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USB stick under External/Internal Storage?

I'm using StickMount with a 8GB drive, but I'm wondering if there's a way to get it under External Storage under settings?

Jessical said:
I'm using StickMount with a 8GB drive, but I'm wondering if there's a way to get it under External Storage under settings?
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Its likely it will show up in root explorer or root browser as ext. storage or sdcard something of that nature just a guess tho could even have factory label like scandsk

Thepooch said:
Its likely it will show up in root explorer or root browser as ext. storage or sdcard something of that nature just a guess tho could even have factory label like scandsk
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Yeah, I know it does, but I was hoping I could get it under settings too, to see how much of music, apps, etc are taking it up.
Or maybe a way I can even mount it as a SD card.

Ahh I see then I have no answer

Jessical said:
I'm using StickMount with a 8GB drive, but I'm wondering if there's a way to get it under External Storage under settings?
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dude please post a tutorial here on how to get usb sticks mounted in kindle fire..i dont bother whether it is under internal or external storage..i am fed up of that f***ing ONLY 5GB memory..have to expand it with my iomega external usb hard disk 500gb..if i install modern combat 3 i and put some music, its f***ing over..5gb is finished..please help..i have an OTG adapter(one end microUSB male and standard USB female on other end)..installed stickmount, USB host controller and all such apps from market and none of them have worked..in an app called usb host controller the error message was "USB host mode active. S3c drivers not installed"
I am running latest gedeROM with latest Hashcode's kernel on my kindle fire..
thanks

[Q] Popcorn Time - Caching to external SD/Memory on AFTV

Hi!
Sorry if that's been asked before, my search yielded no results.
Because of the low memory on the AFTV, caching a movie (4gb+) is not possible.
When selecting cache folder as an external memory folder (mounted using Stickmount) to /sdcard/usbstorage/sd** I'm getting "Video File Too Big" error.
After alot of googling it should correspond with no writing permissions to this path (as long as the sd indeed have enough space - it does)...
Did anyone succeed to watch a movie on Popcorn Time on the Fire TV?
The card is NTFS.
Thanks!

I have been able to watch movies without any issues. My ext usb powered hd is fat32. You can also try with ext.

How to install Popcorn Time
So does popcorn time work perfectly on the fire tv? What are the steps to get it installed and working properly?
1- sideload popcorn time apk?
2- Does it need a mouse and keyboard or will the remote work?
3- Does it need external storage for the cache?
Thanks!

rueda said:
I have been able to watch movies without any issues. My ext usb powered hd is fat32. You can also try with ext.
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Are you using StickMount to mount the drive?
And did you change the path of the cache folder to it?
Thanks!

bigron3180 said:
So does popcorn time work perfectly on the fire tv? What are the steps to get it installed and working properly?
1- sideload popcorn time apk?
2- Does it need a mouse and keyboard or will the remote work?
3- Does it need external storage for the cache?
Thanks!
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Sideload the android version.
Needs a mouse.
Caching depends on how much free space you got on the AFTV... you may use internal memory and SHOULD (read my post) be able to use External HD as well.

[Q] Only 299MB of 299MB external storage

Hello,
I have a 3 TB external drive (seagate) and the new update from Amazon that allows you to connect via USB . I formatted my drive to Fat32 using a 3rd party Program because windows 8.1 I guess only allows you to format in exFat but I need fat32 right? no matter what though EXfat or Fat32 I only have 299MB of 299MB its not seeing 3TB. does anyone know what I am doing wrong here? Also what can I do to move the app+data to my External HDD say for a games I download from Amazon. the whole point is to be able to move game data thats what the people want....well that and downloaded content. Anyway is there an app that moves data and app or just data without root?
Thanks,

rj2763 said:
Hello,
I have a 3 TB external drive (seagate) and the new update from Amazon that allows you to connect via USB . I formatted my drive to Fat32 using a 3rd party Program because windows 8.1 I guess only allows you to format in exFat but I need fat32 right? no matter what though EXfat or Fat32 I only have 299MB of 299MB its not seeing 3TB. does anyone know what I am doing wrong here? Also what can I do to move the app+data to my External HDD say for a games I download from Amazon. the whole point is to be able to move game data thats what the people want....well that and downloaded content. Anyway is there an app that moves data and app or just data without root?
Thanks,
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You probably have a hidden partition on the drive. See here for more info: http://www.aftvnews.com/what-to-do-if-the-amazon-fire-tv-only-sees-197mb-of-a-usb-drive/

