Charles, I have a new LG Volt phone running KitKat 4.4.2 and I can’t put books anywhere on the external SD card. It’s rooted stock, and I checked the permissions and they are fine in the “platform.xml” file. There are also many other apps currently installed writing to the external card, outside of the “Android” folder. CC is the only app I am having issues with.
The odd things is I have another LG phone set up about a year ago almost identically to this new Volt, also running KitKat 4.4.2 and CC is writing to the external card just fine – to the exact same folder location on the external card that I am now trying to write to with the new phone. This older LG phone is running CC 4.2.8.4. Thinking you might have made a very recent change to CC, I even put CC 4.2.8.4 on the new phone, but it still can’t access the card.
I also have two older Nook tablets, both running KitKat on custom CM ROMS that have been writing to the external card for well over a year without issue.
When I try to connect with the new phone to Calibre by either the content server or other methods, a message pops up saying “CC cannot connect because the following book formats are stored in a read-only folder …” When I try to manually select the folders on the external card with CC, the furthest I can browse to is the “media_rw” folder and when I click that to try to get to “external_SD” instead I get this: “There was an error with the folder chosen and it could not be opened …”
As a last resort, I could live with having to put books in only the private Android folder on the external card, but since I can’t browse to “external_SD,” I can’t even specify CC's private folder.
I'm stumped as there is nothing about this phone that I can see which is different from my other KitKat devices in terms of permissions for the external card. Can this be fixed?
--Pat