Got a Android 6.0 xiaomi mi box, 4k international version. s905x processor
All I want is to do is give write access to a particular application, to a folder on the usb drive! Xiaomi interface does not prompt for granting permissions. and googling around suggests that this device can't be rooted as well!
There has to be a way!! This is driving me nuts. Please help
Thanks
Edit: sorry posted to wrong section! Please move. ty
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bumpity!
Having the same problem here. Does anyone know if the device can bee rooted and, if so, whether this helps?
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Having the same problem here. Does anyone know if the device can bee rooted and, if so, whether this helps?
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The MDZ-16-AB can in fact be rooted , but for now it requires you to keep the device in "USB Debugging mode" , preventing you from using the USB port. While you can turn off debugging if you need, should your device reset with debugging off, you won't have a way to exit the bootloop created by rooting the device. You need to send 2 adb commands to exit the bootloop. If you can't send those commands , then your only option is to reflash the device using the recovery. If your remote gets disconnected from the mi box , then you can't enter recovery mode, which means your device is now stuck in a forever bootloop.
There might be a way to re-pair the remote, but I haven't looked into that yet. I read in a post someone saying you might be able to re-pair the remote by inserting and removing the batteries until you get lucky.
While messing around with root and trying to fix the bootloop , at some point my MDZ-16-AB told me to resync the remote to it. It showed me a screen of the remote real close to the device, and said something like : Place the remote within 20 centimeters of the device and hold BACK + ENTER. Not sure why this popped because my remote was still synced, but it's good to know. I have no idea if this would work while in a bootloop though.
You can find information on how to root across this thread : https://forum.xda-developers.com/android-stick--console-computers/amlogic/s905x-help-mi-box-android-tv-mdz-16-ab-t3477286
Hi,
Any suggestion other root and wait the Android 7 update ?
It's a shame to can't copy anything on USB drive !
Maybe there is a way in converting my HDD in internal memory but it will format it and don't know how to copy file frome computer to this HDD.
Regards
Write access on HDD with Root
I solved this problem with use of Xposed + Marshmallow SD Fix. Need Root access on your Box. Now Full write access on all hdd
Il Explain the process : This trick need to edit system settings for security on external storage :
-Install XposedInstaller, install the Framework, reboot the Box. (App optimisation after install Xposed)
- Install Marshmallow SD Fix on PlayStore, activate the application in Xposed Installer in "modules"
Launch the app SDFix, select the app you want to write access on all drives. new reboot on your box.
I explore the Web one long night for this problem to write access, without root, I think it's not easy to change this android security setting.
For Box with Root, Now have fun with the write access on all drives ! I use this write access on my HDD for Samba Share, AirDroid access for remove or move files, or in SPMC for directly delete files on the application. or in the app ES Fil Explorer, no confirmation prompt, perfect.
My Android Box :
Bqeel K12 SOC Amlogic S912 - 2GB RAM - 32 GB MMC - Android 6.0.1 Full root, Busy Box installed, and Xposed Framework.
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Hi,
I'm not sure it's easy to root Xiaomi Mi Box cause it's not a simple Android but it's Android TV.
Finally I've formated my HDD in internal memory and put on in all my data with FTP by ES Explorer.
Now all is good and no restriction but my HDD is now only for this box.
This is driving me crazy....has anyone been able to get the box to write on HDD without root???
What do you mean exactly?
Try Solid explorer from the play store. I am not sure if there is a Android TV version. might need to sideload them.
Using Solid explorer I am able to write to SD card on my non-rooted Android 7 phone.
You can't write on USB devices on Android TV 6.0.1.
Two options :
- wait Android TV 7
- format your USB drive as internal memory => works fine
I have need to format USB on windows machine as NTFS partition and then stick has worked.
Did anyone figure this out?
The main reason I got the Mi Box is to connect it to my external drive with my media and download torrents and stuff to it.
Much to my surprise, you can't use external drives with this box. It's absolutely insane, I regret buying it...
Please tell me there is a way I can use my hard drive and won't have to bin this thing.
Lukalumen said:
Did anyone figure this out?
The main reason I got the Mi Box is to connect it to my external drive with my media and download torrents and stuff to it.
