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Use USB OTG for music and movies?

How do i use a usb otg cable with a flash drive to listen to music or watch movies? Can you do this?

OTG storage was confirmed to work on another thread. I haven't tested it out with my cable, but you may need Stickmount or similar (if so, you will need root). You will also need a third party player to play other media.
Another possibility is to create a "file bridge" or similar to make the stock player see the media on the external storage. This was a little difficult to do at first on 4.2 with the introduction of multi-user, but someone may have found a way around it. Something to research.
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Root your device and download rootmount by chainfire. Works flawlessly.
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Awesome thanks that works great!
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so no external power is needed??? And My cheap lexar 16gb flash stick will work with an otg cable. Or is a Y-cable need with external power like my N4?
I realize an app and root are needed.

Cuzz1369 said:
so no external power is needed??? And My cheap lexar 16gb flash stick will work with an otg cable. Or is a Y-cable need with external power like my N4?
I realize an app and root are needed.
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A regular USB flash drive should need no additional power, I have yet to find one that can't be used with the OTG cable due to power requirements.

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Cuzz1369 said:
so no external power is needed??? And My cheap lexar 16gb flash stick will work with an otg cable. Or is a Y-cable need with external power like my N4?
I realize an app and root are needed.
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I used a OTG and the app Nexus Media Importer and it works perfect.

slyr114 said:
How do i use a usb otg cable with a flash drive to listen to music or watch movies? Can you do this?
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Hi:
I've been using Nexus Media Importer on my stock, non-rooted, Nexus 7 2012 for almost a year. It also works flawlessly on my stock, non-rooted, Nexus 7 2013. I wish people would STOP saying OTG use requires root.
Tom

thenrik said:
Hi:
I've been using Nexus Media Importer on my stock, non-rooted, Nexus 7 2012 for almost a year. It also works flawlessly on my stock, non-rooted, Nexus 7 2013. I wish people would STOP saying OTG use requires root.
Tom
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Well, I tried Nexus Media Importer without root and it didn't work for me. If you follow NMI troubleshooting links you will find that the author has found that it is very problematic with Android 4.3. He claims he has found a macarena-like workaround but I couldn't get it to work for me.
I will try rooting and stickmount tonight.

Cuzz1369 said:
so no external power is needed??? And My cheap lexar 16gb flash stick will work with an otg cable. Or is a Y-cable need with external power like my N4?
I realize an app and root are needed.
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I use a 16 GB Lexar Echo flash drive with Chainfire's stickmount and a regular USB OTG cable and everything works okay with me.
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I'm using 32 GB USB drive to backup my twrp backup and movies...using chainfire
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mmarquis said:
Well, I tried Nexus Media Importer without root and it didn't work for me. If you follow NMI troubleshooting links you will find that the author has found that it is very problematic with Android 4.3. He claims he has found a macarena-like workaround but I couldn't get it to work for me.
I will try rooting and stickmount tonight.
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Hi:
I am sorry that you are having problems with Nexus Media Importer. The author did not say that NMI was very problematic with 4.3. He said that a few people were having random problems with 4.3. Aside from you, looking at reviews on the play store, there were no reviews that couldn't be straightened out with the work around. I support six other Nexus 7 owners and none of us ever had any problems nor had to use any work arounds on 4.22 nor 4.3. Again, you may have been one of the few with a problem but looking at play store reviews and the many, many reports on this forum with 4.3, Nexus Media Importer works with OTG on stock Nexus 7 tablets.
It streams and copies with NTFS and does the same and writes with Fat32. It does not support exfat.
I have an extensive section on Nexus Media Importer in my Nexus 7 guide:
http://goo.gl/iaOek
Hope that rooting works out for you.
Tom

