Hey XDA, I was looking to purchase a USB OTG setup for my HTC One S and had a few questions for those who have it and use OTG in general (please, only respond if you use OTG and can help). I know support is different on different devices, I would just like general answers is all [Also seen on the One S General section]
1) Is OTG reliable / stable? As in: can I store music on it and easily play it through a media player with no lag / media scan delay?
2) Is it possible to store game data on the storage? In example, Vice City or Modern Combat require you download ~1gb of files (game data) to the SD, can this be placed / read from OTG instead of /storage/sdcard? Keeping in mind my device has internal storage and no external SD support.
3) For those of you who use TWRP recovery, does it play nice with OTG? My device's TWRP version says it supports OTG, I just want to know opinions if it works well. My main use for OTG would be to backup / restore TWRP backups.
If anyone can answer these any of these questions I would greatly appreciate it. I am really interested in OTG since the One S has a limited storage space. Please note: I posted this in the One S general section as well, just putting this here to get more traffic / more answers, plus this may help other users considering OTG on a device with limited storage. Thanks again!
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I'm completely new to mobile phone development but am a very experienced programmer in C++.
I want to write an android app that can copy the contents of one external USB memory card to another external memory card.
From what I can understand from my reading so far I'll need a phone that can host USB devices (OTG) which seems to limit the number of phones I could use.
From the software side of things, would such an application require any special permissions to write to an external USB device? If so how are these permissions gained, I've read about rooting but this seems a pretty brutal method.
There seem to be quite a few initial hurdles to creating this app. I don't own an android phone yet and don't want to end up with a phone I can't write this app on.
Any advise / tips would be much appreciated.
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Hi,
If this has been asked before i apologies but i've searched, used google, and never really found the answer i'm looking for.
I have a nexus 7, OTG cable, flash drive and stickmount installed. As an external storage device this works fine for movies, audio etc.
I'm not experienced with android having only previously used it on my touchpad, and wondered if the following was possible.
Is there an app that can essentially clone the externally mounted USB drive so that when installing an app with a large data download i can choose to download the data to the externally mounted usb drive instead of the main device memory. An example, Spiderman has nearly 2GB of data and i would prefer to move it using an app rather than having to continuously move the data file from the root to the external USB using es file explorer.
Many thanks for the help
Doobdonk said:
Hi,
If this has been asked before i apologies but i've searched, used google, and never really found the answer i'm looking for.
I have a nexus 7, OTG cable, flash drive and stickmount installed. As an external storage device this works fine for movies, audio etc.
I'm not experienced with android having only previously used it on my touchpad, and wondered if the following was possible.
Is there an app that can essentially clone the externally mounted USB drive so that when installing an app with a large data download i can choose to download the data to the externally mounted usb drive instead of the main device memory. An example, Spiderman has nearly 2GB of data and i would prefer to move it using an app rather than having to continuously move the data file from the root to the external USB using es file explorer.
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Hard Link feature of ext4 partition can help you.
Deciding to perform a backup is a safe way to preserve your data whenever you flash something that might brick your device, so whenever I plan to do one, I tend use my own usb flash drive with a usb to otg host adapter. However, I've always wondered, isn't there a better and more efficient way to transfer such a large file? Upon choosing which storage to mount in the TWRP recovery, I see either two options, the phone's internal storage or a usb storage, but why can't the third option be the storage of our own computer? So today I ask the knowledgeable and obviously helpful users of the xda forums to give their own generous input on whether this action is even remotely possible or if they simply and bluntly tell me I'm full of it to end my curiosity.
Hello Everyone,
I am using redmi note 4 Snapdragon version miui 8.10.0 MCFMIDI. I want to connect my device to Toshiba 1 tb hdd.
A few days back I was able to connect my device to Toshiba 1 tb hdd but now I am not able to connect now. I am able to read the contents with es file Explorer by cannot write on hdd.I am using stickmount app to connect. I have already transferred approximately 100 GB of data directly from my phone to 1 tb hdd without any difficulty. There is also no power problem as many complain. Toshiba takes 900mah power which is what a 64gb or more USB drive takes. I can connect my 64GB USB drive which is formatted in NTFS format and I am having no difficulty in transferring copying the files but in external hard drive I am unable unable to connect now.
