Can No Longer Write To Ext Sd Card After Update To Android 4.4.2.

On my Samsung Galaxy S4 I could no longer write to my External SD card.

To solve this



1) get root access.

2) modify /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml so android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and android.permission.WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE sections will look like:

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
    <group gid="sdcard_r" />
    <group gid="sdcard_rw" />
    <group gid="media_rw" />
</permission>
<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE" >
    <group gid="media_rw" />
    <group gid="sdcard_rw" />
</permission>

 3) restart phone"