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ok, so I purchased a Galaxy s3 today. could not move the apps to the ext sd card. So, I rooted it thinking if it was rooted, I would be able to move the files. Still no luck. Why has samsung devised this phone not to be able to move apps to sd card. It is like going back in time to the hero. Is there a work around on this issue?
ICS and JB don't allow moving, I guess that's why phones have more than 1 or 2 gigs now.
It's not Samsung, it's Android.
catman51 said:
ICS and JB don't allow moving, I guess that's why phones have more than 1 or 2 gigs now.
It's not Samsung, it's Android.
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It still allows moving to SD on devices with 2gb or less internal, or a partitioned internal. However internal SD on this device is just a folder on the single partition allowing you to use the entire space for anything from apps-zips and everything in between
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ok, so what is the ext sd card used for? storing pictures and other media files?
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ok, so what is the ext sd card used for? storing pictures and other media files?
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Yea incase u fill ur internal up basically, I tend tto save apps, and pics/vids I've recently taken on internal and roms music and wallpapers and such on external just cuz I can pop out external to transfer from PC faster
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Droidsail from the market. It allows you to force them. Leave widgets
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Droidsail is for rooted only.
My bad. I've been rooted so long that I wrongly assume that everyone else is also
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Been very scared (I guess that's the word) of doing it. Maybe someday I will root!!
Works on the Galaxy S3?
So are you guys saying that Droidsail works on the Galaxy S3?
What option did you use? Internal? SD? Auto?
Thanks
Mike
catman51 said:
Been very scared (I guess that's the word) of doing it. Maybe someday I will root!!
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Don't be sacred. Just be cautious. Check out the stickies. QBKing77 has great easy to follow videos. In addition, if you do have a problem, there are many in this great community willing to help you. Just FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS COMPLETELY....sorry for raising my voice
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i live by QBKing77's videos. here is the best video to watch to root. He assumes NOTHING and takes you from step one to the finished product.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoEVDgjTTdg&feature=plcp
hope this one helps
using Droidsail, did you find that when you moved your apps that they did continue run properly on the phone?
So no way without rooting?
I have tried rooting but keep getting "Failed to verify whole signature"
baloofalo said:
So no way without rooting?
I have tried rooting but keep getting "Failed to verify whole signature"
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droidsail doesnt work
For those who are Rooted. You may want to check out the link below . Been using this for a while. On both the wife's, and my device. Very happy with it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30624655
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11
It has been my experience that even rooting your SG3 will not allow you the ability to move hour apps to the SD card. If you discover a way to do that and still have them be functional i would love to hear it. Hope this answers your question.
mookiemoo said:
It has been my experience that even rooting your SG3 will not allow you the ability to move hour apps to the SD card. If you discover a way to do that and still have them be functional i would love to hear it. Hope this answers your question.
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Yes I've found the same thing would love an answer to this problem
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mookiemoo said:
ok, so I purchased a Galaxy s3 today. could not move the apps to the ext sd card. So, I rooted it thinking if it was rooted, I would be able to move the files. Still no luck. Why has samsung devised this phone not to be able to move apps to sd card. It is like going back in time to the hero. Is there a work around on this issue?
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Why do you want your apps moved to the sd card, are you running out of internal memory? I keep all my apps on internal and have my sd card for music and pics. The s3 has enough memory not to have that problem of needing apps moved to sd card. Well that's IMO.
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Just from everything I have read moving apps to sd has caused more issues than anything on the S3. But hey to each his own.
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question.....
what is the best for....
with note 2, microcard 32 gig, I would love to put, not all, but be able, at least to put softwares like Tomtom or any kind of GPS offline in the microcard...
I know, for doing this I need to change from Stock rom to ( I would like to leave intact the stock rom ) but, be able just to truly move some application into microcard..I mean, not Emulated...
what the best step to follow?
thanks for helping...I read about Odin, cwm6, but, still confuse, if I do need to reverse the original Android 4.1.1 for waranty,,,,Then ?
There is some gps apps that support tomtom maps (you need to purchase those maps) and all the data is stored by default on the sd card (i think so).
Try mapfactor navigator
Best regards
Sifou
Using a Samsung N7100
sos_sifou said:
There is some gps apps that support tomtom maps (you need to purchase those maps) and all the data is stored by default on the sd card (i think so).
Try mapfactor navigator
Best regards
Sifou
Using a Samsung N7100
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thanks, going to take a look
Depends on your country. I use papago, you have to manually copy the files from the cd (the installation kit ) onto the sdcard and run the apk from there.
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I guys I'm Planning to buy Note 2 Titanium Grey ......
But I'm confused that should i Wait for CES 2013 to release new Note 3 or S-IV.
