Stickmount works fine as far as it goes. The catch is that I haven't found a way to *unmount* drives with it. When I press "unmount", it just pops up the box showing mounted drives. To make things worse, If I unplug the drive, the next time I plug it in, stickmount generates a new mount point (sda, sdb, sdc, etc).
USB Hub Controller from the market lets me mount and unmount drives, plus I can specify the mount point, but it wont automount.
Any ideas for either app?
I usually just look in the notification area where it says "tap here to unmount" or something similar.
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tjupille said:
Stickmount works fine as far as it goes. The catch is that I haven't found a way to *unmount* drives with it. When I press "unmount", it just pops up the box showing mounted drives. To make things worse, If I unplug the drive, the next time I plug it in, stickmount generates a new mount point (sda, sdb, sdc, etc).
USB Hub Controller from the market lets me mount and unmount drives, plus I can specify the mount point, but it wont automount.
Any ideas for either app?
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unmounting with stickmount works fine for me... do you have a single device plugged in, or multiples devices through a hub>?
Mine did this. Use your file explorer and navigate to your mount point. More than likely there is a file keeping it listed. I deleted the file (happened to be xbmc apk) and it unmounted fine.
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I was have the same problem, but couldn't determine if there were any open files. I had been using an older 1 gig Lexar drive, first formatted to FAT32, then tried EXT4, then back to FAT32. In all cases, it would mount automatically, and I could browse, copy & open files on it. However, as above, unmounting only brought up the box telling me the existing mounts. After waiting several minutes, I removed the flash drive from the OTG cable, but never got an error message, though the sda1 directory was still there.
Getting nowhere with this, with the Lexar drive not connected, I deleted the usbStorage/sda1 directory (no error messages), then connected a different flash drive, a ~3 year old HP 8 gig model. Surprise - it works correctly. I tried it 4 times or so, and no problems.
Don't know what's going on there, but I'm leery now of putting the Lexar back on, considering all the problems I came across.
I'll try some different flash drives this evening.
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I had the same problem. I resolved it by making sure that my file explorer (ES File Explorer) and the Gallery app were closed. Just like Windows, a USB drive can't be unmounted safely if an application is still accessing that drive. In my case I used ES File Explorer to navigate to the contents of the USB drive, and I used the Gallery app to view photos I had stored on the drive. Therefore, I had to make sure that both of those apps were closed. Some apps have a true "exit" option, but not all do. I make a habit of either hitting the back button repeatedly, rather than the home button. Some apps have an exit option in their menus. You may need to go to the Apps Manager in the Android Settings and force close running apps that may have been accessing files from the USB drive. I took the extra precaution of force closing the cached apps (not running), that had been used to view the contents of the USB drive. After doing that, clicking on the stickmount item in the notification bar successfully unmounted the drive. When I plugged the drive back in, it retained the same mount point, and I was easily able to unmount.
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I had the same problem. I resolved it by making sure that my file explorer (ES File Explorer) and the Gallery app were closed. Just like Windows, a USB drive can't be unmounted safely if an application is still accessing that drive. In my case I used ES File Explorer to navigate to the contents of the USB drive, and I used the Gallery app to view photos I had stored on the drive. Therefore, I had to make sure that both of those apps were closed. Some apps have a true "exit" option, but not all do. I make a habit of either hitting the back button repeatedly, rather than the home button. Some apps have an exit option in their menus. You may need to go to the Apps Manager in the Android Settings and force close running apps that may have been accessing files from the USB drive. I took the extra precaution of force closing the cached apps (not running), that had been used to view the contents of the USB drive. After doing that, clicking on the stickmount item in the notification bar successfully unmounted the drive. When I plugged the drive back in, it retained the same mount point, and I was easily able to unmount.
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+1 for this solution. I was running into the same issue intermittently, and discovered that by fully quitting ES File Explorer (Menu > More > Exit), the drive would unmount properly. I can't speak for the closing of other apps since I generally just use usb drives for copying things to and from my N7, but I'd imagine GrillMouster is right and that anything that is using files from the usb drive needs to be closed before it can be properly unmounted.
Edit: Also, I discovered that once the drive is properly unmounted, the various folders that are created (sda1, sdb1, etc.) are removed and the next time you mount a drive it will once again be on sda1. At least that's how it worked out for me.
Will no unmount even closing the apps
I have a Nexus 7 with Stickmount 1.5. It works fine except that it does not unmount the USB drive when I tap the unmount option (or even removing the drive altogether). I have tried closing the applications I used while the drive was mounted (ES File Explorer and MX Player), but it still will not unmount. I had to resort to rebooting the device for it to forget about the mount. Is there a background app I have forgotten to kill? Maybe Stickmount needs an "Unmount, damn it!" option to unmount the drives regardless of what apps have locks on files in the drive.
Thanks for your help.
