External Storage

[iosamoritz]

Has anyone had access to USB sticks on Android 14 no-rooted using Termux ?
So to make it more interesting, my issue is that I was able to access external USB drives, or sd cards (using a USB-reader), until I have the feeling that my Device was compromised, so after a Factory reset, I am now not able to access USB sticks or any external cards from Termux, also, when formatting a USB drive, from Android OS, there are no private folders created like before, just the LOST.dir.
Anyone has an opinion on this ?

[agnostic-apollo]

#71 (comment)

Run termux-setup-storage to create Android/data/com.termux.

[iosamoritz]

Have you actually read my post ?
I have already re-run, and run, termux-setup-storage and Termux permissions off and on, but still does not create the link to USB stick.
And the more important issue in the post is that how I was able to access the USB stick before in no-rooted device.
Please do not close this just to get rid of the issue, I am actually interested in an Termux expert opinion.

[agnostic-apollo]

Grant MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE manually as detailed in the linked comment. If you still don't have access after force stopping termux, then nothing we can do.

Also Android/data/com.termux applies for external sd in sd card slot, not usb drives.

[iosamoritz]

Ok, So why Android/data/com.termux applied also for USB sticks just before I did the factory reset ? Do you understand that I am trying to find out if my Device was tampered ? I could access the /mnt/media-rw/<usb-hash> , and there, I could see the usual private folders from Android/data/com.termux and more applications, in Android 14. I could also read/write to the root folder in the USB and so on .. Also anytime I format a SD card in card reader , connected to USB port, it would create all the private folders, as it did anytime I format a USB sticks. All this done in Android 14, Lenovo Tab P12 no-rooted, after doing a reset factory , as of now, Running same Android 14, cannot access USB sticks, and as I mentioned, when formatting devices like USB sticks private folders are not created anymore, and when running termux-setup-storage, no linkes to the USB(connected) stick are made, so I have no access to the Termux private folder in the USB stick. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) secure email.

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