hello guys I'll explain the problem: I have a small usb hub where I connect the fire stick and a pendrive. I formatted the pendrive in FAT32 and it works fine, the problem is that when I remove it and connect it to the PC it is seen as an unformatted volume and is not detected by windows, I have to reformat every time.
I therefore assume that the fire stick does some operation on the pendrive.
Do you have the solution?
Thank you
Are you formatting the flash drive with your PC or FireTV?
If the FireTV formats the flash drive for internal storage (Android apps), it uses Ext4 which a PC won't natively recognize.
Finnzz said:
Are you formatting the flash drive with your PC or FireTV?
If the FireTV formats the flash drive for internal storage (Android apps), it uses Ext4 which a PC won't natively recognize.
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Thx for replay.
format from pc, I use the pendrive in firestick with retroarch, an old console emulator, it may be that retroarch when it scans the pendrrive in search of games does some operation, but certainly does not delete the files I put inside. Opening ES File Explorer on the Firestick recognizes the pendrive, but inside there is a .Android folder and then the files I put.
killer0007 said:
Thx for replay.
format from pc, I use the pendrive in firestick with retroarch, an old console emulator, it may be that retroarch when it scans the pendrrive in search of games does some operation, but certainly does not delete the files I put inside. Opening ES File Explorer on the Firestick recognizes the pendrive, but inside there is a .Android folder and then the files I put.
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When you FAT32 format the drive, are you using 4096bytes allocation unit size. I have noticed that using some higher values causes issues.
Other than that I'm not sure. Is the flash drive only unreadable in your PC after using it with RetroArch, ES Explorer, or anytime you plug it in to the Fire Stick?
Finnzz said:
Other than that I'm not sure. Is the flash drive only unreadable in your PC after using it with RetroArch, ES Explorer, or anytime you plug it in to the Fire Stick?
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unreadable anytime i plug it into the Fire Stick, Just connect the pendrive to the firestick and without doing any operation, I disconnect it and it is already unreadable
That's odd. Does it make a difference if you FAT32 format the drive with the Fire Stick instead of the PC?
Plug a non-FAT32 drive (eg exFAT) in to the FireStick, a pop-up will ask you to format the drive, select format for external storage.
Finnzz said:
That's odd. Does it make a difference if you FAT32 format the drive with the Fire Stick instead of the PC?
Plug a non-FAT32 drive (eg exFAT) in to the FireStick, a pop-up will ask you to format the drive, select format for external storage.
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yes, this way everything works fine, you need to format the pendrive from firestick. Thank you very much
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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.
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.
Title says it all. Is there any way to disable this? I'm using StickMount on a rooted FTV and every time it restarts for any reason the USB detection dialog pops up asking if you want to format the USB storage (my drive is NTFS so the native USB storage support can't read it, hence it wants to reformat it).
Obviously this makes me rather nervous... I just want to disable the dialog (or whatever it would take to stop it from popping up - I don't want or need the horribly limited built in support).
I use a hub to get around this issue, but it works to my advantage: I can relocate FTV apps to the FAT32 USB. Or you can make a small FAT32 partition in your USB and the rest is NTFS to make FTV happy.
cd2022 said:
I use a hub to get around this issue, but it works to my advantage: I can relocate FTV apps to the FAT32 USB. Or you can make a small FAT32 partition in your USB and the rest is NTFS to make FTV happy.
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Really strange things happen here.
When I put my 64gb sandisk stick into fireTV and let him format it, there will be right problems with FolderMount. For example FolderMount can not create a folder on the exStorage. So I decide to format it with hp storage format tool to a FAT32 64gb stick.
No the pop-up comes again but stickmount and FolderMount work fine again.
Is there no way to disable this stupid dialog?
Greetings by I_did_it_just_tmrrow
EDIT: MySolution
I format my stick into 2 partitions.
First you need to create one (small or big partition, like you need it) in fat32.
The rest into none or raw, but just not fat32.
Then put into you AFTV and let him create his ****.
Then back into a linux based lapto/pc and start gparted or your fav partition tool.
Make the rest to an secend fat32 partition.
Put into it again and mount stickmount the hole stick.
You should get sda1 & sda2.
One is controlled by your aftv, the secend is yours.
Now you can use apps like FolderMount and make mounts like puttin data/media/obb -> to your own (mostly it is sda2) stick partition. Works nice in my case.
Fire TV Stick v2 (2017) on Fire OS 5.2.6.0
Using a powered USB OTG adapter I can add a USB flash drive (Fat32) and read its contents
with ES File Explorer, (including installing (sideloading) apk from it), but can not write to it.
Ideally, I would like to be able to copy the contents of /sdcard to a directory on the flash drive.
I would also like to be able to move the .kodi directory to the flash drive.
I know it's possible to have the usb otg drive automount be read/write and not read only
in 5.1.1. I just don't know what permissions it needs and hoe to set them.
I have an 32g usb stick plug to the firestick, it was formatted to be internal storage. It is working, apps go to usb, and working, but I am not able to read or write with xplorer, es plorer. So I cannot read content, or write files. I try another usb stick, same problems. Look like an OS problem. any suggestions.?
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