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Step 4: Moving Files to SD Card With


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It didnt work for me!


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3 years ago
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best way to bypass android kitkat 4.4


http://www.hackerstutorials.com/how-to-bypass-andr...
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kitkat-4-4-using-external-sd-card-without-root/)
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How to bypass Android 4.4 (KitKat) external SD write


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Bypass Android 4.4 (KitKat) External SD Write


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"Without Root".
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1st instructions? MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ROOT.

Ukhozi (/member/Ukhozi/)
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3 years ago
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This whole KitKat crap is doing my head in. I have a


Excelvan BT13 9.6" tablet running Android 4,4,2 and I
cannot get ANY of the rooting apps to root the darn
thing, in the meantime I downloaded B1 but no
sandbox.?? I also have a Vodafone Turbo 4 running
Android 4,4,4 and that has always from day one been
able to access the SD card, in fact I am screwed without
it as the internal memory is quite small. So how come
my phone has no problem on 4,4,4 but my tablet/phone
on 4,4,2 is a pig?
I
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3 years ago
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Not for me to complicated

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Thank you! I was able to make space for my phone. I


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Most often people see the problem for what resolutions


they have failed to accomplish. In all reality if you know
anyone who can successfully root your S6 or the newest
Motorolla to maybe the first gen Galaxy then you will
maybe unseratand the lengthy process and the liability
that comes with this task.
However don't get me wrong rooting is the way to go.
And if you are tech savvy to not destroy your contract
with the phone company and make use of a paperweight
then I suggest you help all these users who are having a
dilemma on how to be able to r/w/h on something as
simple as an sd card.
For what it's worth good luck finding anything on your
phone.

(/member/M.J5/) M.J5 (/member/M.J5/) 4 years ago

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Unfortunately, the presented workaround has one


CRITICAL FLAW which defeats its whole purpose.
The B1 File Manager (at least on my LG H220 Joy w/
KitKat 4.4.x) won't show ANY installed apps and cannot
access their folders, most probably due to their root
owner/group permissions. This means you won't be able
to move ANY installed apps (which are root by nature) to
your SD card, in spite of what was suggested.
What you need is a rooted mobile, and when it is rooted
- who would need such a workaround? So you can see
it's quite pointless.

JosephB101 (/member
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I HATE the pre-installed 'My Files' app! Whoever wrote


that should be fired, and then hung by the .....!

And I hate that, that's the 'only way' to write to the

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external SD Card.

It's a piece of garbage, and I won't begin to list all the


flaws I've found in it. That's not why I Googled this topic.

I just spent '1 hour' on the telephone with Samsung


'trying' to get, One Simple Question Answered.

And, 'of course' they wouldn't get into that question,


without the remote access thing, (which really I hate
giving to someone!).

Now I know that there has been two updates to Android


since the 4.4.2 that's currently on my S4 phone.

My question to Samsung was; In any updated versions


of Android, was the issue of writing to the external SD
Card, (with anything other than the 'My Files' app),
resolved?

In other words, 'I' I updated to a later version of Android,


can I use any other file manager, to write to the external
SD Card?

I generally use an app that I found in the PlayStore


called, 'X-plore', as my main file manager. It's a nice file
manager... But I can't write to the external SD Card
using it.

I am 'not' going to update to any newer version of


Android, unless I'm told that this whole issue had been
fixed in a later version.

After that 'hour' on the phone with Samsung, I still don't


have a definite answer.

Can anyone here tell me if this issue had been fixed, and
in which newer version of Android?

I found out a long time ago about this issue, and that I
wasn't the only one complaining about it.

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lginillinois (/member
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The B1 file manager is the perfect solution. I use it on


my KitKat android device to transfer straight from google
to my External SD card. Thanks so much for the info!

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I don't quite follow. Unless an app can take ownership of


a file on the other than it's own, designated folder, it will
not be able to write any information onto that folder, yes?
Here's an instance:
Using an app like software data cable to transfer a large
file onto your external sd card (as one could before this
whole thing happened) is now an impossible task and I
don't understand how copy-pasting folders will change
that.
Google, being Google, decided to revoke en masse write
permissions given to third party apps earlier since it
allowed any app to read any folder that it was
programmed to without restrictions thereby making it a
field day for malware. How does copy-pasting folders
overwrite that function? Don't file ownership details and
permissions have to be changed? How does one bypass
that without rooting the device?
Moreover, B1 allows you to move media up and down
and into the sd card and one only needs to do that on a
regular basis now as compared to before when the app
was allowed to do it by itself. But I digress, my point was
that I didn't really follow the tutorial;
1) do we need to create a brand new folder for the app
somewhere using the b1 file manager or is this simply a
way to move files around in b1 itself?
2) "files" the folder you used, was it merely an example
or are you referring to that specific folder and are

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suggesting changes pertaining to it?
3) Is this tutorial to enable a third party app to use the sd
card (albeit in it's own folder created using this method)
as a storage space as an alternative to the internal
memory?
Sorry if I sound stupid, but I really did get lost and didn't
quite comprehend the process up there..
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