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[Android Apps and Games] fogbav:
Chainfire - most wanted feature under 4.2.X is to bind directories to the external USB Stick - formaly known app was Directory bind - which is not working anymore because of this new security measures under 4.2.X ...

So my question - i heard the symtom of empty directories can be work arround with this hacked adb deamon or something like this - could you implement such mounting of USB directories in this app or make a new one ?

It would be so great to expand the limited memory of all nexus devices with stickmount++ ....8)

Greetings

P.S. : Working Cifs shares would be also awesome - so we can move oob dir to windows share and share the files over multi devices in home wlan ... 8)
[Android Apps and Games] TheByteSmasher:
@Chainfire: I'm not sure if anyone else is experiencing this or not but... using SM PRO, Nexus 7, stock 4.2.1, upon unmount of drive (ntfs or FAT32), and subsequently plugging my N7 into my pc, my MTP based directory listing of the N7 is blank or has only 1 or 2 folders until I reboot my Nexus 7. Is the media scan on unmount not working? Is SM somehow not picking up the 4.2.1 emulated SD card @ storage/emulated/0? Maybe you can help. Thanks !
[Android Apps and Games] kolgenius:
[BUG]It's empty for 2T hard disk with usb 3.0

I can see the base folder ,but I can't see any files in it.My hard disk is 2T with usb 3.0,and I have Plug-in power for it.
[Android Apps and Games] Xander_90:
try to install ntfs mounter from play.. this has worked for me.
[Android Apps and Games] TheByteSmasher:
Bump

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Android Apps and Games] fogbav:
Bumb Version 2.0 .... 8)
[Android Apps and Games] Terrixy:
Hi Chainfire,

Thanks for this great app! I've got one prob with my nexus 10 though. It's running on rooted stock 4.2.1 with minimal extra apps installed. I can mount FAT32 flash drives without a hitch. However when mounting NTFS USB sticks, although it seems mounting is successful, the sdax folder is always empty (from either Root explorer or command line). Isn't the latest android supposed to support NTFS or my system gets somehow corrupted? I'm using StickMount pro 2.2.

Many thanks!

Terrixy
[Android Apps and Games] CapSnake:
Hi, I'm facing the same problem. I also have a nexus 10 (rooted stock 4.2.1) and the last version of StickMount.

I also tried putting ntfs-3g on the nexus root, but nothing changed (sda1 still empty).

Edit - Resolved using Ntfs Mounter.
[Android Apps and Games] TheByteSmasher:
That's the problem. I bought SMP to support Chainfire's work, why would we need to resort to other programs like NTFS mount? And where is Chainfire? He has replied to the SuperSu thread in the 2 weeks since I presented my issue...

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Android Apps and Games] el_charlie:
In android 4.1 I used ntfs mounter to install the ntfs3g binary.

Now, I use the one provided by Chainfire in the root of /sdcard and it works fine with ntfs sticks. Make sure it is in /sdcard and nowhere else.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] three west:
No need to use anything else. I had the same thing with my nexus 10, went back and read the OP, installed the binary,bam, it works
[Android Apps and Games] TheByteSmasher:
Yes, I did and that works, read from NTFS (not write unfortunately). My comment was in response to the guys recommending NTFS mount. My issue is actually that my internal SD isn't rescanned upon unmount.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
r/o access usually indicates that ntfs-3g is actually not being used, but the standard kernel NTFS support is. As for the rescanning problem, I'm not sure media scanning is even related to your problem (it shouldn't be) nor can I reproduce the issue. And as long as I can't reproduce it or imagine what the cause could be, there is nothing I can do about it.
[Android Apps and Games] TheByteSmasher:
Thanks for replying. Is there any way to um... force use the ntfs-3g version?

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
If you put it in /sdcard so it becomes /sdcard/ntfs-3g that should do the trick ...
[Android Apps and Games] NoobieExtraordinare:
Pro user - Quick question

On the Nexus 10 Running Trinity Alpha 7 Kernel with MMuzzy's ROM. Stickmount (pro) seems to mount the usb drive, but when i navigate to the folder it shows up as empty.

On my Nexus 7 with a similar setup i.e. Muzzy's rom with Alpha 3 it mounts properly ans shows the files. Any ideas?

