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[Q] Problem with MTP

I have a problem with transferring files to my nexus 5 using MTP. I transfered the entire internal storage folder because I wanted to unlock the bootloader, however, now when I try to transfer it back then sometime in the middle it just hangs for a while and then gives an error.

Eden3319 said:
I have a problem with transferring files to my nexus 5 using MTP. I transfered the entire internal storage folder because I wanted to unlock the bootloader, however, now when I try to transfer it back then sometime in the middle it just hangs for a while and then gives an error.
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be sure to keep your device wake, sometimes, going into sleep kills the data stream. and mtp is ****, so maybe use airdroid, or something similar to copy the data back, also it will take longer, it is more stable
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How can it be so bad? I already tried reinstalling device drivers, changing USB ports (USB 2.0 and USB 3.0), nothing works. I don't want to use over the internet because with this many files it can take days.

[Q] What's a file explorer that can r/w to OTG USB?

I have the meenova micro SD OTG reader and the only way i can access files from through my phone is from TWRP when i flash roms and such. I want to be able to move files back and forth from my phone using the Meenova but i've only seen peopl;e suggest nexus importer but it doesn't really work for me that well, I'm using root explorer right now and it doesn't let me access my usb otg. Basically i want a file explorer that let's me use the meenova to move files and not have to boot into twrp to have to do it and i dont want to have to pay a fortune for an app that will let me do this.

Hi,
Take a look for these apps: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=stickmount&c=apps&hl=fr.
Apps like Stickmount have a free version, you can test... After that I use Root Explorer without any issue.

viking37 said:
Hi,
Take a look for these apps: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=stickmount&c=apps&hl=fr.
Apps like Stickmount have a free version, you can test... After that I use Root Explorer without any issue.
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Thanks ! Some great results came out
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zolo185 said:
Thanks ! Some great results came out
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Re,
Yes , for my usage I use Stickmount (the free version). Once the USB is mounted I can move, copy, delete the files. With Root Explorer the path is /sdcard/usbStorage/sda1.

Depends what you want to do. Apps like stickmount are ok if you just want to read/write data on the card through a file explorer. However since these apps dont mount correctly (mount in sdcard for non-root users), they're useless if you want to move game data onto usb otg. Fir that you need it mounting in /storage so custom kernel like chaos is what you'd need
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rootSU said:
Depends what you want to do. Apps like stickmount are ok if you just want to read/write data on the card through a file explorer. However since these apps dont mount correctly (mount in sdcard for non-root users), they're useless if you want to move game data onto usb otg. Fir that you need it mounting in /storage so custom kernel like chaos is what you'd need
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How can I tell if its mounting to storage or not. I'm on purity using stock purity kernel.
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zolo185 said:
How can I tell if its mounting to storage or not. I'm on purity using stock purity kernel.
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Im sorry, I don't understand the question. Does purity say it automounts USB otg in its list of features? Most roms / kernels do not offer this.
I only know 1 kernel and 1 rom that does. Chaos kernel and Mahdi rom. This doesn't mean more don't do it but I don't know the features if every rom or kernel.
Browse to /storage on the root of your device to see what's there
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rootSU said:
Im sorry, I don't understand the question. Does purity say it automounts USB otg in its list of features? Most roms / kernels do not offer this.
I only know 1 kernel and 1 rom that does. Chaos kernel and Mahdi rom. This doesn't mean more don't do it but I don't know the features if every rom or kernel.
Browse to /storage on the root of your device to see what's there
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Sorry, and it does not mention it in the ROM features and I don't have the USB otg with me at the moment I'm in school. But here is what it shows me now.
*note* the SDA 1 is what I just added to see if it would mount there later on as vicking said above.
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The attachment doesn't work.
If you use stickmount, it will mount to /storage/sdcard0/usbStorage/sda1
Chaos kernel mounts to /storage/USBdisk
You don't create anything yourself. It creates as and when required
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[Q] OTG Problem?

