I've read many forums but I'm afraid I'm still stuck.
My phone is a Moto G XT1032, and I have installed Nano 7.1 using the final Rom 4.6 a fully stable build finished January 28th, 2018.
I have always been able to plug in the USB OTG and see it on File Explorer and copy and paste files, but I was unable to read them directly off the USB without it creating a temporary file first.
At that point, it wasn't mounted.
But using root and StickMount I was able to mount my USB, and when it had 2 partitions both were mentioned as having successfully mounted.
But even after mounting it successfully I couldn't read files directly off the USB OTG as it still copies it to Internal Storage first in the Cache before later deleting it, so I copied it to a folder used it and deleted it which worked well for videos but won't work for apps.
I read various forums but the most informative was
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/4-1-how-to-app-100-to-microsd-usb-otg-t2934974
So, hoping the guide would help I took a blank USB and formatted it the same way the thread did
I created two partitions, a Fat32 and EXT3 and I made the EXT3 partition the active one as the guide mentioned.
I found a pro-BusyBox and performed the smart install.
After that I installed LetsGoApp but no matter what I did it did not detect it as a USB OTG that was mounted. I even tried Mount SD 2nd Partition and Hot Reboot but neither worked
It mentioned that if there were problems detecting it to try to use Link2SD
But under storage Info it saw the External SD of my Fat32 but did not see an SD Card 2nd part nor did it allow me to move any apps either.
I'm not sure what the problem is, the only idea I have is to see if reformatting the EXT3 as an EXT4 and seeing if that helped because other forums used it instead.
Is there something I'm missing that would solve the problem?
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I've done a lot of searching and can't seem to find any solutions to this problem. Few months ago i installed CM9 on my Galaxy Tab 7+. Everything worked fine to begin with, but after a while i was unable to delete stuff off my microsd card. I wound up buying a new card, copied the music and tv off the old card and installed it. Same problem. Now i have 2 microsd cards that I'm unable to write to at all. I can't write anything to them, can't delete anything off them and can't format them. I've tried using them both in my phone and on 3different Windows PCs with the same results. I have tried the SD card write fix referenced in the Galaxy Tab Plus development section and that didn't fix anything. The problem seems to be with the cards themselves, not the tablet (and phone and multiple pcs).
Mods, I know the problem originated with the tablet, but it doesn't seem to be a tablet issue which is why I posted here. There's also very little traffic in there, I'm hoping for greater exposure here. Thanks!
Minor update. I've played with it a bit more and it seems the problem is that I can't mount the card r/w. In root explorer it tells me /sdcard/extstorages/sdcard is mounted r/o. The Mount R/W button is there, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Also, in recovery adb I'm unable to mount the card r/w. Can only seem to mount it r/o. Also, when I put the card into a USB card reader and plug it into the laptop I can see the files just fine, but can't format the card. When I use the format command from the command prompt (running as administrator of course) it tell me "Cannot open volume for direct access."
Hope this more specific info helps.
Hi,
When the (HTC Desire) phone is powered up it is unable to mount the SD card, and I am unable to have it mounted from the "Settings > SD card & Storage" menu. Having said that, the micro SD card can be accessed from a computer (when plugged in directly to the computer, i.e. no issue with the card), and moreover, when I am in the recovery mode, I can have it mounted and browse it. By the way, the card could be accessed from the phone until I downgraded the O/S, and managed to have it rooted.
When the phone is running normally, and connected to the USB port of a laptop, the laptop does recognize a device connected (can even do ADB), but I believe because the SD card is not mounted, the phone does not offer the option to make the card appear as a disk drive for computer access.
I am running the original (RUU, Telstra) Android 2.2 (2.26.841.2) on a HTC desire, after I had it "S-OFF'ed". After reloading the original 2.2, I had it rooted.
The micro SD card is a 2GB one, with approx 1.5GB formatted as FAT16 (contains typical file and photos), and 0.5 GB as EXT3 (contains nothing at the moment).
HBoot: 6.93.1002
S-Off (thanks to Revolutionary)
Recovery mode: ClockworkMod v5.0.2.0 (I manually loaded it)
I have searched online for solutions, and have not been able to have it fixed. Others seem to have different issues to that of mine. Usually, they cannot mount the SD-card at all (not even from recovery), or their SD card just needed to be reformatted. I think I have indicated that these do not appear to be relevant to my issue at all. I have also tried "Fastboot oem enableqxdm 0", and it made no difference.
I look forward to your kind responses and feedback.
Thank you for your attention.
desiremhtc said:
Hi,
When the (HTC Desire) phone is powered up it is unable to mount the SD card, and I am unable to have it mounted from the "Settings > SD card & Storage" menu. Having said that, the micro SD card can be accessed from a computer (when plugged in directly to the computer, i.e. no issue with the card), and moreover, when I am in the recovery mode, I can have it mounted and browse it. By the way, the card could be accessed from the phone until I downgraded the O/S, and managed to have it rooted.
