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Used USB host fix now I cant connect via OTG cable

I was trying the new version of stickmount to see if I could use it to mount my ntfs drive and was trying out workarounds when I came across a post recommending the use of usb host fix. I ran the app, restarted as directed and voila! Now nothing shows up when I connect my otg cable. I've tried my fat32 hdd which was working fine and a card reader and nothing!
I'd moved from 4.1.2 to the stock german 4.3 rom on my rooted I9305 and paragon's ntfs app would no longer mount my drive so I decided I'd check to see if there was anything else I could do before wiping 900gb's of data and formatting it to fat32. Now I wish I had!
I've contacted the dev and tried chainfire's usb diagnostic app as well as usb host controller - which stated S3C usb host driver not found.
Please let me know your suggestions as I desperately need to be able to connect via my otg cable - my phone has taken the place of my netbook when i travel so that I can backup my photo's and transfer music and movies from my hdd's to the phone. I'm heading out to South America and REALLY need this function back!

TWRP Nandroid to external (otg) drive?

And more importantly, restore from otg flash drive. Are these things possible on the Nexus 6?
I can't get TWRP to see my flash drives. They work fine when the phone is booted into full Android (thanks to Chainfire and stickmount). Is there an equivalent needed for the recovery to read and write to/from an otg drive?
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demlv said:
And more importantly, restore from otg flash drive. Are these things possible on the Nexus 6?
I can't get TWRP to see my flash drives. They work fine when the phone is booted into full Android (thanks to Chainfire and stickmount). Is there an equivalent needed for the recovery to read and write to/from an otg drive?
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You have to mount the otg drive in twrp. Mine isn't seen until I mount it.

I have to plug in the USB and then reboot recovery for it to show up in the mounts.

Where do I get one of these otg drives? Thanks

beachbum40 said:
Where do I get one of these otg drives? Thanks
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I would imagine Amazon or eBay for starters. I bought mine years ago and can't even remember where. Believe Sandisk makes one. I have one that uses micro SD cards.
Edit:http://www.meenova.com/st/p/m3r.html

jfcooley said:
I would imagine Amazon or eBay for starters. I bought mine years ago and can't even remember where. Believe Sandisk makes one. I have one that uses micro SD cards.
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Thanks! Yeah that would be what I want one that use's micro SD card.

beachbum40 said:
Thanks! Yeah that would be what I want one that use's micro SD card.
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I edited with a link. I've used that one on several different devices. Right now it just has twrp backups along with my music and photos. Comes with a standard USB adapter as well.

adrman said:
I have to plug in the USB and then reboot recovery for it to show up in the mounts.
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Thanks for that little tip! I don't have to manually mount the drive so long as it is connected when TWRP starts. Working well for me now.
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Also once mounted dont forget to select OTG, it will be 'system' as default but backup/restoring change to OTG and your all set.
I purchased just an OTG cable and use a USB to store my data.

I use this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/MICRO-USB-H...186?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f43fbb5c2 which allows you to connect a power source (phone charger) to power larger drives as well.
Works great

beachbum40 said:
Where do I get one of these otg drives? Thanks
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I have this one on my keychain. It comes in very handy, since it doesn't require a cable.

I have one of these
http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/dualdrive/
which is nice since its also got 32gb on board...no need to carry a cable AND a memory stick/card

I just got this one (32gb Kingston) at a fair price, $13. Working well on the phone and my PC. Tiny enough to carry everywhere. And best of all - no cable needed!

I just picked up this one.http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/dualdrive/. Works great and fast.
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One question I have is when I'm in twrp and I'm finished transferring file/backups do I need to unmount usb otg before leaving twrp and booting back into Android?

beachbum40 said:
I just picked up this one.http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/dualdrive/. Works great and fast.
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One question I have is when I'm in twrp and I'm finished transferring file/backups do I need to unmount usb otg before leaving twrp and booting back into Android?
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I just reboot, had no issues at all.

OTG Issues with Marshmallow (XT1092)

Hello, I have a little problem with the OTG function on Marshmallow.
With Lollipop when I plugged my external storage (Meenova 2nd Gen with 64gb micro sd) I could access the files on my OTG storage with the Gallery app, Mx Player and Google Play Music it was really useful.
Now when I plug it with Marshmallow I can't access my files with my apps as if my OTG storage was not mounted as before.
I used ES Explorer with Lollipop and my OTG Storage was mounted in /mnt/storage but now it is recognize as usb:// and I think it is why I can't access my file with my apps now.
I don't know what to do, I bought these OTG Storage to store musics but I can't play them with Google Play Music. Now I can just listen one by one with ES Explorer it is really boring.
Could you help me please.

Same Here, XT1095

I have not been able to use my meenova gen 1 since. Lollipop

No ideas so ? :s

I purchased a new otg thumb drive. I gave up on the card readers for now.

