Expand the 16gb Nexus 7 Universe without Rooting—Nexus Media Importer $2.99
Nexus Media Importer 4.0
Nexus Media Importer allows copying and/or streaming from a usb connected device via an otg cable without rooting. The developer started out with only Fat16 and Fat32 support and now has added NTSF, a smaller footprint and faster streaming.
I started out with a Palm TX, with a SD Card, a device I still use. I also have an Asus Transformer 101 tablet and dock, both with sd card slots, again a device I still use. I bought the Nexus 7 with great trepidation as an intentionally crippled device lacking expandability. It had most everything right: size, speed and portability. I'm not a cloud guy and don't believe we're at the point where streaming wifi speeds are ubiquitous enough to support streaming wifi media. I have a large ebook, image, music and video collection, a data hog, Fortunately, early on, I stumbled across Nexus Media Importer. It's made the Nexus 7 the portable tablet I take with me most places. I can access all of my data with or without a wifi signal. For me, Nexus Media Importer is one of the most important apps, making the Nexus 7 so much more than a toy.
You will need this App, Nexus Media Importer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer
Refer to the Nexus Media Importer FAQ:
Nexus Media Importer: FAQ
An Oga Cable: There are a dizzying variety of vendors both domestic and foreign with a certain amount of controversy as to which types fit the best etc. Most all are made in China and they'll work or they won't.
USB OTG Adapter
http://www.nexustablets.net/forum/nexus-tablet-accessories/1504-usb-otg-adapter-search.html
[app]Nexus 7 External Flash Picture Viewer & Media Streamer
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I use:
SANOXY Micro USB Host Mode OTG Cable Flash Drive SD T-Flash Card Adapter 82 cents .Free shipping. Ships from Hong Kong and takes a couple of weeks. Fit's dead on.
Amazon.com: SANOXY Micro USB Host Mode OTG Cable Flash Drive SD T-Flash Card Adapter FOR Samsung GT-i9100 i9100 Galaxy S II 2 GT-N7000 Galaxy Note: Cell Phones & Accessories
If you need instant gratification, check out the following threads:
USB OTG adapter search
http://www.nexustablets.net/forum/nexus-7-accessories/1504-usb-otg-adapter-search.html
The USB OTG that Do and DO NOT work with Nexus 7 Thread
The USB OTG that Do and DO NOT work with Nexus 7 Thread - xda-developers
You can find other opinions and feedback on Nexis Media Importer and many other topics by browsing the following forums:
Nexus Tablet Forum
http://www.nexustablets.net/forum/forum.php
XDA Nexus 7
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A flash drive, card reader or connected device formatted with Fat16 , Fat32 or NTSF:
I've connected full size flash drives, micro flash drives and sd card readers without a problem in a variety of sizes and formats. I'm able to swap my NTSF formatted 64gb Class 6 MicroSd card between my Transformer 101 and my Nexus 7.
For a small footprint, you might consider a MicroSD card reader or a micro usb drive. I use the following MicroSD adapter, smaller than your thumbnail, $4.98, free shipping, it took five days to get from Hong Kong:
MR Micro SD SDHC TF Nano Mini USB Reader Adapter MR1 Netbook Mobile Car Black $4.98 Free Shipping
MR Micro SD SDHC TF Nano Mini USB Reader Adapter MR1 Netbook Mobile Car Black | eBay
An Amazon Prime eligible one:
elago Mobile Nano II USB 2.0 microSDHC Flash Memory Card Reader (Black) $9.52
Amazon.com: elago Mobile Nano II USB 2.0 microSDHC Flash Memory Card Reader (Black): Electronics
For me, I already have several inches of OTG cable dangling from my Nexus 7 so smaller is better for the flash drive or adapter. Here's an example of a MicroUSB Flash Drive.
SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB Flash Drive (SDCZ33-032G-B35) $15.99
Amazon.com: SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB Flash Drive (SDCZ33-032G-B35): Electronics
Larger flash drives both in size and storage capacity work as well—a have a 64gb flash drive. They just pull the cable down a little further.
