Saturday 11 August 2012

How to use NTFS pen drive on Android USB OTG

USB OTG (On-the-go) is a great functionality to connect your USB devices like pen drives, keyboard, mouse and printers to your android device. USB OTG comes with its own limitations like if you have Samsung phone then you can only connect a Samsung Printer via USB OTG(if you are not using any other third part App). Similarly NTFS formatted USB sticks are not supported on most of Android phones.  Whenever a NTFS partitioned drive gets connected to phone, it will be shown as black media. There are solutions available to use NTFS drives on your phone. Read on for details.

** This requires rooted phone **


Well this is one of the simplest solution I have came across to use NTFS partitioned USB sticks on Galaxy S3. Thanks to Paragon Software for making this application. Although this application is still in beta mode but I tried it out on few of my devices and it worked out perfectly.

Features
USB sticks or SD cards formatted to Windows NTFS or Mac OS X HFS+! Easily copy, transfer and modify data on unsupported by Android volumes.

Video Tutorial to use Paragon NTFS & HFS (Demo : How to use NTFS On Galaxy S3 I9300)





10 comments :

  1. I've often faced difficulty while using NTFS pen drive on Android USB OTG. Thanks for providing the info.

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  2. yup dude say is it applicable for sony xperia miro

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  3. Superb app, SIII playing 27+ GB M2TS files on NTFS usb drive

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  4. Will it work on samsung galaxy grand duos? ??

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  5. Works on Sony xperia Z1

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  6. symbian does not require any app for external attachment , usb mouse also works in it .. :p
    worst android os :P

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  7. Samsung galaxy grand not connecting

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  8. Can i use otg function on smg 7102 kitat
    Aswer urjannt

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