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Does the Galaxy Nexus Support exFAT file format / system?
I did a search but ppl only vaguely mentioned exFAT.
If exFAT is not supported, has anyone tried making ext4 drives using this?
http://shuffleos.com/1847/ext2fsd-read-write-ext4-ext3-ext2-partitions-windows/
I dunno about xfat but I'bee unable to get ext2fsd on Win&64 bit to work properly with my ext4 partitions (64 bit Ubuntu). Sometimes it can read it, mostly it hangs while I'm waiting for it to open.
That's lame. Android needs to add exFAT support or create ext4 drivers for Windows.
Or else, Windows Tablet 8 is going to kill the Android tablet market!
The Galaxy Nexus doesn't function as a USB storage device when attached to a computer. It communicates via MTP instead. This renders the underlying filesystem of the partitions on the phone itself somewhat irrelevant. No, no one has hacked in a way to force the phone to act as a USB drive yet.
Sooo, in light of that, what are you talking about?
DivinityCycle said:
The Galaxy Nexus doesn't function as a USB storage device when attached to a computer. It communicates via MTP instead. This renders the underlying filesystem of the partitions on the phone itself somewhat irrelevant. No, no one has hacked in a way to force the phone to act as a USB drive yet.
Sooo, in light of that, what are you talking about?
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The ability to read USB Flash drives attached to the device. It won't read exFAT and getting Windows to read/write ext4 is a big PITA.
I just ordered a Samsung OTG cable so I can use my 64gb USB Flash drive as extended storage for the phone. But I have a lot of video files larger than 4GB that won't work with FAT32.
Neo3D said:
The ability to read USB Flash drives attached to the device.
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Reported to work with 4.0.2 using stickmount, dunno what filesystems they had on the sticks. I'd be inclined to try ntfs after fat32.
Clancy_s said:
Reported to work with 4.0.2 using stickmount, dunno what filesystems they had on the sticks. I'd be inclined to try ntfs after fat32.
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My cousin says that his Transformer Prime can read NTFS out of the box. Would love to see that kind of support in our phones.
Is there any Kernel Developer who can make this true?
Its so hard to enable The USB Mass Storage for Nexus (like Xoom?)
Please take a look on this because i thing a lot of people here will love this!!!
please search. This has been requested about 9 jizzillion times.
That's right.
reuthermonkey said:
please search. This has been requested about 9 jizzillion times.
That's right.
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and whats the result of all this request?
I haven't looked around much but being that I haven't heard of any ums mod...I'd say mostly nothing.
It's not possible without repartitioning the phone and afaik no-one's tried it.
The reasons why have been explained multiple times, try a search.
Clancy_s said:
It's not possible without repartitioning the phone...
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If you're running Linux you don't have to.
jdbower said:
If you're running Linux you don't have to.
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and how's that?
The premise is that mass storage mode isn't possible because the SD card is not FAT32 but ext4, as such if the phone supported mass storage mode you wouldn't need to repartition under Linux since Linux natively supports ext4.
That said, why bother with something as quaint as cables when Linux also supports SSHFS and your phone supports an SSH server?
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The premise is that mass storage mode isn't possible because the SD card is not FAT32 but ext4, as such if the phone supported mass storage mode you wouldn't need to repartition under Linux since Linux natively supports ext4.
That said, why bother with something as quaint as cables when Linux also supports SSHFS and your phone supports an SSH server?
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i would say because of speed, and not having wifi everywhere you want to connect your phone.
is there already a way to export a block device/file to the usb port as mass storage?
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I use Windows and MTP works fine for me. I wouldn't need UMS.
What format is the phones internal memory and "sd card"? As in NTFS, FAT32, ext3/ext4, etc...
Trying to mount my Gnex to my Nexus 7 to access its SD card and it's not showing up with the stickmount app, which I believe can only read NTFS and FAT32.
Both devices are rooted, and the N7 reads my 64gb NTFS thumb drive just fine.
thirtynation said:
What format is the phones internal memory and "sd card"? As in NTFS, FAT32, ext3/ext4, etc...
