I don't see it mentioned in the forums, other than people complaining about the storage capacity of our phone. I went ahead and ordered an adapter cable and a 64gb usb drive. Plugged the drive into the adapter, the adapter into the phone...waited a few seconds for the phone to create a couple of folders on the drive, and voila! 58GB free space. To op check it I loaded up a couple of movies and they played great.
The only flaw I found was when you unmount the drive it just sits there, and when you remove it the widgets on your home screen crash. No idea why it would affect your widgets but oh well it works great for movies and that's about the largest file you'll ever use on the phone.
And files transfer off the phone onto the drive with astro as well.
I don't know why this hasn't been mentioned much, but it works, now people can stop complaining about storage.
If there are any differences between cables, here's what i used:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GGBYJ4/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_SC_dp_2
I think any usb drive will do, mine was formatted as exfat. NTFS will not work.
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I think you overpaid. I got 3 from Hong Kong for like 83 cents each. They work perfectly.
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Dave51495 said:
I think you overpaid. I got 3 from Hong Kong for like 83 cents each. They work perfectly.
Sent from my DROID DNA.
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I considered getting some of the cheaper ones, but I just got this one to get the free shipping and hoping that it wouldn't crap out on me. I'm in Hawaii so shipping is stupid expensive, it's worth it to get over the super saver shipping hump!
Does your phone do the crashing widget thing when you unmount and disconnect?
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A while ago someone posted a thread about the file transfer from the tablet to PC being extremely slow (I can attest.)
Anyhow in a brief moment of laziness and curiosity I grabbed my HTC Thunderbolt USB cable (knowing it would fit into the nook --same size) and plugged it up for file transfer. Needless to say now my transfer speeds for a microshdc^4 are around 3~4mbs+.
^Not sure if this will work for everyone but if you have a alternate cable available give it a try, because it is working great for me!
Sounds like they cheaped out and used a cable that only supports usb 1.1 then. Good to know; wish I had a compatible plug from another device for this.
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Sounds like they cheaped out and used a cable that only supports usb 1.1 then. Good to know; wish I had a compatible plug from another device for this.
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You can find cords cheap on ebay. If I have an extra you can have it if you want.
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You can find cords cheap on ebay. If I have an extra you can have it if you want.
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Yep, will probably buy one there if I find that it bugs me a lot. Good to know
Can you charge NT through the Thunderbolt USB cable? (Through the wall socket of course, since the Nook Tablet doesn't charge via PC.)
I'm trying to cut down on my cable clutter. It is really irritating that generic USB cables (and my Nook Touch USB cable) won't work for charging NT - my table is just a mess of wires now.
I dont think it's the cable. I have 10 different cables, Gal S2, Nook Color, Acer A500 etc.. Only when I transfer to Nook Tablet do i have problem (example, 12 hours to move 2.3g files). To get around it i been using dropbox and syncing the files wireless and it's superfast. But Nook color is perfect and everything else.
I ever used differnt combinations of cables on another PC but still no luck. When i plug it in, it sees all 3 Nook Tablet connections but it's so freaking slow.
Not sure why no one else didnt notice this yet. It's a pain to do the wiifi transfers when i know the cable would take 1 minute. I dont really think the unit is defective. Im not sure what else to try..
(ps.. all the PC's im using is Windows 7 64b)
12 hours for 2.3 GB's? Jesus Christ - It took me like 10 minutes to Transfer 700 MB of Music onto my NT - Somethings wrong either with your comp, NT or cables and or memory card - I'd look into it
Yup, i had a folder of all my droid apps. But even if i move 5 apps, it takes 10 minutes. It's freaking crazy, but everything else on it is working so good.. Great battery life, 10+ easily.
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12 hours for 2.3 GB's? Jesus Christ - It took me like 10 minutes to Transfer 700 MB of Music onto my NT - Somethings wrong either with your comp, NT or cables and or memory card - I'd look into it
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I agree 12 hours for 2.3 GB is super crazy. Next time I move some data I'll take screen shots for comparison (nook cable / htc cable)
I just got my original ET-R205UBEG OTG cable for my i717 Galaxy Note and can confirm that you can run any size drive off it as long as you power the drive from a separate power source. The note doesn't have the power to power anything more than a flash drive, keyboard, mouse, or card read.
You must format the drives partition to FAT32 because that's all the ET-R205UBEG supports since it's design really for flash drives or card readers using which support this format. You can download the free Windows utility Swissknife which will let you format any size drive with a FAT32 partition.
