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Hey I am new to Android and have had my Play for over a month now.
Can anyone tell me how to access my SD cards' data, I am just see what is in it?
I came to this halt the day I had to send a PDF from my phone; stored in SD, to my computer.
These are the things I have tried.
1. Find that PDF in the QuickOffice and hold it for a second, but the options screen that appears doesn't show any option for sending via Bluetooth.
2. Secondly, I tried the same by accessing that PDF through Adobe Reader, still all in vain.
Jack Shepard said:
Hey I am new to Android and have had my Play for over a month now.
Can anyone tell me how to access my SD cards' data, I am just see what is in it?
I came to this halt the day I had to send a PDF from my phone; stored in SD, to my computer.
These are the things I have tried.
1. Find that PDF in the QuickOffice and hold it for a second, but the options screen that appears doesn't show any option for sending via Bluetooth.
2. Secondly, I tried the same by accessing that PDF through Adobe Reader, still all in vain.
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Just download a file manager off the market, It will give you access to all the non protected partitions on your device
Jack Shepard said:
Hey I am new to Android and have had my Play for over a month now.
Can anyone tell me how to access my SD cards' data, I am just see what is in it?
I came to this halt the day I had to send a PDF from my phone; stored in SD, to my computer.
These are the things I have tried.
1. Find that PDF in the QuickOffice and hold it for a second, but the options screen that appears doesn't show any option for sending via Bluetooth.
2. Secondly, I tried the same by accessing that PDF through Adobe Reader, still all in vain.
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hook your phone up to your computer using the micro usb cable, in the notification area, you'll have an option to connect to pc, turn it on, after that, open up windows explorer and your sd card will be mounted like a thumb drive in your computer.
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AndroHero said:
Just download a file manager off the market, It will give you access to all the non protected partitions on your device
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recommend any.
Jack Shepard said:
recommend any.
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astro file manager or es file explorer are two good ones
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So i upgraded to cm 10.1.2 and i'm having a hard time trying to figure out how mount as mass storage rather than MTP or PTP
for the life of my, i can't find the option.
i'm running linux so MTP is not an option for me
anyone know where i can change it?
thank you
sam
when you goto storage hit menu do you see any other options when you click menu in your storage settings ?
denti said:
So i upgraded to cm 10.1.2 and i'm having a hard time trying to figure out how mount as mass storage rather than MTP or PTP
for the life of my, i can't find the option.
i'm running linux so MTP is not an option for me
anyone know where i can change it?
thank you
sam
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That's because they removed mass storage option in 4.2.2
denti said:
guess i'll find another way to move files around as MTP and linux no play well together
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Some linux distros support MTP. Ubuntu, for example, although it hasn't been officially backported to some older releases. But it is available for older releases in a developer's third-party ppa. Unfortunately, I can't post the link. Still, I prefer USB mass storage to MTP. But I'm going to try MTP for awhile and see if it grows on me.
I noticed that there are a number of apps that come up in the Android Market / Google Play Apps if you search for "USB mass storage", but I haven't tried any of them. There are also third-party apps that provide file sharing via wifi using samba or ftp. Not exactly what you're looking for, but I thought I'd mention it. ES File Explorer is an example. I use it, and like it, but I haven't used the particular features I just mentioned because, until my recent upgrade to JB 4.2 I didn't need them -- I used USB mass storage.
In a thread on AndroidCentral, someone said google does not want to use USB mass storage. I don't know if that's true, and if it is true, I don't know what google's reasons are for abandoning USB mass storage.
stcr1 said:
Some linux distros support MTP. Ubuntu, for example, although it hasn't been officially backported to some older releases. But it is available for older releases in a developer's third-party ppa.
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I tried this without success. At this point, I forget what the problem was, because I've tried so many different things. I think I was unable to get read-write access. It was read only. Not sure, though. But it didn't work for me.
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There are also third-party apps that provide file sharing via wifi using samba or ftp.
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I tried a couple of these and they did not work reliably. I have a large git repo that I was trying to clone, and it would either silently fail mid-way (using Samba Filesharing for Android by funkyFresh), or git would complain about corrupt/missing objects (using Servers Ultimate by Ice Cold Apps). The latter also has an NFS server, but I wasn't able to connect to it. I kept getting a clnt_create Program not registered error. All of the problems here with both the samba servers and NFS could be specific to my hardware and software environment, and/or configuration settings. YMMV.
