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Will This New Sony Flash Drive work as USB OTG?

Hello Everyone,
I came across the new Sony Flash Drives with MicroUSB port.
Will it work as USB OTG on Xperia L?
As far as what I have read here is that Xperia L needs external power for OTG to work.
So just need more information regarding this new flash drives which Sony displays as USB On The Go Flash Drives.
It would be great if it works.
Link:
http://www.sony.co.in/product/usm8sa1

cyberfrnd said:
Hello Everyone,
I came across the new Sony Flash Drives with MicroUSB port.
Will it work as USB OTG on Xperia L?
As far as what I have read here is that Xperia L needs external power for OTG to work.
So just need more information regarding this new flash drives which Sony displays as USB On The Go Flash Drives.
It would be great if it works.
Link:
http://www.sony.co.in/product/usm8sa1
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Xperia L does not support OTG and thus I am afraid this would not work for your device. I saw the link and it clearly says that the USB flash disk DOESNOT provide its own power (It's dependant on the phone's board for power) so it wouldnot work ! However, if you find a way to power your USB drive externally , it would work given that proper modifications are made in the kernel.
Even If I can do this all, I wouldnot trouble myself with OTG as their would be too many cables/adapter to power usb etc and I will simply stick to a 32gb sd card !
To be very certain, you can ask sony care about the matter!
Good Luck

Hnk1 said:
Xperia L does not support OTG and thus I am afraid this would not work for your device. I saw the link and it clearly says that the USB flash disk DOESNOT provide its own power (It's dependant on the phone's board for power) so it wouldnot work ! However, if you find a way to power your USB drive externally , it would work given that proper modifications are made in the kernel.
Even If I can do this all, I wouldnot trouble myself with OTG as their would be too many cables/adapter to power usb etc and I will simply stick to a 32gb sd card !
To be very certain, you can ask sony care about the matter!
Good Luck
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Yes, you are very much correct..
It would require a USB OTG Host with male and female usb sockets to power it on.
Thanks for the reply.

USB OTG
It's only that our phone can't powerup the external USB drive for now. If you can power it with any other source, phone will be able to do it.
Same is the case with sony flash drive.
Let's wait for some hardware tweaks by developers to divert more power through USB or wait for external drives which require less power.:silly:

[Q] USB 3.0 -OTG failing with moto G

Hi,
This is my first post so bear with me ...
I have recently purchased Moto G and was trying out OTG functionality. I have brought a USB 3.0 16gb pen drive and formatted it in FAT32 File system and trying to connect to Moto G using a OTG cable (USB 2.0) but it is giving an error "USB storage is blank or has unsupported filesystem"
I recently tried out with 8gb USB 2.0 pen drive an it was working fine.
Can you please advice what could be the issue here and how to fix this?
Thanks,
Mukund

I want the moderator to ban me.

Mukund_pb said:
Hi,
This is my first post so bear with me ...
I have recently purchased Moto G and was trying out OTG functionality. I have brought a USB 3.0 16gb pen drive and formatted it in FAT32 File system and trying to connect to Moto G using a OTG cable (USB 2.0) but it is giving an error "USB storage is blank or has unsupported filesystem"
I recently tried out with 8gb USB 2.0 pen drive an it was working fine.
Can you please advice what could be the issue here and how to fix this?
Thanks,
Mukund
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I believe the 16gb USB3.0 pen drive you have is backwards compatible I.e, it also supports USB2.0
Then the problem is with the file system of the pendrive ... Stock moto g ROMs doesn't detect NTFS USB devices... You should change it to fat32 and try
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reversegear said:
I believe the 16gb USB3.0 pen drive you have is backwards compatible I.e, it also supports USB2.0
Then the problem is with the file system of the pendrive ... Stock moto g ROMs doesn't detect NTFS USB devices... You should change it to fat32 and try
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Thanks, But I already have FAT32 as the file system for my pen drive. Is there is a posibility that Moto g / OTG cable doesn't have capability to transfer date as 3.0 speeds or backward compatibility should take care of it ?
Will it help if I have a OTG-USB 3.0 cable, or it will also have the same issue may be due to Moto G limitation?
Thanks,
Mukund

alikpronoy said:
As your phone supports USB 2.0, I think that's why you are facing problem with USB 3. pen drive.
As far I know, USB port is related to hardware. So, probably you won't be able to upgrade your USB 2.0 to USB 3.0, but I am not sure.
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hmm..It is possible, But I am not sure what is the phone capability. I thought moto G may have support for connecting to USB 3.0 using OTG-USB 3.0 cable, which is recently introduced in market. I did some google research on the same but could not find out if there is some intrinsic limitation of Moto G with USB 3.0..

San disk dual drive not working with Nexus 4

I bought a dual USB disk for Nexus 4 , the one like sony has released recently, my Nexus 4 doesn't detect it, I tried flashing a custom kernel with a OTG support but no luck. Any idea how can i make the USB work ?? The USB does have a micro-usb connector ..Any reply will be really helpful

Abhiheart said:
I bought a dual USB disk for Nexus 4 , the one like sony has released recently, my Nexus 4 doesn't detect it, I tried flashing a custom kernel with a OTG support but no luck. Any idea how can i make the USB work ?? The USB does have a micro-usb connector ..Any reply will be really helpful
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nexus 4 does not support usb otg. the only way is to have a custom rom with usb otg AND have a Y micro usb cable to give power to the disc.
in other words nexus only supports external powered usb otg.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/development/kernel-patch-hells-core-kernel-otg-t2586524
this a list of compatible kernels. somewhere in the forums there is a thread for this if i remember that so search and you will find it.

OTG

Hi xda,, im using lenovo a6000 plus smartphone.. i'd rooted my phone..there is any option to support otg service to my phone?

If your device supports OTG then there will be a option of USB OTG
under the Storage.
Settings-->Storage-->USB OTG
If it's not there that means your device doesnot supports OTG.
There's no way to make your device support OTG even by rooting.
It's a feature given when the device is manufactured.

Honor 6X not Supporting OTG

Hello friends, recently I updated my Honor 6x(BLN-L22) to B363(EMUI Version: 5.0.2, Android Version: 7.0).Today I try to connect my Strontium MicroSD Card 16GB via OTG but doesn't show/detect it. Then I try to connect HP Flash Drive 64GB but nothing happen.Please help me.
I never tried OTG on Honor 6x before this Update.
"OTG Troubleshooter" app shows this:
USB Host Support
OTG Detected [even my Pendrive is connected via OTG]
No USB Device Detected in Linux
No USB Device Detected in Android
Info:
Device Code: HWBLN-H Hardware:hi6250
USB Hubs: 0

My mobile is honor 6x but otg is supporting my mobile please help me