I have an answer to the question "why won't my Poco X3 NFC transfer large files like movies from internal/sd storage to external otg storage"
I googled it an this works for me with Evox 5.3.
I do not know if it's a Xiaomi/Poco issue or a custom rom issue but this worked for me immediately. My movie transfer stopped crashing an I was watching it on my tv on usb in about 3 minutes .
Hope this helps someone stuck like I was?
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Firstly apollogies if posted in wrong place - dont know where else to ask.
My Brother bought me one of these for Christmas http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-computer-Android-tv-box-1G-CPU-4G-Flash-3USB-host-1SD-slot-/140854373918
Desperately looking for Root for this device for obvious reasons. If anyone can shed any light on this or point me in right direction then thanks a lot.
Features:
Android 2.3x (upgradable) operation system with higher performance.
Rockchip RK 2908 CPU, 1GHz speed performance
Built-in WiFi: 802.11b/g/n.
Support Ethernet cable for Internet.
Support SD card up to 32GB.
Easy one-click firmware upgrade from SD card.
Support network 1080P HDMI videos.
Talk on Skype all you can (when use with ext webcam)
Easy file sharing within the LAN or via cloud server
It is a perfect combination of HD media player, computer, digital photo frame, game console, and Internet set-top-box.
Support Social Network, you can share information with friends on Facebook, Flicker, Twitter, or uploading files onto YouTube.
It allows you to watch movies, listen to music, view picture albums, play games, read news, chat with friends easily.
Well after much trial and error I finally managed to root this device. The main problem I had was not being able to get adb over usb. Probably a driver problem or usb ports themselves. I did manage to get wifi connection to the box using a program called Moborobo but still no adb.
I tried using GingerBreak-v1.00.apk without any luck then tried GingerBreak-v1.10.apk which thankfully worked, many thanks to dev for that.
Edit:
More info. Usb is not available over cable but it is available through adb over wifi (after rooting)
Stock Rom
download the firmware file through the following located at:
http://hansontech.mycloudnas.com:8080/cgi-bin/filemanager/
User name/Password: surbox
\surbox\Surbox 900 Firmware\2012.07.26, and download update.img ( only for 2.3 OS version)
Write update.img to SD card. Turn box off and insert SD card then reboot. Follow instructions.
I will be traveling internationally soon and was hoping to load up a large USB OTG pen drive for the flight with my entire music collection so I wouldn't have to pick and choose ahead of time and waste internal storage. My device is not rooted, and I would prefer to keep it that way. I've tried a TON of music players, from the big name ones to very obscure ones and none of them seem to be able to recognize or be directed to scan the USB OTG drive for playback. Is this just something that isn't possible with unrooted Oreo? Any help or app recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Have you checked this thread?
This post is from october 2017, so it should work on oreo since it's pretty recent
TENN3R said:
Have you checked this thread?
This post is from october 2017, so it should work on oreo since it's pretty recent
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Yes, I did find that thread and tried the players listed. I can't get them to work, though. Nothing will let me navigate to the USB drive itself; only to internal storage to pick media folders. I can see it with Solid Explorer, but it will only play a single file at a time.
Reading this reddit thread looks like that otg devices should get mounted to the internal storage (dev post)
And looks like there is a specific music player for this: here
Hope this helps somehow, I know how bad is to have a giant music library but not enough space
TENN3R said:
Reading this reddit thread looks like that otg devices should get mounted to the internal storage (dev post)
And looks like there is a specific music player for this: here
Hope this helps somehow, I know how bad is to have a giant music library but not enough space
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Thanks for the link. The thread made me hopeful, but no luck so far. The drive isn't mounted anywhere under internal storage that I can find. Its actual mount point is /mnt/media_rw/F417-B616 (which, I'm guessing, is some sort of hardware ID or serial for the drive). Can't find a player that will let me navigate to that to scan, though. Haven't tried USB Audio Player PRO yet, though. It doesn't have a trial, and $8 seems a bit steep to just play off a USB even if it did work. May have to break down and try it.
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Thanks for the link. The thread made me hopeful, but no luck so far. The drive isn't mounted anywhere under internal storage that I can find. Its actual mount point is /mnt/media_rw/F417-B616 (which, I'm guessing, is some sort of hardware ID or serial for the drive). Can't find a player that will let me navigate to that to scan, though. Haven't tried USB Audio Player PRO yet, though. It doesn't have a trial, and $8 seems a bit steep to just play off a USB even if it did work. May have to break down and try it.
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So I got something somewhat working. I installed MiXplorer file explorer. It can see the USB drive and has a built-in media player that will play all the files in a given folder. So I guess my choice is between one CD at a time, or copying what I want to play from the USB to the device first. Which may wind up being a better solution since I won't be killing battery powering a USB drive.
Total Commander would be able to do it.
It has a built in media player and you're able to create/save playlist from any directory.
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Check the play store or Google Total Commander Android to go to their official site (ghisler) to download it. The most recent version just improved OTG support, and there are also easy to install plugins for additional OTG support if needed.
After some research and trying a lot of apps I reached to a conclusion that JS USB OTG app does the best job.
I needed an app that can handle usb flash drive formated in exFat (my case) or NTFS for Android One phone (Xiaomi Mi A2).
We are in 2018 and some Android phones still asking to format the usb flash drive attached through otg in Fat32 file system with its 4GB file size limitation.
I wanted to play some big video files and that Fat32...
There are some options like Es file explorer, File Commander with Paragon or Solid Explorer with otg patch, but this apps are streaming videos from usb and if you want to jump through file the video will get stuck.
So finally I found this app JS USB OTG and I am playing all types of bigger video files with MxPlayer in SW decoder mode and the streaming is fast, you won't even notice when jumping through the video file.
I started this thread to help others with this kind of problem.
