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So I know that the Nexus S has no microSD slot, which is really the one thing preventing me from buying the phone, since 16 gigs isn't enough storage for me (I listen to a lot of prog rock, and those songs are long
I wanted to know, is there a way for me to get a Nexus S to recognize external storage if I have a microSD to microUSB adapter?
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have you guys heard of a phone supporting usb 3.0? With my phone being capable of supporting up to 32GB MicroSD cards I found that transferring data is rather slow. I wish the Nexus Prime would support usb 3.0 but there is no information at all about this.
Probably I should go with a 3.0 card reader and use a MicroSD to SD card adapter to transfer my files...what a hassle...or what do you think?
I don't think microusb has been uptaded to 3.0 yet.
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Even if there was some kind of usb 3.0 support, I don't believe even microsd readers would be able to read at full usb 3.0 speeds. Hell, we still a lot of times don't even fully use usb 2.0.
True, but moving tens of gigabytes of music back and furth got me thinking about a faster solution...and then there are the roms for my playstation emulator...too slow with usb 2.0.
If I'm right, there should be this SD card reader that connects to your motherboard but I think that I'm wrong.
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You can buy a USB 3.0 capable card reader online (new so not able to post links yet) but they are quite pricey. I'm sure prices will drop when it becomes more wide-spread.
A quick Google search will point you in the right direction.
You might be waiting till Q4 of 2012 or maybe a lil earlier before you start seeing internal readers in phones that have usb 3.0....But Bluetooth 3.0 is in phones already, so perhaps companies will develop a reader with 3.0 tech sooner or later. Class 10 cards right now seem to be buggy and inconsistent, i've seen threads with people complaining about low speeds and corruption among other things with 10 class cards.
Sorry to bring back the old thread, I am thinking about the same thing.
Does anyone know if the next generation Android phone will have MicroUSB that support USB 3.0 speed?
Transferring a 1.8 movie from PC to the phone takes around 12 minutes, that's ridiculously long.
I wouldn't count on seeing those kinds of speeds anytime too soon.. microSD can't handle it and as other users have said, the class 10 cards are buggy more often than not or don't even reach usb 2.0 speeds.
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Finally been able to order a TF700 from Amazon in the UK, I'm off travelling around Europe at the end of next week and intend to take the 700 with me, my question is can I take my external 1TB drive with me and use it as storage (for films, music etc)
Thanks all in advance
Should be doable, although much depends on the power consumption of the drive -- I haven't got a portable model on hand to test it for you. A power-hungry model could either drain the battery too fast to be practical, or it may just be plain impossible to power it from the tablet, causing it to just bork out on you.
Obvisouly, a powered model would cope just fine,but that's not very practical when travelling, isn't it? I have read reports of people using external hard drives on the TF700 before, so I guess it shouldn't pose too much of a problem, though.
Off-topic: where are you going?
assuming you have the keyboard dock too, not only for the USB port but for the extra battery capacity too.
but my WD 750gb works just fine!
I'd suggest MXPlayer 'cause the stock apps suck at decoding divx and other random container formats.
MartyHulskemper said:
Should be doable, although much depends on the power consumption of the drive -- I haven't got a portable model on hand to test it for you. A power-hungry model could either drain the battery too fast to be practical, or it may just be plain impossible to power it from the tablet, causing it to just bork out on you.
Obvisouly, a powered model would cope just fine,but that's not very practical when travelling, isn't it? I have read reports of people using external hard drives on the TF700 before, so I guess it shouldn't pose too much of a problem, though.
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Cool thanks, just ordered a Toshiba Stor.e Alu 1TB (ebay special buy) which is bus powered, should both be here on the 2nd so will plug it into the dock to check.
I am heading down to Spain as I have an apartment there then going to see where the mood takes me, I have 3 months off work (well I say off work, taking the Infinity with an RDP program and my iPhone so I can tether the data) that way I can still work from where ever I am!
The infinity + dock seems the perfect device for me, can carry it easily, brilliant battery life and the full qwerty keyboard.
I plugged a 500GB bus powered USB drive into the dock USB port and it works great!
My 2TB Western Digital MyPassport works just fine. I did format it to get rid of the silly software, though. Don't really notice any powerdrain at all.
I've somewhat accomplished this before with a 2-usb hard drive. The main usb port for transferring I plugged into the infinity, and I plugged the port for power into a portable external battery. It was recognized as another SD card on my infinity. It worked flawlessly when transferring 800MB+ files.
tefal said:
Hi All
Finally been able to order a TF700 from Amazon in the UK, I'm off travelling around Europe at the end of next week and intend to take the 700 with me, my question is can I take my external 1TB drive with me and use it as storage (for films, music etc)
Thanks all in advance
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Yup. It works. Mine is WD 1TB, connected via USB of the dock.
