OK, sorry if my terminology is incorrect but you should get the gist of what I'm asking.
Let's get this out of the way though, because of how I use my N9 I absolutely *CANNOT* root it, too many apps that I use daily will not work on a rooted device!
OK, so what I want to know is what is the best file browser for USB OTG support and is there a way that a USB OTG drive can be auto-mounted so that applications, e.g. VPlayer, Comic Rack, can see it as a drive and read the contents?
I have tried Antek Explorer Ex and File Commander and they don't appear to see the USB drive. ES File Explorer can see the drive but I'm not a big fan of the interface.
I know there is Nexus Media Importer but is that a "normal" file explorer too? Will it also automount the drive into something readable by other app? (I don't mind paying for apps if they do what I want)
Thanks
not rooted. most apps won't end up showing whats on the drive. Stock android doesn't mount drives (trust me I wish they did - similar to how samsung does) not sure if you need root for Nexus Media Importer but that would be your other option
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer&hl=en
I think StickMount can manually mount HDDs and flash drives for other apps to see without root.
The automount option requires root privileges though.
ES file Explorer works well. They updated it for lollipop sometime last week!
file expert also works well...
Thanks for all the advice.
Stick mount doesn't work on a non-rooted tablet, it FC's
I've settled on using ES File Explorer for the moment,
bobjbain said:
Thanks for all the advice.
Stick mount doesn't work on a non-rooted tablet, it FC's
I've settled on using ES File Explorer for the moment,
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How did that work? I've been trying to get ES File Explorer to recognize my Meenova for the whole day. I have a 64GB FAT32 microSDXC plugged in through Meenova. ES recognizes that something is plugged in, it just freezes when trying to open it. The only app successfully opening it up it Nexus Media Importer.
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How did that work? I've been trying to get ES File Explorer to recognize my Meenova for the whole day. I have a 64GB FAT32 microSDXC plugged in through Meenova. ES recognizes that something is plugged in, it just freezes when trying to open it. The only app successfully opening it up it Nexus Media Importer.
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Never heard of a Meenova before but it looks nice, I've only used a thumb drive with 64gb sdcard plugged in via a USB OTG cable and that has worked fine.
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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.
Hey guys
I have connected my 4gb and 8gb sandisk USB pen drives to my n9 via otg cable but unable to acess any of the pen drives. I have es file explorer installed , still doesn't work. After one weeks try I'm v irritated .
Plz help with a best possible solution
The same works v well with my moto g2 with the same otg cable via es file explorer.
People say to use the nexus media importer but its a paid app.
Thanks
Plz help
What's the file system on the sticks? Only FAT32 and NTFS are supported by es.
Also, try another OTG cable. (USB 2.0 only)..
If the stick doesn't support es, it shouldn't have worked on my motog2 . that's what I have mentioned above
Use Stickmount by Chainfire in the play store. Works well with es explorer.
Finally...working now
Thanks guys
Hi!
I just got a USB stick with both a microUSB and type A connector that work flawless with my Nexus 9.
But I find it unpleasant to save files unencrypted on it from my Nexus 9, imagine that I drop it somewhere or whatever.
I've tried some apps that I don't remember the name of that should encrypt the storage or separate files but these seems only be able to encrypt files in the Nexus 9 internal memory.
It don't have to be compatible with a computer(Linux), but it would be nice if I also was able to decrypt the stored files on another Android device even though it's not a showstopper if that doesn't work.
Note that my devices isn't rooted due to security reasons, so if you know any solution for a non rooted device I will be very greatful.
Thanks for your time!
Was curious about this from your post!
11. Create an encrypted files with password protection
If you have sensitive data in your android, that you don’t want other to see, For instance a private video or images. then the best approach is to encrypt it, with password protecting. right ?
Well look no further, because using ES file manager you can encrypt any files, with password protection. And once you that the content will automatically be hidden from your gallery as well.
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http://receivetipstricks.com/es-file-explorer-tips-tricks/
Edit note: Needs a rooted Nexus 9 and the Stickmount App.
Can encrypt files on usb stick, they need to be encrypted and then decrypted to view.
Don't forget to encrypted them again after viewing or editing.
Don't know about viewing them on another PC, but i guess if you have ES File Manager on another android device it should be able to decrypt them as well.
corkiejp said:
Was curious about this from your post!
http://receivetipstricks.com/es-file-explorer-tips-tricks/
Can encrypt files on usb stick, they need to be encrypted and then decrypted to view.
Don't forget to encrypted them again after viewing or editing.
Don't know about viewing them on another PC, but i guess if you have ES File Manager on another android device it should be able to decrypt them as well.
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Hi,
I'm sorry to tell you that I'm only able to encrypt files with ES File Explorer on the "internal SD-card". I'm not able to do that on the USB stick.
zidz said:
Hi,
I'm sorry to tell you that I'm only able to encrypt files with ES File Explorer on the "internal SD-card". I'm not able to do that on the USB stick.
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It worked for me on a rooted device. Is your device rooted?
Also use the app stickmount to mount the usb stick!
Edit: Tested again and If you use ES File Explorer to mount the stick, you can not encrypt/decrypt files on OTG.
The stickmount app mounts external usb to an internal path
Also installed ES File Explorer on my not rooted xperia z1, and was also able to encrypt a file. + Decrypt it again on the Nexus 9.
corkiejp said:
It worked for me on a rooted device. Is your device rooted?
Also use the app stickmount to mount the usb stick!
Edit: Tested again and If you use ES File Explorer to mount the stick, you can not encrypt/decrypt files on OTG.
The stickmount app mounts external usb to an internal path
Also installed ES File Explorer on my not rooted xperia z1, and was also able to encrypt a file. + Decrypt it again on the Nexus 9.
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Hi,
No my device is intentionally not rooted due to security reasons. Will update OP that this request is for non rooted devices.
Has there been a solution on this topic?
I'm happy the G5 has SDcard support, but especially given that it's now harder to access (vs G4/G3), I like to rely on OTG support for carrying around movies etc. However, that's hard to do if you can't use file sizes > 4GB, as is the limitation with FAT32.
I was excited to see that the SDcard native format in the G5 was ExFat, so I assumed it also supported that through OTG, but I cannot get it to recognize an external flash drive (I've tried a few) formatted as anything other than FAT32. That seems bizarre to me as clearly the OS can handle ExFat.
Anyone else seeing this issue? Am I missing something? Is there something I need to enable or a work-around to this?
besides that, did anyone get USB storage to work in es file explorer?
for me it seems impossible to use anything else than lg's own file browser
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besides that, did anyone get USB storage to work in es file explorer?
for me it seems impossible to use anything else than lg's own file browser
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Son of a.......
Thank you! I hadn't considered that this was a problem unique to ES File Explorer. I just tried using the LG File explorer with an exFat USB drive and tada! It works. So it was an ES problem, NOT a format problem. Well at least that makes more sense.
Also, this time for the first time (I think), ES popped up an error saying that it supports FAT32 and NTFS and then unceremoniously ejected the drive. Didn't see that before. Strange though as I could swear that it supported USB exfat on other phones/tablets so this might be a unique issue. Also interesting is that Astro doesn't see USB storage at all.
Anyways, thanks for sparking the thought!
Try this location ...... mnt/media rw .....un there you should ser your otg folder
Any update we can add to this thread?
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.