I need more OTG memory, what is biggest that will work?
i just fired mine up with a 1 terabyte hard drive and it works no problem... needs to be formatted properly though
How do I do that?
b00mb00mchuck said:
i just fired mine up with a 1 terabyte hard drive and it works no problem... needs to be formatted properly though
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When u have time, I would like to know what drive u use and how to formats it right. Thanks again
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When u have time, I would like to know what drive u use and how to formats it right. Thanks again
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u can use any external storage with these samsung tablets. cause of the USB OTG feature. need to connect the tablet with the external storage (be it SD card, external hard drive or USB thumb drive) u need proper connector (duh...) cheapo connectors are available easily almost everywhere.
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How do I do that?
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When u have time, I would like to know what drive u use and how to formats it right. Thanks again
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I use an OTG hub like this one...
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And a Toshiba DTD210 1tb hard drive ...
The OTG hub allows you to power the hard drive from an external source (such as the samsung charger that comes with the tablet) so you don't risk overdriving the output on the tablets micro usb port...
You can format the hard drive to fat32 using your pc very easily... (just do a youtube search... many tutorials for that)
b00mb00mchuck said:
I use an OTG hub like this one...
And a Toshiba DTD210 1tb hard drive ...
The OTG hub allows you to power the hard drive from an external source (such as the samsung charger that comes with the tablet) so you don't risk overdriving the output on the tablets micro usb port...
You can format the hard drive to fat32 using your pc very easily... (just do a youtube search... many tutorials for that)
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Thank u, researching that direction now...
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Thank u, researching that direction now...
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Your links didn't work, can u repost them?
Guntert said:
I need more OTG memory, what is biggest that will work?
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i really dont understand why is it so difficult for u to find something so easy.
Here is step by step guide for u:
1- get OTG cable from Amazon, Ebay, Bestbuy or any local electronic shop near u. it would cost u not more than US $2-3
2- get any external hard drive, external storage, multicard reader or anything related to memory. what ever u have.
3- connect OTG cable to ur tab and the other one to the compatible storage solution (external hard drives, memory cards or anything)
4- u will see it open the File Explorer itself without u even touching the phone! *Android Beauty
5- Watch anything or do anything u want with ur storage.
dont get no fancy items or stupid things, adapters and stuff like that. they do the same but cost a lot more!
NOTE: keep one thing in mind, Before removing the external device, u SHOULD ALWAYS UNMOUNT it first. same goes for the Micro SD card which installs in the phone. its very easy to do it, just pull down the notification dropdown and from there just select USB mass storage option which will already be telling u to remove it safely.
i m here linking u to a youtube video very easy to do this above mentioned procedure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrAKrU1fr38
hope i helped a little.
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i really dont understand why is it so difficult for u to find something so easy.
Here is step by step guide for u:
1- get OTG cable from Amazon, Ebay, Bestbuy or any local electronic shop near u. it would cost u not more than US $2-3
2- get any external hard drive, external storage, multicard reader or anything related to memory. what ever u have.
3- connect OTG cable to ur tab and the other one to the compatible storage solution (external hard drives, memory cards or anything)
4- u will see it open the File Explorer itself without u even touching the phone! *Android Beauty
5- Watch anything or do anything u want with ur storage.
dont get no fancy items or stupid things, adapters and stuff like that. they do the same but cost a lot more!
NOTE: keep one thing in mind, Before removing the external device, u SHOULD ALWAYS UNMOUNT it first. same goes for the Micro SD card which installs in the phone. its very easy to do it, just pull down the notification dropdown and from there just select USB mass storage option which will already be telling u to remove it safely.
i m here linking u to a youtube video very easy to do this above mentioned procedure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrAKrU1fr38
hope i helped a little.
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Looked at video and I'm using a Samsung galaxy tab s and I have a Samsung adapter that does the samething and anything 128g or lower works fine. I have a cheap external hard drive and a 200 one and neither worked.
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Looked at video and I'm using a Samsung galaxy tab s and I have a Samsung adapter that does the samething and anything 128g or lower works fine. I have a cheap external hard drive and a 200 one and neither worked.
