Brand new iWork10 – not charging

[2Ravens]

Yes 2.0 doesn’t work.

I’m using an Acer V3-571 laptop which has one USB 3.0 port. It seems to be charging from that port, but isn’t being recognised. Why could that be? Could be a real pain in the ass if I want to put videos etc on the tablet.

[2Ravens]

Just can’t get the laptop hooked up at the moment. It’s reading one of my USB drives off the USB OTG, doesn’t like the file format of the other

Would USB OTG to laptop work in some way? I don’t have a cable to try though…

Or is there some explanation for why it’s only charging off the USB 3.0 port?

[2Ravens]

 

I don’t need or expect a lot from this tablet, but I am taking it travelling so I need to get a shit load onto it. All I need it to do is operate smoothly and be able to transfer back and forth from the laptop and my camera. At the moment the best I’ve got is transferring stuff onto the USB from the laptop and then onto the tablet via the USB. Doable as it’s a 32gb usb drive, but convoluted!

Also, do you guys reckon that hooking a camera up via the USB OTG will allow me to easily get the pictures off? That’d be awesome. Can’t test right now as the misses is away with the camera -_-

[George Salt]

I’ve directly connected two different cameras using the standard USB leads that came with the cameras (Fuji X- E2, Sigma DP2 Merrill) without OTG and transferred files to the iWork10 without problem.

For on-the-road photo editing (for a travelog/blog, etc.) the iWork10 is surprisingly capable – it will process raw files in Lightroom CC and Sigma Pro Photo with acceptable speed just as long as you’re not planning on processing the entire memory card in one batch.  A new cardreader arrived today (my previous one was ancient, USB 1) and I’ll be testing that over the next week – easier than bringing both sets of leads on trips (typical for camera manufacturers they’re both different..) and more useful.

If you want to transfer a chunk of data/files between laptop and iWork10, the easiest way is a via the cloud.  Set-up a “iwork10 shared” folder on GoogleDrive and locally synch this folder on the iWork10 (you’ll need to install the app).  Open the same folder on your laptop and paste in the files you want to transfer.  GoogleDrive will synch them across automatically as long as both have an internet connection.

[TWICE]

Just to confirm again, are you using the microUSB 3.0 variant or the Type C variant? Your posts are making me pretty confused. 1st few post its microUSB 3.0, then next few posts it’s Type C and now it’s microUSB 3.0 again?

 

For microUSB 3.0 variant

Connect it to the microUSB 2.0 port in android partition to transfer files. If it still doesn’t work, try enabling USB Debugging.

 

For Type C variant

Connect it to the Type C port in android partition to transfer files. If it still doesn’t work, try enabling USB Debugging.

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