Hi guys! Just got a new USB OTG cable and also got stickmount PRO, and i connected my flash drive to my phone and stickmount detected it and i clicked mount and after i was done i clicked unmount and the flash drive got unmounted and so did my sdcard partition and it wouldn't be mounted unless i reboot my device, i've heard of this problem before but never found a solution. Also i'm running the latest version of slimkat and franco kernel, If there's a rom and, or kernel that supports OTG could you point it out for me please cuz i don't want to use stickmount because of this problem. I also tried usb OTG helper and the app crashes when i mount. Please help me and i'm sorry for asking a noob question.

Chaos kernel supports otg. I haven't tried it though.

Chaos is a CAF kernel so you'd have to use an old version on slim.
I use elementalx on slim which also automounts otg via the storage menu.
I still use stickmount too though because elementalx hasn't exported external storage in the correct way yet so can't use foldermount. If you simply want to browse though, elementalx is fine.
I've never had this problem with stickmount. I've never used franco though
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rootSU said:
Chaos is a CAF kernel so you'd have to use an old version on slim.
I use elementalx on slim which also automounts otg via the storage menu.
I still use stickmount too though because elementalx hasn't exported external storage in the correct way yet so can't use foldermount. If you simply want to browse though, elementalx is fine.
I've never had this problem with stickmount. I've never used franco though
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Thanks! I'm gonna flash elementalx and report back, also would you mind telling me what rom you're running just in case it didn't work for me.

gotenks22 said:
Thanks! I'm gonna flash elementalx and report back, also would you mind telling me what rom you're running just in case it didn't work for me.
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Ha ha. Already mentioned it in the 2nd line of my first post
Have another look
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rootSU said:
Ha ha. Already mentioned it in the 2nd line of my first post
Have another look
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LOL I didn't see that. also i flashed elementalx and i'm still getting the same problem:crying:, i unmount and then a popup shows saying that youtube crashed and when i go to es file explorer it's the same problem. Is there another kernel which isn't CAF that natively supports usb otg?

You're unmounting via storage menu and not using stickmount?
No.point looking at kernels. This isn't a kernel problem. This is a you problem. By you, I.don't mean you yourself. Rather, I mean there is a problem with your config. Usbotg works fine with latest slim and elementalx without issue. Must be an app or something.
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rootSU said:
You're unmounting via storage menu and not using stickmount?
No.point looking at kernels. This isn't a kernel problem. This is a you problem. By you, I.don't mean you yourself. Rather, I mean there is a problem with your config. Usbotg works fine with latest slim and elementalx without issue. Must be an app or something.
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Thanks for telling me bout elementalx unmounting and mounting via storage menu works now, but the problem is still there with stickmount, it seems like it's stickmount's problem. You also mentioned that elementalx had a problem with external storage does that mean that i can't use apps like GLtoSD so that i can put my game data in my flash drive?

I only use stickmount because of a setting that's missing that prevents foldermount mounting folders from /sdcard to USB. You don't need to use it simply to browse.
No idea why stickmount causes this problem for you. Works fine for me.
No idea what gltosd is. You'll have to test it yourself
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rootSU said:
I only use stickmount because of a setting that's missing that prevents foldermount mounting folders from /sdcard to USB. You don't need to use it simply to browse.
No idea why stickmount causes this problem for you. Works fine for me.
No idea what gltosd is. You'll have to test it yourself
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GL to SD does the same thing as foldermount except it's a more user-friendly interface made for games

Probably wont work then without stickmount
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rootSU said:
I only use stickmount because of a setting that's missing that prevents foldermount mounting folders from /sdcard to USB. You don't need to use it simply to browse.
No idea why stickmount causes this problem for you. Works fine for me.
No idea what gltosd is. You'll have to test it yourself
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Just found out that the main problem was my explorer (after i unmount with stickmount es file explorer tells me sdcard not found but other explorers show it normally) it wasn't the kernel's problem nor stickmount's. Godammit i feel so stupid *facepalm*. Anyways thanks for helping me, also elementalx is amazing, really good battery life and performance.