AFTVnews.com said:
You probably have a hidden partition on the drive. See here for more info: http://www.aftvnews.com/what-to-do-if-the-amazon-fire-tv-only-sees-197mb-of-a-usb-drive/
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I did have one thank you! I ended up using a this link here witch tells you how to delete hidden partitions http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/72858.aspx but i would not have known without your help. after that I used this http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm to turn it into Fat32 but the Highest it does is 2TB witch it a lot honestly for fat32.
Now all I need to know is how to move my application data to an external drive to free up space without root???

I have a 2 TB external drive (slim) and the Fire TV formatted it by itself.

Shield TV 2017 16GB Non Pro no space left

Hi,
If I root it... would it be possible to move data (obbs) using app2sd (AppMgr Pro) ?
Now I can move app to adopted internal storage (usb key) but no data !! :crying:
Or is there any other option (run from external drive) to increase this stupid 16GB limited space ?
Need it for large files e.g. Doom BFG which's data takes more than 3GB in obbs/.
Does the disabling of Forced Encryption help and is it possible to perform on this device ?
THX for any tip

Adaptive Storage
16gb is a little small for such a good machine. I installed 2 USB (3.0) thumb drives on mine. One as adaptive and the other as removable. The adaptive drive (128gb) combines with the base 16GB for usable 114gb. The shield will install/move applications to the the thumb drive. Have you tried this?

cjeman said:
16gb is a little small for such a good machine. I installed 2 USB (3.0) thumb drives on mine. One as adaptive and the other as removable. The adaptive drive (128gb) combines with the base 16GB for usable 114gb. The shield will install/move applications to the the thumb drive. Have you tried this?
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Exactly did.
My adaptive drive is usb2.0 Kingston DataTraveller 16GB.
Adaptive internal storage was made and possibility to move App to Adaptive was used.
But..... data in /obb/ which does take almost 3GB were not moved only App.
So problem with low disk space is not solved at all.
Can not move it manually because adaptive storage is n/a (encrypted).

Probably not. Adoptive storage is combined with main storage. Not treated as 2 drives. Not being rooted, the device locks down moving this kind of data. I see apps installed on the USB part of adoptive storage, so nVidia does separate the 2 forms of internal storage for its own purposes. I see data in obb as being no different as moving apps to SD. Have you posted this on the Geforce forums?
https://forums.geforce.com/default/board/159/shield-tv/

Did you try enable developer options and enable force everything save to the USB? I do that for all my app and nothing save on Shield tv
Edit: the option name is "force allow app on external", at the bottom of developer options

cjeman said:
Probably not. Adaptive storage is combined with main storage. Not treated as 2 drives. Not being rooted, the device locks down moving this kind of data. I see apps installed on the USB part of adaptive storage, so nVidia does separate the 2 forms of internal storage for its own purposes. I see data in obb as being no different as moving apps to SD. Have you posted this on the Geforce forums?
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Not yet. I think they want support such ideas like rooting, using app2sd etc.

DummyPLUG said:
Did you try enable developer options and enable force everything save to the USB? I do that for all my app and nothing save on Shield tv
Edit: the option name is "force allow app on external", at the bottom of developer options
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I switched this option too.
But how to move DATA from internal to usb ?
No option for it.
App2SD ??

dugi25 said:
I switched this option too.
But how to move DATA from internal to usb ?
No option for it.
App2SD ??
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In storage settings did you select to migrate data to adaptive storage drive?

