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[Nexus 10 Accessories] groaner:
I've tried 2 different hard drives to be recognized by the media importer with no luck. I am trying a full format (ntfs) on a 250gb drive.

My first question is will NTFS work?

2nd, has anyone actually gotten a hd to work with this or just thumb drives?

The only thing in common with these drives are that they are laptop drives in adapters. They aren't packaged deals. I don't know if that will make a difference. My thumb drives work so I know the OTG cable works.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] groaner:
As it turns out, these cheap cases with a hard drive you put in them are not compatible. I tried two of them and as I said, they did not work. I then tried a WD one i have and it worked.

so there you have it, dont go cheap.

:silly:
[Nexus 10 Accessories] johno86:
You gotta pay to play :good:
[Nexus 10 Accessories] anderswede:
Does this mean we're in 1080p heaven?

OK, so with a portabel harddrive (powered through the USB-port), all the movies in .rar-format (only small files) and BSplayer (which has no trouble with .rar-playback, just like XBMC), I've suddenly got all my 1080p-movies available when I travel?

Is that correct? Has anyone tried this?
[Nexus 10 Accessories] slight22:
Works like a charm, thx. Stickmount actually don't work on the 4.2 yet.

But my N10 is unlocked and rooted so it's possible that had an effect, but so far my 720p tv shows (mkv) play without issue. Though i do have to run on S/W sounds on some. I could only wish we had a cccp style codec that would play everything.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Croak:
Stickmount works fine with the USB2Go cable I bought for my N7, with a SD card reader and 4 different USB thumb drives of varying sizes. I have my entire music collection on a 64 gig thumb drive, and was able to play them from PowerAmp.

It doesn't work with a 750gb 2.5" HDD (my old laptop drive) in a USB 3.0/SATA enclosure, it lights up but there's not enough power to spin it up.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] NLPUNITED:
Bought a 1tb drive today on blackfriday. Cant wait to get the Tab and start watching movies/shows from it! Done with Movie streaming on my phone in bed
[Nexus 10 Accessories] jmcharles:
I tried our 500gb external, and was hopeful for a moment when it powered up and started showing files, but it was short lived. It just kept disconnecting like there wasn't enough power.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Jonathanh88:
works

awesome.. i was really hoping i could hook my external to mine and it works.. I have a WD 2TB My Passport(no external power source) and it worked with my nex10.. no rooting or anything. i used this ****ty ass usb OTG cable that barely works. if i barely move the cable it disconnects.. i need to hunt down a better USB to Micro usb adapter that will ship here to hawaii..cus nobody seems to ship otg cables to hawaii on amazon for some reason. at least i can confirm that it works :)
[Nexus 10 Accessories] slight22:
I'm sorry to disagree with you, but i'm running 4.2 on both my N7 and my N10 and stickmount (on the n7) won't work, and stickmount pro (on the n10) will not work either.

So there is deffinetly something in 4.2 that prevents OTG from working with SM. However OTG and Nexus Media Importer seem to be working perfectly with both 32 and 64 gig mem sticks. (or thumb drives if you prefer)... wish i had a 128 or 256 stick lol
[Nexus 10 Accessories] king conan:
Well, Stickmount with 4.2 in Nexus 10 indeed works. The behaviour is not great though. Most of the times to see the files in a pendrive you have to unplug and plug it again. So it seems a little bit unstable but at least in my case in my rooted N10, stickmount works.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Niggo372:
I'm using a WD MyPassport 500GB and it works, but only if the battery is above about 50%. If its lower it seems that there is not enough power on the USB port. Is that normal or should i return the drive?
[Nexus 10 Accessories] 3473:
Exact same thing happened with my and my 2.5inch WD 500gb drive

Maybe these HDD's require too much power to be powered off the port itself... would an SSD work? Currently I'm carrying multiple usb sticks which isn't ideal...
[Nexus 10 Accessories] groaner:
See now this is th eproblem, you cant power your tablet at the same time as playing a movie, like if I were to play a movie to a tv while having my tab plugged in to keep it charged (worked like a charm when I was up at a cottage with my Iconia that is charged from a separate plug).

