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Anybody tried USB HDD Version 1.0.2.1
What does it do? Does it make the Uni a mass storage device?
I'm looking for a way to make the Uni 'recognise' a mass storage device through it's mini-USB socket..?
kryogenik said:
What does it do? Does it make the Uni a mass storage device?
yes
I'm looking for a way to make the Uni 'recognise' a mass storage device through it's mini-USB socket..?
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Not sure if thats possible.
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Anybody tried USB HDD Version 1.0.2.1
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Yep, runs perfectly on my Universal.
i have tried
works perfectly on my jasjar
Yes it turns your Uni into a SDHC card reader. Now that I have a 16GB card inserted I use my UNI to store all the data I need during my working day and never think twice about picking up a memory stick of which I have quite a few.
Hello Everyone,
WMStorage was one of the first apps I installed on my previous phones... but it does not work on the HD2.
Is there something similar that will work?
Thanks in advance!
It will work as a USB drive (allowing access to SD card) when you plug the usb in and select Disk Drive instead of activesync.
I'm not sure how you could make it read only though.
hollinshead said:
I'm not sure how you could make it read only though.
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At the moment the only added feature of WM5torage over the builtin Usb transfer app is the LED lights and to use Phone memory as a drive.
But the most wanted feature is to use it as read-only so my phone sd card would be protected from viruses when I use it as a flash drive.
The read-only feature works on WM5 phones though.
BenGman said:
But the most wanted feature is to use it as read-only so my phone sd card would be protected from viruses when I use it as a flash drive.
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Don't plug into computers that have viruses?
Weird idea I know...
Spike15 said:
Don't plug into computers that have viruses?
Weird idea I know...
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Yea.. but for a long time my phone storage card has been my main flash drive for virus removal/computer fixes, I've depended on WM5torage for several years now mainly so I won't have to be walking with multiple flash drives/sd cards. Just the phone and the usb cable, and sometimes a USB BT adapter.
(My current flash drives don't have a read only switch).
And I lost the USB cable for my iPAQ which has WM5.
BenGman said:
And I lost the USB cable for my iPAQ which has WM5.
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Find one on ebay or dealextreme
As the title asks.. How much space would you say is actually inside the nexus 7? Is everything super tight in there?
Reason I ask is that I have an idea. I am wondering if there is enough room to stuff the internals of a really thin SD Card reader in there. If yes,
then the next question is there room to access the wires going to the micro USB port? The plan would be to solder in the wires from a OTG cable and run it to the Card reader.
So basically I am wondering if it's possible to wire in a card reader, run it as OTG and have a Nexus 7 with expandable storage..?
P.S. I don't have a nexus 7 and I ask because if this is possible I might as well buy the $199 8gb version and use the money saved to buy the parts needed to make this work. (if it's even possible)
NicholasQ said:
As the title asks.. How much space would you say is actually inside the nexus 7? Is everything super tight in there?
Reason I ask is that I have an idea. I am wondering if there is enough room to stuff the internals of a really thin SD Card reader in there. If yes,
then the next question is there room to access the wires going to the micro USB port? The plan would be to solder in the wires from a OTG cable and run it to the Card reader.
So basically I am wondering if it's possible to wire in a card reader, run it as OTG and have a Nexus 7 with expandable storage..?
P.S. I don't have a nexus 7 and I ask because if this is possible I might as well buy the $199 8gb version and use the money saved to buy the parts needed to make this work. (if it's even possible)
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Even if you could fit it in and wire it up, how you gonna write to it? If it's "hooked up" via the OTG cable you spliced into the existing cable to the Micro-USB port, it's a fair bet that the device will not "also" be able to connect USB to the PC at the same time. And this is assuming it were even possible to begin with for the device to write to an external SD Card via OTG directly. I know that the Flash or SD card can be pre-loaded with media PRIOR to being connected to the Nexus, but I I don't know if A: The Nexus can write directly to said card or B: it could so so while also connected to Windows. The first one someone who has an OTG cable can check easily enough. But that last one is impossible to check on a device that isn't already modded. Also remember that as far as Android is concerned, you already have an SD card. It's just virtual. Not sure how it would handle having two. Honestly I doubt this would work but you could always try.
As I recall - the Memo 370T did have an SD card reader.
From the IFixit teardown, the motherboard in the Nexus 7 is from the Memo 370T.
There is definitely a spot for the (removed) back facing camera, and as I recall
the SD pads are available. Of course, that might have been for HDMI, since the presenter units had an HDMI connector.
Have fun tearing your Nexus 7 apart - nothing is worth the risk to me.
I like my Nexus 7 as it is...
