USB OTG Devices

[rortt]

Anybody get anything different than the standard flash drives, mouse, and keyboard working on USB OTG adapter?

I have been succesful with various flash drives, but not USB hard drives to mount and copy data. The USB hard drives show up as a "blank SD card". I used an externally powered USB hub to power them.

Keyboard and mouse were pretty straight forward.

I have an AOC usb monitor. Nothing happens when I plug that in.
USB Bluetooth dongle (which you probably would never need anyway) doesn't seem to do anything.

Next on my list, but pretty useless, is a powerpoint presenter wireless mouse.

Anybody try anything else and get it to work?

 

[hoovhartid]

I have only tried a few thumb drives for my usb OTG.

I picked up one of these to use with Bluetooth;
Amazon.com: OrientEX Mini Bluetooth Handheld Keyboard with Multi-Touchpad / Laser Pointer for Google TV / HTPC / PC / Iphone / Android Tablet + Black Nylon Hand Strap Lanyard: Computers & Accessories

I have not run it through the paces, but it works good so far.

I think its cool that there is a pointer overlay when you use a mouse or touchpad. I will use a powered usb hub and hard drive and get back to you

 

[hoovhartid]

oops double post

 

[paulyb37]

I can't see my hp passport external hard drive on my s3. Thumb drives work well though.

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[ifp]

The problem with the hard drives it that they aren't formatted as FAT32. Android doesn't recognize the NTFS filesystem.

 

[Zulu Warrior]

The problem with the hard drives it that they aren't formatted as FAT32. Android doesn't recognize the NTFS filesystem.

I agree that this is probably why some of you can't read external drives on your USB converter. I have my external drive formatted to FAT32 because I regularly used it between both Mac and PC's and didn't want either of the proprietary formatting systems. Get your drive in FAT32 and it should work great.

 

[jeffreii]

FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit - which is rather prohibitive when you keep high quality movies on your drive. I wonder if I can have an NTFS partition and a FAT32 partition on my portable drives...and how the phone will respond when that's plugged in.