qbox s905 will not allow backup

[lordbeazly]

just got a new qbox running jarvis 16.1 lollipop 5.1 i have set it up with a restored version of kodi addons from my old m8s+ which seemed to work quite well...but now i have added and deleted a couple addons i tried to do a backup and it keeps saying write error detected the destination may not be writeable do you want to continue.
i have tried restoring my qbox and reprogramming but i get the same error but yet it will allow me to restore from the backup and same storage can anyone tell me what i might be doing wrong

i forgot to mention i have tried formatting the few different cards and usb drives extfat fat32 and ntfs all have the same error

[lordbeazly]

i hae done some searching and i guess i need to root this box would anyone here know which is the best program for rooting the s905

[trebor]

Bit of a look thru the s905 threads and you will see the ezroot by Finless works on many s905 media players
Look here for info
Cheers

[lordbeazly]

thank you trebor

[lordbeazly]

ok i ran the ez root i dont see it in the apps area but i think it is installed and i also have the developer options but i am still lost on how to get kodi to reconize my sd card or usb drive so i can write to it to do a back up.

kodi will do a restore from my card but for some reason it will not let me write to the card or usb thru kodi

[lordbeazly]

i think i found my answer from what i read kodi on a android 5.1 device does not yet support writing to a external storage device

[desmondo]

i think i found my answer from what i read kodi on a android 5.1 device does not yet support writing to a external storage device

I use the following method but root is required i also found it easier to edit the files using an FTP server app on android and filezilla on my laptop to communicate.

1. Navigate to /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml (Do remember to backup “platform.xml” in safe place)
2. Open Platform.xml by right clicking on the file in filezilla and selecting option open/edit.
3. Find android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and android.permission.WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE lines
4. change lines to show the following.

<permission name=”android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE” >
<group gid=”sdcard_r” />
<group gid=”sdcard_rw” />
<group gid=”media_rw” />
</permission>

<permission name=”android.permission.WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE” >
<group gid=”sdcard_rw” />
<group gid=”media_rw” />
</permission>