My issue is connecting to an usb-c flash drive. My usb-c flash drive is Samsung 128gb. It works half of the time. What I mean is it works when I am home and not at work.
Right now work.
I plug my flash drive in to my pixel 2 xl.
ES file manager comes up
Show my usb drive with capacity then disappear
I got notification bar and pick transfer file
My flashdrive show up and disappear again
I have also tried ptp, midi, charge, and supply power. Same thing happens, show and disappear
I enable developer options.
I tried both enable and disable usb debugger
I tried selecting usb configuration from mtm to ptp.
I have an applocker app. I disable it and enable it.
I disable and enable smart lock
Google tech asked me to use their usb adapter. It works when I am home.
When I am home, I have no issue. my usb flash drive works fine.
I hope this is not similar to that star trek card game that Capt Kirk invented, Fizzbin. It aian't tuesday.
does anyone have any idea I can try?
Maybe I missed something.
maybe I enable something I shouldn't have
I am able to connect to a computer fine.
If I left the usb connected and restart, I get "still rejecting Samsung USB drive. Don't remove."
Hmm... are you saying your PHONE recognizes the OTG drive at home but not at work? Are you rooted and have tried StickMount? Sounds more like a drive going bad or a formatting issue and its just working half the time. How is your drive formatted btw? FAT32? You probably already know Android doesn't support NTFS. Also for the record, ES File Explorer is a serious P.O.S. Do yourself a favor and get Solid Explorer. It goes on sale around Xmas time and is worth every penny.
I do have solid explorer. I need to change the default to Solid. I used my phone to format my flash drive. Everyday at work is the same. Doesn’t work before 4:xx pm and works after that. Today I tried a 256 gb with an adapter and it was working (4:4x). After that i put in my samsung 128gb usb-c and it works. Both doesn’t work in the morning or before 4:xxpm.
My phone is not rooted.
Cyc323 said:
I do have solid explorer. I need to change the default to Solid. I used my phone to format my flash drive. Everyday at work is the same. Doesn’t work before 4:xx pm and works after that. Today I tried a 256 gb with an adapter and it was working (4:4x). After that i put in my samsung 128gb usb-c and it works. Both doesn’t work in the morning or before 4:xxpm.
My phone is not rooted.
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I asked how the drive was formatted, meaning what file system it was formatted to? You said you used your phone to format the drive, but the question still stands... Is it formatted with FAT32, exFAT , Ext3 / Ext 4? Whatever it is, use a PC to reformat it to a different one of these supported file formats. Try exFAT first. The whole "time" thing has no bearing on this whatsoever. It is either a hardware issue with the Samsung or a formatting issue with the drive. Note: please use the "Reply" button so I get notified when you respond.
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I asked how the drive was formatted, meaning what file system it was formatted to? You said you used your phone to format the drive, but the question still stands... Is it formatted with FAT32, exFAT , Ext3 / Ext 4? Whatever it is, use a PC to reformat it to a different one of these supported file formats. Try exFAT first. The whole "time" thing has no bearing on this whatsoever. It is either a hardware issue with the Samsung or a formatting issue with the drive. Note: please use the "Reply" button so I get notified when you respond.
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I am sorry for not responding back sooner.
I tried to format my usb to exfat, but my phone said it doesn't support that and need to reformat it. It reformated my flash drive to fat32
yeah I have a 256GB Sandisk Dual M3.0 OTG drive and my Pixel 2 XL always format the drive to FAT32 and can't support FILES larger than 4GB.
Are there kernels out there that support exFat for the Pixel 2 XL???
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I got the latest update yesterday and was looking forward to trying the the new usb functionality. I had a couple of pre-formatted Sandisk Cruzer Blade 4GB sticks. They were already formatted as FAT32 so I inserted one of them. The Fire TV picked it up right away and spit back a message telling me that to use the drive, I'd have to format it as FAT32. I figured maybe windows did something odd with the formatting that the Fire TV didn't like, so I let the Fire TV format the drive itself.