Has anyone tried the dual USB adapters? if you plug the drive in one and power to the other one, I wonder if that works.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] zapote21:
I have 320 GB western digital that I use. Native support in cm 10.1... Works perfectly to stream anything...
[Nexus 10 Accessories] mark.m.moran:
Is the WD drive USB powered??
[Nexus 10 Accessories] alias_neo:
Shame, my 500GB WD Passport 2.5" won't spin up using the power from the N10, it used to work just fine on my XOOM. It's a 2011 model, perhaps I need a more efficient 2012/2013 model.

I might splice a usb cable into my ammeter and see how much current it's trying to pull.

What I'd really like to do is get a powered hub that I can power off of my emergency phone charger so I can stay un-tethered.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Jester23:
anyone tired the Wi-Drive?

http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Wi-D...=UTF8&qid=1356918271&sr=8-1&keywords=wi+drive
[Nexus 10 Accessories] phobium:
Should work with the official Kingston app from Play Store, no root required
[Nexus 10 Accessories] dcnice:
Got one of these:

Samsung 1Tb, and it sort of works.

Problem I have is when I try and play a ripped lu Ray (37Gb), it does not seems to want to play. It just stutters a lot. Seems fine on small files though. Works fien if I plug it into a powered USB hub.

Anyone else got one of these or similar (USB powered) and what has your expoerience been playing large video files when not on a powered hub. I was hoping to use this to play my blu rays on the train, but it looks like that will now not be possible unless anyone knows if there is such a thing as a small battery powered USB hub/cable.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] alias_neo:
It's wouldn't be hard to make one, which is what I intend. Get a hub, then use my Mili Power Crystal or my Newtrent 120d to power the hub, and you're golden.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] dcnice:
Just been havin a quick google about. Looks like there are plenty that need a batteyr powered USB hub, but no one sells them. I've decided to buy a USB 3 to USB mini Y cable. Then I can plug one end into the drive, one end into the OTG adaptop and the final end into one of those emergency chargers which I have a few of. Won't be as neat as I wanted, but it will do.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] FreydNot:
I have this OTG cable with power from Amazon. I hooked it up to my rooted Galaxy S3 (running Frosty Jellybean 11.2.1), my Kindle Fire HD charger (1.8 amps) and a Seagate Backup Plus USB hard drive.

StickMount saw the drive and mounted it as expected . The phone indicates it is charging. I watched it go from 95% to 100% in about 22 minutes. The screen was off during the charge. I waited for the charging LED to change from red to green. Not exactly a quick charge, but better than draining.

Maybe something is different between the Galaxy S3 and the Nexus 10?

My Nexus 10 arrives tomorrow so I'll know more then.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] alias_neo:
Yeh Samsung have made extensive changes, the S3 has full OTG support, including multiple storage drives on a hub. I'm assuming through modifications to Vold, because with my best efforts I've managed to mount a single drive from a hub on stock Vold, but it's so far been impossible to mount more than one.

Either Google screwed up, or they're just trying their hardest to make file management more difficult.

To make matters worse, the new multi user, and sand boxing of apps makes it all the more difficult due to permissions etc.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Johan1976:
And no possibilities with shared folders between users and lack of running apps requiring root on second user :(

I would love to use a Y - cable to do this. Problem is that Nexus will probably not support host mode and charging at the same time. There is a Nexus 7 kernel adding this support.

However a portable hard drive stating it should work with power from USB should work with Nexus 10, right?

If it does a pogo cable would be okay to charge and running host mode on stock Nexus 10.

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[Nexus 10 Accessories] albertrono:
Has anyone tried to use an externally powered hard drive but one which is just assembled using a regular desktop 3.5" HDD and a HDD enclosure? I read back in one post that said it didn't work for him but that one was a hard drive from a laptop. Thanks.

