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How to watch movies from your DHD on TV

I couldnt find this posted anywhere else so here you go
I watched a movie on my plasma last night through my DHD via. USB cable, Im sure it would would work for most new TV's as they all seem to have a USB port in the back.
All i did was plugin the DHD to the TV via. USB cable and set the phone to "Disk Drive Mode" and a box came up on my TV saying that it had found a "Android Device" and i could watch a movie straight off it, It just had a "explorer" type menu and you can select movies, pictures or music Which i thought was pretty awesum!
Give it a go if you have a USB port on your TV, mines a Samsung Plasma about 1.5 years old. I tried to take a pic if it but of course i forgot that i cant use the camera when storage mode is on lol
NOTE: It worked fine for me but im not sure about voltages etc... it charged my phone at the same time, but i guess if you TV knows its an Android Phone like it did in my case, its probably made to be able to do it.

Nice one! I need to test this one with my Samsung tv
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It's not a feature of your DHD but of your TV 'cause it has media player. Then you switch your DHD to disk mode it works like just a card or usb drive.

Yea I realize that I never said it was a feature of the phone. But is it not good to know?
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Is there a way to have say a cifs share on the usb n have it work while its mounted too tv ?
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OTG + Eye-Fi = Profit?

Hey everyone,
I was wondering if it would be possible to use an Eye-Fi card with my DSLR and an OTG USB cable set up to use my Nexus 7 as a viewfinder?
Thanks in advance!
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Unless there's something about the Eye-Fi that I don't understand, I don't see how this could work. The Eye-Fi doesn't broadcast a live image as far as I know. I'm also not sure where the USB OTG cable would fit into the equation since I'm assuming the Eye-Fi would go into the camera.

I should also mention that I'm not completely familiar with the way Eye-Fi card work lol
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don't think that would work - Eyefi only sends picture files not live video stream and for that matter the nexus 7 is not designed to take video data via usb
TheHighlightGuy said:
Hey everyone,
I was wondering if it would be possible to use an Eye-Fi card with my DSLR and an OTG USB cable set up to use my Nexus 7 as a viewfinder?
Thanks in advance!
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Would I at least be able to instantly review the pictures on the 7?
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What type of camera do you have? I remember reading in this forum someone with a Nikon DSLR was able to connect it to the tablet using a MHL cable. I think he had an app on his phone for nikon cameras as well. Chainfire also makes an app for Canon EOS cameras. The comments make it sound like it works on the nexus 7. I'm planning on getting a cable and testing it out as well eventually. It offers live view and a lot of other features.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.dslrcontroller&hl=en

Not to sound mean but you should really at least look at a product's website to get an idea for what it actually does.
http://www.eye.fi/how-it-works/features/direct-mode
This says that you can send the pictures directly to your Android device.

mwalt2 said:
What type of camera do you have? I remember reading in this forum someone with a Nikon DSLR was able to connect it to the tablet using a MHL cable. I think he had an app on his phone for nikon cameras as well. Chainfire also makes an app for Canon EOS cameras. The comments make it sound like it works on the nexus 7. I'm planning on getting a cable and testing it out as well eventually. It offers live view and a lot of other features.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.dslrcontroller&hl=en
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Thanks! I'll definitely check it out when my Nexus 7 comes in!
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Not to sound mean but you should really at least look at a product's website to get an idea for what it actually does.
http://www.eye.fi/how-it-works/features/direct-mode
This says that you can send the pictures directly to your Android device.
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Thanks for the link.
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You don't need eye-fi. Just the otg cable, root, and chainfire's app. This will give you live viewfinder.

[Q] is there any way for me to hook up an external HDD?

i will be relying on my N7 for entertainment for a while and i have a 2tb i would like to hook up to it if possible.

Slack2116 said:
i will be relying on my N7 for entertainment for a while and i have a 2tb i would like to hook up to it if possible.
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If your 2tb hdd has external power it works if you use an OTG USB cable.
I have hooked it up to one of my 1.x tb hdds with external power by OTG USB and it worked like a charm

does it require root access??

