I have searched but not found a fix to this specific problem. I have the new ONN Streaming 4K box. Installed TiviMate and watched the videos on setting up an external USB drive. Including the one using XPLORE file manager. But it will not let me grant permissions to access/write to the external drive.
The popup in XPLORE that should allow me a “one time action” to grant permission - gives me an error stating “You Don’t Have An App That Can Do This.”
I have also tried formatting it in the ONN system to both “use for external storage” as well as the format for use as the ONN storage mode. Seems to make no difference for this. XPLORE lets me create the TIVIMATE folder, but then won’t let me have permissions to access it. And in TIVIMATE you go to select the folder (which it sees), but it gives a “failed to change recordings folder location” error.
I have tried both enabling and disabling USB Debugging. I have set USB to MTB transfer mode (while in USB Debugging mode, as that is the only time it lets me change it from “charging” mode). I am at a loss.
Ok I may end up rambling here a bit, but I believe you’re going about this a bit sideways. Yes you create the folders but then the recording route to the folders is done from inside TiViMate using the System Picker. So create your folders then you can go to Internal shared storage at the top, highlight on it, click to open, scroll down one to The Android folder and click to open it, then click down once to data and click to open. Now this is where you may run into problems as some ONN Pro have an issue and that’s that you still may not get write permission to data or obb folders. If so just back out of X-plore, if it does give you access just follow the on screen prompts. Now if you backed out of X-plore now is the time to open TiViMate and set up the recording folder access route. So once you open TiViMate open the left popout panel>click Recordings>click right once to expose the Recordings setup>Click up once to highlight the and click on it. This now opens Recording and displays the recording folder. Click on it>click on “select folder”>Now is where your “Storage” folder is located, and in the middle panel right of center, and if you’ve properly formatted and installed a USB Drive, you should see to SD Card Icons. The top one should be the “Internal shared storage” of your ONN Pro, where you have ample room for any App you have installed and use, and the bottom one your “USB drive” with an external USB 256GB formatted as External or Removable sgorage for recording to. So if you set up the folders correctly in X-plore we will find those folders and get permissions in the next step. Click down once to highlight your USB drive and then click enter. So now this next step is where mistakes are easily made. Click right once to highlight “Select”, then down to “System picker” and click enter, Now you are into where your files become accessible. You can click up, left, right, down and when something is highlighted you can click to enter. So now you need to maneuver your way to the hamburger on the top left and click to open. Now your ONN should be at the top with your USB drive on the bottom. Click down once, now the program has a glitch and won’t highlight your USB, but click enter and your USB folder should open. If say here is where you used X-plore to create a folder called say “Recordings” you highlight it and click enter. Now we get permissions. Click down once to lighten the USE THIS FOLDER and click on it. Highlight and click “ALLOW” and it should now pop out the “Recording” with your Recordings folder route now entered and is now ready for you to use for the Recording functions of TiViMate.
The question is, does the “system picker” option even appear on the new ONN box?
It doesn’t on our older ONN boxes.
(Nor any other device that we have or had, for that matter.)
That’s always been the issue. Seems some can and others can’t. I don’t have any ONN so can’t test it out, and as I won’t have any I can only go by others experience. The latest TiViMate updates activated the System Picker on some devices that didn’t have it. So the instructions I gave are dependent on your device and experience. May work, may not. Never any guarantees. Some ppl are adventurous and in that case install X-plore then open your “system” apps, find the “Files” app and Click Clear data. Then check to see if you have to do something with the “Files” permissions by clicking on that.This should return the files to stock condition and then going into X-plore> Internal shared storage>Android>Data and try clicking on it and with any luck you may get access permissions, same for OBB. So now you can see if you can long click on Internal shared storage and create a TiVimate folder. Then simply close out of X-plore and see if you can now access System Picker.
I should also mention to open Tivimate in your “Apps”, scroll to the bottom, click on “Permissions”>Filess and media>Allow and if you want to use voice search in Tivi then also click on “Microphone”>Allow.
Same thing for X-plore>Files and media>Allow
Permissions permissions permissions.
setup>Click up once to highlight the