How To Add Memory To Fire Stick

If yous want to increase the storage on your Amazon 4K Firestick (Whatever Fire Device that support OTG), then follow the steps below

Tools Needed

OTG Cable
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USB 3 Flash drive
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  ✅ USB drive Britain – https://amzn.to/2WWIJLa

Connect the OTG to your device and plug in your USB drive.

Go to settings —– My Burn Television —- Programmer Options and ensure ADB debugging is on
Go to settings —– My Fire TV —- about — Network and brand a annotation of your Firestick IP accost
Nosotros at present need to brand an ADB connectedness to the above IP address.
Install Remote ADB from hither
Open Remote ADB and enter in the IP address of your device

Ensure the port is fix to 5555 and click on Connect
You lot will run into a prompt request you to accept the ADB connection. Select the pick to "E'er allow from this figurer" and click Yep

We now demand to enter in a command to evidence the attached disks, then enter in this command:
sm list-disks
You volition get an output like this:

We can run into the Disk ID for my USB Drive is viii,0

We now need to enter a command to format this USB Drive. There are 2 options to do this (Note – BOTH OPTIONS Will WIPE THE CONTENTS OF THE USB Bulldoze).
- Option 1 – Format the entire drive every bit internal storage. This means all of the space can be used to install APKs. Notwithstanding, if you plug this drive in to your figurer, you will not be able to use whatever of the space on there.
- Option 2 – Format a portion of the USB bulldoze as internal storage and go out the rest for normal employ. E.g on a 32GB USB bulldoze, if you format l% as Internal storage, you will accept 16GB to store and run APK's and if you plug this USB drive in to your computer, you will accept 16GB of storage you tin use.
Here is the control to format the entire drive as Internal Storage:
sm partition deejay:8,0 private
(annotation I am using eight,0 as that was my disk ID, your might exist different)
Here is the command to format 50% of your USB drive as Internal Storage
sm partition deejay:8,0 mixed 50

Whichever command you run, y'all may run across a prompt on the screen saying that the USB drive has been unplugged but a few seconds later you will meet the notification that something has been plugged dorsum in

Notification showing something has been removed

Notification showing something has been plugged back in

At this point, any new awarding y'all install now will automatically exist installed to your USB bulldoze. The apps that have been installed to USB volition have this icon side by side to them:

Icon showing which APPS are Installed to USB

If you want to motion applications that are already installed to your internal storage to your USB drive and then follow the steps below:

Inside ADB we need to find the packet proper name of the installed application y'all want to move. Let's say yous desire to move Kodi, hither is the control to search for installed packages that contain the name Kodi
pm list-packages | grep kodi
You will go the effect
org.xbmc.kodi
Now that nosotros have the package name, we at present need to find the book name of our USB drive. To practice that, enter in this command:
mountain | grep expand

The flake in xanthous is the volume ID of our USB drive

Now that nosotros have the volume ID, the command to motion your packet is
pm move-bundle org.xbmc.kodi 2a21d33e-6771-446c-b952-d0cb376ff549
(notation: the above is my volume ID, yours will exist different and then ensure you use the correct ane.
You volition then run across a success message letting you know that the application has been moved successfully:

If you now go to your settings — applications — manage installed applications, you will see the application you moved has the USB logo next to it, indicating that its now running from the USB drive