Lyndis said:
Hello, I have a little problem with the OTG function on Marshmallow.
With Lollipop when I plugged my external storage (Meenova 2nd Gen with 64gb micro sd) I could access the files on my OTG storage with the Gallery app, Mx Player and Google Play Music it was really useful.
Now when I plug it with Marshmallow I can't access my files with my apps as if my OTG storage was not mounted as before.
I used ES Explorer with Lollipop and my OTG Storage was mounted in /mnt/storage but now it is recognize as usb:// and I think it is why I can't access my file with my apps now.
I don't know what to do, I bought these OTG Storage to store musics but I can't play them with Google Play Music. Now I can just listen one by one with ES Explorer it is really boring.
Could you help me please.
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The location of the usb-otg (storage) on marshmallow, is only visible under root on /mnt/media_rw/xxxxxxxx (random name)
Or the option on notification bar, in the stock navigator, I think it's a security measure

Sorry for replying late.
Okay thank you, but can we pass over this security mesure ? I want to use my external storage like I did in Lollipop

Hi everyone,
I've experienced the same problem since the Marshmallow update . Under Lollipop I used to coy/paste all my photos and videos from my Moto X to my USB OTG storage, but it seems to be not possible anymore.
The only solution I've found is to use a paid app called USB OTG File Manager, it works perfectly on our Moto though it's originally dedicated to the nexus devices .

Oh thanks, but I wanted to access to my image through the image app or to my music through google music

No problems with OTG here with my XT1097 Marshmallow

What type of otg device?

my device is xioami mi3 and m having same problem..
no solutions yet for this?
M rooted n I still can't c it under /mnt/

Lyndis said:
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Update your es file explorer and change the format of otg to fat32 on PC... Same happened to me before but I think es is now updated for it!

Will there be any chance of regular apps, like music players being able to see the USB OTG drives? I hate that I am now limited to just internal storage on my limited 16GB MOTO X, sadly only option I had with USC. The USB OTG at least allowed me to have music and some ripped movies and now no more. Wondering if I should go back to Lollipop? At least I could use my USB OTG on it......
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Does anyone have a fix for this so that I can access my music on my USB OTG? The new way the Marshmallow mounts the drive is total BS and really makes no sense. On Lollipop I had full access and now pretty much the built in file explorer and ES File Explorer but no apps will see the music files or play them. I really hope by now there is an easy fix. Thanks XDA Community!

Great news guys, I found the fix
I don't know if the bootloader needs to be unlocked but I know the smartphone doesn't need to be rooted.
You have to install the adb drivers of the Moto X. Then do this command : "adb shell sm set-force-adoptable true" while you're phone is connected to the computer.
Then you will be able to read files from apps of your usb otg
(I tested it on a 7.1.1 ROM, but I read that it works on marshmallow)
Hope it helps you guys

OTG drives and backing up Nexus 6

Since we don't have an SD card slot, I am guessing a lot of folks are using OTG arrangements.
Anyone using an OTG drive with their phone for backing it up and shuttling media files back and forth?
My main need is for an external destination for backups, but I would also like to store a bunch of music for swapping off and on the phone.
I have an older small (16GB) OTG drive that I used successfully on my S4 and G2 and G3, but the Nexus does not seem to want to show the drive when I attach it.
Is there a trick to making it work or is there some hidden setting in Titanium Backup to make it visible as a destination? Is there a "best" file manager to do this?
I am rooted with TWRP and running stock MMB29V.
Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Update: I installed Stick Mount and it mounted my SP OTG drive and I was able to browse it, etc.
Once I did that, Ti BU could actually see it as a destination and I am happily backing up to my (older, smallish) drive.
Now, what bothers me is the dang drive is hot as hell and that can't be good!
Anyone familiar? I only have the one OTG drive so can't see if it is the drive or the phone.
Thanks again.

What rom and kernel are you running?

noidea24 said:
What rom and kernel are you running?
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Thanks for reply.
As I said in first post "running stock MMB29V"
All stock Marshmallow, except rooted and TWRP installed.
Kernel is what came with that I guess: 3.10.40

nunjabusiness said:
Thanks for reply.
As I said in first post "running stock MMB29V"
All stock Marshmallow, except rooted and TWRP installed.
Kernel is what came with that I guess: 3.10.40
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Do you have USB fast charging enabled?
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biggiesmalls657 said:
Do you have USB fast charging enabled?
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I assume it was already enabled. Where is that setting?

Kernel auditor > battery
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I do use OTG drives to back up my stuff. I use a 1 TB Western Digital My Passport Ultra to back up with. I prefer to use an OTG cable with a power slot so it can use pretty much any storage medium. I can't use it now because I keep getting Error 255 when it executes createTarfork. Wish somebody would help me with that. http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help/twrp-error-255-t3357541

Modding without MicroSD

Hi, i've just bought this phone and i'm waiting for it to be shipped to me. It is my first phone that comes without a MicroSD which i heavely used for modding to store APK, Rom zips, etc. This way i was able to totally clean the device formatting cache, dalvik, vendor, data, etc. each time i had to swap from a ROM to another, and to clean the device from time to time to keep it as smooth as possible. This will not be possible with my new Mi 9T Pro, but i was thinking if i could use a USB-C Flash Drive to store what i used to store on my MicroSD, will TWRP Recovery be able to read the Flash Drive and use it to Flash the ROMs on the device?

Twrp support install from usb otg, and u can even transfer file from pc to phone in twrp mode nowadays, using mtp mode.
No worry even u need to format internal memory, in twrp just connect to pc and transfer the file again.

You can just connect to pc as mentioned earlier. It's not a problem

Or you can use a USB OTG adapter with a USB drive or USB sdcard reader

It's definitely not a problem more like an annoyance, got used to mod freely without having to worry about files saved on my device because of an SDCard on my poco but now you have to think more deeply when flashing new roms because of the lack of external storage