I have a rooted nexus 7 ROM:[CM10.1-20130205-Nightly], 500gb exfat external drive with lots of data, and an OTG cable. I didnt research the apps needed to see the drive after plugging it in--thought it was pnp, like the mouse, keyboard, and famous 3.5 external floppy drive setup.
At first the nexus said it saw the usb device, and a second later it gave the choice to remove the usb device. I tapped remove, as there were no other options. I continued to try reconnecting the cables, even rebooting the nexus--it would not read the drive. i installed stickmount and Paragon NTFS&HFS+ (says it supports exfat,) but no success. I decided to add a powered usb hub to the setup in case there were power issues--still no notifications.
I quickly gave up. I then tried plugging the hard drive into my pc and mac and both failed to read anything on the drive--asking me if i want to format the drive. I dont know if it was the nexus or the Western Digital piece of crap. I am wondering if the nexus wrote something to the drive making it unusable. I have tried several recovery utilities and nothing has found the data. I dont want to waste another drive. Has anyone ran into this issue, know of a way to successfully mount an exfat drive, or possibly help me recover the drive?
Appreciate any help.
~OB
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Using StickMount with my N10 (stock OTA), And I've had no issues when using a flash drive with an OTG cable. However, I just got an Elago micro SD USB adapter (which is awesome!), used with the same OTG cable, but I'm having problems writing to USB storage. I've been using Solid Explorer to move / copy (neither works).
Yes, I'm rooted, and I already tried fixing permissions using RomManager. Any ideas, guys? Error screen attached.
Volkrik said:
Using StickMount with my N10 (stock OTA), And I've had no issues when using a flash drive with an OTG cable. However, I just got an Elago micro SD USB adapter (which is awesome!), used with the same OTG cable, but I'm having problems writing to USB storage. I've been using Solid Explorer to move / copy (neither works).
Yes, I'm rooted, and I already tried fixing permissions using RomManager. Any ideas, guys? Error screen attached.
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I had a similar problem (saying permission denied even though I was rooted) with only one external harddrive I have. My others work, my sd cards in usb readers work, my stand alone flash drives work, but that one drive won't mount correctly for whatever reason. I tried formatting it with no luck.
My theory is it's some driver issue with the way that perticular drive is communicating (or not communicating, in this case) with the device.
You may be expereincing the same issue... I don't think it's a permissions issue, I think it's a hardware driver issue.
I've had some problems mounting an external HD. The problems might be different from what you're having but I've found a workaround that works for me. Hook it up to a computer and click safely remove hardware. Try again. It usually solves my problem.
This has probably been talked about before. But I have seen several people talk about having usb hard drive and flash drive issues with the ouya. Ive seen several people who talk about having to restart the ouya to mount and unmount. I noticed that if you use a partioning tool to make sure that the partition is set to active and that its also set to Primary instead of logical that you can mount the drive without having to reboot. I have tested this with several external hard drives as well as flash drives and have had 100% success.
I personally have been using the Mini tool Partition Wizard. When you format a hard drive through windows it automatically sets it to Logical instead of Primary I believe. Hopefully this helps someone.
Where can I find the mini tool partition wizard? Is this part if the ouya app store or is it part of the Google play store? I have been trying to connect my USB but every time I connect the ouya cannot recognize the the USB.
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Edit: I recently found out the Mini Tool Partition Wizard is a PC program. I also tried following what you stated, and the OUYA did not recognize my USB hard drive.
I have the international version of the LG G2 32gb. Stock rooted with exposed framework, one or two navbar/statusbar modules installed.
I have tried a small 4gb usb drive and the G2 recognises it just fine. I have nothing bigger except for an old (perfectly working) 100gb usb external hard disk drive ntfs format. it doesn't rely on any power. USB cable from PC powers it just fine.
So when I connect this drive via USB OTG, my G2 simply doesn't see it. I've waited more than half hour to see if it is performing a media scan silently but it still doesn't show on any of my file explorers such solid and root explorer and stock one ofcourse.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Is it because it is an external hdd?
Is it because the phone can't power it on its own?
Is it that it can read only smaller cards less than 100gb? I don't have access to anything else to test.
Is USB OTG supported in aosp roms like pac man?
Thanks guys.
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I have the international version of the LG G2 32gb. Stock rooted with exposed framework, one or two navbar/statusbar modules installed.
I have tried a small 4gb usb drive and the G2 recognises it just fine. I have nothing bigger except for an old (perfectly working) 100gb usb external hard disk drive ntfs format. it doesn't rely on any power. USB cable from PC powers it just fine.
So when I connect this drive via USB OTG, my G2 simply doesn't see it. I've waited more than half hour to see if it is performing a media scan silently but it still doesn't show on any of my file explorers such solid and root explorer and stock one ofcourse.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Is it because it is an external hdd?
Is it because the phone can't power it on its own?
Is it that it can read only smaller cards less than 100gb? I don't have access to anything else to test.
Is USB OTG supported in aosp roms like pac man?
Thanks guys.
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NTFS
That's your problem friend... Format it to FAT32 or root and use this
Cheers!
Really? Wow, I'm gonna have to transfer all those files from the hard drive first and then format right? I hope my G2 would recognise it then. I'll post an update soon as I can get my hands on another HDD to back up to before format.
Thanks.
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The only thing is, my other small USB drive which did work via USB OTG is also NTFS format. Why would this work and not the larger capacity external HDD?
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subhani said:
The only thing is, my other small USB drive which did work via USB OTG is also NTFS format. Why would this work and not the larger capacity external HDD?
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Are you 100% certain the other one is NTFS?
Android is not NTFS compatible out of the box (unless rooted).
Cheers!
Yes I'm sure. The 4gb USB stick that works over otg cable is actually what I used to create a quick recovery drive of my win8 laptop as soon as I unboxed it. Win8 requires the flash drive to be NTFS for the recovery image to be created. So I did as it asked and formated and it produced the recovery drive on it.
I now connect it to my G2 and it recognises the flash drive and it shows the contents as recovery files for windows.
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Tldr both drives are NTFS format.
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Hello guys!
I got my Y OTG CABLE yesterday and I wanted to plug my external HDD into my phone. I tried everything yesterday but i couldn't make it work. The disc was turned on but I couldn't see it on my phone. I tried many apps that they were supposed to do the job (like stickmount) but no luck.Can you help me fix it? I have This Kernel and I'm on Android L
Solved! Checked usb otg option on Synapse app that comes with kernel, saved changes, installed stickmount and plugged my external hdd on otg. Note: i checked su on boot on supersu because some times was kinda hard to connect external devices.
I've tried a couple of different micro usb OTG cables (from my Note 4) with the usb-c adapter I use with one of my chargers but I can't connect. The menu comes up asking what I want to do with the USB, I've tried MTP once or setting it as always but still nothing. With an NTFS pendrive it came up that the drive was faulty and I needed to reformat, so I figured, ok, it's not gonna work with the drive formatted in that way. But I then tried the micro sd card that was formerly in my V20 and is still formatted to FAT32 and all that happens is it connects and then ejects the drive. When I look on ES File Explorer, a drive shows up but I can't access it. The usb message continually comes up, moments after whatever I select.
I've tried reading up on this issue and the first thing people suggest is to change the otg cable (or go for a dedicated usb-c) but I've rarely seen that as a solution for this issue.
My H910 is fully stock, no root and running nougat.