(I’m not rooted)the only advantage i see with rootable fire is enabling usb drive support…Is there some way to make external USB storage the main storage on nonrooted FTV?I’m having an issue with the new update. Click on Local on the left.

When I remove the USB stick and try to mount it on my Mac the device is now unrecognized. sometimes if I pulled power it could get confused about the 2 drives but when it happened the solution was as simple as to connect the system drive first, and the NTFS drive when it started booting.lol disregard this. In my demo, I used a 32GB flash drive, formatted as NTFS and had copied a 4.8GB MKV file. Guide. Doubt I will switch from the Plex server to attached storage but it is something to consider for some people.Press J to jump to the feed. Or any other App that can trigger shell commands on bootup. Add External Storage to Fire TV. Otherwise, you can follow this steps:Is it possible to share the mounted hdd on one after with a second firetv stick over wifi? How do I restore that?I had the same symptoms and I solved it by going to the Amazon Fire TV’s system setting off of the box’s main menu, unmounting the USB storage device then mounting it back. this is on fireos3 though from towelroot to latest prerooted version. The Fire TV Stick 4K does support OTG USB cable splitters that allow you connect a USB device to its sole micro USB port, while still being able to power the device through the same port. Rooted fire TV, previously used Stick Mount to mount my exFat USB drive with no problems. "The Fire TV only supports USB drives formatted with a FAT32 file system. Select “Grant” from the popup to allow the app SU access on a rooted device. Apps like Kodi and I’ve been trying to get the new updates for some reason my aftv is not detecting it. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcutsCookies help us deliver our Services. Instead of intuitively looking under the SYSTEMS menu and the External Storage there, be sure you are looking under the VIDEO menu.Does not work for me it shows me the amazon home folderThanks for the Guide. So if you have a Fire TV that hasn’t updated yet, it will always be late to update.As far as I remember the update has been sent to only a small percentage of boxes before it rolls out to all in april. and create a folder with the name of folder containing said files .Can you please confirm if this modification will automatically recognize your external drive going forward or do you have to manually mount the drive with Stickmount each and every time you unplug and plug the external drive?Worked flawlessly!! Uninstalled, re-installed, restarted, uninstalled just about every other app, and re ran the rooted update.

Not able to root is because towel root is not compatible. Still won’t work. After formatting the drive, it looks ok, but once it’s ejected and plugged back in, it once again wants to format it. I cancel. This makes sense when you say that it does not power down a drive when not in use. Not unofficial methods of accessing USB storage, like Stickmount.Does this method still work just got a fire tv box I’m based in the UK.Thank you for this post! Drive Type. You can download it from here or here . So if i have 30gb free space inside my drive but only 4gb free in my firetv internal storage, when i try to download a file bigger than 4gb i get a failure messsage saying i don’t have enough free space to download the file.don’t worry I am not native either and I know what you mean now. Thanks a lot.I have tried paragon and stickmount on the newest rooted os5 version and I cannot get my ntfs drive to connect no matter what I do. I’ve been doing this since Nov’2014.I bought my sister an Amazon USB hub and her AFTV has 5 3.5″ HDD’s attached to it and all are being read/written to just fine from Kodi.The information in this post refers only to Amazon’s official USB support. Rooted, installed CWM, unlocked the bootloader, upgraded to latest fw, installed XBMC, SPMC, followed every step again and it still didn’t work. There is nothing wrong with your Fire TV. because the firetv can not tell the difference it practically gives you unlimited internal storage. But now when I mount the drive it mounts in a new folder location (i.e.- /ParagonNTFS_1). I then still had my old 3GB NTFS drive mounted via. In my demo, I used a 32GB flash drive, formatted as NTFS and had copied a 4.8GB MKV file.