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[Q] OTG Mounts But Empty Folder, No Files

I just recently bought a new Nexus 7 2013. It's now been rooted and has been working wonderful. I just got a new OTG cable, threw some MKV movies on a 64gb USB thumb drive, and mounted it with StickMount. After mounting, I browse to the SDA folder, and it shows as "EMPTY" in Astro file manager. I downloaded Root Explorer and navigating to the folder - still EMPTY. I tried Nexus Media Importer, it shows the folder with the movies, but when opening the folder, it is empty. Wondering if it is an issue with the file types, I loaded the USB thumbdrive with small MP4, WMV, MKV, MP3, and JPG files. The JPG shows up fine in Nexus Media Importer, but still no video or audio files show up. I tried stickmount, and the SDA folder still shows EMPTY. My thumbdrive is NTFS, so I reformatted as ExFAT - stickmount still showed empty and NMI said ExFat is incompatible. I reformatted the stick as Ext2 - stickmount still shows folder as EMPTY and NMI still only shows jpg. I don't know what else to try. I've uninstalled and reinstalled all programs, reformatted the drive, unplugged and plugged back in, restarted the Nexus. Nothing is working.
Why in the world would the drive be seen, but only JPGs show up - the video and audio files are never seen?? MX Player and VLC don't see any media files either...
Thanks for your help!

LotharioRowe said:
I just recently bought a new Nexus 7 2013. It's now been rooted and has been working wonderful. I just got a new OTG cable, threw some MKV movies on a 64gb USB thumb drive, and mounted it with StickMount. After mounting, I browse to the SDA folder, and it shows as "EMPTY" in Astro file manager. I downloaded Root Explorer and navigating to the folder - still EMPTY. I tried Nexus Media Importer, it shows the folder with the movies, but when opening the folder, it is empty. Wondering if it is an issue with the file types, I loaded the USB thumbdrive with small MP4, WMV, MKV, MP3, and JPG files. The JPG shows up fine in Nexus Media Importer, but still no video or audio files show up. I tried stickmount, and the SDA folder still shows EMPTY. My thumbdrive is NTFS, so I reformatted as ExFAT - stickmount still showed empty and NMI said ExFat is incompatible. I reformatted the stick as Ext2 - stickmount still shows folder as EMPTY and NMI still only shows jpg. I don't know what else to try. I've uninstalled and reinstalled all programs, reformatted the drive, unplugged and plugged back in, restarted the Nexus. Nothing is working.
Why in the world would the drive be seen, but only JPGs show up - the video and audio files are never seen?? MX Player and VLC don't see any media files either...
Thanks for your help!
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You've just tried all unsupported filesystems. No ExFat, ntfs, Ext2 or Ext3 are gonna work without some help. Formatting the thumbdrive in Ext4 should work, but then you will be able to use it just on Linux systems. Chainfire's StickMount can mount and access ExFat and NTFS on the usb drives if you put a few files on your /sdcard/ directory. Links to those files are in the first post of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400034
I've tried it with my homemade OTG cable, StickMount and some pendrives and usb hard disks and works just fine. Other method would be flashing a different kernel, like ElementalX, which comes with support for ExFat and NTFS, and even OTG + usb charging.
Hope that helps you.

It's a pain in the butt. I have stick mount, and I added the binaries that allow stick mount to mount exfat drives. However, I still only have read access. You won't be able to write to the drive in exfat. Your best bet is to reformat it in fat32. I even flashed a kernel that supposedly supports exfat, but that didn't work either.
The Fat32 size limit sucks, but it's a necessary evil right now.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/670676304

xr_ghg said:
You've just tried all unsupported filesystems. No ExFat, ntfs, Ext2 or Ext3 are gonna work without some help. Formatting the thumbdrive in Ext4 should work, but then you will be able to use it just on Linux systems. Chainfire's StickMount can mount and access ExFat and NTFS on the usb drives if you put a few files on your /sdcard/ directory. Links to those files are in the first post of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400034
I've tried it with my homemade OTG cable, StickMount and some pendrives and usb hard disks and works just fine. Other method would be flashing a different kernel, like ElementalX, which comes with support for ExFat and NTFS, and even OTG + usb charging.
Hope that helps you.
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Unbelievable...you're right, that did it! Thank God. StickMount now sees and plays all my files. Thank you for your help!

