Possible reasons why Android devices which supports OTG behave different ?
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Re: Possible reasons why Android devices which supports OTG behave different ?
technic wrote:
as to the "why?":
This is partly by design, e.g. Google wants access to your data and they want you to use their paid cloud etc. services. To with Nexus they try to force you to use the cloud instead of external storage. For similar reasons they have some background services running even while you think the device is 'switched off'. You have better chances in general with hardware companies that offer a broad range of communication/storage devices (e.g. Samsung, Asus etc.) and that don't have the cloud as one of their main strategies.
Another reason is limitations of the hard- and software. The device may provide insufficient power on the USB bus (e.g. to save battery power), it may have software services running that clash with OTG service or maybe lacks certain hardware specific drivers for OTG support.
Samsung is a pioneer on OTG devices, which probably explains why their current tablets perform very good for OTG transfer.
Not only for transfer but also to play big movie files too. I have "Hobbit" on a 32gb usb stick which I can play on my Samsung note 10.1 via my OTG cable adapter and the quality is awesome.
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