Will-Survive said:
does it require root access??
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Good question. I would like to know also. And yes it has external power. Just a normal WD external.

I've just ordered a Samsung 500GB HDD and OTG cable so good to know (everyone should root their Nexus you can do so much more)
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Will-Survive said:
does it require root access??
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Not for read-only access (search play store for 'nexus media importer'), however if you root it, you can hook up the HDD, run media rescan (paid version of stickmount has that), and videos will show up in MX player, music in Music player and pics in Gallery.
Root is awesome.

If youre going to watch bluray rips or with audio codec DTS then i recommend you use DICE PLAYER and find a modified plugin file. its somewhere on XDA cannot remember for the life of me where it is...
its the only player that will play DTS and HD videos smoothly. MX has sync issues and other players dont support it.

Rooting is so confusing on this thing. Not like my RAZR MAXX.
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I use the Nexus Media Importer with a WD My Passport 500GB Hard Drive and I've had no troubles with it.

Slack2116 said:
Rooting is so confusing on this thing. Not like my RAZR MAXX.
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It's not really, it's the unlocking downloader that erases your data, but besides that you can root it with two clicks using one of the available tools found on this forum
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[Q] FPse and External Drives

I am using FPse on my Nexus 10. I have found it difficult to search for this issue but I would like to have a giant library of games stored on my tablet but since there is a lack of SD card support I find that 16GB is a little difficult to work with when some of the games take up roughly 2GB or so.
Anyway, my question is I have an OTG cable and a flashdrive that all works fine with the N10 but I cant seem to figure out how to store the psone games on the flash drive and load them up using FPse. I have nexus media loader, stock rom, not rooted or anything. I just want to be able to store them on an external device and not locally since they take up too much room.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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You could create a symlink I guess, but you'd have to root.
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OTG + Camcorder/Camera

Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone has ever attempted to connect a camera or camcorder to their Nexus 10 via an OTG cable, or perhaps another type of cable?
I know that a lot of the newer dSLR cameras have an app and wifi capabilities and whatnot. My camera is slightly older, but it has USB, HDMI, component. The usual.
I wanted to use my tablet as a view while filming. Is that possible?

I have an older DSLR and it works fine with Otg
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Awesome! I'm glad to hear that it's actually a possibility.
Can you provide me with more details? What kind of camera do you have? Is it MicroUSB? Do you use an app to mount? Do you use an app to control the camera? Do you have full range of functionalities, or are you limited?
Anything you can tell me would be appreciated! Thanks!

I've used the DSLR Controller App with my Canon 60D. Works perfectly.
I had the intention of doing some long exposure remotely released work but not really spent the time.
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I have a Nexus 10 still running stock 4.2 and a Canon Vixia M41 camcorder. When I connect them using OTG, I can view previously recorded content on the camcorder if I browse to the mp4 files using a file manager on the N10, but I haven't found a way to use the N10 to view the camcorder in real time.
I assume the Nexus can't take HDMI In, so I'm limited to the USB.

DSLR Controller
Eatonitis said:
I've used the DSLR Controller App with my Canon 60D. Works perfectly.
I had the intention of doing some long exposure remotely released work but not really spent the time.
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+1 on DSLR Controller. It is a great app by Chainfire that is on Google Play. Check out his website with videos.
http://www.dslrcontroller.com

SmokinCharger said:
+1 on DSLR Controller. It is a great app by Chainfire that is on Google Play. Check out his website with videos.
http://www.dslrcontroller.com
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Thanks for the tip! Do you know if this works with Magic Lantern?
EDIT
It does.

Logitech C920 Pro + OTG cable = not working
Hello,
I'm new here.. now i have nexus 10 tablet and Logitech C920 HD pro webcam + OTG cable.
But, nothing work. Tablet is rooted
I try dmsg in terminal and i saw Logitech C920 but.. simple webcam app now use the webcam
I think kernel not support this device.
edit: video0 not found in /dev
Any ideas?