hi...
as the title...
who all are succeded in connecting usb external hdd to iconia ?
cause i tried with two, and booth are not recognized
one is pendrive sense 320gb, second is wd 250gb
all you who can connect, whats your hdd??
fyi, i can connect card reader and usb thumb drive
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OKEY..
so i tried connecting my hdd through a powered usb hub, and still no luck,
i tried connect it with a Y cable, one to iconia and onte to powered hub, also no luck ...
is there any other way to try ? tried every thing from usb mount all, ntfs mount, charging while plugging , usb powered, new HDD, fat32 formatted , ntfs HDD and all in vain...
if not then, i am sure my device is defective of something....
How were they formatted? At those sizes, I'm going to guess they were formatted to NTFS which Android cannot read natively. There is, however, a thread in the Development section which includes a driver to enable NTFS support on the A500.
FloatingFatMan said:
How were they formatted? At those sizes, I'm going to guess they were formatted to NTFS which Android cannot read natively. There is, however, a thread in the Development section which includes a driver to enable NTFS support on the A500.
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the first one have fat32 and nts partition, but the second one have 250gb full of fat32
i have installed ntfs mount and usb mount all, they just are not detected at all..
I just got my tab today, rooted and installed ntfs mount. No problems getting into my 500gig external hdd, formatted in ntfs.
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I tried both 320gb Seagate and 750gb passport worked fine...They both formatted in fat32.
HM.. IT SEEMS , ONLY I CANT Get my hdd TO WORK IN ICONIA...
wonder why
is anyone here in asia or may be in indonesia??
may be this is rom related ?
l live in china ,very far from you .....
i still wait for the 3.1 update.
i am not sure can i receive ota update if i root it.
so i dont root ,and still wait.
well ,if i get the update of 3.1 ,i will come back and reply .
i have a 2T hdd, buffalo.
Okey... So now i have tried at least 6 different hdd and all failed...
I start to think ut is my hardware or rom problem?
Any solution ?
When i first connected a hdd i also thought it didn't work. When i looked at mnt/usb_storage.........no filelist. But when i got a cup of coffee and looked again the filelist was there. Apparantly the Acer needs a time to scan the HDD which can be long when it is large. So l'lle patience.
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urbie47 said:
When i first connected a hdd i also thought it didn't work. When i looked at mnt/usb_storage.........no filelist. But when i got a cup of coffee and looked again the filelist was there. Apparantly the Acer needs a time to scan the HDD which can be long when it is large. So l'lle patience.
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how long actually ??
becauuse if this problem persist, i think i will take my device to the service centre,
btw, do they will know that i am rooted ?
last update : i have connected my hdd to iconia for about an hour without any luck,.
come on, do some one here can make a solution for me please ??
i can connect flash drive and card reader but not hdd, tried 6 different of them
even i asked in local acer forum in my country, everyone dont have problem...
so, what you think my problem here?
do i must do factory reset ?
interqd said:
HM.. IT SEEMS , ONLY I CANT Get my hdd TO WORK IN ICONIA...
wonder why
is anyone here in asia or may be in indonesia??
may be this is rom related ?
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Are you sure you have power (external) going into your HD? I tried a WD portable and it wouldn't be read by the A500 until I connected it to an external power supply. Then I could read it without any problems.
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Are you sure you have power (external) going into your HD? I tried a WD portable and it wouldn't be read by the A500 until I connected it to an external power supply. Then I could read it without any problems.
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how to connect it with external power supply ?
my hdd has only 1 usb slot, not 2 ..
Guy's....just download (HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool) to format your HD's to fat32. I did my 250 & 500GB HD and it work just find. Windows just don't format right...that's why I don't use windows to format my HD's. If you have Linux use Gparted.
I have
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14129262&postcount=8
I also have a 250gb that I can't get to read but then it needs dual-powered cable to be read on my laptop so I expected that. But my 320gb Buffalo, my 32gb Patriot and my 80gb Maxtor read just fine. All are NTFS. I have a 160gb from work that I will try tomorrow.
Connect it to windows and pull up the disk administrator (where you create partitions) and see if the disk is basic or dynamic? Just a hunch... have you tried different cables? And finally I want to be sure you are plugging it into the full sized USB pert and not the micro USB.
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Connect it to windows and pull up the disk administrator (where you create partitions) and see if the disk is basic or dynamic? Just a hunch... have you tried different cables? And finally I want to be sure you are plugging it into the full sized USB pert and not the micro USB.
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i am using mac, not windows, my hdd connect fine to mac, how to do this on mac?
not only different cables, yesterday i went to an it mall, there i tried almost 5 different 500gb hdd 2.5 inch, all failed, all have fat32 format, cause i checked them on my mac beforehand
yeah, of course i connect it to the usb 2.0 port..
this is what i dont understand, everyones hdd work fine in the iconia, why my iconia just cant read?
mine don't work either. I have a 1 TB western digital hard drive.
i use ntfs mount,first time install that ntfs mount apk...cant read my hdd but aftter reboot my iconia all partition on hdd can read and walk normal like on my laptop
I'm in Jakarta, so I don't think it can be a rom thing. Are you using NTFS mount, or just trying to plug the HDD into your tab and use the built-in software? Try this and it should fix the problem.
I have a rooted nexus 7 ROM:[CM10.1-20130205-Nightly], 500gb exfat external drive with lots of data, and an OTG cable. I didnt research the apps needed to see the drive after plugging it in--thought it was pnp, like the mouse, keyboard, and famous 3.5 external floppy drive setup.
At first the nexus said it saw the usb device, and a second later it gave the choice to remove the usb device. I tapped remove, as there were no other options. I continued to try reconnecting the cables, even rebooting the nexus--it would not read the drive. i installed stickmount and Paragon NTFS&HFS+ (says it supports exfat,) but no success. I decided to add a powered usb hub to the setup in case there were power issues--still no notifications.
I quickly gave up. I then tried plugging the hard drive into my pc and mac and both failed to read anything on the drive--asking me if i want to format the drive. I dont know if it was the nexus or the Western Digital piece of crap. I am wondering if the nexus wrote something to the drive making it unusable. I have tried several recovery utilities and nothing has found the data. I dont want to waste another drive. Has anyone ran into this issue, know of a way to successfully mount an exfat drive, or possibly help me recover the drive?
Appreciate any help.
~OB
I have the international version of the LG G2 32gb. Stock rooted with exposed framework, one or two navbar/statusbar modules installed.
I have tried a small 4gb usb drive and the G2 recognises it just fine. I have nothing bigger except for an old (perfectly working) 100gb usb external hard disk drive ntfs format. it doesn't rely on any power. USB cable from PC powers it just fine.
So when I connect this drive via USB OTG, my G2 simply doesn't see it. I've waited more than half hour to see if it is performing a media scan silently but it still doesn't show on any of my file explorers such solid and root explorer and stock one ofcourse.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Is it because it is an external hdd?
Is it because the phone can't power it on its own?
Is it that it can read only smaller cards less than 100gb? I don't have access to anything else to test.
Is USB OTG supported in aosp roms like pac man?
Thanks guys.
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I have the international version of the LG G2 32gb. Stock rooted with exposed framework, one or two navbar/statusbar modules installed.
I have tried a small 4gb usb drive and the G2 recognises it just fine. I have nothing bigger except for an old (perfectly working) 100gb usb external hard disk drive ntfs format. it doesn't rely on any power. USB cable from PC powers it just fine.
So when I connect this drive via USB OTG, my G2 simply doesn't see it. I've waited more than half hour to see if it is performing a media scan silently but it still doesn't show on any of my file explorers such solid and root explorer and stock one ofcourse.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Is it because it is an external hdd?
Is it because the phone can't power it on its own?
Is it that it can read only smaller cards less than 100gb? I don't have access to anything else to test.
Is USB OTG supported in aosp roms like pac man?
Thanks guys.
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NTFS
That's your problem friend... Format it to FAT32 or root and use this
Cheers!
Really? Wow, I'm gonna have to transfer all those files from the hard drive first and then format right? I hope my G2 would recognise it then. I'll post an update soon as I can get my hands on another HDD to back up to before format.
Thanks.
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The only thing is, my other small USB drive which did work via USB OTG is also NTFS format. Why would this work and not the larger capacity external HDD?
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The only thing is, my other small USB drive which did work via USB OTG is also NTFS format. Why would this work and not the larger capacity external HDD?
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Are you 100% certain the other one is NTFS?
Android is not NTFS compatible out of the box (unless rooted).
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Yes I'm sure. The 4gb USB stick that works over otg cable is actually what I used to create a quick recovery drive of my win8 laptop as soon as I unboxed it. Win8 requires the flash drive to be NTFS for the recovery image to be created. So I did as it asked and formated and it produced the recovery drive on it.
I now connect it to my G2 and it recognises the flash drive and it shows the contents as recovery files for windows.
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Tldr both drives are NTFS format.
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Guys I am having a problem with my HP 1 TB hard drive. When I plug it in my phone using otg there is a notification saying that "your hp hard drive is corrupt, tap to fix " which takes me to a format manu.
Of all the file managers available , only es file explorer is able to read the contents but writing operations are not allowed.
The otg cable is fine because I can use all my USB drives without any problems
The HDD itself is not corrupt as I can read/write on it using my PC/laptop
Note: when I first bought the HDD it was working normally on my phone ( it was blank back then) but then I had to format it to FAT32 for it to work with my PlayStation 3, after then I again formatted it to NTFS and transferred around 200 GB of movie and series in it and here I am.
