There is a reason why Nexus disable accessing thumb drive directly from micro USB port: it drains battery life fast. 10 hours battery life will turned into 4 to 5 hours. I learned that during my recent flight to Montreal (Quebec, Canada). I kept watching movies and TV shows on the flight using my Nexus 7 and various thumb drives, and of course my Nexus 7 was rooted. After watching 2+ hours of video, I found the battery drained down to 50%. So with that means watching 5 hours will use up all the batteries. That's not good for a long flight like the one to Hong Kong. And unfortunately there's no external battery, no microSD slot or a model with 64 to 128Gb of storage. Still, I will continue using Nexus 7 as video playback device in trips because it works so well and can handle almost all video file formats.
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