Mi Box 3 cannot write to External USB drive

by Gangstastick

I've got a 128Gb Lexar USB flash drive attached to my Mi Box, and I cannot get any app to write to it. (Reading from USB works just fine). Kodi/SPMC cannot create a new folder in the external drive (The option is greyed out), neither can any add-ons save files to its folders. Copying and pasting via ES file explorer fails. I have changed the file system from exfat to Fat32 and NTFS using gparted in Ubuntu with no luck. It seems there is a bug somewhere that makes writing impossible.

Off course using adoptive storage is a waste of time. The flash drive is not available for apps to write to afterwards.

Please does anyone have a way to get around this?

Kucuboy

Apparently, it is set to be fixed only once Android 7 Nougat arrives.

PhyerFly

I honestly don't recall if this is MiBox or Nexus Player (I have both), but I was only able to get Kodi/SPMC to write to a specific folder on an external SD card. I had to create a folder on my card at a specific path that matched package name of the app trying to write to it - ended up being something like /Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi on my external card.

Kucuboy

Well, a lot of the recent Xiaomi phones have started receiving Android 7 update patches. Hopefully the Mi Box update is just around the corner as well.