Menu / Storage & reset / Internal shared storage / Apps / Downloaded Apps / <App> / Storage used / USB Drive.
This will move App not its Data !! Any other option ?

dugi25 said:
Menu / Storage & reset / Internal shared storage / Apps / Downloaded Apps / <App> / Storage used / USB Drive.
This will move App not its Data !! Any other option ?
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If you did not migrate data to external drive right after you formatted it for adaptive storage you should see an option to migrate the data...

I did migrate the data after format.
Now I got new App installed so its new data has be be moved again.
As I see well - this is possible only if you got root rights.

dugi25 said:
I did migrate the data after format.
Now I got new App installed so its new data has be be moved again.
As I see well - this is possible only if you got root rights.
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If you migrate to USB then the data should install on USB directly
I notice that you are using a usb2.0 drive, will it be that problem? As I remember if the drive too slow then it may refuse to work. Dunno if this related to your case

usb2.0 is no problem. Apps moved to usb storage works without visible delay.
the main problem is - user is not allowed to use his own usb adopted storage ? we need to use this adopted storage space for any storage. this is very stupid limitation from Ggle sorry

DummyPLUG said:
If you migrate to USB then the data should install on USB directly
I notice that you are using a usb2.0 drive, will it be that problem? As I remember if the drive too slow then it may refuse to work. Dunno if this related to your case
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I have noticed that sometimes not all data is moved. So I migrate data to adaptive drive, reboot, migrate data back to internal drive, reboot and then migrate data back to adaptive drive which seemed to move all data like the large data files for Grand Theft Auto

AndroidUser00110001 said:
I have noticed that sometimes not all data is moved. So I migrate data to adaptive drive, reboot, migrate data back to internal drive, reboot and then migrate data back to adaptive drive which seemed to move all data like the large data files for Grand Theft Auto
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I see option Migrate data (right corner) under Storage / App X on MOBILE (marshmallow) but do not see this option under NVIDIA SHIELD TV (nougat).
Where is it located ?

dugi25 said:
I see option Migrate data (right corner) under Storage / App X on MOBILE (marshmallow) but do not see this option under NVIDIA SHIELD TV (nougat).
Where is it located ?
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Cant recall off the top of my head but if you go into Storage & Reset you should see option to migrate data when you check the storage used for each drive.

Even if I clicked on Move Data to Adopted storage and next reboot my ShieldTV 2017.... free space remains the same.
Need to move data from /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/xxx (and not /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/).
Is this "OBB" not possible to move to adopted storage ??

dugi25 said:
Even if I clicked on Move Data to Adopted storage and next reboot my ShieldTV 2017.... free space remains the same.
Need to move data from /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/xxx (and not /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/).
Is this "OBB" not possible to move to adopted storage ??
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Found answer on internet. OBB is not moved !! Only Apps and Data.
So if your App does use OBB you are not able to move it to adopted storage (obb can take some GBs so you may soon be out of space even if you got adopted storage) .
Solution is to ROOT and use MountFolder which can move your OBB to e.g. SDcard and then point to it. Another reason why you are "forced" to root your devices.

Fire TV STICK 4K USB DRIVE TO READ NTFS OR EXFAT

I need the easiest way to enable my firestick 4k to read files higher than 4gb.
Advice?
Thanks

stefss said:
I need the easiest way to enable my firestick 4k to read files higher than 4gb.
Advice?
Thanks
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To enable NTFS and ExFAT by using Magisk (follow the steps carefully)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/magisk-amazon-firetv4k-ntfs-f2fs-ext4-t3991981

stefss said:
I need the easiest way to enable my firestick 4k to read files higher than 4gb.
Advice?
Thanks
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It can easily read more than 32GB, without doing anything. (In Fat32 of course)
Or if you want to use NTFS but without Root, check this out
https://youtu.be/qoQkGQiylBM

If i am not wrong, maximum for fat32 is 4gb filesize?

stefss said:
If i am not wrong, maximum for fat32 is 4gb filesize?
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Its not
https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/154997/description-of-the-fat32-file-system
Check this out

