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I've noticed lately that permissions on the Google Play Store vs installed on your phone are different.
For example: on Google Play Store calendar apps would have permissions of;
Uses calendar information and Uses contact information
or
Device and app history, use calendar information, use contact information, use one or more of call log, use one or more of files on the device, allow app to view info about Wi-Fi networking, allow the app to determine phone number and ID
but after installing it on phone it would have permissions of:
Read phone status and ID, Read call log, Read your contacts, Add or Modify calendar events and send e-mail to guests without owner's knowledge, Read calendar events and confidential information, Modify or delete the contents of your SD card
does anyone know why this happens ? My stock calendar has the same permissions.
Is it a Google adding these permissions? Called Google and they said that the developer needs to update their permissions list. Not happy with some of these permission. Does anyone have a calendar app that does not have these additonal permissions ?
pepo2k said:
I've noticed lately that permissions on the Google Play Store vs installed on your phone are different.
For example: on Google Play Store calendar apps would have permissions of;
Uses calendar information and Uses contact information
or
Device and app history, use calendar information, use contact information, use one or more of call log, use one or more of files on the device, allow app to view info about Wi-Fi networking, allow the app to determine phone number and ID
but after installing it on phone it would have permissions of:
Read phone status and ID, Read call log, Read your contacts, Add or Modify calendar events and send e-mail to guests without owner's knowledge, Read calendar events and confidential information, Modify or delete the contents of your SD card
does anyone know why this happens ? My stock calendar has the same permissions.
Is it a Google adding these permissions? Called Google and they said that the developer needs to update their permissions list. Not happy with some of these permission. Does anyone have a calendar app that does not have these additonal permissions ?
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Well first of all when installing anything from the play store the permissions are simplified so it wont show all of them vs when you install it on your phone it would have more. Also there are many calenders avaible and each has diffrent permissions so you would have to look and see what one would be good for you.
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Hope this helps
A_Bunny
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pepo2k said:
I've noticed lately that permissions on the Google Play Store vs installed on your phone are different.
For example: on Google Play Store calendar apps would have permissions of;
Uses calendar information and Uses contact information
or
Device and app history, use calendar information, use contact information, use one or more of call log, use one or more of files on the device, allow app to view info about Wi-Fi networking, allow the app to determine phone number and ID
but after installing it on phone it would have permissions of:
Read phone status and ID, Read call log, Read your contacts, Add or Modify calendar events and send e-mail to guests without owner's knowledge, Read calendar events and confidential information, Modify or delete the contents of your SD card
does anyone know why this happens ? My stock calendar has the same permissions.
Is it a Google adding these permissions? Called Google and they said that the developer needs to update their permissions list. Not happy with some of these permission. Does anyone have a calendar app that does not have these additonal permissions ?
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Google has simplified permissions so only the ones that may be violating your privacy are shown. If you scroll down on the bottom of google play you will see something like Show permissions or similar. Click that and I think it will show you all permissions.
I'm currently using AFWall+ and Xprivacy to manage which app can access my data and which app can access the Internet.
I'm rooted and on CyanogenMod btw.
I basically just block Internet access for every apps and for those apps that really do require Internet access, I restrict what exactly these apps can access.
But there there are a couple of huge flaws in that system:
Let's say you install a hypothetical app to share your photos. That app needs Internet access and access to a folder containing your photos.
But there is no way to restrict access to just a single folder. You either grant access to your whole file system or you deny it completely.
So this app could easily spy on other things like your videos, music, confidential documents or whatever.
I know there are ways to secure folders with passwords, but when I put a password on my documents folder, my document reader won't be able to access that folder anymore.
Is there an app or Xposed module that I could use to simply specify which app can access which folders?
Hi,
I don't know if this Xposed module AppOpsXposed could be an answer for you.
AppOpsXposed just let's you change app permissions, as in "Storage access: Yes/No". The same can be done with Xprivacy more safely and it is not what I'm looking for at all. I basically want to be able to set permissions on a per-folder basis.
Hi. I want to be able to change my settings for WhatsApp while offline. Specifically, if I've granted contacts permission, once I'm offline I'd like to be able to revoke contacts permission and then see it reflected the next time I open WhatsApp (so no contact names are see for chats/calls). If I just do the basic steps, this does not happen. I need to connect to wifi or a network to see the change.
Is there a way to get around this?
Hello.
My Gmail has only permission to multimedia files. It should have granted to all files because I am unable to send pdf files from one app. I can only set up permission to multimedia files ...
Any solutions? I know that the granted permissions can be dangerous.
Can't you do that in 'Settings - Apps & notifications - Gmail app - Permissions' ?
Unfortunetaly, I can't
I suppose it's a custom android from LG. I have no idea.