volumnus said:
It's a pain in the butt. I have stick mount, and I added the binaries that allow stick mount to mount exfat drives. However, I still only have read access. You won't be able to write to the drive in exfat. Your best bet is to reformat it in fat32. I even flashed a kernel that supposedly supports exfat, but that didn't work either.
The Fat32 size limit sucks, but it's a necessary evil right now.
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Your inability to write is probably due to SELinux enforcement. Try opening a root shell, and type the following command:
setenforce 0
You should be able to write to your ntfs/eXfat afterwards. (Till next reboot)
Hope that helps you.

xr_ghg said:
Your inability to write is probably due to SELinux enforcement. Try opening a root shell, and type the following command:
setenforce 0
You should be able to write to your ntfs/eXfat afterwards. (Till next reboot)
Hope that helps you.
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I wish a developer would build exfat support into a rom.

[Q] Ext HDD + OTG + NTFS mounting on this tablet - Anyone got it to work?

Has anyone got NTFS mounting to work, specifically from an OTG adapter and external hard drive? I see an old thread about NTFS mount, but the search function is broken on XDA (when clicking on a search result, it just takes you to the front forums page, not the actual thread you clicked on), so I can't read it.
I tried Paragon NTFS+, which works with my hard drive drive & OTG adapter when using my LG G2, but on my Note it fails to mount. Paragon doesn't give an error message, it just tries to mount for a few seconds then does nothing. I also tried NTFS Mounter, which crashes when trying to mount.
I ended up using Wireless File Transfer Pro to transfer a large file because MTP is broken on my laptop with all devices. I've tried everything under the sun to fix MTP, but it's just broken until I reimage this machine.
FWIW, I'm using CleanROM 1.5.

snake2332 said:
I tried Paragon NTFS+, which works with my hard drive drive & OTG adapter when using my LG G2, but on my Note it fails to mount. Paragon doesn't give an error message, it just tries to mount for a few seconds then does nothing. I also tried NTFS Mounter, which crashes when trying to mount.
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There are a couple NTFS Mount apps on the Play Store, none of them are working as of yet though.
When trying to mount using ntfs-3g and fuse.ko by hand, ntfs-3g stops with some sort of permission error.
My guess is it doesn't work with SELinux on Enforcing yet.

meks007 said:
There are a couple NTFS Mount apps on the Play Store, none of them are working as of yet though.
When trying to mount using ntfs-3g and fuse.ko by hand, ntfs-3g stops with some sort of permission error.
My guess is it doesn't work with SELinux on Enforcing yet.
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USB Plugin for total commander works.. It's a paid app but it works... Only thing though, you need to Total Commander as the File manager. It will also copy a file, temporarily, to the tablet. But it does read the NTFS 1.5Tb drive I plug in....

Ext HDD + OTG + NTFS
If you want your SM-P600 to mount and read NTFS formatted Hard drives you will nee to install the kernel shown here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2615959
After you do that you can install Paragon or USB OTG helper,the hard drive should be mounted and your tablet should be able to show the files on it if you use ES file explorer

qwestmogul1970 said:
If you want your SM-P600 to mount and read NTFS formatted Hard drives you will nee to install the kernel shown here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2615959
After you do that you can install Paragon or USB OTG helper,the hard drive should be mounted and your tablet should be able to show the files on it if you use ES file explorer
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Anything for sm-p605?

Working Method to Read NTFS? Tried some but no luck.

