Samsung S22 + not reading external HDD

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zakslaher

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Hi All,

I have just gotten myself a Samsung S22+, moving from Huawei because of the the Google issue.

When connecting an external SSD drive via OTG the S22+ does not identify/recognize the HDD.

Hard drive works well,when I connect to my old Huawei I have no issues.

Any ideas.
 
It was NTFS, changed to I think fat32. Samsung A8 tab picks it up without any issues.

Where do I switch on OTG, if I use paragon software then it identifies. But I shouldn't use 3rd party app right
 
zakslaher said:
It was NTFS, changed to I think fat32. Samsung A8 tab picks it up without any issues.

Where do I switch on OTG, if I use paragon software then it identifies. But I shouldn't use 3rd party app right
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Oh, the dreaded NTFS. Not all smartphones have "NTFS" driver support, it is a kernel module that needs to be loaded, before being mounted, so probably Samsung don't have native support for NTFS compiled in.

I had an early Samsung tablet that had OTG capabilities, but then loaded a custom rom with the NTFS driver and mounted the NTFS drive manually with a root 3rd party app. This was yonks ago, maybe like 7-8 years ago.
I rarely had to enable OTG on my current smartphones, so YMMV.
 
D said:
Sounds like someone didn't update the new phone's firmware/software yet ...
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I have the latest firmware installed, see attached. Any recommendations for apps that will mount the drive, paragon forcing me to buy
 

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