I just updated my US Xoom WiFi to 3.2. The SD card is working fine and it is shown under mnt\external1. However, I still cannot access my USB thumb/flash drive even I have a Motorola OTG adapter. Looks like 3.2 does not support USB thumb/flash drive. Any suggestions? Or I have to root it and install a custom kernel to make it work? Thanks.
I'm wondering the same thing. Will have to flash another kernel...
Who uses thumbdrives and USB discs these days anyway?
Uhm, everyone?
USB thumb drives and external drives are supported fine on 3.2, download USB Mass Storage Watcher OTG from Market
follow the quick guide and all works great.
stevejau said:
USB thumb drives and external drives are supported fine on 3.2, download USB Mass Storage Watcher OTG from Market
follow the quick guide and all works great.
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I understand, but I mean on stock 3.2 without root, which the OTG app needs.
Or did you got it working without root?
my xoom is rooted, i am not sure of any USB OTG apps that work without root. I will do some research.
After updating to 3.2 with root, I tried USB Mass Storage Watcher OTG and first it complained about an old version of busybox , then after it updated busybox, it would just FC when I plugged in a flash drive.
I wonder what is the reason that 3.2 still does not support USB mass storage. I wish this will be addressed soon.
If it is any consolation to you, my 3g Telstra xoom on 3.1 with sd card support and usb enabled still doesn't work unless i have an OTG cable and USB Mass Storage Watcher OTG. Usb works fine for mice etc without usb mass storage watcher.
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I use this USB host cable and it works great. Have tested it with my 750gb Oyen and 320gb WD Passport external HDD's, several usb flash drives (8-16gb), San disk USB memory card reader, and a USB keyboard.
For those having issues getting their Xoom to recognize USB storage devices here's what I've got and did to get it to work: I flashed my XOOM (3.1) to the 2.6.36.4 Tiamat_Xoom-v1.4.4-Full_Throttle Kernel and was unable to get the USBMount to recognize drives or storage at first. I installed USB Mass Storage Watcher from the market (it's free) and it works awesome! Can mount any storage I want (NTFS, FAT16/32, HFS, HFS+, EXT2, ETX3, EXT4) with any capacity. I think this app will work with any rooted Xoom (or other devices). Under my Kernel my USB host is located under/usbOTG.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for your post, im having trouble getting my Wifi Xoom usb host to work, i have tried making a cable from the tutorials around here and i have also bought an OTG cable but didn't get any luck having it working, im on HC 3.2 Tiamat 2.1.0 Tachi stock GPU , i tried installing busybox - OTG watcher - Drive Mount etc. and followed all kind of guides in the forum and on google with no luck, i tried usb mice , more than 6 flash drives, usb 3g dongles and other devices without any indication of any kind of connection or powering up, so most probably the problem would be from the cable...as i ordered xoom usb otg cables from ebay and until i receive them i was wondering if there might be anything i was missing?
hunix said:
Thanks for your post, im having trouble getting my Wifi Xoom usb host to work, i have tried making a cable from the tutorials around here and i have also bought an OTG cable but didn't get any luck having it working, im on HC 3.2 Tiamat 2.1.0 Tachi stock GPU , i tried installing busybox - OTG watcher - Drive Mount etc. and followed all kind of guides in the forum and on google with no luck, i tried usb mice , more than 6 flash drives, usb 3g dongles and other devices without any indication of any kind of connection or powering up, so most probably the problem would be from the cable...as i ordered xoom usb otg cables from ebay and until i receive them i was wondering if there might be anything i was missing?
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Sounds like your cable is not OTG. A lot of them are not. Try it again with your Moto cable when it comes. Also, try rebooting with the cable and drive plugged in, with OTG Watcher running. That has worked for me in the past.
