How can I find the file system type of USB drive without using computer? Drive is attached to Android phone and I can see the files in it. I want to know if it is extFAT etc.

Android 11 will communicate with the external drive using a -y- connector, one lead to power, and the other lead to PNY 1TB drive. However, once the battery drains below 100 percent, Android refuses to acknowledge the connection to an external drive unless the drive has been connected at one hundred percent battery charge. Unplug the external drive while the battery is below one hundred percent charge and you are forced to wait until the battery is charged to one hundred percent before you can reconnect to the aforementioned drive. That being said, I am able to connect -y- cable to Android and to the external drive as long as the battery is charged to one hundred percent, establish a connection to the drive and then unplug the power lead and remain connected to the drive until the battery is drained. How about addressing this limitation?

I've managed to flash Cyanogenmod 12.1 onto my Nexus 7 2012 to give it a new lease on life, but now I can't connect it to my PC to view it as a storage device! The Nexus 7 shows up as a "media device" in Devices and Printers and does not show up as a drive in My Computer - the driver for it is shown as the Android ADB Driver. The Nexus 7 is only charging when connected to my computer, there is no notification to choose the connection type. I have tried re-installing the driver, but Windows says it's already up to date. ADB and Fastboot both locate the device in Recovery and Bootloader, so the driver is obviously working. Connecting the Nexus 7 to a different computer that hasn't been used to flash images shows up as a storage device with no problems. What am I missing/doing wrong with my computer that won't show my Nexus 7 as a storage device? **Clarification**: Running Windows 8.1. Connected with MTP mode shows my Nexus 7 in my Devices and Printers (but Unspecified), but not as a Media Device in My Computer: Connected with PTP mode works as expected:

I have these **Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7" Tablet**, ever since I bought it and the first time it prompted me if I wanna enable **USB mass storage** when I connected it to the computer, and I selected **charge only** or something close to that, up to this very moment, I can't access the tablet from a computer via **USB cable** Specifications; Android version: Android-5.1.1 Device Model: KFFOWI Any solution please?

My Galaxy S2 recently froze while browsing facebook using Firefox (the loading animation kept playing though), then shut down after a minute. I haven't been able to turn it back on since then. I tried turning it on while charging, using someone else's battery (working with their phone), USB connection to computer, SIM in or out, just the power button and volume up/down + home + power buttons; but no luck. The hardware seems to be fine, as the phone starts heating up around the camere when I leave the battery in (which I interpret to mean that the processor is doing something, just not the right thing - maybe stuck in an endless loop). The advisor on O2 chat has suggested to send it back for repair, which I am happy to do; except that I'd like to save the app settings, photos, contacts and calendar entries which weren't backed up. So now I'm looking if there's any way to access the storage without the phone having to turn on. Is this possible hardware-wise? Does anyone know how? The OS is the O2 (UK) Android 4.1.2 if it helps at all.

I'm trying to accomplish something fairly odd, so bear with me. I've added an external SD card to my old Droid Mini (basically just for an experiment to see whether or not I could expand the storage capability). It's currently running Lineage OS 13. The issue is that the external SD adapter is very power hungry, and the kernel on this version (3.4.42) doesn't properly support autosuspend. I can force the device into low power mode by unbinding the SCSI device from the USB device, but obviously it disappears if I do that. I read that bind mounts *can* preserve the directory structure of the source folder even if it is removed, but I can't seem to get that to work (see here - *"It is possible to unmount /some/where, in which case /else/where remains mounted."*) The idea is to wait until the USB device goes idle, then manually suspend it by unbinding it until it is needed again. However, if I unbind the device, the "stat" file I'm using to monitor idleness ALSO disappears, do I can't use that to check if activity is requested. So my (maybe silly) idea was to make bind mount of the external card to a "virtual" USB device which doesn't disappear when the source is removed, and re-attaches it when it's needed. Baby steps though, any ideas how I might go about preserving a "fake" drive for the system to operate through? Bind-mounts don't seem to do *quite* the right thing here. Thanks, R

First of all, I have a Galaxy Note 2. Hello, I've read more than an answer for this issue but none of them solved my problem. The problem is when I try to capture a screenshot it gives me an error message that says "Unable to save the screenshot, USB storage may be in use". I can't also use any application. When I open any application it gives me the "{Application name} has stopped" What is the solution? It ought to be mentioned that I've tried to wipe the cash partition but it didn't work. Thanks in advance.

I stupidly changed my new SD cards file system to NTFS for using with my laptops and my Android tablet. Now I realize my tablet doesn't want to see the card when I put it in. And now I bought 2 USB's and notice they have FAT32 file system on them. Which file system will work for each storage and will be compatible with all my devices?

Samsung Galaxy S2 is the model I get no free space error msg when i try to install application from Google Play. So i navigate to Settings->Storage and i see 3 sections: - Device memory - 200MB Free - USB Storage - 11.1GB FREE - SD Card - 413MB FREE Why cant the phone install it on the usb storage?

I did system update on my android device and after some days, i discovered my phone which used to fully charge under two hours could only charge around 10% in an hour. I couldn't connect via the USB to the computer anymore. So today after i made up my mind i was going to take it to a repairer, everything suddenly returned to normal. I don't know how i can explain that. Should i still take it there or keep using it ?

When I moved an app to the Storage Card on my HTC One V, I found some data moved to USB Storage App. The Storage Card is still showing not used. What's "USB storage app"? Why apps are not moving into the Storage Card, instead moving into the "USB storage app"? 1. Before moving the app to the storage card (Click image to enlarge) " class="img-fluid rounded" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 10px 0;" loading="lazy"> 2. After moving the app to the storage card " class="img-fluid rounded" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 10px 0;" loading="lazy">

I use Samsung GT P1000. It displays "turn off USB storage before using camera" each time I try to use the camera. It also doesn't see the memory card. I have a done factory reset several times. What I can do to correct these problems?

How can I set up Android to automatically act as USB storage only when connected to my computer (or other "known" devices), without asking additional questions? I want to have those questions on other computers (charging by default). I understand the questions are for the security reasons, but I trust my machine, so I don't need to answer any questions each time. The device is rooted, cyanogenmod 7, Tasker and Locale installed.

I have a OTG cable connected to my phone and a memory stick on the other end. My android phone is rooted and I have no idea how to find/access the files on my memory stick. How do I access files from my memory stick with my phone? EDIT: Is it also possible to watch videos from the memory stick without moving it to the phone's storage?