I've tried plugging in a standard usb drive (8gb thumb drive) in the usb port before but I can't browse to it in the stock file browser,"external storage"just shows as empty. Do you use a special app for that?
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I use a Seagate 2.5" external. It transfers fine and is recognized but playing videos using either mxplayer or bsplayer is imperfect. There is a lot of stutter. My imperfect solution is to rotate out video files on my device.
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I use a Seagate 2.5" external. It transfers fine and is recognized but playing videos using either mxplayer or bsplayer is imperfect. There is a lot of stutter. My imperfect solution is to rotate out video files on my device.
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Not only is an external a great solution, and works perfectly with the dock. It also has a really nice transfer rate. I was getting over 20mb/ps transferring from my 128gb flash drive to the micro sd. I have yet to spring for a 128 sdxc for the dock, but it's on my list.
So far I tried:
- External usb 2.0 disks
- Wireless mouse
- Linksys usb to ethernet
- Usb sticks
The dock's usb port seems to accept anything: even ethernet that allows me to even use my Infinity in the basement of my house (only wired connections there)
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Thanks for all the input folks, shall experiment with the dock and hdd when they arrive next week! Quite excited, like a big kid lol
Wow good info in this thread. I never even thought to try my external hd with my infinity dock. Will save a ton of time during file transfers.
I was surprised no one else had asked the question really
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I was surprised no one else had asked the question really
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I'm one of those people that traded in there TF201 for TF700... I know this was asked and answered early on in the TF201 threads, so I guess I just carried over from there and never bothered asking it again.
For those that care I also had success with a USB 3.0 External right away. It comes with a secondary USB to power cable but that has never actually needed to be used. The USB 3.0 is actually an internal from my laptop in a USB 3.0 case (Put a SSD in lappy ). So long story short USB 3.0 devices should also work but at 2.0 speeds.
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The USB 3.0 is actually an internal from my laptop in a USB 3.0 case (Put a SSD in lappy ).
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I did the same thing with my laptop, but shortly there after, I came to realize that I wasn't using it at all in complete favor of my TF201/700.... Now I've got a lappy with a pretty 120 ssd, and not being used. Coincidentally, I have more space than that in my tablet now...
right so that we have established that external USB hdd's work, what about external dvd drives and other external devices?
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right so that we have established that external USB hdd's work, what about external dvd drives and other external devices?
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I can test it tomorrow, but I would imagine the storage part of it would work. The issues you would run into is not being able to write to it, not being able to play a regular dvd movie as it would have to be mp4 formatted, and other minor issues that require software support.
We already know gamepads, keyboards, mice, flash drives, sd card readers, and other such work..
Hi there, unfortunately nexus 4 don't have micro SD slot for memory card. I thought about how get to device additional memory. At the market there is nice gadgets like Seagate wi drive and other portable WiFi drive. Now I use 3g Wi-Fi router with shared over ftp micro SD card. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37531070#post37531070
at this link I have review how I to do it. If you have idea about wireless access additional memory, please post here. I'm will happy to see your review and gadgets that's can help improve memory for nexus 4 usage
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Trouble is I need the space for music on the move!
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Trouble is I need the space for music on the move!
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I had the same problem and here's what I did..
Got a small MP3 player like the Sandisk Sansa Clip+ .. put a 16GB memory card in it and now i'm good to go.
Amazon has it for $30.
SQ will be as good/if not better than your Nexus 4 and you will save on your Phone's battery also.
Would a WI drive work? Not sure how their companoin app works though.
http://www.kingston.com/en/usb/wireless#wid
what would be better is if they make a cable or adapter that allows you to plug in a flash drive. much more smaller to carry around in your pocket, backpack, car, or wherever.
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what would be better is if they make a cable or adapter that allows you to plug in a flash drive. much more smaller to carry around in your pocket, backpack, car, or wherever.
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You mean OTG? It's not functioning on the N4,,,,yet.
But when, and IF, someone gets it working, check out this.
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You mean OTG? It's not functioning on the N4,,,,yet.
But when, and IF, someone gets it working, check out this.
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Thanks! i never looked into an OTG cable. Ive always thought it was only meant for video output.
I just got two different ones and the s22u reports "usb device not recognised" and they do not work for audio out. Is there a workaround for this? I can't believe usb c audio out is busted.
Use the Samsung one... it must have a compatible built in DAC.
I don't see one in shop sansung,, but an old WISH one we bought fir our N20U works fine...its just uglier...lol!
I just tried a Google USB C to headphone converter that came with a Pixel phone several years ago and it worked fine with a Samsung S21U. I’ll have to try it again when my S22U arrives later this month.
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I don't see one in shop sansung,, but an old WISH one we bought fir our N20U works fine...its just uglier...lol!
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They are also fragile. I still have mine but I rarely use it. B&H Photo and Newegg have them.
