i only just found out these are a 'thing', they actually exist
http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Data-Storage/Pocket-Hard-Drives/SGBF0500BK
so has anyone used them? is there any reason you can see why they wouldn't work on the Flyer?
and is there any other way of connecting to storage space larger than 32GB on the Flyer - we don't have usb host capabilities, right?
i already have a 300GB portable hard drive, but there is no way to connect this to the flyer, is there?
Some people have reported success with USB host on Flyer with Honeycomb using a powered hub. I have not tried that myself.
Most NAS (network attached storage) drives can be used with android, but i recommend you get one of the file manager apps that supports them from the app market. Most have a web based interface as well, but this is usually slow and clunky.
Many are way cheaper than this Seagate item.
I use Dropbox cloud storage with great success.
i use dropbox as well, for the small stuff...but i'm thinking more along the lines of entertainment when i'm travelling
i used to fill up my 300GB HDD with various music and video and and travel with a netbook...i'm trying to figure out a way of doing that with the flyer, with more space than the 32GB sd card
suggestions?
Often times, an Amazon or ebay page will give info on compatible devices with most hardwares. Look around and see if theres a flyer compatible hard drive online. I'm sure there is
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are you 'sure' there is, or are you just assuming? because i can't find anything
other threads on xda say that a powered external drive 'should' work (but no one who has tried it has confirmed), and on androidforums they categorically say that it will not work
If you are only concerned with videos or music, get a DLNA compatible server and that will work with Flyer, problem with all of these is they need a wireless LAN and its hard to guess if they will work with the Flyer or any other device in a standalone mode. I"m betting the Flyer will refuse to connect to them ad-hoc.
This Seagate device does appear to have a unique ability to setup its own network allowing direct access without another router. Might be useful in that regard. Of course performance is going to be slow, but fast enough to stream one file.
Be sure and read the reviews of users for the android app before you buy one, they are very poor.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.seagate.goflexsatellite&hl=en
DigitalMD said:
Be sure and read the reviews of users for the android app before you buy one, they are very poor.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.seagate.goflexsatellite&hl=en
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yes, i had read those app reviews, which has simply brought me back to the most basic of questions: other than 32GB SD cards, we have zero confirmed options on extending storage?
Unless you are sitting on a LAN via wifi, or you are running Honeycomb with a powered hub, you'd be a lot better off carrying extra SD cards. This is the same for MOST, not all tablets. Except for a couple of heavyweights, even those that have USB host don't have the power to run a external USB drive
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or you are running Honeycomb with a powered hub
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is this a 'powered hub'?
http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/165870/USB_USB_HUBS/Belkin/F4U040AU.asp
so if i get this i can use my external usb drive, plug it into the flyer's micro usb (using the proprietary cable that came with the flyer), and access media files?
I have one of these in 120 Gig … http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Drive-ST940801U2-RK/dp/B0006FS29U
It has 2 usb connectors one for power and data the other for just power.
I formatted it in Fat32 and found a 2 dollar adaptor to plug the data connector into my flyer.
I then plug the power connector into a usb power source (I’m using the charger from my EVO 4G phone)
Works great … all the files are displayed in Astro and Root Explorer.
I’ve seen the drives as cheap as 75 dollars. Just search around.
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is this a 'powered hub'?
http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/165870/USB_USB_HUBS/Belkin/F4U040AU.asp
so if i get this i can use my external usb drive, plug it into the flyer's micro usb (using the proprietary cable that came with the flyer), and access media files?
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If your external drive is self powered, all you will need is this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YKX6WC...e=asn&creative=395093&creativeASIN=B003YKX6WC
They can be found even cheaper on Ebay
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If your external drive is self powered, all you will need is this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YKX6WC...e=asn&creative=395093&creativeASIN=B003YKX6WC
They can be found even cheaper on Ebay
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it's not self powered but i already have one of those cables (came with my flyer)
i am so confused right now...i'm thinking i need a Y cable like the one in your first link...i'll see what i can dodgy up at home to figure this out
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it's not self powered but i already have one of those cables (came with my flyer)
i am so confused right now...i'm thinking i need a Y cable like the one in your first link...i'll see what i can dodgy up at home to figure this out
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you will need something like this http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-4-Port-Cable-Power-Supply/dp/B00004Z6KW
It’s really simple … if the device you are trying to use doesn’t have its own power supply it will draw power from the usb connection, however the Flyer doesn’t provide power.
So you will need to use a powered hub for your device to get power to operate
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It’s really simple … if the device you are trying to use doesn’t have its own power supply it will draw power from the usb connection, however the Flyer doesn’t provide power.
So you will need to use a powered hub for your device to get power to operate
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but if the external drive is connected to the powered hub, how will it also connect to the flyer? Y cable?
USB hub
connect USB hub to Flyer,
but neither the hub or the Y cable connection works with my Flyer, so I'm not sure what ROM he is running.
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USB hub
connect USB hub to Flyer,
but neither the hub or the Y cable connection works with my Flyer, so I'm not sure what ROM he is running.
