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description A guide to access content of external sdcard in termux

📇 External Sdcard Access

Prerequisites

  • Android version 10 or above and termux installed.
  • A PC with android-platform-tools installed. or any adb OTG app, is REQUIRED.
  • Also, device must be connected to pc and ready for usb debugging

{% hint style="warning" %} It requires API LEVEL 29+, so it will not work for devices with android 9 or below.

only Android versions ( 11, 12, 13 ) are tested and working fine {% endhint %}

Process

{% hint style="info" %} Assuming the user has already configured platform tools and adb in pc and connected device successfully. {% endhint %}

Granting permissions to termux

This method involves granting permission WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to termux app with adb explicitly, so that termux access external storage.

adb shell pm grant com.termux android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
adb shell pm grant com.termux android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Then you need to find out the external sdcard location to change the directory. this can be done via df Usually, all storage devices are mounted under `/storage` directory, so using this

df | grep /storage | cut -d "/" -f 4-

It will show all mounted at /storage. Now the one which is in pattern line `716D-83Z0` is your sdcard. Or you could use Zarchiver instead to find it's codename. Then change your directory to there and bingo you're on your external storage in termux.