Description
Nexus Media Importer allows you to stream and transfer music, video, photos and documents from a USB flash drive or card reader connected to your Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Galaxy Nexus, Xoom or other Android 4.0+ devices with USB Host support. See technical notes for a list of supported file types and file systems. This is the only non-root solution for devices that do not provide native support for external storage.Requires the following hardware:
1. An Android 4.0+ device. Known compatible devices include the Google Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7 & 10 and the Motorola Xoom. Please try the free "Nexus Photo Viewer" first if you do not have one of these devices. Due to hardware limitations, the Nexus 4 is not supported.
2. An USB OTG (On-The-Go) cable. Costs range from $1-10 USD, see screenshots for examples.
3. An USB Flash Drive or USB Card Reader with a flash memory card inserted, see screenshots for examples. Please see the FAQ on our website if you are trying to connect an external hard drive or other device.
To use:
-If you are using an card reader, put the flash memory card in the reader first.
-Attach your USB device to the OTG cable.
-Attach the OTG cable to the Nexus or other device.
-The application should launch automatically.
-Photos can be browsed by selecting from the list then swiping back and forth.
-Videos can be streamed with the Play icon.
-The Advanced tab can be used to manage and transfer files.
-Use the Connect screen to determine the viewed device and the destination device for the Copy/Move operations.
Support:
-If you have an issue, please visit the Developer's Website or contact us by clicking "Email Developer".
-Currently, most USB Mass Storage devices are supported. Due to the mind boggling number of USB devices available it is not 100% If you contact us, we may be able to support your device in a future release. If you have doubts, try the free "Nexus Photo Viewer" first.
Technical Notes:
-DOES NOT REQUIRE ROOT! Rooting may void your device's warranty.
-The USB drive/flash memory card must be formatted as FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS (no exFAT or extN support). FAT & NTFS are the most common formats for flash cards and USB Drives.
-Read Only for NTFS.
-Hard Drives. It is strongly recommended that you use external power when connecting a hard drive to a tablet. Please see the troubleshooting guide on my web site for more information. Do not connect an unpowered hard drive to a phone!
-This is a media streamer. Media types not natively supported by Android will require third party software. There are many excellent free and paid apps. in the Play market. For example: "BS Player", "MX Player" and "Dice Player"
-The internal music player only plays formats natively supported by Android. WMA files are not supported, but can be copied locally for use with another player.
What's next?
-Support for Samsung, Sony & Panasonic raw images
-HD viewing of Canon, Nikon, Samsung, Sony and Panasonic raw images
How-to Videos:
-Connecting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etrIpNHhWi0
-V2 Features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCgvmvzqWAQ
-V3 Features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOLjg_Fy3hg
-Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es7QyhkWjcI
See the FAQ on the Developer's Website for an overview of the permissions.
This software is not produced by Google, which owns the Nexus trademark.
Duane
Sep 26, 2012 10:55:08 PM
enormous potential well worth the money - I give it 4 stars as it is and 5 stars for potential if the developer follows through on updates. I bought a 32 gig Patriot axle drive (fat 32) usb 2 for music, and downloaded an album to the patriot. It plays flawlessly, through blue tooth to my stereo, albeit, one song at time. I won't test it any further until the developer provides the promised media player. Still many kudos!!I Warning: I thought I bricked my Nexus 7 when it was turned off. I plugged the OTG cable in with the Patriot. The Nexus 7 would not turn on. A major adrenalin rush as you can imagine. After many minutes trying to activate the Nexus 7 unsuccessfully, I remembered holding the down the power button and the volume up button simultaneously. It took forever but it worked. So don't plug in the OTG cable while the Nexus 7 is sleeping. Edit: just discovered that the menu has a disconnect feature. Always use to avoid the sleep of death. See the developers FAQ Also, after further use am upgrading to 4 stars.
Yigit
Sep 26, 2012 10:00:09 PM
it does what it says on the tin tested on nexus 7, no root, and it worked instantly. You can only import files into local storage though, so don't expect to access the files from another file manager. great tool!
Nicola
Sep 26, 2012 6:25:03 PM
Excellent Bought an otg cable and plugged in a flash drive. I can now watch movies from the flash drive and it works perfectly.
wilfredo
Sep 26, 2012 2:38:50 PM
Pics, movies, music awesome NEEDS PIC SLIDESHOW ...Works great, nothing else to say :-)
Scott
Sep 26, 2012 2:08:58 PM
Wow it really works as claimed I did not want to root my nexus and risk voiding the warranty or bricking it. I was hoping that it could read ex fat but realized it might need a license from you know who costing money. A no brainer to have. Thanks
dan
Sep 25, 2012 9:49:33 PM
Brilliant! Works flawlessly. Who cares about the 16Gb internal memory on the Nexus 7 now?! Worth every penny of the bargain price.
James
Sep 25, 2012 8:11:09 PM
Awesome, but needs a better file browser with copy & paste Would like a better layout, more fluid, maybe different colour schemes and better copy, move and paste functions
Brad
Sep 25, 2012 4:54:49 PM
Needed App Thannks for solving problem getting non-PC data (camera, usb drives) to Android devices. Works well.
jptech
Sep 25, 2012 2:49:48 PM
Epic. Works perfectly. Does what it says. Paired perfectly with bsplayer
PATRICK
Sep 25, 2012 2:21:31 PM
Great! I can upload my photos taken by my camera easily! It is already very good. But I hope that the size of the photos can be enlarged. Just like what we usually have on PC Windows