It formatted, saw all 4 gigs, and everything looked fine. I moved some apps to it and everything looked like it was working as it should. I wanted to test putting some media on the drive to see if vimu or kodi could play files from the USB, so I ejected the drive (yes, I did it the right way by going into the options and waiting until I was told it was ok to remove it). I removed the stick, put it into my PC and moved some episodes of Bob's Burgers to it.
I then plugged it back into the Fire TV and again was told that I needed to format the drive because it wasn't FAT32. Again I thought windows did something funny to the formatting, so I let the Fire TV format it again. Again everything looked fine afterwards. I redownloaded the apps I lost from formatting and moved them again to the drive.
To troubleshoot, again I ejected the drive, and after a few seconds, I plugged it back in. Once again, it told me I needed to format the drive to FAT32. At this point I was getting annoyed, and thought maybe one of the apps I moved to the card was the culprit. So I formatted again, and again everything looked fine. This time I did NOT move anything to the drive, and I again ejected it. After ejecting it, I plugged it back in and once again, it wanted to format the drive to FAT32.
Thinking I might have a bad flash drive, I pulled a second sandisk cruzer fresh out of its package, never having been inserted into a windows pc or any pc, and I plugged it into the Fire TV, Again it wanted to format it to FAT32. So I let it format, all looked well. I ejected it, plugged it back in, and again it wanted to format.
Is this how it's supposed to work? Are we supposed to have to format a drive every time it's inserted?
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I got the latest update yesterday and was looking forward to trying the the new usb functionality. I had a couple of pre-formatted Sandisk Cruzer Blade 4GB sticks. They were already formatted as FAT32 so I inserted one of them. The Fire TV picked it up right away and spit back a message telling me that to use the drive, I'd have to format it as FAT32. I figured maybe windows did something odd with the formatting that the Fire TV didn't like, so I let the Fire TV format the drive itself.
It formatted, saw all 4 gigs, and everything looked fine. I moved some apps to it and everything looked like it was working as it should. I wanted to test putting some media on the drive to see if vimu or kodi could play files from the USB, so I ejected the drive (yes, I did it the right way by going into the options and waiting until I was told it was ok to remove it). I removed the stick, put it into my PC and moved some episodes of Bob's Burgers to it.
I then plugged it back into the Fire TV and again was told that I needed to format the drive because it wasn't FAT32. Again I thought windows did something funny to the formatting, so I let the Fire TV format it again. Again everything looked fine afterwards. I redownloaded the apps I lost from formatting and moved them again to the drive.
To troubleshoot, again I ejected the drive, and after a few seconds, I plugged it back in. Once again, it told me I needed to format the drive to FAT32. At this point I was getting annoyed, and thought maybe one of the apps I moved to the card was the culprit. So I formatted again, and again everything looked fine. This time I did NOT move anything to the drive, and I again ejected it. After ejecting it, I plugged it back in and once again, it wanted to format the drive to FAT32.
Thinking I might have a bad flash drive, I pulled a second sandisk cruzer fresh out of its package, never having been inserted into a windows pc or any pc, and I plugged it into the Fire TV, Again it wanted to format it to FAT32. So I let it format, all looked well. I ejected it, plugged it back in, and again it wanted to format.
Is this how it's supposed to work? Are we supposed to have to format a drive every time it's inserted?
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No, that's not how it's supposed to work. My guess is there's something odd about that brand of drive. See if the drive has a hidden partition or try an entirely different brand of drive.
Well thats better then a PNY 32gb I have I put it in say to format it , I hit yes , it asks to format , I hit yes .. and on and on it goes. It never actually attemps to format it. I have no problems using a external hard drive or any other flash drive but just this one 32gb flash drive it constantly asks to format till I hit no. I ended up using a 16gb microsd card with a usb adapter, works fine... would rather use the 32gb but whatever..
So it obviously has some quirks depending on brand .. try a differnt brand.
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Well thats better then a PNY 32gb I have I put it in say to format it , I hit yes , it asks to format , I hit yes .. and on and on it goes. It never actually attemps to format it. I have no problems using a external hard drive or any other flash drive but just this one 32gb flash drive it constantly asks to format till I hit no. I ended up using a 16gb microsd card with a usb adapter, works fine... would rather use the 32gb but whatever..