I know that exFat and Ntfs are microsft proprietary.
If you know other apps like JS USB OTG please share.
Thanks!
yackmaan said:
After some research and trying a lot of apps I reached to a conclusion that JS USB OTG app does the best job.
I needed an app that can handle usb flash drive formated in exFat (my case) or NTFS for Android One phone (Xiaomi Mi A2).
We are in 2018 and some Android phones still asking to format the usb flash drive attached through otg in Fat32 file system with its 4GB file size limitation.
I wanted to play some big video files and that Fat32...
There are some options like Es file explorer, File Commander with Paragon or Solid Explorer with otg patch, but this apps are streaming videos from usb and if you want to jump through file the video will get stuck.
So finally I found this app JS USB OTG and I am playing all types of bigger video files with MxPlayer in SW decoder mode and the streaming is fast, you won't even notice when jumping through the video file.
I started this thread to help others with this kind of problem.
I know that exFat and Ntfs are microsft proprietary.
If you know other apps like JS USB OTG please share.
Thanks!
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Thanks Yackman.
I found another APP named "USB Media Explorer" (paid App, about $4 USD) and I can open music/video and copy to internal storage.
You cold use "USB Photo Viewer" for trial, To see if you can read photo on USB disk with ext fat format.
These two Apps were both made by Homesoft, LLC.
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yackmaan said:
After some research and trying a lot of apps I reached to a conclusion that JS USB OTG app does the best job.
I needed an app that can handle usb flash drive formated in exFat (my case) or NTFS for Android One phone (Xiaomi Mi A2).
We are in 2018 and some Android phones still asking to format the usb flash drive attached through otg in Fat32 file system with its 4GB file size limitation.
I wanted to play some big video files and that Fat32...
There are some options like Es file explorer, File Commander with Paragon or Solid Explorer with otg patch, but this apps are streaming videos from usb and if you want to jump through file the video will get stuck.
So finally I found this app JS USB OTG and I am playing all types of bigger video files with MxPlayer in SW decoder mode and the streaming is fast, you won't even notice when jumping through the video file.
I started this thread to help others with this kind of problem.
I know that exFat and Ntfs are microsft proprietary.
If you know other apps like JS USB OTG please share.
Thanks!
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Thanks yackmaan.
I found another APP named "USB Media Explorer" (paid App, about $4 USD) and I can open music/video and copy to internal storage.
You cold use "USB Photo Viewer" for trial, To see if you can read photo on USB disk with ext fat format.
These two Apps were both made by Homesoft, LLC.
yackmaan said:
After some research and trying a lot of apps I reached to a conclusion that JS USB OTG app does the best job.
I needed an app that can handle usb flash drive formated in exFat (my case) or NTFS for Android One phone (Xiaomi Mi A2).
We are in 2018 and some Android phones still asking to format the usb flash drive attached through otg in Fat32 file system with its 4GB file size limitation.
I wanted to play some big video files and that Fat32...
There are some options like Es file explorer, File Commander with Paragon or Solid Explorer with otg patch, but this apps are streaming videos from usb and if you want to jump through file the video will get stuck.
So finally I found this app JS USB OTG and I am playing all types of bigger video files with MxPlayer in SW decoder mode and the streaming is fast, you won't even notice when jumping through the video file.
I started this thread to help others with this kind of problem.
I know that exFat and Ntfs are microsft proprietary.
If you know other apps like JS USB OTG please share.
Thanks!
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Where can I download the app please.
bill22413 said:
Thanks Yackman.
I found another APP named "USB Media Explorer" (paid App, about $4 USD) and I can open music/video and copy to internal storage.
You cold use "USB Photo Viewer" for trial, To see if you can read photo on USB disk with ext fat format.
These two Apps were both made by Homesoft, LLC.
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Thanks yackmaan.
I found another APP named "USB Media Explorer" (paid App, about $4 USD) and I can open music/video and copy to internal storage.
You cold use "USB Photo Viewer" for trial, To see if you can read photo on USB disk with ext fat format.
These two Apps were both made by Homesoft, LLC.
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Thank you all! I really needed this. USB Media Explorer is even better than JS USB OTG as it supports writing on exfat partition
m_amirian said:
Thank you all! I really needed this. USB Media Explorer is even better than JS USB OTG as it supports writing on exfat partition
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It's been years. I don't use anymore JS usb otg. I have Xiaomi Mi A2 witch now has problems with OTG. I must change my phone.
Hello, so I'm looking for a way to play/stream music from my computer hard drive to my Android phone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 plus) when I'm away from home, with 4G connection...
I'm using a music player app which can play music from my phone internal storage as well as my PC (windows 7) shared folders but only on LAN with WIFI, but is there a way to do so on long distance ?
Desktop sharing/Remote control (like teamviewer...) seems to do so, but I tried some and it was suffering from many audio lag/stutter, maybe data transfer problems, probably because it was dealing with video transfer at the same time (which is something I don't care at all, I just want to access my huge mp3 collection on my hard drive)
Thanks for any suggestions !
Let's hope there is a way :cyclops:
Hello,
I've got a TV Box running Android 8 (non upgradable) and I'm trying to watch movies from my USB flash drive (formatted as exFAT, since I've got files larger than 4GB).
Issue #1: VLC player (version 3.0, also non upgradable) does not recognize it at all.
Issue #2: In the native File Explorer app, I can see and access the movie files. But, if I try to open them using VLC, an error occurs (something related to "path cannot be found or does not exist").
Question #1: is there a workaround to force VLC to "see" my flash drive?
Question #2: do you know any file explorer app that works on Android 8 AND detects external USB drives, which could be used to open VLC avoiding the path problem?
Question #2 is related to this video. However, this app no longer exists and I've spent hours looking for another one without success.
Thanks in advance.