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I noticed that there are a number of apps that come up in the Android Market / Google Play Apps if you search for "USB mass storage", but I haven't tried any of them.
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I tried a ton of these. The only one that looks promising (for my device) is Multi Mount SD-Card Lite by rafoid. I hope it works out. Haven't tried cloning my git repo yet. Again, my experiences could be specific to my hardware and software environment. YMMV.
Off topic: Along the way I found AirDroid. Looks pretty cool, but doens't look like a solution to the problems in this thread.
You can try this mod and see if it works for you. It is really 2 lines on a terminal:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800935
It worked for me before to force my phone go into mass storage mode. I haven't used it for the latest mods.
angler_fish said:
You can try this mod and see if it works for you. It is really 2 lines on a terminal:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800935
It worked for me before to force my phone go into mass storage mode. I haven't used it for the latest mods.
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That's a good idea. I sorta tried that, and it didn't work for me, but it obviously has worked for other people. I say "sorta" because I didn't use a terminal, but used an app in the Marketplace wihich is supposed to do the same thing. The app is USB mode switch for SGS1 on CM by Zatta. It's the subject of a thread here (showthread.php?p=21505914). I would post the link to the thread, but unfortunately I can't post links.
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That's a good idea. I sorta tried that, and it didn't work for me, but it obviously has worked for other people. I say "sorta" because I didn't use a terminal, but used an app in the Marketplace wihich is supposed to do the same thing. The app is USB mode switch for SGS1 on CM by Zatta. It's the subject of a thread here (showthread.php?p=21505914). I would post the link to the thread, but unfortunately I can't post links.
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Just download a Terminal Emulator on Google Play. Search Terminal and the first one should work. Make sure you give it root privilege, as you are modding system files. Hope that helps!
angler_fish said:
You can try this mod and see if it works for you. It is really 2 lines on a terminal:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800935
It worked for me before to force my phone go into mass storage mode. I haven't used it for the latest mods.
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I put CM10.1.2 on my phone a few days ago. Until today, whenever I plugged it into my computer it would go into mass storage mode as expected and everything was fine. Then, I installed Button Savior, which required me to enable USB debugging mode, and after that it connected in MTP mode every time. If I tapped the notification it would give me an option to uncheck MTP mode, but tapping that any number of times had no effect (the checkmark wouldn't go away). I tried the solution suggested in the linked thread, but now it's even worse. It no longer connects in MTP mode, but it doesn't connect in mass storage mode either. Now, it connects in something called "installer mode" with no option to change anything. It shows up in Explorer on my computer, but when I try to open the drive the computer asks me to insert a drive.
Any idea how I get my mass storage mode back?
Odd, teamchopsticks pulled USB mass storage from cm10.1 because of crashes when disconnecting from the computer.
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Cyanogenmod removed support for USB mass storage after CM10.0 because "The kernel support was flaky... USB mass storage has been deprecated by Google and is no longer supported."
https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/CYAN-540
Multi Mount SD-Card Lite by rafoid on Google Play worked for me for awhile, then stopped working reliably. I lost some files as a result. Now I'm going to try adbfs:
https://github.com/spion/adbfs-rootless
(Thanks to dalingrin for this suggestion, made in this related thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2023066)
This article explains why Android moved from USB Mass Storage to MTP access for the internal storage.
hxxp://androidpolice.com/2011/11/18/impromptu-qa-session-with-android-engineer-dan-morrill-brings-to-light-reasons-behind-galaxy-nexus-lack-of-usb-mass-storage/
Is there an app that will allow me to share whatever drive is plugged into the fire TV?
I'd like to be able to transfer files to it over the network but I can't seem find a way?
Thanks all. :good:
Searched a little deeper and I came up with SambaDroid.... sorry all
Working very nicely.
forestrat said:
Searched a little deeper and I came up with SambaDroid.... sorry all
Working very nicely.
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Well, I spoke too soon.
It works well enough for transferring files through windows, but it doesn't appear to allow me to download via uTorrent directly to the fire.