So it obviously has some quirks depending on brand .. try a differnt brand.
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I use a 32G SanDisk Ultra fit formatted in FAT32 with Partition Magic and FTV never complained.
I tired an 8gb kingston stick I had, and it seems to be working. I really hope they work on the compatibility issues.
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I use a 32G SanDisk Ultra fit formatted in FAT32 with Partition Magic and FTV never complained.
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oh trust me I tried that and various other programs. The firetv just doesn't like this PNY flashdrive .
Title says it all. Is there any way to disable this? I'm using StickMount on a rooted FTV and every time it restarts for any reason the USB detection dialog pops up asking if you want to format the USB storage (my drive is NTFS so the native USB storage support can't read it, hence it wants to reformat it).
Obviously this makes me rather nervous... I just want to disable the dialog (or whatever it would take to stop it from popping up - I don't want or need the horribly limited built in support).
I use a hub to get around this issue, but it works to my advantage: I can relocate FTV apps to the FAT32 USB. Or you can make a small FAT32 partition in your USB and the rest is NTFS to make FTV happy.
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I use a hub to get around this issue, but it works to my advantage: I can relocate FTV apps to the FAT32 USB. Or you can make a small FAT32 partition in your USB and the rest is NTFS to make FTV happy.
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Really strange things happen here.
When I put my 64gb sandisk stick into fireTV and let him format it, there will be right problems with FolderMount. For example FolderMount can not create a folder on the exStorage. So I decide to format it with hp storage format tool to a FAT32 64gb stick.
No the pop-up comes again but stickmount and FolderMount work fine again.
Is there no way to disable this stupid dialog?
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EDIT: MySolution
I format my stick into 2 partitions.
First you need to create one (small or big partition, like you need it) in fat32.
The rest into none or raw, but just not fat32.
Then put into you AFTV and let him create his ****.
Then back into a linux based lapto/pc and start gparted or your fav partition tool.
Make the rest to an secend fat32 partition.
Put into it again and mount stickmount the hole stick.
You should get sda1 & sda2.
One is controlled by your aftv, the secend is yours.
Now you can use apps like FolderMount and make mounts like puttin data/media/obb -> to your own (mostly it is sda2) stick partition. Works nice in my case.
Hi there.
I've got a ZenFone 2 and wanted to connect USB drive to my device through micro USB. It works fine at phones I had before like Xperia Z or M2 or Samsung s5 etc (and still works) but not with ZenFone 2. It's just not discoverable for it.
Why? Do I need to unlock something in options or download some software?
Is it possible that this device doesn't support this? I thought it is normal Android functionality but why not at ZenFone 2?
Any ideas?
Please see the following: http://www.asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1007467/
Sincerely,
ASUS_USA
Come on, I've got ZOOAD, I guess that it's difference? I thought I buying ZE551ML... is it possible to unlock this option somehow for mine? Some additional software or whatever?
squo_85 said:
Come on, I've got ZOOAD, I guess that it's difference? I thought I buying ZE551ML... is it possible to unlock this option somehow for mine? Some additional software or whatever?
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What format is the memory stick?
I use a 64gb exFAT OTG stick with no problems and the zenphone 2 should see FAT32 as default but never tried NTFS.
If you are using NTFS then you might need use a 3rd party app or reformat stick.
my ZenFone can see connected stick, but I have notification in status bar:
"Blank external storage,
No external storage or an unsupported file..."
Stick has fat32 file system and few giga files full visibility at other phones...
About software I have es file manager and root browser.
Oops, my mistake with sticks. One was really NTFS
With FAT32 ZenFone works fine now
No worries, as I said there are a few apps for reading NTFS but most cost money if they work OK. It works with exFAT too and so you can put those 4gb+ size files on whereas you can't on FAT32.
