[Kevstra]

Hey you enterprising Z30 owners. Jealous Z10 owner here. Feel like doing a bit of testing with USB On-the-go (OTG)?

The Z30 apparently supports the feature and I'd love to know what sort of devices can be used with it. USB keys? External hard drives? Display adapters? Printers?

If you've got a Z30, a USB On-the-go adapter and some devices kicking around, feel like seeing what it can do?

Cheers

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[GTiLeo]

Hey you enterprising Z30 owners. Jealous Z10 owner here. Feel like doing a bit of testing with USB On-the-go (OTG)?

The Z30 apparently supports the feature and I'd love to know what sort of devices can be used with it. USB keys? External hard drives? Display adapters? Printers?

If you've got a Z30, a USB On-the-go adapter and some devices kicking around, feel like seeing what it can do?

Cheers

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i was wondering the same, could one hook up an external harddrive, its basically the same, the only issue i can really see is if its not a solid state drive it would draw alot of power to spin the drive

[dale-c]

Not if the drive had a power adaptor.

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[Kevstra]

A USB stick is a given otherwise it's pretty crappy USB On-the-go. Now, something like a Western Digital Passport. It's a USB hard drive. No power adapter. Would this work? They're pretty low current as far as hard drives go.

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[GTiLeo]

Not if the drive had a power adaptor.

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i haven't come across many that have an external power adapter

[Alexandre1986fr]

The Z30 includes a USB key reader that allows you to read all kinds of keys, including a Alicia Keys...

[skibnik]

The Z30 includes a USB key reader that allows you to read all kinds of keys, including a Alicia Keys...

Ha!

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[BB10fan]

Z30 User Guide
http://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartp...27-10.2-en.pdf

[thurask]

I'm interested if USB OTG can read NTFS volumes.

[Kevstra]

I'm interested if USB OTG can read NTFS volumes.

As am I.

Alright you lucky Z30 owners, enough games. Time to get to work.

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[Gearheadaddy]

Hey you enterprising Z30 owners. Jealous Z10 owner here. Feel like doing a bit of testing with USB On-the-go (OTG)?

The Z30 apparently supports the feature and I'd love to know what sort of devices can be used with it. USB keys? External hard drives? Display adapters? Printers?

If you've got a Z30, a USB On-the-go adapter and some devices kicking around, feel like seeing what it can do?

Cheers

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Send me one...I'll test it for ya!

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[Bla1ze]

Only FAT is recognized by the Z30. NTFS and Mac file systems produce an error on my Z30. This was tested using USB power externals on 10.2.1.

[sayf777]

Yip, hopefully since oftur (I think it was him) saw some signs of exFat we may get that in the future.

And compared to my samsung phone and windows laptop the phone connects quite abit faster (instantaneous) to my hardrive.



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[Bor Navas]

Gotta get myself an adaptor...

Posted with my awesome Z30

[Chris Murphy]

Does not work for me. The drive flashes the light trying to power, but can't get enough juice. Just keeps flashing instead of going solid.


Swiped on a beautiful AMOLED BlackBerry 10.

[sayf777]

Yip you need an external power source -y spliter cable or something it's called.



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[TrueKulcha]

The Z30 includes a USB key reader that allows you to read all kinds of keys, including a Alicia Keys...

Now that makes for good reading. Hahaha

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[nicklas79]

You can plug :
- keyboard
- mouse
- USB hub
- USB mass storage key
- USB external hard disk

Now, developers can add support for other devices. I'm working on this feature.

Nicolas


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[BB_Phoenix]

I just tried a USB WD Passport drive. It looks like there was enough power to drive it. The blue light on the drive came on but I got an error message from my Z30 that it did not have the driver to support it. I will format the drive to FATS and see if that works.

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[BB_Phoenix]

Tried again with drive reformatted to FAT32 but Z30 still comes back with no driver error.


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[bizzyqu]

I use my logitech mouse with z30 by plugging in the usb dongle

[kbz1960]

Tried again with drive reformatted to FAT32 but Z30 still comes back with no driver error.


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You phone isn't going to power any drive. It will need it's own power source.

[sayf777]

You can plug :
- keyboard
- mouse
- USB hub
- USB mass storage key
- USB external hard disk

Now, developers can add support for other devices. I'm working on this feature.

Nicolas


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What exactly are you planning?

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[BB_Phoenix]

I was able to get a 1TB powered external USB drive connected that was formatted to FAT32. I could read/write files to it without problems.

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[Thachoc1]

The Z30 presently will only read a FAT32 formatted drive. And to the contrary, it does provide enough power to run some external hard drives, it all depends on the enclosure.

And don't forget to add USB Gamepads to that list. Check out my video.