Fire OS: 5.2.7.6 (659654620) - sloane rom
Apps: Total Commander, ES File Manager, Kodi
Hard Drive: Passport 2TB
About a week ago, I was running 5.2.1.1 for a few years and with Paragon NTFS+ and didnt have any issues. I removed my Passport drive and then updated it with content and plugged it back into my USB powered hub and my Fire TV2 didnt see the drive. Its happened like this once before and a simple disconnect and reconnect fixed the issue but not this time. I have uninstalled a number of different Paragon NTFS apps (from plugins, to different versions), Stick Mount 3.50, NTFS Mounter, and my FireTV2 no longer sees the drive. I thought I would upgrade the ROM on my FireTV2 and have done this as now I am on the above rom and the same issue is happening. The OS does indicate the drive isnt FAT32 so its seeing the drive but not mounting it despite installing these different apps.
I have enjoyed the Fire TV2 for a number of years with no issues and for the life of me, cant get it to read NTFS external drives.
I have tested the drive in my desktop and laptop, both see the drive without any issues. I have tried different ports on the USB hub and nothing is working. The same hub can read FAT32 without any issues but I have files that are 10GB+ and require NTFS. I have reformatted the drive and copied content over again, ran disk defrag on the drive and the Fire TV2 for whatever reason isnt working.
If anyone has any suggestions, I am all ears...
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I have a WD My Passport 2TB USB drive. It WAS working fine, I plug it into my PC and my tablet and then yesterday afternoon I started getting the error "USB storage is blank or has unsupported filesystem". I might have unplugged it from android without clicking to safely remove it.
Key info:
-It works fine on my PC, and I did a tools and Error-checking on my PC on the drive and it found now errors. And I deleted files on the drive related to Android
-It's NTFS format.
-I have restarted the tablet, cleared the cache partition.
-Any other USB drive works fine on the tablet.
-IT DID WORK GREAT UNTIL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
Any thoughts? are there any files within android related to a specific USB deviced that could be locked/corrupt I can delete that might clear this?
This had happened before on a different tablet/different USB device and power cycling the tablet cleared the problem.
Could there be a setting issue that has changed that is stopping the Passport from getting the power it needs?
No one had any thoughts on this?....
does all other ntfs drives don't read too?
does all other ntfs drives don't read too?
I'm running the latest pre-rooted firmware. I understand the USB storage issues (I think ). When I insert a USB stick formatted as ex-fat which contains a TV show which is properly named, etc. the AFTV gives me the option to reformat the stick as FAT. I cancel. The AFTV then lists no external storage. Stickmount recognizes and mounts the device. Kodi also recognizes the device but does not see the content whether I specify local, TVDB or none. When I remove the USB stick and try to mount it on my Mac the device is now unrecognized. When I open Disk Utility the content has been erased so clearly the AFTV has does something to the stick.
Any ideas?
jmerrilljr2 said:
I'm running the latest pre-rooted firmware. I understand the USB storage issues (I think ). When I insert a USB stick formatted as ex-fat which contains a TV show which is properly named, etc. the AFTV gives me the option to reformat the stick as FAT. I cancel. The AFTV then lists no external storage. Stickmount recognizes and mounts the device. Kodi also recognizes the device but does not see the content whether I specify local, TVDB or none. When I remove the USB stick and try to mount it on my Mac the device is now unrecognized. When I open Disk Utility the content has been erased so clearly the AFTV has does something to the stick.
Any ideas?
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I guess the next question would be can I revert to an older version of the pre-rooted firmware. I have the full boot unlock.
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
Now that my ftv gen2 finally stopped working, no more adb access, HDMI,USB port gone, no more gen2 avail ,I had to get a FTV gen 3, I got it setup, kodi and few apps installed, setup with otg and 4port usb hub, using a 32gb usb flash drive, i havent a usb SDcard reader, i would assume it would be the same. ES file explorer sees and reads it fine, can access my files and kid cartoons just fine, FTV doesn't read or count it as storage in device, Kodi doesn't see or give me access to it usb drive... I was able to open a mp4 and use kodi to play it instead of ES player @ http ://127.0.0.1:59777/usb%2F1009%2F32%20USB%20%20%20%20%20... I tried to access files from USB with no success through kodi. Has anyone have or had success getting FTVgen 3 to detect the USB otg device storage? Or get kodi to access the otg USB ?
Format is fat32?
format fat32, Yah, well Tgellen did a auto load at boot otg on ftv stick gen 1 root) working, didn't work with my current Fire OS 6.2.1.2 , maybe it can after someone finds a root access. Other than that no complaints about Ftv gen 3, very stable, Iam not worried about leaving on and coming back hrs later to a crashed recovery error screen like on my gen2
Is usb debugging disabled?
