I am running the Nexus 7 2012 WiFi, Rooted and CWM Recovery which I just OTA updated from build KRT16S to KOT49H. Prior to the update I could every once in a while connect my 8GB Kingston Data Traveler USB drive via my OTG cable but now after the update it does not see the device at all. Is anyone else having a similar problem with Android 4.4.2 and if so could you please post your solutions for solving the problem?
Thanks in advance:
KodachromeBob
Try with another cable it is working fine here in 4.4.2 rooted twrp recovery
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Are you using the free "stickmount" app or the native OTG mount via settings > storage?
dnana_28 said:
Try with another cable it is working fine here in 4.4.2 rooted twrp recovery
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Merdeke said:
Are you using the free "stickmount" app or the native OTG mount via settings > storage?
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I'm having the same problem and I have used another cable... Also I tried the native and stick mount... Neither worked, and I keep getting a message saying stick mount is busy... It still doesn't mount..
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Merdeke said:
Are you using the free "stickmount" app or the native OTG mount via settings > storage?
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using free stickmount app
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using free stickmount app
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Well checking with a different cable is for sure the first thing to try. But I did have this problem with the last version of the custom rom I'm using, and one fix is to flash one of the custom kernels such as M-Kernel which has restored the native OTG support (ie you don't need stickmount). I no longer need that though, because stickmount is now working for me on the latest copy of the rom.
The rom is CyanogenMod 11.0 by koko98 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509905
Success OTG and Stick Mount on Android 4.4.2
Wouldn't you know that my original OTG cable would fail just after I upgraded to Android 4.4.2, just my luck. I replaced it with a new cable from StarTech.com and was then back in business. Thanks to Merdeke and all your replies and suggestions.
Sorry for (kind of) necroposting but i need assistance with same problem.
Only in my case OTG cable is fine - Nexus Media Importer works fine but any other software doesn't. Some are failing to mount but in case of stickmount it's little bit more curious: stickmount manages to mount my flash drive to usbStorage/sdb1 but when i navigate to this folder it;s empty and i also loose any files placed in this folder after unmounting.
What can cause such problem?
are you using the newest supersu?
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are you using the newest supersu?
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That helped, thank you very much.
I didn't even knew this may cause a problem. I used version that came with my ROM
NekoiNemo said:
Sorry for (kind of) necroposting but i need assistance with same problem.
Only in my case OTG cable is fine - Nexus Media Importer works fine but any other software doesn't. Some are failing to mount but in case of stickmount it's little bit more curious: stickmount manages to mount my flash drive to usbStorage/sdb1 but when i navigate to this folder it;s empty and i also loose any files placed in this folder after unmounting.
What can cause such problem?
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I have the same thing.
Nexus Media Importer works fine too, but I'd rather spend money on StickMount. But that does not seem to work any more with the pro version.
I am suggesting to use another Kernel
Okay, I'll give it a go.
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The flash storage on my nexus 7 seems to not be rewriting like it should, when i pull it up in Windows i can see and delete things from the MTP interface. But when i use a file manager (OI File Manager) i can see the files once more and get an error when i attempt to delete them. i have done the Backup & Reset option within android after attempting a full data reset in ClockworkMod Recovery. At this point i am scratching my head. i am downloading another rom and will flash and post what i get from that.
Anyone else have this strange issue?
I've noticed this as well, anything I delete with ES File Explorer still shows up when it's plugged into my macbook but isn't actually accessible, I'm still on the stock ROM.
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I've noticed this as well, anything I delete with ES File Explorer still shows up when it's plugged into my macbook but isn't actually accessible, I'm still on the stock ROM.
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Have you hoooked up any form of external storage through an adpater? thats the only thing i have done "out of the ordinary" and a complete rom change doesnt fix it
AlanWarrick said:
Have you hoooked up any form of external storage through an adpater? thats the only thing i have done "out of the ordinary" and a complete rom change doesnt fix it
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Nope, not even rooted, not really a big issue since I mostly use airdroid to transfer files but it would be nice to fix it.