Much to my surprise, you can't use external drives with this box. It's absolutely insane, I regret buying it...
Please tell me there is a way I can use my hard drive and won't have to bin this thing.
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format the external hdd as internal memory and you can download just fine.
Can anyone explain why it is so complicated .formatted as external storage - you cant write. Formatted as internal storage - first took so long . Try to format 1tb. Second you can write but now cant use it with other devices. Pc etc. Why is this for?
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Can anyone explain why it is so complicated .formatted as external storage - you cant write. Formatted as internal storage - first took so long . Try to format 1tb. Second you can write but now cant use it with other devices. Pc etc. Why is this for?
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Non-rooted mi box 3 (global version) external hard disk write permission issue solutions:
1. Download exfat/NTFS paragon app and mount the usb device. Now you can delete, write, copy, cut the all files in usb device with Total Commander app.
2. Download PopCorn Time app. This app can download movies and tv shows to your external hard disk with no need to root.
These 2 methods work fine with my nonrooted mi box 3.
How to enable writing to a usb drive on Mi Box
Do you own a Mi box and you can't write to a usb drive? Only reading?
Do you get an error when trying to access the usb drive?
Here is a solution to format the USB drive in a way that you would be able to write for it.
WARNING: DURING THIS PROCESS ALL OF THE DATA THAT IS STORED ON THE USB DRIVE WILL BE DELETED. MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP THE USB DRIVE CONTENT BEFORE PROCESSDING.
Option 1:
After plugging the usb drive , go to settings and format as device storage. DONT MOVE ANY DATA AND APP TO THE USB DRIVR EVEN IF IT ASKS YOU.
After that, format the USB drive as removable storage.
Now you can write data to the usb drive.
Option 2:
Open your computer and format the usb drive with the FAT32 file system with an allocation unit size of 16 kilobytes or 32 kilobytes.
Give the usb drive a name without any spaces.
After formatting the usb drive in the proper way, I recommend using es explorer to arrange the files in the drive.
Enjoy!
mataniss said:
Do you own a Mi box and you can't write to a usb drive? Only reading?
Do you get an error when trying to access the usb drive?
Here is a solution to format the USB drive in a way that you would be able to write for it.
WARNING: DURING THIS PROCESS ALL OF THE DATA THAT IS STORED ON THE USB DRIVE WILL BE DELETED. MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP THE USB DRIVE CONTENT BEFORE PROCESSDING.
Option 1:
After plugging the usb drive , go to settings and format as device storage. DONT MOVE ANY DATA AND APP TO THE USB DRIVR EVEN IF IT ASKS YOU.
After that, format the USB drive as removable storage.
Now you can write data to the usb drive.
Option 2:
Open your computer and format the usb drive with the FAT32 file system with an allocation unit size of 16 kilobytes or 32 kilobytes.
Give the usb drive a name without any spaces.
After formatting the usb drive in the proper way, I recommend using es explorer to arrange the files in the drive.
Enjoy!
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I'm follow option 1, it works. But after 1 month the problem comeback. There is no other way except format? Cause data on my hardisk is 300gb
mataniss said:
Do you own a Mi box and you can't write to a usb drive? Only reading?
Do you get an error when trying to access the usb drive?
Here is a solution to format the USB drive in a way that you would be able to write for it.
WARNING: DURING THIS PROCESS ALL OF THE DATA THAT IS STORED ON THE USB DRIVE WILL BE DELETED. MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP THE USB DRIVE CONTENT BEFORE PROCESSDING.
Option 1:
After plugging the usb drive , go to settings and format as device storage. DONT MOVE ANY DATA AND APP TO THE USB DRIVR EVEN IF IT ASKS YOU.
After that, format the USB drive as removable storage.
Now you can write data to the usb drive.
Option 2:
Open your computer and format the usb drive with the FAT32 file system with an allocation unit size of 16 kilobytes or 32 kilobytes.
Give the usb drive a name without any spaces.
After formatting the usb drive in the proper way, I recommend using es explorer to arrange the files in the drive.
Enjoy!
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Thanks, but none if of this works. Mi Box TV 3 Oreo, I just tried with a brand new USB key, no way, to be able to write stuff....using ES Explorer, WIFI Expplorer etc.... I think I will throw it to garbage soon.