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I think I can help you with it you need http://www.amazon.com/Micro-Cable-P...UTF8&qid=1417741930&sr=1-6&keywords=otg+cable
but I advice you to do surgery on the cable I post it on Headfi regarding the mod you need to cut V+ (red cable) on the leg going to the tablet do not cut black cable negative on you not get OTG doing this you will avoid a major drain from the battery since OTG spec need to supply power "on the go" to small usb memory device but in your case you do not need it since you are using an external supply for the drive
you can maybe use this if you wnt o charge in same time but I did not try them and not sure it can works
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...and-Tablet-PC-thinkpad/317532_1888812032.html
or this http://shop.valarm.net/collections/...-otg-y-cable-with-micro-usb-power-for-samsung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTGQcFuozb4
those use a resistor in the data line but may not be supported on the kernel of TabS
Guntert said:
Looked at video and I'm using a Samsung galaxy tab s and I have a Samsung adapter that does the samething and anything 128g or lower works fine. I have a cheap external hard drive and a 200 one and neither worked.
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It works perfectly fine on my note 3 without any issues what so ever! Also no problem on my brothers tab 4. I will recv my tab s today. I will share if that works
I'm going to purchase a sandisk ultra 64gb microUSB otg and I'm not pretty sure if it will work well wherein I can just put extra movies and other files and watch while it's connected? I'd still need it for school and other stuff since I have no computer at all just my tab S.
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u can use any external storage with these samsung tablets. cause of the USB OTG feature. need to connect the tablet with the external storage (be it SD card, external hard drive or USB thumb drive) u need proper connector (duh...) cheapo connectors are available easily almost everywhere.
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What kind of connector did u use?
EXFAT people, exfat.
To do this you need a POWERED USB HUB and OTG Cable, in this case you can plug basically anything into the tab, including USB Soundcard (DAC), Keyboard, Mouse, USB hard drives of any size FORMATTED to ExFAT (via windows).
In case anyone cares, I have a USB 3.0 SATA adapter with a Samsung 840 Evo SSD 240GB. The tab has enough power to use the Samsung SSD without the powered hub which is very helpful in some circumstances. Further it does not suck the battery badly.
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EXFAT people, exfat.
To do this you need a POWERED USB HUB and OTG Cable, in this case you can plug basically anything into the tab, including USB Soundcard (DAC), Keyboard, Mouse, USB hard drives of any size FORMATTED to ExFAT (via windows).
In case anyone cares, I have a USB 3.0 SATA adapter with a Samsung 840 Evo SSD 240GB. The tab has enough power to use the Samsung SSD without the powered hub which is very helpful in some circumstances. Further it does not suck the battery badly.
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Would like more info when ur free
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I purchased the G-Tablet because I wanted a way to download photos from my camera's memory, view them, and write them to an external hard drive. The problem I've run into is that I can't get my tablet (running TnT-Lite) to recognize my 1TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex drive to mount. I've done a lot of searching for answers, and my first thought was that the drive wasn't receiving enough power, but I've tried it through the docking station and a powered USB hub without any luck. I also reformatted it to Fat32 just to be sure it wasn't the drive format. Sniffer never even notices it's connected.
I'm using TnT-Lite, but am perfectly willing to try other ROMs if they have better external drive support. I'm not super familiar with linux so I haven't tried seeing if I could manually mount the drive, but if someone would be interested in telling me how to see if it's recognized and manually mount it I'm all ears.
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Kind of a repost...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=912212
Two things:
Make sure your harddrive format is supported by your kernel. Some kernels like clemsin support ntfs and other formats. I am not really sure what formats does the kernel that comes with tnt lite supports, but i recomend to check or install another kernel.
Second; make sure you connects your HDD to a power source before using it. I have not tried it myself, but i heard that the low power source of the usb port of the g tablet is not enough to supply power to the HDD.
Good luck with that, hope you find a solution to the problem.
Another thought, have you tried rebooting the tab after you've plugged the HDD in. I have a 500 gb WD elements, and if I'm having issues, usually rebooting with the drive plugged up takes care of it.
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Kind of a repost...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=912212
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Yes, others have posted similar issues, albeit with different drives/ROMs and little or no followup to troubleshoot the problem and no real solution.
I believe I was very specific in mentioning during the opening post that I tried using external power (via the dock and powered USB hub) and different drive formats.