thenrik said:
Hi:
I am sorry that you are having problems with Nexus Media Importer. The author did not say that NMI was very problematic with 4.3. He said that a few people were having random problems with 4.3. Aside from you, looking at reviews on the play store, there were no reviews that couldn't be straightened out with the work around. I support six other Nexus 7 owners and none of us ever had any problems nor had to use any work arounds on 4.22 nor 4.3. Again, you may have been one of the few with a problem but looking at play store reviews and the many, many reports on this forum with 4.3, Nexus Media Importer works with OTG on stock Nexus 7 tablets.
It streams and copies with NTFS and does the same and writes with Fat32. It does not support exfat.
I have an extensive section on Nexus Media Importer in my Nexus 7 guide:
http://goo.gl/iaOek
Hope that rooting works out for you.
Tom
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Apparently I am not the only one to have this difficulty. It's great that you have had a different experience, I wish mine was that way.
This issue was with the 2013 Nexus 7. I had no problems with the 2012 version. Based on your comments about version 4.2.2 (which the 2013 version never shipped with) I wonder if your experiences are based on 2012 hardware?
Here is a quote from the developer's site "It appears that the Android 4.3 update broke the USB Host on some Nexus 10 and Nexus 7 2nd gen. devices. In Nexus Media Importer and Nexus Photo Viewer, these appear in the Connect screen as "Protected". It does not appear to affect a particular model, but devices at random. The issue has been reported to Google via the link below:"
You can find this at: http://nexususb.blogspot.com/2013/07/android-4.html along with his workaround (which requires multiple reboots so I view the workaround as macarena-like, certainly not a straightforward method)

mmarquis said:
Apparently I am not the only one to have this difficulty. It's great that you have had a different experience, I wish mine was that way.
This issue was with the 2013 Nexus 7. I had no problems with the 2012 version. Based on your comments about version 4.2.2 (which the 2013 version never shipped with) I wonder if your experiences are based on 2012 hardware?
Here is a quote from the developer's site "It appears that the Android 4.3 update broke the USB Host on some Nexus 10 and Nexus 7 2nd gen. devices. In Nexus Media Importer and Nexus Photo Viewer, these appear in the Connect screen as "Protected". It does not appear to affect a particular model, but devices at random. The issue has been reported to Google via the link below:"
You can find this at: http://nexususb.blogspot.com/2013/07/android-4.html along with his workaround (which requires multiple reboots so I view the workaround as macarena-like, certainly not a straightforward method)
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Hi:
You are indeed not the only one having the problem but I still say the majority of users are not having any problems. Nonetheless, it's not very useful for me to say, "It works for me and not for you--nyah, nyah, nyah." So, let me say what works for me instead. All testing was done on a Nexus 7 2013, today. All flash drives were formatted with Fat32.
First of all, make sure you have write enabled in advanced preferences. If not, all flash drives will show up as Protected.
There are four variables, the OTG cable, adapters, the flash drive/sd card and the tablet.
We know that Asus production is uneven. As an owner of the TF101, 201, Nexus 7 2012 and Nexus 7 2013. I've been lucky to receive tablets without production defects but there are many folks who have been unlucky.
My OTG cables all come from the following vendor:
SANOXY Micro USB Host Mode OTG Cable $1.50
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005FUNYSA/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I use this Microsd Adaptor:
C2662 Black Micro SD SDHC TF USB card Reader Adapter Support 32GB Mini Hi-Speed $4.98
http://www.ebay.com/itm/C2662-Black...pter-Support-32GB-Mini-Hi-Speed-/200731336666
I use this flash drive as it's small and doesn't weigh down the OTG cable:
SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB Flash Drive (SDCZ33-032G-B35) $21.49
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00812F7O8/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have a couple of Sandisk 64gb Microsd Class 6 cards formatted to NTFS, not useful as they are no longer for sale.
I tested my friend's SanDisk Class 10 Ultra 64gb MicroSD XC I, formatted with great difficulty to Fat32. Sandisk Class 10 cards have a hidden partition, only come formatted with exfat, are difficult to format to fat32--designed incompatibility. I am done with Sandisk MicroSd cards. Instead I recommend
Kingston Digital 64GB MicroSDXC Class 10 Flash Card (SDCX10/64GB) $59.99
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-64GB-MicroSDXC-SDCX10/dp/B009X0G304/ref=sr_1_1
In addition to the above, I tested it with several SanDisk cruzer usb drives, 16 and 32, a four gig PNY flash drive and even an odd fish-shaped flash drive that my friend had trouble reading on some laptops.
All of the Microsd cards worked, the NTFS cards worked with copying streaming, not write. All of the flash drives worked with write. None showed up as protected.
I have an extensive section on Nexus Media Importer in my Nexus 7 guide:
http://goo.gl/iaOek
I have seen no difference between Nexus Media Importer on my Nexus 7 2012 or on my Nexus 7 2013.
That being said, it doesn't mean you aren't having problems. I can only report on what's working for me.
Best,
Tom Henriksen