It's amazing we cannot write to our USB key connected to the mi box....I am trying to understand what's behind this, in 2019...what a waste of time...seriously. Why did they do that ?
EDIT: apparently it's Android TV permission, it's the same for other Android TV boxes.
I've tried VirtualHere with no success, yet. https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1023331/why-can-t-i-write-to-external-usb-on-shield-tv-/
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Hello,
I can't mount NTFS USB external hard disk, but an NTFS USB KEY is working ????, on the micro usb with the adaptor ARCHOS USB microUSB, is it normal?
Thanks.
NTFS is currently only read only and it doesn't like to mount properly. You could reformat as FAT32 but it won't any file larger than 4GB.
The best option is to format as EXT3 with EASEUS Partition Master then use a program like EXT2FSD or EXT2IFS to allow windows to read the drive correctly.
Also if for some reason you want to keep NTFS you may have to reformat before it will mount.
As far as a cable goes, I always use the 3G stick slot. Works a lot better and I don't have the usb adaptor.
3G slot
What you conect to 3G slot?
reelnoob said:
What you conect to 3G slot?
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I connect the mini usb cable from my hdd directly to the fullsize 3G slot, then I turn 3g stick on in the settings. It's very important that you have "3G stick" checkmarked in Wireless & Networks otherwise you won't get power to your drive and nothing will mount.
which drive
Ok butt which drive you use?
I use a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 640GB if that's what you're wondering.
USB host functionality
Hello to all, and best wishes for 2012 year.
Could you precise which firmware version you're running, when you have success to mount a 'USB host' peripheral ?
I tried many USB keys (6 keys, from 2 GB up to 16 GB), with different formats ( NTFS , FAT, FAT32, ext3 ) but without success. The same with a 250 GB external HDD (having its own PSU) using NTFS.
Originally, I tested with version 3.2.78 , and since this morning, 3.2.79
Still the same : Nothing detected when pluging the USB peripheral
The 3G interface is activated in settings. The tablet has been rebooted a lot of times, but.... nothing !
Any idea ?
Thanks.
Plug it into a windows PC. If it needs drivers, then your out of luck, sorry
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Thanks for answer
All media tested ( USB or external HDD ) are OK into PCs, but no reaction on Archos 101 G9....
Doume59249 said:
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All media tested ( USB or external HDD ) are OK into PCs, but no reaction on Archos 101 G9....
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But do they need to install drivers when they are first plugged into the PC?
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Hard to be sure, but all of them had already been used on PC previously, so may be the drivers have been installed in the past ?
@Doume59249 Okay some drives have hidden paritions that may interfere with their operation. Nothing is special with my tablet. It's a 101 classic with 1.0ghz processor bought before December. I currently run 3.2.78 rooted but it has also worked on every stock firmware prior.
Getting back to the hidden partitions. If your jumpdrive/hdd autoruns some bloatwear program or shows a cd drive when you mount it then you probably have a hidden partition.
Put your jumpdrive/hdd in the computer and hit:
start>run>diskmgmt.msc
Back up anything important you have on the drive, there's a chance it may format with this method....although it probably shouldn't, you should reformat if you have any problems. MAKE SURE YOU FIND YOUR JUMPDRIVE VOLUME.
If you see any partitions other than the main one, right click the smaller partition>delete.
Then higlight the primary/larger partition and right click>extend
Go through the wizard it should default to the maximum avaliable space.
Verify that it is fat32. Remember, if you will NOT be able to store files larger than 4GB with fat32 so I recommend to try this with a small jumpdrive and not an hdd.
Enable 3G stick in your settings and try it in your tablet again. Boot with the jumpdrive plugged in if for some reason it doesn't want to mount. If it doesn't work then maybe Archos has handycapped some of their tablets. It could also be a physical problem with your port. I'm really not sure. Hope this helped.
Thanks for suggestions
I have tested different ways, to be sure to have only 1 partition on USB medias
- Using diskmgmt.msc under Windows Vista Pro to remove partitions and format into FAT32
- Using fdisk on Linux to remove all partitioning before to insert key into Vista, to format it into FAT32
I also tried with many USB keys
I've rebooted my Archos 101 G9 (using 3.2.78 too ), with the key inserted
But no success.....