Here's the post i was referring to.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] dcnice:
I have had no problems using a powered 3.5" external drive with an otg cable, nor have i had a problem using a 2.5" that did not have external power so long as i used a powerd usb hub. The only time i have had an issue is when using a 2.5" drive that did not require external power directly into the otg cable. It seems the nexus 10 usb just does not supply enough power. To get around that i have used a y cable and an external usb charger thingy.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] albertrono:
Is your 3.5" external drive an assembled one using an hdd enclosure?
[Nexus 10 Accessories] dcnice:
I have so far used 3 external hds on my nexus 10

1- samsung 1tb 2.5" without external power

2- lacie external 3.5"

3-one of those caddy things where you just pop a sata drive in (vertically). This is not an enclosure as such. All 3 work. the drives in 1 and 2 are as purchased. with 3 i just use any old sata drive.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Johan1976:
Sv: External Harddrives

Any suggestions for a powered USB hub that uses micro USB as power supply. I want to use the car charger as power supply when using portable hard drive for media library in the car. Good for long trips with the kids.

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[Nexus 10 Accessories] dcnice:
I tired looking for one that runs off batteries and there is no such thing. You may find something with a micro USB input, although probably quite rare.. I settled for using a USB power pack to power the HD. Something like this should work fine (if you get a Y adaptor for the drive).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/EasyAcc-120...e-Universal/dp/B0098EO61S/ref=pd_sim_sbs_ce_3.

I am currently still using my old proporta power pack rated at 3400mah, but will be looking to upgrade to something like the link above.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Johan1976:
Sv: External Harddrives

But if I have the y-cable I assume I can connect the other end to the car charger, right? There are y-cables with micro usb+usb females which should work. Then I get power from the charger to the drive. But no charging for my Nexus 10 though since it will not support charging in host mode. Guess I could use this together with a pogo cable. I assume at least pogo charging works when using Nexus 10 in host mode.

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[Nexus 10 Accessories] dcnice:
As I use an OTG cable, I use a full size USB cable. One end side of the Y into the OTG and the other into the charger (the single end into the HD) I have the pogo cable and it works well with this set up as everything can then be charged. My HD is a USB 3, so I just bought a USB3 Y cable which meant I just plugged one end into the HD, and the other into the OTG and Power.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] catfishbillyhere:
you need this

so this is what i have used before. getting a new powered hub. since mine is gone. but have tried it with my other tablet.

need a powered hub.

http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-USB-...id=1358750056&sr=1-1&keywords=usb+powered+hub

and a micro to usb female

http://www.amazon.com/eForCity-Micr...8&qid=1358750133&sr=1-5&keywords=usb+to+micro

plug the hub into the micro adapter. that way you have enough power for the hdd. and then just connect to the nexus.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] bigdog2k7:
I run a lacie p9300 SSD 120GB and it works without a powered hub with no issues. It does have problems reading the drive though when my battery level reaches ~20% but I think that is due to the n10 limiting power to the micro port as it tries to conserve battery power...which is why I bought a pogo cable.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] dust.:
Apparently the pogo stops drawing power when OTG is being used. Check out the threads on the pogo cable for more info. Not good...
[Nexus 10 Accessories] mark.m.moran:
Not good at all at all :(
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Johan1976:
Sv: External Harddrives

This has from what I understand been the problem with Nexus 7. Are you sure it applies for nexus 10.

Guess we need modified kernel if that's the case.

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[Nexus 10 Accessories] dcnice:
My nexus 10 is unlocked and rooted with the stock ROM.

I have it plugged intot he mains via the pogo cable and I have my external drive connected up via the OTG (drive drawing power from a proporta lith ion battery pack). The battery icon has the charging symbol and when I clck on the battery it says charing (AC).

However as I am writing this I have ust noticed that teh level has gone from 99% to 98%, so I guess it is not charging it,
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Mr Shifty:
i accidentally ordered 2 samsung otg cables from amazon. anyone want it?
[Nexus 10 Accessories] rswain64:
What do you want for the extra cable.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Mr Shifty:
pm'd you
[Nexus 10 Accessories] rswain64:
pm'd back
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Irman_Fazal:
thx good work keep it up
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Mr.Doc:
I'm planing to buy a Tab and I'm stuck trying to pick between Note 10.1 or the Nexus 10

and from what you say can you browse your HD from the tablet like using the computer if you have the Y cable to provide power for the HD and will this method work for the Note 10.1 or only works with Nexus
[Nexus 10 Accessories] dcnice:
I am afraid that I cannot comment on the note 10.1. However I would assume it would be the same.