Trying to mount my Gnex to my Nexus 7 to access its SD card and it's not showing up with the stickmount app, which I believe can only read NTFS and FAT32.
Both devices are rooted, and the N7 reads my 64gb NTFS thumb drive just fine.
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The Gnex mounts /data (including /data/media/) as ext4 but the only protocol available for data transfer over USB is MTP (media transfer protocol) there is no support for UMS on the Gnex. MTP does not support the functions you get from a usb storage device or portable media like SD/MMC/etc.
TL: DR; You can't mount it like a drive, by design, and if you could, you'd need to mount it with linux.
-tekkdrone
tekkdrone said:
The Gnex mounts /data (including /data/media/) as ext4 but the only protocol available for data transfer over USB is MTP (media transfer protocol) there is no support for UMS on the Gnex. MTP does not support the functions you get from a usb storage device or portable media like SD/MMC/etc.
TL: DR; You can't mount it like a drive, by design, and if you could, you'd need to mount it with linux.
-tekkdrone
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Thank you sir. While a disappointing answer, it was definitely informative and the information I was looking for. :good:
thirtynation said:
Thank you sir. While a disappointing answer, it was definitely informative and the information I was looking for. :good:
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I wish it were different. I'm definitely not a big fan of MTP-only.
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I wish it were different. I'm definitely not a big fan of MTP-only.
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Two people on the N7 forum have successfully mounted their other devices to the N7 but I don't know if those devices use MTP or not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29268972&postcount=483
That was the inspiration for this post, essentially.
thirtynation said:
Two people on the N7 forum have successfully mounted their other devices to the N7 but I don't know if those devices use MTP or not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29268972&postcount=483
That was the inspiration for this post, essentially.
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Similar to what tekk mentioned, the GNex does not support USB mass storage mode, while those devices obviously do.
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I cant seem to find an option to use the Galaxy S4 as USB mass storage, only media device (MTP) or Camera (PTP) is available. Cannot find any USB options in the settings either.
How am I able to copy files from and to my SD card and/or phone HD?
I appreciate any helpful posts. Thank you!
crco said:
I cant seem to find an option to use the Galaxy S4 as USB mass storage, only media device (MTP) or Camera (PTP) is available. Cannot find any USB options in the settings either.
How am I able to copy files from and to my SD card and/or phone HD?
I appreciate any helpful posts. Thank you!
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You us MTP fyi usb mass storage has been gone for a while i know for a fact the gs3 & note2 used MTP
deeznutz1977 said:
You us MTP fyi usb mass storage has been gone for a while i know for a fact the gs3 & note2 used MTP
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with MTP my device doesnt show up in Mac, as well as my Sony TV or LG receiver. what to do?
Is there anyway to disable MTP and go back to mass storage? Also, is the SDCARD MTP as well?
Mass Storage is gone for good... and while it sounds bad, there's a good reason..
Using Mass Storage forces the storage partition (or external sdcard) to be unmounted by Android, so any data/apps/widgets on there are no longer available until you disconnect your device from your PC. Using MTP allows the data partition to remain mounted and available concurrently on both your device, and on your PC via USB.
1) No, you cannot get UMS back.
2) This belongs in Q&A.
3) For Macs, you will need this.
Questions go in Q&A
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The auto-unmount is ok...
pakraider said:
Mass Storage is gone for good... and while it sounds bad, there's a good reason..
Using Mass Storage forces the storage partition (or external sdcard) to be unmounted by Android, so any data/apps/widgets on there are no longer available until you disconnect your device from your PC. Using MTP allows the data partition to remain mounted and available concurrently on both your device, and on your PC via USB.
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"there's a good reason" is somewhat subjective. To me the great benefit to the more general usb mass storage option is so you can connect the phone to any device as if it were a usb flash drive. No driver issues, no worries about camera or MTP mode, no Mac issues, no linux issues, no Windows issues ... it's just a usd flash drive and can be treated as such. I am ok with the side affect of auto-unmounting the sdcard from Android when I connect the phone to another device to use as noted USB drive.
Is there in fact any way this will ever come back?