Keep in mind that the Nexus 7 complains about most every file format, scolding that it might not be compatible. Just ignore the warnings and copy your data.
MicroSD Card IssuesNexus Media Importer supports Fat16, Fat32 and NTSF—not exfat. Personally I use the SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 Memory Card. It can be formatted from ex-fat to Fat32 or NTSF. I can confirm that the following ebay vendor carries the card:
NEW SanDisk - Mobile Ultra 64GB microSDXC Class 6 Memory Card SDSDQY-064G-A11A $59.99
NEW SanDisk - Mobile Ultra 64GB microSDXC Class 6 Memory Card SDSDQY-064G-A11A | eBay
The new class 10 64gb MicroSD cards come with ex-fat and cannot be formatted to any other format on a computer. To the best of my knowledge they cannot be converted to NTSF. I successfully converted one to Fat32 with the following free utility from a Russian Site. I didn't get a virus or spyware:
ftp://dmitrykhn.homedns.org/For PC/soft/utils/HPUSBDisk.exe
Amazon Woes:I ordered and returned 6 64 Class 6 MicroSd cards from Amazon when I received Class 10 cards instead. Amazon lists vendors having Class 10 cards when they do not. Amazon sells none and of the third party vendors only BlueProton has the cards. Make sure you contact the vendor before you order. I have written confirmation that the following vendors don't carry the class 6 64gbcards: Jazzer Shack, USEcoZone, Digital Media, Ace. Stromboli and Mactechy. I complained to the Better Business Bureau but if you're Amazon you can do whatever you want.
What data does Nexus Media Importer support?
Pictures: NMI currently only supports jpg anf png images and can stream them from your usb device.
Videos: NMI can stream videos in the following formats: mp4, mkv, avi, wmv, mov, ts, m2ts, m2t, mts, m4v, ogv, asf, srt, f4v, flv, rmvb. It currently cannot see mpg videos. NMI streamed videos will play in landscape or portrait.
Music: NMI can stream: .mp3, m4a, wav, oga, ogg and flac. Wma files are only supported currently in the classic player, see options, not in the current player. The developer hopes to have support for wma soon in the new player, a format that the Nexus does not support natively.
Docs: NMI can stream text files through the browser of your choice.
Nexus Media Importer can see and copy and share many other file types from the usb device of your choice to the tablet. The following file types do not support streaming but can be copied to a temporary location and streamed or shared: pdf, doc, xls, docx, xlsx,. Epub and Mobi ebook files can be copies to the Nexus 7 but not streamed. I have not tested cbr and cbz files.
**The above file types were tested with Dice Media Player, VLC, Quickpic, OfficeSuite, Adobe Reader, Cool Reader and FB Reader. There are as many choices as apps available but they are confirmed to work using the above apps.
How does it work?
Connect your usb flash drive or SD/MicroSD reader to your OGA cable, plug the cable into your Nexus 7 and launch Nexus Media Importer if it does not open immediately.
Nexus Media Importer will display the following choices horizontally in landscape or vertically in a pull down menu in landscape: Photos, Videos, Music, Docs, Folders and Advanced.
By Menu
Photos
Selecting Photos will give you two choices, All or Folders.
If you have a lot of files, I have 17,000 jpgs in my screen saver, and ask Nexis Media Importer to scan them all, it's going to tilt. Selecting Photo Folders will allow you to navigate to the Folder of your choice. Entering the Folder will display a list of thumbnails.
Selecting a thumbnail and then hitting the arrow in the upper left will allow you to scroll through all of the photos with a full-screen view of each. Alternately selecting the arrow in the box in the upper right enables the slide-show in full-screen mode. The Menu (three boxes) has an option for setting the time delay in seconds between each slide.
Videos
Selecting Videos will display all of the videos on the drive in Alphabetical order. Select the Video of your choice and then the app you prefer to run it. Given the size of most videos, Alternately you can select folder view and select your videos via folders.
