https://code.google.com/p/android/is...etail?id=67570
Sure I can connect my android to a pc and have r/w access via usb 3.0 connection, or use only the built-in file manager by samsung and have r/w access to the external sd.
But that is not what I want, I want full es explorer access and full poweramp access which I do not have.
After some research I've learned that I need to edit the file "/system/etc/permissions/platform.xml" the relief myself from the read-only limitation (at best, sometimes not even that) that 99% of my apps have for the externalSD card,
And that the only way to do that is via root, which I do not want to do to my device because in the horrible scenario that I actually need to use my warranty, I have learned that the flag that the action of rooting my device turns on - no body knows yet how to turn off, so I really don't want to root my device just yet.
Is it possible somehow to remove this limitation that samsung/google have brought with their ignorant policies to my device? without rooting that is?
other then switching to a non-android4.x rom? or switching to a non-stock rom?
EDIT:
* I started to notice the whole issue when I wanted to move all my music from my old android to the new one's externalSD.
Right now all I want is for that to work again.
Is it possible to create a symbolic link in the Internal Storage so that when my poweramp app scans for music it will SEE the files on my externalSD since they are available from a path nested under the visible Internal Storage mount?
I know that in my old android, there was a mount point / sym link called 'external sd' that lead directly to the externalSD, but now there isn't and I'd love to get this back.
** Plus I heard that apps always have access (on ANY Storage) to the path '/Android/data/<package_name>' but after I moved the music files to:
'<EXTERNAL SD CARD>/Android/data/_com.maxmpz.audioplayer'
and also tried:
'<EXTERNAL SD CARD>/Android/data/com.maxmpz.audioplayer'
In both cases the music wasn't available to the app. :( so there is that feature of accessing the externalSD which I also can not use :(
Sure I can connect my android to a pc and have r/w access via usb 3.0 connection, or use only the built-in file manager by samsung and have r/w access to the external sd.
But that is not what I want, I want full es explorer access and full poweramp access which I do not have.
After some research I've learned that I need to edit the file "/system/etc/permissions/platform.xml" the relief myself from the read-only limitation (at best, sometimes not even that) that 99% of my apps have for the externalSD card,
And that the only way to do that is via root, which I do not want to do to my device because in the horrible scenario that I actually need to use my warranty, I have learned that the flag that the action of rooting my device turns on - no body knows yet how to turn off, so I really don't want to root my device just yet.
Is it possible somehow to remove this limitation that samsung/google have brought with their ignorant policies to my device? without rooting that is?
other then switching to a non-android4.x rom? or switching to a non-stock rom?
EDIT:
* I started to notice the whole issue when I wanted to move all my music from my old android to the new one's externalSD.
Right now all I want is for that to work again.
Is it possible to create a symbolic link in the Internal Storage so that when my poweramp app scans for music it will SEE the files on my externalSD since they are available from a path nested under the visible Internal Storage mount?
I know that in my old android, there was a mount point / sym link called 'external sd' that lead directly to the externalSD, but now there isn't and I'd love to get this back.
** Plus I heard that apps always have access (on ANY Storage) to the path '/Android/data/<package_name>' but after I moved the music files to:
'<EXTERNAL SD CARD>/Android/data/_com.maxmpz.audioplayer'
and also tried:
'<EXTERNAL SD CARD>/Android/data/com.maxmpz.audioplayer'
In both cases the music wasn't available to the app. :( so there is that feature of accessing the externalSD which I also can not use :(
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