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Another thought, have you tried rebooting the tab after you've plugged the HDD in. I have a 500 gb WD elements, and if I'm having issues, usually rebooting with the drive plugged up takes care of it.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried having it plugged in via the dock and powered hub before boot, but still no dice.
The best case scenario for me is that someone here has the same drive, overcame this issue and is willing to share their solution. I'm hoping that I can at least find someone who knows enough about linux/ROMs to help me troubleshoot and figure out if this is a hardware, driver or software issue. Maybe the drive is being recognized but the partition isn't getting mounted for some reason? *shrug*
Try partitioning your drive to 2 500gb sections. I don't think android os recognizes 1tb drive sizes. Just a thought.
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Try partitioning your drive to 2 500gb sections. I don't think android os recognizes 1tb drive sizes. Just a thought.
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Excellent suggestion. Just repartitioned it as (2) 465GB fat32 drives and copied over some test files, plugged the drive into the powered USB hub, plugged that into the G-tablet, booted...and at first I thought it didn't work. Then an hour later I look at my tablet and realize it's mounted! I can see the image file I was using to test it...except the image (png) doesn't open. I try moving it to the SDCard using iFileManager and it errors.
...so on the up side, the drive mounted. On the down side, there may still be some issues.
You didn't say what model drive. I got a 1TB drive to use on my Tonido plug server and server would not recognize it. apparently some of the new drives need non standard drivers. For bulk storage, the tonido works great and accessible from the web.
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You didn't say what model drive. I got a 1TB drive to use on my Tonido plug server and server would not recognize it. apparently some of the new drives need non standard drivers. For bulk storage, the tonido works great and accessible from the web.
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Is my opening post that difficult to read? Pretty sure I said it's a 1TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex.
not only is this not developement but snapping at the people trying to help you is just gonna not get you any help
Moved to general.
I have the exact same hard drive and the exact same problem as well. Running Cal's 1.1 with Clem's latest kernal ver. 6. No luck in seeing it.
Also, even with a thumb drive it cannot recognize it if it's formatted as NTFS. I know it's supposed to work but there must be something I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?
Thanks
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not only is this not developement but snapping at the people trying to help you is just gonna not get you any help
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It seemed to me that troubleshooting problems with ROMs not correctly mounting drives fell under development along with the ROM being used.
As for snapping at people, maybe I wasn't as appreciative of their effort as I should have been, but I felt like people were replying without even reading the opening post where I had tried hard to explain the situation in detail. It's like taking your car to a mechanic and telling him it's making a clunking sound, then receiving a call from them later saying, "Yeah, we took a look and there seems to be a clunking sound."
you try using a file explorer like root explorer?? or only sniffer?
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I have the exact same hard drive and the exact same problem as well. Running Cal's 1.1 with Clem's latest kernal ver. 6. No luck in seeing it.
Also, even with a thumb drive it cannot recognize it if it's formatted as NTFS. I know it's supposed to work but there must be something I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?
Thanks
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Hey rover442. I'm thrilled to have gotten it to mount and, hopefully if we work together, we can figure out how to get everything working properly. To recap, here's what I did to get it to mount:
Delete the existing partition using Windows Disk Management
Create two new partitions (under 500GB)
Format those partitions using fat32format
Plug the drive into the tablet via a powered usb hub
Reboot
Wait an undefined amount of time for it to magically mount
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you try using a file explorer like root explorer?? or only sniffer?
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I've tried all of them, but when it finally mounted I noticed it in Sniffer then was able to access it using iFileManager.
Ok gaines. I'll reformat the drive and partition it and see what happens. Thanks!
Gaines, I made two partitions. I put an mp3 in each partition. Loaded it into G Tab and it sees one of the partitions and the mp3. It does not see the other partition. FTR, I am not using a powered USB, just plugging straight into the G. (formatted fat 32 on the external hard drive).
Success
Ok here's what I did to make things work in FAT 32
I downloaded a partition software called EASEUS Partition master Home. It was free. I fromatted again the whole 1TB hard drive (931GB available). here are the following tests I did:
Partition 431GB successfully seen in G Tab
Partition 531GB successfully seen in G Tab
So since I broke the 500GB threshold I tried to partition 631GB and it was good. So then I just repartitioned for the whole 931GB available and it is now being seen in Sniffer and Root Explorer. So it's fine.
