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[Q] external drive

there is a usb hookup.. so the question is raised, in my mind, can you hook up an external hard drive and thus rendering the 13gb a non issue (at least in the area of video/audio files).
anyone had experience with this?

I've been able to use my flash usb thumb drives without any problems, however when I plugged my WD 1Tb storage drive into the GTab, used ES File explorer to open usbdisk folder but did not see any files listed.

If you want to use a external usb hard drive for movies/files it has to be formated fat32 and it will work.

I have connected with 16gb, 32gb, 64gb and a 500gb Western Digital HD (usb powered). All work fine, but best to NOT remove the USB until the G is placed in sleep mode. There appears to be an unmounting issue that also blows up the app index. Apps can vanish and then not appear again until rebooting.
Archos 101 seems to have a similar issue, so maybe Froyo related.

rushless said:
I have connected with 16gb, 32gb, 64gb and a 500gb Western Digital HD (usb powered). All work fine, but best to NOT remove the USB until the G is placed in sleep mode. There appears to be an unmounting issue that also blows up the app index. Apps can vanish and then not appear again until rebooting.
Archos 101 seems to have a similar issue, so maybe Froyo related.
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Yeah, I try to put mine to sleep before I pull out my thumb drive as well, but sometimes I forget and as soon as I yank it, the tablet reboots. Ugh!

I bought a 500gb Seagate the same night I got my tablet (been needing a portable hd for a while). It wouldn't work on either the tablet or my PS3. Definitely a format thing. As mentioned earlier, it needs to be formatted Fat32.
Just an FYI, formatting a big hd to Fat32 isn't the easiest thing in the world to do. Windows 7 won't do Fat32 and 95 has a size limit (32 gb maybe?). HP has a program you get download from their site. It works on any make, not just their's. If anyone needs it, I still have it on my PC at home.

J_Bone said:
I bought a 500gb Seagate the same night I got my tablet (been needing a portable hd for a while). It wouldn't work on either the tablet or my PS3. Definitely a format thing. As mentioned earlier, it needs to be formatted Fat32.
Just an FYI, formatting a big hd to Fat32 isn't the easiest thing in the world to do. Windows 7 won't do Fat32 and 95 has a size limit (32 gb maybe?). HP has a program you get download from their site. It works on any make, not just their's. If anyone needs it, I still have it on my PC at home.
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What is the app called? Work with Vista? I tried formatting a 1gb HD to Fat32 via DOS commands, but failed.
As far as USB, main issue for removing while G is asleep (besides random reboots) is that removing while awake seems to be a main reason apps vanish until a reboot.

If I need to format a big, big hard drive to FAT32, I'll boot up a Linux LiveCD (usually Ubuntu or Knoppix) and use gParted to do it.

rushless said:
What is the app called? Work with Vista? I tried formatting a 1gb HD to Fat32 via DOS commands, but failed.
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This is a different site but I think it is the same program. One of the comments said it didn't work on Vista business but YMMV. Worth a try.
http://hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool.software.informer.com/
I went and checked my reformatted portable drive a few minutes ago and the tablet doesn't recognize it. It actually says there are no files in that directory. The drive is working on my pc and PS3. I put a small 4 gb stick in the tablet and it read it fine.
Any ideas?

It recognized my Ipod 120GB classic in disk mode. It also appears to be hot swappedable.

papote18 said:
It recognized my Ipod 120GB classic in disk mode. It also appears to be hot swappedable.
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It is hardware wise. Software wise, depending on ROM, it can crash your tablet. I try to put it to sleep before pulling my flash drive out. If not, sometimes it will go black and I'll see the boot animation.

I went to the link above looking for the Fat32 > 32 gig tool and it was not available.
If you need this tool, Google for "HP SP27608" and there are a few places where you can download it. HP didn't even have it on their FTP server -- don't know why they have quit offering it?!
Rev

Hi,
Sorry for the late post, but I just got around to trying a bunch of my USB flash drives, and Gtab doesn't see any of them ...
The LED on the drives flashes for a second, then goes off.
Do I have to mount it or something?
Jim

same problem here too. Is there a way to mount a USB drive without formatting? I do not want to loose my collection.

I've never had an issue with my Flash drives (VEGAn or TnT Lite). Are the drives formatted to FAT32?

I have had an issue with a 32GB USB flash drive not showing up on the gtab. I plugged it into my win7. Machine, moved files off, formatted fat, put files back on and it worked fine in the tab.
Another note, using vegan, I never sleep the device to get the drive out. Just wait a second and Yank it. Never been an issue for me.

I have noticed that my flash drives don't mount 100% of the time and sometimes require dis/reconnecting. Also I have a 1tb wd my passport. I formatted the whole drive fat32 and the gtab wouldn't see it. I then formatted just a partition of 120gb in fat32.....still no dice. I then reduced the partition to 32gb nd the gtab sees/reads/writes no problem.
I'm wondering how that other Guy got his 500gb to mount....