Xoom 3G, stock FW 3.2, non rooted and ot cable
So - just installed USB Mass Storage Watcher OTG - https://market.android.com/details?i...tcherotg&hl=pl
Pendrive is recognized by the program immediately and displays the mount point /dev/block/sda - but unfortunately the next value is 0MB. And this is like that on every pendrive. Do I need root to mount it, or do you have any other idea to mount my pendrive without root?
sdsi said:
Xoom 3G, stock FW 3.2, non rooted and ot cable
So - just installed USB Mass Storage Watcher OTG - https://market.android.com/details?i...tcherotg&hl=pl
Pendrive is recognized by the program immediately and displays the mount point /dev/block/sda - but unfortunately the next value is 0MB. And this is like that on every pendrive. Do I need root to mount it, or do you have any other idea to mount my pendrive without root?
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You do need root to mount the drive-to use Xoom in USB Host Mode.
Only root? Is that all that needs to be done?
spinstartshere said:
Only root? Is that all that needs to be done?
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You need a kernel or rom that supports OTG. Tiamat Odachi kernel, Moray rom, the 4G rom, and the Rogue Rana kernel should all support usb host mode. You will also need a real otg cable and probably an app that helps you mount the drive, such as USB Mount All or Drive Mount.
okantomi said:
You need a kernel or rom that supports OTG. Tiamat Odachi kernel, Moray rom, the 4G rom, and the Rogue Rana kernel should all support usb host mode. You will also need a real otg cable and probably an app that helps you mount the drive, such as USB Mount All or Drive Mount.
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it works great on rooted stock kernel 3.2 with "Drive Mount" but from the market you can not install "Drive Mount" it says not supported.
If the program is free could someone post the apk?
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3devious said:
If the program is free could someone post the apk?
Sent from my Xoom using xda premium
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busybox also needed
it is free and here is it
I have xoom wifi usa version with 4.0 version that is recently released.
my xoom is NOT ROOTED.
with new version of andriod os, am i able to read/write to USB drive Or still need rooted?
thanks in advance.
uhs74 said:
I have xoom wifi usa version with 4.0 version that is recently released.
my xoom is NOT ROOTED.
with new version of andriod os, am i able to read/write to USB drive Or still need rooted?
thanks in advance.
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Just tried with a genuine motorola OTG cable, which works with the same stick because I used it for upgrading my UK one to US ICS 4.0.3, and it doesn't work without rooting. I still can't root mine yet because my micro SD card for backup hasn't come!
hello
i have wifi xoom android 4.0 rooted with timat kernal
the usb host mount fine but i coudln't found the files in the file explorer
when i mount hard drive fat 32
also when i mounted the ntfs hard drive it shows me 0mb in the usb mount app !
what is the problem
read usb drive from rooted xoom
i have rooted my xoom (wifi usa)based on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446469
I installed stickmount app (https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount&hl=en) from market.
i used Micro USB Male to USB A Female Adapter (http://www.amazon.com/Micro-USB-Mal...YMU6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329151612&sr=8-2)
once connected to xoom the usb drive ,StickMount app recognize and mount it on specific drive (folder) which display on screen for some duration.
then goto "ES file explorer" or "Astro file explorer" and select that folder and you can see the contents of usb drive.
usb drive should be in format Fat32 mode.I have not tried with NTFS or other format.
Hope this helps somebody.
uhs74 said:
i have rooted my xoom (wifi usa)based on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446469
I installed stickmount app (https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount&hl=en) from market.
i used Micro USB Male to USB A Female Adapter (http://www.amazon.com/Micro-USB-Mal...YMU6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329151612&sr=8-2)
once connected to xoom the usb drive ,StickMount app recognize and mount it on specific drive (folder) which display on screen for some duration.
then goto "ES file explorer" or "Astro file explorer" and select that folder and you can see the contents of usb drive.
usb drive should be in format Fat32 mode.I have not tried with NTFS or other format.
Hope this helps somebody.
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You got it to work using that USB adapter? That's not a USB OTG adapter. It really shouldnt work using that one.
derek4484 said:
You got it to work using that USB adapter? That's not a USB OTG adapter. It really shouldnt work using that one.
