USB & SD reading without rooting....

[chochichek]

Thanks. Its not a case of actually playing the .avi files, its the fact that the Nexus media importer software doesn't actually see all the avi files, nor does it see all the .jpg files that are on the stick. I'm just wondering if the software can only see a limited number of files of a particular kind.

[newtoandroid]

if u have U3 software installed on ur flash drive, uninstall it and the drive will be recognised..

[chaikenj]

This is a very welcome app, but only certain types of files can be used from the USB flash drive.  Other types of files can only be copied from the flash drive to the N7 (called "Save").  Can anyone clarify what kinds of files can actually be used while they remain on the flash drive?

Also there is a button labelled "lv" (or something like that, I can't quite make it out).  Can anybody explain what it does?