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jabsys said:
Nope, not even rooted, not really a big issue since I mostly use airdroid to transfer files but it would be nice to fix it.
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The next thing i am going to do is return to stock, a complete re-flash to see if it empties the storage, I am posting all my theories so that anyone with the same issue could easily follow.
Success!
Using Wugfish Nexus Toolkit, my problem appears to have been solved. whether it is a perminant fix or not has yet to be known.
I can't get my flash drive to mount on otg with stickmount. Installed busy box and all that, says it mounteds but when I open up the folder there's nothing there but on my PC it sees there's stuff on ,y flash drive
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Stickmount has been reported countless times as not yet working on 4.2. Someone reported Usb OTA Helper from Play is working, but I can't confirm that since I haven't gotten the OTA.
IRX120 said:
I can't get my flash drive to mount on otg with stickmount. Installed busy box and all that, says it mounted but when I open up the folder there's nothing there but on my PC it sees there's stuff on flash drive
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I am experiencing same problem here after update to 4.2.
Same issue with OTG helper. Unable to see any files.
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Perhaps its to do with the change in the mounting of the data/media
Now its mounted as data/media/emulated/0 or something like that
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Same issue with OTG helper. Unable to see any files.
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As I understand, that is a system issue (ok, they claim that it is FEATURE), which allows access to flash drives (or basicaly any USB hosted thing) to each apps separately, so, there is no way that one APP will connect the USB drive and other will read from it.
We basicaly have to wait for someone who will find some way how to brighe the date from one app to one (probabaly fake) directory, or something like that.. OR kick out 4.2 and return to 4.1.2, which I will be doing ass soon as I will have the oportunity (during this weekend probably).
kar10s said:
As I understand, that is a system issue (ok, they claim that it is FEATURE), which allows access to flash drives (or basicaly any USB hosted thing) to each apps separately, so, there is no way that one APP will connect the USB drive and other will read from it.
We basicaly have to wait for someone who will find some way how to brighe the date from one app to one (probabaly fake) directory, or something like that.. OR kick out 4.2 and return to 4.1.2, which I will be doing ass soon as I will have the oportunity (during this weekend probably).
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Perhaps its to do with the change in the mounting of the data/media
Now its mounted as data/media/emulated/0 or something like that
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no, that is absolutely unimportant where the USB is mounted (I tested that during one of my first tries), also all (or most) of the OTG apps do connect the USB corectly. If they can show you some data about it (such as free space and such), you will se that the USB is actualy mounted and the data is being displayed correctly. Problem is that APPS other than the OTG mounting apps does not have acess to them.
I tried a few applications but lstill nothing showing on the usb connection. I can mount it, etc, but shows no content. Will keep plugging away. I see so few improvements in 4.2 that it would not deflate me if I went back to 4.1.2
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me too, no way to mount my drive anymore =/
omlet said:
me too, no way to mount my drive anymore =/
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Use Nexus Media Importer on Google Play as temporary measure until Stickmount is updated
It works and does not require root
I wonder if this is the same sort of issue we're going to see with CIFS ... I can live without OTG as long as I have CIFS.
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I wonder if this is the same sort of issue we're going to see with CIFS ... I can live without OTG as long as I have CIFS.
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I hope it's an easy fix. I don't want to roll back. :crying:
kar10s said:
As I understand, that is a system issue (ok, they claim that it is FEATURE), which allows access to flash drives (or basicaly any USB hosted thing) to each apps separately, so, there is no way that one APP will connect the USB drive and other will read from it.