I w#s on the same boat and decided to take the plunge. I got one last week and very very very glad I did it. Unless u want 108 screen phone don't wait as it is always the same, they will keep nrimng new ones out. I think till they bring out flexible screens out I am happy with note 2
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You can use Directory bind to map an folder from the internal to external sd. I have it running on my note 2 now
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Depends on your country. I use papago, you have to manually copy the files from the cd (the installation kit ) onto the sdcard and run the apk from there.
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ok, thanks, but, I still did not flashed my Note2, waiting to install the new version, 4.1.2, because, I found, I did try to install a GPS named Mt Trails , and with that app we need to use the Mobac Atlas creator, with a MGM format, then, it need lots of place...This is the main reason, why I would flash my Note2, to be able to use the EXT micro card for maps storage, but, since with the Stock rom, we can not direct MYTRAILS to stocks maps on the emulated EXTcard...
looking for your papago...
also, myself looking for a live trail drawing on my screen when a do either walk or bike, in case I am going lost...
Tiny reader to add android phone's storage
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-57607574-251/meenova-adds-a-microsd-reader-to-android-devices/
Have you purchased one of these?
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Tiny reader to add android phone's storage
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This looks like a great idea, but I'm wondering how they hold up. (I always worry about losing the caps to my keychain thumbdrives. :silly:
It Works, But
I got one. A nice little piece of kit. But so far it isn't a seemless experience.
The default Apps don't seem to recognize it. Neither Gallery nor QuickPic will find any of the photos on it until I navigate to it using ES File Explorer. Gallery will only show the photo I open from File Explorer. QuickPic will allow me to browse the directory of a photo I select, but not move up the directory tree.
As for music files, Play Music will do so for the file selected from ES File, but won't allow me to search the memory card.
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I got one. A nice little piece of kit. But so far it isn't a seemless experience.
The default Apps don't seem to recognize it. Neither Gallery nor QuickPic will find any of the photos on it until I navigate to it using ES File Explorer. Gallery will only show the photo I open from File Explorer. QuickPic will allow me to browse the directory of a photo I select, but not move up the directory tree.
As for music files, Play Music will do so for the file selected from ES File, but won't allow me to search the memory card.
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Cedarsprings thanks for letting us know.. Kinda interested now!
Do u have root on ur Moto X? If so, can you pls give chainfire's stickmount from the play store a shot?
I think it may solve your problem by auto mounting the OTG device on boot.
If it works, I'm definitely getting one for my X too!
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dr3wster said:
Cedarsprings thanks for letting us know.. Kinda interested now!
Do u have root on ur Moto X? If so, can you pls give chainfire's stickmount from the play store a shot?
I think it may solve your problem by auto mounting the OTG device on boot.
If it works, I'm definitely getting one for my X too!
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Nice! As soon as I read Cedarsprings review I was kinda bummed cause I just ordered one of these today. But if stickmount works, this little drive will be my new favorite toy
When I had my nexus 7 and used some random OTG, it worked like a charm on it .. So here's hoping! The meenova looks so much more schmick than the clunky OTG I used to have!!
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Not Rooted Yet
While I got the Developer Edition, I haven't rooted it yet as I'm still deciding whether or not to put either my company e-mail (with their MaaS360 Mobile Device Management) or my client's e-mail (and its Citrix Recevier security - speaking of, what poor reviews!). Either Maas360 will detect Root, or it is just company "policy" to not allow rooted devices, and I'm still trying to find out which is is before I move on things.
I'd thought changing the USB Computer Connection setting in teh Storage settings from Media Device (MTP) to Camera (PTP) might help, but no joy. In fact, I was a bit surprised that there wasn't anything about the attached device there.
And while I'd also like to get Titanium Backup in place, there aren't any ROMs with real appealing capabilities that are pushing me to unlock and root. Now, when there's a Menu patch like Jason Robitaille's Advanced Launcer Options in WebOS, I'll be rooted & ROMing in a heartbeat.
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CedarSprings
dr3wster said:
Cedarsprings thanks for letting us know.. Kinda interested now!
Do u have root on ur Moto X? If so, can you pls give chainfire's stickmount from the play store a shot?
I think it may solve your problem by auto mounting the OTG device on boot.
If it works, I'm definitely getting one for my X too!
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While I got the Developer Edition, I haven't rooted it yet as I'm still deciding whether or not to put either my company e-mail (with their MaaS360 Mobile Device Management) or my client's e-mail (and its Citrix Recevier security - speaking of, what poor reviews!). Either Maas360 will detect Root, or it is just company "policy" to not allow rooted devices, and I'm still trying to find out which is is before I move on things.