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I’m running FlyHoney (haven't updated to latest leak yet) and after plugging in the device I go to settings > storage scroll down to usb storage then mount usb.
Then open Astro and scroll down ... there is new folder labeled USB.
OK, I have Honeycomb too, stock version, but the Host USB does not come online with either a standard cable or an OTG cable. The disk is powered by a Y cable or I can connected it the powered hub. The disk is formatted FAT32 as it should be , looking at the dmesg in terminal , the USB interface never even activates. I wonder if FlyHoney does anything special that stock HC does not do?
I have the Seagate satellite wireless hdd and it works with my flyer. Can stream movies and download from it. Cannot upload. App interface not great, but works
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OK, I have Honeycomb too, stock version, but the Host USB does not come online with either a standard cable or an OTG cable. The disk is powered by a Y cable or I can connected it the powered hub. The disk is formatted FAT32 as it should be , looking at the dmesg in terminal , the USB interface never even activates. I wonder if FlyHoney does anything special that stock HC does not do?
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Hummm … I’m not sure, maybe ask Nick in his FlyHoney thread.
Here’s a quick pic of my setup. http://db.tt/3Aohyrkd
Thanks yes, I understand your setup. I have the same things with a Y cable and power, just saying that USB host is not generally available on the Flyer to my knowledge and lots of people wonder how to get it work so maybe Nick can help us out.
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I have the Seagate satellite wireless hdd and it works with my flyer. Can stream movies and download from it. Cannot upload. App interface not great, but works
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Thanks for this … Just ordered one from Amazon
Anyone else notice that transferring files is pretty slow when hooked up through USB to PC? Took about 1 minute to transfer a folder of MP3's that is 133mb in size. It only takes a few seconds on my class to micro sd.
I just tried writing to the same micro sd card while it is in the tablet. It said 27 minutes to transfer a 4.3gb folder. When I removed the micro sd and used the adapter it is saying 5 minutes.
Was your microSD card in the Prime when you said it took only a few second or did you plug it directly in your computer without going through the Prime.
Cause I'm pretty sure internal memory should be at least as fast as a microSD but maybe there s an issu with how the files are transfered in PMP mode.
Also you should check with one big file (like a movie) and multiple small file (music/images files for roughtly the same weigh as the movie) and see if it's really the writing speed or because there is multiple files in queue.
I've had the opposite experience. I transferred over a 250mb movie to the prime that went super fast compared to transferring a comparable sized movie to my phone/sd card.
Writing a file to the micro sd card while it was inside the prime was a lot slower than using the sd adapter and transferring it that way.
Writing 4gb video to micro sd while inside prime = 27mins
Writing 4gb video to micro sd using sd adapter and not inside prime = 5 minutes
This is a class 10 PNY. I get 11 write and 21 read on sd test.
Writing 133mb folder of mp3's to prime internal memory = 1 minute.
Writing same folder to sd card using sd adapter = few seconds.
Whenever I connect the prime to my pc through usb it is very slow transferring files. Could it be Asus sync that is slowing things down?
This doesn't happen when transferring to my galaxy s II through usb
When plug into a computer. The prime appear as a media device. You don't have to mount anything. The storage, both internal and external, are readable by the PC and the Prime at the same time.
I know it behave like that with the original TF and that it is also slower than directly plug in the microSd on the computer.
That being said, I don't remember it taking 27 minutes to copy 4go (and I have a class 4 microsd) so I guess there's a problem somewhere.
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda premium
Could you also check the speed of copying files from internal memory to microSD in your Transformer? That way you will check if the connection to microSD is slow or not.
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Could you also check the speed of copying files from internal memory to microSD in your Transformer? That way you will check if the connection to microSD is slow or not.
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I actually had like 4gb of music on my micro sd that I wanted to move to the internal hd. So I plugged the prime into my pc (it shows up as a device and I double click it to see 2 drives. One for internal 32gb and one for the micro sd) and opened both drives. I dragged the music folder from the micro sd(inside the prime) to the prime internal memory and it said 17hours to transfer lol. It was insanely slow. I feel like instead of showing up on Windows 7 as a "portable device" it would be better to just show the drives. Like how the drives show up when you plug your phone in and enable usb file transferring. When I open "portable device - Asus Transformer prime", I can only access one drive at a time. If I open the internal hd folder and transfer a file it won't let me open another window to access the micro sd inside the prime. It gives me a message saying the device is busy.
My current desktop setting is i7 920 oc'ed to 3.8ghz, Asus rampage extreme 2 mono, 6gb corsair dominated, dual ati 5870. So I know it's not my pc that is slow lol. It transfers files really quickly to my galaxy s II. It must be something with my prime that is causing it to write really slowly.
HC uses MTP for internal storage, which is substantially slower than UMS when transferring many small files (music) as versus a few large files (video).
Anyone successful in mounting the Primes internal storage on OSX 10.72?
OSX does not see my prime's internal storage or micro SD card at all... Win7 PC seems fine.
Haven't connected my Prime to the macbook yet, but for the first transformer you needed to have the application ANDROID FILE TRANSFER installed on the Mac computer.
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Anyone successful in mounting the Primes internal storage on OSX 10.72?
OSX does not see my prime's internal storage or micro SD card at all... Win7 PC seems fine.
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Apple tries it's best to make it a pain the ass for you to use any device that doesn't have an "i" in front of it.
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mazjohn said:
Anyone successful in mounting the Primes internal storage on OSX 10.72?
OSX does not see my prime's internal storage or micro SD card at all... Win7 PC seems fine.
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You need....
Android File Transfer for MAC users
http://www.android.com/filetransfer/
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I actually had like 4gb of music on my micro sd that I wanted to move to the internal hd. So I plugged the prime into my pc (it shows up as a device and I double click it to see 2 drives. One for internal 32gb and one for the micro sd) and opened both drives. I dragged the music folder from the micro sd(inside the prime) to the prime internal memory and it said 17hours to transfer lol. It was insanely slow. I feel like instead of showing up on Windows 7 as a "portable device" it would be better to just show the drives. Like how the drives show up when you plug your phone in and enable usb file transferring. When I open "portable device - Asus Transformer prime", I can only access one drive at a time. If I open the internal hd folder and transfer a file it won't let me open another window to access the micro sd inside the prime. It gives me a message saying the device is busy.
My current desktop setting is i7 920 oc'ed to 3.8ghz, Asus rampage extreme 2 mono, 6gb corsair dominated, dual ati 5870. So I know it's not my pc that is slow lol. It transfers files really quickly to my galaxy s II. It must be something with my prime that is causing it to write really slowly.
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perhaps you need to reformat your microSD card to a format class speed that is compatible with Transformer Prime.
After reading this person's Amazon review on a Sandisk 32GB microSD card that I think it is the same type that I purchased from DailySteals I learned something very useful as it relates to the different performance of these microSD cards.
- What is even more useful was a criticizing comment to his review from a poster named AshenTech listed 4th down who explained how you can save money on these priced /performance cards by simply reformatting them and he referenced an SDformatter.
Amazon review
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3AT7L...Y&nodeID=172282&tag=&linkCode=#wasThisHelpful
SDformatter instructions
http://groups.google.com/group/200d...UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=sdformatter+speeds+up&pli=1#
SDformatter file
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/index.html
It is extremely slow for me. I can transfer the same music files wirelessly to another device in significantly less time.
I gave up trying to write files through the USB cable. I just use SwiFTP now for all file transferring
Hi every one after doing some searching around and not seeing anything related I decided to make this thread. Basically what am trying to do is use my HTC Amaze 4G or my ASUS Transformer as a usb blutooth adapter for my pc running windows 7 so i canconnect my ps3 controller or wiimote via bluetooth so i can use it as a game controller. I figure since i have both of these devices that are bluetooth capable i wouldnt have to buy a usb bluetooth adapter. So does anyone know how to do this or if theres some required app or driver? Thanks in advance
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So i'm guessing there's no such way?
does anyone else find it slow moving/adding new content to and from the mass storage.
ive just added 1.2gb worth on music onto my memory card and it took nearly an hour, where as my old android devices (sensation xe and wildfire s) took around 5 minutes. my nokia lumia took the p**s but that was a crap phone lol
i know its not my pc because its a custom built gaming rig with usb 2.0 and 3.0.
things just take forever to add and remove from the device, whether its card or internal.
im on android 4.1.2 stock, 16gb class 6 HC card. if that helps
USB 2 should transfer at up to 10x that card's write speed
You could try another cable. Can you test other devices now? Or are they all gone?
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USB 2 should transfer at up to 10x that card's write speed
You could try another cable. Can you test other devices now? Or are they all gone?
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sorry for late reply, no other devices are sold.
cable is standard GS3 one, tried a spare htc one and it wouldnt work (might be broke?). tried also my rear usb slots (usb 2)
cant think what it could be.
oh also tried on another pc and no different. phones totally stock too.
im stumped
wait... are you using mass storage mode? or are u just using the normal connection one? MTP?
if its mass storage mode on external maybe the problem is your micro sd maybe somethings wrong or if its class 4 or class 1 most likely its slow..
for MTP or the normal connection one.. its really gonna be slow
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wait... are you using mass storage mode? or are u just using the normal connection one? MTP?
if its mass storage mode on external maybe the problem is your micro sd maybe somethings wrong or if its class 4 or class 1 most likely its slow..
for MTP or the normal connection one.. its really gonna be slow
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when i connect its says Media Device (MTP)
the other connection is camera
i have no other options and memory card is class 6
Edit: anyone?
emokid09 said:
when i connect its says Media Device (MTP)
the other connection is camera
i have no other options and memory card is class 6
Edit: anyone?
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Root your phone and use USB Mass Storage Enabler. It's free on play store.