Grant external SD card permission manually - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi. Is there any way to apply external storage permission without the dialog for it?
What I mean is, if I start a file explorer for example and want to copy a file to or from the external SD card, there comes a window which lets me grant access to the external SD card. Mostly it says that you need to select the SD card and then grant access.
And I don't mean the storage permission, which I can allow in the app info tab.
Is there a way to do this manually if an app requires this permission, but doesn't shows up this permission window?
Thanks in advance
Red

hello, since android 6.0 an App need to request a permission through user click the permission dialog. so there isn't a way to manually, except system signature app, they can share a uid with system process which not need to ask a external sd card permission. hope to help you!

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OK here is the deal. I Am on ICS Ni8 And now 12 And I am having one heck of a time getting my external sd card to have write permissions. I can see the card when I go to menu,settings and storage. But when I go into Astro file manager and select External Memory I get Directory does not exist. Create? So I select OK. And then I get "error writing file". So, who would like to help me enable R&W permissions?
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I'm not sure if I understand correctly. I successfully copied a file into /mnt/sdcard2 with ES File Explorer. A copy to /sdcard2 fails.
I'm at ICS.
Information on this issue: "Is Google blocking apps writing to SD cards" (I'm not allowed to post link)
Thanks for the suggestions. I've tried the /mnt/sdcard2 option but it still failed. I have several ways to work around it but it's just annoying that it can't be easily fixed.
I read where ICS 4.06 fixes this but no telling when Sony will release an update to that. I will probably just wait until I can root the device.
Thanks again.
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