I have posted these on the respective threads, just thought you might have some insight as the developer.

:silly:
[Android Apps and Games] TheByteSmasher:
Did that... no joy

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
What happens if you start your file manager app (or whatever app you use to access the files) *before* mounting with StickMount ?

Make sure to kill the process of that app before mounting, for testing that.
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
I used the app for the first time today. Everything worked fine until I went to unmount the drive. It unmounted but so did my "internal" SD card, the part of memory set aside to pretend to be a memory card. A number of apps behaved as if it was not there. I could still see it with ES File Explorer and could launch an app that I know is considered to be on the SD card. So something was partly wrong. A reboot fixed this but I'd hate to have to always reboot after using StickMount.

Suggestions? Running rooted, stock Android 4.2.1 on my Nexus 7. Pro version of app if it matters.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] Kodiack99:
I had the same issue as well as the double mounting issue.I reverted to the free version and it works fine.
[Android Apps and Games] drc13:
Hi guys,

I'm on holidays with my nexus 10 and went to backup some videos/photos using stickmount but had no luck.

The process I used was to read the cameras SD card via otg

Copy these files to the internal memory (close to full as I only have the 16gb)

Move these files from internal memory to an external HDD via otg, this is where it fails.

The problem seems to be that the usbstorage mount is recognised as part of the internal memory hense already full so I'm unable to move the files onto the HDD.

Is there any work around for this?

Cheers.
[Android Apps and Games] roloracer:
unmounting issues

I have as stock rooted/unlocked nexus 10 stock and I've been using stickmount free for a week or so , and today no matter what I try it won't unmount, I got the pro key to have the option for kill app that prevents unmounting but it won't unmount, every time I hit unmount it says active mounts, but it stays mounted, I've powered off and rebooted but it stays mounted on the notification bar. I searched the thread but didn't find a definite answer to my issue. I'll try clearing app cache and data, and power it off for a while see it that helps, and report back.

Update: clear app cache and data, and that got it to unmount. Opened the app again , mounted my otg and unmounted successfully. :)

Update2: after using the otg and trying to unmount gets stuck again , only solution is to clear app data every time to unmount, and if I clear data before pulling the otg out, when I pull it out it pops back on the notification bar as mounted, so I need to force stop app to get it off notifications.
[Android Apps and Games] NoobieExtraordinare:
Nothing. Same problem. It says mounted, but no files show in the folder. Thank you for the response
[Android Apps and Games] The Gingerbread Man:
Will this app allow my car to see my Google play music if plugged into the car USB? The car won't support music over bluetooth, I did try a 3.5 jack to male USB but no dice either. I'm hoping this app will allow my music to play music over the car speakers when plugged into the official galaxy nexus car dock. The car is a 2010 fiat punto with a female USB port in the glove box. The car uses some form of windows and has the 'blue and me' for Bluetooth calls over car speaker from the phone

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Android Apps and Games] tobbbie:
No it will not work like this. You want your device to act as an USB Mass-storage so that the car radio can read from there and access its files. If your device supports "MSC" mode so can connect to the PC as a simple "drive" (it gets a letter attached) - than it should work right away. If your device only supports MTP or PTP mode - then it will not work.

USB Host mode is just reverse - your device can connect to items that are usually connected to the PC, like USB-memory sticks (hence the name "StickMount"), USB keyboards, USB Mouse and alike. All provided that the device has the matching drivers.

Talk to your car dealer how storage and devices can connect to the radio.
[Android Apps and Games] donannie:
ext3/ext4

As I understand it, whether stickmount works with ext3/ext4 sticks and hard drives depends on the kernel. I am running Cleanrom 3.0 on a Nexus 7 with leanKernel-Grouper-1.2 and everything works except ext3/ext4. Drives with ext3/ext4 appear to mount but filemanagers don't show any files regardless of when the filemanager was started.

Has anyone gotten ext3/ext4 to work with stickmount on an N7? If so, which rom/kernel?
[Android Apps and Games] playahate:
I've got Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7 and pro version of stickmount.

Tried to use ntfs 16GB flash.

Works on N7 right after installin (can see files, watch videos). But after unmouting, cant see files on /sdcard/... theres list of files and folders but says "sdcard is not mounted"...

