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Run portable Android apps off my phone when I use my phone as s usb hard drive

Hi Mr. Gord Caswell,
I want to run a portable Android fie manager app on a usb hard drive e.g.ES File Explorer File Manager by ES Global in Google Play Store.
In your reply to J dub dated March 29, 2013 under the Topic : "USB hosting with portable apps on android", you advised J dub that he could run the apps off his phone when he used his phone as a usb drive.
Do you mean that I can move an Android app installed in the Internal Memory of my Android phone to a usb external hard drive and the Android app can then run on the usb hard drive? If this is the case, I think I need the assistance of some softwares for moving the Android app to the usb hard drive. Could you recommend a freeware for me to download?
Thank you.

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Android used to allow mounting of the microSD card as a removable drive in Windows. This is no longer the case on most Android phones as most only allow you to mount as MTP. You can tell in Windows Explorer by whether it has a drive letter or not. If it shows up as "Nexus 6" or similar with no drive letter, that's MTP. You can not run portable apps from MTP drives.

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