However, the G Tab still cannot recognize NTFS.
You need a kernel that supports ntfs. Android does not recognise ntfs natively
Does the XOOM pair well with a portable hard drive? Im noticing I am traveling more, and need my laptop less and less in the process. The XOOM seems to take care of a majority of my needs, but I was wondering if I am able to plug in an external portable hard drive, and have the XOOM pull data, and add data to the hard drive. I'm sure I would need an app to do this (if possible) as well?
Your help is greatly appreciated
anyone know this?
If you use a USB Drive enable kernel (like Tiamet) and the drive is powered and does not contain a USB hub (like the one I tried), it might work.
I actually tried this yesterday. My XOOM is rooted and configured to use a USB Host adapter to accept USB storage. I've tested with several thumb drives, all seem to work. Yesterday I hooked up a 320GB self powered USB HDD and unfortunately it did not work. It could be just this drive, so only way to find out is test with others =)
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I actually tried this yesterday. My XOOM is rooted and configured to use a USB Host adapter to accept USB storage. I've tested with several thumb drives, all seem to work. Yesterday I hooked up a 320GB self powered USB HDD and unfortunately it did not work. It could be just this drive, so only way to find out is test with others =)
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Your problem is most likely that you don't have the drive formatted as FAT32. I tried a 250GB drive and it worked nicely. In this thread I have a link to a site that offers you a free simple solution (Windows itself does not allow formatting of such large drives with FAT32).
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Your problem is most likely that you don't have the drive formatted as FAT32. I tried a 250GB drive and it worked nicely. In this thread I have a link to a site that offers you a free simple solution (Windows itself does not allow formatting of such large drives with FAT32).
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You know what, you are 100% correct. I forgot I had this drive formatted at NTFS for something else I was toying with. I just tried a FAT32 self powered USB drive (120GB) and it worked just fine.
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You know what, you are 100% correct. I forgot I had this drive formatted at NTFS for something else I was toying with. I just tried a FAT32 self powered USB drive (120GB) and it worked just fine.
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I LOVE easy solutions! Enjoy your HDD and don't forget to thank the guys that enabled the USB hosting!!!
so I should pick up a hard drive (portable), and then format it to fat32? Ill use the link from your post and I'm good?
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so I should pick up a hard drive (portable), and then format it to fat32? Ill use the link from your post and I'm good?
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If you read the thread carefully people mention issues with certain thumb drives that have indicator lights because they might require too much power. However, when I connect my iPhone all it does is charge So my interpretation is that the HDD needs to have its own power source
Sadly the problem with fat32 and Android in general at the moment is that you can't use files >2 gigs. You could on Androids internal storage which is usually a file system that supports large files(RFS,EXT3/4...) if your device has that much internal storage available.
Does anyone know what our internal file system is? I haven't messed with it enough to know yet - but assuming because the thing mounts in Windows. - its FAT(at least the part we can mount and write to from windows).
And all of this boils down to Windows and their lack of reality in that we don't all run NTFS, and that maybe, possibly, someone MIGHT WANT TO HOOK UP A GOD BLESSED EXT DRIVE!
But i guess I could just format all of my stuff as NTFS, because the open source community is actually smart and Linux can read it. But then again maybe I would need to work on someones stupid ass Mac and need to write a file to said NTFS drive - OH WAIT CAN'T EF'IN DO THAT!
/rant
You could probably use ext2 on the hard drive - it can be configured to be readable and writable in Windows. It's similar to FAT32 but doesn't have the limit on file size.
Hello people!
I searched for USB OTG threads and every I found that it needs an external power supply.
Do you guys know (or tried) to use the Sensation as a DSLR remote?
I am asking this, because the camera is powered, so not sure if an external power supply still needed.
Thanks in advance!
davebugyi said:
Hello people!
I searched for USB OTG threads and every I found that it needs an external power supply.
Do you guys know (or tried) to use the Sensation as a DSLR remote?
I am asking this, because the camera is powered, so not sure if an external power supply still needed.
Thanks in advance!
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Most likely it won't still need an external power supply, but since I don't have use this feature
I can't say for sure
You could always test it and let us know if it works or not
Is there a particular app you have in mind for tethering a DSLR? I'm in the process of getting USB OTG working, can give it a try once it's up and running. I only have a Nikon camera.