Landara said:
Even if you could fit it in and wire it up, how you gonna write to it? If it's "hooked up" via the OTG cable you spliced into the existing cable to the Micro-USB port, it's a fair bet that the device will not "also" be able to connect USB to the PC at the same time. And this is assuming it were even possible to begin with for the device to write to an external SD Card via OTG directly. I know that the Flash or SD card can be pre-loaded with media PRIOR to being connected to the Nexus, but I I don't know if A: The Nexus can write directly to said card or B: it could so so while also connected to Windows. The first one someone who has an OTG cable can check easily enough. But that last one is impossible to check on a device that isn't already modded. Also remember that as far as Android is concerned, you already have an SD card. It's just virtual. Not sure how it would handle having two. Honestly I doubt this would work but you could always try.
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I've used OTG on my Nexus S and what it does is mounts the USB stick or SDcard as and external drive. So basically, yea you will have to go into the USB OTG app and mount the SD card to start using it. I never played around with it enough to see exactly how it works so maybe somebody with experience can fill us in with that.
I see your point about plugging in the tablet into the computer. But I don't see why it couldn't at least charge the device even if you mounted the SD card. I could be wrong, I am no expert.
I thought that the OTG app actually enabled you to use the internal sd and external USB storage at the same time. Somebody please clarify. So if that's true, then browsing, play videos/games/etc should work as normal. It will just treat it as another drive.
I don't know how it would work if you plugged it into your USB port on your computer with OTG enabled and the SD card mounted but like I said, maybe somebody who specializes in this can clear this up.
Hi everyone. I am very new to Android and this forum as well.
Just a week ago I got my Nexus 7 - my first android device! <3
I read online that I can root my device and install stickmount to get USB OTG support
I have done that successfully
I am able to use the SanDisk 4GB USB now - great
So I tried to mount a hard drive......but failed
I guess my Nexus has not enough power to use the hard drive.
But the thing is that my drive actually did power on (although with a strange sound continued in background)
Still stickmount failed to mount/detect the drive
The hard drive I used is not a popular one - is manufactured by a company named EIGHT
The model no is UH320
The drive is 320GB
As I read more information, I know that self-powered hard drive should work flawlessly.
I want to ask what is the problem? Any suggestions to get it work?
Or any hard drive that is tested and work with the Nexus 7?
Thanks a lot. Any help or advice would be appreciated
You can try a shorter cable. I have a drive that works on a 2 foot cable but only makes a clicking sound and never reads the drive on a 4 foot cable. External powered drives work OK.
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You can try a shorter cable. I have a drive that works on a 2 foot cable but only makes a clicking sound and never reads the drive on a 4 foot cable. External powered drives work OK.
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Thanks for your advice. I wish to know if you can show a pic of the workable cable?
for mine, it is the "SANOXY Micro USB Host Mode OTG Cable Flash Drive SD T-Flash Card Adapter"
do you know what filesystem your external drive is formatted in? FAT32? NTFS? HFS+? something else? it might not be showing up because you don't have support for the filesystem the drive is in. small flash drives are usually formatted in FAT16 or FAT32, which is natively supported in android, so those will typically work. larger hard drives may not, since they might be NTFS or some other filesystem that isn't natively supported.
I have checked that my hdd is formatted in NTFS. It is 320gb.
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It's also very possible that you have a bad cable. You may want to get your hands on another one to verify.
I have tried to use the same cable connecting to the laptop and it works fine. Anyway, I am going to buy another HDD and see if the problem can be solved. Any suggestion which HDD to buy?
I am looking for a 320gb or a 500gb HDD. Thanks!
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neowills said:
I have tried to use the same cable connecting to the laptop and it works fine. Anyway, I am going to buy another HDD and see if the problem can be solved. Any suggestion which HDD to buy?
I am looking for a 320gb or a 500gb HDD. Thanks!
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Curious about the first sentence... you don't mean that you used the cable to connect the laptop to the hdd, do you? If so, that does not verify that you have a good otg cable.
After trying a whole bunch of methods, here is the best way I've found to free up internal storage by moving apps to an external drive.
Complete step-by-step Guide with screenshots
tl;dr version:
1. Mount the drive with StickMount
2. Move the files and "trick" the Fire TV with FolderMount
does this work with XBMC?
those thumbnails are filling up the internal memory really fast
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jadflat said:
does this work with XBMC?
those thumbnails are filling up the internal memory really fast
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Yes, you can move XBMC's data with this method. But since XBMC is so customizable, modifying advancedsettings.xml like JJ-KwiK suggests is a better option.
awesome, thank you!
Sweet! Thanks for the guide.
So this guide will let you run apps from an external?? Sweet i need to buy a new one lol.. Thanks
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fireTVnews.com said:
Yes, you can move XBMC's data with this method. But since XBMC is so customizable, modifying advancedsettings.xml like JJ-KwiK suggests is a better option.
