Hi all, So I am completely frustrated by the access restrictions applied to External (SD cards) limitation as imposed by Google/KitKat..
I have a nice expensive hi-end smart phone, and a Minix Neo 7. I'm happy to root the Minix but not the phone until it's quite a lot older. In my opinion (and on behalf of other users who I follow online), Google should have no right to limit how I access my data or make it impractical for app developers to make functional apps that would need to store large amounts of data.
So design/security issues make a mockery of my need to use external storage (SD Cards), something I think I would opt out big if the OS gave me a choice of using coperate grade security (or not); So as it is I'm unable to tell apps to save media, GPS maps, photos, lots of music and videos etc, also on my android media device (Non-phone) Where such severe Security restrictions are also unnecessary but in place, It makes my Minix Neo system even more unusable in terms of useable memory. So my question is how and where do we lobby Google/android to resolve and improve this situation? I've been on the Google/android support/developer forums and all that the Google reps do is mark the issue as "working as intended" And then close the topic; so where do we go to get Google to sit up and take notice of their increasingly frustrated user base?
Jim.
I have a nice expensive hi-end smart phone, and a Minix Neo 7. I'm happy to root the Minix but not the phone until it's quite a lot older. In my opinion (and on behalf of other users who I follow online), Google should have no right to limit how I access my data or make it impractical for app developers to make functional apps that would need to store large amounts of data.
So design/security issues make a mockery of my need to use external storage (SD Cards), something I think I would opt out big if the OS gave me a choice of using coperate grade security (or not); So as it is I'm unable to tell apps to save media, GPS maps, photos, lots of music and videos etc, also on my android media device (Non-phone) Where such severe Security restrictions are also unnecessary but in place, It makes my Minix Neo system even more unusable in terms of useable memory. So my question is how and where do we lobby Google/android to resolve and improve this situation? I've been on the Google/android support/developer forums and all that the Google reps do is mark the issue as "working as intended" And then close the topic; so where do we go to get Google to sit up and take notice of their increasingly frustrated user base?
Jim.