Some Android devices treat Internal Storage as SD Cards and External Storage as EXTSD

Question

I have a bunch of Android devices from different vendors.

Some of them attach /mnt/sdcard to internal storage and /mnt/extsd to external storage(Scenar

Answer 1

On a rooted device, you can change your /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml to "fix" the permissions issue. The following worked for me:

• adb pull /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml

• Modify platform.xml such that media_rw is included in the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission like this:

• adb push platform.xml /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml

• Restart Device