The Y cable (+OTG) is only needed for devices that draw their power from the USB and does not require an external power supply. In some cases the tablet does not provide enough power, so the 2nd USB from the Y cable gets plugged into a power source. For items 2 and 3 on my list, these were plugged into the mains and therefore the standard USB cable (+ OTG cable) was used.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Mr.Doc:
after u have used the Nexus 10 would u recommend it or should I buy the Note 10.1
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Groundsel:
I posted in the wireless USB storage thread about the new Ravpower Wifi disk. It creates its own wireless network to stream data to your tablet from whatever storage device you connect to the wifi disk. It has a built in battery that provides up to five hours of runtime. It features an SD card slot and a USB 2.0 slot and yes, both can be used simultaneously. It can handle up to a 2TB portable hard drive and stream to up to five devices at the same time. Currently going for $49.99 on Amazon. If you don't want to have a cable or device attached to your tablet, check out the wifi disk. I prefer the wifi disk to my OTG cable since it means the storage device isn't leeching power from the tablet.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] mark.m.moran:
Must give it a look ;)
[Nexus 10 Accessories] hughlle:
I'm interested in the new wifeless drive that seagate has just released. seems to offer upgrades on the older goflex satelite, is 1tb, and if you are in the states, seems reasonably priced for what it is. They also got around to adding write support as well as simply read. Very tempted by one, although in the UK it comes in at around £200 which is rather steep, i could get a pair of 3tb desktop drives for that price.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] scooterboy5:
Sounds interesting, but I don't think my wife will go for it. :cool:
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Leoisright:
I'm using my 128gb Samsung 830 and works perfectly.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] willmott1992:
Using a cheapo OTA cable from amazon, my Hitachi 1TB Touro Mobile MX3 and Nexus Media Importer it works fine for me.

My Nexus needs quite a high charge for the hard drive to spin up though, otherwise I just get a clicking noise. However it does work when charged above ~70%.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] mark.m.moran:
Does it drain the battery fast mate?
[Nexus 10 Accessories] willmott1992:
I had it plugged in for around an hour, it obviously drained faster than normal. But didn't drain noticeably quick. However I normally just copy the video I'm watching to the internal storage and then unplug the hard drive.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] mark.m.moran:
Cools! I would have expected you to copy the file over as that is what I would do :)
[Nexus 10 Accessories] xrecartp:
My experience; WD passport 2tb works. Canvio 1 tb works. Canvio 2 tb does NOT work ( just kept clicking). These are all USB 3 - no power but the USB.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Idontknoww:
can it support ntfs?
[Nexus 10 Accessories] snowboarda42:
Strange, my WD My passport 500gb doesn't work with my Nexus. Just clicks and connects/disconnects. Using stick mount.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] jsb5388:
There's not enough power from the nexus to keep the harddrive powered on.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] snowboarda42:
Any suggestions? What kind of cable would I need to power it?
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Ken401:
Powered USB hub?
[Nexus 10 Accessories] snowboarda42:
Would a usb y cable work? Plugging the power side into my usb wall charger?
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Ken401:
It's worth trying.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] xrecartp:
Make sure your nexus is charged - some peeps say it won't work under 50percent charge. Hard drive with otg cable works for me. Might be your ROM doesn't support otg.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] chimas16:
Can this work? Plug the Hard drive to a external battery and then plug the HD to the OTG cable? I ask this, as if you travel you might not have a place to power up either the Nexus or the HD. I have an external battery and will try this tomorrow with my WD
[Nexus 10 Accessories] dcnice:
I have my HD plugged into external battery and the otg cable using a Y adaptor. Works fine.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Dodazza:
Has anybody ever tried any WiFi HDD with battery inside?? I saw many of them available and are not much more expensive than the normal HDD same size but I wonder if the app you must use shows you all files of all formats or just some.....
[Nexus 10 Accessories] freshlysqueezed:
I have the Seagate goflex satellite.. The original firmware sucked and required a specific Seagate app, but I installed this hacked version which works great:

www.hackseagatesatellite.com

Basically it becomes a Linux based server. I can access everything (read and write) through es file explorer as a smb server.

Super convenient for the family when traveling. I can simultaneously stream movies/music to our multitude of ios and android devices.