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I am trying to parse the above for the intended operation model:
the system itself would detect and automatically mount a drive/device and any app can then access it (i.e., the way most OSs would behave)? or,
any app that needs a drive/device would initiate the mount in order to access/use it?
sucess on file browser
i tried to mount usb drive under terminal and it works for file browsers (tested on es file browser and file expert browser) and titanium backup
i can copy files to internal storage and those files could be opened normally.
however,if i want to open them on the otg device
these app(not file browsers) tell me "Wrong path" or anything like that.
i use command " busybox mount /dev/block/sda1 /sdcard/usbotg " under terminal emulator
dominicvn said:
Use Nexus Media Importer on Google Play as temporary measure until Stickmount is updated
It works and does not require root
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If I'm going to pay $3 for an app it won't be for a temporary fix. That said I'm considering it..
abcliou said:
i tried to mount usb drive under terminal and it works for file browsers (tested on es file browser and file expert browser) and titanium backup
i can copy files to internal storage and those files could be opened normally.
however,if i want to open them on the otg device
these app(not file browsers) tell me "Wrong path" or anything like that.
i use command " busybox mount /dev/block/sda1 /sdcard/usbotg " under terminal emulator
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Have you tried mounting it somewhere else? Could be tangled up in the multi-user hacks.
abcliou said:
i tried to mount usb drive under terminal and it works for file browsers (tested on es file browser and file expert browser) and titanium backup
i can copy files to internal storage and those files could be opened normally.
however,if i want to open them on the otg device
these app(not file browsers) tell me "Wrong path" or anything like that.
i use command " busybox mount /dev/block/sda1 /sdcard/usbotg " under terminal emulator
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Try mounting to /dates/media/0/usbotg
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IRX120 said:
Try mounting to /dates/media/0/usbotg
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I tried that. no go. Mounts fine, and the terminal session can see the files, but root manager cannot. very strange.
init.rc
Did anyone try mounting by adding a line, with for example: mount /dev/block/sda1 /?/usbotg, to init.rc?
If this works, limitation would be that the usb drive would have to be present at boot but reading over the man pages for mount perhaps this would be compatible with per-process mounting scheme that's been implemented in 4.2 as launched processes should inherit the mount table from the launching process which I'm guessing is started as a child of the process init.rc runs in after init.rc is called.
Running rooted stock 4.2 on my Nexus 7. Stickmount is working again thanks to 2.0 Update. But I still can't play games from my USB thumb drive. I use Directory Bind which worked perfectly on 4.1.2. It does show the bindings as working (green) but when I start the game, it prompts the data download. I guess Directory Bind is also affected by the new mount points in 4.2 somehow?
Anyhoo.. Has anyone managed to play games from an external drive on 4.2? If so, would you please share how you're doing it? That'd be awesome! Thanks!
Cheers
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Running rooted stock 4.2 on my Nexus 7. Stickmount is working again thanks to 2.0 Update. But I still can't play games from my USB thumb drive. I use Directory Bind which worked perfectly on 4.1.2. It does show the bindings as working (green) but when I start the game, it prompts the data download. I guess Directory Bind is also affected by the new mount points in 4.2 somehow?
Anyhoo.. Has anyone managed to play games from an external drive on 4.2? If so, would you please share how you're doing it? That'd be awesome! Thanks!
Cheers
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Somehow, with stickmount update, can access files in the Thumb, transfer between thumb drives and nexus storage.
However, could not playback any files. Must copy over before you can access the media files.
Hmm, I successfully played an avi video from an external HD with MX Player. MX Player must be open before mounting, though - like every app that wants to access the mounted files.
Unfortunately, that workaround doesn't work with games. They check for the files immediately after startup so you have no time to "get the mount in". And you can't let them recheck - bummer.
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Is there any way to use my usb drive in OTG as my backup ? Would to have so my tab thinks its a normal SD ex device so i could just plug it in when i want to flash roms. I got stickmount but it wont help. Also not possible to change the backup location in titanium i think
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Is there any way to use my usb drive in OTG as my backup ? Would to have so my tab thinks its a normal SD ex device so i could just plug it in when i want to flash roms. I got stickmount but it wont help. Also not possible to change the backup location in titanium i think
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You need to use TWRP to make this work in recovery. You can change the backup location in Titanium under preferences. Stickmount does work for Titanium, though not flawlessly (sometimes you need to mount a few times). I switched to CraigGomez's ROM which has built in OTG support and it works great!
