I'm posting this here because I think that is something common to all Android Versions, I'm having problems with my room and the GAPPs, it is due to a Chinese phone with a Chinese rom and no Google installed at all.
I have successfully installed the Google APPs but these ones becomes system APPs and I'm not able to grant permissions through setting menu, it seems that system app permissions can not be managed from here.
Problem is that Play services aren't allow to access to SMS or at least that is what an annoying pop up says, so I'm wondering whether is any way to check that permissions on a file (xml or something like that) because I guess that changing permissions through setting menu ends changing some configuration file.
If I install some app using the apk, permissions can be manage from settings...
Answer myself. I leave the link down here in case somebody else need the info.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37130838/android-runtime-permission-for-system-apps
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First off I'd like to start off by saying that I am kind of an idiot...with that said; I like to mess around with important files on my device(Acer a100) even though I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing.
Using titanium backup I uninstalled that download system apk. The one with the green icon and the white arrow pointing down. Now when I try to restore it through tit. Backup it will just freeze and keep saying that it is restoring and I have to finally force close titanium. I have also tried messing around with permissions in root explorer, fixing permissions in rom manager, navigating to system/app and installing it manually through a file explorer( get message install fail), and hard resetting.
The main problem is that everything I download will show in my notification bar and after I close/exit them they come back 5-30 min later. If I click on the download in my notification(not on the x) then my notification bar just closes. I can kinda fix this by turning my notifications off or cleaning data/cache on ?download storage? Apk/app.
Does anyone know of an easy fix for restoring this system apk. For there are no custom roms or recovery sources for this device that I have seen yet.
Thank-you, Robb
If you have the correct apk, then you can install it through Root Explorer... just not the way you tried. Once you paste it in /system/app, don't click on it and install. Instead long-press the apk file and select permissions. Set them to rw-r--r-- and reboot.
The permissions should look like any other system app.
Owner: read and write are checked
Group: read checked
Others: read checked
Let me know if that works for you.
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thank you for your help
Well I encountered this issue where Google Play says "No Connection"(Video showing the issue and fix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B1bSBbaiig)
According to the video the hosts file in the etc folder was modyfied and there was a line added that blocked the server..
The question I have is, How this happened?
Usually via custom rom .
actually, alternative solution is to delete the host file. System automatically replace it once you opened the app again. Have you used Freedom app? That's usually the case for me.
acelim23 said:
actually, alternative solution is to delete the host file. System automatically replace it once you opened the app again. Have you used Freedom app? That's usually the case for me.
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well, tweaking your Google Play Store with apps like Freedom or even Market Unlocker and similar apps will sometimes cause that problem. so deleting the hosts file is the solution. You can fix this with apps like Root Explorer and Root Browser / ROM Toolbox.
Hi,
I'd like to know how to safely delete system or ROM pre-installed applications that don't offer an "Uninstall" option. I am rooted and running 5.0.2 on a Nexus 6. I know I could do this with Titanium or other similar apps but my point is to not install a specific app just for deleting apps if I can find the correct path/file from Root Explorer and remove it myself.
Thanks
mclisme said:
Hi,
I'd like to know how to safely delete system or ROM pre-installed applications that don't offer an "Uninstall" option. I am rooted and running 5.0.2 on a Nexus 6. I know I could do this with Titanium or other similar apps but my point is to not install a specific app just for deleting apps if I can find the correct path/file from Root Explorer and remove it myself.
Thanks
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from my experience the best that you can do is to use root explorer and goto system/app or system/priv-app and delete folder-app you do not need, then goto data/dalvik-cache, search for apk name and delete also program *.dex, so this is a clean method, make a reboot for clearing apk data !
It's safer to rename the app instead of deleting it... "freezing" apps often just add ".fro" to the app's name (whatever.apk.fro, for example) to keep it from appearing in your app launcher or loading. If anything goes wrong because of the "missing" app, you can easily restore it.
So I have seen the 6.0 and the CM permission system before.
Both have a toggle that allows setting permissions for preinstalled system apps aswell.
Is that possible in OxygenOS too?
(The whole reason for me to get a phone with a permission system was to be able to restrain all that Google Play stuff...)
NotieB said:
So I have seen the 6.0 and the CM permission system before.
Both have a toggle that allows setting permissions for preinstalled system apps aswell.
Is that possible in OxygenOS too?
(The whole reason for me to get a phone with a permission system was to be able to restrain all that Google Play stuff...)
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CM's privacy guard can do exactly that, even with system apps. OOS's permissions can only limit non-system apps, so you'd need to remove all the Google Play apps as system apps and re-install as user apps (or convert them to user apps with Titanium Backup). However, this would need root. Not sure if you wanted a non-root option, but I can't think of any that would not require root.
MrKhozam said:
However, this would need root. Not sure if you wanted a non-root option, but I can't think of any that would not require root.
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I was indeed wondering about a non root option, i.e. if there is a toggle i just missed.
So I guess I'll wait for the 6.0 update as the native android permission system works for system apps aswell, and they'd be stupid to replace it.
So I've narrowed this down to being an issue with install unknown app permissions. In my list I only have a select few apps and none of the apps request permission when they try to install. Furthermore if I click show system applications nothing more shows.
Anyone else run into this?
Thanks
Dave
TT_Vert said:
So I've narrowed this down to being an issue with install unknown app permissions. In my list I only have a select few apps and none of the apps request permission when they try to install. Furthermore if I click show system applications nothing more shows.
Anyone else run into this?
Thanks
Dave
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Not sure but if the apks that you are trying to install require writing to the Android\data, Android\media or Android\obb directories then you have a problem on Android 11. I've tried apks that need to write data here and they won't install. Android 11 has made these directories read only :-( except for official Google playstore apps. Android 10 allowed writing to them from any app.
Gordster said:
Not sure but if the apks that you are trying to install require writing to the Android\data, Android\media or Android\obb directories then you have a problem on Android 11. I've tried apks that need to write data here and they won't install. Android 11 has made these directories read only :-( except for official Google playstore apps. Android 10 allowed writing to them from any app.
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Scoped storage is an iPhone nightmare come true. Not needed and a system burden.
Big sister Gookill thinks you're too stupid to keep your phone secure.
Pie was the last good Android OS... Android has been in a high G flat spin since then and is descending faster with each new version.
Gordster said:
Not sure but if the apks that you are trying to install require writing to the Android\data, Android\media or Android\obb directories then you have a problem on Android 11. I've tried apks that need to write data here and they won't install. Android 11 has made these directories read only :-( except for official Google playstore apps. Android 10 allowed writing to them from any app.
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No idea the destination path but they install just fine in an app which ALREADY is listed in install unknown apps. Anything that isn't never requests permission and it never added to this area to be able to modify the permission. It may have been the app i was trying to use (older version of ES file explorer) was too old to request the correct permission.
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No idea the destination path but they install just fine in an app which ALREADY is listed in install unknown apps. Anything that isn't never requests permission and it never added to this area to be able to modify the permission. It may have been the app i was trying to use (older version of ES file explorer) was too old to request the correct permission.
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Many older pre-scoped storage era apps won't load on 11. Updated ones should.
Even with Android 10 there's a lose of functionality; for instance Karma Firewall loses its useful logging feature and trusted overlay apps are gutted.
blackhawk said:
Many older pre-scoped storage era apps won't load on 11. Updated ones should.
Even with Android 10 there's a lose of functionality; for instance Karma Firewall loses its useful logging feature and trusted overlay apps are gutted.
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Yeah I put a newer version of ES file explorer on and it did request the permissions. My fault, sorry to bother you all.
Dave