Is there any way of mounting Tab 2 as an external drive rather than mobile player?
Thanks!
Ummm, when connected to pc under my computer does your tab not show up as an extra drive? Mine does.
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Again, it shows up as a media player. No drive letter is assigned.
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Ummm, when connected to pc under my computer does your tab not show up as an extra drive? Mine does.
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Sorry I may misunderstand what ur question is, but when plugged into pc, tab shows up as GT P5110 Portable media player (under My Computer) , but once you double click on it it then shows the 2 storage drives one being internal sd and the other the external sd, but without drive letters. but in reality it is 2 separate drives.. hope I'm on the right track.
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Sorry I may misunderstand what ur question is, but when plugged into pc, tab shows up as GT P5110 Portable media player (under My Computer) , but once you double click on it it then shows the 2 storage drives one being internal sd and the other the external sd, but without drive letters. but in reality it is 2 separate drives.. hope I'm on the right track.
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That's different. What he wants (probably) is to mount as an actual drive similar to a Mac in Target Disk Mode through Firewire.
As far as I know that's impossible. It would make flashing roms and backing up much easier.
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Sorry I may misunderstand what ur question is, but when plugged into pc, tab shows up as GT P5110 Portable media player (under My Computer) , but once you double click on it it then shows the 2 storage drives one being internal sd and the other the external sd, but without drive letters. but in reality it is 2 separate drives.. hope I'm on the right track.
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Yup, just what the below poster said. I can mount my Galaxy Note and have two drives in Windows. To bad there's no way of mounting like that with this pad. Thanks for your response though.
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can you plug an external hdd into the asus transformer or asus transformer prime keyboard dock and use it as extra storage.
Yes
I have used both a 300gb NTFS external hard drive and a 4gb FAT32 flash drive. Both work perfectly.
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yes I have a terabyte drive on mine.
But please don't post questions in the general section in the future
ANDROID_NOOB_0101 said:
can you plug an external hdd into the asus transformer or asus transformer prime keyboard dock and use it as extra storage.
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Yes,
I started using my 2T drive a few month ago.
Anybody benchmarked speed compared to a fast MicroSD card, out of curiosity?
infazzdar said:
Yes
I have used both a 300gb NTFS external hard drive and a 4gb FAT32 flash drive. Both work perfectly.
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But how is done? I have no clue
You simply plug the device in to one of the keyboard dock's two USB ports. Then a notification should appear in the notification area telling you that the volume mounted successfully. Select the notification and press the icon that looks like a folder.
Or, attach your device then open the File Manager application and navigate to /removable/. Your storage device should be shown here.
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I have one of those cheapo China USB adapters.
It works fine recognizing my storage when i hook up a pendrive but now i tried it with an external 2,5mm HDD and it didn't get recognized. im guessing the tab doesn't provide the HDD with enough power for it to run.
here my question: is it just my cheapo china usb adapter? does someone have the official samsung one and could try it out and see if external drive (without power chords) are supported?
would be awesome!
No, it won't work, there's simply not enough amps to power that.
I suggest getting a powered USB hub then making a battery pack for it (I'll get around to taking a picture of mine - I use it with my N900 and 8.9 with USB HDDs, DVD drives and USB data cards.)
yeah i imagined sth like that.
i have a usb hub but i was hoping to just use the drive by itself.
would be interesting to see your battery pack hack! please post some pictures!
Looking forward to seeing this battery pack
I have tried it a couple of times but the battery pack i made did not last very long
Why would you need a hub? Most come with a dual USB cable. Plug the main one into the tab adapter and the other one into a battery pack with USB. Should be a touch less cumbersome and you don't need to build anything, unless you really want to.
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Hurrian said:
No, it won't work, there's simply not enough amps to power that.
I suggest getting a powered USB hub then making a battery pack for it (I'll get around to taking a picture of mine - I use it with my N900 and 8.9 with USB HDDs, DVD drives and USB data cards.)
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So, this 8'9 can work with external hdd?
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Declan79 said:
So, this 8'9 can work with external hdd?
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yes, as long as you can power the drive separately.
Declan79 said:
So, this 8'9 can work with external hdd?
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The drive must also be formated with FAT32. The GT Tab won't read NTFS.
dbpaddler said:
yes, as long as you can power the drive separately.
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Well, im thinking to change my 7gtab to 8'9 or 7'7 and it would be awesome to had an hdd running with it
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crazycranky said:
The drive must also be formated with FAT32. The GT Tab won't read NTFS.
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So The file on the hdd must be fat32?
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Declan79 said:
So The file on the hdd must be fat32?
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Unless you install CM9 which supports NTFS (read-only) on the 8.9 tab.
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Unless you install CM9 which supports NTFS (read-only) on the 8.9 tab.
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Ok, dan now I'm running on cm9(rc1) but it still on my gt p1000, is it the same way?
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i'm looking at getting this 1tb external hard drive and using it with my OTG cable, but i'm not sure if the phone will detect that there is that much space available.
here's the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Port...TF8&colid=1TWXTHTS82EGP&coliid=I2WMSUSP2F8AXK
I don't think it's gonna work cause such a hard drive needs power and it didn't work for me
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even if it's usb powered?
ucpro said:
even if it's usb powered?