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Blueback22 said:
You need to use TWRP to make this work in recovery. You can change the backup location in Titanium under preferences. Stickmount does work for Titanium, though not flawlessly (sometimes you need to mount a few times). I switched to CraigGomez's ROM which has built in OTG support and it works great!
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Ah! Maybe you can answer this as I've posted this several times about TWRP/GooManager usage.
In TWRP you can select to backup to your flash drive, now with the ROM you are using, on a reboot, is the destination of external still selected or do you have to remount/select every time? If so, using GooManager, the reboot into TWRP should still have the external card destination selected.
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Ah! Maybe you can answer this as I've posted this several times about TWRP/GooManager usage.
In TWRP you can select to backup to your flash drive, now with the ROM you are using, on a reboot, is the destination of external still selected or do you have to remount/select every time? If so, using GooManager, the reboot into TWRP should still have the external card destination selected.
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Twrp auto mounts the SD card every time. Very smooth. You can switch back and forth between internal and otg on the fly.
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Blueback22 said:
Twrp auto mounts the SD card every time. Very smooth. You can switch back and forth between internal and otg on the fly.
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Thanks! Finally an answer. I'll be trying that ROM as soon as or I give up on waiting for answers about a Goo Manager Gapps problem.
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Thanks! Finally an answer. I'll be trying that ROM as soon as or I give up on waiting for answers about a Goo Manager Gapps problem.
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Whats the gapps issue?
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Tanx for the input..managed to backup my stuff on my drive. Will try to use twrp to save
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Whats the gapps issue?
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I'm stock OTA 4.2.1 and although it should have the latest Gapps, I let Goo Manager look for the latest. I installed it, reboot, did the Android update but when the desktop came up, it show "picasa has stopped working" and some sort-of Google process had problems. I rebooted again and it went through the same process including the Android updating process along with the errors. I restored a backup to fix the problem.
If you look at this Gapps page: http://www.teamandroid.com/gapps/, it should have selected the first file but instead it selected the second one down. I emailed them, no reply. I posted at RootzWiki, Goo.im section. One reply from the moderator which they stated that I'm on 4.1 which I've never been on or a Custom ROM and that's the Gapps suggested by the Dev. I replied back and so far, nothing from them.
I've been having issues with the GooManager Tapped file on my N10. I think it's corrupt.
Here's the one I've been using that works. (Dropbox link) http://db.tt/c5JMBBzn
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I've been having issues with the GooManager Tapped file on my N10. I think it's corrupt.
Here's the one I've been using that works. (Dropbox link) http://db.tt/c5JMBBzn
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You see, that's the file it should have selected for my build but didn't. I assume that's what is in my current build.
CraigGomez's ROM has its own Gapps package, is that what your refering to?
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You see, that's the file it should have selected for my build but didn't. I assume that's what is in my current build.
CraigGomez's ROM has its own Gapps package, is that what your refering to?
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This isn't Craig's gapps package... But: m using it with Craig's ROM.
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This isn't Craig's gapps package... But: m using it with Craig's ROM.
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Did you install Craig's ROM from Goo Manager? If so, right below his ROM, I have "his" Gapps package listed. What I see may be different than you as your on it already.
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Did you install Craig's ROM from Goo Manager? If so, right below his ROM, I have "his" Gapps package listed. What I see may be different than you as your on it already.
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I did. The gapps package shows up under his ROM on mine as well. You can use that one or the file I posted. They boh work.
What's the problem you're facing?
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I did. The gapps package shows up under his ROM on mine as well. You can use that one or the file I posted. They boh work.
What's the problem you're facing?
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None, just waiting on a response from Goo Manager, in case they ask a question but If they don't respond soon, I try Craig's ROM.
It says USB stick mounted.
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something is definitely different. even after re-editing my vold.fstab file the root hack to do that still doesn't work.
Have not tested yet
LegionTHEFecalExcretion said:
something is definitely different. even after re-editing my vold.fstab file the root hack to do that still doesn't work.
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I stopped auto update as I already had something like this working I am thinking they may enable it for us soon
Help needed with the playstore it's a general android issue not with installing it on ouya had no problems with that