How to connect Flash Drive with OTG Cable

[Nadia Marz]

Hello. I'm trying to connect my NP(sm-p905) with the OTG cable but I can't, can someone help me out? I checked it with USB OTG CHECKER, says device has OTG USB API but does not have USB OTG KERNEL. How to get around this? Do i need to root my device (as it is unrooted)?

 

[Traylaw]

The SM-P905 and P900 does support OTG. I use it for USB memory, ethernet adapters, keyboards, ect. I would suspect the cable. Or if you are trying to use large external drive instead of a little "jump" drive the tablet may not be able to supply the power necessary to run the drive. I have come across some jump drives that the tablet won't work with.

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[madaudio]

Also the hard drive must be formatted as Fat32 or Ex Fat. If the hard drive is formatted as NTFS the Note won't read it.

Although I am concerned about your report re the USB OTG KERNEL, but someone with deeper savvy than myself of android system will need to comment on that, as I am not sure whether that is just a reflection of your hard drive not having a compatible format, or whether your tablet's firmware has something missing. You might need to indicate whether your tablet is still on Kitkat 4.4.2 or Lollipop 5.01 or whatever.