Where do I go from here on my quest to get write access to extsd card under kitkat?

[Vern Hall]

In my quest to gain write access to my extsd card I've tried 'all' the fix apps I can find but, while each says the 'fix' was successful, none have worked to allow me to write to the extsd card.

I've also went in to the 'platform.xml' file, where the 'patch' is placed by the 'fix' apps, and the 'fix' has been written there. Have also changed the mount on all from 'r' to 'rw'.

The tablet I'm using is an Irulu X10 that is rooted. This has been verified by all but 1 of the 'root checkers', have tried 5 in all, I've tried. And I do have SuperUser status via SuperSU with all rooted programs appearing to work properly.

However, when I use ES File Manager to attempt to add a new folder to the extsd card I get the following error:

Error: Your system forbids ES from writing on externalSD card(check https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=67570), so ES can only write on it after rooted.

I'm at my wits end on this. Have tried everything I have found from searching the net with no success. What am I missing? Could the tablet be only 'partially' rooted? Used RootGenius to root it and the installation went thru with no problems and their version of SuperUser (KingUser) was installed which, supposedly, indicates it was a good root. Where do I go from here?

 

[Rukbat]

In ES File Explorer, pull the menu open, scroll down and turn on Root Explorer.

 

[Vern Hall]

Already have done that. Then went in with ES File Explorer and verified the 'media=rw' has been added to the 'platform.xml' file as required in the 'fix'. As I said - still won't write to the extsd card...

Should I try re-rooting the tablet again with either RootGenius or one of the other methods? Up until now the only rooting method that worked on the tablet was RootGenius. All the other failed to root it.

 

[Vern Hall]

Found the solution to the problem!! Changed the micro sd card to a known/proven good one and reformatted it on PC to ntfs format from FAT32. Works like a charm! Can now write to extsd card with no problem!! Try it if you're having the same problem I was!

 

[Rukbat]

Probably because the kernel can't mount an NTFS volume with the Linux permission structure, so it mounts it the way 4.3 and down mounted a FAT32 volume - just a volume with no security. (Just guessing here - I'm not about to spend a couple of days going through the source code. If it works, that's good enough.)

 

[Shivanshu Burman]

In my quest to gain write access to my extsd card I've tried 'all' the fix apps I can find but, while each says the 'fix' was successful, none have worked to allow me to write to external sd crd.

However, when I use ES File Manager to attempt to add a new folder to the extsd card I get the following error:

Error: Your system forbids ES from writing on externalSD card(check https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=67570), so ES can only write on it after rooted.

I'm at my wits end on this. Have tried everything I have found from searching the net with no success. What am I missing? Where do I go from here?