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Hey guys,
I was wondering if there was a way of controlling what information, stored on the phone, is getting seen by wich app!
Or how would i stop an app from seeing my contacts (for example) but still having it installed?
I started this thread because i thought it would help ppl with an interest in keeping private data a little more private, like me.
If there's nothing nice to say dont say anything!
(My phone froze while writing this thread so this is a shortened version ;D)
There's an app called Pdroid, it might be what you're looking for.
Permissions is a good app.
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There's lbe security app which is somewhat questionable in itself. And pdroid which doesn't support ics yet.
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Thanks for your answers! Im trying permissions at the moment and its working...
does anybody know if theres a possibility that i get asked when an app wants to do sth and i can accept or deny without having to look through all the permissions?
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Just in case somebody is interested: i found an app called LBE Privacy Guard, with which one can allow and deny all the requests of apps that want to look at contacts, access internet etc.! You can download it from the market for free!
Im using it at the moment and im rly satisfied with it!
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I flash roms therefore i am!
Like I said, just be cautious with LBE . It's created by some relatively unknown devs in china. It might be safe but who knows. I don't believe they've released source and obviously the app has root so as always use caution.
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4I-I said:
Thanks for your answers! Im trying permissions at the moment and its working...
does anybody know if theres a possibility that i get asked when an app wants to do sth and i can accept or deny without having to look through all the permissions?
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https://market.android.com/details?...EsImNvbS5nb29nbGVjb2RlLmRyb2lkd2FsbC5mcmVlIl0.
I have been using LBE since the day I first rooted my Nexus S. Yes, the app's author is somewhat unknown, but it's the best alternative I can find. With Google Bouncer in place now on the Market, hopefully it would detect malwares, and LBE has not been flagged by the Bouncer.
In the past I had tried Permissions Denied but the apps I had permissions removed kept on FC because PD actually removed the declared permissions from the apps manifest.
PDroid seems promising but it doesn't support ICS and a lot of devices yet.
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I have been using LBE since the day I first rooted my Nexus S. Yes, the app's author is somewhat unknown, but it's the best alternative I can find. With Google Bouncer in place now on the Market, hopefully it would detect malwares, and LBE has not been flagged by the Bouncer.
In the past I had tried Permissions Denied but the apps I had permissions removed kept on FC because PD actually removed the declared permissions from the apps manifest.
PDroid seems promising but it doesn't support ICS and a lot of devices yet.
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Yea I've been asking the dev about ics and a while ago he said it will come but after he does more testing with gingerbread. I just hope it's soon. I wish there were more alternatives.
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So I'm seeing a bunch of apps that are not compatible with the the nexus 7... (TMZ, Newsday, Amazing Alex, Six Guns, HBO Go, etc.) I am rooted and have tried changing the dpi to 160 and full tablet model but the that doesn't do that Chavez these apps compatibility.
I saw this once in the past with the One X. Someone found a way to change the way the device identifies itself to the play store. Is this the same type of issue?
Anyone have a way around this? My last tablet was a Transformer prime and I would like to be able to run these apps on my N7 as well.
.. Gromet
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It's usually because the developer hasn't changed the market info to enable support for jelly bean.
if you have these apps on your phone or other tablet you can backup the apk and try to install it on the N7 and see what happens. Also good to report back to the developer through an email letting them know that the app does not show up, or it does not work.
TMZ works just fine but the HBO Go & Max Go apks still don't work even after a DPI change to 170 so the only other possible way is to edit the build.prop to trick both the market & app to think that it's a different device but I'm not that sure it will work because I think only one of the Go apps have been updated for tablets but I might be wrong on that I also tried to edit the apk directly to work on ICS months ago before they added support and I couldn't fix that so I'm not even going fool with it thus time if you need the apks PM me
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TMZ for tablets works??? Not on mine....
On my galaxy SIII where would i find the. Apks for apps i installed from the play store?
.. Gromet
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It's the same thing that happened with honeycomb. lots of apps did not work at launch. gonna take a while for everything to be updated.
HBO Go JUST added tablet support like a month ago.
Right but the apps i mentioned all worked fine on my Transformer prime. So its not the app its something about the N7.
..Gromet
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Gromet said:
Right but the apps i mentioned all worked fine on my Transformer prime. So its not the app its something about the N7.
..Gromet
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HBO Go explicitly supports only a handful of tablets and the Nexus 7 isn't one of them yet.
EDIT: Also this: "- Now supporting Android tablets running up to version 4.04 (Ice Cream Sandwich)"
Is there a way around this? I haven't rooted yet, but I will eventually. It's pretty annoying that a lot of apps that I have already searched for aren't there...
I need my HBO Go!
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If an app is not supported it's for one of three reasons
1) the app developer has put a 'ceiling' on the app so it can only be downloaded by devices up to a certain version of android. Most likely 4.0.4 and they have not updated the play store information to allow for 4.1/4.1.1
2) the app developer only allows it for certain devices (HBO GO) and has to manually add support for the Nexus 7 either through more development in the app or simply enabling support for it in the Play Store.
