Cannot use SD card

[stroudmw]

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4, and am running Nextcloud Android app version 3.10.1 and Android 5.0.1. My Nextcloud server is on a Debian 10 linux platform and I installed Nextcloud using snap. I have also tried this using a manual installation using both Nginx and Apache2, as well as Mariadb and Psotgresql (Ubuntu, Debian, Centos 7/8, and FreeBSD servers) so I don't think the issue is with my server.

When I go into the Android App, select Settings -> Storage Path. I select the option "/storage/extSdCard/Android/media/com.nextcloud.client" it comes up with" "Updating Storage Path" and "Failed during migration".

I have reinstalled the android app, and that hasn't helped. I deleted and recreated my account (so that there wouldn't be any data to migrate) and that didn't help either.

The Nextcloud Android app is not much use to me if I can't access my 32GiB external SD card.

Thank you.

[stroudmw]

************ CAUSE OF ERROR ************

android.database.sqlite.SQLiteReadOnlyDatabaseException: attempt to write a readonly database (code 1032)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConnection.nativeExecuteForChangedRowCount(Native Method)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConnection.executeForChangedRowCount(SQLiteConnection.java:904)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteSession.executeForChangedRowCount(SQLiteSession.java:754)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteStatement.executeUpdateDelete(SQLiteStatement.java:64)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.updateWithOnConflict(SQLiteDatabase.java:1700)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.update(SQLiteDatabase.java:1646)
at com.owncloud.android.providers.FileContentProvider.update(FileContentProvider.java:642)
at com.owncloud.android.providers.FileContentProvider.update(FileContentProvider.java:626)
at android.content.ContentProvider$Transport.update(ContentProvider.java:330)
at android.content.ContentResolver.update(ContentResolver.java:1343)
at com.owncloud.android.datamodel.FileDataStorageManager.saveCapabilities(FileDataStorageManager.java:1941)
at com.owncloud.android.operations.GetCapabilitiesOperation.run(GetCapabilitiesOperation.java:44)
at com.owncloud.android.lib.common.operations.RemoteOperation.execute(RemoteOperation.java:136)
at com.owncloud.android.operations.common.SyncOperation.execute(SyncOperation.java:66)
at com.owncloud.android.operations.RefreshFolderOperation.updateCapabilities(RefreshFolderOperation.java:287)
at com.owncloud.android.operations.RefreshFolderOperation.updateOCVersion(RefreshFolderOperation.java:267)
at com.owncloud.android.operations.RefreshFolderOperation.run(RefreshFolderOperation.java:220)
at com.owncloud.android.lib.common.operations.RemoteOperation.run(RemoteOperation.java:357)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

************ APP INFORMATION ************
ID: com.nextcloud.client
Version: 30100190
Build flavor: gplay

************ DEVICE INFORMATION ************
Brand: samsung
Device: ja3g
Model: GT-I9500
Id: LRX22C
Product: ja3gxx

************ FIRMWARE ************
SDK: 21
Release: 5.0.1
Incremental: I9500XXUHOH6

[j-ed]

As already written in the help forum, this problem can most likely not been solved by the App, because the underlying Android version denies direct access to the files and additionally EOS for Android 5 has been declared in November 2015.

[tobiasKaminsky]

Yeah, for some reason the app is not allowed to write onto external sd card.
I fear that we cannot do much here… :-(

[stale]

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[Keilaron]

This relates to #5610 and #5946 .