There's no need, Apple already switched to USB-C on iPad. The Lightning port is older and eventually I suspect all iPads will go USB-C within 1-2 years.
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I saw Jason Snell having success hooking up his Zoom H6 to grab audio files off his SD card - this isn’t working for me. I’m hooking up to the 10.5” iPad Pro using the powered camera connection kit. Any ideas on how to make this work?
Are you supplying power?
Also, I wonder if him using a USB-C iPad makes a difference.
I am supplying power and initially I tried using the unsupported no powered adapter and it did give an error about power, now hooking up to the powered one it just does nothing. The Lightning iPads do support external storage as well, so yea not quite sure where the disconnect is. I wonder if somehow his SD card is formatted any differently, not sure if you can have various formats for that to work with Zoom?
Great information here guys. Keep it going. I have a question for people running iOS 13. Apple said that we could connect to our file servers. Has anyone tried this with Backblaze B2 OR can you supply screenshot of what the file server options are/settings/inputs are?
It would be greatly appreciated.
It would be greatly appreciated.
This guy is having a problem with the Zoom SD cards also, so it might be a bug.
edit: never mind. I think you ARE that guy.
SMB is the only natively supported protocol for Files but it doesn't work right now, and is listed as a known issue in this build. For Backblaze you would need an app that integrates with Files as a storage provider. I see a few 1st and 3rd party Backblaze apps on the store but I wasn't too clear if any supported Files.
LOL - so I did hear back from Jason - he I think is saying that the card is being read from an SD card reader rather than hooking it up directly to the Zoom - have a SD card reader on order and will try it out soon!
i am trying to connect external usb flash - ssd drive (samsung t3) on my ipad pro 10.5 via lightning to usb 2 adapater but it keeps saying that it cant provide enough power!
Even on usb flash disk.... so the only solution is lightning to usb 3 adapter ?
But if i am on the road, how can i provide extra poer to my ipad ?
Even on usb flash disk.... so the only solution is lightning to usb 3 adapter ?
But if i am on the road, how can i provide extra poer to my ipad ?
A battery charging brick provides enough power. It is not elegant, but I will start keeping one in my bag.
Has anyone tried the camera connection kit SD reader yet? SD cards may become a nice fast way to move files to and from iOS if so!
No luck at all here with generic usb-c to lightning or Apple's micro USB to lightning adapter. Tried with a couple of card readers and a san disk stick. No message about power. One of card readers has a power light which didn't come on at all.
At least for USB-C the lightning adapter may be my problem, phone won't charge over it (does from an Apple USB-C to lightning cable)
At least for USB-C the lightning adapter may be my problem, phone won't charge over it (does from an Apple USB-C to lightning cable)
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I know for a fact that the micro usb adaptor is only meant for power. It does not carry data. I had to explain this to someone else a couple of weeks ago that tried to use a DAC with it.
As for the generic usb-c to lightning cable, the same might be true, or there’s an issue with it like you are suggesting.
I personally would suggest you use the camera connection kits if you have a lightning device, this is what they are designed for.
I know for a fact the micro usb adapter is not just power. It supports data, i.e. I can sync with it debug apps in Xcode (that are not set to be over wifi). It may not support audio/video but it does do data.
Ah okay fair enough. Must be iOS doesn’t recognise it as an audio capable device then. Or something else weird was going on - but I know that as soon as we used the camera connection kit things started working, before it just saw the DAC as a power bank.
It worked with a micro SDcard on my iPad Air 2 chained up with 3 Adapters: iPad -> Lightning to 30 pin adapter -> 30 pin camera connection kit adapter -> SDcard to micro SDcard adapter -> micro SDcard.
Glad I always keep my old stuff. I still got the camera connection kit from the original iPad.
Glad I always keep my old stuff. I still got the camera connection kit from the original iPad.
One thing I have noticed is that in order for me to use my external hard drive which is formatted in MacOS Extended on the iPad is to have a USB stick plugged in as well. I am using a USB C Hub that is plugged getting power from the USB C wall outlet that came with the iPad.
I have been able to read both of my drives that I store photography on, one is all of my files the other is PSD and PSB files. I can only open the PSD files in Lightroom Mobile. I will have to wait for Photoshop to come out or wait for one of the other packages to support opening from the Files app... as of right now Affinity doesn’t.
I have been able to read both of my drives that I store photography on, one is all of my files the other is PSD and PSB files. I can only open the PSD files in Lightroom Mobile. I will have to wait for Photoshop to come out or wait for one of the other packages to support opening from the Files app... as of right now Affinity doesn’t.
I did, but like I said, I had to have a thumb drive plugged into my USB C hub for it to show. I have a western digital MyPassport drive. It works great when it's connected, even when viewing 1 GB psd files in preview.
Interesting - I have that drive as well. Okay, will try plugging a thumb drive in at the same time. Hopefully it’s a bug with iOS then.
You probably need to use a powered USB C hub though. I have the Lenovo usb c hub
https://smile.amazon.com/Lenovo-Adapter-Delivery-Compatible-Devices/dp/B07FVSV4ZY
https://smile.amazon.com/Lenovo-Adapter-Delivery-Compatible-Devices/dp/B07FVSV4ZY
My iPad Pro can see my SD card in the Files app, but it can’t move or copy any files from it (“Couldn’t communicate with a helper application”). Plugging in the SD card with Photos open brings up the Import screen, but no files are shown and it eventually crashes. When I try to import through Lightroom by adding photos from Files, the SD card doesn’t show up in the sidebar. Is anyone else seeing this behavior?