thenrik said:
Hi:
You are indeed not the only one having the problem but I still say the majority of users are not having any problems. Nonetheless, it's not very useful for me to say, "It works for me and not for you--nyah, nyah, nyah." So, let me say what works for me instead. All testing was done on a Nexus 7 2013, today. All flash drives were formatted with Fat32.
First of all, make sure you have write enabled in advanced preferences. If not, all flash drives will show up as Protected.
There are four variables, the OTG cable, adapters, the flash drive/sd card and the tablet.
We know that Asus production is uneven. As an owner of the TF101, 201, Nexus 7 2012 and Nexus 7 2013. I've been lucky to receive tablets without production defects but there are many folks who have been unlucky.
My OTG cables all come from the following vendor:
SANOXY Micro USB Host Mode OTG Cable $1.50
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005FUNYSA/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I use this Microsd Adaptor:
C2662 Black Micro SD SDHC TF USB card Reader Adapter Support 32GB Mini Hi-Speed $4.98
http://www.ebay.com/itm/C2662-Black...pter-Support-32GB-Mini-Hi-Speed-/200731336666
I use this flash drive as it's small and doesn't weigh down the OTG cable:
SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB Flash Drive (SDCZ33-032G-B35) $21.49
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00812F7O8/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have a couple of Sandisk 64gb Microsd Class 6 cards formatted to NTFS, not useful as they are no longer for sale.
I tested my friend's SanDisk Class 10 Ultra 64gb MicroSD XC I, formatted with great difficulty to Fat32. Sandisk Class 10 cards have a hidden partition, only come formatted with exfat, are difficult to format to fat32--designed incompatibility. I am done with Sandisk MicroSd cards. Instead I recommend
Kingston Digital 64GB MicroSDXC Class 10 Flash Card (SDCX10/64GB) $59.99
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-64GB-MicroSDXC-SDCX10/dp/B009X0G304/ref=sr_1_1
In addition to the above, I tested it with several SanDisk cruzer usb drives, 16 and 32, a four gig PNY flash drive and even an odd fish-shaped flash drive that my friend had trouble reading on some laptops.
All of the Microsd cards worked, the NTFS cards worked with copying streaming, not write. All of the flash drives worked with write. None showed up as protected.
I have an extensive section on Nexus Media Importer in my Nexus 7 guide:
http://goo.gl/iaOek
I have seen no difference between Nexus Media Importer on my Nexus 7 2012 or on my Nexus 7 2013.
That being said, it doesn't mean you aren't having problems. I can only report on what's working for me.
Best,
Tom Henriksen
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Glad we are not engaging in a tit-for-a-tat exchange. The OTB cable I had worked with my 2012 N7. I will order the one you used and see if that is any different.
Mike
UPDATE: I ordered one but it looks just like the one I have.

I noticed one problem with stickmount and videos: Apparently something gets a little too sleepy when the tablet sleeps. I was using a nightly build of VLC, and paused the video playback for about 10 minutes, when I woke up the tablet and it tried to resume, it couldn't do it. I tried the same video and pause after copying the file to the /sdcard, and the resume from pause worked fine. Definitely an obscure case, but there was a difference with OTG.

mmarquis said:
Glad we are not engaging in a tit-for-a-tat exchange. The OTB cable I had worked with my 2012 N7. I will order the one you used and see if that is any different.
Mike
UPDATE: I ordered one but it looks just like the one I have.
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Hi:
The cables take a little while from Hong Kpng. If there's anything I can test for you in the meantime, quote me in a post or send me a pm and we can continue via email.
Best,
Tom

Thanks, Artood2s and blitzz3434 for this. I was unaware of Stickmount but it sure ended my floudering around trying to mount my book-loaded SD card.

I'm rooted using Otg helper and confirm my WD 1tb passport is working and can watch movies and listen to music
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shortyboy said:
I'm rooted using Otg helper and confirm my WD 1tb passport is working and can watch movies and listen to music
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Same, 1tb WD and otg helper

[Q] Compatibility with micro usb drives

Why is Nexus 7 2013 not in the compatibility list of leef and pqi micro usb drives

awadia said:
Why is Nexus 7 2013 not in the compatibility list of leef and pqi micro usb drives
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IIRC, a stock, out-of-the-box, N7 can not use any USB drives. It requires helper apps, like Stickmount, which usually require, at a minimum, rooting the device. My understanding is that Nexus Media Importer (available as a paid app in the Google Store) does not need root. I have not tried it personally, though.

