Almost all the latest (and not so) flagship Android models are equipped with chic widescreen displays with a decent diagonal and high ppi. On such screens it is quite convenient to watch films and serials on the road, but that’s where to record them? It’s a bad tradition for Google not to install memory card slots into its Google phones. If for the Galaxy Nexus it’s not so critical (16 GB on board), then the younger Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 already suffer, because you can not record a lot of video content on 8 GB, and it’s not only Google phones that sin. It remains to use removable external media. But how to connect it to a smartphone and a tablet? Very simple.
What will you need?
- A smartphone or tablet to which we want to connect a USB storage
- Removable USB drive
- USB OTG cable
USB On-The-Go cable is an adapter, one end connects to the micro USB port of the smartphone, and at the other end of it is stuck a standard USB port of the removable disk. Steep self-delinquents can themselves solder it (maybe the instructions with screenshots will send us, we’ll gladly publish them), the rest can go to the Internet or the nearest specialized store and buy there such an adapter for very ridiculous money. This posting really opens up wide opportunities. With it, you can connect joysticks, keyboards and other devices with a USB interface, so long as the smartphone or tablet understands them.
At the initial stage, this is enough. Now we need to find out whether our mobile device will want to be friends with removable media without additional manipulation. Smartphones and tablets from one manufacturer allow you to connect USB drives out of the box. We connect and watch. If you can not access the repository, then go further.
A simple option
If you do not want to mess around, then go to the Google Play Store and buy the Nexus Media Importer application (it works not only with Nexus) for $ 3. That’s enough.
An interesting option
If the device you have ritovannoe, then you will not have to pay. Download free application StickMount (works only with root) and incidentally any file manager, if you have it for one reason or another not installed (we like ES Explorer).
It remains to connect a removable disk and allow StickMount root access.
A corresponding message will appear in the notification area that the storage is successfully connected and has the address / sdcard / usbStorage.
We go to this folder through the file manager and enjoy.
