I mainly got this for my Google Pixel XL which has no SD card slot, but it's 128GB internally. Why do i need an SD card with 128GB of storage? Because every time i flash an Official Google img Build, it wipes the phone, All TWRP backups are gone, Titanium Backups are gone. Can't go wrong for the price...
So Amazon just dropped me off a SanDisk Ultra USB Type-C Flash Drive for my Pixel XL. I paid $12.99 for the 32GB version, and i only got a 32GB because my Pixel XL is 128GB and its going to be used mainly for TWRP back-ups...
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HIGH-SPEED USB 3.1 PERFORMANCE IN A USB TYPE-C™ DRIVE
Designed for smartphones, tablets and computers that feature the new USB Type-C™ port2, the SanDisk Ultra® USB Type-C™ flash drive is easy to plug in because it’s always right-side up. High-speed USB 3.1 performance of up to 150MB/s1 allows you to quickly transfer your photos, videos, and other files. Plus, the SanDisk Memory Zone application (available on Google Play™)3 lets you easily manage and back up content on your Android™ devices.
THE FLASH DRIVE FOR USB TYPE-C™ DEVICES
The super-thin SanDisk Ultra® USB Type-C™ flash drive is designed specifically for next-generation devices with the new USB Type-C port. The reversible connector has a uniform design, so that it’s always right-side up, making it easy and fast to plug in.
HIGH-SPEED USB 3.1
High-speed USB 3.1 performance of up to 150MB/s1 (32GB-128GB) means you spend less time waiting to transfer your photos, videos, songs, and other files between devices.
COMPATIBLE WITH SMARTPHONES, TABLETS AND LAPTOPS WITH USB TYPE-C PORTS
Free up space on your smartphone or tablet2, or transfer files between multiple USB Type-C devices.
SANDISK MEMORY ZONE APP FOR EASY FILE MANAGEMENT
Available from the Google Play™ store, the SanDisk Memory Zone app3 lets you view, access, and back up all the files from your phone's memory in one location. It can also automatically move files from your device to your drive to free up space.
Available in 16GB, 32GB 64GB and 128GB
sounds like you are struggling with encryption on that stock ROM. flashing the appropriate no_verity.zip should take care of that so you don't need USB stick
WaxysDargle said:
sounds like you are struggling with encryption on that stock ROM. flashing the appropriate no_verity.zip should take care of that so you don't need USB stick
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I originally purchased it for my Google Pixel XL which doesnt use a Micro SD Card. I was just mentioning the item, because it works with the Note8 as well...
AndroidDevices said:
I originally purchased it for my Google Pixel XL which doesnt use a Micro SD Card. I was just mentioning the item, because it works with the Note8 as well...
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I have one. I bought it when there was a 50% sale a long while back. It does get toasty for prolong use.
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Tidbits said:
I have one. I bought it when there was a 50% sale a long while back. It does get toasty for prolong use.
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Yes it does get quite warm, no pretty hot, but you can touch it...
That Sandisk USB type-c flash drive is a piece junk, extremely slow to transfer files /pics/videos from the phone and become warm->hot. I have a 128gb version that just sit on my desk while I type this reply.
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I just got my original ET-R205UBEG OTG cable for my i717 Galaxy Note and can confirm that you can run any size drive off it as long as you power the drive from a separate power source. The note doesn't have the power to power anything more than a flash drive, keyboard, mouse, or card read.
You must format the drives partition to FAT32 because that's all the ET-R205UBEG supports since it's design really for flash drives or card readers using which support this format. You can download the free Windows utility Swissknife which will let you format any size drive with a FAT32 partition.
On a side note, I plugged in a IR receiver just for fun and was able to control my note (somewhat) with the MCE remote control that came with the receiver. I'll do a little tinkering but I suspect I'll be able to expand the functionality of the remote. Right now is can change the volume level, fast forward and reverse, move a mouse pointer around the select and select and run an app. I'm sure there's a lot more I can do but I've only been playing for an hour.
In case anyone's wondering, I got my ET-R205UBEG adapter from greytech .com in Canada - they only sell to Canadian clients and the items not listed on their site. It's $22.99. Call them at 905-470-1425.
Lacie apparent makes a low voltage drive called the Rikiki. I plan to order one and see if the note has enough power to run it. Lacie told me that it should work since it works on the MAC Air when most other external system powered drives do not.
My flash drive of course worked perfectly and respond much faster than the MicroSD class 10 32GB card inside my note. I think I'll be using the OTG adapter a lot more than I expected.
One final note, the OTG from Samsung is my third OTG adapter. The other two (both from eBay) either didn't work at one or kept disconnecting. For my money, $22.99 is a low price for a quality product that Samsung actually will support.
