Got a question. Is it alright connecting phone to pc browsing sdcard contents while having app2sd running?
Yes. The apps are stored on a different partition, not the one conaining your files.
Great.. Got the picture! Thanks.
Okay, I plug in my phone via USB to the 360, i see Portable Device ... great ! i click on it and see all my folders and files, now most of my music is on my Memory Card , Now, I think my s2 file structure is slightly offputting, and i dont know why ....anyway,
My root structure says SDCARD which is my phone internal memory , but in my root I have External_sd folder (which is my sdcard) from the look of things.. anyway If i use a file manager on my phone I can open the folder external_sd.. however.... on my 360 i can but its just blank. :/
any ideas anyone?
Hey android fam, so i just updated to the newest software (unrooted) and i like it except for one thing. i use my sd card to play my music in my car via usb port. the problem is i cant get it to automatically mount as disk drive when its connected. when i try to slide it down and select disk drive my head unit already says n/a usb. does anyone know how to set it as default disk drive like on the old software?
Hello guys,
I bought a new radio for my car with usb. I connected my phone as mass storage and it found files on the first partition (internal sd) but not on the second partition (external) - so I would like to switch these around or have some other workaround to get the radio to play the files from the external instead, since thats where all my mp3s are located.
I just want to switch the partitions mount points when they are connected through usb mass storage, not for normal usage.
Anyone got an idea where to look?
I am rooted obv and know how to edit config files or use terminal, just need a hint where to look or maybe someone else knows how to exactly this already?
Please halp! (I will release a guide too if there is none yet for this - I haven't found .. all the guides are for full switch of internal and external only, not just for mass storage mode)
Or would switching to MTP help this? I fear the radio won't notice the phone at all then anymore - and i fkin hate mtp.
Vzw phone so no root access. Note my phone is a Play version.
Solid Explorer, the new one, works and shows path of : /mnt/media_rw/0EB0-0FF1. It also asks for permissions and you can successfully grant them. Yet you cannot see this folder/drive while exploring /mnt. It creates it's own shortcut and browsing is fine that way..
Neutron sees the drive and tries the get permissions but you never get to grant them.
Google Player (stock), Player Dreams, Jetaudio, Hiby and Kamerton do not see the drive at all.
Has anyone had success with any player accessing OTG drives?
I'm having the same problem, I couldn't access my NTFS formatted stick with neither using stickmount nor the Paragon app.
After reformatting my stick to FAT32 it's mounted by the system but only accessible and usable by the integrated android file manager.
I now tried total commander and the Paragon plugin and this way you can access files and play them in your standard player and it's even able to load subtitles to a movie but this way it's not even mounted as separate device anymore and therefore not visible to anything.
I'm using the TurboZ kernel and already wrote the creator about the NTFS problem.
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I'm having the same problem, I couldn't access my NTFS formatted stick with neither using stickmount nor the Paragon app.
After reformatting my stick to FAT32 it's mounted by the system but only accessible and usable by the integrated android file manager.
I now tried total commander and the Paragon plugin and this way you can access files and play them in your standard player and it's even able to load subtitles to a movie but this way it's not even mounted as separate device anymore and therefore not visible to anything.
I'm using the TurboZ kernel and already wrote the creator about the NTFS problem.
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I take it you are still on MM.
I found some better filers but still no players.
MM is a tricky one for Dev's to get OTG right. I read many stackoverflow comments, hence the shortage of apps. I think N might be worse.
See here and other recent post of mine.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3533577
Yes I'm still on MM
It's not the file managers fault but more that there's no reliable/functioning way to actually mount an NTFS or even FAT32 OTG stick in a manner that it's easily visible for apps and such under marshmallow.
I tried a few of your suggested apps but only x-plore and "file manager by scavengers" offered an access to the USB stick prompt but didn't actually display it then (probably because of NTFS) or offer a real mount option so they are not helping with my problem but thanks anyway for the help/suggestion.
Actual mounting isn't supported under marshmallow anymore (as far as I found out) so USB OTG is pretty useless now because I don't want to use a file manager to access the files and hope it's able to combine the video with the subtitle file.
regenwurm16 said:
Yes I'm still on MM
It's not the file managers fault but more that there's no reliable/functioning way to actually mount an NTFS or even FAT32 OTG stick in a manner that it's easily visible for apps and such under marshmallow.
I tried a few of your suggested apps but only x-plore and "file manager by scavengers" offered an access to the USB stick prompt but didn't actually display it then (probably because of NTFS) or offer a real mount option so they are not helping with my problem but thanks anyway for the help/suggestion.
Actual mounting isn't supported under marshmallow anymore (as far as I found out) so USB OTG is pretty useless now because I don't want to use a file manager to access the files and hope it's able to combine the video with the subtitle file.
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Right no hard mounts anymore.
But I use xfat and all app suggestions do work. FX is best but it does not let you use all the app on your phone. But these are Dev growing pains.
I actually just managed to mount it like it used to with stickmount but with an app called "USB OTG helper" by "Ray of light"
I tried it before and it gave me the error that it couldn't create the folder where it wanted to mount the stick so it didn't work but now after installing it again it worked flawlessly.
I suspect it's because I used the "external SD card full access" option from the xposed module "installeropt" because now it didn't write any error messages and worked as expected even with an NTFS USB stick.