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Oh i got it wrong link but i used OTG adapter.
derek4484 said:
You got it to work using that USB adapter? That's not a USB OTG adapter. It really shouldnt work using that one.
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How's that digger from a USB ORG adapter? Just curious.
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Everything works only if its Fat32. NTFS needs new kernal loaded. I am Rooted but Stock. 4.0.4.
Reboot loop after trying to get external USB to work
My Xoom WiFi running Team EOS build 102 would not see my USB drives. I installed 'USB Mass Storage Watcher' from the market. This app then prompted me to install the OTG version. I followed instruction and removed original version before install the OTG version. The OTG version also prompted me to down load another version of Busy Box, which I did.
I could then see one of my USB (see size and space used), but could not see files or folders in the mount location. I restarted my Xoom (I live in a windows world and reboot fixes a lot of issues LOL), Xoom got stuck in reboot loop. I went into recovery mode and clear my Dalvik, but this had no effect on reboot loop.
Luck for me I had a Nandroid backup from 2 days earlier (pheew). Restored this and back to normal.
Not sure if anyone has had this problem, but I strongly recommended making nandroid backup before doing any device driver updates.
No Prob...
im on the same software version as u, i connected usb drives, mouse and keyboard without any problems, just wanted to let u kno
No device connected to the micro USB host through OTG cable is detected. Neither mouse nor keyboard or (micro) SD Card. The kernel claims to support USB host controllers. Checked with three different OTG cables, all sold claiming to work with Nexus 7.
Everything was also checked on stock ROM and kernel (JDQ39) unrooted and rooted.
Same cables work like charm with my i9305 Galaxy S 4 LTE just as Stickmount and Nexus 7 Media Importer (mouse, keyboard, storage).
Nothing works however with my Nexus 7. I feel very frustrated and cannot resolve this issue no matter what I try.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Nexus 7 grouper, rooted, Stickmount, Busybox installed
OS: JDQ39 based Smooth rom 5.1
Kernel: M-Kernel 3.1.10
Try a different kernel... Bugs do happen so OTG might be brought ken on that kernel.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
PS: I know bricked worked, I thought Franco's worked too. Dunno bout M-Kernel, I actually avoided that kernel because it didn't look like USB-OTG support was in it when I searched the thread.
Thanx answering
I'll try Franko. As I remember, M-kernel has OTG support. But
Shouldn't even stock kernel support keyboard and mouse over OTG?
And why does the Nexus Media Importer app not work either? That
doesn't even take root...
raymundka said:
Thanx answering
I'll try Franko. As I remember, M-kernel has OTG support. But
Shouldn't even stock kernel support keyboard and mouse over OTG?
And why does the Nexus Media Importer app not work either? That
doesn't even take root...
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Depends on how you're implementing it. I know with apps like StickMount and OTG Helper, they won't automatically start media scanner on the new device unless you have the paid version.
The rom in my Sig actually has USB-OTG support for the Nexus 7 built in (would still need a kernel that supports it of course), so it automatically mounts a thumbdrive, and it shows up under Settings -> Storage , and shows as USB Storage and you can unmount it from there, acts just like an SD card would on other phones. Only downside is no exFat support (nor NTFS I think). Stickmount can do it but you have to provide the exfat binaries in /sdcard.
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Depends on how you're implementing it. I know with apps like StickMount and OTG Helper, they won't automatically start media scanner on the new device unless you have the paid version.
The rom in my Sig actually has USB-OTG support for the Nexus 7 built in (would still need a kernel that supports it of course), so it automatically mounts a thumbdrive, and it shows up under Settings -> Storage , and shows as USB Storage and you can unmount it from there, acts just like an SD card would on other phones. Only downside is no exFat support (nor NTFS I think). Stickmount can do it but you have to provide the exfat binaries in /sdcard.
