Re: [android-developers] External Storage lockout in 4.4 update on some Samsung devices.

2014-03-26 Thread Nathan
And get this. Apparently Google Play Support is blaming me. == What I suggest is that you contact the developer and ask them when they are going to release an update that is compatible with Kit Kat. After they do this the app should work as it did before you perform the update. I got pretty

Re: [android-developers] External Storage lockout in 4.4 update on some Samsung devices.

2014-02-26 Thread Yves Liu
Yes, this is very inconvenient. Does google want to kill all the third party developers? On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:25:28 PM UTC-8, Nathan wrote: There is a chance that if I directed my users to use:

Re: [android-developers] External Storage lockout in 4.4 update on some Samsung devices.

2014-02-26 Thread Jonathan S
Users should have to backup data first. On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 3:21:14 PM UTC-5, Nathan wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:25:28 PM UTC-8, Nathan wrote: There is a chance that if I directed my users to use: Android/data/com.example.foo/ on external storage devices that they

Re: [android-developers] External Storage lockout in 4.4 update on some Samsung devices.

2014-02-26 Thread Nathan
On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:31:21 AM UTC-8, Jonathan S wrote: Users should have to backup data first. I don't know that we have a way of forcing customers to backup data first. And if the data takes up a majority of space on the external card, I don't know what they would backup

Re: [android-developers] External Storage lockout in 4.4 update on some Samsung devices.

2014-02-25 Thread Nathan
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:25:28 PM UTC-8, Nathan wrote: There is a chance that if I directed my users to use: Android/data/com.example.foo/ on external storage devices that they might be able to use their valued card. However, that is difficult to test as I don't have one of

[android-developers] External Storage lockout in 4.4 update on some Samsung devices.

2014-02-20 Thread Nathan
Users have reported failures doing operations with an app on the secondary storage wit (not external storage, the one that is actually external and/or removable) after receiving an update to Android 4.4. Based on logs so far, it appears it may be the result of an app being given limited or no

Re: [android-developers] External Storage lockout in 4.4 update on some Samsung devices.

2014-02-20 Thread Mohamed KARAMI
Sadly the only solution we have now requires Root access, the customer should add the media_rw item to the write external storage permission on /system/etc/permissions/platform. xml. On 20 Feb 2014 20:25, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: Users have reported failures doing operations with

Re: [android-developers] External Storage lockout in 4.4 update on some Samsung devices.

2014-02-20 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Is it maybe same issue as described below? http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/02/17/external-blues-google-has-brought-big-changes-to-sd-cards-in-kitkat-and-even-samsung-may-be-implementing-them/ The documentation you quoted talks about android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, and then you went

Re: [android-developers] External Storage lockout in 4.4 update on some Samsung devices.

2014-02-20 Thread Nathan
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 3:22:24 PM UTC-8, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: Is it maybe same issue as described below?