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USB OTG only FAT32 (not tested 16)?

Just tried USB OTG and can only read a 4GB FAT32 flash drive. 4GB NTFS is shown as blank (also tried a 64GB NTFS flash drive with same result).
Can anyone confirm this is the case for them too?

Try formatting them in exFat instead of ntfs
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium

But then my car stereo will not read the flash drive
EDIT: Just tried ExFAT and it does not recognize it.

deadman3000 said:
But then my car stereo will not read the flash drive
EDIT: Just tried ExFAT and it does not recognize it.
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Might want to check the owners manual, ISTR that it mentions the format that OTG works with. Likely that it's FAT32 only
HTH

Looks like you can only read NTFS with root

[Q] NTFS file system support

Hello
I'm trying to enable NTFS support on my rooted Xperia V running stock 4.3 android, but none of the play store apps (paragon, stick mount, ntfs mounter etc.) worked.
How can i solve it?

NTFS?
So let me get this straight..
You would like to run a windows file system on your phone?
Or you just want to access your windows computers file system over the network?
If it's the latter then ES file explorer has a more than capable network share connector.
If the former then you will need to look here for the answer.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/mount-ntfs-drives-with-ntfs-mounter/
And Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1724078
Funny what searching the forum shows up.

Thanks.
I just bought a 64 GB SD card and I would like to beat the FAT32's 4 GB file size restriction, but the phone doesn't support ExFAT or NTFS.
When I tried to mount it with paragon, my phone rebooted, than I saw only the sony logo agian and again, the Ntfs mounter force closed, the NtfsSd said, the resource is busy.
(the paragon worked with a pendrive and an OTG cabel, but nothing with the SD card)
I will try the second post, you suggested, thanks once again.

T715 - USB OTG using ExFAT

Hi All,
I've tried to connect my 298GB exfat HD to T715 using USB OTG connector, the ES Explorer could detect that there was an additional storage been attached, but i couldn't see any file in the harddisk. What seems to be the problem here? Is it the capacity of hd that is too high or the filesystem that can't be read by the OS? My microsd card is formatted using exfat and it still can be read.
Do i need to be rooted and flash additional files? Should i be using FAT32 instead of exfat?
Thanks

doubleghost said:
Hi All,
I've tried to connect my 298GB exfat HD to T715 using USB OTG connector, the ES Explorer could detect that there was an additional storage been attached, but i couldn't see any file in the harddisk. What seems to be the problem here? Is it the capacity of hd that is too high or the filesystem that can't be read by the OS? My microsd card is formatted using exfat and it still can be read.
Do i need to be rooted and flash additional files? Should i be using FAT32 instead of exfat?
Thanks
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try to format a < 64gb usb stick with exfat, so you can figure out if the problem is the filesystem or the capacity of your hd.
it its the fs fat32 should work if you dont want to use ext4.
cm should also handle ntfs partitions.

You can format the drive to fat32 using a windows program such as easeus partition manager (there's a free version or trial). (Windows itself limits fat32 formatting to 32gig so you need a 3rd party app like easeus)
Just remember fat32 can't support files bigger than 4 gig - so no big mkv movies for example

Question about otg support on Tab S2

Good morning, I would like to know if with this tablet I can use a 64gb or higher USB stick, and which format? (Fat32, exfat, NTFS)?
Thanks

OTG works fine on S2.
I have used a 128 GB stick with no problem and Micro SD up to 200 GB both internally and via OTG also no problems.
Shofar1

Thank you, which format are your SD and USB otg? Exfat, NTFS, fat32?

If you want to read and write to a NTFS drive (I've tested it with a SanDisk Extreme 64GB USB stick and a Western Digital 1.5 TB Elements drive) use:
Paragon exFAT, NTFS & HFS+ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter
And a file explorer such as Root Explorer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer
Other file explorers may work (they probably need root permissions), but the Samsung default file explorer doesn't "see" the connected USB drive.

Yeah I know those programmes, but at the beginning I wouldn't like to root my device. What I want to know is which kind of partition does the s2 natively read, from the manual I've only found fat and exfat. Could someone confirm that?

I use exFat and my latest file reader is FileKommander. I find it works best.
Shofar1

Thank you very much

My tab s2 Marshmallow failed to recognise my 128gb otg stick while my sisters tab 4 8" running android 5.01 recognise it just fine. Prob with permission in marshmallow?

Chromecast with Google TV play media from USB

Hi. I apologize if I'm posting in the wrong place. I read the message from the moderators and performed a search before posting.
I'm new to Android TV and would appreciate any help you can provide. I've read through posts mentioning external storage attached via USB for media playback but can't seem to get the CCwGTV to recognize drives formatted to anything other than FAT32.
Steps I've taken:
1. Format drive from exFAT to FAT32
2. Attach drive to CCwGTV and format to Internal Storage
3. Format to Removable Media (CCwGTV seems to require that the drive first be formatted as Internal Storage)
4. CCwGTV formats drive to FAT32
Also tried this:
1. Format drive to EXT4 using EaseUS in Windows 10
2. CCwGTV shows the drive under System>Storage but the drive is not available for playback unless I format it (which then formats it to FAT32)
Has anyone been able to attach a drive formatted to EXT4 and play local media with file sizes greater than 4GB? I have enabled Developer Mode and switched to MTP and I've tried accessing EXT4 formatted drives via USB OTG in X-Plore File Manager, MiXplorer, and directly in both VLC and Kodi with no luck.
Thanks either way.

Unfortunately, you are not going to have any luck in this pursuit. Vold (the component of android responsible for managing filesystems) won't accept ext4 on the sdcard. If you want something approaching this functionality, use the ssh/sftp virtual filesystem add-on for Kodi and keep your media on a different machine on your network.

I bought this device to connect my USB drive to my network... So far it is working great! I have not tried ext4 - will try it though. I currently have one 1gb fat32, and one 1gb exFat partition.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08229WMSM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_LdfNFb0MG9FGY