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The Tablet Tavern

Codegerm said:
I never buy anything in the nexus line because of the lack of microSD slot. I bought the Asus (they make the nexus 7) Memo pad HD7 instead. I often hear said, "just use the cloud". Well I don't want to use the cloud. I would always have to have a connection for my tablet so I would have to tether to my phone. I like having my music on my sd card, and only when I'm home do I stream it from my LAN's 2TB drive.
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I am nearing two years on my phone so I was thinking about upgrading but so many new ones don't have the slot. My Tablet has it but they removed the USB storage option so its only exposed as a camera or media player and therefore limited in what you can get to.
My issues with the could are speed, waiting forever for anything to download/upload despite being on fast connections and then i travel I have no connection so even if I wanted to use the cloud I couldn't.
 
Eugene said:
I am nearing two years on my phone so I was thinking about upgrading but so many new ones don't have the slot. My Tablet has it but they removed the USB storage option so its only exposed as a camera or media player and therefore limited in what you can get to.
My issues with the could are speed, waiting forever for anything to download/upload despite being on fast connections and then i travel I have no connection so even if I wanted to use the cloud I couldn't.
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My tablet has the ability to use the SD slot. I have rooted my devices and with that comes ways to get apps over to the sdcard. I just find it ludicrous when company does not put SD slot in devices (claiming that it isn't supported). That is just as ridiculous as when they said Flash is not supported with Jelly Bean Funny, flash works just fine, and it was even embeded in the YouTube app on JB
 
The tablet can use it, I'm taking about the Android OS itsself. plug it into your computer via USB and see that you now only get two options instead of three. Its the most recent versions of Android that remove it. You can get USB debugging back by tapping on the build version 7 times under About Phone but that didn't enable USB storage.
So to copy files to the sd card you have to remove whatever case you have then remove sd card then plug it into your computer, copy files, then plug it back into the phone/tablet and put the case back on.
 
Morning all ... let me 'splain ... no time for that, let me sum up.

Wynd: Starbucks ... yeah well, it's the same all over the world and several parallel universes. The probability of finding a seat is inversely proportional to the population density.

Bread: 'morning.

Code: I've found that i really don't miss the external SD card. In fact, in my tablet (which is an old Asus t-101) the slot is more of a pain like an old floppy disk using "sneaker net" transfers.

Eugene: The USB storage mode was removed in 4.x and later because interrupted transfers could corrupt the sd storage media. MTP mode is protected and will fail more gracefully, even though anecdotal evidence says it also fails more frequently. If you have a rooted device with custom recovery, you can turn on USB mode in recovery to transfer files or use ADB commands with debugging on to copy files if you're comfortable with that.

Everyone else: Bah Humbug[sup]2[/sup] :p
 
lunatic59 said:
Eugene: The USB storage mode was removed in 4.x and later because interrupted transfers could corrupt the sd storage media. MTP mode is protected and will fail more gracefully, even though anecdotal evidence says it also fails more frequently. If you have a rooted device with custom recovery, you can turn on USB mode in recovery to transfer files or use ADB commands with debugging on to copy files if you're comfortable with that.
:p
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Can MTP mode allow me to access any file/folder on the cd card like usb storage mode can, from what I've read its limited (I suppose I'll have to setup MTP in KDE and mess with it some)
 
Eugene said:
Can MTP mode allow me to access any file/folder on the cd card like usb storage mode can, from what I've read its limited (I suppose I'll have to setup MTP in KDE and mess with it some)
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I can see all the user storage folders. I don't see system folders, but I would be able to do anything with them anyway.

shelliewnj said:
'ello. Kona? Nice! Drinking generic over here lol.
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Eeeeeewwwwww! Generic coffee :p
 
Kona, Kona, Kona... :D

I use my microSd a lot. It is a great place for my music and stuff without using up the device memory. While on the go, I have no need to depend on the cloud for streaming. For moving files and accessing my LAN's drive I just use ES file manager.
 
I use Airdroid a lot and MTP My network is down right now so its strictly MTP. I'm Running OpenSuse with KDE and it works great now I did have a small hiccup but it ended up being the MTP Library file.
 
Looks like I may need mtplib. Are you transferring more than just media though, can you send a spreadsheet over mtp?

I setup a dropbox account for now and have a sync tool on each side so I'm still working with local copies and not trying to open from the cloud.
 
Codegerm said:
I never buy anything in the nexus line because of the lack of microSD slot. I bought the Asus (they make the nexus 7) Memo pad HD7 instead. I often hear said, "just use the cloud". Well I don't want to use the cloud. I would always have to have a connection for my tablet so I would have to tether to my phone. I like having my music on my sd card, and only when I'm home do I stream it from my LAN's 2TB drive.
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I'm the same, have to have SD storage or at least enough internal storage for my music, video clips, photos, podcasts, mapping data, documents, etc. In fact I was looking at an Oppo Find 5 phone the other day, very nice phone, however no SD and only 16GB internal, 10GB usable. So that wasn't an option for me. Using the "cloud" not going to happen, mainly because I'm not in the USA and I don't have unlimited internet.
 
mikedt said:
I'm the same, have to have SD storage or at least enough internal storage for my music, video clips, photos, podcasts, mapping data, documents, etc. In fact I was looking at an Oppo Find 5 phone the other day, very nice phone, however no SD and only 16GB internal, 10GB usable. So that wasn't an option for me. Using the "cloud" not going to happen, mainly because I'm not in the USA and I don't have unlimited internet.
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That's a good point. Not everyone has unlimited internet. Sure I can use data all the time, but once I pass 2.5gig, my connection speed would get throttled down to a speed too low to do anything other than checking ones email.
 
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