I'd like to know how folks have been able to get their external hard drives recognized as well. I have tried stock and tnt lite roms. Also tried several different hard disks all formated fat32. Even repartioned disks to 8GB and still no joy. Flash drives I own all work OK. Just can't use hard disk as yet. Even tried new rom image that came out today, no luck. Am I missing or not doing something?

The usb port does not supply enough power for external hard drives. I tried several and they did not show up in dmesg. When I used one with external power, the drive was seen and the partitions, but was not mounted.

The usb port does not supply enough power for external hard drives. I tried several and they did not show up in dmesg. When I used one with external power, the drive was seen and the partitions, but was not mounted.
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Thanks, but 2 out of 3 drives I tried use ext power. still no work.
Can anyone who has this working please post what drive they are using?

[Q] External HDD?

Hi,
I was thinking of buying an external hdd to connect to my TF, however, try as I might, I can't find anywhere that confirms that it will work. I don't want to shell out for one and have to send it back if not.
Thanks in advance.

kingronnie said:
Hi,
I was thinking of buying an external hdd to connect to my TF, however, try as I might, I can't find anywhere that confirms that it will work. I don't want to shell out for one and have to send it back if not.
Thanks in advance.
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I can plug my portable USB hard-drive directly into either of the USB ports on the dock and it works fine. It appears in the notifications area as a hard-disk icon. Clicking on this shows me all the files on the drive. I was able to start watching an mp4 video from the HDD, although I didn't watch it all the way through.

That's great news
Just out of interest, did you format it using the TF, or was it pre-formatted? If so, are you using FAT32 or NTFS?
Sorry for the barrage of questions!

kingronnie said:
Hi,
I was thinking of buying an external hdd to connect to my TF, however, try as I might, I can't find anywhere that confirms that it will work. I don't want to shell out for one and have to send it back if not.
Thanks in advance.
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A quick search for HDD shows the following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1067975&highlight=hdd

Thanks. I'd searched for Hard Disc.
Sorry to be a pain.

interestingly though, honeycomb doesn't automatically mount the external harddrive unless it's fat32 or NTFS. No idea why this is the case as ext 2/3 are clearly supported.
Regardless, I was able to manually mount my external HDD once I found out where the device was.
Is anybody familiar with the auto mounting scripts enough to know offhand where you would look to add ext support? My knowledge of this kind of thing ends with fstab unfortunately and I don't know too much about how honeycomb works yet as I just got my transformer yesterday night.

Both NTFS and FAT32 are supported.
I was really glad NTFS is supported out of the box.
I use both Toshiba portable HDD and WD portable HDD and have no problem.

Just to update, I bought a 250G Seagate laptop drive and put it in a caddy, hooked it up and it worked and mounted first time

USB slave mode with OSX 10.4 not recognized

Hi All
I purchased my Xoom yesterday. I exchanged it from a Advent Vega.
I had a full 16Gb sd-card which I want to use with the Xoom. It does recognize it. But my problem starts when I want to to update the sd-card. My Xoom won't mount on my Powerbook using OSX 10.4.
Is there anyway to enable USB slave mode. The Xoom comes with one usb cable.
I know there is an app Tranfer Files, but it requires OSX 10.5, which my Powerbook wont be able to sustain. Only a 1.3 Ghz.
If not, I will have to depart with the Xoom.
Omnichron mentions that a small app created by a member of Modaco could work on it, but it does not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17426260#post17426260
Thanks
T.

check under storage that sd card is mounted.
in market search for usb mass storage watcher.
dunno whether it will work with Macky.

ThomasAstor said:
Hi All
I purchased my Xoom yesterday. I exchanged it from a Advent Vega.
I had a full 16Gb sd-card which I want to use with the Xoom. It does recognize it. But my problem starts when I want to to update the sd-card. My Xoom won't mount on my Powerbook using OSX 10.4.
Is there anyway to enable USB slave mode. The Xoom comes with one usb cable.
I know there is an app Tranfer Files, but it requires OSX 10.5, which my Powerbook wont be able to sustain. Only a 1.3 Ghz.
If not, I will have to depart with the Xoom.
Omnichron mentions that a small app created by a member of Modaco could work on it, but it does not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17426260#post17426260
Thanks
T.
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There are quite a few Xoom owners that have macs. The title of your post is not descriptive of the help you are looking for. If you edit it you'll probably get what you need.

MK809III Advice

Hi There.
I bought this off eBay and received it today.
Firstly I got it up and running with no problems at all. Plugged it in and away I went. Play store works fine. Happy Happy Happy!
Until I tried to install XBMC from their website. I clicked on the android version and 'no SD card' Flashed up. So i searched for the myfiles app and it wasn't there. But there is an explorer app. I opened that and can't access the internal memory at all?? In the eBay listing it says it should have 8GB of internal memory but when I look in the settings it says there is only 0.98GB free??
I've tried to connect the Android stick to my PC but it doesn't even recognise that I have connected it.
Is there something I am doing wrong???
Thank you in advance for any help on unlocking this otherwise great little thing.