Because it keeps failing for me. The transfer makes it a few gigs in before a failure message pops up. As far as I'm aware the USB drive is formatted correctly and is perfectly fine for transfering ROMs, music and other bits and bobs to.
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Because it keeps failing for me. The transfer makes it a few gigs in before a failure message pops up. As far as I'm aware the USB drive is formatted correctly and is perfectly fine for transfering ROMs, music and other bits and bobs to.
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I've done twrp backups directly to otg USB drives and it has worked fine. I would think the copying should work as well. FAT32 has 2gb file size limit, could that be the problem?
Yes, either directly using blu_spark, it supports/recognizes OTG in the TWRP interface. Or, you can copy it over to the drive afterwards. But I've backed it up directly...just takes like 10-15 minutes the backup, instead of the 1 min to the internal.
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I've done twrp backups directly to otg USB drives and it has worked fine. I would think the copying should work as well. FAT32 has 2gb file size limit, could that be the problem?
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I did not know that about the file size limit. FAT32 is the format of the drive so that's probably it. I'd format it to another type but I remember reading somewhere FAT32 is the only format supported by TWRP. Is that right?
Fat32 has a 4GB filesize limit.
Yes you can.. I do a 10+GB Backup once a week directly to the pendrive through OTG. Even restored through OTG. Works perfectly.
PS: Oh and my pendrive is on FAT32...
I've done some digging and found little about the issue. one not-very-useful thread here, one Magisk module that refuses to run on 9.0, and one kernel that claims to support NTFS, but just keeps crashing my pixel's SystemUI.
Does anyone know a way to add reliable NTFS or exFAT access to the Pixel 3XL? I format a microSD card or thumbdrive on the phone and it formats to FAT32. And worse, when I plug it into the computer I get "this filesystem is corrupted, scan to fix". format FAT32 on the PC, and us it on the phone (or fix the 'corruption' i mentioned), and it says the drive is corrupted when plugged into the phone, instead.
Try formatting to exFAT or NTFS and the best I can get is "this drive needs formatting" when it's plugged into the phone. (Even after installing the one kernel I found that's supposed to support NTFS, ElementX.)
Rooted, Magisk'd, TWRP'd, etc... surely there's some reliable option, someplace? I can't believe a phone this advanced can't even handle exFAT like my ancient LG could.
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I've done some digging and found little about the issue. one not-very-useful thread here, one Magisk module that refuses to run on 9.0, and one kernel that claims to support NTFS, but just keeps crashing my pixel's SystemUI.
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What are you using to read the OTG drive and what are you trying to do with the files? For example, if you want to read and transfer files from a NTFS formatted drive you can use a file explorer that supports NTFS like MiXplorer or SolidExplorer. But... if you are trying to stream some big ass 10 Gb .mkv movie files directly from the drive, it's not gonna happen.
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What are you using to read the OTG drive and what are you trying to do with the files? For example, if you want to read and transfer files from a NTFS formatted drive you can use a file explorer that supports NTFS like MiXplorer or SolidExplorer. But... if you are trying to stream some big ass 10 Gb .mkv movie files directly from the drive, it's not gonna happen.
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I'll give that a try, thank you! currently all I've been using is ES file Explorer Pro, which doesn't see it at all, either.
I love mix explorer, and it sees the sdcard, exFAT or NTFS.... but transferring is 1-2MB/s, which is unusable for anything big enough to need exFAT/NTFS
I can't believe there's no way to add in the capability via magisk module/flashable zip/etc
" But... if you are trying to stream some big ass 10 Gb .mkv movie files directly from the drive, it's not gonna happen. "
For this to happen you need an app called JS USB OTG, it can play big mkv files like it's playing from internal memory.
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" But... if you are trying to stream some big ass 10 Gb .mkv movie files directly from the drive, it's not gonna happen. "
For this to happen you need an app called JS USB OTG, it can play big mkv files like it's playing from internal memory.
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I purchased the "USB Media Explorer" and I can open music/video and copy to internal storage.
You cold use "USB Photo Viewer" for trial, To see if you can read photo on USB disk with ext fat format.
these two Apps both made by Homesoft, LLC.