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I just tried a Google USB C to headphone converter that came with a Pixel phone several years ago and it worked fine with a Samsung S21U. I’ll have to try it again when my S22U arrives later this month.
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I was just looking...Amazon has them as well but many have issues both quick charging and playing audio at the same time.
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I was just looking...Amazon has them as well but many have issues both quick charging and playing audio at the same time.
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The easiest way is to use Buds+ or a LDAC headphones. It won't charge well (no fast charging, very slow charging if at all) with the screen on. If using bluetooth and an app like Poweramp with the screen off it will charge normally.
My car doesn't have bt audio, so I use the adapter to drive music to my car stereo.
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My car doesn't have bt audio, so I use the adapter to drive music to my car stereo.
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If you use a player like Poweramp with the screen off it uses little power going through the dongle DAC. If you need an active internet connection you can't do that. Another reason I don't like cloud crap instead of an SD card.
We have plenty of music storage on our 512gb s22u. I just need a way to get it into the car...lol!
(We also don't use the cloud...we rely on local storage.)
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We have plenty of music storage on our 512gb s22u. I just need a way to get it into the car...lol!
(We also don't use the cloud...we rely on local storage.)
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Simply use Poweramp as it's a powerful music player. Setup is lengthy but is extremely configurable. The music library must be redundantly backed up along with the Poweramp setting export file. Lose either one and you are boned. Many hours can go into setting up Poweramp settings and play lists.
My music collection is 224 gb plus even more movies and it's kept on the .5tb SD card is spite of having 512gb internal memory so a crash can't wipe it. My other 256gb N10+ will likely get a 1tb SD card.
Only the apps, the DCIM and the download folders (both temporary for holding) go on the internal memory. The N10+ SD cards are then redundantly backed up to multiple stand alone hdds which are the primary backup. I don't have too much faith in flash memory for data retention.
The reason I'll never have a S22U is no SD card slot, and I want a right handed spen. Samsung actually said most users hold the phone with their right hand. Not. Idiots.
Samsung has gone rock stupid.
Meh, don't get me started Samsung started going off road with the N20U and is now lost somewhere in the iPhone badlands.
I enjoy pointing that out to "we still have the 3.5mm jack" Samsung...
Honestly, if I need more storage I'll just use the usbc dongle and plug a portable drive in.
Part of the reason all phones moved to internal ram and ditched the sd cards us the sd cards are slower.. so you can't record 8k 30 or 60 fps video to them, and users buying cheap slower cards were slamming the devices because of the poor resulting performance.
I'd also prefer the s pen back on the right, but the handset just performs a lot better than the n20u, and the camera is just jaw dropping amazing.
A data drive doesn't need to be fast, it needs the be large. It can transfer data at whatever speed from the OS drive, it only needs to be fast enough for streaming movies and music.
V-30, [email protected] maybe too slow for 8k
V-60 or 90 are fast enough for 8k*.
Regardless the DCIM folder should be on internal memory... so again speed is not needed. V-30 will support 4k vids (3840 x 2160 pixel) which overkill for this display size.
Not isolating the OS drive from the data drive is a mistake with serious implications.
It also needlessly and arbitrary limits the storage capacity of the device... just like a bad Apple.
My first N10+ is 512/12gb, the second is 256/12gb because it's just the OS drive. Nothing tangible is gained in my application by having more internal memory... so I didn't. The only thing that is important is having a V-30 rated SD card.
*a dedicated pro cam be a better choice at this resolution than a smartphone. The lens and sensor size of a smartphone is inadequate for needed light gathering ability.
Who's Samsung trying to fool?
So if you hate the s22 series, why are you in the s22 forum?
You asked how to hook it up...
Furthermore if you get a combination dongle that allows charging and playback you will create a ground loop, do not do this.
Funny...I've been using a combo charger/ audio jack dongle for two years now on our n20u since its release with zero issues.
Any suggestion of USB-C to 3.5mm audio dongle?
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Any suggestion of USB-C to 3.5mm audio dongle?
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https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001580771091.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.6e9f6a9bwXfLzN&algo_pvid=89283228-7129-498c-ae61-51a21518de19&aem_p4p_detail=202203030105491299506859651000000396810&algo_exp_id=89283228-7129-498c-ae61-51a21518de19-26&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000016671838885%22%7D&pdp_pi=-1%3B13.1%3B-1%3B-1%40salePrice%3BEUR%3Bsearch-mainSearch
That looks like it might work, and I like it doesn't have the big square dongle.
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Funny...I've been using a combo charger/ audio jack dongle for two years now on our n20u since its release with zero issues.
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Yeah I know... but then you never saw what happens when a 50khz feedback loop developes.
Amp output>crossover network>tweeters>
Takes a second or less to burn out the voice coils, may also damage the power amp.
If direct coupling (optical toshlink is preferred) into a preamp or power amp ground loops matter...