GN mounts the same flash, but no files at /sdcard/usbstorage/sda. Tried everything from last 10 pages (ntfs-3g on /sdcard, /sdcard/ntfs-3g, /xbin...) still no files
[Android Apps and Games] Ladaga:
I love this app, it's simple and functional.
[Android Apps and Games] twirtle2:
Can anyone help me with exfat? I can't seem to get it to work. I've put the 5 exfat files on my nexus 7 in /storage/emulated/0. I've tried to put them into a folder named "mount-exfat-fuse" and still nothing. Can't get it to work at all. Am I doing something wrong? Is it in the wrong folder location?
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

I reported this same problem; pro version and after unmounting sdcard disappeared. Somebody posted that uninstalling the license file which effectively removed the pro features fixed the issue. That worked for me somewhat considering I wanted the pro features but can't have them or else I'd have to reboot after every mount.
[Android Apps and Games] sparkdroid:
I use Franco's #361 kernel (Cataclysm ROM on JB 4.2.1) and seem to be experiencing this bug (I am using the v2.2 pro version).

I can still access my sdcard by going to /mnt/shell/emulated/0/

But the /sdcard/ link no longer works.

Is this a documented bug? Is the fix known for it?

Edit: I will try uninstalling the Pro version to see if that fixes it.
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

I am rooted but stock. So this is saying that the stock kernel has a bug in it. One that's only triggered by the pro version of the app and not the regular version?
[Android Apps and Games] alexeiw123:
I have this issue as well, GNex.

There's a folder under usbStorage that can't be removed... Very annoying.
[Android Apps and Games] bombadier:
Have you tried deleting from data/media/0/usbstorage/ ?
[Android Apps and Games] alexeiw123:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

You beauty, that fixed it. I was just trying to delete it directly from the sdcard directory.
[Android Apps and Games] pavel332:
Question about USB keyboard...

Hello everyone,

APK is awesome and runs in my Galaxy Nexus perfect, even with connected mouse, MassStorage and keyboard by HUB - FAntastic :D

But I have a question... I'm from Poland and I'm wondering - is it possible using Polish signs ex. ż, ź, ś etc.... ?? When I push ALT and character it appears some "bashes" like ~ ` or nothing happens. When I push ALT and C it appears french C with tail on the bottom :p

I have searched in keyboard settings in Nexus but I haven't found nothing concrete.

Can anyone advise me how to solve that?
[Android Apps and Games] tobbbie:
Possibly the language setting of the system should also switch the external keyboard layout (as it does for the internal) - but usually this is not the case.

There is a fantastic keyboard application that maps everything as you like it: External Keyboard Helper Pro - not free, but a trial is available to check if it works for you. This one also makes older BT keyboards work flawlessly (I have an old Freedom Universal Keyboard) - no way without this app.
[Android Apps and Games] bombadier:
Not sure this was the right thread for your question but you may want to look here, a german dude made some edits for his bluetooth keyboard,I am no expert but I think you would need to edit the hardware keyboard layout to get the your Polish characters
[Android Apps and Games] pavel332:
Wow, what a fast response ;)

It's weird that I'm into Keyboard Layouts, there is many languages but Polish is not listed...

Hmm, I'm wondering about APK which you propose - External Keyboard Helper. In PRO version there is many comments that it works fantastic. But in Demo version there isn't any comments. In addition, at this XDA link which you mentioned there is not listed Polish in "Currently supported keyboard layouts" too. So, what do you suggest now?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hello Chainfire,

your App works great on my Samsung Galaxy S2 (Model I9100) Device. But I've a problem I can only mount FAT32 USB devices using StickMount Pro under Cyanogenmod 10.1 (Nightly build, 03.02.2013). Android version is 4.2.1. (CWM + root access integrated by Cyanogenmod itself) SuperSU Pro showed me the following log of StickMount Pro:

(screenshot)

I've downloaded and installed your ntfs-3g and exfat-modules, StickMount copied them over successfully from /sdcard (according to SuperSU Pro Log). But I can't get it to work. Any help would be appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] scottx .:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

Great work. Allowed me to copy my music from a microsd card via an SD adapter in a ten year old card reader via USB otg to my nexus 7. Whew what a sentence. :)

Chainfire for president.
[Android Apps and Games] roseman5285:
So, I can get this to work with my USB stick, but not my external hard drive. I have a Seagate FreeAgent Go 250GB formatted to NTFS, when I plug it into my Nexus 10, it just beeps. It works perfectly fine with my desktop.