Comes back with "Error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (WriteToDisk)"
forestrat said:
Well, I spoke too soon.
It works well enough for transferring files through windows, but it doesn't appear to allow me to download via uTorrent directly to the fire.
Comes back with "Error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (WriteToDisk)"
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see post #17
http://www.xbmchub.com/forums/threa...Storage-Device-to-Amazon-Fire-TV-(ROOT)/page2
Tried this out tonight with great results. My whole network can now see my attached usb hardrive. I can also download direct to in from XBMC via addon like Genesis.
HenryFord33 said:
see post #17
Tried this out tonight with great results. My whole network can now see my attached usb hardrive. I can also download direct to in from XBMC via addon like Genesis.
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Trying this out right now.... hope to have the same success.
Thank you.
HenryFord33 said:
see post #17
Tried this out tonight with great results. My whole network can now see my attached usb hardrive. I can also download direct to in from XBMC via addon like Genesis.
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Well... I got most of it accomplished, but I'm not able to access my external storage.
I'm able to access \\192.168.1.77\sdcard .....
but I can't figure out how to access the flash drive @ \\192.168.1.77\storage\usb\sda1\
Yeah I guess I'm just missing how to do the most important part here.... access the external drive??
lol ... okay ... so I was using Busybox to auto mount my USB drive and it had a path outside of the sdcard.
now that i'm using stickmount i can access it fine....
I'm no longer getting the errors in uTorrent and the failed downloads, but I'm getting a lot of "Disk Cache overloaded 100%"
Anyone else with this problem?
Also, is it possible to setup stickmount and samba fileshare to start automatically without popping open?
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lol ... okay ... so I was using Busybox to auto mount my USB drive and it had a path outside of the sdcard.
now that i'm using stickmount i can access it fine....
I'm no longer getting the errors in uTorrent and the failed downloads, but I'm getting a lot of "Disk Cache overloaded 100%"
Anyone else with this problem?
Also, is it possible to setup stickmount and samba fileshare to start automatically without popping open?
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Never had that problem with Cache, mind you I only downloaded a few things from within XBMC.
I think it stickmount and samba fileshare will always start automatically, if you dont want to see the notification on the screen, you just need to turn that off from with stickmount and fileshare.
I just received my Corsair Flash Voyager Pro & I can't seem to locate the files that I've put on it. The Tablet Doesn't Automatically open w/ file Manager & I also can't seem to fine google's file manager . The Drive is in exFAT if that matters.
Crimson Lotus said:
I just received my Corsair Flash Voyager Pro & I can't seem to locate the files that I've put on it. The Tablet Doesn't Automatically open w/ file Manager & I also can't seem to fine google's file manager . The Drive is in exFAT if that matters.
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Hi, it only worked on custom Roms. I use cyanogenmod and paranoid android and they're fine
poondog said:
Hi, it only worked on custom Roms. I use cyanogenmod and paranoid android and they're fine
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Do you happen to know if the Drive "HAVE TO" be in FAT32 Format?
Crimson Lotus said:
Do you happen to know if the Drive "HAVE TO" be in FAT32 Format?
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Some custom kernels support NTFS and EXFAT. But stock doesn't give you much option
If you're rooted try the app stick mount from the play store, that should work
If you're not rooted, try Nexus Media Importer (also from the Play Store).
I was expecting more of a Plug & Play Like what was shown 2:35
Stock / unrooted 5.02 and I use ES File Manager to access drives over USB OTG. This only started working (AFAIK) with the Lollipop release.
It's limited in functionality, and I usually end up copying files locally before using them, but it suits my needs and works without rooting.
I used to use StickMount, but it requires root. And I'm lazy.
Hi all
I have an issue with my newly purchased aftv 4k
I moved from the AFTV1 where I could backup all my addons etc to a USB stick. On the new AFTV2, I can't seem to backup at all.
I've read this is because of the new permissions in lollipop but I also read that upgrading to jarvis is supposed to fix this. Can anyone help? Or tell me what I should be doing?
Thanks
czar.nik said:
Hi all
I have an issue with my newly purchased aftv 4k
I moved from the AFTV1 where I could backup all my addons etc to a USB stick. On the new AFTV2, I can't seem to backup at all.