Music
Selecting Music gives the user sort by Albums, Artists, Albums or Folders. Once again, if you have a lot of music you might overwhelm NMI and should use folders to go to the music of your choice. You should experiment and see which choice works best for you. Whether you choose folders or Artists, once you choose the artist, album or Artist you can multiple select songs to make a play list.
Docs
Docs, pdfs, ebooks, spreadsheets etc., all fall into the Docs menu. With a large ebook library, pdfs etc., I access all these file types through the Folder menu. If you connect a flash drive with fewer doc files, then the Docs menu is for you. You can stream txt files through your browser, open a temporary copy of .doc, pdf, xls files by pressing the arrow, triangle on its side. Epub, Mobi and other files that do not support streaming can be downloaded to the Nexus 7
Pressing Share, the three point open triangle prompts the user to upload the selected file to the cloud app of your choice. Choices include Bluetooth, Box, Dropbox, Email, and Gmail.
Folders
You'll need to access the Photo Menu button and the choose folders to access the full screen photos or the slide show. Likewise you'll need to access the Music button and choose folders to multi-select mp3s for a playlist. Anything else can be opened with the Folder icon. Navigate to the folder of your choice and open your file with the app of your choice. It's a must if you have hundreds of a particular file type.
Advanced
The Advanced Menu provides a split-screen view of your external flash drive and internal memory on the Nexus 7. You have the option to delete files in internal memory.
What Apps are available for Streaming?
As the developer points out in his FAQ: Nexus Media Importer: FAQ , only apps registered with Android to handle the specific file type will work. I read all of my ebooks with either Cool Reader or FB Reader but neither are registered to handle epub or mobi files. As such, I can't stream any of my ebooks. I can copy them from the flash drive to my Nexus and then open them with Cool Reader. If you don't see the app of your choice when you press stream, you'll have to write to the developer of the app and request they register the file types.
Rooted Nexus 7 devices can read/write to USB devices with StickMount. Why can't Nexus Media Importer?
Keep in mind that rooting voids your warranty. The developer really wants to support write, but it is a really dangerous proposition. *There are many comparisons to Nexis Media Importer with applications like StickMount, requires root. *These kind of applications use code already embedded in the Android kernel. Nexis Media Importer is completely different. *The developer has written code similar to what is in the kernel into an application. *This is how he can get around the "root" restriction. *This also means he can't use the tried and true Android file system code. *One miscalculation and it could wipe all your data. *Further, this implies a different write mechanism for each file system type. *Lots and lots of work. *If this does happen FAT16/32 would come first, then exFAT, then NTFS. Please be patient.
real good app,but no exfat support
Thanks for the comprehensive review, thenrik.
Thanks for this review!! I think I'm going to buy it shortly.
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Thanks for the review! This looks good!
No ability to write nor exfat support, worthless, how about one that does have those two capabilities?!? Is there such a beast at all?!?
Ray.Marx said:
No ability to write nor exfat support, worthless, how about one that does have those two capabilities?!? Is there such a beast at all?!?
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I don't think you'll get that without root access.
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I love this app. The only thing i wish they would fix, is the ability to choose a 3rd party app when viewing pics. I emailed them about this and they said that the other apps need to allow the feature. I forwarded that response to Quickpic, and no response from them yet.
Write to flash drive
Does media importer allow writing from the Nexus 7 to the external memory?
No ...but it can read very well .
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I have used this app very much and in the end I was frustrated with it so I rooted and installed stickmount which works very well
This app does not write USB,and even does not read large files normally, when saving some large files from USB to device,it corrupts the file,if you want to really make use of USB otg support,root your android and install stockmount
BTW it is good for non-rooted device, as any other app does not do what it can do for non rooted devices
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I'm having some weird issues with this program.My N7 can recognize all the files from my usb 8GB stick,but I can not open nor any single of them....what could be the problem?