Any ideas as to what the issue could be? I was debating about getting a newer, larger one sometime in the near future.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

A HD draws much more power. You'll need an external power supply to run the drive.
[Android Apps and Games] roseman5285:
I didn't even think about that. So, this only really works with a flash usb drive, not something with a spinning disk?

Thanks for the help.
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

Correct, the Nexus has to supply the power to run the device. You can even have difficulty with certain, but usually cheap, card reader or flash drives for the same reason, not enough power.
[Android Apps and Games] ars0n:
new egg has a sandisk 32gb "Fit" its the smallest usb ive seen with this much storage and it was 20 bucks.. you have to use the additional file system files in the main post to get it to work with ntfs.

Awesome lil program though =D bought the pro version.. thanks ! =]
[Android Apps and Games] Milamber33:
Depends on the drive, depends on the device. I've had no problems with a pair of 500gb 2.5" HP USB3 externals on an Asus Transformer TF101, but the same drives won't spin up with either my Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7. YMMV.
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

I should have mentioned that you can get around the power issue by plugging the OTG cable into a powered USB hub and then the power hungry HD or other device into the hub. Again not a portable solution.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] SchmedleyCo:
Android 4.2.2 Kills OTG Managed By StickMount

My Nexus 7 (Asus) was just "upgraded" by Google to Android 4.2.2. After the reboot, StickMount 2.20 no longer mounted my USB drives on the OTG cable (worked

PERFECTLY

seconds before). When requesting either a mount or dismount, the app says that the service is busy, try again in a few seconds. The drives never appear in any program including ES Explorer.

I'm going to re-flash back to Android 4.2.1 and refuse any upgrades until StickMount can handle them.
[Android Apps and Games] AlexGraves:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

Wow, thanks for the heads up.

I was looking forward to the latest 4.2.2 update... But if it will cause my stickmount to be not working, I'll stick with 4.2.1...

Sent from my Nex7
[Android Apps and Games] SirOch:
Hi,

I upgraded my GNX GSM tout 4.2.2 and stickmount works well.

Is your 4.2.2 still rooted because stickmount needs root ?
[Android Apps and Games] three west:
well that's strange, doesn't seem to be working on my N10 any more on 4.2.2 either, and yes, I'm still rooted

Edit: something must have been hinky after the update. I had used SuperSU to preserve root. Works OK!
[Android Apps and Games] SirOch:
It is very strange. May be google put restrictions in the update 4.2.2, so i hope thar chainfire can check this.
[Android Apps and Games] gelhack:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

Keep in mind that only the tablet version of 4.2 is multi user. I don't know for sure, but I'd guess the phone version doesn't have all the "security" BS baked in.
[Android Apps and Games] steffenld:
Hello,

same problem here :(
[Android Apps and Games] D-m-x:
AW: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

For me Stickmount works on Android 4.2.2 (Paranoid Android and Nexus 7) But I got the Problem that the Notification stays in the Bar even if I unmount. I remember that there was a similar problem with Android 4.2.1 not long ago.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 7 mit Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] NoSubstitute:
Sv: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

SM works fine on my Nexus 7 with rooted 4.2.2.

Btw, otg worked in TWRP too. Did a nandroid directly to USB earlier.

Skickat från min Nexus 7 via Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
In case you are having trouble with the 4.2.2 upgrade, I just had a similar problem, but it was related to SuperSU (unfortunately I fixed the problem before finding out the real cause, so I can't fix it yet).

After re-rooting the device with CF-Auto-Root, followed by updating to the latest SuperSU through Play, everything - including StickMount - worked fine again.
[Android Apps and Games] gerd99:
Is there a solution to the problem with NTSF. I tried the file: Copy "ntfs-3g" to the Total Commander in the root folder.

But it has not worked out, though the Nexus is rooted 10th

Or the way is how I did it wrong. :(
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

I believe that you did it wrong. Unless I'm mistaken the file goes in the /sdcard directory. Search the thread for the directions to double check for the correct location.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] P500:
I'm on 4.2.2 Stock ROM with Stock Kernel. FAT32 works flawlessly, NTFS shows no content.