3) The app does not work in jelly bean and there for the developer is not allowing anyone to download it and has done one of the above until they can enable support for it.
This happened with honeycomb (3.0) and ice cream sandwich. (4.0) and there is nothing to freak out about. Just email the dev and tell them that you can't download it on the nexus 7 with jelly bean.
Has anyone tried the Comcast Xfinity app? I cannot get it to work. It loads, you are able to choose video, but when it starts trying to play it says your video will play shortly with a spinning circle next to it and never goes any farther.
Same exact thing on HBO GO on Fios.
..Gromet
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I would not be 100% sure its an app issue. I have an app in appstore. No versions limitations and I can even see nexus 7 in list of supported devices. But still get incompatible message if I try install it. Totally puzzled
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instagram was un compatible. but engadget say they release an update to support the n7 and it can use the front facing camera take photos.
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Does anyone knows what needs to be changed in app to make it compatible?
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You can try to change the build.prop in you system folder to match another device. I did this on my older tablet and on my galaxy note to get more games to show.
U need root access to read and write system folder.
ro.product.model=A500
ro.product.brand=acer
ro.product.name=a500_ww_gen1
ro.product.device=picasso
ro.product.board=picasso
Edit these lines. Then reboot make sure u make a backup this may or may not work. Anytime I didn't work I just rebooted again and it went back. If Acer doesn't work you can try an Asus transformer build.prop. There is always gonna be an issue with comparability though. Your better off finding and side loading an apk for now to test rather then buy to find out it don't work.
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Thanks
But I would like to know as a developer how to fix it in app
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aye. because you guys can't read.
If an app is not supported it's for one of three reasons
1) the app developer has put a 'ceiling' on the app so it can only be downloaded by devices up to a certain version of android. Most likely 4.0.4 and they have not updated the play store information to allow for 4.1/4.1.1
2) the app developer only allows it for certain devices (HBO GO) and has to manually add support for the Nexus 7 either through more development in the app or simply enabling support for it in the Play Store.
3) The app does not work in jelly bean and there for the developer is not allowing anyone to download it and has done one of the above until they can enable support for it.
This happened with honeycomb (3.0) and ice cream sandwich. (4.0) and there is nothing to freak out about. Just email the dev and tell them that you can't download it on the nexus 7 with jelly bean.
Let's not make a noise
please check my question again . I read
I'm developer. My app is running on other JB devices ( galaxy nexus no issues what so ever)
I can manually install app on nexus 7 and it works perfect
I just not aware of any limitation could be that would block device. I tried already removing request for vibration permission but still play store doesn't allow app for nexus 7
it's something strange
I already opened ticket @Google for this
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aye. because you guys can't read.
If an app is not supported it's for one of three reasons
1) the app developer has put a 'ceiling' on the app so it can only be downloaded by devices up to a certain version of android. Most likely 4.0.4 and they have not updated the play store information to allow for 4.1/4.1.1
2) the app developer only allows it for certain devices (HBO GO) and has to manually add support for the Nexus 7 either through more development in the app or simply enabling support for it in the Play Store.
3) The app does not work in jelly bean and there for the developer is not allowing anyone to download it and has done one of the above until they can enable support for it.
This happened with honeycomb (3.0) and ice cream sandwich. (4.0) and there is nothing to freak out about. Just email the dev and tell them that you can't download it on the nexus 7 with jelly bean.
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Dude. You are wrong. These are not the only reason apps don't show. Tell me why an app would appear and install and run just fine from the amazon app store but not show up at all in the play store?
Try the new Rovio game Amazing Alex. Doesn't show up in play store but comes up in the Amazon app store, installs fine and plays perfectly.
I have side loaded the newsday, ameritrade, tmz for tablets etc... And they all run perfectly.
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So, this tablet is a great purchase don't get me wrong but the more I play with it the more I see force closing, freezing, and lag. Just not as snappy as my phone. My question is, is it the tablet or is it jellybean? I know jellybean is brand spankin new, so could this be the reason why these apps are force closing? Facebook and ALL browsers I've tried are the worst. And also for some reason it freezes a lot just when I go to my settings. Very annoying waiting for the simple stuff. Let me know if I'm the only one please. Thanks
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Im the opposite way. all my apps run smoothly. I may get a bit of lag once in a blue moon but it doesnt bother me. Chrome is also very quick too.
Well if you ask Rovio, it's jelly beans fault. I asked them about Amazing Alex not being available and got:
"Unfortunately Nexus 7 can not be added to the compatible devices due to its non standard way of reading the game's manifest file. This is something we can not change, it's up to the device manufacturer and Operation System manufacturer."
Amazing Alex is running beautifully on my N7. Available from Amazon App Store, so that pretty much makes that last post a complete fabrication of fact.
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I also thought that Amazing Alex being incompatible seemed weird given that it works on Tegra phones...
A load of applications just don't seem to be ready for high resolutions, and don't look right. Given that this device has truly taken off I imagine everyone will start to include 1280 layouts.
