Help OTG Cable?

lennydude · Dec 23, 2013

I am wondering..........

My S3 made good use of the On The Go OTG cable. It would read any USB item, including mice, monitors etc. and any USB thumb drives.

My N5 works well with the mouse but I can not get it to work with any USB thumb drive..............

Any ideas?

Hook · Dec 23, 2013

lennydude said:
I am wondering..........

My S3 made good use of the On The Go OTG cable. It would read any USB item, including mice, monitors etc. and any USB thumb drives.

My N5 works well with the mouse but I can not get it to work with any USB thumb drive..............

Any ideas?

The Nexus 5 can only use Nexus Media Importer with external memory unless rooted.

Ranhead · Dec 25, 2013

The Nexus 5 is supposed to support USD drives without using SitckMount. Make sure your drive is FAT32 formatted.

lennydude · Dec 25, 2013

hmmmmmmm

The USB sticks (more than one) are indeed formatted FAT32 but do not show up anywhere that I can see?

I downloaded an APP named OTG Disk Explorer and that works 100% but does not give a preview of the files like I see with the Samsung. The is an APP that only looks at pics. Oh well, at least I got it working

Thank for the help!

BynoUK · Dec 25, 2013

Hook said:
The Nexus 5 can only use Nexus Media Importer with external memory unless rooted.

This, been using the app on my Nexus 10 since it launched (also works on Nexus 5)

Karmandk · Dec 26, 2013

You need to use a file manager such as Es filemanager to view the files inside your phone's directory. It will be labeled as USB something

lennydude · Dec 26, 2013

Thanks for all your help

Very much appreciated !

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