Comments on: Fix broken Android permissions by re-installing apps

By: tom tom

tom tom — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:28:15 +0000

Could this be what is causing my mic on my g2 to not work during phone calls?

By: mrozek

mrozek — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:21:39 +0000

works for me :) thanks!

By: Issues with applications after updating to Android 2.2 on Motorola Droid | Daniel Velazco

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:48:28 +0000

[...] users that have a rooted device and are experiencing similar issues, there’s a nice write-up here that covers how to fix these kind of issues on a rooted [...]

By: kirpi

kirpi — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:42:48 +0000

Very informative and this seemed to fix the error messages on my logcat output. nice go :)

thanks..

By: Automating Silent Batch Install of Apps & Fix Permissions « mittens blog

Tue, 18 May 2010 01:41:08 +0000

[...] I learned that the permissions were “missing” from the “/data/system/packages.xml” [...]

By: Matt Zimmerman

Matt Zimmerman — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:10:14 +0000

I’ve added a link from that page to this article, since it mentions the problem I had but does not explain how to fix it.

By: Matt Zimmerman

Matt Zimmerman — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:04:42 +0000

Having seen this script suggested elsewhere, I did try it first (and should have mentioned this). It did not fix this problem.

The fix_permissions script tries to correct the UNIX permissions and ownership (uid, gid, mode) of files and directories. These look like “0″, “1000″, “rwxr-xr-x”, and such.

In my case, the problem was with the Android security permissions granted to applications. These look like “android.permission.INTERNET”, “android.permission.WAKE_LOCK” and are a completely different kettle of fish, despite both being called “permissions”.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:43:28 +0000

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Fix_permissions