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With Media Link HD it will be possible to stream HD content to a HDTV. But how to copy a HD movie, for instance, to One X, if it doesn't support SD Card and internal SD partition doesn't support files bigger than 4Gb?
Any ideias?
maybe the internal 32gb partition comes with ntfs, is it possible?
According to Anandtech's review of TF Prime:
"Android File Transfer won't push over a file greater than 4GB so the first thing I tried was ripping a portion of A Quantum of Solace (BD) and sending over a 40Mbps High Profile 1080p MKV of it. (...) External NTFS volumes are supported and the sdcard file system supports files greater than 4GB in size, so I copied a 15GB 1080p Blu-ray rip of A Quantum of Solace from a USB stick to the Prime."
myself11 said:
According to Anandtech's review of TF Prime:
"Android File Transfer won't push over a file greater than 4GB so the first thing I tried was ripping a portion of A Quantum of Solace (BD) and sending over a 40Mbps High Profile 1080p MKV of it. (...) External NTFS volumes are supported and the sdcard file system supports files greater than 4GB in size, so I copied a 15GB 1080p Blu-ray rip of A Quantum of Solace from a USB stick to the Prime."
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But the One X doesn't have USB host, as far as I know.
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I think all ICS phones will have USB Host support but not 100% sure...
If only there was an acessory to plug a SD Card adaptor...
so basically we have a device capable of streaming 1080p HD quality video but it cannot support storage of such files due to the typical large size conflicting with internal storage system?
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According to Anandtech's review of TF Prime:
"Android File Transfer won't push over a file greater than 4GB so the first thing I tried was ripping a portion of A Quantum of Solace (BD) and sending over a 40Mbps High Profile 1080p MKV of it. (...) External NTFS volumes are supported and the sdcard file system supports files greater than 4GB in size, so I copied a 15GB 1080p Blu-ray rip of A Quantum of Solace from a USB stick to the Prime."
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ok, so... am I being a dumbass here ? or am I reading it right:
"so I copied a 15GB 1080p Blu-ray rip of A Quantum of Solace from a USB stick to the Prime"
I do believe this means that he sent the 15GB file to his phone... therefore, it is possible.
About having usb host capability:
"All three handsets have a USB Host enabled micro USB port, which means users will be able to connect them to USB accessories and to an HDTV or monitor with the right adapter"
source: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/02/27/in-depth-hands-on-htc-one-x-and-sense-4-0-video
Thanks for the confirmation casca!
So basicly as I understand it he is saying...
When Phone is connected to a PC you cant transfer files larger than 4gb to it.
However when a USB Storage Deivce is connected directly to the phone via USB Host you can transfer files bigger than 4gb to the phone?
Seems a little wiered... I understud the limitation for transfering 4gb+ files to an SD card was due to it being formated with FAT32 but the internal storage in the phone wont be FAT32 will it?
HTC-Gunge said:
When Phone is connected to a PC you cant transfer files larger than 4gb to it.
However when a USB Storage Deivce is connected directly to the phone via USB Host you can transfer files bigger than 4gb to the phone?
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That's not how I understand it. It could also mean that the phone itself cannot hold 4GB+ files but it can read or write them from an external usb device. So you can stream your movies directly from the usb drive over the phone.
But I might be wrong..
ok just tested with my Xoom running ICS which has a 32gb internal storage and a 32gb SD card in it.
I can transfer a 10gb file from my PC to the internal storage with out an issue.
I can't transfer a 10gb file from my PC to the SDCard. The reason being as I suggested above is that the file system on the SDCard (FAT32) doesnt support files bigger than 4gb.
So in conclusion unless the internal storage is using a file system that doesnt support 4gb+ files (dont see why it would be as it should use a Linux FS (ext2?)) then you will be able to transfer them to the device from your PC.
Nothing less, nothing more
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Bit of a confusion here: on the Anandtech review, it wasn't possible to transfer a 15Gb file to the TF Prime internal memory, so it was transfered to the SD Card (NTFS) or to a USB flash drive, attached to the Transformer Prime's dock.
