Guide to Xoom USB host with external storage

[Aaron407]

I fought with USB hosting on my Xoom for months. I found that no app was consistent in getting things to show up properly. Often I would have to reboot before it would recognize the drive file structure with FAT32 or NTFS. A couple tips that helped in the end:

1) Formatting elsewhere first is fine, but I found plugging in an empty drive into the Xoom before loading anything on it allowed it to add the lost.dir directory. After that I don't recall having issues with the hosting, but only if I let it add the directory before loading files from a different location. Not sure why it helped, but it did in my case.

2) The most reliable method for getting it to work seems to be a custom ROM. I'm running CM9 and don't recall having a single hosting issue since loading.

 

[jafargio]

I have

1. Xoom MZ604 Wifi - Official ICS 4.0.4 NOT ROOTED
2. OTG USB Cable
3. Digital Camera with USB cable
4. Cardreader

and want to transfer files from my camera to Xoom

Can I do it without rooting?

 

[Aaron407]

I have

1. Xoom MZ604 Wifi - Official ICS 4.0.4 NOT ROOTED
2. OTG USB Cable
3. Digital Camera with USB cable
4. Cardreader

and want to transfer files from my camera to Xoom

Can I do it without rooting?

You certainly should be able to. I copied many photos from a Kodak camera via Xoom -> USB OTG cable -> camera USB cable -> camera. It loads thumbnails in the gallery app for you to copy from. Worked on my wife's unrooted Xoom as well.

 

[jams90]

help

I have

1. Xoom MZ604 Wifi - Official ICS 4.0.4 NOT ROOTED
2. OTG USB Cable
3. Digital Camera with USB cable
4. Cardreader

and want to transfer files from my camera to Xoom

Can I do it without rooting?

I have the same motorola Xoom MZ604 with Official ICS 4.0.4 NOT ROOTED
i have the OTG USB Cable.

I want to transfer files from USB memory drives but i can't

i conect them to the Xoom and it doesn't recognize them. i enter settings to mount it but it doesn't appear unmounted. i installed USB watcher from the market but it only shows me the name of the memory and i can't access it.

should i root it or what can i do?

i have an arduino ADK and tested with ICS 4.0.4 so USB Host works.

 

[3devious]

i have rooted my xoom (wifi usa)based on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446469

I installed stickmount app (https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount&hl=en) from market.

Are you running a custom ROM or are you just stock but rooted?

Sent from my Xoom using xda premium

 

[nitephlight]

I have the same motorola Xoom MZ604 with Official ICS 4.0.4 NOT ROOTED
i have the OTG USB Cable.

I want to transfer files from USB memory drives but i can't

i conect them to the Xoom and it doesn't recognize them. i enter settings to mount it but it doesn't appear unmounted. i installed USB watcher from the market but it only shows me the name of the memory and i can't access it.

should i root it or what can i do?

i have an arduino ADK and tested with ICS 4.0.4 so USB Host works.

this device is too powerful not to root, jump on that plz lol. If usb device is not detected try using a hub first in chain with discreet power source. gl

 

[jams90]

help

i really want to mount usb sticks on my Xoom MZ604 Jelly bean official unrooted..


i have the OTG usb cable and im able to use it with a wireless mouse, and and arduino Mega ADK as well as an accesory..

but if i plug a usb stick nothing happened...

is there any way to acess a usb memory stick? or should i have to root my xoom?

please help me..

thank you..

 

[uhs74]

i really want to mount usb sticks on my Xoom MZ604 Jelly bean official unrooted..


i have the OTG usb cable and im able to use it with a wireless mouse, and and arduino Mega ADK as well as an accesory..

but if i plug a usb stick nothing happened...

is there any way to acess a usb memory stick? or should i have to root my xoom?

please help me..

thank you..

try to use Stick Mount ( root) app frm Play store.

 

[gmanunited]

Yes you will have to root your Xoom. Stick mount works fine...

 

[MaxWantsIt]

USB drive location

Yes you will have to root your Xoom. Stick mount works fine...

I have an MZ604 WiFi Xoom rooted and running Team EOS3 nightly 153. Also installed is USB Mass Storage Watcher.

When I plug in a Sandisk USB drive it mounts to /storage/usb0, which is fine. I can easily find the drive's files by running Solid Explorer and back arrowing one step.

However when I plug in a TDK USB drive it mounts to /mnt/usbOTG. To find the files in Solid Explorer requires a couple of back arrows and a tap on mnt and usbOTG.

Why do the drives mount differently and is it possible to have the TDK drive mount to /storage/usb0?

TIA

Max

 

[romdroid.]

I am running TeamEOS 2.0 and everytime I plug in my USB with the OTG cable nothing comes up....I have tried many apps like drive mount and usb mass storage watcher, can someone please tell me how it works? I mount the USB but where can I find the files?