On a side note, I plugged in a IR receiver just for fun and was able to control my note (somewhat) with the MCE remote control that came with the receiver. I'll do a little tinkering but I suspect I'll be able to expand the functionality of the remote. Right now is can change the volume level, fast forward and reverse, move a mouse pointer around the select and select and run an app. I'm sure there's a lot more I can do but I've only been playing for an hour.
In case anyone's wondering, I got my ET-R205UBEG adapter from greytech .com in Canada - they only sell to Canadian clients and the items not listed on their site. It's $22.99. Call them at 905-470-1425.
Lacie apparent makes a low voltage drive called the Rikiki. I plan to order one and see if the note has enough power to run it. Lacie told me that it should work since it works on the MAC Air when most other external system powered drives do not.
My flash drive of course worked perfectly and respond much faster than the MicroSD class 10 32GB card inside my note. I think I'll be using the OTG adapter a lot more than I expected.
One final note, the OTG from Samsung is my third OTG adapter. The other two (both from eBay) either didn't work at one or kept disconnecting. For my money, $22.99 is a low price for a quality product that Samsung actually will support.
I paid $4 for my OTG adapter from Brando Workshop. It works perfectly fine.
I have a similar reaction as goalcam. What advantage does this $22 unit have over the lower priced units?
How about a Ssd?
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A little off subject, but can someone point me to a card reader that works with an OTG host cable? I've tried 3 here and none of them seem to work. Is there some driver I need to load/enable? flash drives work fine on it. I haven't tried anything else.
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Hi i am doing a German exchange in April what means I will be sitting on a bus for over (5 hours not including plane) .
I have bought an Anker external battery to run external hard drives but I need help to know which one to put films on to play over the otg and what is the biggest storage space the otg can support. I cannot decide if a memory stick, Hard drive or and ssd would be better.
All help would be greatly appreciated.
i'm not 100% sure if there is a limit to the size, but...
the limit is for sure the amount of power the external device needs
so you can forget about an hdd or ssd if it's not powered separately
i'd go with a usb stick
one guy here at the forum suggest to me to use SanDisk 8GB as that is what worked for him
i gambled a bit and went for 16GB and it works like a charm
so if you want to raise the stakes go for the 32GB and report back if it works
btw. it's SanDisk Cruzer Blade
you can get it on ebay if not your local store
good luck and have a safe trip
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i'm not 100% sure if there is a limit to the size, but...
the limit is for sure the amount of power the external device needs
so you can forget about an hdd or ssd if it's not powered separately
i'd go with a usb stick
one guy here at the forum suggest to me to use SanDisk 8GB as that is what worked for him
i gambled a bit and went for 16GB and it works like a charm
so if you want to raise the stakes go for the 32GB and report back if it works
btw. it's SanDisk Cruzer Blade
you can get it on ebay if not your local store
good luck and have a safe trip
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I got a 320gb working but i had to do ntfs app, i was more wondering which one would be the best to be travelled and will still work after a long bumpy journey, (ssd, Hdd,Memory stick)
Any one of them will work...bumpy journey or not. Still, i would say a stick is the easiest one to travel with... taking size and weigth in the equation
I has connect otg with harddisk docking support 2TB
SSD and thumb drive are your best bets for bumpy rides though they all take a pretty good beating
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Now that the HDX has been rooted, I was wondering if there is a way of using a USB flash drive hooked up to the micro USB port to transfer files onto when I'm not using my computer?
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Now that the HDX has been rooted, I was wondering if there is a way of using a USB flash drive hooked up to the micro USB port to transfer files onto when I'm not using my computer?
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It seems the default amazon Rom does not include USB host support. I have tried to usb otg cables, multiple usb drives, and a mouse and keyboard. None of them act like they get power like on my nexus devices and none of the USB mounting apps detect the drives.
You will probably have top wait for a custom kernel.
For some reason Amazon blocked this in their kernels. Once we get a bootloader unlock, the chains are broken and all hell breaks loose.
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For some reason Amazon blocked this in their kernels. Once we get a bootloader unlock, the chains are broken and all hell breaks loose.
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looking foward to that.hope to see the cm rom.
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Thanks, good to know. I was hoping that side loading an app would work.
