Hi
I bought a LG g6 h872 as a replacement for the g5 I used a 64gb type c flash drive on the g5 as an otg and it worked fine however when I tried to use it on the g6 it kept ejecting I formatted it on the phone but it made no difference so thinking it might have something to do the size of the drive I bought a 32gb type c flash drive but the same thing happened with that as well
.is there something I need to enable in the menu somewhere to let me use the otg to get files onto the drive from the phone
Anybody got an answer ??
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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.
subhani said:
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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subhani said:
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).
Cheers!
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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Hi Guys,
does anyone know if there are any issues with the OTG on the stock Galaxy S4 (i9506 Telstra)?
I purchased a Sandisk Dual USB OTG drive 64GB and for some reason after it detects it and says "USB Connector Connected", it comes up with "USB Mass Storage Safely Removed" straight away.
I have checked few of the apps on the market that check if OTG works, and they all show it is enabled on the device.
I have also formated the drive exFat and tried FAT32, and neither of them work.
any ideas why the drive unmounts automatically?
@AntaresOne. Throw some light here!
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@stormleader
Hello,
First, FAT32 is made to be used on disks of max 32GB (you can also use exFAT on this size as I currently do), and starting from 64GB you should always use exFAT.
Are you sure that device's USB connector is not dirty? If may be, clean it with a toothpick.
If this doesn't solve your problem, see if there are software updates for your device (could be a software issue), try also an other OTG device (a simple pendrive+OTG cable is enough)
Inviato dal mio GT-I9505
AntaresOne said:
@stormleader
Hello,
First, FAT32 is made to be used on disks of max 32GB (you can also use exFAT on this size as I currently do), and starting from 64GB you should always use exFAT.
Are you sure that device's USB connector is not dirty? If may be, clean it with a toothpick.
If this doesn't solve your problem, see if there are software updates for your device (could be a software issue), try also an other OTG device (a simple pendrive+OTG cable is enough)
Inviato dal mio GT-I9505
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cool, thanks. didn't know about the FAT32 limitation. and Yes my USB connector is clean and all. it doesn't seem to be hardware problem. I've got the latest stock 4.3.
I'll try on another S4 when I get the chance. I might need to get OTG cable, will come in handy one day. All I have right now is that Sandisk USB stick (which is very handy to have when it works )
I"ll try few more things and report back. I just wanted to check if anyone has OTG USB drive that works with the S4.
I just figured it out. I had encryption enabled on my phone memory and SD card. Not sure why this interferes with reading the USB.
It worked perfectly as soon as I disabled the decryption on the phone and SD card.
Hey
Is that possbile with an OTG cable? my dad tried but it does not work. (if he connects a DOK into the tablet it works)
Thanks
otg must work on g2...
i used both otg cable and usb/otg stick (sandisk dual 32gb)
if that doesn't work for you, you can try copying files via wifi transfer from one device to another (there are apps for that like Airdroid)
I've tried a couple of different micro usb OTG cables (from my Note 4) with the usb-c adapter I use with one of my chargers but I can't connect. The menu comes up asking what I want to do with the USB, I've tried MTP once or setting it as always but still nothing. With an NTFS pendrive it came up that the drive was faulty and I needed to reformat, so I figured, ok, it's not gonna work with the drive formatted in that way. But I then tried the micro sd card that was formerly in my V20 and is still formatted to FAT32 and all that happens is it connects and then ejects the drive. When I look on ES File Explorer, a drive shows up but I can't access it. The usb message continually comes up, moments after whatever I select.
I've tried reading up on this issue and the first thing people suggest is to change the otg cable (or go for a dedicated usb-c) but I've rarely seen that as a solution for this issue.
My H910 is fully stock, no root and running nougat.