Full List of Usb OTG Support Android Phones

According to Wikipedia, USB On-The-Go (OTG) is a standardized specification that allows a device to read data from a USB device without the need for a personal computer or laptop.  However, not all phones have this unique feature, hence the need to find out which phones are USB OTG support android phones. OTG is sometimes referred to as USB Host on some phones.

So, basically, the OTG’s function is to allow your mobile phone to be able to perform the work of the sender or receiver when connected to a removable media such as the pen drive.

Also, to use the otg feature of your phone, you need to have the OTG cable or connector and the OTG Pendrive or USB OTG Adapter that you’ll connect to your phone in order to send files from your phone to the drive or from the OTG Pendrive (On The Go Pendrive) to your phone.

You can try rooting your phone to unlock the OTG feature if the feature does not come out of the box with your Android tablet or phone. Note that this is for those that know the process of rooting phones and what the risks are.

For instance, in some phone brands like Samsung and Sony, the rooting of the phone voids the phone’s warranty.

USB OTG Checker

To check if your device is USB OTG compatible, you can download an easy USB OTG checker app on the Google Play store. Click here to download the OTG app which can help you determine if your Android smartphone or tablet can support this functionality.

One good thing is that the app does not need root to work. Here’s a screenshot of how the OTG checker app looks.

usb otg checker app
USB OTG checker app 1

How To Enable OTG Support For Android Mobiles

In search of how to enable OTG support for android mobiles, there are two ways you can go about this. You can enable this feature through the use of an external device or root your phone in order to enable OTG support.

In order to enable OTG through an external device, go through the following steps:

  1. Get and insert an OTG cable into your phone, then use a data line to connect another mobile phone to the OTG cable.
  2. Check and confirm if your android phone is able to charge the second smartphone or not, if it doesn’t, purchase a five volts power OTG cable to give your phone the five volts power boost it needs to provide power for external devices.
charge another phone with an android phone

The second method is to root your phone to enable OTG support. Note that this is for the experts that know how to tinker with their phones. If you don’t know anything about rooting, please don’t try this. Now let’s go through the steps.

  1. Download an app to root your Android phone which will provide access to administrator permission.
  2. After successfully rooting your android phone, download and install Root Explorer to manage your files.
  3. Navigate to the Root Explorer and go to system > etc > vold.fstab.
  4. Click on the top-right corner to change the read-only to read-write.
  5. Touch and hold the vold.fstab file, choose to open with text editor.
  6. Go to the end of the code, leave a blank line then copy and paste the following codes behind.

# usb otg disk

dev_mount usbotg /mnt/usbotg auto /devices/platform/mt_usb

/devices/platform/musbfsh_hdrc  

7. Save and exit the code. Restart your Android phone and insert OTG cable and USB, you will find the USB and make any changes to it.

OTG Compatible Smartphones List

Looking for which phones support OTG. Here’s our comprehensive OTG compatible smartphones list. This list includes all USB OTG support android phones and tablets. Here we go:

Acer

Asus

Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2

Asus Zenfone Max Pro

Asus Zenfone Lite L1

Asus Zenfone Max M1

Asus Zenfone Max M2

Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1

Asus Zenfone 5

Blackberry

Fujitsu

Gionee

Gionee Elife E7

Gionee M2

Gionee M5 Plus

Gionee M5

Gionee M6

Gionee A1 Lite

Gionee A1

Huawei

Honor 9N

Honor 10 Lite

Honor 8X

Honor 9Lite

Honor 4C

HTC

Infinix Phones That Supports USB OTG

Infinix Hot 2 X510

Infinix Note 3 X601

Infinix Note 4

Lava

Lava Iris Fuel 50

InFocus

InFocus M2

Lenovo

Lenovo K3 Note

Lenovo K8 Note

Lenovo A7000

LG

Micromax

Micromax Canvas Hue

Motorola

Motorola One Power

Motorola New Motor E 2nd Gen 4G

Nokia

Nokia 5.1 Plus

Nokia 6.1 Plus

Oppo USB OTG PHONES

Oppo K1

Oppo F11 Pro

Oppo A3s

Oppo F9

OnePlus

OnePlus 6T

OnePlus 7

Oppo F9 Pro

RealMe

Realme C1

Realme 2 Pro

Realme 3

Realme 2

Realme C1 2019

Realme U1

Samsung

Samsung Galaxy A30

Samsung Galaxy A50

Samsung Galaxy M20

Samsung Galaxy M30

Samsung Galaxy M10

Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus

Samsung Galaxy A7 2018

Samsung Galaxy A9 2018

Samsung Galaxy A10

Samsung Galaxy S10

Samsung Galaxy J4

Samsung Galaxy J8 2018

Sony

Vivo

Vivo V15 Pro

Vivo Y91

Vivo Y95

Vivo V11

Vivo V9

Vivo Y93

Vivo Y81

Xiaomi

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7

Xiaomi Redmi Note

Xiaomi Redmi Note 6

Poco F1

Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro

Xiaomi S2

Xiaomi Redmi 5A

Xiaomi Redmi 6A

Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro

Xiaomi Redmi 6

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro

Xiaomi Redmi Y2

Xiaomi Mi A2

Poco F2

Xiaomi Mi 9

Xiaomi Redmi 2

Wexler

Zopo

OTG Supported Samsung Tablets

This post will continue to be updated with more OTG phones that support OTG connections.

NOTE: Please ensure you double-check with the devices’ manufacturers for USB OTG compatibility. There are also some supported devices that apps such as file browsers may need to be downloaded in order to read an OTG flash drive and/or require FAT32 file system format.

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