# $600 bounty for writing to external SD card in Android 5.0+
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 27, 2015, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550 "2015-04-27T08:06:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@acunningham](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acunningham)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550/1 "2015-04-27T08:06:59Z")
I’m offering a bounty of 600 US dollars for proper write support to external SD cards (e.g. /storage/extSdCard on my Samsung Galaxy Note 4) in Android 5.0 and later without requiring rooting the device. As per this recent discussion:
> [@Writing to external SD card in Android 5.0 and above](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0-and-above/2492):
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> Android 5.0 and above supports writing to an external SD card, but requires that the user select the allowed directory. Syncthing for Android 0.5.28 doesn’t seem to support this. Are there any plans to add support for this in the near future?
doing so appears to require using Android’s Storage Access Framework.
This bounty is payable via PayPal to whoever adds the necessary feature to the Syncthing client for Android, once it’s included in a mainline release (i.e. not a special one-off version), as long as this happens before the end of 2015.
Others who would like to see this feature (I know you’re out there!) are invited to contribute to the bounty.
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### Author:  [@acunningham](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acunningham)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2015, 9:06am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550/2 "2015-05-05T09:06:48Z")
Has anyone decided to work on this?
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### Author:  [@Minh\_Binh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Minh_Binh)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2015, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550/4 "2015-12-23T09:36:40Z")
I don’t know why my answer was marked as clippy
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2015, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550/5 "2015-12-23T09:38:37Z")
You seem to have answered the general “how do I write to an SD card on Android” in hunt for the bounty, which is not the context in which the question was asked. New users with multiple links run the risk of getting spam flagged. In this case I’m inclined to agree. 😉
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### Author:  [@AlexK](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/AlexK)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550/7 "2016-04-02T14:09:38Z")
Has anyone solved this issue?
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### Author:  [@Nutomic](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Nutomic)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550/8 "2016-04-02T14:43:37Z")
No. As far as I know, no one has worked on it yet.
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### Author:  [@einsweniger](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/einsweniger)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550/9 "2016-04-08T04:38:24Z")
I’ve just read this and am interested! Is your bounty still active or did it end last year?
regards, -1
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### Author:  [@acunningham](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acunningham)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2016, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550/10 "2016-04-08T07:01:17Z")
No, I’ve now switched phone to a Nexus 6P which has no external SD card, so am no longer interested in this.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2016, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550/11 "2016-04-08T07:02:00Z")
Closed as no longer active. The feature is still welcome, of course. And discussion of it, but not on this thread.