On rooted Android devices, this can easily be changed. Now, I've found an easy way to only temporary root the phone - even without rebooting and just to apply the fix. Afterwards, we will unroot immediately.
1. Install the "towelroot" app and run it:
https://towelroot.com/tr.apk (from https://towelroot.com/ )
You should be rooted- without a reboot and all the other complicated rooting procedures of the past! WOW! Good job!
2. Install and run "SD KitKat Fixer" from the Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jrummy.sdfix
3. "Un-rooting" again:
Open a shell window - I use SSHDroid on the phone and "putty" as a client on a Windows machine.
(adb, etc. should also work fine).
3a) OPTIONAL:verify the changes made by SD KitKat Fixer:
less /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml
You should see a section like this:
<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE">
<group gid="sdcard_r"/>
<group gid="sdcard_rw"/>
<group gid="media_rw" />
</permission>
3b) Remove the "su" related stuff aka "unrooting".
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
#rm /system/bin/su
rm /system/xbin/su
rm /system/xbin/daemonsu
rm /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
mount -o ro,remount /system
exit
Note: the system partition may already be mounted rw., and remounting read-only as a last step may fail. No problem, as we are going to reboot anyways.
4. Reboot - DONE.
Tested on my S4 mini running Android 4.4.
Just to compare: This was the content of my /system/xbin folder right after using towelroot:
$ ls -al /system/xbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root shell 4096 Jul 29 19:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 9 2014 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121260 Jul 29 19:11 daemonsu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root shell 59748 May 23 11:17 dexdump
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121260 Jul 29 19:11 su
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root shell 5336 May 23 11:17 vril-dump
PS: I'm not afraid of a permanently rooted device at all, but some use cases limit the user to an official, non-rooted ROM - that's BYOD ;-)
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