It's a bare-bones file explorer that's really most useful for rooted users, but you can use it to browse network shares, SFTP, cloud services, etc. ' Total Commander' is free, and has official plug-in support for everything under the sun, including SMBv2 (Windows network shares), OneDrive, Google Drive, you name it. Point in case, one of Netgear's apps suddenly requested root (Superuser) permission on my Android phone - my next logical course of action was to install third party firmware on all of the Netgear equipment I had in the apartment. Dev was up to some shady shit at some point, and I'm a one strike kind of person with that kind of thing. To add onto the excellent answer by /u/logikgear (as I have no experience with SyncThing or OwnCloud) - I wouldn't recommend ES File Explorer Pro on Android anymore. No prob! Was worried that I might have been a bit harsh. You can play movies directly from the drive with VLC I also tried mx player but that one didn't work. While the app itself it's free, the module for mounting exFAT or NTFS it's not, the one for exFAT costs 5 or 6 euros if I remember correctly.Īnd after all of this I can guarantee it works, I just tested it myself on my pixel using the trial mode of the app (you get 2 days), you can try it yourself. The second and last app is exFAT/NTFS by paragon software You need 2 apps one is total commander file manager this one is free and will be used to browse the contents of the drive. Ok, after reading a bit on this, yes, pixel will unfortunately format the drive in FAT32 (I say unfortunately because FAT32 doesn't support files bigger than 4 GB) if you're fine with that everything should be ok, and also windows won't prompt you to format the drive back to exFAT as the commenter above said, you can just plug it in and it will work on a PC normally regardless of the file system format.Īlso if FAT32 is a problem for you as you need to use files bigger than 4 GB don't worry there's a workaround for pixel to work with exFAT and even NTFS, both not having that 4gb file size limitation.

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