topic Re: OTG cable not working in XA Series

USB OTG Issue

zeechuidian — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:41:58 GMT

I have an HP USB drive connected to my phone via OTG cable. I tried downloading many file managers on playstore but have issues on transferring files from my phone to the USB drive. There's no error message. Nothing will just happen when you copy the files or tramfer the files to the USB drive. Does anyone have the same issue?

Re: USB OTG Issue

CameronT — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:49:32 GMT

HI @zeechuidian,

Welcome to the community.

What if you try the built in file browser? You can find this by going to Settings > Storage & Memory > 3 Dots > Advanced > Storage > Internal Storage > Explore.

Re: USB OTG Issue

_alexdon_ — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 09:00:56 GMT

@zeechuidian Have you granted storage permissions to any of the file explorers?

Re: USB OTG Issue

zeechuidian — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:05:06 GMT

Thanks so much! Using the built in file browser works!

Re: USB OTG Issue

CameronT — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:52:13 GMT

@zeechuidian,

I am glad to hear it is working for you.

Re: OTG cable not working

Simonsteph — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:40:40 GMT

It appears that the Xperia xa is not compatible with all OTG cables, in fact, a few cables. This will explain why so many users have problems.

I've found a cable that works but thanks to all that responded. Oh wait! Nobody responded, not much expertise then, I wonder if Samsung have that problem.

Re: OTG cable not working

Uliwooly — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 18:12:53 GMT

@Simonsteph

you could use the ummm what do you call it? search bar, and you would find the answer.

Re: OTG cable not working

Simonsteph — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 09:07:49 GMT

Good response if you hadn't been two weeks too late, see above. The original OTG cable works since the upgrade to Nougat which goes to show there were compatability issues