I will personally be grabbing one of these in the next couple of months myself http://geekbeat.tv/editors-choice-ravpower-rp-wd01-mobile-streamer/
Amazon link http://amzn.to/1cYYuay
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I will personally be grabbing one of these in the next couple of months myself http://geekbeat.tv/editors-choice-ravpower-rp-wd01-mobile-streamer/
Amazon link http://amzn.to/1cYYuay
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Hmm... I might have to look at one of these down the road also.
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R1Mike said:
Hmm... I might have to look at one of these down the road also.
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Black Fri netted me a $39 Kingston MobileLite and a couple of $45 128GB flash drives - works great with the KFHD8.9 and KFHDX7 - glad I didn't pay for more than the 16GB minimum in either device now!
The RavPower sounds similar in features - maybe better in some ways? I'm not sure if the Kingston can handle portable HD's but with flash so cheap I'm not sure the extra power drain would be a good tradeoff anyway...
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the rav media server can also charge your devices with it's built I 3000mamp battery.
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the rav media server can also charge your devices with it's built I 3000mamp battery.
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Kingston says it can charge also, though I haven't tried it. I think the battery may only be ~1800 mah. They only claim use with flash drives and SD cards, but I was able to open an Excel file from a 1TB portable drive. Probably not enough battery life for practical use with those though. OTOH it has a separate micro-usb for charging so maybe you could use a portable drive while powered.
I wish it had a retractable power cable - it's hard to keep track of separate cables - and a SD card pocket or two.
In any case these devices are great for tablets without SD, especially considering that internal storage can't be upgraded, the ridiculous gouging for another 16GB, and the fact that discounts are much less common on 32GB+ products.
Now if someone wanted to make a killing, they would design a tablet case with built-in battery, wireless storage and a reader...
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Hey guys just came across this site. Basically its like a sd card but plugs into the usb port on the phone. So if you have the 32gb and need more storage this is your answer, what ard your thoughts.
http://www.leefco.com/mobile-products
EDIT: the leaf access micro sd reader is what I was looking at.
I got a Meenova Dash Micro which has a little keychain carrying case, it's pretty nice
http://www.meenova.com/st/p/mrg2.html
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I got a Meenova Dash Micro which has a little keychain carrying case, it's pretty nice
http://www.meenova.com/st/p/mrg2.html
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Yep, these are great. I plan on picking one up soon.
Yea, I think the Meenova is even a tiny bit smaller, but it's great for me because I don't like to spend much extra for more storage so this is a good trade-off.
Meenova is bomb
you could also just use a 2 dollar otg cable and a thumbdrive....thats where i store all my backups and such
It'd be awesome if someone could come up with a case that essentially accomplished this same thing but you could keep it on all the time without having to plug in a dongle.
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you could also just use a 2 dollar otg cable and a thumbdrive....thats where i store all my backups and such
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Well I think people want the style like the one in this thread so that they don't have to have any cables or anything. It's a little more portable.
Meenova is the best
spend 50 bucks, get this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU2E9IW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtck6Pfo274
Just purchased from Meenova~!
I got one of these on Woot a few months ago. Works great, and is easy to use on PC and phone/tablet.
It has a MicroUSB on one end, and the actual body of it is also a regular USB plug for use on the PC. I have a 32gb in gray, this is just the best picture I could find that showed the regular sized USB plug.
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spend 50 bucks, get this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU2E9IW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtck6Pfo274
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i'm sure its a fine product, but who's going to lug that thing around and then wait to rely on wifi transfer speeds? have you seen the meenova? there's nothing better at that size or price
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I got a Meenova Dash Micro which has a little keychain carrying case, it's pretty nice
http://www.meenova.com/st/p/mrg2.html
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Thanks so much fro this! I can't believe I've never seen them before. Ordered 1. I got a 32 g which is plenty but i do a lot of reports on my computer that i need to access on my phone and this took 2 separate cords and devices and put them into 1 with easy access to phone and computer.
Not sure if any of that made sense but all in all, thanks!
Already have sdcard. Took it out of GS4.
Meenova now access the card on my Nexus 7. Got to put it back, though. Some GS4 apps & Tibu backups on there.
Meenova FTW!
Best buy has micro usb flash drives, I got one there a while ago.
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i'm sure its a fine product, but who's going to lug that thing around and then wait to rely on wifi transfer speeds? have you seen the meenova? there's nothing better at that size or price
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yeah its really heavy to lug around.. :silly:
it is a superb product. lots of options out there, this is one. may work for some but not all.:good: