[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] bubblesmoney:
connect hard drive to your unrooted nexus 7

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all OTG cables are NOT THE SAME. nokia OTG cables are different even though they look the same. Samsung galaxy s3 OTG cable is different as far as i remember from the samsung galaxy note cables. My rubbish 2£ cable does not have a good fit. But my samsung galaxy note official USB OTG cable fits perfectly and securely with my nexus 7 unlike the cheap cable and costs only about 7£. no point screwing the usb port on the nexus 7 as i found the cheap cable from play.com called trixies i think needs force to fix the cable and frequently falls off but the samsung galaxy note cable fits perfectly. If you had to modify your cable, looks like you bought a cable meant for nokias which look the same but the port is slightly different as far as i read. so buy a proper cable as it is not the nexus 7 that is faulty but your cheap cable in my opinion.

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You can connect your unrooted nexus 7 to a hard drive see video on how to do it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px2liF7lwA0&feature=plcp

Nexus 7 connects to external hard drive or archos 605 media player without rooting nexus 7 using USB OTG cable and nexus media importer app. Archos has 40gb hard drive which is full & scans fine and i play copy or stream my files on the hard drive via my unrooted nexus 7.

My nexus 7 is unrooted and stock rom. I have loads (474 apps as of now :0 ) of apps and the downloaded transformers movie and I havent modded my device.

I connected my nexus 7 via the samsung galaxy note "USB OTG cable" inturn connected to usb cable from my camera (with usb mini port at other end (as I couldnt find my archos cable). The archos 605 wifi media player was set in settings to "connect via USB as hard drive" mode. So my archos should behave the same as any other hard drive when connected to my nexus 7. The archos 605 has a 40gb hard drive which is nearly full with TV recordings which the archos can do via its home dock connected to my sky box. The archos can record ANY signal that passes though it via the home dock so is good for recording television or cable and playing it later on my archos or other devices.

I also used the nexus media importer app (cost £1.29) on my nexus 7 for viewing external memory via USB OTG without rooting my nexus 7. I can stream or copy stuff of my hard drive. I used MX Plyer pro to stream the files from my archos on to my nexus 7.

So the frequent moans that you hear that memory options are restricted on the nexus 7 is rubbish. I connected my flash drive day before yesterday in my first youtube video. I connected my samsung optical smarthub / dvd drive wirelessly to my nexus 7 yesterday in another youtube video. And today I connected my 40gb hard drive ( archos 605 wifi media player) via USB OTG cable and it works fine to copy or stream files. Although it would be great if i could write files to external memory but i am happy as it is as in most use cases people might need to read external memory more than write capability which i can do on my computer instead for now.

External memory is cheap now for example on the www.techradardeals.com website on the 18th of august 2012 I bought two 64gb usb3.0 flash drives for £14 each which was a steal.

So with those flash drive i can effectively increase my nexus 7 memory to 16gb+128gb = 144gb on my nexus 7 for just 28£ more investment in those flash drives and the few pounds for my USB OTG cable that i already had for my phone.

Hope this helps the fence sitters buy a great and cheap device like the nexus 7.

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