Oh...damn...i just red the user text on the previous post...according to that, the interpretation was it worked lol...
The internal sd memory is in fat32,ntfs or ext?
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Internal memory should be ext4, i guess... it should work like the GN and can only be mounted as an MTP instead of USB drive. We'll know soon enough.
Ext4 allows 4gb+ files?
The ext4 filesystem can support volumes with sizes up to 1 exbibyte (EiB) and files with sizes up to 16 tebibytes (TiB).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
Should be enough
The doubt is only if it is ext4 or not. We will find soon enough.
Goodbye Samsung/Google...
Hello Htc, welcome back...you have been missed (a lot!)
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Ext4 allows 4gb+ files?
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Google used ext4 as the default file system for ICS, so i can only assume the One X will use it too. You generally use fat32 on external storage like an SDCard, the phone doesn't even have one
I just pirate
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ok so i tried to transfer a movie from my pcto my sdcard 5.5gb but it says file too large...i know ican prbly make my card from fat32 to ntfs but im not sure if android works well with ntfs...from what ive read....yea i read i can rar the file into two seperate files..but is there any other way???
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ok so i tried to transfer a movie from my pcto my sdcard 5.5gb but it says file too large...i know ican prbly make my card from fat32 to ntfs but im not sure if android works well with ntfs...from what ive read....yea i read i can rar the file into two seperate files..but is there any other way???
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I have to ask, what movie do you want to put on your phone that is 5.5 gb?
Fat32 does not support any file over 2.xgigs
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stemalo said:
Fat32 does not support any file over 2.xgigs
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im trying to transfer captain america 720p .....so what i have to split the movie into two...or i can use ntfs
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Fat32 does not support any file over 2.xgigs
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Correction: 4gb is the limit.
Another thing you can try is to format your sdcard to EXT3 (EXT4), you won't be able access it from windows though, without special tools..
Or maybe...[HOWTO][exFAT][WORK IN PROGRESS] Mount exFAT formatted drives and cards
And finally, perhaps next time you convert that BluRay disk (yeah, right..), use h264 (x264) codec and mp4 container versus mkv, they tend to have better quality-per-mb rate
Guys, I have a question about types of SD Cards LG Nitro HD supports, but I don't want open a new topic, so I'm gonna ask it here.
I bought SanDisk Micro SDHC 32GB Ultra HC1, but it make me some troubles - crashed unexpectedly when I listen to music or watch the movie (Always with the same damn error, that I'm trying to use unsupported format. I'm talking about .avi and .mp3 files).
Anyone have any idea WTF is going on with this card or phone?
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Guys, I have a question about types of SD Cards LG Nitro HD supports, but I don't want open a new topic, so I'm gonna ask it here.
I bought SanDisk Micro SDHC 32GB Ultra HC1, but it make me some troubles - crashed unexpectedly when I listen to music or watch the movie (Always with the same damn error, that I'm trying to use unsupported format. I'm talking about .avi and .mp3 files).
Anyone have any idea WTF is going on with this card or phone?
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maybe it doesnt like the ultra hc1 part of it ..80D
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Correction: 4gb is the limit.
Another thing you can try is to format your sdcard to EXT3 (EXT4), you won't be able access it from windows though, without special tools..
Or maybe...[HOWTO][exFAT][WORK IN PROGRESS] Mount exFAT formatted drives and cards
And finally, perhaps next time you convert that BluRay disk (yeah, right..), use h264 (x264) codec and mp4 container versus mkv, they tend to have better quality-per-mb rate
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Just curious, have you tried EXT(3/4) formatted sdcard with our phone? Does it work?
As a pure storage I haven't tried, however in the past I did partition SD card to have ext3 partition along side of fat32, back then a rom I used (on atrix 4g) was able use that partition as additional storage for the phone.
You can try serveral ways.
