Root Can't get my Rooted N7 to recognize external storage

[vette]

I rooted my N7 (I think, is there a way to double check that it worked?) so I could use USB OTG with external memory. I got my stuff yesterday so I'm testing it today and not having good results.

I installed stickmount and when I plug in the USB OTG and attach a storage device it acknowledges that a USB device has been attached but when I check stickmount it says nothing is mounted and when I look in file manager, nothing is there.

I have tested it with a microsd card, a thumb drive and a USB stick with a card reader and all work fine with my laptop and the lights all go on so they're getting juice but I can't see files on any of them.

I'd appreciate any assistance as this is a huge thing for me!

 

[rootbrain]

I rooted my N7 (I think, is there a way to double check that it worked?) so I could use USB OTG with external memory. I got my stuff yesterday so I'm testing it today and not having good results.

I installed stickmount and when I plug in the USB OTG and attach a storage device it acknowledges that a USB device has been attached but when I check stickmount it says nothing is mounted and when I look in file manager, nothing is there.

I have tested it with a microsd card, a thumb drive and a USB stick with a card reader and all work fine with my laptop and the lights all go on so they're getting juice but I can't see files on any of them.

I'd appreciate any assistance as this is a huge thing for me!

The drives I assume are formatted Fat32 or NTFS? They should work, I'm using rooted, stock kernel and ROM and I've mounted SD and microSD cards up to 64GB and a mypassport USB harddrive (180GB). they come up but some of the folders and files can't be accessed (permissions issue) and can't change perms, get a message that some filesystems don't allow permission changes.

Make sure you have a file manager for root access as well and that superuser gives it the proper root access.

 

[DonB]

I will move this to the rooted section.

 

[Dex]

I rooted my N7 (I think, is there a way to double check that it worked?) so I could use USB OTG with external memory. I got my stuff yesterday so I'm testing it today and not having good results.

I installed stickmount and when I plug in the USB OTG and attach a storage device it acknowledges that a USB device has been attached but when I check stickmount it says nothing is mounted and when I look in file manager, nothing is there.

I have tested it with a microsd card, a thumb drive and a USB stick with a card reader and all work fine with my laptop and the lights all go on so they're getting juice but I can't see files on any of them.

I'd appreciate any assistance as this is a huge thing for me!

Would you be willing to try a paid app out to see if that worked for you?

Make sure that you press pretty good on your OTG cable. I made sure that mine was securely attached. At first I couldn't get my USB drive to read, I had to press it in HARD and it popped right up. Try restarting the device and then plug in the OTG cable AND THEN the USB drive.

I'm not trying to oversimplify, I promise.

To check that it is rooted you can try to run a program like Titanium Backup. Something that requires root to actually function.

 

[vette]

The drives I assume are formatted Fat32 or NTFS? They should work, I'm using rooted, stock kernel and ROM and I've mounted SD and microSD cards up to 64GB and a mypassport USB harddrive (180GB). they come up but some of the folders and files can't be accessed (permissions issue) and can't change perms, get a message that some filesystems don't allow permission changes.

Make sure you have a file manager for root access as well and that superuser gives it the proper root access.

Yes, i believe everything I checked is Fat32 but nothing is working. Which file manager are you using? How do I know if it's allowing root access and how to do change superuser?

I'd appreciate any help because I am leaving the country tomorrow and won't have access to a laptop after that so I need to get everything set before I leave.

Thanks

 

[rootbrain]

Yes, i believe everything I checked is Fat32 but nothing is working. Which file manager are you using? How do I know if it's allowing root access and how to do change superuser?

I'd appreciate any help because I am leaving the country tomorrow and won't have access to a laptop after that so I need to get everything set before I leave.

Thanks

Look in the market for a program called Root checker. It will verify for you. I'm using X-Plore, root browser, and total commander

 

[boofer]

one other thing to remember - the N7 (at least mine) would not recognize files on an exFAT drive. NTFS and FAT32 seem to work fine, but mounting an exFAT USB stick yielded nothing other than Stickmount recognizing that a drive was connected. however, no files would come up. i ended up re-formatting to FAT32 (i don't have any files over ~4GB).