Upgrade to Marshmallow on S5 - no access by Locus to SD card

Sweeney Toddlers shared this problem ago

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Upgraded to Marshmallow yesterday. All well except Locus doesn't appear to recognise the Ext SD card (where all the maps are). When I try to add external maps in MNT/extsdcard I get a message about 'problem with extSDcard'. All other programs seem to be able to access SD card and it was working normally yesterday with locus when on Android 5.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Locus Free with no joy.

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Sweeney Toddlers ●

The SD card is formatted as exFAT because of the size of the maps

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Menion ●

Good day Mr. Toddlers,

by update is mean some regular update from device manufacturer or updated on alternative CyanogenMode ROM in version 13?

May you also attach a screenshot with error message you wrote?

Suggest to check some parts of our manual here: http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:faq:use_sdcard_on_kitkat , hope it will be useful.

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Sweeney Toddlers ●

It is the standard ROM pushed to my phone yesterday. Will look at the kit kat stuff tonight but had locus running well on android 5. I have attached a couple of screenshots. Feel free to let me know if I'm doing something stupid...... :)

The error message is at the bottom of the '39'pic. I cached all weekend using the same configuration on the last version of Android with no errors

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Menion ●

Hello. Locus consider all these 'extSd', 'Usb...' directories as files? Interesting. May you look in this file browser to one directory up (to root of yóur device). There will be your "mnt" directory, but maybe there will be some other directory, that should also lead to SD card, like "mount" or "storage". If so, it may helps to use this alternative path.

Otherwise it looks like some problem in Locus because of this file/directory recognition. Hard to say how to solve it as Locus use in this case really basic tool provided by Google .. "is this object directory? True/False".

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Sweeney Toddlers ●

Ah, so that's the solution. As well as the route that shows up in android's basic file explorer that doesn't work I found another naming system using ES file explorer. The Ext SD is named Sto rage > 54E9 - 92C3 in there. If I follow this router in locus I find the maps!

Thanks for your advice.

I still need to find something that proves that Marshmallow is progress :D

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Menion ●

Perfect Sweeney,

anyway it looks like your problem is solved right? Glad to hear it! I'll look later is same problem appear on own device and check if there is any solution. Thanks!

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Sweeney Toddlers ●

Yes, solved thank you!

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jajaballard ●

Sorry, but I have to reopen this topic.

Since update to marshmallow I not able to set some directories correctly.

It works OK for the Maps Directory.

For the mapsVetcor, backup and data/srtm directories it not working. Locus shows the "Process Success" message, but nothing is changed in the settings.

515f2276672e808c5569518c6879a321 Locus uses an other dialog to set these directories.