Hello everyone!
I've an amazon fire stick and i'm trying to transfer some movie from my mac to the stick.
I tried es file explorer but it's very slow,14 hours for 1.13Gb.
Same for bluetooth file transfer.
Is there a way to use the usb connection or a faster way for the wireless?
Thank you!
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I have a modded CM10/SGT7 Linaro Kindle Fire. I tried copying a large movie file (mp4 format) that is roughly around 1.08GB and the Kindle Fire times out at around 20% remaining on the file to be copied. It just hangs .. I have to remove the USB cable and hard reboot the device. Is this a know issue with big files? Is there any way to get around this?
Thanks!
read post 12 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1979998&page=2
Used AirDroid
Tried using the MTP method and the file writing to the Kindle Fire still times out. The only way I could get this working is transferring the file through WiFi using AirDroid. BTW the file I was transferring was a 1.4GB movie file in mp4 format.
fljoe said:
Tried using the MTP method and the file writing to the Kindle Fire still times out. The only way I could get this working is transferring the file through WiFi using AirDroid. BTW the file I was transferring was a 1.4GB movie file in mp4 format.
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I wonder if you compress the video file before sending it over the USB cable to the Kindle will make it work? I saw an example where they took a 167mb MP4 and compressed it to 35mb for a faster upload.
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fljoe said:
Tried using the MTP method and the file writing to the Kindle Fire still times out. The only way I could get this working is transferring the file through WiFi using AirDroid. BTW the file I was transferring was a 1.4GB movie file in mp4 format.
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Boot into recovery, mount usb storage and then transfer the file.
That works
Wow .. never thought about that. It works great!
Thanks! :good:
Hi,
Tried to install Kodi on my firestick, it said it was succesful but when i plugged it back into my tv its not listed in my hdmi channel.
Now adbfire will not recognise my firestick. I installed over wifi using adbfire, using a Mac
Make a Dropbox account.
Make a folder called Fire TV.
Put the apps you want to install on your Fire Stick in that folder, such as the Kodi.apk File.
Login to your Amazon account linked to Fire Stick. Go here - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008K6HN8I/?tag=aftvn-20
Send ES File Explorer to your Fire TV via the Amazon.com website via the Deliver To option on top right.
Go onto your Fire TV, Open the ES File Explorer App.
Scroll down to Cloud. Click it, choose Dropbox and type in your name and password.
Now your Fire Stick has access to your Dropbox. You can install the .apk files directly on your Fire Stick without having to use adbfire or push files anymore from a computer.
In the future when you want to update Kodi or any other apps, just download the file to your phone or PC and drag it into the Dropbox folder. Then you can access it from your Fire Stick.
I have a USB flash drive attached to my Fire Stick TV (2nd Gen). I use it to store movie & music files, which I can play from the Fire Stick using VLC for Android. Works great.
Question: Is there any way that I can access that flash drive via my home network? I would like to be able to copy files to it from my computer. Currently, I have to do it via "sneakernet".
Any advice is much appreciated.
johnnyzero2 said:
I have a USB flash drive attached to my Fire Stick TV (2nd Gen). I use it to store movie & music files, which I can play from the Fire Stick using VLC for Android. Works great.
Question: Is there any way that I can access that flash drive via my home network? I would like to be able to copy files to it from my computer. Currently, I have to do it via "sneakernet".
Any advice is much appreciated.
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Do "adb connect firestickIP".
adb ls /storage
The USB stick is mounted in /storage (something like /storage/3E91-AF2A). Use "adb push file target-path" to copy files to the USB stick.
Thank you.
I was hoping there might be some way to make the attached flash drive visible/accessible as a standard network share. My goal is to use Windows' File Explorer for file management on that drive, just like the other shared storage devices on my network.
I will try your suggestion of using ADB, although using a command-line interface for file management is not ideal. I found a few different Windows programs that will supposedly provide a File Explorer-like GUI for doing Android file management via ADB (ADB Browser, ADB Explorer, Device File Explorer, etc. ) . Maybe one of those will do the job.
Alternatively, I may try installing a SAMBA server ("LAN Drive") or FTP server ("FTP Server") on the Fire Stick; although neither app has very good reviews.
After trying all this stuff, I will definitely post the results here.
johnnyzero2 said:
Thank you.
I was hoping there might be some way to make the attached flash drive visible/accessible as a standard network share. My goal is to use Windows' File Explorer for file management on that drive, just like the other shared storage devices on my network.
I will try your suggestion of using ADB, although using a command-line interface for file management is not ideal. I found a few different Windows programs that will supposedly provide a File Explorer-like GUI for doing Android file management via ADB (ADB Browser, ADB Explorer, Device File Explorer, etc. ) . Maybe one of those will do the job.
Alternatively, I may try installing a SAMBA server ("LAN Drive") or FTP server ("FTP Server") on the Fire Stick; although neither app has very good reviews.
After trying all this stuff, I will definitely post the results here.
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Some file managers (Solid Explorer, ES File Explorer) include FTP servers. I don't know if their FTP server provides access to the USB drive, though. There are likely other file managers that also include FTP servers.
dcarvil said:
Some file managers (Solid Explorer, ES File Explorer) include FTP servers. I don't know if their FTP server provides access to the USB drive, though. There are likely other file managers that also include FTP servers.
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Excellent advice - that will definitely do it for me. Thank you so much.
I wasn't aware that there were Android file managers with a built-in FTP server. I've always used FX File Manager, and it doesn't have that feature.
I tried both ES & Solid, and both worked fine for my purposes. I decided to go with Solid because the UI is slightly better, it allows you to add an FTP Server shortcut to your Android home screen, and it just seemed a little more... solid.. Definitely don't mind paying $1.99 for the full, ad-free version.
Problem solved - thanks again!
Hello everyone,
As the title says, is it possible to mount a SMB storage to a local folder of the Android TV? My problem is that I have a NAS attached to a Raspberry which has lots of roms, and on the TV I have installed Retroarch. The problem is that Retroarch can only see local folders, it doesn't have any implementation to access network folders. So what I'm trying to do is mounting that NAS as a local folder here in the TV but so far I got nothing, the best I could do is download an file explorer to access the NAS from the TV but that's it.
I know that the simplest solution would be to disconnect the NAS and plug it in to the USB of the TV (what I'm doing nowadays) but if I could mount that to the TV and still keep it attached to the RPI it would be great.
In case this is not possible (as I'm suspecting) without root, the alternative would be to download the pre-rooted .img from the other thread in this forum and go from there?
Thanks
gab8 said:
Hello everyone,
As the title says, is it possible to mount a SMB storage to a local folder of the Android TV? My problem is that I have a NAS attached to a Raspberry which has lots of roms, and on the TV I have installed Retroarch. The problem is that Retroarch can only see local folders, it doesn't have any implementation to access network folders. So what I'm trying to do is mounting that NAS as a local folder here in the TV but so far I got nothing, the best I could do is download an file explorer to access the NAS from the TV but that's it.
I know that the simplest solution would be to disconnect the NAS and plug it in to the USB of the TV (what I'm doing nowadays) but if I could mount that to the TV and still keep it attached to the RPI it would be great.
In case this is not possible (as I'm suspecting) without root, the alternative would be to download the pre-rooted .img from the other thread in this forum and go from there?
Thanks
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Hmm i don't think it is possible to mount network devices like in windows.
Hello,
How can I connect and explore my fire cube on PC or mobile by LAN or wifi with file explorer or others apps for exemple?
Thanks