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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
Does Someone has successfully attached an external usb disk to the gtab using Vegan Beta 5? Is not working for me, not even recognized. It is formatted on Fat32 and my Archos 101 see it. Any suggestions???
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Does Someone has successfully attached an external usb disk to the gtab using Vegan Beta 5? Is not working for me, not even recognized. It is formatted on Fat32 and my Archos 101 see it. Any suggestions???
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Have you looked for the usb drive in a file manager? There is no popup when you plug it in.
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Does Someone has successfully attached an external usb disk to the gtab using Vegan Beta 5? Is not working for me, not even recognized. It is formatted on Fat32 and my Archos 101 see it. Any suggestions???
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Hi,
I have been using my external Western Digital usb 500gb disk with gtab. I am on Vegan 5.1.
The first time i hooked it up, it did not work. Gtab did not see the usb hdd and usbdisk did not show anything at all. I tried it couple of times in vain,
Then i powered down the gtab, unplugged the usb hdd and restarted the gtab. After gtab booted up i gave it some more time before touching the tab. Then i hooked up the usb hdd and allowed gtab to scan / read the usb hdd. I took a while ( maybe based on amount of data you have in usb hdd) and then i when to file manager, usbdisk and i could access all my files on usb hdd. it is fat32 formatted.
Try couple of time and allow gtabl to read through all the files . I will work.
Let me know if that helped.
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Have you looked for the usb drive in a file manager? There is no popup when you plug it in.
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Nothing...
New2Android said:
Hi,
I have been using my external Western Digital usb 500gb disk with gtab. I am on Vegan 5.1.
The first time i hooked it up, it did not work. Gtab did not see the usb hdd and usbdisk did not show anything at all. I tried it couple of times in vain,
Then i powered down the gtab, unplugged the usb hdd and restarted the gtab. After gtab booted up i gave it some more time before touching the tab. Then i hooked up the usb hdd and allowed gtab to scan / read the usb hdd. I took a while ( maybe based on amount of data you have in usb hdd) and then i when to file manager, usbdisk and i could access all my files on usb hdd. it is fat32 formatted.
Try couple of time and allow gtabl to read through all the files . I will work.
Let me know if that helped.
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Ok, will try that... I'm using a WD 750GB
Didn't work for me... will try to reformatted to see if that helps...
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Didn't work for me... will try to reformatted to see if that helps...
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That didn't work either... will try CM6 Rom to see if can detected the usb hdd.
Hasn't worked for me either. I have a FAT32 USB hard drive that never shows up under usbdisk. I am running Vega-Tab b5.1 and the USB port is working; my evidence is a working USB keyboard, and a green light on the hard drive indicating it is connected. I will try again but so far nothing.
For those of you for whom this doesn't work: I wonder if maybe there's more than just a single FAT32 partition on the hard drive? Maybe there's a hidden partition that might not be normally visible?
Jim
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For those of you for whom this doesn't work: I wonder if maybe there's more than just a single FAT32 partition on the hard drive? Maybe there's a hidden partition that might not be normally visible?
Jim
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How would one check for this? (Using WinXP)
worked for me
I think you have to have a FAT32 format to get the drive recognized. I had a 100GB thin, portable drive and it worked just fine. It shows up as /usbdrive. This worked before the latest update of the base OS and still works for me.
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How would one check for this? (Using WinXP)
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You can try to go to Computer Management==>Disk Management to see what shows up there for the USB drive, but, that might now show some weird partition types. It would show the unallocated space but not the unknown partition type.
Or, try to go here:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm
and download "Partinfo" and run that, and see what that says. That dumps out a bunch of info on partitions on the drives that your machine sees.
Jim
jimcpl said:
You can try to go to Computer Management==>Disk Management to see what shows up there for the USB drive, but, that might now show some weird partition types. It would show the unallocated space but not the unknown partition type.
Or, try to go here:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm
and download "Partinfo" and run that, and see what that says. That dumps out a bunch of info on partitions on the drives that your machine sees.
Jim
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As has been mentioned in other posts, for the drive to work, it appears that you'd need to have only a single FAT32-formatted partition on the drive. If either Disk Management or Partinfo show that there's more than that, then that may be why the Gtab can't see or mount the USB drive to /usbdisk.
Just guessing here...
Jim
I just get rid of the hidden partition, and now is a single fat32 partition. Will check and write back with results.
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I just get rid of the hidden partition, and now is a single fat32 partition. Will check and write back with results.