When the phone is running normally, and connected to the USB port of a laptop, the laptop does recognize a device connected (can even do ADB), but I believe because the SD card is not mounted, the phone does not offer the option to make the card appear as a disk drive for computer access.
I am running the original (RUU, Telstra) Android 2.2 (2.26.841.2) on a HTC desire, after I had it "S-OFF'ed". After reloading the original 2.2, I had it rooted.
The micro SD card is a 2GB one, with approx 1.5GB formatted as FAT16 (contains typical file and photos), and 0.5 GB as EXT3 (contains nothing at the moment).
HBoot: 6.93.1002
S-Off (thanks to Revolutionary)
Recovery mode: ClockworkMod v5.0.2.0 (I manually loaded it)
I have searched online for solutions, and have not been able to have it fixed. Others seem to have different issues to that of mine. Usually, they cannot mount the SD-card at all (not even from recovery), or their SD card just needed to be reformatted. I think I have indicated that these do not appear to be relevant to my issue at all. I have also tried "Fastboot oem enableqxdm 0", and it made no difference.
I look forward to your kind responses and feedback.
Thank you for your attention.
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Welcome to the forum.
I had the same problem once. The solution is very simple but annoying: Many Android phones are unable to mount SD cards formatted with tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard. Reformat the SD card using CWM (ClockWorkMod) recovery and everything will be fine.
Good luck.
It worked
nik10 said:
Welcome to the forum.
I had the same problem once. The solution is very simple but annoying: Many Android phones are unable to mount SD cards formatted with tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard. Reformat the SD card using CWM (ClockWorkMod) recovery and everything will be fine.
Good luck.
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Dear friend,
Thank you so much for your simple tip. It worked! I felt so dumb for not trying it out myself. I guess I was tired of trying things without considering moving my data back and forth. Once more thank you.
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desiremhtc said:
Dear friend,
Thank you so much for your simple tip. It worked! I felt so dumb for not trying it out myself. I guess I was tired of trying things without considering moving my data back and forth. Once more thank you.
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Well, this IS annoying. I had the same problems and copied my data three times (~ 12 GB). So I can understand that.
Good evening,
I have also the same prroblem.
Is there any manual - instructions that I could follow in order to solve the issue with the CWM?
Thanks in advance.
So I bought an OTG cable for the first time yesterday, and I tested it with a pendrive. I could access the pen with Root Explorer, on /mnt/ntfs/sda1, but there was no option to mount/unmount the drive (the android system did ask me to erase the pen because it had a damaged filesystem, but I could access it with no problems with Root Explorer).
So what I want is to be able to unmount the device so I don't damage it over time, or properly mount it on a more logical path so I can use it with other apps.
I also tried an WD HDD of 1.5TB and the same thing happen, I could access it on the same path but no mount/unmount options anywhere. Not even "filesystem is damaged" warning this time.
I have tried with some Play Store apps (root required ones) but no luck.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Also, I want to be able to mount FAT32 filesystems and to be able to write on NTFS ones. I have tried almost all of the Play Store apps but all of them crashed or didn't work. The only thing that works on my phone is the auto-mounting of NTFS filesystems in R/O, because of the SiyadKernel. No other filesystems or functions.
Is there any way of doing this?
Thanks.
Just for the heck of it I tried the Paragon NTFS/HFS download in the Play Store today to see if NTFS read/write would work. The app needs root, and of course we thankfully have that. I had a Seagate USB 3.0 drive formatted NTFS and connected it. Since Android auto mounts on the Mojo, it auto mounted as NTFS read only. I had to unmount it, and then re-mount it with the Paragon app and choose an alternate mount point (just created a folder called "NTFS" and mounted it) and I can confirm that I can read and write to the drive. Moving files, deleting files, and copying files all worked just fine. Just a heads up. I am sure there will be a better, more translucent way of doing this down the road, but for now there does exist the possibility. I wonder if anyone knows how to stop Android from auto mounting drives when plugged in?
I confirm that your method works, thanks!
Although I could have lived without the writing option enabled, it sure is nice being able to delete files I don't need on the fly.
I found that stock rom sucks in regards RW for external drives and doesnt allow it in exfat or NTFS the solution for me and others was installing CM12 rom instead of stock, now my drive has normal RW funtion without having to use an app to mount it
not I can use my 5TB drive
Hi,
I have a little bit of a problem with my pen drive. It's a 512gb SanDisk which I formatted to fat32.
When it's freshly formatted it works very well with the phone, but when I put files on it (~360gb mp3s) the phone just says it needs to format the flash drive. If I try to format it, the phone switches, after a while, in to something which resembles a boot loop screen until it's (manually) rebooted (and the pen drive is corrupted and needs to be formatted on the pc again)
Do you have an idea how I can get this to work?
If there is already a thread with a solution to my problem I'm sorry, I couldn't find it , but at least I tried to find it
I'm on Miui 11.0.9. 0 global non root.
Thank you in advance!