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Help External SD card always mounted as read only

zygd

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4K android media box with AML812 chip. 2 USB ports, 1 USB OTG port and one SD card slot. Android 4.4.2 (KitKat?)
USB drive connected with FAT system is mounted as read/write device, all SD card I have tested were mounted as read only.
At first I wanted to make firefox to download files to SD card. But firefox had no rights to write to SD.
At second I thought that firefox can't write to SD because new privilages system in KitKat. So I found a solution on the web and have added media_rw entries in permission.xml file in WRITE_EXTERNAL_SD section. But it didn't help.
Then I have found out, that SD card is always mounted as read only by default (by terminal and mount command) - i tried 3 different SD cards, no success.
I have checked SD card with fsck_msdos and externally on my desktop PC - SD card had no errors.
I tried to remount SD as read/write with mount -o remount,rw device from terminal and it worked but apparently only apps with root privilages can write to SD. Firefox still can't write to SD.
And if I close terminal the SD returns to read only state.
Don't know what to do, where to find the solution.
In vold.fstab there is only one command with dev_mount, and this command doesn't have read/write or read only flags (checked dev_mount in the web).
There is no fstab.device files on the box, which are common? in KitKat (above android 4.3) so I am not so sure that this is KitKat device.
Please help to unlock SD card write rights.
 
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