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Stickmont free detects connected USB storage immediately and mounts it. The USB drive and the files on the device connected by
OTG can be seen by any file explorer in a normal case. Also, when connecting mouse and/or keyboard (even wireless)
via OTG/OTG&USB hub a USB icon and a USB device connected message should pop up in the notification
bar. Nexus Media Importer app should also see the connected device if formatted FAT32.
At least, that's how it works on my Galaxy S3 using the same hardware ( 3 different OTG cables,
mouse, keyboard, USB sticks, memory cards, etc.)
I have flashed four different kernels (M, Motley, Franko, Stock). There is a significant difference in
performance but unfortunately not in USB host device detection behaviour.
I do appreciate all your helping effort. Thx
Hello guys so here is the issue
None of the usb 3.0 device seems to work In otg mode(all usb 3.0 devices are reverse compatible to usb 2.0) i plugged my 500gb hdd with externa power then a 16 gb usb 3.0 pendrive with no success as soon as the device get recognised i see usb safe to remove notification and then no udisk in explorer.
I seriously need a solution as all my usb devices are usb 3.0
Also when the hardware is capablr of usb 3.0 why did gionee crippled it to usb2.0 only?
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Hello guys so here is the issue
None of the usb 3.0 device seems to work In otg mode(all usb 3.0 devices are reverse compatible to usb 2.0) i plugged my 500gb hdd with externa power then a 16 gb usb 3.0 pendrive with no success as soon as the device get recognised i see usb safe to remove notification and then no udisk in explorer.
I seriously need a solution as all my usb devices are usb 3.0
Also when the hardware is capablr of usb 3.0 why did gionee crippled it to usb2.0 only?
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Usb 3.0 port differs from 2.0 see the usb port of note 3 so it might be a problem to include it....since some HDD consume more power they will not work..ive tried with OTG and a trancend usb 3.0 8gb pendrive and it worked flawlessly
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Usb 3.0 port differs from 2.0 see the usb port of note 3 so it might be a problem to include it....since some HDD consume more power they will not work..ive tried with OTG and a trancend usb 3.0 8gb pendrive and it worked flawlessly
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yeah i know the port differs but since the soc is same i think we can solder a usb 3.0 with some tweaking. anyways i provided hdd with esternal power with the help of a cable i modified. also did you tried any 16gb pendrive? i think size may have been a problem too?
also pls can you try an external hddso that i woud be certain that this is not a issue with my phone only. thanks in advance
anybody else getting same issue? (notification saying usb safe to remove..)
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yeah i know the port differs but since the soc is same i think we can solder a usb 3.0 with some tweaking. anyways i provided hdd with esternal power with the help of a cable i modified. also did you tried any 16gb pendrive? i think size may have been a problem too?
also pls can you try an external hddso that i woud be certain that this is not a issue with my phone only. thanks in advance
anybody else getting same issue? (notification saying usb safe to remove..)
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All you have to do is install Paragon NTFS & HFS+ on your phone & grant it superuser permission. Now use ES File Explorer to go to the /mount directory & you will find your hard disk partition there.
Sometimes you may get an error while trying to access the files in the secondary partitions. For this issue you will have to manually unmount those partitions in Paragon app and mount them to a location of your choice.
Hope this helps.
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All you have to do is install Paragon NTFS & HFS+ on your phone & grant it superuser permission. Now use ES File Explorer to go to the /mount directory & you will find your hard disk partition there.
Sometimes you may get an error while trying to access the files in the secondary partitions. For this issue you will have to manually unmount those partitions in Paragon app and mount them to a location of your choice.
Hope this helps.
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thanks bro it worked like charm.
