Writing to external SD card in Android 5.0 and above

not sure where everyone is at with this, but the on version 0.9.11 (4121) on Android I was able to get syncthing to sync one way to the external SD card on my LGV20 running 7.0 Nougat while running as root. the only problem was I couldn’t do it consistently in that after enabling root and restarting syncthing, I was able to get a complete sync once. after exiting syncthing any attempts to start it up again resulted in a failure to read the config. I’ve tried changing the ownership of all the files in /data/data/com.nutomic.syncthingadroid, but no dice leaving the only way to restore everything from a TitaniumBackup. even copying this folder’s contents elsewhere and restoring it after would not work for some reason. now on version 0.10.2 and all the versions in between, I can enable/disable root entering and exiting syncthing with no problems, however with root enabled it gets stuck at the “Loading” stage in the beginning never pulling up the list of directories I’ve set for sync. anyone have any suggestions?