April 28, 2025Apr 28 Any help, getting old cannot remember or work out how.. Need more storage so thought easy use a USB, tried 2 that I already have + bought a brand new one, followed instructions formatted the drive on my PC and plugged into the TV Box, but cannot find the USB USB port on Box works [plugged in a USB light + a USB Fan both work], so why can I not find the USB Storage stick, what am I doing wrong ?? as a note all 3 USB sticks work on my PC so nothing wrong with them - have a Bluetooth keyboard dongle on the TV Box that works, tried the USB Stick in that port = nothing ?
April 28, 2025Apr 28 You have to format the USB sticks in a specific format. There's two. FAT32 and NTFS. Did you use the right format?
April 28, 2025Apr 28 Just now, johng said: Have you formated the USB sticks to FAT32 ? He's probably using NTFS if it works on his PC.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 10 minutes ago, ignis said: Any help, getting old cannot remember or work out how.. Need more storage so thought easy use a USB, tried 2 that I already have + bought a brand new one, followed instructions formatted the drive on my PC and plugged into the TV Box, but cannot find the USB USB port on Box works [plugged in a USB light + a USB Fan both work], so why can I not find the USB Storage stick, what am I doing wrong ?? as a note all 3 USB sticks work on my PC so nothing wrong with them - have a Bluetooth keyboard dongle on the TV Box that works, tried the USB Stick in that port = nothing ? Historically It has been a tricky arrangement and i am not sure if all versions of android work in the same way. I have had a couple of android boxes and recently when using a usb it has to have been formatted in the box, once that has been done I haven't been able to use it again in the computer. Early doors I lost a couple of usb sticks after trying to use them again in the computer, became corrupted and irrecoverable. I used to load apk files but gave up on that, think it was android 11 that blocked access to the system files. Another point worth looking at, you may need to get a better file manager, I have found the ones that come with a box a bit limited. Also I think you can see the box file structure by connecting through the network to a computer, seem to remember doing it once but a while back. Good luck
April 28, 2025Apr 28 If you want to expand the storage of an Android box, you use a Micro SD card(if your box has one). The box should format it.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 1 minute ago, SMIAI said: If you want to expand the storage of an Android box, you use a Micro SD card(if your box has one). The box should format it. Total nonsense. You'd use a USB stick or hard drive if you need larger capacity.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 No Cameroni... if you don't understand the subject, best for you to stay quiet, rather than to illustrate the paucity of your knowledge.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 Given that many boxes will have ONE USB 2.0 and ONE USB 3.0 port with possibly the USB 2.0 port being used for a Remote Control, it makes sense to keep the USB 3.0 port free for any eventuality. Hence the Micro SD port being best for use for the expanding of internal storage. You are less likely to need to remove it. Whereas you can get an USB 3.0 to Micro SD adapter if you ever need to use a Micro SD card on occasion.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 7 minutes ago, SMIAI said: Given that many boxes will have ONE USB 2.0 and ONE USB 3.0 port with possibly the USB 2.0 port being used for a Remote Control, it makes sense to keep the USB 3.0 port free for any eventuality. Hence the Micro SD port being best for use for the expanding of internal storage. You are less likely to need to remove it. Whereas you can get an USB 3.0 to Micro SD adapter if you ever need to use a Micro SD card on occasion. No it doesn't. You'd just use a USB hub. Your advice is totally false.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 Cameroni....why would you buy an extra USB hub? 🙂 Why the need for childish Trolling of negative emojis just because you have been shown to be completely wrong in everything you have suggested.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 ignis, I suggest you ignore the Trolling and incorrect advice given by one poster in particular. If you use a USB thumb drive, then you won't be able to remove it. Not good, as then you won't have any free USB ports. Better to use a Micro SD card, which can stay in situ. Follow the video guide that I've posted. USB thumb drive will also work, but I don't recommend it for the reason aforementioned. I should point out that there are two options. Internal Storage and Removable Storage. The first for you want to expand the capacity of the box in order to download directly to the box etc or the second if you want to use it as Removable Storage, plugging and unplugging as needed.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 3 hours ago, SMIAI said: Cameroni....why would you buy an extra USB hub? 🙂 Why the need for childish Trolling of negative emojis just because you have been shown to be completely wrong in everything you have suggested. How do you know who is giving an emoji ? And how has @Cameroni advice been shown to be wrong ? The OP had said he will format and try again but has so far not reported back,so there can be no conclusions about the suggestions yet.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 The ability to read the USB stick depends on the file format, formatting of the USB, and Android software version in the box itself. Any incompatibility, the USB becomes invisible. I have a mxQ box which seems to read everything. The inbuilt software in the TV itself will only read MP4 files.