime needs either a dock or the USB host adapter for $15 I think) and pulled my Canon 7D pics off for upload, worked like a charm. If it shows up on a pc as a disk drive, you're good. If it shows up as a camera you'll need a card reader, OR if the camera takes sd cards, you could get a microsd with an adapter to full size, shoot on that card, then pull the micro out of the adapter and into the prime. Ya dig?
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Yepp that is the case for TF201 and TF101, all my cameras worked as mass stroage on the Dock, if not plug in the SD-Card in the dock.
I think it should work. The Prime supports USB host, so it should read it as a mass storage device. Do you have the dock? If not you'll have to get the USB adapter. I can plug my Canon T2i into the dock and it's recognized.
3.1 added USB host mode and camera (PTP) support.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1-highlights.html
I tried it yesterday with my Canon 7D. Plugged it in and immediately the gallery popped open on my Prime and showed there were photos to be imported. I clicked import and blazingly fast they copied to my Prime. I'm very impressed with this, exactly what I needed. It is brilliant!
Mic
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I've been wirelessly synching,WiFi or AdHoc, using my Nikon bodies and EyeFi. Much easier to lug around than a laptop especially with all the lighting crap and batteries. It's also more impressive to the clients.
For example, my D300s has CF and SD slots. The CF records RAW while SD records fine high quality JPEG. I have the pro EyeFi so I can make it do RAW, too. The gallery app by EyeFi is pretty good. PM me if you guys have questions. My biggest reason for getting a 64GB Prime is for shooting purposes... and others as well.
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Does anyone know where it mounts the camera in the filesystem? I found the usbdisk in the removable storage folder. I want to import pics directly to an external disk using a powered hub
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Does anyone know where it mounts the camera in the filesystem? I found the usbdisk in the removable storage folder. I want to import pics directly to an external disk using a powered hub
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Considering it has 1 usb port, I am not sure how you can do transfer it directly without using a swap space.
It should be able to. I can confirm i can simultaneously import pics and copy files from an external usb disk. The daft thing just wont give me an interface to copy directly from cam to disk. And yes you need a powered usb hub to connect that setup.
Can someone try who has it rooted to find the cam mountpoint?
I've had to return 2 primes, but my third will hopefully come soon from Hhgregg.
Anyway,
I'm going to Thailand in March and wanted to use my Prime and Dock in my photography workflow.
What I have currently is a Canon 50D camera (uses Compact Flash cards), External USB HDD and an external card reader/USB hub. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028MEZFE/ref=oh_o05_s00_i00_details
I'm trying to figure out the best way to transfer off my CF cards to my external HDD. It's not looking like I will be able to have them both connected at the same time. So, currently it's looking like I may need to transfer from CF to internal MicroSD card, then to HDD. However, I noticed on a test that the transfer rate was really slow doing it that way.
The USB hub/Card reader is seen by the prime, but I could not see both a CF card and external USB HDD connected to that hub at the same time. Which is what I was hoping for.
Any suggestions on a workflow or questions if I didn't make enough since above?
Thanks
I would try a usb hub and a usb card reader, idk if usb card readers work past the ASUS one, which iirc plugs into the docking port.
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Is webtop capable of recognizing various USB devices as external storage? I would like to use it on a trip to download photos off my digital camera, but right now it does not seem to recognize the camera when I plug in the usb cord to the back of the lapdock. Same for my USB thumb drive and my 500gb external drive.
This was one of the main reasons for getting the lapdock up and running by this weekend, so I am hoping either I am doing something wrong or there is a workaround to get it to recognize my camera so I can download the photos to my phones 32gb SD card and/or a thumb drive.
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EDIT: It will pick it up if I use a USB to SD card reader, and reads the card instantly (Formatted FAT) but when in the camera and plugged in via USB to micro USB straight to the camera, it says it only supports USB storage, mice, and keyboard...any work around for making it think my "camera" is a "usb storage" (which it essentially is right?)
Ill try a usb card reader tomorrow. I havent done more then a mouse.
I have a similar goal of running usb to serial port if I can
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I've used a mouse and a flash drive formatted fat
I am trying to get my 101 G9 (8 gig classic) running ICS Stock to recognise a USB thumb drive or a usb card reader. I've tried the USB cable to the micro USB port and the 3g USB port on the back but to no avail. I've see various threads that say that others have gotten it to work, but I can't figure out how.
Is it possible to use a thumb drive on the 101?
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I am trying to get my 101 G9 (8 gig classic) running ICS Stock to recognise a USB thumb drive or a usb card reader. I've tried the USB cable to the micro USB port and the 3g USB port on the back but to no avail. I've see various threads that say that others have gotten it to work, but I can't figure out how.
Is it possible to use a thumb drive on the 101?
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yes stick it in the 3g port and turn 3g on in the settings, then browse with a file browser
I've tried that. Turn on 3g stick. wait a few minutes. plug in thumb drive. Not recognised. I've tried this with mine and a brand new (on HC) that belongs to a friend.
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I've tried that. Turn on 3g stick. wait a few minutes. plug in thumb drive. Not recognised. I've tried this with mine and a brand new (on HC) that belongs to a friend.
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try putting in the thumb drive then turning it on
I've had a similar problem like this as well. looking through the logs it looks like the USB bus does goto sleep to conserve power and does not seem to wake up properly in my opinion.
What I've done to 'wake' it up before does require that you have rooted your device.
1) Open up Terminal Emulator or your choice of terminal.
2) Naviagate to /dev/bus/usb/001 (ie: type: cd /dev/bus/usb/001 )
3) type: cat 001
A few lines of garbage might show up but for me it has woke up the USB bus and read the usb drive I had inserted then I can unmount it normally through android.
Thanks to all the offers of information.
I'll give them a try.
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I use usb adapter for sd card which in turn is inserted into USB OTG adapter. It gives me hot swap for sd card by the way. Try this approch in your case.
Hi,
I'm looking to get either the Tab or Note 10.1, but need to know whether its possible to transfer images from the micro SD card to an external USb powered HDD. I know I can get hold of a micro usb male/ mini usb male adapter to link the Tab/Note to the HDD, but don't know if the Tab/Note will power the drive, or if it's possible to transfer pics in this way.
I'm planning a roadtrip in the USA later this year and would not have regular access to wifi to upload images to 'dropbox' etc so would rather back them up to a HDD.
I know there are several similar postings, but no suitable/applicable answers.
Suggestions/answers ?
Cheers
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Hi,
I'm looking to get either the Tab or Note 10.1, but need to know whether its possible to transfer images from the micro SD card to an external USb powered HDD. I know I can get hold of a micro usb male/ mini usb male adapter to link the Tab/Note to the HDD, but don't know if the Tab/Note will power the drive, or if it's possible to transfer pics in this way.
I'm planning a roadtrip in the USA later this year and would not have regular access to wifi to upload images to 'dropbox' etc so would rather back them up to a HDD.
I know there are several similar postings, but no suitable/applicable answers.
Suggestions/answers ?
Cheers
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The Tab 10.1 doesn't have a micro SD card slot - the Tab 2 does. On the Tab 10.1 there's a chunk of the internal memory mounted as /sdcard that you can store your photos on.
As far as moving files to an external drive goes, you can do that with most file managers so that's no problem.
One issue you may have is that the external drive will need to be formatted as FAT 32, not NTFS. That means that you can't copy files larger than 4GB to the external drive. That's probably not going to be a problem for you if you're moving images (not movies).
To connect the drive, you'll need an OTG cable, which are fairly inexpensive. However, there's no guarantee that the tablet will be able to power the drive. External thumb drives work fine for me. I haven't tried any portable hard drives, but as long as the current demand is fairly low it may work. Some people have had success with portable drives, so it's worth giving it a try, especially if you're talking about a notebook size drive as those tend to be less power hungry.
I have successfully mounted an external HDD via a externally powered USB-Hub. The FAT32 partition can be mounted without additional software, the NTFS partition can be mounted with the free app "NTFS mount". USB-Sticks will be powered by the tablet without problem. The problem is, that the combined card reader / USB adaptor can only be used with one function at a time. So I had to copy the SD-card to the internal storage of the tab and then move it from there to the external HDD.
You might want to think about buying an Intenso Memory 2 Move HDD. It's an external 2.5" HDD with a battery (6 hours) and a wifi hotspot. You can access the drive via wifi, ethernet RJ45 and USB 3.0. Works like a charm with Android.
Regards
Achim
Sorry, it was the Tab 2 (10.1 screen, stylus thing etc) I was meaning but couldn't find a heading for it. Is it likely to power an external 2.5 drive ?
Most certainly it will not power HDD. The easiest solution is an external miniature USB hub with power supply.
Regards
Achim
I would like to mention that HDD must be partitioned as GPT to work otherwise it shows as corrupt.
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