I'd thought changing the USB Computer Connection setting in teh Storage settings from Media Device (MTP) to Camera (PTP) might help, but no joy. In fact, I was a bit surprised that there wasn't anything about the attached device there.
And while I'd also like to get Titanium Backup in place, there aren't any ROMs with real appealing capabilities that are pushing me to unlock and root. Now, when there's a Menu patch like Jason Robitaille's Advanced Launcer Options in WebOS, I'll be rooted & ROMing in a heartbeat.
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CedarSprings
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Totally understandable .. I think in theory it should work, but just wasn't sure about motox compatibility with the stickmount and otg setup... Apparently Motorola phones dont seem to work with Carbon/Helium backup so I was wondering if something in the system might interrupt the setup.
hells yeah... Another webOS fan!! So rare to find one these days.. I'm only on Android becuz things went south ... At least matias is design the UI for android now.. And with HP's alleged intention to sell webOS patents, we just might find that Android becomes more webOS-y in the future!
The patch system was awesome! I think Rod Whitby setup Nexus Internals a while back when HP started giving up on webOS... Not sure if they are working on any solutions similar to preware? Closed framework is very similar in concept tho... Have u installed it?
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Whoops my bad.. Forgot xposed framework needs root lol.. Sorry about that!
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Response from Meenov
I sent a note to the Meenov support site yesterday, giving them a heads-up about the Moto X issue and this thread, and got this quick response:
"Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately that's because Moto X removed certain support for external USB storage, while Moto's other models (Droid series) have better support for external USB storage."
So hopefully the smarter among us will figure out what the problem is and it in a future ROM.
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CedarSprings
Just got mine in, works with ES like a champ, which is all I care about. Great little accessory.
_MetalHead_ said:
Just got mine in, works with ES like a champ, which is all I care about. Great little accessory.
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How do you write file into SD card on your phone? Need rooted or not?
jeffpan said:
How do you write file into SD card on your phone? Need rooted or not?
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No root needed. I just use es file explorer. It comes up as a folder in /storage.
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Any news with Root Explorer working with the Meenov without any hassles?
lensgrabber said:
Any news with Root Explorer working with the Meenov without any hassles?
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Works fine for me.
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_MetalHead_ said:
Works fine for me.
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Okay great. I just ordered one.
_MetalHead_ said:
No root needed. I just use es file explorer. It comes up as a folder in /storage.
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Is it stock rom? what format of SD card do you use? FAT32, exFAT etc. And does it automatically mounted?
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Is it stock rom? what format of SD card do you use? FAT32, exFAT etc. And does it automatically mounted?
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Stock ROM, FAT32, and sort of. It doesn't need to mount like a typical SD card. Plug it in and it will automatically show up in /storage. Unplug it when done, no need or way to unmount.
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Stock ROM, FAT32, and sort of. It doesn't need to mount like a typical SD card. Plug it in and it will automatically show up in /storage. Unplug it when done, no need or way to unmount.
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Really cool.:good:
Just ordered one. Should be here in a few days. Thx OP
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Ok, so I've had mine for about a week now and it works great with my 32GB UHS-1 class card.
To get your media to read in other apps, such as music in Google Play Music, download the app by Chainfire called Stickmount. Mount the Meenov. Second, if you wanna go the free route, download the app called Rescan Media Root and run it. (obviously, you need to have root access) Give it about 10-20 seconds (your Meenov will start to blink) and your music should start appearing in Google Play Music. Just remember to Unmount when you want to remove the Meenov reader. And to remove all your music stored on the card that still appears in Google Play Music, run Rescan Media Root again.
Or, you can just drop $2.49 on the pro version of Stickmount and it will automatically trigger a rescan on mount and unmount.
This has got to be the worst move ever made by Google (and I'm a Google fanboy). Makes me frustrated. Samsung is one of the only companies providing micro sd card slots, and now this comes and screws that up. What can you even do with a micro sd card now besides read it...?!
Here is the article: http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/65841
Leibeck explains what this means to users, writing,
“If your device has user-accessible internal flash storage, your SD Card is a “secondary external storage device”.
What this means is that with KitKat, applications will no longer be able create, modify, or remove files and folders on your external SD card. As a for-instance, you can no longer use a file manager to copy files from your computer to the SD card over a network. This ability, which has existed since the beginning of Android, has been taken away.”
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Mystery? said:
This has got to be the worst move ever made by Google (and I'm a Google fanboy). Makes me frustrated. Samsung is one of the only companies providing micro sd card slots, and now this comes and screws that up. What can you even do with a micro sd card now besides read it...?!