 

[TL1]

came ngstino

Will it work with stock rooted 4.1.2, or still I need a custom kernel?

 

[Mandelbrot.Benoit]

Will it work with stock rooted 4.1.2, or still I need a custom kernel?

Try it and find out! Just need proper OTG cable and stickmount app from market. Let us know how it goes!

 

[TL1]

It works!

Try it and find out! Just need proper OTG cable and stickmount app from market. Let us know how it goes!

Already did! I spent a day to backup, unlock, root and restore data and apps, then half day more to restore settings and logins But now I have Nandroid, Titanium Pro, Greenify, StickMount and all other root tools. One drawback of the stock ROM is that it overwrites CWM each time it boots into Android so I had to re-flush recovery 3 times before I did all what I wanted, but it's not a problem as I probably won't need CWM again (I'm using Online Nandroid app). BTW I used recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.img and Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip.

The Stick Mount does work greatly with rooted stock 4.1.2. I have a micro-USB 3-port USB hub + card reader from Dealexteme (supports SD/MS cards). I also tried to connect the hub + Apacer multi card reader + Compact Flash card and it also works fine! The reading goes well and at high speed (as on PC). So now I can use my Xoom to manage (or instagram ) photos from any of my cameras in field.

 

[Mandelbrot.Benoit]

Already did! I spent a day to backup, unlock, root and restore data and apps, then half day more to restore settings and logins But now I have Nandroid, Titanium Pro, Greenify, StickMount and all other root tools. One drawback of the stock ROM is that it overwrites CWM each time it boots into Android so I had to re-flush recovery 3 times before I did all what I wanted, but it's not a problem as I probably won't need CWM again (I'm using Online Nandroid app). BTW I used recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.img and Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip.

The Stick Mount does work greatly with rooted stock 4.1.2. I have a micro-USB 3-port USB hub + card reader from Dealexteme (supports SD/MS cards). I also tried to connect the hub + Apacer multi card reader + Compact Flash card and it also works fine! The reading goes well and at high speed (as on PC). So now I can use my Xoom to manage (or instagram ) photos from any of my cameras in field.

Good to hear! Its pretty easy to get CWM to stick but it sounds like you don't want it. I usually use goomanager to download and flash the recovery.

 

[TL1]

Good to hear! Its pretty easy to get CWM to stick but it sounds like you don't want it. I usually use goomanager to download and flash the recovery.

Does goomanager make CWM to stick?

BTW I solved the famous Xoom stock 4.1.2 software freezing problem: root + Greenify Pro + Xpose framework + hibernate Gallery and Picasa Uploader. (I guess I should duplicate this in other Xoom threads as there are many reports of 4.1.2 freezing and no solution ) BTW Greenify also did a great job making Xoom with dozens apps and gigs of data run as smooth as fresh after factory reset.
EDIT: This is not a 100% solution but the lockups now occur 1-2 times per day.

 

[Mandelbrot.Benoit]

Does goomanager make CWM to stick?

BTW I solved the famous Xoom stock 4.1.2 software freezing problem: root + Greenify Pro + Xpose framework + hibernate Gallery and Picasa Uploader. (I guess I should duplicate this in other Xoom threads as there are many reports of 4.1.2 freezing and no solution ) BTW Greenify also did a great job making Xoom with dozens apps and gigs of data run as smooth as fresh after factory reset.

No it will make TWRP stick.

 

[Behrooz Hussaini]

Please help

I use this USB host cable and it works great. Have tested it with my 750gb Oyen and 320gb WD Passport external HDD's, several usb flash drives (8-16gb), San disk USB memory card reader, and a USB keyboard.

For those having issues getting their Xoom to recognize USB storage devices here's what I've got and did to get it to work: I flashed my XOOM (3.1) to the 2.6.36.4 Tiamat_Xoom-v1.4.4-Full_Throttle Kernel and was unable to get the USBMount to recognize drives or storage at first. I installed USB Mass Storage Watcher from the market (it's free) and it works awesome! Can mount any storage I want (NTFS, FAT16/32, HFS, HFS+, EXT2, ETX3, EXT4) with any capacity. I think this app will work with any rooted Xoom (or other devices). Under my Kernel my USB host is located under/usbOTG.

Hope this helps.

I did flashed my xoom 4.1.2 with Tiamat_Xoom-v1.4.4-Full_Throttle Kernel and worked greate and could ready and thumb drive
but recently i upgraded my xoom to kitkat 4.4.4 and i don't know I can flash Tiamat_Xoom-v1.4.4-Full_Throttle Kernel to use thumb drive or not
because i don't want break my xoom
thanks