sorry if this is a stupid question but do i need to format my usb stick drives to nfts or will fat 32 work ok on the fire tv
I use fat 32 -- works fine.
But remember, root is required to use external USB drives. (just to avoid confusion, for all the German un-rootable aft devices)
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Hi guys is there any way to make an external usb drive work on kindle as external storage, like a secondary partition with USB OTG. I'm willing to add an external pendrive to install apps there when I run out of space. Thanks . A friend of mine did install CM but he said kindle fire it's only outputting around 2.7 volts instead of 5 volts on usb .. so dunno.
I'm willing to buy a tablet and thinking on adding external storage but without a usb hub. Any advice
hi there, search option is unvailable at the moment so I wasnt able to search for an answer to my question, hence new thread.
Is this possible to connenct some external memory to Nexus 7 like pendrive (via usb adapter) or memory card to usb adapter?
thanks
skwieradee said:
hi there, search option is unvailable at the moment so I wasnt able to search for an answer to my question, hence new thread.
Is this possible to connenct some external memory to Nexus 7 like pendrive (via usb adapter) or memory card to usb adapter?
thanks
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Pick up a USB OTG Cable and get a flash drive (flash drives are preferred over actual external hard drives, unless the hard drives has external power).
Buy the Nexus Media Importer app ($3 or $4, cant remember).
Done!
If you only need to read to it, then having the USB drive as NTFS is fine. If you need to write to it as well, it'll need to be Fat or Fat32 (keep in mind, it's a little tougher to format anything over 32GB to Fat32. Usually need a 3rd party program)
Kenneth196 said:
Pick up a USB OTG Cable and get a flash drive (flash drives are preferred over actual external hard drives, unless the hard drives has external power).
Buy the Nexus Media Importer app ($3 or $4, cant remember).
Done!
If you only need to read to it, then having the USB drive as NTFS is fine. If you need to write to it as well, it'll need to be Fat or Fat32 (keep in mind, it's a little tougher to format anything over 32GB to Fat32. Usually need a 3rd party program)
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no root required?
thx for an answer
skwieradee said:
no root required?
thx for an answer
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If you use Nexus Media Importer, no root required. If you are rooted, you can use Stickmount (free I believe).
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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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.
Now it's been probably ask before,but can I use a USB flashdrive on a aftv gen1 with newest software update or not!I really I read every thing for hours how to do it,but I can't get my aftv to detect the USB drive. I am about to get crazy!
Yes you can. The drive needs to be FAT32. And make sure there aren't any hidden partitions on the drive.
I'm using the newest original ROM and the wolf launcher. But I can only use fat32 formatted USB sticks as external drives.
Since I want to use the Firetvstick solely as a media center for my parents, only being able to use fat32 (single files < 4GB) is a real pain in the a**.
Would it be possible to use a custom ROM and use USB sticks with e.g. exfat?
Thanks in advance.
Can anyone help me out here?