I'm on KK and haven't received an update to Lollipop. I know KK changed the write permissions for the SD cards and there is a fix if you have root. I don't want to root as I'm waiting for the Lollipop OTA. When I tried to use the microSD card for the camera app it tells me the card is full. The card shows 31.72gb free in storage though. I tried copying files to the card with a 3rd party app, which of course did not work. Also I see no way to copy files to it using the default file manager. In KK Samsung allowed the camera to write to the card and the default file manager. Did LG not build that in? It has no problem reading the video and audio I have on the card.

I have been unable to flash firmware to my Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9505G) after unlocking the bootloader, the unlock causing a very complicated (and unknown) mess-up to my system. I honestly don't know how it happened as I followed a guide step by step. Every time I boot into Download Mode and try to flash the firmware, Odin fails when trying to write and my phone always says WRITE PROTECTION: Enable in the corner of the screen. How do I disable write protection?

Some help, I have an S6 Edge which is from Vodafone UK and running XXU1A0DC, I just tried to flash (XXU1AOE4 – an unbranded Saudi release) via ODIN (which I have done numerous times with S3, S4 and S5) and got stuck in Download mode at NAND write start !!!

The ROM did not flash and after a while I just restarted my phone and all is fine but still on the old ROM.

After a quick search most threads talk about partition issues and using a PIT file to recover.

Given the ROM is unbranded why the issue, have done this probably 50+ times and never had an issue.

My wife as a stock/unrooted 1G Moto G (4.4.4).

Randomly it hangs... Sometimes with the display on.. the clock doesn't change. It reboots by holding the power button.

I notice it hangs more frequently during market updates, but sometimes it does it without a market update. It is much less frequent (if it happens, don't remember) when booted into safe mode. When it's hung, I'm not able to get a usb connection for adb.

When this first started, I did a factory reset. It worked fine for about a month, and now it's started again. No additional apps were installed.

I'm suspecting an internal storage write failure that isn't being handled by the operating system correctly.

• Has anyone ever heard of this happening?


• Is this a known bug in the 4.4.4 kernel? Maybe a 3rd party rom would fail gracefully?


• Any other solution? A search on XDA didn't come up with an app to exercise storage w/o flashing

Hi Guys, Today I'm gonna show you the way to give permissions to save Downloaded Files on SD Card. As You Guys Know In some MTK Lollipop phone, users can't download / Move Anything on sd card. Because Google Has restricted some permissions. But There Is Still a way to do it. Let's Check It Out
To Do This You Need
1) Rooted Phone
2) Nandroid Backup (Incase You Brick Your Device)
Okay Let's Start
1. First Grab Some Popcorn :D
2.install Root Explorer ( As It's A Paid App, I'll Not Provide The Download Link)
3.open it.
4.go to the following folder
root>system>etc>permission
5.find the platform.xml file...
6.open it with text editor.
7.find the following line
name="android.permission.WRITE
_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
<group gid="sdcard_r" />
<group gid="sdcard_rw" />
</permission>
8.add this extra line
<group gid="media_rw" />
9.like this
name="android.permission.WRITE
_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
<group gid="sdcard_r" />
<group gid="sdcard_rw" />
<group gid="media_rw" />
</permission>
10.save it and take the platform.xml.bak
to your sdcard
11.reboot and enjoy...
Thanks
Sayeed Ahmed
Working On
Walton Primo HM Mini
MT6582, Android 5.0 Lollipop
I'm Not Responsible If You Brick Your Device

it says kitkat removed the feature why??.is there a way to get rid of this
isn't it fixed in lollipop?

Back when the turbo was originally rooted many users stated that they were able to get temporary write protection off. How could I do this? And I don't care if it makes my device unstable.

I rooted my phone and wanted to flash back to stock so I can update with the OTA and re-root, but I downloaded the zip for the AT&T tar files and everything seemed to pass MD5 checks and went okay, but as soon as I hit Start, the program just continues to say NAND Write Start for over 20 minutes, and won't flash, how do I go about re-trying this without bricking my device? It's still plugged in atm in download mode.