I purchased an OTG USB hub with power passthrough to add external storage to the ONN Box.
Despite other posts indicating this device reads NTFS drives no problem, I can't for the life of me get it to work. I've tried a 256MB flash drive and a 1TB external drive with no luck on NTFS or exFat. It registers the drives in storage but I get a notification that it's an unsupported format and I can't access its contents. I've toggled USB debugging and installed apps like MLUSB Mounter to no avail.
The only thing that has worked is formatting to FAT32, which is useless for me due to the file size limit.
How are there posts claiming this works while others like myself can't get it to work? Does this box read NTFS drives or not?
You're correct. I just tried a WD Elements 500GB spinning drive formatted to ntfs, and it doesn't currently work. OS reports "issue with WD usb drive" (or something like that) and then in settings->storage, it lists "safely ejected".
It really did once work. I also remember ntfs/exfat working on the similar dynalink device as well. Later today I will check the dynalink too to see if it still works.
I've saved all of the previous firmware for the onn. When I have a chance, I will flash the old versions in order to find out when ntfs/exfat support was removed.