How to connect a USB removable drive to Android

Virtually all recent (and not so) flagship models equipped with Android smart widescreen display with a diagonal of decent and high ppi. On these screens is quite convenient to watch movies and TV shows on the go, but where to write them? At Google went bad tradition is not installed in your guglofony memory card slots. If this is not so critical (16 GB on-board) for the Galaxy Nexus, the Nexus 4 junior and Nexus 7 are already suffering because 8GB many can not record video, and this sin is not only guglofony. It remains to use a removable external storage device. But as it is connected to the smart phone and tablet? Very simple.

What is needed

• 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 at one end connects to the micro USB port on your smartphone, and the other end is stuck standard USB removable drive port. Cool diy themselves can solder it (maybe with the screen instructions will be sent to us, we are happy to publish them) the rest can go to the Internet or your nearest specialty store and buy an adapter for it so very funny money. This posting is actually offers great opportunities. With it you can connect joysticks, keyboards, and other devices with a USB interface, just to smartphone or tablet understood them.

At the initial stage it will be enough. Now we need to see if our mobile unit wants to be friends with removable media without additional manipulation. Smartphones and tablets one manufacturers allow you to connect USB storage devices out of the box. Connect and watch. If access was not possible to store, then go on.

simple option

If you do not want to mess, then go to the Google Play Store app and buy there Nexus Media Importer (It works not only with Nexus) for $ 3. That's enough.

An interesting variant

If the device you rutovannoe, you will not have to pay. Downloading the free app StickMount (Only works as root) and passing any file manager, if you have it for one reason or another is not set (we like ES Explorer).

It remains to connect the removable drive and allow StickMount Root access.

In the notification area will display a message stating that the store was successfully connected and has an address / sdcard / usbStorage.

We go into this folder using a file manager and enjoy.