deleting from sd card?

[nimsu]

On a rooted 7042 installed a bunch of movies to the extsd card. No problem watching them...but when I tried to delete them through mxplayer or es file explorer I was unable to do so. Almost like they were write protected. When I plug the tablet in via usb to a desktop I was able to delete them through windows explorer. Any thoughts?

 

[steev]

Oh, I forgot about this bug.

Here's a workaround/fix:

-Use a root explorer to edit /system/etc/platform.xml

-Find this section:

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
    <group gid="sdcard_rw" />
</permission>

-Add this:

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
    <group gid="sdcard_rw" />
    [COLOR=#ff0000][B]<group gid="media_rw" />[/B][/COLOR]
</permission>

-Save and reboot

 

[nimsu]

I don't see a platform.xml under system/etc

 

[Joe88]

I don't see a platform.xml under system/etc

its in

/system/etc/permissions/

 

[nimsu]

found it.. needed to switch to mount r/w

didn;t work though.,. the first time i did when i rebooted the platform.xml was blank with 0 bits.. fortunately a backup was created. 2nd time, the file is there with the new entry but it still won't allow me to delete after a reboot

 

[nimsu]

another issue with the sd/extcard.. using ttorrent to d/l legal movies. i don't see a way to switch to extcard to save them. i imagine i may be able to use a file explorer to move them, but that sounds like a pain

 

[nimsu]

During all of this, my internet connection died so I restored the backup of the xml file... still no internet connection. shows the wifi is connected with full bars, but the bars are greyed out with an x.