Leaf and PQI dual drives
PJ Clifford said:
IIRC, a stock, out-of-the-box, N7 can not use any USB drives. It requires helper apps, like Stickmount, which usually require, at a minimum, rooting the device. My understanding is that Nexus Media Importer (available as a paid app in the Google Store) does not need root. I have not tried it personally, though.
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Thank you for the response.
I have taken a regular usb drive, connected with a micro usb OTG cable to the drive and used "Nexus Media Importer" and it works. My question is if I were to take one of these new Leaf or PQI drives which already have a micro usb connector and stick it into my Nexus and use the "Nexus Media Importer" will it also work? And if so why have Leaf and PQI not mentioned Nexus 7 2013 in there list?
It could be that they have not tested these drives against Nexus 7. So before I bought it I wanted to know if some one in this forum had already tested it and it had worked.

awadia said:
Thank you for the response.
I have taken a regular usb drive, connected with a micro usb OTG cable to the drive and used "Nexus Media Importer" and it works. My question is if I were to take one of these new Leaf or PQI drives which already have a micro usb connector and stick it into my Nexus and use the "Nexus Media Importer" will it also work? And if so why have Leaf and PQI not mentioned Nexus 7 2013 in there list?
It could be that they have not tested these drives against Nexus 7. So before I bought it I wanted to know if some one in this forum had already tested it and it had worked.
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I suspect that it will work and they haven't tested them with the N7. That said, I've never used one so I can't be certain.

USB-OTG ?

So recently I have been reading in forum due to low space on nexus 7 ppl were speaking about this things.
I gave no idea what was that so I Google it but the only thing I understood war OTG (ON THE GO)
If any 1 would be so kind in detail explain me how that thing is working I would be really happy
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Hook up the otg cable to your nexus micro USB port, connect a memory stick on the other end of your otg and BAAAAM, you've got more storage
sent from my GNEX running cMetal 11 Rom

USB-OTG might not work out-of-the-box on custom ROMs.
If its not working you can try these apps to torubleshoot:
- OTG Troubleshooter
- USB Host Diagnostics
If the USB drive is not mounting then try these:
- USB OTG Helper
- StickMount
Both mounting apps and the stock mounting method mount the USB drive at different paths.

Try for the replies can you give me some link to buy one from amazon stable since I don't have idea
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i use Nexus Media Importer on my Nexus 2013 and it works great and no need for root

nomikSqash said:
Try for the replies can you give me some link to buy one from amazon stable since I don't have idea
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GGBYJ4/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1

puma99dk| said:
i use Nexus Media Importer on my Nexus 2013 and it works great and no need for root
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sparksd said:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GGBYJ4/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Ty so much wanted to order 1 from Amazon. De but delivery cost 10 euro when cable 5 will go to local stores hope they have 1 ty again (living in Greece)
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I use these, and their international shipping might cover Greece. Pair them with a small flash drive like the Sandisk Cruzer Fit, and it's like a standard-size thumb drive.
http://dx.com/p/micro-usb-on-the-go-host-otg-adapter-pair-50774
http://www.meritline.com/usb-micro-male-to-usb-female-adapter-for-samsung-i9100---p-95863.aspx

i bought this one. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Right-Angle-...DA_Cables_Adapters&hash=item43c1e89af7&_uhb=1

Pandae said:
I use these, and their international shipping might cover Greece. Pair them with a small flash drive like the Sandisk Cruzer Fit, and it's like a standard-size thumb drive.
http://dx.com/p/micro-usb-on-the-go-host-otg-adapter-pair-50774
http://www.meritline.com/usb-micro-male-to-usb-female-adapter-for-samsung-i9100---p-95863.aspx
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OMG they are amazing so small must be uber comfortable just plug in hard disk full of movies and go on watching yuppiii did not know they have 1 like this
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bland.life said:
USB-OTG might not work out-of-the-box on custom ROMs.
If its not working you can try these apps to torubleshoot:
- OTG Troubleshooter
- USB Host Diagnostics
If the USB drive is not mounting then try these:
- USB OTG Helper
- StickMount
Both mounting apps and the stock mounting method mount the USB drive at different paths.
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I tried all the recommended apps, nothing seems to detect the USB stick mounted. I know the USB stick and cable works, because when I reboot into recovery I can back up and restore from otg USB.
What else can I do to figure out why I can't mount the otg USB?
-Wizzle
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nomikSqash said:
Try for the replies can you give me some link to buy one from amazon stable since I don't have idea
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Hey dude, you're a little lazy today.