SweenWolf said:
Its not
https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/154997/description-of-the-fat32-file-system
Check this out
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Anyone any ideas how I can get this storage module working? flashed with twrp Pretorians add on. Using format fat32 and filemanager + but it's not showing up the 32gb SanDisk USB storage. Dunno what I'm doing wrong man [emoji106]
Any help appreciated
Cheers
Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

Bertonumber1 said:
Anyone any ideas how I can get this storage module working? flashed with twrp Pretorians add on. Using format fat32 and filemanager + but it's not showing up the 32gb SanDisk USB storage. Dunno what I'm doing wrong man [emoji106]
Any help appreciated
Cheers
Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
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You don't need to install any module to be abke to access fat32 formatted device, hell you don't need to have root at all. Fat32 is recognized by the system as is.
You just need a working OTG cable and use MiXplorer (download it from XDA official page). You will see your thumb drive in the hamburger menu (first or second one).
I have non rooted firestick 4k and it works.
I have no experience with fos5 devices and i cannot say anything about that because most NORMAL commands don't work there

stefss said:
If i am not wrong, maximum for fat32 is 4gb filesize?
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NTFS and ExFAT file systems are developed by Microsoft.
Amazon is not paying to Microsoft for the license to use NTFS and ExFAT.
The maximum file size for NTFS and ExFAT are 16EB (exabytes) or 16 million GB (gigabytes).

SweenWolf said:
You don't need to install any module to be abke to access fat32 formatted device, hell you don't need to have root at all. Fat32 is recognized by the system as is.
You just need a working OTG cable and use MiXplorer (download it from XDA official page). You will see your thumb drive in the hamburger menu (first or second one).
I have non rooted firestick 4k and it works.
I have no experience with fos5 devices and i cannot say anything about that because most NORMAL commands don't work there
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Hey my device is the way I want it now sween wolf, rooted with all apps installed, I can't be assed unrooting it now.
but anyway I flashed the magisk module with the general thought being if I was using a pre-rooted rom I would lose the ability to use the USB drive through OTG?
So I flashed Pretorians module but I can't get the USB drive to show up, it's a sabrent 32 gb formated to fat32
I'm using a similar app to xplore called filemanager plus but with no joy... The USB storage just isn't playing ball and showing up you know?
So I don't need the module at all? , should I perhaps try reformatting the USB?

Bertonumber1 said:
Hey my device is the way I want it now sween wolf, rooted with all apps installed, I can't be assed unrooting it now.
but anyway I flashed the magisk module with the general thought being if I was using a pre-rooted rom I would lose the ability to use the USB drive through OTG?
So I flashed Pretorians module but I can't get the USB drive to show up, it's a sabrent 32 gb formated to fat32
I'm using a similar app to xplore called filemanager plus but with no joy... The USB storage just isn't playing ball and showing up you know?
So I don't need the module at all? , should I perhaps try reformatting the USB?
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I am not telling you to unroot, this is not something rooting a device kills, but yeah with or without root, usb works.
Try changing your explorer, use mix or es file explorer to see if the usb is getting recognized but isn't showing up

My english is not perfect so i still not try this before i will be sure.
What is easiest way to enable ntfs or exfat usb drives?
I need this for Kodi, so i cant use es file manager.

stefss said:
If i am not wrong, maximum for fat32 is 4gb filesize?
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File System Functionality Comparison - Win32 apps
Tables that list functionality and feature support comparisons for the four main Windows file systems, NTFS, exFAT, UDF, and FAT32.
docs.microsoft.com
so fat32 max filesize is 4gb, you are right
and that is the reason users need for higher resolution movies bigger than 4gb ntfs or exfat mass or some NAS to circumvent the limitation for local mass storage filesize of fat32

SweenWolf said:
Its not
https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/154997/description-of-the-fat32-file-system
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It absolutely is. The maximum file size for FAT32 is 4GB. What you linked to is exFAT, which is NOT FAT32. exFAT also cannot be read by the firestick.