Recent content by Imran Ali5

And you did that and have no issues with your device? When I modified it on 4.4 all hell broke loose and every thing was crashing. I had to reset the device to fix it.

Nope, not planning on screwing with platform.xml again. I've learnt my lesson. Even though not having the SD card write access sucks! So if I understand it correctly with 4.4 the write permission is managed through the apps instead of locally? Which means the devs need to update their apps...

Hello Samurihl, I followed your insructions from xda forums and installed 4.4. My question is, will this allow OTA updates in the future or do I have to manually update every time?

Guys don't forget. Nexus 5 doesn't have a removable battery and sd card. So for me a definite no go.

Got it to work. Not the simplest thing in the world to root. Actually it's not that hard. It's just that instructions are all over the place. Anyways I now have write access also while you're at it there's also a neat trick to save all your Google play music on sd card instead of internal...

Nice. Once rooted how to change the script to allow root access?

So guys does this mean that the security update fixed the write issue?

At this point it makes sense for them to skip 4.2 and roll out 4.3