2 Tips for repairing USB OTG Not Reading Properly on Android

abbreviated USB OTG is a specification that allows devices with USB ports such as digital audio players or smartphones to act as hosts so that other USB devices such as memory sticks, mice or keyboards can be. connected to smartphones.

Acting as a host, your smartphone can read and write (read/write) flash memory devices connected via USB OTG.

So far, however, there are several Android mobile phones that seem to be unable to read NTFS and FAT32 formatted drives with an allocation unit size less than 32KB.

If you have experienced the same, follow these tips to deal with unreadable USB OTG on your smartphone.

Tips to overcome USB OTG Unreadable on Android

Depending on the Windows operating system you are using, there are two ways to deal with an unreadable flash drive connected to an Android mobile phone.

1. Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 users

As I mentioned before, USB OTG unreadable flash drives are caused by partition size and disk format incompatible with Android features. Therefore, we need to reconfigure the flash again according to the needs of Android.

Before reformatting, you should save the data on the memory stick.

Next, open File Explorer (Windows Explorer), right-click on the memory stick and select Format.

Set as follows.

Click Start to start initialization.

and wait for the process to finish with "Initialization Complete".

Up to this stage, the initialization process of the flash drive is complete.

Next, try to connect the flash drive to the smartphone with a USB OTG cable. Test by copying the data to the flash drive and opening it..

If successful, the data on the flash drive can be read correctly.

2. Windows 7 and XP Users

For still faithful Windows XP users, this partition size option is not available, so the solution is to use a third-party application.

There are many tools available to partition and format a disk, but only use a free and lightweight tool, because we only want to format a flash drive with a certain partition size, we do not partition or merge disk drives.

Use MiniTools Partition Wizard Free, you can download it for free from http://www.minitool.com/partition-manager/

After the installation is finished, run this application..

This is the user interface.

The home page shows a list of all the drives on your computer or laptop.

Find the flash drive, right click and select Format.

Then set as follows.

Click OK when finished.

Then select Apply.

A message appears asking you to close all running applications.

Just select Yes because you only want to format the flash drive and not any other operations.

Then wait a moment for the restoration to finish.

Up to this step, the process of formatting a flash drive is complete.

Next, try to connect the flash drive to the smartphone with a USB OTG cable. Test by copying the data to the flash drive and opening it..

If successful, the data on the flash drive can be read correctly.

3. Be careful!

Don't use FAT32 on your external hard drive because this system can only hold

GB, so external hard drives always use NTFS.

These are 2 tips to overcome USB OTG reading on Android.

Hope useful..!