What is Reddit's opinion of Paragon UFSD Root Mounter?

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I recently got a OTG cable as well, with the purpose of connecting my external hard drive and viewing very large videos. I was disappointed to see that android doesn't natively support NTFS. So I got this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter&hl=en_GB and with a bit of fiddling I can now see the files through a root-enabled file manager, but in order to actually read in an Android 5 and higher phone, you need to copy the files over to internal memory first (and since the file sizes are so huge, copying over to my internal memory just stops half way through).

So all in I've been disappointed, its not been as flexible as expected :(

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter&hl=es_419&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dparagon+ntfs+android&pcampaignid=APPU_1_O8edVv7tAoa6mwHpibqIDA

If it's standard android storage you're going to get a fat filesystem and have a 2 or 4 GB file size limit, depending on Android version

It may be possible to mount an NTFS filesystem if you have root access with paragon

You will likely need to sideload

Paragon exFAT NTFS & HFS+

or something else like it that enables mounting of those file systems on android.

Or you can use

ADBfire

Hi, I'm the guy you PM'd.

I've got a 32gb Samsung EVO SD card in mine. Windows tells me it's formatted to FAT32 and Android could read it out of the box.

I think the guy you spoke to was right - I formatted my SD to exFAT and the tablet didn't recognise it, neither did this app.

I think your best bet, if you absolutely have to handle >4gb files, is to format the sd to Ext3 or Ext4. I tried that with my card, but Android didn't recognise them and I can't find a quick way of fixing it; maybe /r/AskAndroid could help with that one.

Use Paragon

/u/markbuch suggested Paragon

Forget that, apparently needs device rooted - not possible on cbook

Not by default that I know of. An outfit called Paragon has a driver that supports NTFS and HFS file systems, but you must be rooted for it to work. (Linux has ntfs-3g as a built-in, but no Android version I'm aware of exposes it to the user. It's possible more recent Android versions have corrected that oversight.)

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EDIT: Double checking, Paragon still has the product that requires root, but has another that doesn't. The non-root app appears to be trialware. It will demonstrate it can access NTFS partitions on cards, but you must make an in app purchase to get the ability to read from/write to the NTFS file system.

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Rooted app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter

Non-rooted: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.tcplugins_ntfs_ro

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter