i have tried all three from the youtube videos like 2 years ago. prob worked then but not now
It was fv damn, thatās why it had some thumbs down ā¦ (On revanced) well I guess we wait. Has to be a way with adb shell. Just need the right commands.
All this permission talk reminds me of why I like stock android 
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Yeah why do they all kill there sale by putting walls up and forcing you to stay in bounds. That is the reason I will never buy an apple product. Could you imagine buying a car and being told what stereo you could put in itā¦ And what in the hell is with the storage? They all do itā¦ A thumb drive 32 g is $10 what is with 8g or 5 g? Who is building this stuff. Idiots?
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LOL, Iāve asked those same questions myself. I think sometimes developers can be extremely brilliant but have no common sense.
Give me one day in the lab I would build you the coolest most versatile most UI friendly no walls No Boundaries Android TV box youāve ever seen in your life they would fly off the shelf
Send in your application to Amazon and Apple. 
Couldnāt build an Android box at Apple, but maybe you could common sense a few things into existence. Youāre probably too young to remember, however there was an internet company called AOL that was jusssst like Apple as far as being limited to what you could and couldnāt use. Proprietary apps, browsers, etc.
Lol Iām not that young and I still have my AOL emailā¦ I was building jerold cable boxes in the early 80s to descrabble cable. Lol
Oh lordy, I was doing Scientific Atlantas and Tocoms! 
Was in the 90ās though
@ssbayman Are you still experiencing the problem? I figured out a solution if the sole purpose is upload custom *.xml files to the kodi/.kodi/userdata directory.
First you have to backup and clear the data from the kodi app. Then after itās clear, you go to Settings ā Apps ā Kodi ā Permissions ā Files and Media. Then select Allow management of all files
After that you have to create a xbmc_env.properties Here is the instructions:
https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Change_data_location_for_Android
My file looked like this:
xbmc.data=/storage/self/primary/kodi_data
Then you upload that file to the root of the sdcard.
adb push xbmc_env.properties /sdcard
After uploading you can adb shell into the onn device and make the kodi_data directory. Once that is made, you can open kodi and all the kodi data file will be written to that directory instead of /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/ . Now you should be able to push your customized data and your backup files to the new location.
I feel like weāve gotten away from the real question in the OP. What exactly is it you are trying to accomplish with Kodi? If you are trying to move a custom build from one device to another, thatās super simple. Just download the crew wizard or any other wizard and create a full backup to a zip file then restore it on another device using the same wizard. Also, Iām pretty sure there is a way to change file access permissions within X-plore. Iāve done it.
Edit: There is a catch though. You do have to go through your OS settings into the app permissions and allow Kodi full access to data at all times, not just when running.