Any help is appreciated
Android does not support NTFS natively.
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Android does not support NTFS natively.
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Like I said when I first bought it was working fine ( I didn't check if it was NTFS but it must be because hdd's normally come as NTFS )
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I had the same issue w/SanDisk 128 dual USB. Download 2Tware's Fat32Format (CNET has it) or a similar, third-party app and format the drive in FAT32. Hopefully, that'll fix your issue as it did mine.
I'm trying to find out the Android requirements to properly format a USB drive from either a Windows or macOS computer (Linux if required) so (A) I can mount it on Shield TV 2017 (16GB) and (B) TWRP 3.2.3.0 Recovery Project can actually read the files on it.
What are the exact requirements to format the USB drive so Android doesn't have to modify or update anything?
FAT32/NTFS/XFAT/Other ? from what I've read FAT32 seems to be the most preferable.
MBR/GDP/Other ?
Primary/Logical ?
What tool is the best to format this so there's no issues?
I've tried Gparted, Windows Format, Acronis, Disk Utility, MiniTool Partition Wizard, and a few others.
Are their any requirements to copy data (i.e. boot.img, boot.zip, readme.txt, etc...) files from Windows/macOS/Linux onto the USB drive so it's readable?
These may sound like primitive or stupid questions, however I've spent several hours trying to boot my Shield TV (usb keyboard holding keys A and B) to then launch TWRP 3.2.3.0 Recovery to then mount the USB and read its files to Install them. So far I've tried just about everything I've learned from the internet and nothing seems to work. I've even formatted the USB drive using a Sony Android (7.0) TV however when I attempt to insert that onto either a PC or Mac both require the drive to be initialized. When my Shield TV was still working any USB drive I inserted required it be formatted or updated in some way so it could read it.
Currently if I format the USB drive can be detected by Shield TV and mounted by TWRP however none of the files I've copied onto it can be viewed by TWRP. I understand that TWRP filters files so if one needs to load an *.img file one needs to press the correct button to "view" and "access" those file types.
I'm starting to believe it's not the USB it's TWRP but I can't tell for certain.
Does one need to create Android-x86 (android-x86_64-8.1-rc2.iso) in VMware to accomplish this task? It's mind boggling that this is seems to be so difficult when it should be rather straight forward.
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You have tried mounting the USB I take it? I would try a different USB Stick if you have one for sure, it doesn't have to be any special format at all, just a simple fat32 format through Windows is all it needs. Without actually physically seeing what is going on, I can't really say what is going on, power is actually getting to the USB, eg, can you see any lights flashing etc?
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Hello whiteak, Shield TV sees the USB drive, TWRP is able to mount it, navigate to it and list folders but no files are displayed either through Install (to see boot.img, readme.txt or boot.zip) even when toggling the IMG or ZIP button. I've also attempted to use TWRP's File Manager to review this data, no success. In an alternate test to prove that TWRP can see any *.img file I navigated to the Downloads folder (internal storage) and it can see recovery.img just fine. Using TWRP's File Manager I've attempted to change the file permissions (chmod 755, 777, etc...) to the usb-otg but that didn't change anything either.
At this point I'm unsure what to think? Is it the way the USB drive is formatted? Is it file/folder permissions on the USB drive? Is it TWRP limiting things that are actually there but refuses to read them for security or some other reasons? Hard to tell...
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I solved the problem. I'll post the exact steps later but in short, create a Virtual Machine, install Android 8.1, insert the USB drive, format it and quit. Once this is done PROPERLY I later copied the necessary files using macOS TERMINAL from macOS to the USB drive. Now TWRP sees everything. What a pain in the @$$ to do such a simple task.
nadia p. said:
I solved the problem. I'll post the exact steps later but in short, create a Virtual Machine, install Android 8.1, insert the USB drive, format it and quit. Once this is done PROPERLY I later copied the necessary files using macOS TERMINAL from macOS to the USB drive. Now TWRP sees everything. What a pain in the @$$ to do such a simple task.
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i havent used twrp on my shield tv before but i typically prefer to use twrp's adb terminal for that type of stuff..
it sounds like u had something formatted wrong or maybe even some type of encryption on the usb so it couldnt see the files... u def. shouldnt have to do all that lol
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i havent used twrp on my shield tv before but i typically prefer to use twrp's adb terminal for that type of stuff..
it sounds like u had something formatted wrong or maybe even some type of encryption on the usb so it couldnt see the files... u def. shouldnt have to do all that lol
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Hello elliwigy, I'm quite new at all this so I didn't know how to format a USB drive using ADB, I didn't even know this was possible. I'll have to look into this next time. My workaround installing Android in VMware worked out well.