is there a way to connect an external hard drive to our bionics?

[Bionic_Racer]

Like how you can with a laptop or desktop? I just wanna transfer movies and stuff because im running out of storage.

Also can we use a 32g micro sd in our phones without modifying anything?

 

[unbesorgt]

Like how you can with a laptop or desktop? I just wanna transfer movies and stuff because im running out of storage.

Also can we use a 32g micro sd in our phones without modifying anything?

Not sure about your first question, but the answer to your second question is yes. I'm running a 32gb Class 10 card and it works great.

 

[SStaged]

Like how you can with a laptop or desktop? I just wanna transfer movies and stuff because im running out of storage.

Also can we use a 32g micro sd in our phones without modifying anything?

I can confirm that a 64gb microsd card works too...have one in mine.

 

[Phasedroid]

Like how you can with a laptop or desktop? I just wanna transfer movies and stuff because im running out of storage.

Also can we use a 32g micro sd in our phones without modifying anything?

If you had a lapdock, you could use the USB port to connect an external drive.

 

[Red Droid]

Have you successfully connected an external drive via the USB port? I've tried a Seagate GoFlex 1TB and a 1.5TB and the system won't recognize either of them.

Issues: Will the USB power the drives? Are the drive sizes too large?

 

[Tech425]

Afaik the Bionic uses Fat32 and not NTFS and that is why you can't use a 1.0 - 1.5TB drive.

yes any Mico32g card, but Class 10

on 64bit go to this one - http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-micro...800703&sr=8-2&keywords=sandisk+microsdxc+64gb

Hope this helps mate

 

[dethzero]

What about accessing a network drive? Is there a way to browse NAS and stream videos from it?

Sent from my Droid Bionic (.246 ICS)

 

[Tech425]

What about accessing a network drive? Is there a way to browse NAS and stream videos from it?

Sent from my Droid Bionic (.246 ICS)

Not sure about that mate - as I have packed up my NAS - Hope someone has one and can try for you

 

[Tech425]

Yes a Class 4 32g will work, but you will get better performance out of a Class 10 32g card dancedroid:biggrin:

 

[jjgoose]

I grabbed a 32GB class 4 card at walmart while I was on the road and put it in mine. Its working fine. I havent recorded any videos with it in the phone yet though.

 

[Olhonda]

What about accessing a network drive? Is there a way to browse NAS and stream videos from it?


I connect to my NAS using ES File explorer.

It has to be mapped as a drive letter to one of the computers on your network. Then shared to the network.

It works, but it's pretty slow.

 

[Tech425]

Class 4 and Class 10 will save just fine - I like Class 10 because when I put a movie on it there isn't any chopping like I got on lower class MicoSD cards dancedroid

 

[unbesorgt]

What about accessing a network drive? Is there a way to browse NAS and stream videos from it?

I believe you can use DLNA for that. I haven't tried it so I don't know the details, but the Bionic has DLNA capability built in.

 

[josh1980]

There's a program called Plex that I use to stream my videos/audio to anywhere. I stream to my phone, to a computer at a friends house, etc. It auto-converts on the fly to work with whatever device you are using. You do have to pay for the app from the Play Store but the Plex Media Server app is free as well as the clients for Linux, Windows, and Mac.

 

[Phasedroid]

Have you successfully connected an external drive via the USB port? I've tried a Seagate GoFlex 1TB and a 1.5TB and the system won't recognize either of them.

Issues: Will the USB power the drives? Are the drive sizes too large?

The issue is that your drives are probably formatted with exfat(Windows 7) and android cannot recognize this type of formatting. There is an ext2 plugin for windows that allows you to format drives to ext2 or ext3, but most windows machines won't recognize this format unless you have the ext2 plugin. Also files above 4GB will not be able to be copied to FAT32. So if you have High Def movies like I do, you'll have to use ext2/ext3 or break your videos up into smaller files. I've found that Android likes to corrupt my ntfs formatted drives. Not sure why, but it does and I always make sure to unmount the drive before disconnecting.