hi, i want to use my external drive to watch movies but my TCL TV (43p8b) dont want me to access to it, it need to format my external drive and use it for PVR only. is there a way to bypass this, to use my external drive normally?
TIA
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update: i found a solution, just need to be NTFS format to read your external drive.
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Ok So i got the apps to sd to work putting my games from my ouya but for some reason cant Save any files on That drive or move any files like music to the sdext2 drive through any file manager but it Is freeing up space on my ouya internal drive when i Transfer games to it from Apps to sd so is there any way to put ouya games and music/movies on sdext2 ? Am I missing something.?
as for my idea if I have a USB hub attached I can use the USB drive that shows up as ext2 as well as another USB drive that just shows as usbdrive like any other drive would before the mod so I don't ever have to pull either drive.. What if there was a way to make a 3rd USB drive show up as usbdrive2 is this possible ? I would find this very handy being able to transfer from USB to USB drive if ever needed
thank you for reading and I hope my post was clear enough
Hi!
Sorry if that's been asked before, my search yielded no results.
Because of the low memory on the AFTV, caching a movie (4gb+) is not possible.
When selecting cache folder as an external memory folder (mounted using Stickmount) to /sdcard/usbstorage/sd** I'm getting "Video File Too Big" error.
After alot of googling it should correspond with no writing permissions to this path (as long as the sd indeed have enough space - it does)...
Did anyone succeed to watch a movie on Popcorn Time on the Fire TV?
The card is NTFS.
Thanks!
I have been able to watch movies without any issues. My ext usb powered hd is fat32. You can also try with ext.
How to install Popcorn Time
So does popcorn time work perfectly on the fire tv? What are the steps to get it installed and working properly?
1- sideload popcorn time apk?
2- Does it need a mouse and keyboard or will the remote work?
3- Does it need external storage for the cache?
Thanks!
rueda said:
I have been able to watch movies without any issues. My ext usb powered hd is fat32. You can also try with ext.
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Are you using StickMount to mount the drive?
And did you change the path of the cache folder to it?
Thanks!
bigron3180 said:
So does popcorn time work perfectly on the fire tv? What are the steps to get it installed and working properly?
1- sideload popcorn time apk?
2- Does it need a mouse and keyboard or will the remote work?
3- Does it need external storage for the cache?
Thanks!
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Sideload the android version.
Needs a mouse.
Caching depends on how much free space you got on the AFTV... you may use internal memory and SHOULD (read my post) be able to use External HD as well.
Hello,
I have a 3 TB external drive (seagate) and the new update from Amazon that allows you to connect via USB . I formatted my drive to Fat32 using a 3rd party Program because windows 8.1 I guess only allows you to format in exFat but I need fat32 right? no matter what though EXfat or Fat32 I only have 299MB of 299MB its not seeing 3TB. does anyone know what I am doing wrong here? Also what can I do to move the app+data to my External HDD say for a games I download from Amazon. the whole point is to be able to move game data thats what the people want....well that and downloaded content. Anyway is there an app that moves data and app or just data without root?
Thanks,
rj2763 said:
Hello,
I have a 3 TB external drive (seagate) and the new update from Amazon that allows you to connect via USB . I formatted my drive to Fat32 using a 3rd party Program because windows 8.1 I guess only allows you to format in exFat but I need fat32 right? no matter what though EXfat or Fat32 I only have 299MB of 299MB its not seeing 3TB. does anyone know what I am doing wrong here? Also what can I do to move the app+data to my External HDD say for a games I download from Amazon. the whole point is to be able to move game data thats what the people want....well that and downloaded content. Anyway is there an app that moves data and app or just data without root?
Thanks,
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You probably have a hidden partition on the drive. See here for more info: http://www.aftvnews.com/what-to-do-if-the-amazon-fire-tv-only-sees-197mb-of-a-usb-drive/
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You probably have a hidden partition on the drive. See here for more info: http://www.aftvnews.com/what-to-do-if-the-amazon-fire-tv-only-sees-197mb-of-a-usb-drive/
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I did have one thank you! I ended up using a this link here witch tells you how to delete hidden partitions http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/72858.aspx but i would not have known without your help. after that I used this http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm to turn it into Fat32 but the Highest it does is 2TB witch it a lot honestly for fat32.
Now all I need to know is how to move my application data to an external drive to free up space without root???
I have a 2 TB external drive (slim) and the Fire TV formatted it by itself.
Due to very low free and total storage space on the AFTV, I don't have enough free space to cache HD movies (I got about 1.5gb free but the movies themselves could be 6gb+ in 1080p).
The problem is as is:
Pulsar (Kodi addon) can't cache to FAT32 , and the Fire TV system will mount ONLY FAT32 sticks...
I used to use StickMount, but ever since the Amazon Firmwire update to enable External Memory support, Stickmount broke (folders appear as files without formats...).
Is there any way to mount Other filesystems in Amazon's Firmwire? (ext4 \ ntfs...)
OR is there any way to REMOVE the Fire TV's native support for External Memory so I could again use StickMount?
Thanks for the help!
EXT3/EXT4 won´t work. Tried this some days ago in hope to be able to start su or dd from external drive with full rights (silly, I know but at least for me a try worth...).
It seems via ADB shell for me like it is a known filesystem which is mounted as extUSB but access is restricted. NTFS was also not working but this was not really surprising me.
And as for disabling Fire TV External Memory detection?
Or alternatively fixing StickMount?
Gaiosan said:
And as for disabling Fire TV External Memory detection?
Or alternatively fixing StickMount?
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I'm pretty certain trying to disable the amazon processes would be a waste of time. You could roll back the firmware.
Also, I used to mount my drives with adbfire instead of stickmount. In addition to that, you could use busymount which essentially turns your external drive to internal storage. But I can't offer much help there as I never used it. There's plenty of resources on xda though.
I have been working to get my external HDD detected on my rooted FireTV 4K for the past 3 1/2 hours now.
I have tried every suggestion/tutorial I could find on google. I tried ParagonNTFS, Stickmount, I even tried the adbLink mount tools, also was going to try the BusyMount things out but the main websites download link is broken and google came up empty.
Nothing has worked..
It's a 1TB NTFS External HDD..
I plug it in the ExHDD light comes on and no matter what I do or attempt it simply will not detect that I have an external HDD plugged in to this thing..
I tested a couple small thumb drives on FAT32 & NTFS and they all worked fine, are there any other solutions to getting a external HDD detected ??
I mean.. I didn't want to use the FAT32 FS so I rooted only to find out that it's not detecting the NTFS lol..
PS : Just tried my main external HDD on FAT32 instead of NTFS and it's still is not detected... Looks like some external HDD's are not "compatible" with the FireTV :/ fml.
PSS : Tried exFAT still nothing, I see no errors when plugging in the 1TB external HDD either. it gives absolutely no notification as to detecting the external drive, could this be because my external HDD does not have it's own power cord ??
well what i here is that the fire tv port don't have enough power to run an External HDD. it need it own external power hub . check aftnews for more info. and also checkout this link and post #7 for more instruction.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/help/accessing-ntfs-drive-via-fire-tv-4k-t3305188