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The issue you're running into is physically mounting the drive with the Fire OS. Make sure usb debug is disabled and I've also had issues with drives formatted by other OS. I ended up having to wipe the drive and format it with my phone to have the android directories for the fire OS to recognize it.
*I brought a 32 GB USB and I formatted it by (Fat32) I attached the formatted USB to a OTG Adapter and my fire stick and the Fire Stick (software version is 77/3027) the (Serial Version G070VM1190450T03. ) The Fire Stick doesn't recognize the USB Drive in the EZ File exploder. Is there anything that I can do to fix this problem? Do I have the right Firestick for this method?* Thank You
wilspeak said:
*I brought a 32 GB USB and I formatted it by (Fat32) I attached the formatted USB to a OTG Adapter and my fire stick and the Fire Stick (software version is 77/3027) the (Serial Version G070VM1190450T03. ) The Fire Stick doesn't recognize the USB Drive in the EZ File exploder. Is there anything that I can do to fix this problem? Do I have the right Firestick for this method?* Thank You
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Hey check here for a good guide :
How to Expand Internal Storage on Firestick & Fire TV Cube (2022)
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Bertonumber1 said:
Hey check here for a good guide :
How to Expand Internal Storage on Firestick & Fire TV Cube (2022)
This in-depth guide shows how to Expand Internal Storage on the Firestick and Fire TV Cube, The biggest complaint regarding the Amazon Fire TV Stick is
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Thank You
I have tried that option 1 errors out with
Error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Thread Binder:614_15 gave up waiting for partitionMixed after 180000ms
Option 2 worked but when doing pm move- command it never works
I managed to get further but keep getting error -6 when trying to move to usb device
Edit. I got it working as far as storage and moving apps over on a 32gb usb drive from 2010. It does not auto put to usb drive though
Dragon Kumera said:
I have tried that option 1 errors out with
Error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Thread Binder:614_15 gave up waiting for partitionMixed after 180000ms
Option 2 worked but when doing pm move- command it never works
I managed to get further but keep getting error -6 when trying to move to usb device
Edit. I got it working as far as storage and moving apps over on a 32gb usb drive from 2010. It does not auto put to usb drive though
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What model are you using 4k mantis? Is it to run kodi on externak drive/USB?
Try using advanced download manager and using that to access automatically
Regards
Bertonumber1 said:
What model are you using 4k mantis? Is it to run kodi on externak drive/USB?
Try using advanced download manager and using that to access automatically
Regards
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Not sure but all my firesticks have a bug it seems amazon refuses to fix that when fresh formatted and leaving it on the storage goes to very low space quickly. So far with the same apps installed I got bit more on 1 stick that been unplugged longer. Both are 4k firesticks. Not sure what version. I think gen 1 since i dont think gen 2 4k firestick ever came out.
One of my usb drives might just not work for firestick as playing downloaded videos from it lag.
I have 2 firesticks with USB adapters. Recently both firesticks refused to recognize any USB flash drive (I'm using VLC media player). The same flash drive I have been using for a long time. I tried reformatting the drive (FAT32) but no luck. I suspect that a software update has caused the problem. Is there a known way to roll back the software and prevent updates?
MikeInMexico said:
I have 2 firesticks with USB adapters. Recently both firesticks refused to recognize any USB flash drive (I'm using VLC media player). The same flash drive I have been using for a long time. I tried reformatting the drive (FAT32) but no luck. I suspect that a software update has caused the problem. Is there a known way to roll back the software and prevent updates?
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I am having the same issue. USB storage was working fine but after update system is not recognising the storage. I can see the usb stick and copy files using adb so it is not a hardware issue.
Hi everyone. I have 2 firesticks (lite and 3rd gen). I tried to expand storage on both with remote ADB shell. I used the same method and succeeded on one of them (lite). Remote ADB shell in the 3rd gen stick refused to recognize usb flash drive. Does anybody know why, please?
I have the same problem firestick 4k 3rd gen fully updated, tried two otg cables, many different drives and will not recognise it through xplorer, adb console or system settings. Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks for the reply but I have tried all of the above suggestions and nothing works.
I have read every thread online and carried out every instruction and now I am at a dead end, very frustrating.
The stick is on fireOs 6.2.9.4
Thank you for taking the time to reply carolljeny223 much appreciated, I've contacted customer support and waiting reply.
I think you have to cut the power to the firestick , say for about 30 seconds.
I found this out with my firestick running on sofware 7.
When I put the USB memory stick in the port the firestick recognised it. A message prompt came up with an option to format the usb stick either for (a) Apps, or (b) Storage e.g., movies, documents, etc.
Only when the firestick recognises the memory stick will it then show USB storage in the My Firestick settings.
Ensure your USB memory is formated to fat32 on your computer if your memery stick is 32gb or below. Anything about format it to exfat32.