I researched for ways to make 10.1 14 read any external HD with NTFS format thru OTG.
Found a couple of ways, tried and it still show me empty folder.
Tried both Stickmount and [root]Ntfs Mounter and both doesn't work. It tried both of them with my 3 HDD (256 GB SSD, 1TB and 2TB WD Passport).
I was hoping to connect it without having to reformat any of the disk to ExFAT or FAT32.
Is there any method that's working yet
Really appreciate the help. TIA.

jinda628 said:
I researched for ways to make 10.1 14 read any external HD with NTFS format thru OTG.
Found a couple of ways, tried and it still show me empty folder.
Tried both Stickmount and [root]Ntfs Mounter and both doesn't work. It tried both of them with my 3 HDD (256 GB SSD, 1TB and 2TB WD Passport).
I was hoping to connect it without having to reformat any of the disk to ExFAT or FAT32.
Is there any method that's working yet
Really appreciate the help. TIA.
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Hi,
There is only one working solution as I know.
You have to install TotalCommander and then also the relate USB plug-in.
The only limit is that for NTFS is read-only.
For all the other programs you find on the store for OTG management, are not working because of the restrictions made by SELinux in enforcing mode.
To solve this, you have to find a working custom kernel that sets SELinux in Permissive mode. But as far as I know there is nothing for sm-p605.

joe666it said:
Hi,
There is only one working solution as I know.
You have to install TotalCommander and then also the relate USB plug-in.
The only limit is that for NTFS is read-only.
For all the other programs you find on the store for OTG management, are not working because of the restrictions made by SELinux in enforcing mode.
To solve this, you have to find a working custom kernel that sets SELinux in Permissive mode. But as far as I know there is nothing for sm-p605.
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Thanks for the response. So that's why everything that I'm trying just tells me its mounted but doesnt show me anything.
I was hoping to use it as OTG storage so read-only seems pointless at this moment.
I guess we wait right Thanks again sir!

jinda628 said:
Thanks for the response. So that's why everything that I'm trying just tells me its mounted but doesnt show me anything.
I was hoping to use it as OTG storage so read-only seems pointless at this moment.
I guess we wait right Thanks again sir!
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AFAIK, bindroid kernel is coming with NTFS support, limited to SM-P600 and SM-P601.

Since about two days there's a new version of Stickmount, which will during the first run download additional stuff to enhance compatibility. I would suspect an Ntfs driver.

without ntfs drivers in kernel, you cannot read ntfs format...

Stickmount on aftv??

How to use stickmount on aftv?
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doesn't work on my firetv. rooted, stickmount installed. 2 sticks, 1 external hdd, different filesystems (extfs, fat32, ext2, ext4, ntfs). no succes. the drive shows up as mounted, but theres nothing in it (even tough i had put some files in).

meningitiscerebrospinalis said:
doesn't work on my firetv. rooted, stickmount installed. 2 sticks, 1 external hdd, different filesystems (extfs, fat32, ext2, ext4, ntfs). no succes. the drive shows up as mounted, but theres nothing in it (even tough i had put some files in).
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Worked fine for me.
When you mount it, it tells you "mounted in blah blah" I cant remember. I'm at work right now, so I will check when I get home, but it's in something like
/sdcard/usbstorage/sda1
EDIT:
Found a pic from when I did it.
Sorry about the blurry pic.
http://imgur.com/2thU2kO

thanks for the lookup, the drive is being mounted to /sdcard/usbstorage/sda but it says the folder is empty

weird. mine is just a kingston datatraveler, formated as ms-dos(FAT). I'm using ES File Explorer to navigate to it.

U gotta download the ntfs fuse files if ur hdd is ntfs format
https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...2&sa=D&usg=AFQjCNG2utOyTHiqIf5XsSeY1I2TxayLcw
Unzip to root of sdcard
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exFAT or NTFS OTG compatibility?

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.

christiebunny said:
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.

v12xke said:
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.

yackmaan said:
" 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.