I think the 3G location is'nt available on my tablet ( no led blinking when inserting USB keys into slot )
Probably a hardware problem : I'll try to contact Archos support about that
Question : Do you have any led blinking, when you insert a running jumpdrive ?
One more time, many thanks for your help
ciao, very very quick test using "3g port" with Archos 101 g9 8gb, 3.2.79 rooted (thank you coolkid602008 for the trick here micro usb host cable is difficult to find in physical stores).
usb Nilox 4gb fat32 -> obviously it works
usb Kingston 8gb ntfs -> system sees but it does not mount
2.5 wd hd (500 gb) ntfs (single usb cable, data + power) -> Strangely it works!
all of these with single primary partition.
next step (when and if I have time) is try a very old creative webcam ct6840 with Omni Vision 7620 chip (I have an old box full of them at work...) that has always been recognized in any linux distribution. ciao
Thanks, hitman72
Finally, the Archos support suggest me to return the tablet, because this should be operational, and a second problem occurred :
When waking up the tablet, the screen becomes 'crazy' : A lot of breaks into applications, the 'back' button blinking alone, without any control. All the tablet becomes uncontrollable... Probably a bad contact on screen.
So, finally, I put it back to reseller, for a return to Archos.
I'll post here feedback after return.
Thanks to all for your help
Hi, I bought "usb host cable" for my g9 101, here are some tests (rooted 3.2.80):
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not counting the use of wireless keyboard and mouse. The usb host cable seems pretty useless. The biggest problem is not being able to use 2.5 western digital hd with ntfs primary partition (it works with 3g port...). from terminal (I'm a linux newbie) I tried to mount it but I was not able to use it. ciao
I've been playing with USB support for a while as well. I've managed to get almost every device I own to work. To get the back to work, I need to turn on the 3G (to get power).
Rosewill SD Reader (Both - Some times requires mutliple insertions)
Logitech Keyboard and Mouse (Both - Unify)
El-cheapo game control (back only and required a USB hub)
USB3 external NTFS 640GB (back - read only)
Fail: i-Rocks MultiReader
One of the tricks I've seen is to insert a USB hub between the devices. I have no idea why, but sometimes this helps (although it sucks power). Sometimes I have to reboot to make it work. Another trick is turning the 3G Stick on and off.
dburckh said:
I've been playing with USB support for a while as well. I've managed to get almost every device I own to work. To get the back to work, I need to turn on the 3G (to get power).
Rosewill SD Reader (Both - Some times requires mutliple insertions)
Logitech Keyboard and Mouse (Both - Unify)
El-cheapo game control (back only and required a USB hub)
USB3 external NTFS 640GB (back - read only)
Fail: i-Rocks MultiReader
One of the tricks I've seen is to insert a USB hub between the devices. I have no idea why, but sometimes this helps (although it sucks power). Sometimes I have to reboot to make it work. Another trick is turning the 3G Stick on and off.
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Thank you for your tries, is a serious problem for me not to use a ntfs hd with cable host. for someone expert in linux, can you tell us if we can make some attempt to mount ntfs hd from terminal (or other means)? ciao
Finally, I'll forgot this tablet as soon as possible :
After 1 month of patience, they finally call me to propose a replacement
Being at shop, I required to open the new one box, to test it before leave...
And it has exactly the same problem : The tablet works alone, without any user intervention ( popup windows, notifications , switch to application list... )
The same false-contact in tactile screen than my first one. Unbelievable !
So, I required to have my money back, and they agree.
Few hours later, I bought an Acer Iconia Tab A200, and it works perfectly
You can connect any NTFS peripheral on its USB host dedicated port, and you can read/write on it, without restrictions. All USB keys tested worked fine, that's all !
Just bought USB OTG cable samsung original Model: ET-R205UBEGSTD, mfg date 22/5/2012.
It displays my pen 16gb usb NTFS drive after i had installed siyah kernel and Oi filemanager. However when i connected it to the external 500GB WD HDD it just powered it on and didn't show as mounted or anything. After waiting sometime i removed it.
I dont know if the power requirement of the drive is too much for SIII or what but now the external drive is not even being recognized by my PC. Hope it wasn't screwed by S3.