MK809III
hello I also just purchased one off eBay was going to return but it was still to cool it was suppose to be quad core at 1.8 Ghz with 8 Gb.
it has 2 Gb for the operating system but shows only 4 Gb storage mine was a little strange connecting to pc on android stick I had to check connect to pc under usb in settings each time also if usb debugging is enabled it won't show mount the storage on device

same issue
I have the same issue, any help is appreciated, it is out of the box, and if it is a defect should i return it?
walter_sobchak said:
Hi There.
I bought this off eBay and received it today.
Firstly I got it up and running with no problems at all. Plugged it in and away I went. Play store works fine. Happy Happy Happy!
Until I tried to install XBMC from their website. I clicked on the android version and 'no SD card' Flashed up. So i searched for the myfiles app and it wasn't there. But there is an explorer app. I opened that and can't access the internal memory at all?? In the eBay listing it says it should have 8GB of internal memory but when I look in the settings it says there is only 0.98GB free??
I've tried to connect the Android stick to my PC but it doesn't even recognise that I have connected it.
Is there something I am doing wrong???
Thank you in advance for any help on unlocking this otherwise great little thing.
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If you still need help let me know I might could help on xbmc I use SPMClibmedia v12.4.0 (SPMC) libmedia it has hardware drivers for video the beta xbmc builds are said to have drivers as well this one seems to work really well for me
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MK809III stop reading Ext HDD
I bought my MK809III in May14, it's been working fine until last few days ago.It stopped reading my Toshiba external HDD. I have the MK809III connected to a self-powered USB hub, and connected my Air Mouse and External HDD through the Hub.
I have tried changing a new Seagate external HDD, a new USB Hub and even a different adapter,but it's still not able to read the content in the HDD.
Not sure what else can I do?
My earlier MK808b lasted more than a year,this MK809iii doesn't have problem with other APPs, except that it just can't read HDD.I used both the default file manager and ES file explorer.
Appreciate any help please, TIA!

Hi do you have access to a PC might need to check disk or scandisk on the Toshiba I had to do that from power failure caused drive to refuse to mount not sure about Seagate I'm using a custom ROM on my MK809III some have a 2TB limit I need to connect mine back up and see what it does with external hard drive just been using 32G micro SD and network file shares
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[Q] Connecting External Hard Disc to Tab 2 7.0

Hey,
I yesterday bought a WD My Passport Ultra Portable 1TB External Hard Disc keeping in mind that I be able to connect it to my tab 2. After I got the HD I used my OTG Cable to connect my HD to the Tab ( I Already Formatted the HD to FAT32 ) and after connecting the OTG cable to Tab and HD the LED on my HD glows for a second and then Turns off. After the LED turns off my tab shows a message in the Notification bar Removed SD Card Something like that. Please Note that I am using WD MY PASSPORT ULTRA 2.5inch 1TB External hard drive, As it's says that it doesn't need an External power supply
Please Help me with your Suggestions how can I connect the HD to my tab?
Thanks in advance.. :good:

This happens because the tablet don`t provide enough power to the HDD, if you are on stock ROM, there should be a notification about "high power device" or something like that. I have the same issue with my HDD and 3G Dongle.
You can try with the battery fully charged or with a powered USB hub.

The Loko said:
This happens because the tablet don`t provide enough power to the HDD, if you are on stock ROM, there should be a notification about "high power device" or something like that. I have the same issue with my HDD and 3G Dongle.
You can try with the battery fully charged or with a powered USB hub.
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I am Running CM 11. something like that appeared once when I was on stock rom and tried to connect a USB joystick and it showed me that that message
Anyways now I think I need to spend some more bucks for a power hub

OTG Harddrive
beingawesome said:
Hey,
I yesterday bought a WD My Passport Ultra Portable 1TB External Hard Disc keeping in mind that I be able to connect it to my tab 2. After I got the HD I used my OTG Cable to connect my HD to the Tab ( I Already Formatted the HD to FAT32 ) and after connecting the OTG cable to Tab and HD the LED on my HD glows for a second and then Turns off. After the LED turns off my tab shows a message in the Notification bar Removed SD Card Something like that. Please Note that I am using WD MY PASSPORT ULTRA 2.5inch 1TB External hard drive, As it's says that it doesn't need an External power supply
Please Help me with your Suggestions how can I connect the HD to my tab?
Thanks in advance.. :good:
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I don't think it's as much a power problem as Android doesn't support anything but fat32 natively. If you have an older win98 computer, you could fdisk it to fat32, and read the full 1 TB. but android will only write to a 32gb fat32 disk. An option would be connect the drive to a
windows xp or newer computer and use OBEX Commander on windows with bluetooth to move files to the Tab via bluetooth, but it's slow.