nat101 Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Android sync restricts app from writing to external sd card. Please be aware, that other sync apps, popup a dialog if I grant it rights to write to my external sd card, and have no problem doing so. Thanksnat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonboy345 Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 If you root your device you can gain read/write access to your sd card buy installing and running this app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nat101 Posted December 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 In the ancient days of Android, I used to root my devices. But these days (After Android 5) it's not worth the hassle for me, since AT&T stops updating the os once the device is rooted. Anyhow, I have other apps on my device that alert you of this Android restriction, then a security dialog pops up and asks me to confirm that I allow the app write access to external sd card, and everything works fine. Hope to see this in bt sync soon. nat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moe Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 If you root your device you can gain read/write access to your sd card buy installing and running this app. That brings huge security issues with it. Before ANYONE is doing that, educate yourself on the internet what that actually means! It is easy to just click yes yes yes continues agree install on an app but actually knowing what that means is something else.Same goes for iOS jailbreaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iswrong Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 That brings huge security issues with it. Before ANYONE is doing that, educate yourself on the internet what that actually means! It is easy to just click yes yes yes continues agree install on an app but actually knowing what that means is something else.Same goes for iOS jailbreaks. Indeed. Moreover, rooting will disable some functionality, like Android Pay. The good news is that Android 6.0 allows you to adopt an SD card as internal storage: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmallow-thoroughly-reviewed/7/ The bad news is that it will probably take a few years before a substantial part of the Android population is on 6.0 :/. (Currently 0.5% and counting...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nat101 Posted December 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 In the following folder, a few screenshots as to how other apps handle this. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B59OrNrOHNShX2RnaVdaQXJKaTQ&usp=sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 @all, can you please see this and this posts and try Sync build that writes to SD card? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nat101 Posted December 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 @all, can you please see this and this posts and try Sync build that writes to SD card? Thanks. Does this beta also fix the timestamp problem which Android has fixed for EXTERNAL SD cards only?As described here: http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/41837-android-timestamp/ Thanksnat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmatth Posted December 13, 2015 Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 I have a Samsung S5 on Verizon (SM-G900V Android 5.0, build G900VVRU2BOG5). I sync to my external SD card via the path /storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.bittorrent.sync/files/music/ That folder is allowed by Android with BitTorrent Sync, however the built in music player doesn't see the folder. I get around that by using "Music Folder Player" found in the play store. It allows you to set custom folders. The best thing about it is that is saves your location within an MP3 after rebooting the phone or switching between folders (music / podcast). I use it exclusively and the setup with Sync works great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted December 15, 2015 Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 nat101, no, unfortunately. this is under investigation yet. Sync already tries to set the correct mtime on files. gmatth, make sure that there is no .nomedia file. Also, the problem might be in inbuilt player not having access to /storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.bittorrent.sync/files/music/, or if media scanner was not triggered. You can try rebooting the device and see if hte player gets the music. or try any media scanner app in the store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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