Anyone tried OTG with external HDD?
Update: It fked up my external HDD and it's not being recognized by my pc or any other device. Shows as unrecognized USB device. Took it apart but the WD proprietory connection at the back will not allow me to connect it directly to PC. I lost about 250GB worth of data on it.
I've a friend who has tried this, he said he wasn't able to see the drive via his phone either.
He has siyah kernel and it is ntfs, but no dice. However his hard drive still works afaik.
I know that connecting drives works as I've seen it done but I've never tried it.
What do you think was the cause?
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best chance is with usb 3 harddisks as they need only a third of the power (vs usb2) to boot.
dladz said:
I've a friend who has tried this, he said he wasn't able to see the drive via his phone either.
He has siyah kernel and it is ntfs, but no dice. However his hard drive still works afaik.
I know that connecting drives works as I've seen it done but I've never tried it.
What do you think was the cause?
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The usb pen drive does work, even NTFS formated 16gb one.
I'm just stumped at SIII screwing up my externel WD drive. Now don't want to try my other 250 or 1TB 3.0 version on it.
Shug69 said:
best chance is with usb 3 harddisks as they need only a third of the power (vs usb2) to boot.
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Yes i have 1TB usb3 but dont want to take anymore chances, already lost 250+gb worth of data
If anyone else has tried it pls do share.
Also how to make XB360 usb controller work on it as i've connected it but need an app to recognize it.
I tried many flash drives, all worked properly, I even tried a wireless mouse and it worked instantly
however, I tried two WD 500 GB HDs , both weren't recognized by the phone, but they worked normally after that when I connected them to my PC, hopefully your data can be salvaged somehow !
I''ve a Samsung S2 1tb. Works fine ntfs stock Rom and siyah
best chance is with usb 3 harddisks as they need only a third of the power (vs usb2) to boot.
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USB3-specification is designed to require less power for the protocol and communication chip. However the devices (USB-sticks or in this case hard drives) are not affected by that; the spindle motor still drains a huge amount of power and usually goes well above the specified 0.5Amp of USB2 during start-up.
USB-Harddrives may cause damage to the phone's motherboard due to them requiring more power than the whole phone itself takes.
It's noteworthy that, while compatible with the USB2 protocol, USB-OTG is specifically NOT compatible with devices except if explicitly stated as compatible. Regardless most devices just work.
I'd recommend only using flash drives (since they need only a small amount of power) or powered hard drives, respectively unpowered ones on a powered hub.
The phone's (Linux) exFat-implementation is kinda broken, so if your harddrive was FAT64 it might have caused partition table corruption.
The corresponding Windows tools should however usually be able to at least partially recover the filesystem.
NTFS, as from the NTFS-3g project, should work fine.
Please provide a dmesg logfile from a USB-plugin attempt.
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Please provide a dmesg logfile from a USB-plugin attempt.
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Sorry don't know what you mean? When i connect to my computer or to phone?
Computer shows device not recognized and then in device manager there is usb device list with this one showing with exclamation mark.
Sorry don't know what you mean? When i connect to my computer or to phone?
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On the phone, however I'd recommend doing it over adb since typing in the phone's terminal emulator is cumbersome and speed is the key here =)
Dmesg reports the last X messages given by the kernel which includes USB and filesystems.
Type 'dmesg > /sdcard/log.otg.txt' (no quotes) but DO NOT PRESS ENTER
Plug in the USB-OTG adapter without anything attached.
Hit Enter as soon as it's connected to run the command.
Now type 'dmesg > /sdcard/log.mount.txt' (no quotes) and again DO NOT PRESS ENTER
Plug in the hard drive / Usb stick and wait 2 seconds, then hit Enter
Attach both logfiles here so we can see whaat your phone actually does and what goes wrong.
d4fseeker said:
On the phone, however I'd recommend doing it over adb since typing in the phone's terminal emulator is cumbersome and speed is the key here =)
Dmesg reports the last X messages given by the kernel which includes USB and filesystems.
Type 'dmesg > /sdcard/log.otg.txt' (no quotes) but DO NOT PRESS ENTER
Plug in the USB-OTG adapter without anything attached.
Hit Enter as soon as it's connected to run the command.