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Your phone probably can't power it. You are also gonna have problems with the file system
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jhoutz said:
Your phone probably can't power it. You are also gonna have problems with the file system
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i thought about the file system too. i read that i'd have to separate it into a bunch of different partitions
I install the usb connector and insert a usb memory and copy some files, everything works fine. Until the next time I want to do it. Then the connector is recognized but the usb memory is not. Inserting it revokes no response from the system. I'm forced to reboot in order to see the memory stick again. I always tap the memory stick reminder in the notification bar before removing it. Does anyone else encounter the same problem?
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Kumabjorn said:
I install the usb connector and insert a usb memory and copy some files, everything works fine. Until the next time I want to do it. Then the connector is recognized but the usb memory is not. Inserting it revokes no response from the system. I'm forced to reboot in order to see the memory stick again. I always tap the memory stick reminder in the notification bar before removing it. Does anyone else encounter the same problem?
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I don't generally have an issue but I'm not rooted.
Is it formatted as fat32 or exfat?
There was an app in a post just like this one that someone recommended to help with this issue.
Issue noted in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033084&highlight=usb+memory
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I'm not rooted, stock all the way. I'll have to check the USB stuck since I'm not sure what the formatting is, but I believe I formatted it on my Win 7 laptop and that may default to exfat.
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Nope, a lot actually default to NTFS...
Did you just rip it out of the note or stop the usb drive from inside settings>storage usb drive>unmount? This may make a difference...
I unmounted it, but from the notification bar, the system responded by saying that the stick was safely removed. Could it be the OTG adapter? I use the one I got with my GT-P3113 but they are both Samsung tablets and it is recognized when inserted.
Should mention that I use the usbstock in my Transformer without any problems so I doubt that it is the formatting.
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Kumabjorn said:
I unmounted it, but from the notification bar, the system responded by saying that the stick was safely removed. Could it be the OTG adapter? I use the one I got with my GT-P3113 but they are both Samsung tablets and it is recognized when inserted.
Should mention that I use the usbstock in my Transformer without any problems so I doubt that it is the formatting.
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Im having the same issue. Exact same conditions.
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Kumabjorn said:
I install the usb connector and insert a usb memory and copy some files, everything works fine. Until the next time I want to do it. Then the connector is recognized but the usb memory is not. Inserting it revokes no response from the system. I'm forced to reboot in order to see the memory stick again. I always tap the memory stick reminder in the notification bar before removing it. Does anyone else encounter the same problem?
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Can tell us exactly what kind of memory and the brand that you are having issues with?
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kkretch said:
Can tell us exactly what kind of memory and the brand that you are having issues with?
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It is a 64 GB USB memory stick. Buffalo from Japn, but made in China.
Works like a charm on my ASUS Transformer.
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OTG host cable support for input devices on Jelly Bean is spotty. As was noted in the Google Code forums in January, Google has now modified it's Nexus specs page to drop references to OTG, BT support now is the only method mentioned for attaching devices. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41206
[Q] MUSIC "unable to play this type of audio" 128 gig micro sd is the problem maybe?
iv added around 10 gig of music and it plays at first then it says unable to play this type of audio. has anyone had this problem ?
is it my micro sd card ? its not a named brand or anything. could it be something else ?
I haven't had any issues, do you have another SD card just to try? And the files did play on your computer?
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Keithn said:
I haven't had any issues, do you have another SD card just to try? And the files did play on your computer?
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no this is the only sd card i have. the files all play fine on my computer.
is there different kinds of sd cards ? some have to be compatible or something ?
What format is the music
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coldconfession13 said:
What format is the music
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standard mp3
MPEG Layer 3 Audio File (.mp3)
like i said alot of my music plays fine and some others just unable to play now but were ok before.
this is weird and a pain. also some albums are not in correct order in terms of the track listings but that i can live with compared to unable to play.
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no this is the only sd card i have. the files all play fine on my computer.
is there different kinds of sd cards ? some have to be compatible or something ?
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No I was just wondering if it had something to do with the sdcard itself and maybe another one would work. How did you format it?
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Keithn said:
No I was just wondering if it had something to do with the sdcard itself and maybe another one would work. How did you format it?
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through the pc and through settings on the phone.
iv googled this alot and found no way to fix this. there must be a way.
Seems simple to troubleshoot here. Simply plug device into computer, copy a handful of songs or ones you know that have issues to the phone's hard drive, unplug device from computer, take sd card out of device, now try playing the songs off the device's hard drive. If they play just fine, well then obviously the sd card is the issue. This is the first step i would take at least to figure this out.
Also try using the internal storage and see if they will play from there.
Keithn said:
Also try using the internal storage and see if they will play from there.
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I think that is what the previous poster meant when he said the device's hard drive.
mc_365 said:
I think that is what the previous poster meant when he said the device's hard drive.
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Yeah I just misread it.