Yep good kernel
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OTG Flashdisk stability issues

Sup, guys!
I'm running stock with the latest franco Kernel (r48) and trying to use a USB OTG flashdisk to play music with Poweramp.
Usually when I plug in the USB, Stickmount recognizes it and mounts an emulated partition on my sdcard.
It happens to work for a few seconds to a few hours, I really can't tell when it will work but usually after a few tries it stays stable for a while, so isn't that bad.
Today I tried to copy some pictures from my phone to the USB and I couldn't copy a single file.
Anyone else have trouble doing this?
Thanks!

danmit said:
Sup, guys!
I'm running stock with the latest franco Kernel (r48) and trying to use a USB OTG flashdisk to play music with Poweramp.
Usually when I plug in the USB, Stickmount recognizes it and mounts an emulated partition on my sdcard.
It happens to work for a few seconds to a few hours, I really can't tell when it will work but usually after a few tries it stays stable for a while, so isn't that bad.
Today I tried to copy some pictures from my phone to the USB and I couldn't copy a single file.
Anyone else have trouble doing this?
Thanks!
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Try a kernel with otg automount
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Yes I always had issues with stickmount. I had to forceclose or reboot. I agree that Rom or kernel with automount is the way forward
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Fastest way to transfer files from Nexus 5 to PC [Without ROOT]

Hello !!
Google just brutally pulled out USB Mass Storage, not a good thing for users who don't root their phone. As you all know that MTP (Media transfer Protocol) is slow and frustrating and neither USB Mass Storage works on Nexus 5 so is there any way to transfer files at "HIGHEST POSSIBLE SPEED" between Nexus and PC ??
I'm tired of hunting, some help would be great Sagar Khanapurkar
Thank you )

Sagar Khanapurkar said:
Hello !!
Google just brutally pulled out USB Mass Storage, not a good thing for users who don't root their phone. As you all know that MTP (Media transfer Protocol) is slow and frustrating and neither USB Mass Storage works on Nexus 5 so is there any way to transfer files at "HIGHEST POSSIBLE SPEED" between Nexus and PC ??
I'm tired of hunting, some help would be great
Thank you )
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They didn't just "brutally pull out" mass storage at all. Mass storage can still be used if you have an actual sdcard.
The problem is in fact that if you use the fuse file system to share /sdcard data space, which is the only method that works well, mass storage would be impossible.
Unfortunately this means that we're stuck with MTP and we all share the same issues. It needs vast improvement. This is a bi-product of using fuse unfortunately. You can't mount usb ass storage a fuse /sdcard because its on the /data partition and you cannot rip the data partition out whilst its in use, which is what mass storage would require
You have 2 options. Adb push / pull (see thread available via my signature) or using WiFi to transfer.
There are loads of apps that are available to do transfer over the network. Personally I just use a file explorer. Fastest? Adb because its wired but its not the simplest
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I'll go with adb push / pull !! since it's the fastest available source.

Sagar Khanapurkar said:
I'll go with adb push / pull !! since it's the fastest available source.
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Have a look at my thread "adb and fastboot. What is it?" Which you can get yo via the sticky thread on my signature.
I've not used it unrooted so I can't say if /data/media/0 works or if /sdcard is better. But please let me know how you get on.
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rootSU said:
Have a look at my thread "adb and fastboot. What is it?" Which you can get yo via the sticky thread on my signature.
I've not used it unrooted so I can't say if /data/media/0 works or if /sdcard is better. But please let me know how you get on.
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Can't I just pull /internal storage (( I know adb will be having different parameters)), but what I want to do is pull each and every single file which is on my 32 GB Nexus, I don't want system files, all I want is my files... ?

Sagar Khanapurkar said:
Can't I just pull /internal storage (( I know adb will be having different parameters)), but what I want to do is pull each and every single file which is on my 32 GB Nexus, I don't want system files, all I want is my files... ?
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Your files are on /sdcard which mounts on /data/media/0
Not really sure what you're asking. I haven't mentioned system files, which you wouldnt be able to access without root anyway.
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Yeah, OP, just `adb pull /sdcard/ <dest folder>`.