Now type 'dmesg > /sdcard/log.mount.txt' (no quotes) and again DO NOT PRESS ENTER
Plug in the hard drive / Usb stick and wait 2 seconds, then hit Enter
Attach both logfiles here so we can see whaat your phone actually does and what goes wrong.
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If i use adb from computer connected to my S3 then i can't connect the USB Drive. So will need to use S3's terminal. Let me try it.
edit: did it using terminal on S3.
I tried to connect my 1 tb wd drive and it was recognized and working (without external power)
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I tried to connect my 1 tb wd drive and it was recognized and working (without external power)
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Good to know is it USB 3?
Someone on another forum suggested i shud put the HDD in freezer overnight and try it next day. Will try it and put it in freezer tonight.
UPDATE: After putting it in freezer last night in the morning i plugged it in the pc and it popped the msg of autoplay and wow all the stuff is there. Will copy it all to another drive before it thaws
MadMatt89 said:
I tried to connect my 1 tb wd drive and it was recognized and working (without external power)
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What brand, model, & USB version is this 1TB HDD please?
sak500 said:
Good to know is it USB 3?
Someone on another forum suggested i shud put the HDD in freezer overnight and try it next day. Will try it and put it in freezer tonight.
UPDATE: After putting it in freezer last night in the morning i plugged it in the pc and it popped the msg of autoplay and wow all the stuff is there. Will copy it all to another drive before it thaws
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I managed to recover most data from a broken harddisk after putting it in the freezer overnight. I couldn't believe it but it really did magic.
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And I am able to use a 2.5" usb2 500gb external harddisk via otg. S3 is on stock rom, rooted, with otg usb helper, busybox, ntfs drivers..., and the harddisk connected with external power.
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Don't know if I can do this or not, but I just started this thread looking for some specific info re connecting the largest external HDD to SG SIII without an external power source for the HDD (i.e., the largest HDD you have successfully connected directly to your S3 using an OTG cable). If anyone can contribute, I'll be eternally grateful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1936037
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.
First off, I am very new to the world of ROMs/modding, so I apologize in advance if anything that follows misuses any terms or fails to provide proper information. Please let me know if you need me to clarify anything.
I have an Atrix 4G with AT&T running the stock 2.3.6 build 4.5.141. In light of Motorola's recent abandonment, I took it upon myself to load the stable version of CM7 onto my phone until enough of the bugs in CM10 had been worked out. I lurked XDA for a while until I got up the courage to root my phone and unlock my bootloader, at which I was successful (thanks, guys!), but I ran into a problem when I tried to use ClockworkMod Recovery to flash the ROM. After what seemed like a successful installation, I got caught in a boot loop, and had to boot to recovery mode.
Here's where I did the stupid thing: while in recovery mode, I tried several different options that I did not fully understand and somehow ended up getting it to boot back to the stock OS restored to what appear to be more or less factory settings. That's good, right? Well, now neither my phone's internal storage nor the external SD card will show up in my phone. I guess they aren't mounting? In Settings>Storage, the option to mount the SD card is grayed out and the internal storage listing is nowhere to be seen. Obviously this keeps me from accessing my recovery data, if it's even still there. My wifi also seems to not be working, displaying "error" whenever I try to turn it on in Settings.
The weird thing is that my phone's OS seems to be working fine otherwise. I can't access any file storage, but I can install apps to the app storage partition and use them just fine, as long as they don't require internal or SD storage. I am honestly confounded and I cannot find anything that resembles a solution to this problem. I am done messing with things I don't understand, so I am asking for help.
Help?
No idea what you did, but I'd say you somehow managed to bork both your storages. The easiest way to fix this is to go to CWM and format both internal and external storages. The downsize to this is obviously that you will definitely lose everything stored there. A more complicated approach would be to connect the phone to the computer and run some filesystem scanning/fixing/repairing tools and hope for the best. As for the external SD card, it would be even better if you could pull it out and put it into a card reader and connect it to the computer that way.
ravilov said:
No idea what you did, but I'd say you somehow managed to bork both your storages. The easiest way to fix this is to go to CWM and format both internal and external storages. The downsize to this is obviously that you will definitely lose everything stored there. A more complicated approach would be to connect the phone to the computer and run some filesystem scanning/fixing/repairing tools and hope for the best. As for the external SD card, it would be even better if you could pull it out and put it into a card reader and connect it to the computer that way.
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Thank you for your reply.
I followed your advice and attempted to format /sdcard and /emmc (I believe that's internal storage) in recovery mode. I got a mount error when I tried the /sdcard, but /emmc format appeared to be successful. I then rebooted the phone, but the conditions are still the same. No internal or external SD storage. I will try to get a card reader for the micro SD card to look at it on my computer, but I am alarmed that I can't get access to my internal storage even after formatting it.
What kind of filesystem tools would I need to use while plugged into a computer? What could I do if the storages aren't mounting? Am I completely screwed?
Not sure about your phone but on my galaxy s, emmc is the external storage and sdcard is the internal.
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Not sure about your phone but on my galaxy s, emmc is the external storage and sdcard is the internal.
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Oh dear. That would mean that what I can't mount is actually the internal storage. Is there any way to remedy that?
Connect the phone to the computer (enable USB transfer mode on the phone if needed) and run some windows built-in tools like scandisk, chkdsk, format...
Just one caveat - if you decide to format, make sure you select FAT32, NOT exFAT, NTFS...
ravilov said:
Connect the phone to the computer (enable USB transfer mode on the phone if needed) and run some windows built-in tools like scandisk, chkdsk, format...
Just one caveat - if you decide to format, make sure you select FAT32, NOT exFAT, NTFS...
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Alright, I tried to connect like you said, making sure to enable USB mass storage mode. However, while the PC acknowledges that something is plugged in (installs drivers), neither storage is showing up as a drive when I try to access them with Windows Explorer. I can't do anything to them if they don't show up, or can I?
I did order a microSD card reader to try to connect the external drive to the computer that way. It should arrive sometime tomorrow. I'm thinking that if I can get the computer to read it that way that maybe I can format it so that the phone will finally be able to mount it again. Not sure what to do about the internal storage (or the broken wifi) after that, but I suspect that if I manage to flash a different ROM from external storage that I'll be able to recover that functionality? Or am I mistaken?
Hard to say. You sure have it tough there.
Try this - when the phone is connected and transfer mode selected, right click My Computer, select Manage, then go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management and see if anything appears there. If not... then I'm out of ideas I'm afraid.
ravilov said:
Hard to say. You sure have it tough there.
Try this - when the phone is connected and transfer mode selected, right click My Computer, select Manage, then go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management and see if anything appears there. If not... then I'm out of ideas I'm afraid.
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I did what you said, and this was the result:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I'm not sure if that counts as nothing or not.
boohoo_sadface said:
I did what you said, and this was the result:
I'm not sure if that counts as nothing or not.
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could you do a chkdsk of the drives?
open start, type cmd, right click and open as admin,
then type chkdsk L: (I think, resolution of screenshot is not that good)
then chkdsk F:
see if any errors pop up
jorno88 said:
could you do a chkdsk of the drives?
open start, type cmd, right click and open as admin,
then type chkdsk L: (I think, resolution of screenshot is not that good)
then chkdsk F:
see if any errors pop up
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It's E, not L. Sorry about the resolution.
For both chkdsk commands, the message "Cannot open volume for direct access" was returned.
OK well, at least something. It's a little worrisome that it says "no media" even for internal storage.
Not sure if you had the external SD card inserted at that point, if you did, try the same thing but take the SD card out of the phone.
Also try right-clicking on one or the other, see what it offers - if you get something like "create volume" or similar, might try that.
Is it correct that one of the drives shown has about 1.46 GB (i assume your microsd) and the other has 14.37 GB?
that would seem strange to me because my internal accessible memory is only 10.71 GB, seems like system partition or something is considered with it. Maybe you have a problem with your partition table...
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Is it correct that one of the drives shown has about 1.46 GB (i assume your microsd) and the other has 14.37 GB?
that would seem strange to me because my internal accessible memory is only 10.71 GB, seems like system partition or something is considered with it. Maybe you have a problem with your partition table...
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Those are actually partitions of the PC's hard disk (C).
My internal storage should be ~8GB and the external one is a 32GB microSD card. Those would be the E and F removable drives that show up as having no media attached.
ravilov said:
OK well, at least something. It's a little worrisome that it says "no media" even for internal storage.