I've read this is because of the new permissions in lollipop but I also read that upgrading to jarvis is supposed to fix this. Can anyone help? Or tell me what I should be doing?
Thanks
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I've also noticed this too, was fine on 5.0.4 & kodi 15.2
Yeah my one was fine on my aftv1. Don't suppose anyone has found any solutions to this?
I have found a workaround but it's very very clunky
czar.nik said:
Yeah my one was fine on my aftv1. Don't suppose anyone has found any solutions to this?
I have found a workaround but it's very very clunky
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Like what? What have you done to do that?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/help/write-to-sd-card-fire-tv-t3220730
Jarvis does?
I was just looking for information on if there was an update to Kodi that was able to request/verify write permissions to any directory on external storage and I didn't find anything. I see on here a couple people saying that Jarvis update allows you to write to external (SD/USB) storage, but I don't see any official writeup about this new functionality. Anyone have a source for that info?
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I was just looking for information on if there was an update to Kodi that was able to request/verify write permissions to any directory on external storage and I didn't find anything. I see on here a couple people saying that Jarvis update allows you to write to external (SD/USB) storage, but I don't see any official writeup about this new functionality. Anyone have a source for that info?
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Still struggling with this. I Have 5.05 (lollipop) with Kodi 16.0 (official) on my non-rooted AFT1 (Firestarter). I tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire...re-tv-t3220730 but had no success. I can however change permissions through ES file explorer and read/write. Is anyone else struggling with this ? I can of course map to a networked drive (USB to Airport extreme). Can not get much info from KODI forum. Any suggestions ?
Cheers
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Still struggling with this. I Have 5.05 (lollipop) with Kodi 16.0 (official) on my non-rooted AFT1 (Firestarter). I tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire...re-tv-t3220730 but had no success. I can however change permissions through ES file explorer and read/write. Is anyone else struggling with this ? I can of course map to a networked drive (USB to Airport extreme). Can not get much info from KODI forum. Any suggestions ?
Cheers
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I have a Fire TV with a 128GB Micro SD card installed. I followed the link you mentioned, followed the instructions to the letter and it created a folder for me at that exact path on the Micro SD card. called "files." Inside this folder, I was able to create my own sub folder called what I wanted it to be called (created this folder directly from kodi) and then used the "Add Source" option in the file manager and in the videos section for quick access.
(Running Jarvis 16.0 )
Quick update: downloaded a tv show from Exodus, and it worked fine.
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I have a Fire TV with a 128GB Micro SD card installed. I followed the link you mentioned, followed the instructions to the letter and it created a folder for me at that exact path on the Micro SD card. called "files." Inside this folder, I was able to create my own sub folder called what I wanted it to be called (created this folder directly from kodi) and then used the "Add Source" option in the file manager and in the videos section for quick access.
(Running Jarvis 16.0 )
Quick update: downloaded a tv show from Exodus, and it worked fine.
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Can you give me those instructions? The link is dead I would also like to try this.
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joebuddy78 said:
I have a Fire TV with a 128GB Micro SD card installed. I followed the link you mentioned, followed the instructions to the letter and it created a folder for me at that exact path on the Micro SD card. called "files." Inside this folder, I was able to create my own sub folder called what I wanted it to be called (created this folder directly from kodi) and then used the "Add Source" option in the file manager and in the videos section for quick access.
(Running Jarvis 16.0 )
Quick update: downloaded a tv show from Exodus, and it worked fine.
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Did the same, but had no success. I am using an AFTv 1st gen, which does NOT have the micro SD card, but it should not make a difference. Let me go back and re-do. I am using adbfire Shell. Same instructions are here (from guy who wrote adbfire I believe)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/help/write-to-sd-card-fire-tv-t3220730
Ill let you know if I get it working as I know Im not the only "idiot" LOL:laugh:
Update: I got it - Key is to setup the "sandbox" area as a source, which creates an identical drive to the USB drive, but with the path setup.
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Can you give me those instructions? The link is dead I would also like to try this.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/help/write-to-sd-card-fire-tv-t3220730 (originally posted by czar.nik earlier in the thread. All credit for the link should go to him.
Nuggy, glad you got it sorted