FD
My solution...for now
Frederick Davies said:
I have a Nexus 7 with Stickmount 1.5. It works fine except that it does not unmount the USB drive when I tap the unmount option (or even removing the drive altogether). I have tried closing the applications I used while the drive was mounted (ES File Explorer and MX Player), but it still will not unmount. I had to resort to rebooting the device for it to forget about the mount. Is there a background app I have forgotten to kill? Maybe Stickmount needs an "Unmount, damn it!" option to unmount the drives regardless of what apps have locks on files in the drive.
Thanks for your help.
FD
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I'm running Stickmount V1.5 on my Nexus 7 (PA2.17/EliteKernel). The only way I found to truly unmount my flash drive was to first click "unmount" in the Stickmount notification and then go to settings > Storage and wait for it to generate the results and you should see an option to unmount USB storage right there... click on it, press "ok" in the pop-up and it will freeze for a few secs and then give you a toast notification (or drawer notification not sure) that says you just unmounted USB... at that point you can unplug your USB drive and you will get no "unexpected removal" message and everything should be fine :good:
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I'm running Stickmount V1.5 on my Nexus 7 (PA2.17/EliteKernel). The only way I found to truly unmount my flash drive was to first click "unmount" in the Stickmount notification and then go to settings > Storage and wait for it to generate the results and you should see an option to unmount USB storage right there... click on it, press "ok" in the pop-up and it will freeze for a few secs and then give you a toast notification (or drawer notification not sure) that says you just unmounted USB... at that point you can unplug your USB drive and you will get no "unexpected removal" message and everything should be fine :good:
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I am afraid that that did not work on my Nexus 7.
FD
GrillMouster said:
I had the same problem. I resolved it by making sure that my file explorer (ES File Explorer) and the Gallery app were closed. Just like Windows, a USB drive can't be unmounted safely if an application is still accessing that drive. In my case I used ES File Explorer to navigate to the contents of the USB drive, and I used the Gallery app to view photos I had stored on the drive. Therefore, I had to make sure that both of those apps were closed. Some apps have a true "exit" option, but not all do. I make a habit of either hitting the back button repeatedly, rather than the home button. Some apps have an exit option in their menus. You may need to go to the Apps Manager in the Android Settings and force close running apps that may have been accessing files from the USB drive. I took the extra precaution of force closing the cached apps (not running), that had been used to view the contents of the USB drive. After doing that, clicking on the stickmount item in the notification bar successfully unmounted the drive. When I plugged the drive back in, it retained the same mount point, and I was easily able to unmount.
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Thanks
This solution worked for me
Curious!
1) When I mount the USB drive and browse through it with ES File Explorer (rooted), no matter what I do afterwards (kill the ES File Explorer application and all the apps I used to access the files), I cannot unmount the drive unless I reboot the tablet.
2) But if I browse with Dual File Manager (not rooted), I can unmount even while browsing the drive.
3) And if I open the files in the drive directly with mVideoPlayer or MX Player, I can also unmount afterwards even without having to kill the apps.
4) But if I open the files in mVideoPlayer or MX Player through Dual File Manager, it requires a reboot again.
I think that there are some apps whose locks stop the Stickmount unmount (ES Player Explorer), while others don't (Dual File Manager, mVideoPlayer, MX Player); but if you open one app (video player) through another (file manager), it always stops the unmount.
I do not know what the above means, but I hope it provides info for the developers to know what is going on.
FD
Frederick Davies said:
Curious!
1) When I mount the USB drive and browse through it with ES File Explorer (rooted), no matter what I do afterwards (kill the ES File Explorer application and all the apps I used to access the files), I cannot unmount the drive unless I reboot the tablet.
2) But if I browse with Dual File Manager (not rooted), I can unmount even while browsing the drive.
3) And if I open the files in the drive directly with mVideoPlayer or MX Player, I can also unmount afterwards even without having to kill the apps.
4) But if I open the files in mVideoPlayer or MX Player through Dual File Manager, it requires a reboot again.
I think that there are some apps whose locks stop the Stickmount unmount (ES Player Explorer), while others don't (Dual File Manager, mVideoPlayer, MX Player); but if you open one app (video player) through another (file manager), it always stops the unmount.
I do not know what the above means, but I hope it provides info for the developers to know what is going on.
FD
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If you would like to see what app has what file open on your USB disk, use lsof in ADB/terminal. needs root. First, what is the USB mount? type in
Code:
mount
and look for your device. If there are too many entries, you can try this instead:
Code:
df -h|grep G
when you have the mountpoint, perhaps it is /storage/sdcard0/usbdisk/, the key is usbdisk. Now you are ready to search the open files:
Code:
su
lsof | grep usbdisk
now, I don't have a USB drive mounted, but I opened a .avi in MX video, and searched for '.avi,' this is what it will look like:
Code:
com.mxtec 23194 u0_a141 80 ??? ??? ??? ??? /storage/sdcard0/Matt/video.avi
so here you can see com.mxtec has opened video.avi, and the PID is 23194.
