To the author, thank you for posting these how too’s. > Scroll to the bottom and check “KitKat SD Write Workaround”
The key is in FX FILE EXPLORER app and it’s add-on for rooting:Ģ Instal FX File Explorer, run it, and give to it Allow permission when Superuser asks for itģ Just in case, go to system Settings – Security – Device administrators, and check FX to become device adminĤ Just in case part II, you can Mount System as R/W with this appįX File Explorer – Settings – File management > I had problem with deleting physical files through music players (Player Dreams, AIMP, MortPlayer…). I want to be clear, simple rooting with Kingo root was enough for me to have Read/Write permissions for manually copy/move/delete operations on SD card, but only through file managers. Solved! There was no need for editing any of files manually. Unfortunately, there is no known solution to me which could be suitable for non-rooted devices. It’s necessary to set the file permissions to 644 (rw-/r–/r–) before mobile restarting. You need to make them look exactly like the strings below:
Here's how to give these apps the correct permission. your favorite File manager can stop working. You might face various issues with the new access rules in Android 4.4, i.e. However, third-party apps in KitKat have no access to that permission! So, there is no way for them to obtain write access to the external SD Card. This was the usual behavior in earlier versions of Android. When some process needs to write to external media, it requests the appropriate permission. In this article, I would like to share a trick which will allow to enable write access to all the lucky owners of rooted devices with Android 4.4. Now it is accessible for writing only by a special user group of members called media_rw.
RECOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windows issues and optimize system performanceĪs you might be knowing, in the recent version of Android 4.4, 'KitKat', Google has slightly modified the default permissions for the external SD Card.