Hi
Somehow when i connect a 16GB USB stick to my note 3 via an OTG cable it shows
1. USB connector connected
2. USB mass storage connected
then immediately
3. USB mass storage removed safely
so i cannot see anything from my USB device connected via an OTG cable
for instance my 16GB sandisk USB stick is not mounted anymore
it used to work with 4.3.xxx but not with the latest update of 4.4.xxx
also Air Droid can't write anymore so it's useless
my USB stick is ntfs formatted, would that be an issue?
i have Paragon exFAT, NTFS & HFS+ installed but it says it has no root access, i have the stock rom and not rooted. it used to work with 4.3 but now with 4.4 it does not work any more
thank you
pixel mixer said:
Hi
Somehow when i connect a 16GB USB stick to my note 3 via an OTG cable it shows
1. USB connector connected
2. USB mass storage connected
then immediately
3. USB mass storage removed safely
so i cannot see anything from my USB device connected via an OTG cable
for instance my 16GB sandisk USB stick is not mounted anymore
it used to work with 4.3.xxx but not with the latest update of 4.4.xxx
also Air Droid can't write anymore so it's useless
my USB stick is ntfs formatted, would that be an issue?
i have Paragon exFAT, NTFS & HFS+ installed but it says it has no root access, i have the stock rom and not rooted. it used to work with 4.3 but now with 4.4 it does not work any more
thank you
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NTFS will not work on android. Format your usb to exFat or fat32, or read this
http://blogs.bu.edu/mhirsch/2013/12...r-sharing-usb-flash-thumb-drives-and-usb-hdd/
actually i cannot format my flash, it's full and i don't want to loose the data
thanks anyway
Erhm copy files to PC,format stick and copy back The files?
Respect!
thanks, that would work if i'd had a computer with me. i'm away from home and was hoping i can mount my usb stick. is there a solution that does not require root access?
pixel mixer said:
thanks, that would work if i'd had a computer with me. i'm away from home and was hoping i can mount my usb stick. is there a solution that does not require root access?
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Not that i know of.
You can try to install the USB Host Diagnostics and check what is happening, on this app the root is optional.
i have no doubt that the USB works but the ntfs file system cannot be mounted directly by the OS so it unmounts it immediately after connection.
so my question still remains, is there a way to mount an ntfs file system without having root access?
thanks
Can anyone confirm that OTG works with TWRP? As in I can install from OTG flash drives like the Kingston MicroDuo 3C or SanDisk OTG Dual USB 3.0 all while still remaining encrypted?
No Idea about encrypted since I have unencrypted since I got my device. I can say that TWRP works with OTG. I have not backed up to the device yet. I always flash and back up to OTG. I have also succesfully restored from it as well. I use a USB Type C OTG cable and 128gb USB flash drive.
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No Idea about encrypted since I have unencrypted since I got my device. I can say that TWRP works with OTG. I have not backed up to the device yet. I always flash and back up to OTG. I have also succesfully restored from it as well. I use a USB Type C OTG cable and 128gb USB flash drive.
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Ok thanks! I guess I'll just have to try it when I get the drives. Hopefully it works.
Bacon.P8.Angler
I can install and backup to an usb otg device and my device is encrypted
Inenting said:
I can install and backup to an usb otg device and my device is encrypted
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Thanks! [emoji1]
Bacon.P8.Angler
Odd. I can't backup or restore anything for my OTG. My OTG USB has a mini usb, so I use the USB Type-C to USB standard-A adapter from Google.
It always shows on TWRP that my OTG has like 175 MB or something extremely small. never shows the files I have. I have reason to believe that the OTG being detected isn't my OTG at all. This is because it showed an OTG with 175 mb even when I never had it plugged in.
Thoughts?
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Bacon.P8.Angler
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Make sure you format FAT32 or will not be recognized.
waqar.qu said:
Odd. I can't backup or restore anything for my OTG. My OTG USB has a mini usb, so I use the USB Type-C to USB standard-A adapter from Google.
It always shows on TWRP that my OTG has like 175 MB or something extremely small. never shows the files I have. I have reason to believe that the OTG being detected isn't my OTG at all. This is because it showed an OTG with 175 mb even when I never had it plugged in.
Thoughts?
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Most likely your drive has a small FAT32 partition that you did not realize and the rest is not FAT32.
Encrypted or not at this point is moot.
With no microSD, unless I tell you, you won't know.
You can backup, restore, copy to/from using the computer utility.
OTG works encrypted or not.