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Is there a particular app you have in mind for tethering a DSLR? I'm in the process of getting USB OTG working, can give it a try once it's up and running. I only have a Nikon camera.
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If you know something new, share with us, I am intrested in it..
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If you know something new, share with us, I am intrested in it..
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I haven't looked into any tethering solutions yet. My focus has been on an in-field way of copying cards to an external hard drive (via USB-OTG) from a card reader. I've gotten both the card reader and the hdd to mount, the only issue left is finding a filesystem and formatting the drive.
FAT32/vfat is the obvious answer, but large volume sizes (my drive is ~100GB) don't work on Android. I'd prefer not having to create multiple 32GB volumes since I've got 2x16GB cards.
Currently the kernel I'm using (tamcore) doesn't have NTFS write support. Even if it did, ntfs-3g is fairly slow (not sure if it or usb read/write speeds would be the bottleneck). Similar story for exFAT, except there's no support for it as of yet.
ext2/3/4 would work, but I'd prefer it to be readable from a Windows machine in case I need to do anything with the photos immediately.
Issues aside, I've been using RAW droid to look at the files. Viewing files isn't one of the goals for the project, but it's nice to be able to look at them and see some EXIF data. I'm not aware of any apps which can process/manipulate RAW files, but RAW droid supports a wide variety of formats and, IIRC, lets you extract and save the jpeg preview.
Title pretty much says it all.
I want to use an external drive to backup photos I copy from the SD card reader... Can I use a USB-powered drive, or do I need to get a powered unit?
Thanks!
gs111 said:
Title pretty much says it all.
I want to use an external drive to backup photos I copy from the SD card reader... Can I use a USB-powered drive, or do I need to get a powered unit?
Thanks!
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well im pretty sure its a 5 volt like on a pc. so it should work. but try whats the worst that could happen
With this
http://www.amazon.fr/DOCKING-STATION-SATA-vers-eSATA/dp/B000W7ZKQ0
I use all my hdd ntfs or fat32, 3,5 or 2,5. One or two partitions
Works fine
Only stock file manager can show the drive
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda app-developers app
I've found out that we have one here at work that I can borrow for a few hours to test it out before I buy one.
I'll report back tomorrow.
I just tested a 500gb Iomega 2.5" drive, and it works perfectly. Root Explorer works fine with it, although the stock file manager is a bit easier to work with.
Yes, its works, almost with every File Manager.
Location system root/removable/usb drive 0 (orsomething)
gs111 said:
Title pretty much says it all.
I want to use an external drive to backup photos I copy from the SD card reader... Can I use a USB-powered drive, or do I need to get a powered unit?
Thanks!
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Asus usb adapter or dock usb
I can use 2.5 usb drives without external power fat32 or ntfs
3.5 inch drives with external power fat32 or ntfs
multiple partitions are not an issue.
I use X-Plore file manager with external drives because you can see two directories or drives at the same time.
Total Commander also works well for an external drive
Install app to otg 1st you will need root 2nd you will need 2 apps foldermount and stickmount once you have those open stickmount and mount the otg then open foldermount hit app analyzer on the left side then choose ur app you want to install to otg hit create pair then go to destination and the path should look like this /storage/emulated/0/usbStorage/sd1 and there you have it
thanks for the tip. i was hoping to do this with CIFS when a compatible kernel comes out. i just hate having only one port for charge and OTG. if they find a way to charge and use OTG then i'll kick myself for paying $170 for a wifi hd!
So for example, If I wanted to install Asphalt to my meenova card reader with a 16gb microsd . In would be able to just plug in the card reader whenever I want to play the game?
yep, should be just as easy as that. there'll be a pretty big hit in file transfer/load times vs the internal storage, but you get tons of extra space!
madsquabbles said:
yep, should be just as easy as that. there'll be a pretty big hit in file transfer/load times vs the internal storage, but you get tons of extra space!
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my only issue now is I get a constant stickmount notification even after I've removed my sd
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my only issue now is I get a constant stickmount notification even after I've removed my sd
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i haven't had any problem yet. i'm using a 128GB USB 3.0 PNY NTFS [/COLOR]formated usb stick and a 32GB USB 2.0 sandisk stick. are you unmounting before removing?
edit: whoops, i lied. both exFat formatted.