Here is the article: http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/65841
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This is horrible.....shame on google
I'll be waiting. No need to rush in and be an early adopter. I wonder how the S5 is handling this/going to.
Google mess it up on purpose, to force people to use their cloud services and be bombarded by their advertising, that's how they make money and their official explanation to improve security is so lame. Anyhow, hopefully Samsung will fix it sooner or later, or you can root it and fix it yourself, loosing warranty in the process. I took the high road and will not update, until a) it's all fixed or b) my warranty runs out and won't care about Knox at all.
Google gets on my nerves lately, first they messed up new maps update (at least I got option to stay on old version for now) and now this.
rosedog said:
I'll be waiting. No need to rush in and be an early adopter. I wonder how the S5 is handling this/going to.
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So should I not up date the software.
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Google changed it because a lot of folks were having their app data store on the sdcard, which later on caused stability issues with the apps loading. Some resulted in FCs, crashes etc etc. So in order to increase stability, and possibly even security in Android, Google made the move to allow on app data to be stored internally. You can store and do whatever else you want to do on the sdcard like storing music, photos, other files etc etc. App data can no longer be stored on external...
Personally I don't mind, the Note 3 comes with 32GB minimum... That's plenty for me....
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So should I not up date the software.
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I hear ya. 32gb is more than I need.. makes a lot of sense to do it that way.
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I am not sure I understand correctly. I read the above link also.
When I go to my application manager I can still move apps to SD card?
okay, so I take a picture. The photo is not saved on the sd card?
Exfex21 said:
okay, so I take a picture. The photo is not saved on the sd card?
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I'm guessing it is going to be under your stock gallery app and it's saving to your device.
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Limeybastard said:
I am not sure I understand correctly. I read the above link also.
When I go to my application manager I can still move apps to SD card?
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Yes, you can still move some apps to the SD card.
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I'm guessing it is going to be under your stock gallery app and it's saving to your device.
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I still can go to settings and change to save the pictures to the SD card. It's the app data, not pictures that you can't move to an SD card.
These SD card problems are a super-dealbreaker for me, does anyone know a way (via root or whatever) to revert kitkat to previous SD card behaviors? If not, I'm going to have to revert back to Jelly Bean.
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These SD card problems are a super-dealbreaker for me, does anyone know a way (via root or whatever) to revert kitkat to previous SD card behaviors? If not, I'm going to have to revert back to Jelly Bean.
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If you're rooted there is a fix. it's in the kitkat qa thread in the dev section. Seems to work fine.
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Google changed it because a lot of folks were having their app data store on the sdcard, which later on caused stability issues with the apps loading. Some resulted in FCs, crashes etc etc. So in order to increase stability, and possibly even security in Android, Google made the move to allow on app data to be stored internally. You can store and do whatever else you want to do on the sdcard like storing music, photos, other files etc etc. App data can no longer be stored on external...
Personally I don't mind, the Note 3 comes with 32GB minimum... That's plenty for me....
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Why not force apps to be defaulted to internal unless user unchecks that option for people using developers menu and/or root. Sort of like force gpu rendering option.
Would really love to have the option to connect a flash drive to my Pixel for movies etc without having the 4GB file size limit.
Reechings said:
Would really love to have the option to connect a flash drive to my Pixel for movies etc without having the 4GB file size limit.
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Stick mount on Google play might work. It's designed by Chainfire, I know it adds support for exFat just not sure if it works on the pixel
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Stick mount on Google play might work. It's designed by Chainfire, I know it adds support for exFat just not sure if it works on the pixel
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Thanks for the idea, I actually found a $0.99 extension for Solid Explorer that worked for me which was great since it was the file explorer I already used. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to let me play movies directly off of it without stuttering but it's a great start.
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Reechings said:
Thanks for the idea, I actually found a $0.99 extension for Solid Explorer that worked for me which was great since it was the file explorer I already used. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to let me play movies directly off of it without stuttering but it's a great start.
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Link?
xocomaox said:
Link?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer.plugins.otg
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Was hoping to use that Solid Explorer extension to access photos/videos off of my SD card adapter but no dice. File system is read just fine but viewing JPG photos from my DSLR just gives endless spinning circle icon. Play store link shows an old update date for the extension, have to wonder if an update will come to provide better compatibility for Android N.
I tried Stick Mount, didn't have high hopes considering the last update was back in March. Didn't work for me, crashes and never mounts my card reader.
I have the same problem, stick mout doesn`t work on my device and i want to use exFat on my 64gb usb drive.
boc11 said:
I have the same problem, stick mout doesn`t work on my device and i want to use exFat on my 64gb usb drive.
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Try this app, it works for me but I also use Solid Explorer.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer.plugins.otg
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