I am on Kitkat in the moment.
Can i also connect other devices like mouse or similar to mini-usb ?
I heard it is working on 4.3 but there USB OTG works out of the box,
Regards
Joachim

wizzlewizzle said:
I tried all the recommended apps, nothing seems to detect the USB stick mounted. I know the USB stick and cable works, because when I reboot into recovery I can back up and restore from otg USB.
What else can I do to figure out why I can't mount the otg USB?
-Wizzle
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Fixed!!! I finally got otg working!!!
So here's what I did. I'm running cm11. I flashed elementalx kernel but one thing I did different was I did NOT enable usb fast charge.
So from what it seems if you have USB fast charge otg doesn't work!
I hope this helps others...
-Wizzle

If you have problems with otg and a custom rom you can flash the Bulletproof kernel.
Since there has been no mention of drives I'll add some info.
I can use otg with 2.5 inch drives without external power. (both fat32 and ntfs formats). 3.5 inch drives require external power.
I use stickmount pro (requires root).
I'm running stock firmware and kernel. - KOT49H

tobdaryl said:
If you have problems with otg and a custom rom you can flash the Bulletproof kernel.
Since there has been no mention of drives I'll add some info.
I can use otg with 2.5 inch drives without external power. (both fat32 and ntfs formats). 3.5 inch drives require external power.
I use stickmount pro (requires root).
I'm running stock firmware and kernel. - KOT49H
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Not working for me on Nexus 7(2013)...having 4.4.2/KOT49H with Bulletproof kernel and fastcharge disabled.
OTG trouble shooter shows all good, but EZ Explorer do not show my USB disk, and keyboard/mouse also do not work.
Same cable and keyboard/mouse works on SGS3
ASUS support replied that my device do not support OTG ...its Nexus 7 2013 WiFi 16 GB model

dfhsingh said:
Not working for me on Nexus 7(2013)...having 4.4.2/KOT49H with Bulletproof kernel and fastcharge disabled.
OTG trouble shooter shows all good, but EZ Explorer do not show my USB disk, and keyboard/mouse also do not work.
Same cable and keyboard/mouse works on SGS3
ASUS support replied that my device do not support OTG ...its Nexus 7 2013 WiFi 16 GB model
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To get drives to work I had to install stickmount pro but mice and keyboards do not need any extras. *Here is the cable I use. *I retested my setup and everything works as previously described. - Nexus 7 (2013) 32gig. *I'm running the stock kernel but with custom roms I use Bulletproof kernel.
I'm guessing you mean ES Explorer as I can't find EZ Explorer. *It works for me mounted as usbStorage/sda1 using ES Explorer, etc.
Note: stickmount requires some extras placed in your sdcard root.
dumpexfat
exfatfsck
exfatlabel
mkexfatfs
mount.exfat-fuse
ntfs-3g

Does this thing accept USB OTG?

I'm interested in getting this tablet to replace my laptop while traveling. I need to somehow download microSD cards full of pictures taken from my DSLR into an external 2.5" USB drive. Can somebody verify that this tablet supports OTG and if so then it has enough juice for a 2.5" hard drive (or SSD)?
Thanks.

I was unable to get OTG to work.
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All my recemt Samsung devices have supported OTG, so no reason why this one shouldn't.
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Yep. Works great for me.

dwd3885 said:
Yep. Works great for me.
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Interesting, I will have to give it another go.
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You can use Total Commander and the USB plug in for it and it works fine and without root.

Otg working fine for me with mouse, keyboard, ps4 controller.

