How to access a USB drive with the USB adapter

[Ak_cute]

Bought Samsung tab2 P3100 few days back.Not able to connect my hard disk to it and everytime I connect it always displays high power device connected as a warning message.
Same issue happens when I connect my reliance data card to it.Is there anyway I can connect these devices to my tab?Please help.

 

[kraski]

I started another thread because I didn't see this one. I've now figured out 99% of my problem was I was looking for USBdrive instead of extStorage, which shows up in all my file handlers, including Ghost Commander. But I still have one other question.

If I'm playing music or watching movies from a thumb drive, that drains the battery, without a way to recharge while in use. If I'm streaming from online, I can plug in the Tab and recharge while I'm using it. So, I'm wondering if using a "Y" adaptor in the USB plug would allow charging (either from an A/C plug or from a USB connection to a PC) on one leg while playing media off a USB stick. Would that work? Could it damage either the Tab or the USB drive?

 

[ruki12]

MY problm look in another topic coz when i used my tablet 4.0ics only a week, i enjoyed using 3g usb stick which my droid supports it, my problem is when i unplug my usb to my devic, and put it back again it didnt show any pop up or recognition to my usb device. how is that? "PLEASE I NeED UR HELP aDROID ExPERTS" pls reply ill wait thank you to all!!

 

[ruki12]

we have the same problem i cannot connect my flash drive to my tablet but my tablet can connect to the pc, i so not know wats the problem can u help me through?

 

[Marco Carrillo]

you have to put the flash drive in a pc and format it then it will open up right away when you plug it in with the otg cable i just did this today.

 

[Claudio Monteiro]

Have you tried using FAT32 formatting? NTFS doesn't work for me. This solved this annoying problem for me.:-\