SnipeStar Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 I updated my S20 Ultra to Android 11 last night and now Poweramp is saying my SD Card is unmounted. It's not, of course, as the rest of my phone (and other music players) are able to access the contents of the card just fine. I tried doing a full rescan which didn't work. I also tried re-adding the music folder in the settings -> music folders, and i noticed that the SD card isn't even listed there anymore. When i click on the + button and manually try to add the folder which contains my music, it lets me navigate the folders of the SD Card but won't let me add any of them to the selected music folders. Not sure what else to do at this point. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
andrewilley Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 You may need to Grant Access to the folder which contains your music. If that doesn't work, try enabling Settings > Misc > File Access Legacy Mode. Andre Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SnipeStar Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 Well granting access wasn't working because it would still give me the error about the storage being unmounted. so i went and checked that file access legacy mode setting, and it was already enabled- so i disabled it. the SD Card is now showing up in the Music Folders area, and when i chose the folder that has my music, it automatically did a full rescan, and is now working again. thanks brother! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MotleyG Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 50 minutes ago, SnipeStar said: Well granting access wasn't working because it would still give me the error about the storage being unmounted. so i went and checked that file access legacy mode setting, and it was already enabled- so i disabled it. the SD Card is now showing up in the Music Folders area, and when i chose the folder that has my music, it automatically did a full rescan, and is now working again. thanks brother! If I recall correctly, @maxmp had said earlier that this option has to be DISABLED for Android 10+. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
andrewilley Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Legacy mode should still work on Android 11, Google is still supporting it for apps that don't use the latest SDK version. Andre Quote Link to post Share on other sites
maxmp Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Google constantly changes what will work and what won't in the future version of Androids. The typical pattern is: in Android X function Y won't work -> it doesn't work in Android X beta -> in Android X release it's allowed as exception. For file access, this happened for 10, 11, and now is happening for R. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SnipeStar Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 yeah it's annoying lol for what it's worth, that legacy mode was working for me on android 10 before i updated to 11. either way, it appears to be working normal now. i appreciate the timely responses from you guys thanks again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Niggle Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Exact same issue here, when my Samsung S10 migrated to Android 11 this morning. I certainly don't remember enabling legacy mode earlier. If legacy mode was the PA default, I suspect a lot of people are going to run into this issue (assuming they keep their music on SD card). Thanks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
andrewilley Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 @Niggle It appears to be a Samsung Android 11 bug - the OS reports that File Access Legacy Mode is still working, but it doesn't seem to be. Please try turning it off via PA Settings > Misc > File Access Legacy Mode, and then go into PA Settings > Library > Music Folders and check that your music folder is ticked. Andre Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Niggle Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Hi Andre, I'm already back to working now. I did have to disable legacy mode and then re-select the SD card folder, and then re-scan the entire library. Thanks, Nigel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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