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 johng...If you had watched the video supplied, you would understand. I didn't mention your suggestion, as you didn't make up silly arguments with regard to only being able to use USB drives and Hard drives as extended storage in order to be contrary. Anyone can make a mistake. But one poster took to Trolling. The simple answer....you need to format it within the Android GUI, as either Internal or Removable Storage. A MicroSD card is preferable for Internal Storage. Cameroni got it wrong on every level. @sandyf got it right.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 1 hour ago, SMIAI said: johng...If you had watched the video supplied, you would understand. Well I did watch the video.. Dont know why he says to format a USB drive before removing it,that makes no sense to me, especially if you have stuff on it you want to keep like say your movie collection. Admittedly it would be quite a small movie collection on an sd card..perhaps not on an 8 terabyte hard drive. Anyway We are still waiting for a reply from the Original Poster.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 He states that in the case the drive has been formatted for Internal Storage, as opposed to Removable Storage. If for Internal Storage, you don't remove it. Hence using a MicroSD card that doesn't need to be removed. johng, in general, you don't keep your Movie Collection on Internal Storage. Usually that is kept on External Storage, NAS etc Internal Storage is like the SSD in your laptop. External and Removable Storage, an External Drive. I think you are mixing the two things up. Think of it as buying a laptop with only 32GB of storage and not having enough space to install Windows. Adding more Internal Storage can increase the 32GB Internal Storage to allow you to install Windows. Not the same thing as plugging in a USB stick and using it a External/Removable Storage, but a permanent extension to the existing Internal Storage. I hope the explanation is more clear to you now.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 13 minutes ago, SMIAI said: He states that in the case the drive has been formatted for Internal Storage, as opposed to Removable Storage. If for Internal Storage, you don't remove it. Hence using a MicroSD card that doesn't need to be removed. What is the difference in formatting between internal and removable storage ?
April 28, 2025Apr 28 https://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-10/faq/difference-between-removable-and-internal-storage-for-sd-cards.html https://support.google.com/android/answer/12153449?hl=en
April 28, 2025Apr 28 7 minutes ago, SMIAI said: https://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-10/faq/difference-between-removable-and-internal-storage-for-sd-cards.html https://support.google.com/android/answer/12153449?hl=en Thanks but I was wondering what is the difference in the file system format FAT32 ,NTFS,EXT4 etc.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 Internal can be ext4. Removable can be VFAT(an extension of FAT32). What next? 😊
April 29, 2025Apr 29 Author So far no luck Checked and again reformate in Fats 32 - Quick Then did again unclicking the Quick, took longer then as the progress bar got to the end a Pop Up said error,,, tried again 5 x with always the error message + the USB stick still not shown on the Android Box This was on the NEW USB stick bought from JIB, bought 2 sticks the other one I loaded with MP3 files and and works fine in the car will try reformatting the very old USB Stick and see if that works
April 29, 2025Apr 29 Have you viewed the video guide? With FAT32, you'll have issues with files larger than 4GB. The Box will possibly format exFAT, rather than FAT32. Take a look at the video guide, try it and come back with feedback as to how it went.
April 29, 2025Apr 29 8 hours ago, ignis said: Then did again unclicking the Quick, took longer then as the progress bar got to the end a Pop Up said error,,, tried again 5 x with always the error message + the USB stick still not shown on the Android Box You should not get an error either the USB stick is bad or there is something wrong with the computer try another/all other usb ports and maybe a different partition manager https://thegeekpage.com/11-free-partition-manager-for-windows/ its also possible that the PC is infected with some malware. If nothing works try formatting in another device/PC friend, relative next door neighbour local computer repair shop etc.
April 29, 2025Apr 29 1 hour ago, johng said: You should not get an error either the USB stick is bad or there is something wrong with the computer try another/all other usb ports and maybe a different partition manager https://thegeekpage.com/11-free-partition-manager-for-windows/ Suggest using the inbuilt windows "create and format partitions" function and see if the drive is showing anywhere without a letter. if so right click it and select change drive letters and paths. Select an unallocated drive letter.
April 29, 2025Apr 29 Author 1 hour ago, johng said: You should not get an error either the USB stick is bad or there is something wrong with the computer try another/all other usb ports and maybe a different partition manager https://thegeekpage.com/11-free-partition-manager-for-windows/ its also possible that the PC is infected with some malware. If nothing works try formatting in another device/PC friend, relative next door neighbour local computer repair shop etc. did not get the error message with the very old USB stick, only built the PC a couple of months ago mostly with all new parts Only the USB stick has not worked very good for years as must hold it in then works = No good for my TV Box
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