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Only thing I care - can apps now write to my microsd card?

IanCal 11y ago
Apps have been able to selectively write to external storage for some time, have they not? http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm... If you were asking something else about SD cards, then you probably want to check this part of the review: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmallow-thoroughly-reviewed/7/#h2 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmall... (which would have been found if you'd searched for "sd card", it's in the table of contents)
- throwawaygeu 11y ago
  Since 4.4 apps could only write to "their own folder" on sd card. A "SECURITY" measure (only android and some retailer like samsung file manager had full access). Making sd card close to useless without root for some people (want to change tags on your mp3? Move to tag changing app folder, change tags, move back). And no, I have not read article yet, will do later. Was expecting tl;dr ansver to my question.
  - IanCal 11y ago
    I'm pretty sure I've had file managers for a long time, but I certainly have one installed now that can move files around on the SD card on android 5.1 > Was expecting tl;dr ansver to my question. Seemed rather odd to spend the time writing out the question and reply compared to just doing a quick search.
    - throwawaygeu 11y ago
      Could you be kind enough to give me name of rhat file manager? Pm it or something if there are rules against advertisement. (Also I do hope you are not rooted...) So far these that moves files on sd card since 4.4 used their own folder as "sd card".
    - throwawaygeu 11y ago
      So, should I interpret your lack of answer to my last question as "oh dang, my file manager is actually part of rom used by company name, and from kitkat you really can't edit sd card contents from apps" ?
      - IanCal 11y ago
        No, you can interpret from that I didn't spot a notification coming through of a reply. This isn't reddit, there's no reason to be so confrontational. You could have used the last three days to try downloading any one of many file managers on the play store and seeing if they did what you wanted. Or you could have bothered to do a tiny bit of searching and found that the security restrictions changed when lollipop came out.
spinningarrow 11y ago
I wish I could store apps on my SD card.
- jon-wood 11y ago
  You now can. One of the features is the ability to transparently use an SD card as an extension of your internal storage. Personally that single feature makes this a worthwhile upgrade, it seems I'm endlessly managing storage on my 8GB of internal storage despite having a 64GB SD card which has barely been touched.
  - spinningarrow 11y ago
    Wow! I totally get that - I was on a phone that had only 2 GB of internal storage. Sadly, I doubt it'll ever see Marshmallow.

Apps have been able to selectively write to external storage for some time, have they not? http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm... If you were asking something else about SD cards, then you probably want to check this part of the review: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmallow-thoroughly-reviewed/7/#h2 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmall... (which would have been found if you'd searched for "sd card", it's in the table of contents)

throwawaygeu 11y ago
Since 4.4 apps could only write to "their own folder" on sd card. A "SECURITY" measure (only android and some retailer like samsung file manager had full access). Making sd card close to useless without root for some people (want to change tags on your mp3? Move to tag changing app folder, change tags, move back). And no, I have not read article yet, will do later. Was expecting tl;dr ansver to my question.
- IanCal 11y ago
  I'm pretty sure I've had file managers for a long time, but I certainly have one installed now that can move files around on the SD card on android 5.1 > Was expecting tl;dr ansver to my question. Seemed rather odd to spend the time writing out the question and reply compared to just doing a quick search.
  - throwawaygeu 11y ago
    Could you be kind enough to give me name of rhat file manager? Pm it or something if there are rules against advertisement. (Also I do hope you are not rooted...) So far these that moves files on sd card since 4.4 used their own folder as "sd card".
  - throwawaygeu 11y ago
    So, should I interpret your lack of answer to my last question as "oh dang, my file manager is actually part of rom used by company name, and from kitkat you really can't edit sd card contents from apps" ?
    - IanCal 11y ago
      No, you can interpret from that I didn't spot a notification coming through of a reply. This isn't reddit, there's no reason to be so confrontational. You could have used the last three days to try downloading any one of many file managers on the play store and seeing if they did what you wanted. Or you could have bothered to do a tiny bit of searching and found that the security restrictions changed when lollipop came out.

spinningarrow 11y ago

I wish I could store apps on my SD card.

jon-wood 11y ago
You now can. One of the features is the ability to transparently use an SD card as an extension of your internal storage. Personally that single feature makes this a worthwhile upgrade, it seems I'm endlessly managing storage on my 8GB of internal storage despite having a 64GB SD card which has barely been touched.
- spinningarrow 11y ago
  Wow! I totally get that - I was on a phone that had only 2 GB of internal storage. Sadly, I doubt it'll ever see Marshmallow.