Not sure if you had the external SD card inserted at that point, if you did, try the same thing but take the SD card out of the phone.
Also try right-clicking on one or the other, see what it offers - if you get something like "create volume" or similar, might try that.
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I tried again with microSD removed, and the results were exactly the same, even down to both E & F volumes both being displayed in Disk Management when the phone is connected. Chkdsk commands in the command prompt for both of these volumes also returned the exact same error message as before.
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I tried again with microSD removed, and the results were exactly the same, even down to both E & F volumes both being displayed in Disk Management when the phone is connected. Chkdsk commands in the command prompt for both of these volumes also returned the exact same error message as before.
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I see.
Any potentially useful options on right-click on either?
Also try booting into fastboot and do moto-fastboot erase emmc and see what happens. (Hope you have moto-fastboot installed and ready.)
the error message for chkdsk seems to be related to another program installed on your pc, check here if it is one of these programs. If all this doesn't work (or you're tired of fiddling and trying to get back your data) you can try formatting them through cmd (FORMAT E: /FS:FAT32 and FORMAT F: /FS:FAT32)
if it all works you can use a program called recuva to try get some data back afterwards.
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I see.
Any potentially useful options on right-click on either?
Also try booting into fastboot and do moto-fastboot erase emmc and see what happens. (Hope you have moto-fastboot installed and ready.)
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Here is the result:
jorno88 said:
the error message for chkdsk seems to be related to another program installed on your pc, check here if it is one of these programs. If all this doesn't work (or you're tired of fiddling and trying to get back your data) you can try formatting them through cmd (FORMAT E: /FS:FAT32 and FORMAT F: /FS:FAT32)
if it all works you can use a program called recuva to try get some data back afterwards.
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I tried the format command, and here was the result:
So same result as before, did you look in the list of those programs? Else you can try to go into safemode with your pc and do the chkdsk or/and format command from in there.
Might be easier than uninstalling programs
I am on a XIAOMI MI BOX TV, US 2016 EDITION.
I manage to format the USB pendrive as "internal storage". I had to try several times as it was failing, but eventually I made it.
I can now move some apps manually to it (i need to browse each app one by one from the internal storage, then select the external drive. This is not available for all apps though, i dont know why).
But whn I try STORAGE> USB DRIVE> MIGRATE > MOVE NOW , i get a "Unfortunately, settings has stopped working.", and nothing happens.
Not a huge problem as I can still move manually most apps, but I still experience these issues:
I need to storage a large collection of emulator ROMs on the USB DRIVE, but in the current status I am not able to select the USB Drive in ES EXPLORER
Not all apps are movable to USB DRIVE, slowly filling the internal memory as the number of apps increases
I need to move manually the apps one by one
Any idea on how to solve the MOVE issue, or any workaround for the points below?
I am using a Lexar JumpDrive S45 usb 3.0 64 GB .
Previously I also used an old SanDisk 8GB. It formatted at first try, but gave the same MOVE issue.
USB debugging is OFF.
cheers!
I got the same error, any clue?
I got the same error, any clue?
jacopo3001 said:
I am on a XIAOMI MI BOX TV, US 2016 EDITION.
I manage to format the USB pendrive as "internal storage". I had to try several times as it was failing, but eventually I made it.
I can now move some apps manually to it (i need to browse each app one by one from the internal storage, then select the external drive. This is not available for all apps though, i dont know why).
But whn I try STORAGE> USB DRIVE> MIGRATE > MOVE NOW , i get a "Unfortunately, settings has stopped working.", and nothing happens.
Not a huge problem as I can still move manually most apps, but I still experience these issues:
I need to storage a large collection of emulator ROMs on the USB DRIVE, but in the current status I am not able to select the USB Drive in ES EXPLORER
Not all apps are movable to USB DRIVE, slowly filling the internal memory as the number of apps increases
I need to move manually the apps one by one
Any idea on how to solve the MOVE issue, or any workaround for the points below?
I am using a Lexar JumpDrive S45 usb 3.0 64 GB .
Previously I also used an old SanDisk 8GB. It formatted at first try, but gave the same MOVE issue.
USB debugging is OFF.
cheers!
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