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It sounds like you did find a hidden partition on your drive? If that's the case, was at the beginning of the drive, or somewhere else (at the end)?
I'm kind of assuming that the Gtab may only be able to see a FAT32 partition that starts at the beginning of the drive, but not 100% sure about that.
Jim
jimcpl said:
You can try to go to Computer Management==>Disk Management to see what shows up there for the USB drive, but, that might now show some weird partition types. It would show the unallocated space but not the unknown partition type.
Or, try to go here:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm
and download "Partinfo" and run that, and see what that says. That dumps out a bunch of info on partitions on the drives that your machine sees.
Jim
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This particular drive only has one partition and uses FAT32 format. It is an 80GB drive (and nearly full). My other portable drive uses NTFS. The FAT32 drive says it is "healthy, active, primary partition" under "Disk Management". The graphic (Windows 7 PC, I am at home now), shows only one partition where as my "C" drive shows three separate partitions: one 30MB, one 14.65 GB and one 916.83GB.
Still scratching my head. No big deal as long as I have an internet connection and upnplay capabilities.
So the problem I'm having with my infuse is that the disk drives (E:/F are not showing up in Windows Explorer. I've done some trial and error to diagnose the problem but I'm currently at a loss. Here's what I know:
The cable is fine, I just purchased to new cable to make sure that it wasn't the problem after I thought that the original cable was the issue.
The phone works perfectly fine on linux, I'm able to mount the two devices (/dev/sdb, /dev/sdc) without problems and transfer files without any delay or trouble.
In windows the computer recognizes when the phone is plugged in and if you go into "Printers and Devices" you can see the "Samsung_Android" device. If you right click on it before you turn on USB storage on the device the context menu pops up and you can go into properties and see that all the functions are recognized for the phone, (two disk drives (it recognizes them as E and F), modem, two mtp devices, etc.)
Once you enable USB mass storage on the phone you can no longer right click on the device and see properties, if you do it takes a minute or two for the menu to pop up and clicking anything in the menu makes the lag unuseable.
Sometimes drive E: will show up in Explorer but not F: and when I click on it it still just stalls in loading the drive.
If I go into command line and type "e:" on windows to cd to that drive it also just stalls out rather than saying that the drive has not been found.
If I go into the disk manager to see if maybe it's just a drive name conflict in the management console it doesn't load because the manager just stalls out at "Connecting to Virtual Disk Manager Service"
I was originally having this problem on stock rooted FROYO, I was able to use Kies (through the same windows machine) and upgrade to stock GB but on GB I was still having the problem. Then I switched over to the stock rooted GB rom and I'm also still having the problem.
I'm pretty convinced the problem has to do with windows not my phone because I seem to have isolated it to just this windows install (I haven't had the opportunity to try on another windows machine but I figure it will probably work fine there) since it can't be due to the cable or a faulty Froyo/GB install.
Do you have any ideas on how I can fix this? I'll gladly provide anymore information regarding my problem if you think it will help.
Windows....sux dont it...
I would uninstall all phone drives....download new set...reinstall....and see what happens.
And like you said....i would try another windows pc....
Hi, I just bought a universal USB OTG cable, and used it to connect a 32 GB pen drive (FAT32 filesystem) to my OPO (05Q, rooted). At first it apparently detected it, but since the drive was totally empty I had no way to confirm that, so I unplugged the drive and connected it to my PC, and put some videos on it. The computer gave a me a list of files with strange simbols as name, but I thought it was something done by the phone, given the presence of the directories "Android" and "LOST.DIR" (even though I wasn't allowed to open them). Then, I plugged the drive back to the phone, and it was detected without any problem, but it was completely empty, and not even a single bit of data could be found anywhere. I repeated the process three times, always with the same results. Does someone have a solution for this annoying issue?
Thank you very much.
Edit: Problem solved, it was an issue of the USB drive.
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I am having an issue transferring files from my phone to a USB flash drive that is connected to the computer.
It works fine for anywhere between 10-100 songs. Usually around 40 or 50 songs. All of a sudden it will stop and I get the awesome error "a device attached to the system is not functioning". At this point the only thing I can do is restart my phone, and then the process keeps repeating.
I have tried this with USB debugging on and off. I am doing this on my work computer that has Windows 7.
Any ideas on what I can do here? Thanks everyone!!
EDIT: The USB flash drive is a brand new 64gb Sandisk if that matters - doubt it since it seems like the issue is on the phone end