! AndroidTV July Update - Removed Support for NTFS External Drive

by FOX_ITA

Hello,

yesterday my Philips OLED854 has been upgraded from TPM191E_R.001.002.173.010 to TPM191E_R.001.004.100.000, running Android 9.

In the update, the NTFS capability of writing on external HDD via USB , has been removed . I don't know the reasons, but any app (Kodi, Solid Explorer etc) won't let you writing data, move files, create fils or folders.

I've been told that TLC brand seems having the same side effect from the update.

And i can indeed confirm that came with the last update, because i managed to downgrade the TV to version TPM191E_R.001.002.173.010 and , now, it reads/write NTFS file system without any problem, as it used to.

Of course i turned off the automatic updates.

Anyone of you is experiencing the same issue ? I'm really trying to make Philips aware of the issue (intended or not), so the more issues are flagged, the more chances we have they would actually look into.

PS : it seems that, early on this year (around February or March) the same thing happened to the MiBox Android TV. It might be something totally up to Android.

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Thanks to everyone!

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EDIT: Philips is escalating the issue internally, higher levels, because it's supposed to work. It might have fallen thru the QA process.

mustang_vst

Have eagerly been wanting an update on my Toshiba android tv. Now I worry. Although I don't think I have ntfs write capability on it For external drive.. Kodi definitely cannot download any file to it on external drive.

Only few apps like torrents apps etc had the ability to download to a specific folder inside the external drive.

aquanutz

A similar issue with my HiSense. The TV comes with 4 gigs of storage, which is insane, and I had been using an external USB to move most of the apps I install onto. With the last update I can no longer do this and to make matters worse the TV is absolutely horribly slow now.