Hi Guys,
Today I got the USB Host OTG Cable & able to directly play videos from USB drive
But I tried to access my external hard disk, its not working
make sure your drive is FAT32. tablet can not read NTFS.
or try to connect a power supply to the hard drive ... at my first test my 2,5'' hard drive works fine (without ext. power) and a view days later I need a power supply to get access to the HD ....
With how thwere are folders called usb1 usb2 usb3 etc, does that mean you could attach a USB-hub and have several usb devices working at once? If you can I'm guessing the hub would need an external power source. Anyone have experience doing something like that with their tab?
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I was wondering if it is possible to use an external CD/DVD Burner Drive like this one here to put a DVD movie inside and connect to the A101IT to watch movies on like it's your own portable DVD player? Kind of like watching a DVD movie on your laptop but your laptop doesn't have an internal optical DVD drive.
Is an external drive even remotely compatible with the A101IT for that matter? I mean it should work because my slim portable 500GB external HDD works perfectly with my A101IT and the A101IT should be able to read any device that has a USB port right? ... So if it can read any device that connects to it via USB then the external drive should work right??
If you look on archos's website, they list the voltage/amps that the USB can support. So if that drive is low enough, its probably possible with Uruk.
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Even if you plugged it in, Froyo does not support optical drives of any kind so you couldn't do anything with it.
Summarized:
You need an Optical Drive that needs not much "energy" and you need the android-specific Drivers for the Drive.
(Both don't excist)
Well I guess THAT answers my question then. I figured it probably couldn't work because of the "drives" problem so thanks for confirming it Lennb.
Hi all,
I'm about to travel to Ireland next week, with my SGS2 and a camcorder - but no notebook.
My challenge was to be able to download everything from my camcorder onto a portable HDD, using only the Samsung (this would free my camcorder's SDHC card for the following day).
Successes so far:
SGS2 "sees" camcorder through OTG cable, and downloads (small) files
SGS2 "sees" HDD through OTG cable, and uploads/downloads (small) files (HDD is a 1TB My Passport, reformatted to FAT32 and connected through a powered USB2 hub)
Can even transfer (small) files directly from cam to HDD, when SGS2, HDD and Cam are all conected to the hub (SGS2 using OTG cable)
Steps 1-3 were easy, but I still have a problem in files getting cut at 1GB (the remainder of the file doesn't transfer - presumably a RAM size issue). And camcorder files are usually large (around 3GB)...
Any way I can transfer larger files?
All answers are welcome - I need to fly in a few days...
Thanks,
Kim
are you sure is fat 32? as far as i know the limitation is at 4gb for fat 32 so in theory it should allow you!
Also, for a better solution you should look into how to mount ntfs drives? can your video camera can handle ntfs drive?
If your rooted you may want to look at ntfs support in your kernel, i know chainfire's is ntfs compatible. Hope this helps.
justkim said:
Any way I can transfer larger files?
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Can transfer large files from your portable HD (or an USB stick) to the phone, with the OTG cable? Connect the HD, then copy a file from it using My Files.
Turns out the file manager I was using (eFile) cut the transfers after exactly 1.95GB (showed the integer as 1GB)
Tried with My Files - worked like a charm, transferring directly from Cam to HDD or any other combination I like.
Thanks Guys!!!
Congrats.
Ok, odd question, but here goes. plugged my WD external USB HDD into my tablet/dock to transfer files. It did it fine, I was able to browse the HDD afterwards. Now when I plug the HDD into my PC, it says it's not formatted. Anyone run into anything like this?
Ok, I've put some .MKV video (movie) files onto my tera-byte sized Passport drive, under Windows.
The drive is NTFS-formatted.
My Samsung TV shows that port 'USB-0' is also labeled as '(HDD)', so I plugged the Passport drive into that USB-port.
So, will (should) Android auto-mount that Passport-drive?
When I'm standing there watching the Android Home screen (this is Android 4.2.2/Jellybean), and I plug the Passport
into that USB port, I am expecting to see SOME visual indication that it sees the drive (e.g. like in Windows, when 'autoplay'
dialog pops up.)
Ideas on why I'm not seeing anything?
I recently picked up a Google Nexus player from my local supplier for @ $50. I then used an adapter to install a USB hub. In the hub I have a 32gb thumb drive and a dongle for a wireless keyboard and mouse. In the settings area for the thumb drive are options to move some of the files from the main unit to the thumb drive (after setting it up as a dedicated player extension). I had previously downloaded and installed Kodi Isengard 14.2. At one time when doing the data transfer to the USB drive I had a message (drive seems slow). Subsequent to that when loading Kodi I had the error message "waiting on the USB drive". I reseated the USB drive and repowered the unit.... Kodi then came up ok. I'm wondering if I can remove the USB drive (with an eye to replacing it with a faster one) or will this cause a failure of some of the apps on the system. (ie Kodi, Sideloader, ESfile manager, etc)? Also, is there any method of reversing the use of the USB drive for these files. (move everything back to the Player)?
Go to the settings and in storage go to the Internal drive and you will see an option to move things back to Internal storage.
Then go to the thumb drive settings and select to unmont it.
Don't remove till you do all that.
Try and get the fastest parts you can. You may still get the slow message, but things will run better overall.
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There needs to be a compatibility list. I originally used a 64gb usb 3 Kingston data traveler. And I would get the slow message. And data was slow, apps were slow running. Used a pny 2.0 32gb and I would not get the slow message, but it would never format correctly. Finally using a Seagate 1tb external hdd, and while it seems like it would be the slowest device, it actually works exactly how it should. No slow message, formats correctly, and apps run perfectly when loaded from the hdd.
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What is the best hard drive an or usb for the nexus player?
same here, kingston data traveler usb 2.0 8GB reports slow, kingston data traveler usb 3.0 16GB seems ok.
for some reason I can no longer move apps to usb stroage on my nexus player runing stock android 6.0.1can anybody help me reslove this problem thanks?
It's kinda ridiculous how screwed up external storage is on the np. In any other case Ive come across, a thumb drive is a thumb drive is a thumb drive, with the only difference being the read and write speeds. I can't believe how finicky it is w/r/t ext storage, esp when it was an advertised feature for 6.0.