I paid $4 for my OTG adapter from Brando Workshop. It works perfectly fine.
I have a similar reaction as goalcam. What advantage does this $22 unit have over the lower priced units?
How about a Ssd?
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A little off subject, but can someone point me to a card reader that works with an OTG host cable? I've tried 3 here and none of them seem to work. Is there some driver I need to load/enable? flash drives work fine on it. I haven't tried anything else.
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Hi i am doing a German exchange in April what means I will be sitting on a bus for over (5 hours not including plane) .
I have bought an Anker external battery to run external hard drives but I need help to know which one to put films on to play over the otg and what is the biggest storage space the otg can support. I cannot decide if a memory stick, Hard drive or and ssd would be better.
All help would be greatly appreciated.
i'm not 100% sure if there is a limit to the size, but...
the limit is for sure the amount of power the external device needs
so you can forget about an hdd or ssd if it's not powered separately
i'd go with a usb stick
one guy here at the forum suggest to me to use SanDisk 8GB as that is what worked for him
i gambled a bit and went for 16GB and it works like a charm
so if you want to raise the stakes go for the 32GB and report back if it works
btw. it's SanDisk Cruzer Blade
you can get it on ebay if not your local store
good luck and have a safe trip
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i'm not 100% sure if there is a limit to the size, but...
the limit is for sure the amount of power the external device needs
so you can forget about an hdd or ssd if it's not powered separately
i'd go with a usb stick
one guy here at the forum suggest to me to use SanDisk 8GB as that is what worked for him
i gambled a bit and went for 16GB and it works like a charm
so if you want to raise the stakes go for the 32GB and report back if it works
btw. it's SanDisk Cruzer Blade
you can get it on ebay if not your local store
good luck and have a safe trip
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I got a 320gb working but i had to do ntfs app, i was more wondering which one would be the best to be travelled and will still work after a long bumpy journey, (ssd, Hdd,Memory stick)
Any one of them will work...bumpy journey or not. Still, i would say a stick is the easiest one to travel with... taking size and weigth in the equation
I has connect otg with harddisk docking support 2TB
SSD and thumb drive are your best bets for bumpy rides though they all take a pretty good beating
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Now that the HDX has been rooted, I was wondering if there is a way of using a USB flash drive hooked up to the micro USB port to transfer files onto when I'm not using my computer?
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Now that the HDX has been rooted, I was wondering if there is a way of using a USB flash drive hooked up to the micro USB port to transfer files onto when I'm not using my computer?
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It seems the default amazon Rom does not include USB host support. I have tried to usb otg cables, multiple usb drives, and a mouse and keyboard. None of them act like they get power like on my nexus devices and none of the USB mounting apps detect the drives.
You will probably have top wait for a custom kernel.
For some reason Amazon blocked this in their kernels. Once we get a bootloader unlock, the chains are broken and all hell breaks loose.
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For some reason Amazon blocked this in their kernels. Once we get a bootloader unlock, the chains are broken and all hell breaks loose.
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looking foward to that.hope to see the cm rom.
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Thanks, good to know. I was hoping that side loading an app would work.
I will personally be grabbing one of these in the next couple of months myself http://geekbeat.tv/editors-choice-ravpower-rp-wd01-mobile-streamer/
Amazon link http://amzn.to/1cYYuay
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I will personally be grabbing one of these in the next couple of months myself http://geekbeat.tv/editors-choice-ravpower-rp-wd01-mobile-streamer/
Amazon link http://amzn.to/1cYYuay
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Hmm... I might have to look at one of these down the road also.
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R1Mike said:
Hmm... I might have to look at one of these down the road also.
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Black Fri netted me a $39 Kingston MobileLite and a couple of $45 128GB flash drives - works great with the KFHD8.9 and KFHDX7 - glad I didn't pay for more than the 16GB minimum in either device now!
The RavPower sounds similar in features - maybe better in some ways? I'm not sure if the Kingston can handle portable HD's but with flash so cheap I'm not sure the extra power drain would be a good tradeoff anyway...
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the rav media server can also charge your devices with it's built I 3000mamp battery.
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the rav media server can also charge your devices with it's built I 3000mamp battery.
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Kingston says it can charge also, though I haven't tried it. I think the battery may only be ~1800 mah. They only claim use with flash drives and SD cards, but I was able to open an Excel file from a 1TB portable drive. Probably not enough battery life for practical use with those though. OTOH it has a separate micro-usb for charging so maybe you could use a portable drive while powered.
I wish it had a retractable power cable - it's hard to keep track of separate cables - and a SD card pocket or two.
In any case these devices are great for tablets without SD, especially considering that internal storage can't be upgraded, the ridiculous gouging for another 16GB, and the fact that discounts are much less common on 32GB+ products.