Other devices including the ravpower can be found a few posts below.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Dodazza:
Thank you. So you mean that it's a matter of app you use. At last I bought the Fantec MWiD25 1TB. I hope to find a good app to manage it... Anybosy knows something about??

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[Nexus 10 Accessories] freshlysqueezed:
Don't know anything about your device, but it appears that fantec has a specific app on the play store. So your experience may be limited by the quality of the app. If you are lucky, you may still be able to access your drive as a smb server' which you could use any smb client app or es file explorer.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] Dodazza:
The courrier lost my shipment, so I cannot say anything yet. As soon as I receive I try, and if I nedd I'll askyoumore about SMB servers....

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[Nexus 10 Accessories] Dodazza:
At last Amazon sent me another one because the first one got lost. It works fine, it reads properly the .mkv files but the big HD ones need a too large bandwidth (wifi speed connection too slow) and so the Blueray ripped in mkv lagg a lot. If I make them mp4 it' ok.... But in the end I think can be a good storage solution. No idea yet about battery life...

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[Nexus 10 Accessories] surf2004:
Hi,

Anyone has Nexus 10 4.3 (stock) that will read portable hard drive and flash drive with Nexus Media Importer via otg cable ?
[Nexus 10 Accessories] =Boston=:
with nexus media importer even if not rooted the way is easy to go, nexus 10 can read self powered hard drive without problems, but you should have a look on the external drive power consumption: with usb sticks there are no problems cause they don't need so much power, but on external drives it depends mainly by the Ah requested by the drive itself.

The speed is amazing, tried to stream a 2k resolution video from an external 2,5 hdd drive boxed with Usb 3.0, really no problems smooth as butter. The internal drive required almost 500mAh to work, and was fine. As soon as i replaced the internal drive with a more power eater one (about a 650mAh one) the external drive stopped to spin up and work.

So the point is the usb OTG is workin' amazing on the nexus 10 in stock rom too, but take a look on the external drive power requirements :good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrTeflon:
Hey guys,

I'm having a problem with ES file explorer. After several days I managed to root my HUawei U8800 Ideos X5 (Android 2.3.5) and obviously one of the next steps is installing CWMR. Unfortunately I'm failing here too. I tried to copy the recovery.img to the .cust_backup/image, but it keeps to say copy failed. Root access was given and I checked all four boxes in root settings. Someone in a german forum told me to update the binarys in SU, which failed too (it says sth like copy su to /system -> failed!). I'm not even sure ES FE would work if the binarys would be current.

Is there someone who can help me? Any ideas?

I already tried the app Mount /system (rw / ro). It didn't work with this too.

Thanks a lot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrTeflon:
no ideas? :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Faekie:
You must have the /system folder mounted for read and write, default is read-only.

Different folders in the file structure could be located on different file systems, the easiest way to be sure that you have read and write access were you want to put files, imho, is by using root explorer.

If you are rooted and ES have root permissions then the problem is that the folder is non-writable. I don't know the app you tried to use to mount the /system as r/w but it's easy to do in root explorer or through adb shell with a little bit of *nix knowledge (su and mount -o remount,rw).

Should work from terminal emulator app as well.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrTeflon:
C:\Users\...>adb push C:\recovery.img /.cust_backup/image/

failed to copy 'C:\recovery.img' to '/.cust_backup/image//recovery.img': Read-on

ly file system

before I typed

adb shell

$ su

# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Doesn't work. adb etc. is installed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrTeflon:
I'm really desperate about this now, I think something is really wrong with my system partiture or something like that. I consider formatting it, the problem I obviously have is that without CWMR I have no clue how to do that and how to flash an OS after it. Does someone have ideas about the whole issue? Interesting facts about my device: Often I'm not able to flash a stock ROM, it stops somewhere in the middle of the process. Rooting works often, but not always with SuperOneClick or zergrush. At the moment my superuser app says "root app_63" in a red font instead of "root root" in a green font, at least I have current binaries at the moment, but this doesn't work always as well. Seems like I am pretty alone with all these problems, that's why I want to format /system...

Please help me! Thanks :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lifehacker7:
Give root explorer a try!

Sent from my OC ed mind.!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrTeflon:
Why would you think that would work? ES File Explorer does basically the same...