I am in the process of acquiring a TF and hopefully the dock as well. I am planning on a month long road trip in 3 weeks, in which I would like to be able to only bring my TF and not have to tote my i7 laptop around.
My question is, I shoot tons of Photos and Full HD video on my Canon 60D and I want to be able to dump the Stuff from my cameras SD card to a Portable HDD that I will have with me. The TF should be able to power my HDD and moving files shouldnt be a big deal right? I am not worried about the transfer speed, Just I need to be able to empty my memory cards onto my HDD.. This is all assuming that my Dock comes in time for my trip..
I figured this was the place to ask, and I assure that I will be back here once I get my TF to learn how to do some more stuff with it as well..
Thanks guys...
I haven't tried using a HD, but I would imagine both usb ports would provide enough powerd for the HD if the one isn't enough. Most HD's do come with the dual USB cable, at least mine did.
But moving a few hundred Photos or videos shouldnt be a big deal?
my western digital passport works very well with the usb port on the kb dock..
I once tried copy 6g ish music files from the wd passport to the micro sd.. not lightning fast but it does the job
it works very well even with just one USB connected so you can save the other one. Even hi performance custom built one works.
Particularly a USB 3 2.5" enclosure with a western digital black 2.5"
Make sure you format it to ntfs before using it in a transformer so you can use > 4 gb files
Awesome.. I am not worried about speed.. being able to just take my TF with a 16 hour battery life over my hour and a half i7 laptop will make it worth and slow transfer speed.. I just wont expect to run Premiere or Photoshop on my Tf to edit any of that stuff until I get back home.. I think that would be a bit much on the TF..
I don't think stock ASUS firmware have NTFS drivers, only custom ROMs do at the moment.
frosty5689 said:
I don't think stock ASUS firmware have NTFS drivers, only custom ROMs do at the moment.
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Common misconception.
The stock transformer rom does indeed support ntfs on hard drives
swan3609 said:
I am in the process of acquiring a TF and hopefully the dock as well. I am planning on a month long road trip in 3 weeks, in which I would like to be able to only bring my TF and not have to tote my i7 laptop around.
My question is, I shoot tons of Photos and Full HD video on my Canon 60D and I want to be able to dump the Stuff from my cameras SD card to a Portable HDD that I will have with me. The TF should be able to power my HDD and moving files shouldnt be a big deal right? I am not worried about the transfer speed, Just I need to be able to empty my memory cards onto my HDD.. This is all assuming that my Dock comes in time for my trip..
I figured this was the place to ask, and I assure that I will be back here once I get my TF to learn how to do some more stuff with it as well..
Thanks guys...
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I have an Eye-Fi card that works well. You can have images from the camera sent to android devices now, and it doesn't even require internet.
I have my transformer sends it's picures to my computer as well...but that requires you are in range of your computer or have internet where you are taking pictures. As a bonus it also geotags your photos if you are in access point range.
It probably goes without saying, but you'd be far better off picking up a few extra memory cards as well. I use portable hard drives all the time in my photography business and the last thing in the world I would ever think about doing would be to have my only copy of anything stored on one - especially while being subjected to the rigors of travel. I've had several portable HD's error out, loose date or fail completely.
If I was planning a trip I'd probably want the TF, backup hard drive and as many memory cards as I could imagine using to avoid shooting over anything until I got home. If you are going to be shooting 16 gig a day for several weeks though you would probably be better off just getting a second hard drive and copying the data to each of them. I know, it's paranoid, but loosing even one image sucks if it's the one you were looking for.
Also, just a side note, but if you are a RAW shooter, Android won't have any way to actually view the files so you might be a little disappointed with the results unless you shoot in RAW + JPG mode. You can disregard the JPGs when you get back home but they will make life easier while on the road. If you already shoot JPG you're all set.
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I have moved some larger files onto/off of my TF and it is painfully slow (Class 10 card). You are much better off getting a couple of large SD cards or a dedicated storage device. If you shoot in RAW you aren't going to be able to review your work on the device anyway. Or you could shoot in RAW +JPEG and move the JPEGs over to the TF as a backup.
Also (I hate to say this because I know I will probably get my ass flamed for it) but I wouldn't trust Honeycomb to move the files, keep them safe and then move them again without something screwing up. It would probably be fine, but if it was a once-in-a-lifetime vacation or a wedding/work shoot no way in hell I would trust it. It may be misguided, but at this point the device hasn't earned my confidence.
As someone who has tried to use my TF for this exact purpose, here is my experience.
The TF (with dock) would read my NTFS HDD no problem. I usually use a portable card reader to read my CF cards and could not get that to show up on my TF. The only other option was to hook up the camera directly to the TF which also did not work.
If your camera records onto SDHC then you should be okay. But if your camera records on CF card as mine does, I would test it out with a card reader before trying to use in the field. Maybe it's the type of USB card reader I use that's the problem...I'm not sure.
Have you tried the card reader since the 3.1 update? Wider range of USB devices now should work so fingers crossed. I use a micro SD card in a SD card adapter so you can simply remove the micro SD card and mount it into the transformer. Does not help though if your camera does not use SD cards....
A good program I use is picfolio whic syncs with my picasa account and compresses 20 gb or so worth of pictures to about 500 MB. Means I have portable access to all my pictures and the quality after compression is very good. Also it has an upload ability so if you have a wifi connection you could upload directly to your picasa account.
Just a heads up, I took the memory card out of my DSLR (microSD in an adapter, took the microSD out and put it in the TF) and it said "preparing SD card..." for a split second then nothing happened. I took the card out and put it back in my camera, and the camera made me format the card. Laptop wouldn't recognize it after that, either. I lost all of the pictures that I had on the card.
Now whenever I put that same card in the transformer, it says "preparing SD... whatever" for a split second but then it stops, and the SD card isn't accessable from the file manager, and the icon doesn't appear in the notification bar, but it hasn't destroyed the formatting again since that first time.
Hmm, so I wonder if that means that there is a problem with the microSD in an adapter or whether there is something up with the formatting of the microSD card that makes it go wonky in the transformer...
I will try it again tonight when I get home.
Just as an fyi, I used my canon7d in raw/jpg mode with 3.0 and it read my files. I am using an older sonymulti card reader. Havent tried it on 3.1. Also on androidtablets.net there is a guy with a raw file reader! I am far from using abd stuff but it does work.
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I understand the concerns from you guys. And to to the fellow phtogs, I am not on a job or anything. And its not a huge crazy vacation.. its just a month long trip to a bike race, and I normally shoot RAW but I am getting back into shooting JPG due the fact that I don't tend to edit stuff like I think I will.. so the 1000 + JPGs I can take compaired to the 250 RAWs make jpg a better choice for me. The real wrench thrown in is the fact that I like to shoot HD video as well.. I only have 2 8gb cards, I typically never fill one of them up when I am shooting pics but video eats them up quick if I decide to make a Edit.
I also understand the whole idea of keeping everything backed up in multiple places, but these pics wont be the end of the world if they are lost and I have faith that the TF should be able to copy from one place to anouther. And if something does happen then it is ok. I really want to avoid buying more class 10 cards and not having to bring my big laptop would be really nice, especially becasue it would only be used the 2 or 3 times I want to move files. I would imagine that I will use the TF for about 75% of my usage and then my Droid X will fill in the next 15% and the only real reason to even have my i7 laptop is to run Premiere Pro and Photoshop to edit pics and Videos If I want. Lets be real, most of the usage come in the form of Email, facebook, blogs, and forums.. A i7 is a bit overkill for 90% of what I do..
The desire for me is to just be able to dump files from my SDHC cards to my portable HD. And lastly Speed is not an issue.. I have no issue leaving the TF to move files overnight or for a hour or two to move the 8Gb of files..
I am not planning on shooting that much as far as pics or videos go, I just want to be able to dump files once or twice on my trip.. I guess I just wanted to get some opinions and possible experiences.
FYI.. I am shooting on a Canon 60d which shoots onto SDHC so it would plug right into the KB dock.
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just pick up some 16gb cards. they're pretty cheap these days, and can come in handy. 8gb is so 2008
For anyone looking to read RAW files on your Android device, this app will decode the files. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anthonymandra.rawdroid&feature=search_result
It doesn't do real time viewing, but at least now we have a way to see the RAW files...
I recently purchased a new Sony Vaio notebook that came with windows 8 preinstalled. It cam with a 1 tb HDD that was replaced with a 180 gb SSD and windows was reloaded using a recovery usb. I then wanted to mount the 1 tb HDD into dvd drive spot so I bought a caddy for it off of amazon. It was really easy to pull out the dvd drive and pop in the HDD in it's caddy and it fit perfectly. I turned on the notebook and it booted up and the drive was now recognized at D drive. I could see the windows os was still on there so I did the quick format option and then proceeded to transfer my music folder over from my external. I noticed through the whole process that the fan seemed to be running really high and I thought it was just because I was messing the new HDD but it never went away even when I was done with the transfer. The HDD seemed to always be spinning too even when I wasn't accessing files on it which didn't seem right if it's not being used. The fan is usually running but this was a full blast like I was playing a high end game. Windows gave me a blue error message about a kernel and rebooted. The fan immediately kicked in once it restarted so I turned it off and put the dvd drive back.
So my question is just if anybody has any experience doing something like this and has some suggestions? I want to try it again and figured it wouldn't hurt so ask for advice on here before I do. I figured I would try doing a different type of format as maybe there are still os traces on there that's messing things up. Thanks for reading.
ROORnNUGZ said:
I recently purchased a new Sony Vaio notebook that came with windows 8 preinstalled. It cam with a 1 tb HDD that was replaced with a 180 gb SSD and windows was reloaded using a recovery usb. I then wanted to mount the 1 tb HDD into dvd drive spot so I bought a caddy for it off of amazon. It was really easy to pull out the dvd drive and pop in the HDD in it's caddy and it fit perfectly. I turned on the notebook and it booted up and the drive was now recognized at D drive. I could see the windows os was still on there so I did the quick format option and then proceeded to transfer my music folder over from my external. I noticed through the whole process that the fan seemed to be running really high and I thought it was just because I was messing the new HDD but it never went away even when I was done with the transfer. The HDD seemed to always be spinning too even when I wasn't accessing files on it which didn't seem right if it's not being used. The fan is usually running but this was a full blast like I was playing a high end game. Windows gave me a blue error message about a kernel and rebooted. The fan immediately kicked in once it restarted so I turned it off and put the dvd drive back.
So my question is just if anybody has any experience doing something like this and has some suggestions? I want to try it again and figured it wouldn't hurt so ask for advice on here before I do. I figured I would try doing a different type of format as maybe there are still os traces on there that's messing things up. Thanks for reading.
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Perhaps the new caddy is blocking airflow? Also, the drive may be pulling more power than the DVD drive would and causing something to get overloaded.
I did this with a Lenovo Ideapad y550p and I never noticed any issues like this.
I'd try checking if your manufacturer has a public support forum you can post on, this seems like it may be a device specific issue.
HDDs generate a lot of heat (for more than most SSDs, incidentally) and your laptop's cooling may not have been designed for this source of heat.
You also bought a Sony device, which makes it difficult for me to even speculate what other problems might be occurring.
Thanks for the replies. I tried looking around the sony website but can't find much. I'll give it another go and check for some airflow and if that doesn't work then I'll just live with the ssd because I'm not giving that speed up.
You could try swapping the SSD and HDD. The SSD should generate less heat, which may help out.
So I reinstalled and did a full format which took over two hours but I noticed there were still hidden partitions on this drive so I got rid of those and expanded the drive all the way. Then I unchecked the box to allow random indexing on this drive and changed the power options shut off disk to 1 min per someone's instructions from a google link and it seems to working now. Figured I would post in case someone else ever runs into this issue.
I have a Motorola Droid 4 that was purchased around Feb 2012. I never really had issues, and then within 24 hours it crapped out on me. I thought it was the power button being unresponsive, because sometimes the screen would come on and sometimes it wouldn't throughout the day. It quickly became less responsive, until I couldn't power up the screen at all. For a few tries the haptic feedback for my password worked even though the screen was off. Shortly after that I had 2 different friends try calling and there was no response, though it's possible the battery could have died (but the phone calls rang, rather than going straight to voicemail). As I was sitting in the Verizon store, I was looking through the 2 halves of the phone and it looks like the ribbon cable connecting the screen to the main phone has a tear. The notification light still works so I know it has power.
SO...Yes, I ordered a replacement cable, and am going to have a computer hardware savvy friend try and fix it, but in the mean time I need help accessing the phone through my computer to take hundreds of contacts, pictures and videos off in case he can't repair the phone. No they are not backed up (and yes I should have backed them up). My computer (PC, Windows) recognizes the phone, but won't let me access the phone. It's trying to make me use MotoCast. MotoCast USB wants me to unlock the screen before it recognizes the phone, but I can't. Is there any way around this? My computer shows my phone as follows – CD Drive (E): MotoCast, Removable Disk (F):, and Removable Disk (G):. Attempts to open F and G come up with “Please insert a disc into Removable Disk (F)” (or G).
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I have a Motorola Droid 4 that was purchased around Feb 2012. I never really had issues, and then within 24 hours it crapped out on me.
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it is still important for you? i think i could help.
So there I was, browsing the Slick Deals app, when the phone locked up, turned off, and now it won't do crap. Decent charge on the battery at the time, ~90%. Stock ROM and rooted for over a year with no issues to speak of. I got the phone on day 1 (Sept 2013?) I'd taken care of this phone better than any previous to it. Always in a protective case, always with a screen protector. Never dropped, never left in a car or in the sun. My plan was to go 3 years with this one I liked it so much. Well so much for that idea.
If I hold down the power button long enough I can get it to boot some of the time. Recovery mode and download mode are not options, just won't do it. It did the whole 15 drives thing when plugged into USB once, but there is no consistency to it. I read several threads on how to unbrick the phone, but the whole Linux install and img files are little over my head to try.
I went ahead and ordered a new battery for it, just in case that's what's causing the issue. I was told if a cell in the battery flips out it can cause the phone not to work properly. At one point I had the phone charging while off and could see the charging screen. It got to 95% and never any higher. Managed to boot the phone for 30 seconds then it shut off again. I quit messing with it after that.
Could it be just a battery gone rouge all of a sudden, or do I have bigger problems? I hate to abandon this phone, but I don't want to spend any more money on it to fix it either. I bought a used Nexus 5 off a friend for a song to get back up and running with my SIM card, so I have time now to work on the G2. If I can resurrect it, the Nexus will serve as a nice backup phone in case of future disasters.
Ok so i have a crazy question. Im sure its a lost cause but Ill ask anyways. I have a G2 that i used a few years ago and one day it just turned off and never would turn back on. I opened it and installed a new battery if that was the issue, no luck. Left it on chargers for a week, no luck. Im not sure if it just shorted out or what. BUT my question is this. That was the phone i had when me and my wife first met, so theres pictures still on the phones storage. Is there any possible way to access that without the phone getting power? No its not detected by the PC or anything but is it possible to find the chip from the phone that holds the storage and in some way solder that to a new component and get the files? Like i said i know its a long shot, but honestly I dont care if they phone gets destroyed, i would love to recover those photos. If anyone has ANY ideas from the strange to the downright bat**** crazy feel free to let me know.
Thank you!!