My device is rooted.
Kindly somebody help.
Thanks
Best Wishes
kk100 said:
Hello Everyone, I am using redmi note 4 Snapdragon version miui 8.10.0 MCFMIDI...
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I don't have this device but, your best bet is to post this question within the following Q&A thread that's specific to your device.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3527620
Good Luck!
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kk100 said:
Hello Everyone,
I am using redmi note 4 Snapdragon version miui 8.10.0 MCFMIDI. I want to connect my device to Toshiba 1 tb hdd.
A few days back I was able to connect my device to Toshiba 1 tb hdd but now I am not able to connect now. I am able to read the contents with es file Explorer by cannot write on hdd.I am using stickmount app to connect. I have already transferred approximately 100 GB of data directly from my phone to 1 tb hdd without any difficulty. There is also no power problem as many complain. Toshiba takes 900mah power which is what a 64gb or more USB drive takes. I can connect my 64GB USB drive which is formatted in NTFS format and I am having no difficulty in transferring copying the files but in external hard drive I am unable unable to connect now.
My device is rooted.
Kindly somebody help.
Thanks
Best Wishes
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[ SOLVED]
There was no help from anybody. I solved this by myself. I am posting very late (SORRY FOR THAT).
There is this thing you have to keep Documents in Settings Enabled.
1, Go to settings /Installed Apps /Documents /Now Enable it.
2, You have close all apps then Clear Ram Now open ES file Explorer Now connect the 1tb Hdd to the phone through USB Now there will be a pop up asking to open the file One will be ES file Explorer or may be another Explorer and other will be Stickmount app open only Stickmount app not any file Explorer the Stickmount app will start working and give you notification that the hdd is now connected Now open already opened ES file Explorer you will now be able to transfer files. Es file Explorer will not show the real size and free size but it's in working condition. ENJOY
If you can afford please purchase the Stickmount pro version. We should appreciate the developers and if we can afford then definitely buy the app.
I think some apps are very necessary for all Android user's and we should purchase the app if affordable.
I Have transfered a total of more than 200Gb to my 1tb hdd only by my phone.
IMPORTANT - Its highly advisable that you disconnect Mobile data and Calling Switch to airplane mode because when the data is being transferred any notification can disrupt the transfer and there will be another problem it will stuck in middle then another problem arises you will not be able to connect to hdd again. Now you have to find a PC and connect the hdd and do file repair usb which is asked in PC automatically. I had this problem and suffered a lot gave lot of time and energy tried to find Android apps to fix this but not found it.
Hoping somebody will benefit from my problems
Best Wishes
Is there a way to download torrents using flud to a usb otg drive? I can only download to my sd card or internal storage. I am competent to edit configuration files.
I have a sony xperia z3 running stock marshmallow.
perambulate123 said:
Is there a way to download torrents using flud to a usb otg drive? I can only download to my sd card or internal storage. I am competent to edit configuration files.
I have a sony xperia z3 running stock marshmallow.
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Did you find a solution?
Other than using a phone with an os that permitted this such as I think Kit Kat - no I didnt. I did discover a useful little trick though you might find interesting. There is a apk called UMS enabler (I think it is from an XDA developer - it is not on Google playstore) that allows (with a rooted phone) to plug in the phone and mount a micro sd card as a drive on your computer. With this you can do interesting things such as make playlists with media player classic or maybe vlc save the playlists to a folder on the micro sd card, and an android media player called Rocket will access them perfectly. Much faster than making playlists on your phone. I have lots of audiobooks, lectures from youtube in addition to music. Rocket player has its own database organizer. I had not found any other players at the time that would do this. I tried them all. I think some may now allow this, but after android 10 the android file database organizer would not permit this. I had given up on finding a way to mount a usb stick to download directly to - if I find it I will let you know. Cheers