Stickmount Pro works the best in my opinion and allows you to use your favorite root explorer. Just create a shortcut to your home screen and when Stickmount mounts your micro drive all you have to do then is open the home screen shortcut
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Hi, yes it does, I have used it on my tab s 10.1

I'm about to order a 10.5 LTE version but need confirmation that OTG is working.
Does it give enough power to get a 500GB HDD spinning up and running? Or will I need an external power source?
Many thanks in advance

7amdoun said:
I'm about to order a 10.5 LTE version but need confirmation that OTG is working.
Does it give enough power to get a 500GB HDD spinning up and running? Or will I need an external power source?
Many thanks in advance
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you mean SDD ??

sku|| said:
you mean SDD ??
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No, a regular Western Digital "My Passport" USB HDD.
My Nexus 5 provides enough power without needing a y-cable/external power. But thats probably because it has a snapdragon 800 chipset.
The Tab S uses an Exynos 5 so I'm worried it won't be able to power up the drive.
Anyone tried a USB HDD with the tab S?
Many thanks in advance

Can't get my hdd to work on the t805 weird thought because my g3 can power it.

Galaxy Tab S 10.5 USB OTG works with my 32gb PNY flash drive. I formatted it first in FAT 32 and my drive was recognised instantly. You can double check if it is recognised under the 'storage' option in settings, then in the USB OTG storage tab.
Then i reformatted it in exFAT on my computer and it still works perfectly. It was instantly recognised upon plugging it into the tablet.
The USB OTB cable (micro usb to female usb) I used was a cheap generic ebay one which does the job. So yes, this device does support USB OTG natively (though I haven't tried NTFS format yet).

eastpac said:
Galaxy Tab S 10.5 USB OTG works with my 32gb PNY flash drive. I formatted it first in FAT 32 and my drive was recognised instantly. You can double check if it is recognised under the 'storage' option in settings, then in the USB OTG storage tab.
Then i reformatted it in exFAT on my computer and it still works perfectly. It was instantly recognised upon plugging it into the tablet.
The USB OTB cable (micro usb to female usb) I used was a cheap generic ebay one which does the job. So yes, this device does support USB OTG natively (though I haven't tried NTFS format yet).
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I can also confirm what you are saying is true USB OTG works on my T-800

simacca said:
All my recemt Samsung devices have supported OTG, so no reason why this one shouldn't.
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Is it Samsung tab 3 SM-t211 support ?

Nope there is no support

Tryptonite said:
You can use Total Commander and the USB plug in for it and it works fine and without root.
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This post was from 2014. Is your OTG still working? Mine was working up until about a year ago and now it doesn't work. I am on version 6.0.1 with the SM-T705, not rooted. I have tried using the Total Commander with USB plug in, but the tablet doesn't recognize the 16 GB USB drive at all. Any other suggestions?

Half otg suppprt

Well I just found out the turbo 2 doesn't transfer from the device to a USB but it does transfer from the USB to the device. This sucks I need it to work the other way. I hope they fix this with marshmallow or a small update. There is not reason a device should not support this in today's day and age.
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I know that this was last posted two months ago but I'm pissed that this function has been turned off by Motorola. I tried multiple otg's and thumb drives. And nothing, doesn't even recognize the otg. Downloaded a app off of play store to run a check on it and it come back like the turbo 2 doesn't support otg. I use it for Movies and transferring files between devices. Has anyone found a fix or at least heard anything from Motorola about it?

tmease1 said:
I know that this was last posted two months ago but I'm pissed that this function has been turned off by Motorola. I tried multiple otg's and thumb drives. And nothing, doesn't even recognize the otg. Downloaded a app off of play store to run a check on it and it come back like the turbo 2 doesn't support otg. I use it for Movies and transferring files between devices. Has anyone found a fix or at least heard anything from Motorola about it?
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Went on Motorola forums and Mark was useless. Told me he would look into it and never got back to me. I did find a work around. Download USB otg file manager for nexus from the play store it works on the turbo 2. only issue is its slower then having it native in the OS. It can take 5 to 10 minutes to transfer a movie depending on size.
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bigv5150 said:
Went on Motorola forums and Mark was useless. Told me he would look into it and never got back to me. I did find a work around. Download USB otg file manager for nexus from the play store it works on the turbo 2. only issue is its slower then having it native in the OS. It can take 5 to 10 minutes to transfer a movie depending on size.
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It won't work on my phone. I tried that because I already had the app on my nexus. Motorola needs to fix this.

tmease1 said:
It won't work on my phone. I tried that because I already had the app on my nexus. Motorola needs to fix this.
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That makes no sense it works on mine and we have the same phone. Maybe it's the USB stick. Is this the app you tried.
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bigv5150 said:
That makes no sense it works on mine and we have the same phone. Maybe it's the USB stick. Is this the app you tried.
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Its taken me awhile to get back on here. I work non stop and forget about things. I've tried multiple otg apps and this is what i got the last time. It's ridiculous. My wife has the same phone and it wont work on hers either.

