Using phone as 512GB Game Drive - WE FAILED

[linkmaster6]

Dear Linus, 

 

A lot of people got to the reply before I did but I think the way you went about was not correct. You should have a rooted phone and use some app to be able to mount your drive as NTFS. Personally I would use BackTrack Linux for Android. In my personal experience it comes with alot of options for different ways to mount a drive and some other cool tools right out of the box.  As of right now I am only aware of the original OnePlus as being compatible but I am sure that has changed. I would head over to XDA Developers and give this video a second shot

[Snoz]

Apart from WebDav server for Android found a few other options:

 

As mentioned in a previous post by Black3v3r there was the USB Mass storage connection once phone is in developer mode - under the Developer Options
https://www.doubletwist.com/help/question/usb-connect-mode/

 

Software for MTP as a Windows Drive 
http://www.mtpdrive.com/

 

Try Changing Device driver for Portable Device
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/how-to-assign-a-drive-letter-to-a-portable-device/829e43b6-7210-4566-8e47-1ac147946f7b?page=2

 

Using FTP server software on Phone
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5097389/can-androids-internal-memory-be-mapped-to-a-drive-letter-on-pc
http://www.ztw3.com/forum/forum_entry.php?id=115992

 

[samcool55]

Why didn't you guys just used the blackberry?

I don't know how it is with the key2 but with my Q5 i can make my microSD visible to the pc as a normal removable device or as a mapped network drive without the MTP crap and without any apps or whatever, the option is there by default.

It's worth giving a try.

[Ostratego]

Yeah, so I agree with some of the users here that LTT didn't give this concept its fair shake.

 

Having the phone expose a WebDAV and then mounting said WebDAV in windows is akin to running a NAS on your router: it works, but there's a lot of overhead and it will be 10x faster if you plug in the drive into your computer.

 

But using Drivedroid isn't the right idea either. Drivedroid lets you mount images, not the SD card itself. It's also old software at this point and it didn't work for me.

 

Right now, I currently have my entire SD card exposed to Windows like a usb stick using XDA user GokulNC's app called "USB MASS STORAGE Enabler". I am doing this on a Galaxy S5 running Resurrection Remix Oreo. I did plug in a usb3 cable and it is about as fast as plugging it in directly (it's a UHS I card that does ~90mbs r/w). Unfortunately, it does need root, busybox, and selinux permissive; just make sure to get magisk, the busybox module in magisk's repo, and set selinux to permissive within the app itself (heads up, google pay and pokemon go won't work while it's permissive because permissive trips google's safetynet framework; also, it resets upon boot unless you have a ROM that's permissive). Unfortunately, S9s and S9+s don't have unlockable bootloaders in North America, which means that you have to get a European or international model in order to unlock the bootloader, flash a new recovery, and root your phone unless someone at XDA has exploited something to get root (Hey, aren't all oreo phones supposed to have Treble support as per what google's saying? Which means I should not only be able to get root, but an entirely new rom on it.).

 

So, does anyone at LTT have a Galaxy S5 in a closet somewhere?