1. Copy sd-card to computer via micro-sd adapter, format/partition it with cwm on your phone and then just copy the whole content back to sd-card to use for storage. At least this will eliminate future problems with the card, since it does not come formatted for your phone, it is formatted for cameras etc (i.e. sxt-fat/fat32).
2, Convert the movie into a smaller format, h.264 mp4 or whatever your video player happens to support and plug-in phone to the usb port for transfer, or again, use micro-sd adapter, whichever you prefer.
3. You may want to check out the movie file for the sound format that it is recorded with, since some players only support a certain amount of channels. Keep in mind, blue-ray, even when converted, sometimes forces to much data into the player which will most likely result in a crash/force close/or even lock-up your device.
But as for your original question, go with the first suggestion and give it a go.
I have a bunch of MKV files that when I try to copy them to my Note, it crashes Windows Explorer. I typically get the dialog that says "Do you want to convert this file?" with all of my MP4/AVI files (and I always say "no"), but I don't even get that option with these MKVs. According to MediaInfo, the MKV is using Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC and the MP4 is using "avc1".
I can, however, zip up the MKV file, copy it over to my Note, unzip and it plays fine...but that's a huge pain, IMO. I also don't want to have to re-encode any of my MKVs (all under 720p), since they actually do play on my phone via MX Video Player.
Is there any way to get my phone to just connect as a mass storage device, like with my SII, instead of as an "MTP device"?
Anyone? This is the same for the TF300 tablet as well.
Do you have all the right drivers? As well you could adb push and it should copy successfully.....I have done this before with a video but not an mkv before.
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You have kies running
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Yes, I have "Samsung USB Driver for Mobile Phones 1.5.14.0" installed.
I'll try and adb push a .mkv here tomorrow and let you know how it works
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What I've always found the fastest method is to pop out my sd card, plug it into my computer, and transfer it that way.
I prefer to keep my media on my sd anyway.
swyped all these spelling errors fro card m my galaxy note 2
There is an app on xda called GS3 ums mount or something like that. Google it. It will let you access the sd card in your phone as a external drive when you plug it into your computer. You can then drag and drop files as you wish.
Format your sd card to exfat to copy files larger than 4GB. The built in player from Samsung plays mkv or you can try mx player.
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There is an app on xda called GS3 ums mount or something like that. Google it. It will let you access the sd card in your phone as a external drive when you plug it into your computer. You can then drag and drop files as you wish.
Format your sd card to exfat to copy files larger than 4GB. The built in player from Samsung plays mkv or you can try mx player.
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Unfortunately, you need to be rooted to use that app...sounds like it's what I'm looking for though.
Does anyone know how to access nexus media importer location of usb drive, via file manager? Where is location located? Because when I am watching a movie, I want to enable subtitles for it. In MX Player, when I try to select subtitles, I am just directed to the internal sd card by default. But I cant select my subtitles because I cant find the folder where they are located. I tried "mnt" and almost all other folders aswell but there is no usb folder where my usb content is in.
Some movies have built in subtitles so I can just enable them (white cloud in the top right corner in mx player), but most of the time, I have to do it manually. When I am browsing in nexus media importer app, I can see subtitles there. But I cant copy them off to sd card. Seems like it is read only.
I also tried to rename subtitles to the same name as movie name, because this trick enables subtitles on older dvd players, but here, there is still no white cloud in mx player so I still have to enable them manually.
I am rooted and I tried stickmount app and a lot of similar ones aswell, but they dont work. They dont even show contant of the USB (but they do detect it).
Nexus media importer works flawlessly, and reads big 12gb with over 10 mb bit rate movie without any problems. It just works. Other apps, not so much.