I can't get my phone to show up on my computer for nothing.have the correct drivers installed and everything.running Windows
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umlguy said:
"there's a good reason" is somewhat subjective. To me the great benefit to the more general usb mass storage option is so you can connect the phone to any device as if it were a usb flash drive. No driver issues, no worries about camera or MTP mode, no Mac issues, no linux issues, no Windows issues ... it's just a usd flash drive and can be treated as such. I am ok with the side affect of auto-unmounting the sdcard from Android when I connect the phone to another device to use as noted USB drive.
Is there in fact any way this will ever come back?
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There was an app someone made for the GS3 that did some filesystem trickery to expose the storage as UMS (needed root). I'm sure something like that will come around that works on the GS4 too.
I had the same issue until I installed Kies, no issues after that
TheAtheistOtaku said:
I can't get my phone to show up on my computer for nothing.have the correct drivers installed and everything.running Windows
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Sent from my SGH-M919 using xda app-developers app
umlguy said:
"there's a good reason" is somewhat subjective. To me the great benefit to the more general usb mass storage option is so you can connect the phone to any device as if it were a usb flash drive. No driver issues, no worries about camera or MTP mode, no Mac issues, no linux issues, no Windows issues ... it's just a usd flash drive and can be treated as such. I am ok with the side affect of auto-unmounting the sdcard from Android when I connect the phone to another device to use as noted USB drive.
Is there in fact any way this will ever come back?
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How could anyone possibly know if it will come back, especially "in fact?" My guess is you would have to ask Samsung that question to get anything other than a guess or an opinion (which would be NO) but it's not "in fact" just "in an opinion."
I jumped from an S2 to the S4 and was also annoyed that USB mass storage wouldn't work either. Since I use Linux as my desktop, MTP is not an option "out-of-the-box". I therefor turned to an awesome app (that I heard about on this site!), Airdroid. Now I was able to quickly get an album/picture/book datastore onto a shiny new 32GB microSD! And yes, I know I could have put the microSD into a slot on my laptop, etc., but I shouldn't have to, just because I choose to use Linux!
I mean, its rather ironic not to be able to use Linux to connect to Linux (android), don't you think? If I'm completely wrong about this, please someone point me to the right path.
Thanks
There is a "hack" to allow the external to be read as UMS. Also, the internal sdcard is no longer yaffs2 its ext4 and only linux knows ext4. So if you were to use UMS, only a linux computer would "see" the sd card and nothing else.
elesbb said:
There is a "hack" to allow the external to be read as UMS. Also, the internal sdcard is no longer yaffs2 its ext4 and only linux knows ext4. So if you were to use UMS, only a linux computer would "see" the sd card and nothing else.
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elesbb,
That's awesome news! Thanks for the tip. I use opensuse (currently 12.3) with kde, will definitely make the necessary tweaks to get this going in dolphin.
Thanks again!
Ignore. Posted in wrong thread.
If you are rooted and busybox installed yes there are lot of apps on play store that can convert your externel SD Card to Mass storage.
Anyone else try stickmount to mount their USB device?
I know its not my cable nor the flash drive. They both work in my Original Nexus 7 and I can mount the drive in the TRWP recovery in the Nexus 7 2013.
I also know I am rooted because I have Root Manager installed and it was Granted root permission. Same with ES FIle Explorer 3.
androidfr33k said:
Anyone else try stickmount to mount their USB device?
I know its not my cable nor the flash drive. They both work in my Original Nexus 7 and I can mount the drive in the TRWP recovery in the Nexus 7 2013.
I also know I am rooted because I have Root Manager installed and it was Granted root permission. Same with ES FIle Explorer 3.
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Stick mount works for me on 4.3. I just mounted a flash drive.
It created a usbStorage partition in the root of the internal storage(SD card).
I then used root explorer to navigate to the usb storage folder and voila, my flash drive and all its contents are accessible from my Nexus 7(2013)
darll said:
Stick mount works for me on 4.3. I just mounted a flash drive.
It created a usbStorage partition in the root of the internal storage(SD card).