Now if someone wanted to make a killing, they would design a tablet case with built-in battery, wireless storage and a reader...
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So i decided i need a otg device for the nexus 6. I have the 32gb nexus 6 so i decided i need to manage my space with photos and videos. I picked up this handy little device on ebay for around 8$ free shipping from cali to nyc shipping was fast about 5 days. So recieved the package opened it up plugged it right in. It didnt really work right out the box i have to download stick mount pro from the playstore. Got it set up and i was able to work with it right away with es file explore. Also i was able to back up from twrp directly to my memorycard that i had connected to it. So my guess you can use otg with nexus twrp i would highly recommend one of these for anyone who takes lots of photos and videos and want to back up roms or anything else on here.
I bought a 32GB DT MicroDuo USB 3.0 micro USB OTG because is tiny!
Check it out! It's so compact! but it isn't a reader!
Very cool. Outstanding add for functionality.
Now all we need is one of these to incorporate a full sized USB 3.0 slot and you have everything you need for OTG in one very portable unit.
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I bought a 32GB DT MicroDuo USB 3.0 micro USB OTG because is tiny!
Check it out! It's so compact! but it isn't a reader!
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I had something similar to it but ended up losing it when doing laundry
I know it's not all that practical but I have a v30 that's destroyed but turns on and works every way the screen just flashes colors, is there any way I can format the whole phones os into a "ntfs" hdd to plug into a windows computer and not have to select "device" under my PC. I want the phone to show as a regular flashdrive even if I can't use the actual Android os, but I need it to be readable by windows as a full flashdrive not a "device" then click it to show storage if that makes any sense
Someone will have to correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they did away with remounting storage as a bulk storage device...uh...several versions back. Probably with Lollipop, it introduced a ridiculous number of changes, many of them annoying like this.
Since then, Android primarily uses Media Transfer Protocol (switchable to Picture Transfer Protocol), a comparatively slow, crappy, feature-limited way to manage files. It's complete garbage. It's also safer than straight-up exposing the filesystem and doesn't interrupt the phone's ability to keep using the storage (for better or worse...), which is probably why they did it.
To get around it, you'd probably need to put a service of some sort on the phone so it can present the phone as a network drive, which you could then map over wifi --- there's probably app/windows program combos to do this. Or compile your own ROM with the bulk storage option enabled.
There might also be a way in Windows to map a drive straight to the MTP storage, or symlink a folder to it to make it more seamless, but I'm not sure. You'd still be dealing with MTP limitations then, and I'm not sure how an application that expects a real filesystem would react to that.
Not much worth it man. Storage is dirt cheap.
The phone won't last for long because the battery will eventually ends up dead and the phone/storage will stop being usable.
Blueice87 said:
Not much worth it man. Storage is dirt cheap.
The phone won't last for long because the battery will eventually ends up dead and the phone/storage will stop being usable.
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True.
64GB USB 3.0 flash drive is $9.99.
128GB USB 3.0 $17.99.
That's same memory of V30 and V30+.
https://www.amazon.com/PNY-Turbo-12...s=128gb+hard+drive&qid=1573439009&s=pc&sr=1-8
1TB external hard drive - $43.86
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Port...ard+drive&qid=1573439194&s=electronics&sr=1-2
ChazzMatt said:
True.
64GB USB 3.0 flash drive is $9.99.
128GB USB 3.0 $17.99.
That's same memory of V30 and V30+.
https://www.amazon.com/PNY-Turbo-12...s=128gb+hard+drive&qid=1573439009&s=pc&sr=1-8
1TB external hard drive - $43.86
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Port...ard+drive&qid=1573439194&s=electronics&sr=1-2
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Better yet, don't buy USB sticks, they're garbage. Cheap, yes, but slow and fragile: both physically and electrically.
External HDDs are pretty cost-efficient storage, but they're also mechanically fragile.
If you're gonna do it, do it right! Something sturdy, compact and upgradable:
ElecGear SATA M.2 SSD to USB 3.1 Gen2 Enclosure (actually an Ineo T2588FA, there's also a vented version available but meh on holes for things to get into)
and uhhh...
Kingston A400 240G Internal SSD M.2 2280 SA400M8/240G (just as an example, probably better deals on bigger drives out there)
Cabled M.2 enclosures are cheaper and plentiful, of course, but I personally like the giant-thumbdrive formfactor :silly:
Most important thing is to make sure it supports USB3(.1) Gen 2 and UASP for maximum balls-to-the-wall speed.
Even without UASP support (in Win7 or what-have-you), something like this will blow a normal consumer flash drive (and most "professional"/"enthusiast" drives) or external HDD out of the water in any performance metric, and aside from the connector is basically immune to most things that would physically damage a HDD or plastic-cased flash drive.