topic Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S in Tablets

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

Teatimeoclock — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:53:59 GMT

My tablet S doesn't recognize a memory pen-drive connected to the USB port. I cannot see any new device or mounted folder (and I'm using several memory management applications: "File Manager" and "File Expert").

How can I get my USB device connected?

Thanks.

Pedro

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

bennybuche — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:07:16 GMT

Hi Pedro,

If you use the provided usb<>mini-usb cable provided with our tablet, it should work!

Are you sure your usb drive is FAT32 formatted? If NTFS or other, Android doesn't manage it (yet)...

Tell us 😉

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

Thalamus. — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:53:35 GMT

bennybuche wrote:

Hi Pedro,

If you use the provided usb<>mini-usb cable provided with our tablet, it should work!

As far as i was aware there were not any mini USB cables provided with the Tablet S in the UK..:smileyconfused:

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

mpattenden — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:55 GMT

I certainly didn't get one and the official one hadn't been released in the UK when I got my tablet. You need an OTG (On The Go) type cable I got mine off ebay - very cheap:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190577827569&ssPageName=ADME:L:OC:GB:1123

This should then work fine - remeber though as mentioned Android does not officially support NTFS so the drive has to be FAT32 formatted and therefore can't support any files over 4GB.

HTH

Padster

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

Teatimeoclock — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:39:54 GMT

Hi Bennybuche,

Thanks (to you and the other people) for your answer.

I'm not using the "official" Sony cable (this is an annoying topic I wouldn't like to mix up here). It was "out of stock" at Sony shopping site when I needed it. Then, I work out an alternative using a "normal" [mini-usb<->male-USB] + [female-USB<->female-USB] adapter.

The cable seems to work OK as long as the tablet is recognized by my PC when connected to it. I've tried several USB-pen memories without success (FAT and FAT32). Browsing the tablet file system I cannot find any new device, or the mounted devices (under "\mnt" folder) are empty, appart from the internal SD-card (\mnt\sdcard) and an external (32-MB) SD-card I had already pluged in (\mnt\sdcard2).

Can anybody shed some light on this situation?

Thanks.

Pedro

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

praed0r — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:47:36 GMT

You need to get an 'OTG' adaptor to use the usb port as host with memory sticks, keyboards etc.

The cable combination you are using is the normal 'SLAVE' connector for communicating with a 'HOST' usb port on a laptop or PC. If you search on Amazon or ebay for an OTG micro-usb adaptor you will be presented with several options.

Hope this helps

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

damian12321 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:58:26 GMT

when I connected my dslr to the sony I found it in usbdisk1 in the file system ,might be the same for the pen drive .

I have just connected my htc phone as well ,which was in usbdisk1 .

Message was edited by: damian12321

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

Teatimeoclock — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:16:24 GMT

Thanks "praed0r",

Sorry, but I don't know what an 'OTG' adaptor is. From your answer I presume the "offical" cable is special. I mean, the pin-age for the sockets (some electrical features) is special.

Could you, please, confirm me that (wherever I order the cable) I have to buy the "offcial" cable in order to get my tablet working properly?

Regards.

Pedro

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

mpattenden — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:58:30 GMT

See my previous post - a third party cable will work just fine as long as it's classed as an on the go (OTG) cable

The ebay one I got was very cheap and was a Samsung one but works fine.

hth

Padster

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

praed0r — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:14:09 GMT

Perfect reply Padster

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

Teatimeoclock — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:54:38 GMT

Thanks mpattenden.

I have just order one OTG cable by eBay (very cheap in deed: 4$!!).

On the other hand, talking about mounted devices recognition. When I connect my table to the PC, this one cannot see the external SD-card (\mnt\sdcard2). I did check that the SD-card is a FAT-32 (32GB) formated.

Is this a normal behaviour?

Regards.

Pedro

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

mpattenden — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:56:28 GMT

Pedro,

Just to break this down. Lets forget the pc and talk about the tablet in isolation.

With a file manager (say file manager hd or the like) can you see the sd card on the tablet?

By default these apps usually require you to 'move up' directories to see the sd card.

Regards

Padster

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

Teatimeoclock — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:15:17 GMT

Hi Padster,

Using "File Manager HD" I can navigate till root ('\') folder and I can see everything,

When connecting the tablet to the PC (Windows 7), it shows me an USB Storage icon (as an entry point to the device), and from that point I enter into "/mnt/sdcard" in the tablet file system. I cannot get further up (or I come back to the Windows explorer icon entry point! (I expect I managed to explain myself properly).

Regards.

Pedro

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

mpattenden — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:56:42 GMT

Pedro,

I would guess in that case that it is expected behaviour. I can't confirm this for you though as I have a mac book pro and haven't connected the tablet to it and it's a different os so we wouldn't prove anything (side note if anyone knows a way to get media to go working on a mac let me know as sony site basically says tough!)

Maybe one of the guys like wata, benny, thalamus etc could test for you.

Regards

Padster

ps. just out of interest why are you trying to access sd in this manner?

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

Teatimeoclock — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:27:41 GMT

Thanks Padster,

Answering your question:

Very often I need to transfer files from the PC to my tablet. I know 3 ways of doing so:

1) Via a USB pen-drive: not possible at the moment till I receive the OTG adapter cable.

2) Via Dropbox (or similar cloud application): In the case of Dropbox, the Andriod dropbox functionality is not flexible (and efficient) enough for frequent copy/move operations. Recently I have discovered Box, but I haven't used it intensively enough to asses it.

3) Via direct tablet-to-PC connection: very easy and efficient.

Regards.

Pedro

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

praed0r — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:04:22 GMT

Why don't you just unplug the SD card from your tablet and plug it into a card reader on your PC ?

Simples....

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

mpattenden — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:19:07 GMT

Pedro,

I have to say for the SD card I often just plug it in to the device.

More often than not though I have a NAS at home and use ES Explorer to browse the shares on my network and copy files that way - unless it's something particularly large.

I guess your otg cable should be here by now though

Regards

Padster

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bennybuche — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:03:34 GMT

Hi Pedro,

Did you consider to share folders on your PC and access them trough the "network" capability of your File Manager app (File Manager HD and ES File Expert do the job quite well)? Doing so, when you're at home (or even ouside your home if your router allows it), you don't need any cable nor (drop)box nor usb-otg-capable-cable and it's (I think...) a flexible way to access (and manage) your centrally stored files.

Tell us if it helps...

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Teatimeoclock — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:30:51 GMT

Thanks mpattenden and bennybuche.

I have some comments:

1) I am trying to set up FIle Manager HD for "network" capability but I didn't managed: On my Windows-7 PC I shared a folder, then I tried to set up the network connection in File Manager HD (one of the configuration options from the drop-down menu at the upper-right corner). I choose "search" (the local network), it finds the IPs for the active PCs in the net but clicking on the appearing icons produce a conection error. Any clue about this error?

2) I am considering the option of installing a NAS drive. What's the recommended Android client application for that service?

Regards.

Pedro

Trying to connect a pen-drive memory to my Talbet S

Teatimeoclock — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:24:22 GMT

New facts:

I've tried to connect my tablet to the PC using "File Expert"... and it works!! I don't know why "File Manager HD" doesn't.

On the other hand, the bad point is that "File Expert" doesn't see the "\mnt\sdcard2" device and I cannot copy directly my PC files to the sdcards2 (I need 2 steps): !!Nobody is perfect!!! (But some gadgets less than others ;-).

Pedro