I then used root explorer to navigate to the usb storage folder and voila, my flash drive and all its contents are accessible from my Nexus 7(2013)
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Thats good to know then I am wondering why mine is not working? I wonder if maybe I am not rooted correctly. Is there an app that can check that I am rooted correctly?
I actually have tried other mounters as well and none of them are working to so must be something with the root?
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I tried a fresh flash drive and it now shows up but my concern is why does that flash work on the original N7 and not on the N7 2013?
Could it be TWRP backups on the drive some device specific protection?
NTFS?
Sent from Nexus 7 FHD from XDA Premium HD
player911 said:
NTFS?
Sent from Nexus 7 FHD from XDA Premium HD
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Both flash drives are Def Fat32!!. This is just too weird. The New and Old flash drives work on the original N7, but the old one I used on the Original N7 just will not work on the N7 2013, only the new one. I even did a re-format.
Both Flash drives are Kingston DataTraveler G3 8GB.
androidfr33k said:
Both flash drives are Def Fat32!!. This is just too weird. The New and Old flash drives work on the original N7, but the one I used on the Original N7 just will not work on the N7 2013, only the new one. I even did a re-format.
Both Flash drives are Kingston DataTraveler G3 8GB.
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Have you tried the one that doesn't work on your old N7 recently, or on a computer to make sure it still works? Probably a stupid question but I figured I'd ask haha
The Peanut Master said:
Have you tried the one that doesn't work on your old N7 recently, or on a computer to make sure it still works? Probably a stupid question but I figured I'd ask haha
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It works on Mac and PC. Just totally lost on this. Maybe the firmware version on this Flash Drive is not compatible with the N7 2013 hardware/kernel.
With nexus media importer there are problems too, I guess they must update the apps to work on 4.3, something has changed.
Mine is not working either on my Nexus 7 2013, but works fine on the original N7. Just shows an empty folder when navigating with ES File Explorer
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Mine is not working either on my Nexus 7 2013, but works fine on the original N7. Just shows an empty folder when navigating with ES File Explorer
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Maybe ppl can comment on their root methods here to see what works and what doesn't.
I just tried it again to make sure it is still working after I've gotten a few updates, and it works fine for me. Just started playing a video off a NTFS format sdcard with MX Player and it worked fine.
I'm using stock rom and am rooted with TWRP recovery and Super SU.
i just copied a 6gb mkv video onto my thumbdrive and mount with stickmount. it mounted ok but in my file explorer, there is no file despite me navigating to the correct folder.
any help here guys?
fkfs9 said:
i just copied a 6gb mkv video onto my thFbdrive and mount with stickmount. it mounted ok but in my file explorer, there is no file despite me navigating to the correct folder.
any help here guys?
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How are you formatted? It can't be FAT32 or you couldn't get a 6Gb file on it. I don't think NTFS works without some add-on support.
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How are you formatted? It can't be FAT32 or you couldn't get a 6Gb file on it. I don't think NTFS works without some add-on support.
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i'm using NTFS format because FAT32 like you say cant allow me to dump a 6gb inside. What type of addons is required?
same issue
I am having the same issue, rooted with cwm and superSU, lexar 32 gig thumbdrive, 2 .mkv files on it, nothing shows in es file explorer or file manager hd. anyone figure aything out? I messed around for a couple of hours with no luck so far.
I have a rooted device running JSS15R and have a problem with OTG Helper. When I plug in the drive, it opens OTG Helper but I can't mount the drive. It just says no drives found. Tried two different flash drives, both FAT32 and both working on my PC.
fixed my issue
bigmikebrooklyn said:
I am having the same issue, rooted with cwm and superSU, lexar 32 gig thumbdrive, 2 .mkv files on it, nothing shows in es file explorer or file manager hd. anyone figure aything out? I messed around for a couple of hours with no luck so far.
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fixed it. Needed the ntfs3g script from http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1145436&stc=1&d=1340293802 added to the root of the sdcard for stickmount to read the ntfs files. should have read the whole description on the play store for stickmount.
don't remember having to do that for my 1st gen nexus 7 but, then again, i do drink a lot of beer sometimes...
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