If I plug a USB Hardrive NTFS formated would the Fire Tv Read it and play videos from it (Using vlc for example)?
Yes, but there are additional steps necessary. FireTV has to be rooted. And you must have Stickmount installed.
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Hi folks,
one question: is it, with the new software update, possible to install an app (for example kodi) via an usb drive. I tried to put kodi on the usb drive (formatted in fat32) and the fire tv detected the usb drive, but no app was shown.
Is there a possibility for this?
Thank you guys in advance
Polina
Hello
I try to connect a SSD (OCZ vertex 2 120G) via a self powered hub (Icy Box IB-120CL-U3), formatted in FAT32 to amazon fire tv 4K (fireOS 5.2.1.0), and he sees that something connect, but seems not accept the format for mounting "there was a problem mounting the inserted usb drive, please note that only FAT32 storage devices are supported"
It was a disk formatted in NTFS, that I convert to FAT32 using AOMEI free partition assistant.
I do just same with a USB key USB3 32G and it works fine
any idea whats the problem ?
thanks
mickey
Now that my ftv gen2 finally stopped working, no more adb access, HDMI,USB port gone, no more gen2 avail ,I had to get a FTV gen 3, I got it setup, kodi and few apps installed, setup with otg and 4port usb hub, using a 32gb usb flash drive, i havent a usb SDcard reader, i would assume it would be the same. ES file explorer sees and reads it fine, can access my files and kid cartoons just fine, FTV doesn't read or count it as storage in device, Kodi doesn't see or give me access to it usb drive... I was able to open a mp4 and use kodi to play it instead of ES player @ http ://127.0.0.1:59777/usb%2F1009%2F32%20USB%20%20%20%20%20... I tried to access files from USB with no success through kodi. Has anyone have or had success getting FTVgen 3 to detect the USB otg device storage? Or get kodi to access the otg USB ?
Format is fat32?
format fat32, Yah, well Tgellen did a auto load at boot otg on ftv stick gen 1 root) working, didn't work with my current Fire OS 6.2.1.2 , maybe it can after someone finds a root access. Other than that no complaints about Ftv gen 3, very stable, Iam not worried about leaving on and coming back hrs later to a crashed recovery error screen like on my gen2
Is usb debugging disabled?
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The issue you're running into is physically mounting the drive with the Fire OS. Make sure usb debug is disabled and I've also had issues with drives formatted by other OS. I ended up having to wipe the drive and format it with my phone to have the android directories for the fire OS to recognize it.
Fire OS: 5.2.7.6 (659654620) - sloane rom
Apps: Total Commander, ES File Manager, Kodi
Hard Drive: Passport 2TB
About a week ago, I was running 5.2.1.1 for a few years and with Paragon NTFS+ and didnt have any issues. I removed my Passport drive and then updated it with content and plugged it back into my USB powered hub and my Fire TV2 didnt see the drive. Its happened like this once before and a simple disconnect and reconnect fixed the issue but not this time. I have uninstalled a number of different Paragon NTFS apps (from plugins, to different versions), Stick Mount 3.50, NTFS Mounter, and my FireTV2 no longer sees the drive. I thought I would upgrade the ROM on my FireTV2 and have done this as now I am on the above rom and the same issue is happening. The OS does indicate the drive isnt FAT32 so its seeing the drive but not mounting it despite installing these different apps.
I have enjoyed the Fire TV2 for a number of years with no issues and for the life of me, cant get it to read NTFS external drives.
I have tested the drive in my desktop and laptop, both see the drive without any issues. I have tried different ports on the USB hub and nothing is working. The same hub can read FAT32 without any issues but I have files that are 10GB+ and require NTFS. I have reformatted the drive and copied content over again, ran disk defrag on the drive and the Fire TV2 for whatever reason isnt working.
If anyone has any suggestions, I am all ears...
hello guys I'll explain the problem: I have a small usb hub where I connect the fire stick and a pendrive. I formatted the pendrive in FAT32 and it works fine, the problem is that when I remove it and connect it to the PC it is seen as an unformatted volume and is not detected by windows, I have to reformat every time.
I therefore assume that the fire stick does some operation on the pendrive.
Do you have the solution?
Thank you
Are you formatting the flash drive with your PC or FireTV?
If the FireTV formats the flash drive for internal storage (Android apps), it uses Ext4 which a PC won't natively recognize.
Finnzz said:
Are you formatting the flash drive with your PC or FireTV?
If the FireTV formats the flash drive for internal storage (Android apps), it uses Ext4 which a PC won't natively recognize.
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Thx for replay.
format from pc, I use the pendrive in firestick with retroarch, an old console emulator, it may be that retroarch when it scans the pendrrive in search of games does some operation, but certainly does not delete the files I put inside. Opening ES File Explorer on the Firestick recognizes the pendrive, but inside there is a .Android folder and then the files I put.
killer0007 said:
Thx for replay.
format from pc, I use the pendrive in firestick with retroarch, an old console emulator, it may be that retroarch when it scans the pendrrive in search of games does some operation, but certainly does not delete the files I put inside. Opening ES File Explorer on the Firestick recognizes the pendrive, but inside there is a .Android folder and then the files I put.
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When you FAT32 format the drive, are you using 4096bytes allocation unit size. I have noticed that using some higher values causes issues.
Other than that I'm not sure. Is the flash drive only unreadable in your PC after using it with RetroArch, ES Explorer, or anytime you plug it in to the Fire Stick?
Finnzz said:
Other than that I'm not sure. Is the flash drive only unreadable in your PC after using it with RetroArch, ES Explorer, or anytime you plug it in to the Fire Stick?
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unreadable anytime i plug it into the Fire Stick, Just connect the pendrive to the firestick and without doing any operation, I disconnect it and it is already unreadable
That's odd. Does it make a difference if you FAT32 format the drive with the Fire Stick instead of the PC?
Plug a non-FAT32 drive (eg exFAT) in to the FireStick, a pop-up will ask you to format the drive, select format for external storage.
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That's odd. Does it make a difference if you FAT32 format the drive with the Fire Stick instead of the PC?
Plug a non-FAT32 drive (eg exFAT) in to the FireStick, a pop-up will ask you to format the drive, select format for external storage.
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yes, this way everything works fine, you need to format the pendrive from firestick. Thank you very much