I thought I can connect a external hard drive, sales rep told me I can but so far works with thumb drive. I'm not rooted yet, just got it last night. Is it possible.
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You can plug in any drive but you'll need a special program if the drive uses a NTFS filesystem (USB mount all, Drive mount,...).
dito33 said:
I thought I can connect a external hard drive, sales rep told me I can but so far works with thumb drive. I'm not rooted yet, just got it last night. Is it possible.
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You must check the filesystem you are using. By default, ie. without any additional apps or such, A500 supports only FAT - or FAT32 - formatted drives. Either format your drive to FAT32 on Windows or install the NTFS - app the above poster mentioned. After that it works just peachy, I've got several drives I use and haven't met a single hitch yet.
Thanks guys, I'm using ntfs drives and wouldn't like to change it to fat. I'm having a hard time locating those app on the market, are those paid apps, one refers to mount sd card, I need a little help here please.
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dito33 said:
Thanks guys, I'm using ntfs drives and wouldn't like to change it to fat. I'm having a hard time locating those app on the market, are those paid apps, one refers to mount sd card, I need a little help here please.
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Search for drive mount on the market.....you will need root access to mount ntfs whatever app you use...
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Here you go:
https://market.android.com/details?id=au.dach.drivemount&feature=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.interphaze.USBMountAll&feature=search_result
The first app is free.
Thanks I'll check that out as soon as I get home.
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dito33 said:
Thanks I'll check that out as soon as I get home.
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Just remember you need to be rooted for a ntfs drive mount program to work
Yup. As the above poster said: "No root no dice."
Feedback, I got all that, thanks guys.
Now half of my dvix movies don't play the audio do I need to install some kind of codec, using mxplayer, mplayer, realplayer, etc all doing the same.
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dito33 said:
Feedback, I got all that, thanks guys.
Now half of my dvix movies don't play the audio do I need to install some kind of codec, using mxplayer, mplayer, realplayer, etc all doing the same.
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Do they have audio in AC3 format? Lots of people -- ie. most people -- can't get audio when it's AC3, I don't know if it's a limitation of Tegra2 or what. If you have AC3 audio in your files then your only reliable option seems to be transcoding the files.
I personally have never even tried, there's no point in having multi-channel audio when I'm only using stereo headphones to listen to it.
Try mobo player; its located on the market. I've found it to play any of my vid formats.
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Try mobo player; its located on the market. I've found it to play any of my vid formats.
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+1 on that. It even plays all my movies over the network when used in conjunction with UPnPlayer or whatever it is
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I did some checking, no support for exfat either. So fat32 it is.
If anyone has a spare laptop hdd or old laptop lying around, take the hdd, put it in an enclosure and use easeus partition manager to format the whole thing to fat 32 regardless of capacity over 40 gbs and velcro that to your Iconia and u will have all the storage ud need. Just keep your files under 4 gbs.
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I did some checking, no support for exfat either. So fat32 it is.
If anyone has a spare laptop hdd or old laptop lying around, take the hdd, put it in an enclosure and use easeus partition manager to format the whole thing to fat 32 regardless of capacity over 40 gbs and velcro that to your Iconia and u will have all the storage ud need. Just keep your files under 4 gbs.
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That's not bad idea I have my body did to his laptop with 2 500gb hard drive, but I don't have any problem rite now attaching my ntfs 500gb as external since reads everything now the problem is like I mentioned earlier some dvix won't play audio, ill try those other players latter.
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veer01_42 said:
and velcro that to your Iconia
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Hahahaha...
Just applied this!
Very nice, thanks!
This may be a stupid question, but is there a way to burn a CD from the nexus 7 using a USB DVD writer via OTG cable? And is there a app to do it with? Preferably without having to root it
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1iam5mith said:
This may be a stupid question, but is there a way to burn a CD from the nexus 7 using a USB DVD writer via OTG cable? And is there a app to do it with? Preferably without having to root it
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I'm going to throw out a WAG and say no. OTG doesn't work without rooting.
You can connect to certain cameras and camera storage on other phones without rooting but I seriously doubt you could do it with a DVD drive. You would definitely need an app because your N7 isn't going to have the drivers to control the drive otherwise. I tried connecting an external DVD drive via OTG just to see what would happen and it would not recognize it.
Lacking drivers for one. Also software.
Reading a disc would be the first step... however it maybe the first step to a full android laptop.
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see link for how you can do this without rooting on my other xda post and on my youtube videos. subscribe if you like my videos as i will upload some more videos when i find the time. see xda link here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30868407#post30868407
or watch video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dKvwom5K8s
Check here:
Connect USB dvd blu-ray reader over OTG to android
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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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??
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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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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.
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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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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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Hi to all.
Could someone explain to me what autodroid offers on top of slimkat. What are its major advantages and what more can be done with this mod.
For example, is it possible to connect it to a external hard drive? To stream 1080p on my Samsung TV, from the hard drive? I am quite confused. DAC is mainly for digital to analog audio convention, so this ROM is mostly intended to listen music, to be able to connect the nexus device to my amplifier? Still, is it possible to add the DAC and also an external HDD from where I can play my music? What about a NAS server
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I would ask these questions in that ROM's dedicated thread, you'll likely get a better (and more accurate) response there.
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I would ask these questions in that ROM's dedicated thread, you'll likely get a better (and more accurate) response there.
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I'll do that
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