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Writing to SD card possible with all applications? - Peter Gamma - 03-16-2022
Android from about vers. 5.0 on does not allow to write to the external SD card for all applications. Is it possible to write to external SD card for instance with OpenOffice with the PinePhone (a reason to buy a PinePhone)?
RE: Writing to SD card possible with all applications? - Merc - 03-16-2022
Of course you can. You can write and run an entire operating system from the SD card if you want.
RE: Writing to SD card possible with all applications? - Peter Gamma - 03-16-2022
Happy to know, thanks, Merc
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RE: Writing to SD card possible with all applications? - Peter Gamma - 03-18-2022
The PinePhone is as far as I know the most affordable Linux Phone which has full control over the external SD card (read and write)
. Other affordable Linux Phones almost only allow reading from the external SD card. Pine64 can advertise with that. The last Android phones which could do this job was as far as I know for instance the Galaxy S5 with Android KitKat 4.4. This was the last Android device I was happy with. Now I will update to the revolutionary PinePhone, which brings this beloved feature back.
RE: Writing to SD card possible with all applications? - wibble - 03-19-2022
You have full access on any phone you can install PmOS on too - check their device list to see what works and what doesn't on different devices. It's a software issue not a hardware issue.
RE: Writing to SD card possible with all applications? - Peter Gamma - 03-28-2022
Thanks for the info for PmOS to solve this painful problem, that is the second option on the market to solve this problem I know now.
This is really a great option which started with the QTEK 9000:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Pocket_pc_qtek_2006-08-26.jpg
and ended up with the Samsung Galaxy S5 Android KitKat 4.4.:
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s5_for_at_t_gets_android_444_-news-11050.php
and has now a revival with the PinePhone which can write to the external SD card, together with the PinePhone keyboard, which makes it look like a QTEK 9000:
https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-keyboard-case/
For those who want their data on a (encrypted) SD card and nowhere else.