# Writing to external SD card in Android 5.0 and above

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0-and-above/2492
**Category:** Android
**Created:** [April 21, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0-and-above/2492 "2015-04-21T13:00:01Z")
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### Author: ![acunningham](https://forum.syncthing.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@acunningham](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acunningham)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0-and-above/2492/7 "2015-04-27T08:07:21Z")

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I’ve gone ahead and posted a bounty for this:

> [@$600 bounty for writing to external SD card in Android 5.0+](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/600-bounty-for-writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0/2550):
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> 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: [https://forum.syncthing.net/t/writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0-and-above/2492](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/writing-to-external-sd-card-in-android-5-0-and-above/2492) 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 Andro…

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