I have been looking for info and i don't even know right now if i can do this or how to do.
With Android 6.0 i read some info about formating an external OTG drive as internal storage. This is for example, to move apps to the drive, isn't it?
I have a pendrive OTG with microusb, and pluged into my nexus 9, but it's formated just for data. When i try to format from the tablet there is no more option that to format in the same way, just for data.
Theres is something wrong? something hidden? i'm just mistaken with this functionality?
Thank you in advance!
http://liliputing.com/2015/10/android-6-0-can-treat-sd-cards-as-internal-storage-at-a-cost.html
Not recommend for OTG pendrive and questionable for SD cards.
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I'm just wondering if the external portable hard drive USB would work on the G Tablet. Or a flash drive USB ?
Yes they do. There are a number of threads in the General section on this. I've used a 100Gb portable hard drive on my GTablet.
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I'm just wondering if the external portable hard drive USB would work on the G Tablet. Or a flash drive USB ?
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Yep. The externals need to be powered via AC if they're spinning disks. Flash drives don't.
I've had trouble with an external drive formatted to NTFS. I'm fairly sure that if it's formatted to Fat32 it'll be fine.
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I've had trouble with an external drive formatted to NTFS. I'm fairly sure that if it's formatted to Fat32 it'll be fine.
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External NTFS-formatted drives work fine as long as you only want to read them. Writing to NTFS filesystems using the kernel filesystem module is still, erm, experimental.
See this post to find out how.
ssd drive
Anyone know if ssd drives will work?
Hey guys I have been trying to get some info if it is possible to put on and play larger files then 4gb on my galaxy s2.
I havebought a micro usb to HDMI adapter and I want to stream blurry rips to my projector using my phone.
I know the file system is good only to 4gb but why is there no custom rom that Will let me formated and read/write to say ntfs in my sd card in my phone. Isn't android Linux based? I know my ubuntu has no problems reading and writing ntfs. Why can the inserted sd card not be treated like a hard drive I plug into my laptop?
Thanks for your time.
I'm not 100% sure, but if the system is set to FAT32, then it won't be able to read NTFS anyways... and microSD card is set to Fat32, so there is a problem. But there is a possible workaround I will tell you to try AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Remember, this may or may not work... so this is what you should do to be safe:
1) Do not format the card with your phone. Take it out and plug it into your PC via
a usb card reader. Make sure your system is set to see ALL files (hidden)... and copy the whole microSD card contents to a backup folder on your PC (preserving everything as is).
2) Now select your card drive and format by selecting NTFS format.
***many MicroSD cards can't be formatted like that .. but you can give it a try and see.
OH, and you might need to use Drive Mount by Dwayne Hoy. HERE
If it doesn't work - then format it back to Fat32 and put back all your content.
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There are different ways you can backup your Card, but I take no responsibility if this screws things up
Good luck!
I have a 2-in-1 USB OTG Card reader. I formatted my 16 GB strontium micro sd card with NTFS. But when I connect the card via USB OTG card reader, phone says "USB card is either blank or format not supported." But it works when formatted as FAT32. Does K900 support NTFS formatted internal storage and external (via OTG) storage. Has anyone tried connecting a portable HDD via USB OTG??
Can't Read NTFS USB...
asratxda said:
I have a 2-in-1 USB OTG Card reader. I formatted my 16 GB strontium micro sd card with NTFS. But when I connect the card via USB OTG card reader, phone says "USB card is either blank or format not supported." But it works when formatted as FAT32. Does K900 support NTFS formatted internal storage and external (via OTG) storage. Has anyone tried connecting a portable HDD via USB OTG??
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Try formatting it FAT32, that'll take care of your problem.
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Try formatting it FAT32, that'll take care of your problem.
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i have the same problem...fat32 is working...NTFS is not working...any solution??NTFS is better then FAT32
You can use paragon ntfs&hfs. Get it from playstore. Root access needed. I always use it to access files from my 500Gb external HDD
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You can use paragon ntfs&hfs. Get it from playstore. Root access needed. I always use it to access files from my 500Gb external HDD
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Thanks for your reply. I have not rooted my phone, but it will be useful for my other phone. ... ... ... (I actually download a lot of torrents and I don't want to keep my PC running. I use "Flud" torrent app to download torrents, developed by a xda member.)
How to mount an USB stick formatted ext2/3/4?
When I connect a FAT formatted stick, it works, NTFS too using the Paragon_NTFS TC plugin.
I thought ext2/3/4 is supported, when the system and internal storage is on an ext4 partition.
Has the tablet to be rooted?
Tried also an ext3 formatted SDCard in the tablet, the result is the same - it says the card is empty or an unsupported filesystem..
The format it is told to read the sd card is different from the format it's told to read the system as. I'd say you'd have to be rooted if making any changes to what's readable versus what's not. The only thing is I'm not too sure on how exactly you'd do that other than using a cwm recovery and adding an extension partition on your card.
I'm afraid I need to do something like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/dell-venue/general/guide-ext4-microsd-card-dell-venue-8-t3042906
The main problem is, I can't root my Venue because I've encrypted the filesystem.
I'm afraid I have to reformat my USB sticks to FAT32/NTFS ...
Decrypt then? Root and recrypt?
Edit: did you buy a large as card?
My 32 is in but have only had issues with higher cards like 64 and 128. There's an application I once used to format the card on board but when I plugged it into PC whether Linux or win, they'd get corrupted. So now the 128 lives in my laptop and the 64 in phone. 32 for the tablet for me is plenty. Onboard formatted to exFat I believe. Backup your goods. [emoji12]
Edit 2: I'm sure there's an app for that. No? Sorry, I was talking micro SD like a MF, lol! Stuff like that is not cool but I throw everything on my biggest USB 128 and it's formatted to NTFS but my others are just fat and don't read either.
According the instructions when encrypting, there is no decrypting, only factory reset.
I have a 64GB card, formatted to FAT32, no issues so far.
The idea was to use an EXT3 formatted USB thumb drive for big files (movies), so far I'm bypassing the problem with a NTFS formatted USB thumb drive and the Paragon_NTFS TC plugin but I have to copy the big file to the internal storage because the plugin doesn't make the NTFS drive visible for other apps than TC (Total Commander).
Edit: There are apps for mounting USB EXT2/3/4 (USB OTG Helper, USB Mount All, StickMount) but they all require root.
Then follow the crowd and. ..
Root it, root it, root it.... lol
Those were the apps I've used before and I root every device I own before I even get comfy with it.
Hey guys I just got a Nexus 9 and a Micro USB SD Card Adapter, and I was wondering what custom ROM gives us the function to combine the internal storage with a SD Card connected via USB OTG?
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Hey guys I just got a Nexus 9 and a Micro USB SD Card Adapter, and I was wondering what custom ROM gives us the function to combine the internal storage with a SD Card connected via USB OTG?
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None. USB otg doesn't contain the right mount points or, anything really to make it adoptable storage like you can with a device which has an SD card slot.
Oh okay when ever I root my tablet would I still be able to move apps to my OTG SD Card? Or does that require adoptable storage?
bigboolean said:
Oh okay when ever I root my tablet would I still be able to move apps to my OTG SD Card? Or does that require adoptable storage?
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you're only going to be able to use OTG for Media or file storage or playing movies that you have stored on it. You can't move apps to it or anything like that. OTG is not the same thing as having a built-in SD card slot.