Would it work with a custom kernel?
[Android Apps and Games] chrone:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

You need to extract the ntfs-3g module package to /sdcard as provided on the first post of this thread.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Android Apps and Games] Quad.X:
I have a Small problem, i just tried stickmount it worked but after i unpluged the usb drive al my filles in my sdcard folder dissapeared. in Settins > Storage my memory stats are the same as if the filles wore still on the memory. I am on AOKP 4.2.1.

Ok after several minutes all my filles reappeared on their own ,without me doing anything.
[Android Apps and Games] albifac91:
Nexus 10 Stickmount

I'm on 4.2.2 Stock ROM with root, TWRP and Franco Kernel. FAT32 and NTFS work fine! A little problem with unmount:(
[Android Apps and Games] winamp26:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

I'm on 4.2.2 paranoid android 3+ with root, TWRP and leankernel 60 FAT32 and NTFS work fine! :)
[Android Apps and Games] jervine:
I have a similar problem as well. Running the 4.2.2 build of rasbeanjelly on a Nexus 10 with the ktmanta kernel. When an ext3 formatted USB stick is attached, StickMount detects the USB stick and a toast notification is flashed that the device is mounted at /sdcard/usbstorage/sda1 - however nothing is present in that directory.

Using a root terminal emulator, there is nothing mounted there either, however, I can manually mount /dev/block/sda1 to the /sdcard/usbstorage/sda1 directory and the contents of the USB stick are displayed via 'ls'. As expected, when a file manager is used to browse this directory nothing is again displayed (I believe that commands carried out in a terminal are not 'propagated' to other processes [some kind of sandboxing I expect], so this is the expected behaviour).

Using ROM Toolbox which includes a terminal emulator and a root file browser does offer a manual workaround to this of sorts, but it's not ideal. Is there a log for StickMount is it just via the dmesg/klog that events are tracked? I suspect that the mount is happening but not visible to other processes ...

FAT32 and NTFS (via ntfs-3g) work without a problem.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] mancman:
multiuser

Hello chainfire,

any chance you get the nice app working for multiuser usage.

It does work for me on the Nexus10 4.2.2. but not on the second user.

My second user got root ritghts but your app does not start.

mancman
[Android Apps and Games] xxSAKISxx:
Απ: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

Very good to hear that. You or anyone else know if OTG works with the latest CWM recovery? version 6.0.2.3. I really whant to know that.

Send from my awesome Galaxy Nexus using my fingers
[Android Apps and Games] bhaji:
several days ago I found that when I unmount a USB stick, the toast shows Active mounts: /sdcard/usbstorage/sda1, and there are some files whose size is 0B. And i cannot delete these files. I have rebooted my Galaxy Nexus many times but it hasn't been fixed yet.

I tried uninstalling Stickmount, but the problem still exists.

I have used this app for nearly 1 year without any problem. I dont know what happended. Pls help me. thx
[Android Apps and Games] bombadier:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

If you are on a 4.2 rom,try deleting from data/media/0/

Tapatyping from my Galaxy Nexus
[Android Apps and Games] bhaji:
wow, love u so so so much!!!
[Android Apps and Games] bhaji:
it works on 6023. i am using it too.
[Android Apps and Games] xxSAKISxx:
Απ: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

works? GRATE. can you tell me please how can i save a backup directly to my usb? with cwm of course.

Send from my awesome Galaxy Nexus using my fingers
[Android Apps and Games] bhaji:
you may backup it to /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup folder, and copy it to a USB stick via Stickmount.

If you mean how to backup directly to a USB stick, I'm afraid to say I've never tried this way.

In my opinion, OTG devices cannot be recognised or mounted in CWM recovery environment.
[Android Apps and Games] FredC94:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

Hello, when I unmount then unplug my USB key I get an error message saying: «USB storage removed unexpectedly».

I'm running CyanogenMod 10.1

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] bkuri:
Re: [14.12.2012] StickMount v2.20 [ROOT]

Same issue here... It doesn't seem to hurt anything, though... Please someone confirm this!

Sent from my Nexus 7