Unable to directly download data to SD card(NOT INTERNAL MEMORY)

[Bhavin_Darji]

I am using UC browser mini and trying to download any data directly in external memory card...

It shows " The current storage card is unavailable, please choose the another one"

[Bhavin_Darji]

Yes, You are right but my all application are in the internal storage and I want to use external storage only for storing the other(not application related) data using those application, like download torrent directly in to external storage. And I checked in the other android device (google android one phone), I can download any file in to external storage using UC browser and also using torrent app.

[Rickard]

The only explanation i can see for this is that your other phone has modified software or it's not following the Android standard regarding this.

But while i would not recommend doing the change to the system you have done i'm glad to hear that you found a solution for your apps.

[Bhavin_Darji]

Yes, It is true that modifying system files is not good, but I checked on the other device, is Google's own android phone (Android ONE) with same app and same version.

[Rickard]

I'm not very familar with Android One i'm afraid but as i understand it, they are not Googles own models.

See this for example: https://www.android.com/one/india/

They list phones from different manufacturers and then it says:

"Google tests Android One phones to ensure they’re fast and responsive -- and that they stay that way over time."

How Xperia Z Ultra works in this case is standard for Android and this is also described in the link i posted earlier.

[Bhavin_Darji]

I chose android one device because it has unmodified android os. i think I found something in that you may help me.

I saw in the android one device, the external memory card is named as sdcard0 and in my z ultra the external memory card is sdcard1, in z ultra the internal memory is selected as sdcard0 so every application's default path and read write access is granted in sdcard0 and not sdcard1. This might be the issue...

[Rickard · Accepted solution]

The issue here is not the phones software. sdcard0 should point to the internal storage and not the external sd card in Xperia Z Ultra. sdcard0 is used for the external SD card in some older models we had that didn't have any internal storrage.

[Bhavin_Darji]

But the phone which I checked have internal storage of 8gb.

[Faaiz1]

Plzz help me i can't download any files directly to sd card from any browsers😭😭😭😭