Ok, this is my last post about this. I plugged the otg cored in with a wireless mouse and it worked. I have 4 different brands and sizes of thumb drives and non of them work. It seems like the phone isn't pushing out enough power through the otg cord to read the thumb drives. Any ideas?

Moto X Force here, just plugged my CorsairVoyager Go 64Gb , read and write ok
Did you grand USB Storage permissions ? If not you can read but not write
Just install ES explorer, the first time you'll try to write on the usb storage a permissions pop-up will appear and guide you through to accept sd-card write or usb-storage write
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if storage permissions don't work maybe Verizon disabled some OTG functions that are enable in the international version (Moto X Force) (((((((

My Turbo 2 has worked fine with OTG since day one... using a Meenova Dash Micro, shows up under "Storage" in Settings and can be accessed by any app...

Ok, im not going to let this go because it bugs me. I have four flash drives of different brands and sizes. My wife found a 2gb PNY flash drive from about 6 years ago and have it to me yesterday. I said to hell with it and plugged in the otg cable and put the flash drive in. Hell froze over quickly because it worked. It's the only one that has worked so far and I do not understand it because it's old. It's formatted in FAT. The rest of my flash drives are formatted FAT32. Anyone have a clue because I sure don't. I was going to re format my other flash drives but I shouldn't have to because my nexus and my s5 read them just fine.

If you want to copy files without changing time stamp you should use Root Explorer ou ES File Manager, works fine for me

Ok, just for a update... I gave up on this for awhile. I had been trying to use Toshiba, Sandisk and PNY usb 2.0 Flash drives and none of those would work. I had ordered a Sandisk usb 3.0 off of Amazon a few weeks back and i had forgotten that i had gotten it. I found it in my drawer and tried it with the otg cable and it worked. I tried it on my wife's turbo 2 and it worked on hers. So I've found a brand and usb type that will work with my phone so I'll stick with it.

tmease1 said:
Ok, just for a update... I gave up on this for awhile. I had been trying to use Toshiba, Sandisk and PNY usb 2.0 Flash drives and none of those would work. I had ordered a Sandisk usb 3.0 off of Amazon a few weeks back and i had forgotten that i had gotten it. I found it in my drawer and tried it with the otg cable and it worked. I tried it on my wife's turbo 2 and it worked on hers. So I've found a brand and usb type that will work with my phone so I'll stick with it.
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I am using Es file explorer pro and it works with any USB device. From what I can tell you have to grant permission to the file explorer. Not all ask for permission so the transfer fails.
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I thought I'd add my experience here. I bought an X Force, and on day one tried a 64Gb SanDisk USB stick. It worked fine, and I started watching a movie. On day 2 I took the Marshmallow OTA, tried the USB stick again (to finish watching the movie) and... no joy. After a bit of research, I believe that this is because the USB stick is formatted as exFAT, and it looks as if Moto dropped support for exFAT in Marshmallow.

I have the Droid Turbo 2, USA Verizon - and the Sandisk USB 3.0 with the dual port. The thumbdrive worked on my Kindle Fire 7", and my buddy's Galaxy Note 5, no problem. It even worked on my kindle fire when formatted to NTFS. It doesn't work on my Droid, with the MicroUSB plug, or when the normal USB 3.0 end is plugged into an OTG cable. However, if I plug the sandisk thumbdrive into a Sabrent USB 3.0 hub, plug that into my OTG cable, and plug that into the Droid Turbo 2, I can read everything just fine.

Then looks like that Turbo doesn't provide enough power to usb device or doesn't provide it at all.
But, I have Oppo portable headphone DAC amplifier HA-2 (and PM-3 headphones, awesome sound) and works out of the box with Force. Even indicate charging if I use generic OTG cable. With Oppo cable, amplifier is not draining any energy from the phone.
I'll try USB stick with Force...
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