Exploiting my DAP [which is running Android 12] i almost immediately run into a recent novelty of modern Android versions [ >11 ] of taking away permission from not in ROM applications to write to the root of sd-cards. In order to make changes to the SD card, third-party software should request permission to access the SD card’s root folder. However, Android now restricts this by offering to choose a folder other than the root folder [“for the sake of your security”].

UPDATED ON: 2025-05-06 Today is the lazy monday, so nothing complex at this time. Just a simple backup procedure of copying the appointed folder to a specific place in a 7z archive with a current date name with archive validation upon completion. To make things rollin’ of course you should have 7z software installed on your `puter. @echo off setlocal enableextensions enableddelayeexpansion set "source=C:\Projects" set "dest=E:\Backups" :: splitting %DATE% into MM/DD/YYYY parts, this part was a bitch to implement for /F "tokens=1-3 delims=/.

UPDATED ON: 2023-08-24 This is a short clipping from [Complete tweaking guide for Windows 7] article. First of all you need to terminate autorun feature for housewives to limit auto-start of unwanted applications and viruses. I prefer fully manual control what’s starting and what is not. To complete this tuning like a boss do the following on all external flash devices you have. Format your Flash/HDD storage using NTFS file system Take a note that modern smartphones can’t read such storage devices.

UPDATED ON: 2023-04-19 Most modern marketing smart-phones are mumbling about support of really large SD cards. But only on Hi-End models. I’m not even speaking about pathetic iphones, which are disabled in terms of external storage due to the greed of executive directors. In this note i will check old mastodonts like: [Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact [2017]] [Nokia PureView 808 [2012]] for compatibility with such ENORMOUS storage device. Sony XZ1 Compact handles such capacity without any problems.

Of course you run into situations when you would like to copy “non-standard” files to your Android smartphone and dumb MTP protocol showed up window like this one: And this torture repeated after every new file type copied. Such imbecility can be removed by following command in admin console: regsvr32 /u wpdshext.dll That’s all, limitation is gone. Another hint, which potentially can help to overcome weird design of MTP protocol.

UPDATED ON: 2023-09-19 Device supports [1Tb Sandisk SD cards] without any issues! Many of you already know about this [legendary Symbian-based camera-phone] . It has impressive resolution and detail, which can’t be matched by modern camera-phones even in 2021. In this quick note i’d like to show ability of the device to work with large SD cards. Sandisk Extreme 400Gb A2 V30 was selected for testing. To my surprise device handled media without any hassles.