If that file was on the usb disk, it would keep it from being umounted, so to get rid of it:
Code:
su
kill 23194
I had an issue that's been nagging me and the above info kinda resolved it but not really. Had created a folder on my usb drive using stick mount. After renaming the folder, etc.. Still for a couple of weks even after ejecting the drive... the folder still showed up.. Killed various apps, etc nothing listed showing usbStorage... So while I was doing my usual cleaning through recovery mode with cahces, etc. I hooked it up to my netbook and got into adb and navigated to where my offending folder was and deleted the folder that way. Once booted back into the system, folder wasn't there anymore.
hi all !!!
tjupille said:
Stickmount works fine as far as it goes. The catch is that I haven't found a way to *unmount* drives with it. When I press "unmount", it just pops up the box showing mounted drives. To make things worse, If I unplug the drive, the next time I plug it in, stickmount generates a new mount point (sda, sdb, sdc, etc).
USB Hub Controller from the market lets me mount and unmount drives, plus I can specify the mount point, but it wont automount.
Any ideas for either app?
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stickmount has no unmount in my nexus 7 !!
please help me !! Y^Y
I think an earlier version had an unmount option if you touched the Stickmount notification icon. But I don't have that option anymore. I just make sure I'm not writing to external storage and unplug.
I removed the flash drive and then mount it still is. But then I was hit by unmount. (I'm using version 2.20 Pro).
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Anyone use USB OTG helper? For me it works better than stickmount.
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gc84245 said:
Anyone use USB OTG helper? For me it works better than stickmount.
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Yes I've had the most success with OTG helper.
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Using my OTG cable, along with StickMount, I've been able to view files on my USB stick. However, after formatting (exFAT) my USB device, and trying to view files off it once again (using ES file explorer), the folder for the USB Storage now shows up empty. Even when files are present on the USB stick.
I have tried different files on the device, to see if my Nexus 7 will read, but to no avail, it just shows an empty folder.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Using my OTG cable, along with StickMount, I've been able to view files on my USB stick. However, after formatting (exFAT) my USB device, and trying to view files off it once again (using ES file explorer), the folder for the USB Storage now shows up empty. Even when files are present on the USB stick.
I have tried different files on the device, to see if my Nexus 7 will read, but to no avail, it just shows an empty folder.
Anyone got any ideas?
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so I probably won't be able to help, but just out of curiosity, does StickMount launch when you plug in your usb stick?
jma9454 said:
so I probably won't be able to help, but just out of curiosity, does StickMount launch when you plug in your usb stick?
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It does, yes
Got it fixed!
When formatting my USB drive through windows I only had exFAT & NTFS file system options. What I did was download "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - v2.1.8" - and it gave me the option to use FAT32.
Problem solved, USB device seems to be working now.
I've had the AFTV 3 for a couple of months but only just tried hooking up a usb flash drive. I tried through the OTG + ethernet usb hub and I tried it with just a OTG cable. It doesn't mount the usb drive.
I'm sure I have it hooked up right. I formatted Fat 32 (even though it should do that automatically). It's getting power because the light on the Flash drive turns on.
I'm wondering if the update I got on May 15th removed the USB storage option?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
The Fire TV 3 has never mounted USB drives in a way that all apps can access files on the drive. Your only option is to use an app that can mount the drive itself. Two such apps are ES File Explorer and Total Commander with a mounting addon. Once those apps mount the drive, you'll then be able to select a file and choose a different app to open the file. Some more info here: http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-fire...rives-keyboards-mice-flirc-ethernet-hubs-etc/
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The Fire TV 3 has never mounted USB drives in a way that all apps can access files on the drive. Your only option is to use an app that can mount the drive itself. Two such apps are ES File Explorer and Total Commander with a mounting addon. Once those apps mount the drive, you'll then be able to select a file and choose a different app to open the file. Some more info here: http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-fire...rives-keyboards-mice-flirc-ethernet-hubs-etc/
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Thanks Elias!
I should've read the full article.
For now is there still no way to mount usb drive permanently?
Looks like Gen 3 is more protected then older versions, but maybe we can execute commands like "mount" in some way? (just my naive guess)
mntlzr said:
For now is there still no way to mount usb drive permanently?
Looks like Gen 3 is more protected then older versions, but maybe we can execute commands like "mount" in some way? (just my naive guess)
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Sadly not, a Fire TV 3 is only suitable for "paying" apps (Prime, Netflix, etc.), and is much more limited than its predecessors (similar to Apple TV). That's why neither the 3-series nor the Cube is an option for me. I don't like closed systems!
Why is a NAS not an option?