I am using nexus 7 2013 and usb stick is A-Data S102 Pro Advanced 64GB formatted to NTFS.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
edit: I think that "Nexus 7 (2013) Themes and Apps" would be more appropriated section so mods should move it. Sorry
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Does anyone know how to access nexus media importer location of usb drive, via file manager? Where is location located? Because when I am watching a movie, I want to enable subtitles for it. In MX Player, when I try to select subtitles, I am just directed to the internal sd card by default. But I cant select my subtitles because I cant find the folder where they are located. I tried "mnt" and almost all other folders aswell but there is no usb folder where my usb content is in.
Some movies have built in subtitles so I can just enable them (white cloud in the top right corner in mx player), but most of the time, I have to do it manually. When I am browsing in nexus media importer app, I can see subtitles there. But I cant copy them off to sd card. Seems like it is read only.
I also tried to rename subtitles to the same name as movie name, because this trick enables subtitles on older dvd players, but here, there is still no white cloud in mx player so I still have to enable them manually.
I am rooted and I tried stickmount app and a lot of similar ones aswell, but they dont work. They dont even show contant of the USB (but they do detect it).
Nexus media importer works flawlessly, and reads big 12gb with over 10 mb bit rate movie without any problems. It just works. Other apps, not so much.
I am using nexus 7 2013 and usb stick is A-Data S102 Pro Advanced 64GB formatted to NTFS.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
edit: I think that "Nexus 7 (2013) Themes and Apps" would be more appropriated section so mods should move it. Sorry
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Nexus Media Importer is just an app that reads the contents of the USB Drive and forwards/streams the selected file to another app, which in your case is MX Player or saves/copies the selected file to internal storage. Nexus Media Importer works like a file server to MX Player. The contents of the USB drive is invisible to the Android ecosystem. On the other hand, Stickmount mounts the usb drive to a specific directory like /mnt/sdcard/usbStorage/sda1 and makes it available to the whole Android ecosystem.
To solve your problem, you can select the video file from Nexus Media Importer then tap the save button. Do this as well for the subtitle file. The copied files will then be located at the \mnt\sdcard directory. You can directly open it with MX Player and load the subtitle as long as they have the same filename.
A better alternative is to re-install Stickmount and then flash a custom kernel (search for elementalx) to enable NTFS Read/Write functionality.
If you don't want to install a custom kernel, your last option is to re-format the USB Drive to FAT32 and splitting you videos into 4GB files.
Hi:
FYI, Nexus Media Importer also supports NTFS, just not for the advanced write feature. NTFS works fine for streaming and can be easily manipulated on a pc.
Tom
Thanks I figured a way to download subtitles from USB to sd card and than add it to the movie.
I first purchased the GN/2014 Edition in the 16GB version. After finding out about the external SD limitations, I upgraded to the 32GB version. However, I would still much rather save my hdd drive space by putting movies on the SD card (preferably in a format my BluRay player can play read them but it not, I don't care what format it is as long as I can find, convert and move movies to the external SD card. I've been around long enough to know practically everything can be found (no matter how deep it's buried) and converted to a more user friend format.
So can anyone here direct me to where I can find the movie files and a converter that can make them playable outside the tablet
Thank you!
Monica
Open My Files - Settings - Check Show Hidden Files - browse to .samsungmediahub (or videohub something) - contents and move downloaded movies to extsdcard..
The movies can only play with the device, since its DRM protected and can use MHL 2.0 adapter/allsharecast hub to play up to TV.
How to convert and remove DRM, that I dont have a clue. Have never heard about .pvy format until today. Maybe someone else can answer that.
dt33 said:
Open My Files - Settings - Check Show Hidden Files - browse to .samsungmediahub (or videohub something) - contents and move downloaded movies to extsdcard..
The movies can only play with the device, since its DRM protected and can use MHL 2.0 adapter/allsharecast hub to play up to TV.
How to convert and remove DRM, that I dont have a clue. Have never heard about .pvy format until today. Maybe someone else can answer that.
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Thank YOU! I just knew it could be done. If nothing else I've got them off the internal storage and onto the external SD card AND I can store them on my backed up desktop computer.
Does anyone know of a DRM ripper and converter for pvy format. I've been looking but all my hits are misses