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xbmc run well from external drive
Hi Guys
Just need some input w.r.t. flash drives and external drives.
What is the biggest size flash drive or external drive we can use on the AFTV?
Fat32 or NTFS file system?
Do you need a powered multi usb device to make the external drive work?
Must you use a powered external drive to make it work in the fire tv?
Hope someone can clear it up.
I connected a non powered multi usb device on the fire tv. the Rii keyboard with bluetooth usb and my 4gb flash both worked on it, but my 1.5TB 2.5" does not want to pick it up.
Stevie G said:
Hi Guys
Just need some input w.r.t. flash drives and external drives.
What is the biggest size flash drive or external drive we can use on the AFTV?
Fat32 or NTFS file system?
Do you need a powered multi usb device to make the external drive work?
Must you use a powered external drive to make it work in the fire tv?
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I'm using a 32GB USB Flash Drive and it works. It's NTFS. Spinning disk must be powered externally for both 2.5" or 3.5".
External SSD might work unpowered....I don't have a drive to test this theory.
roligov said:
I'm using a 32GB USB Flash Drive and it works. It's NTFS. Spinning disk must be powered externally for both 2.5" or 3.5".
External SSD might work unpowered....I don't have a drive to test this theory.
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I have two Toshiba 5400 RPM Canvio that are unpowered 2.5 and work fine, and a Seagate 500MB 2.5 in a cheapie external USB case that works fine as well.
Yeah I don't understand I've just found my Verbatim USB 3 external 2.5" works but my transcend external 2.5" doesn't. Both are the same size and both are NTFS. I checked and they both work on my PC. Guess it's luck of the draw for 2.5". I can't get an external 3.5" to work...Anyone else?
roligov said:
Yeah I don't understand I've just found my Verbatim USB 3 external 2.5" works but my transcend external 2.5" doesn't. Both are the same size and both are NTFS. I checked and they both work on my PC. Guess it's luck of the draw for 2.5". I can't get an external 3.5" to work...Anyone else?
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3.5 inch should be 12V so they would need an external power supply. As far as not seeing a powered 3.5 it could be one of a hundred different issues.
roligov said:
Yeah I don't understand I've just found my Verbatim USB 3 external 2.5" works but my transcend external 2.5" doesn't. Both are the same size and both are NTFS. I checked and they both work on my PC. Guess it's luck of the draw for 2.5". I can't get an external 3.5" to work...Anyone else?
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My 2TB 3.5" external works with a 12v power.
External Harddrive 3TB, 3.5" formatted as NTFS works fine for me.
Different sorts of USB stick's up to 32MB formatted as fat32 or NTFS gave me no trouble either.
Images gone after moving Thumbernails to USB stick
Hello,
I 'moved' the Thumbernails folder, using the advancedsettings.xml method. After a new scan run I see all the movie-descriptions, but I do no longer, see any images. They are just not shown..
Any idea, whats going wrong ? I'm really new to XBMC
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After the scan, I deleted the whole content in Andtroid/.../userdata/Thumbernails. The folder itself is still there.
(6GB usb stick/NTFS)
edit2: solution found!
xbmc: System->File Manager->Profile directory->Database delete the Textures13.db and restart the xbmc.
All thumbnails are displayed again!
I tried this method with NFSMW which is approx 4gb after updating and it copied everything over the my usb BUT when i mount it the game says my usb storage device has no room for an update -_- (even though the directory copied is the most up to date version and capacity is 16gb) also, this method does nothing to free up space on the FTV. I had to go in manually to my android/data folder and remove the directory to free up space myself. Might want to add that to the description.
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...also, this method does nothing to free up space on the FTV. I had to go in manually to my android/data folder and remove the directory to free up space myself. Might want to add that to the description.
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You are mistaken or did something wrong. FolderMount moves the files AND deletes the originals. If the files are set as "mounted" in FolderMount, it will appear as if they are still on the Fire TV. Meaning, if you "ls" the original directory in /sdcard/, you will see all the original files. However, the files are not actually on the Fire TV. To verify this for yourself, go to Settings > About to see your available free space before and after following my directions. You will see your free space increase.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709637
this url states that USB harddrive is not possible.
then how are you guys making it possible ?
must the fire tv be rooted ? before this feature is possible.
i think this is an important topic. as the device is now rooted, alot users would download apps, and they would need the space.
I would like to use USB harddrive with my XBMC.
please advice.
Thanks a lot.
nero16 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709637
this url states that USB harddrive is not possible.
then how are you guys making it possible ?
must the fire tv be rooted ? before this feature is possible.
i think this is an important topic. as the device is now rooted, alot users would download apps, and they would need the space.
I would like to use USB harddrive with my XBMC.
please advice.
Thanks a lot.
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That link was before we had root.
With root and StickMount both USB drives and Thumbdrives work great