I'm grabbing stuff through the Play Store onto my Tab 2 7.0 and the using ROM Toolbox to make a backup, then sideloading the backup .apks on the N7. So far everything has worked just peachy. Probably my number one annoyance at this point with the device. (Previous number one annoyances were "Why is this thing so hard to root after the last OTA or is it my Tab 2 drivers getting in the way?", and after that it was "How in the world do I get Flash to work, why is Dolphin HD not working with Flash?")
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Well if you ask Rovio, it's jelly beans fault. I asked them about Amazing Alex not being available and got:
"Unfortunately Nexus 7 can not be added to the compatible devices due to its non standard way of reading the game's manifest file. This is something we can not change, it's up to the device manufacturer and Operation System manufacturer."
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Amazing Alex is running beautifully on my N7. Available from Amazon App Store, so that pretty much makes that last post a complete fabrication of fact.
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You guys should email Rovio.
Amazon Appstore doesn't have strict device policies for apps, so that's why you were able to install it and find out it works fine.
The Play Store, developers have tons of settings for device policies on apps, so they can exclude some devices, or can automatically exclude some devices (and they don't even know that it did).
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Amazing Alex is running beautifully on my N7. Available from Amazon App Store, so that pretty much makes that last post a complete fabrication of fact.
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Funny, it wasn't available for download from the Play store as of last night. I guess Rovio must have updated the software?
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Amazing Alex is running beautifully on my N7. Available from Amazon App Store, so that pretty much makes that last post a complete fabrication of fact.
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I agree that what Rovio told me is bs, as sideloading produced no issues. I was just saying what Rovio told me.
What is amazing Alex. And what is rovio?
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feelinfroggy23 said:
What is amazing Alex. And what is rovio?
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Rovio is the developer that created Angry Birds. Amazing Alex is from the developer Rovio.
Why is there yet another thread about app compatibility? Are these people all fresh and new to Android or something? Relax, the OS just launched, give it a few weeks - this is ridiculous now!
Even though YouTube app runs, it is indeed incompatible. Go to Play Store, you won't see it under your "Installed" list. You can't search it in Play store either (because it's incompatible with JB).
Is spotify supposed to be working? I ask as I cannot get the search feature to work at all and so am limited to playing my playlists only.
Amazing Alex HD plays fine here. The only game I found to run like crap is the Not-So-Amazing-Spider-Man.
-Its probably Tegra drivers and not Jelly Bean's fault.
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Well if you ask Rovio, it's jelly beans fault. I asked them about Amazing Alex not being available and got:
"Unfortunately Nexus 7 can not be added to the compatible devices due to its non standard way of reading the game's manifest file. This is something we can not change, it's up to the device manufacturer and Operation System manufacturer."
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Surely as it's the official android from Google its rovio that have a manifest that's non standard.
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mooro1973 said:
Is spotify supposed to be working? I ask as I cannot get the search feature to work at all and so am limited to playing my playlists only.
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Yep - just listening to an album right now via searching. Maybe try reinstalling?
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Looking through the google play store a lot of apps cannot be installed on my N7 because its not compatible with them.
But for many I can't see how or why it wouldn't be compatible.
1. Is compatibility for the N7 an opt in process or are those apps testing for some capability or another they cannot find?
2. Is there a way to force such apps to install on an N7?
I've noticed most apps work if you side load them (I don't play games really...so can't speak to them) the problem is you need to get the apk to install them.
To answer your "why" question, I would think because Jelly Bean is so new that Devs haven't tested their apps and marked them JB compatible.
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If you changed your DPI, that could be a reason.
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If you changed your DPI, that could be a reason.
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I didn't touch my DPI. But thanks anyways.
ExploreMN said:
I've noticed most apps work if you side load them (I don't play games really...so can't speak to them) the problem is you need to get the apk to install them.
To answer your "why" question, I would think because Jelly Bean is so new that Devs haven't tested their apps and marked them JB compatible.
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Thanks.
i notice that too. some of them doesn make sense at all.
for example the game shoot the zombirds,
it works on my phone, and my old galaxy 10,1 that has the same resolution as nexus 7.
but it says not compatible with nexus 7.
since the game is free, i download it to my phone and use air droid, a free app,
to make a backup of that game as an apk file, then use air droid to install it on the nexus 7.
it runs smooth and great on nexus 7.
This happens to some degree with every new Android version. its just new. like was said above me, the developers have to update their apps for JB compatibility
JB just came out. I don't know how Devs have the time to update so quickly.
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I find the opposite - of all the apps I have searched for and/or downloaded I would say less than 5% were incompatible. At least from Google Play.
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Anyone know of an App or ROM that gives the ability to have a split screen like the Note?
One app open in half the screen and another app in the other half?
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Only Samsung ROMs are capable of doing that. Maybe we will get a port, but that requires a lot of Samsung framework. So as of now, no.
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Got t. Thanks!
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I was wondering the same, it'd be really nice to see this on the Nexus 4.
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Only Samsung ROMs are capable of doing that. Maybe we will get a port, but that requires a lot of Samsung framework. So as of now, no.
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LG Optimus G is capable..
lowandbehold said:
LG Optimus G is capable..
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It has a version of multiwindow? I thought that was only for like the video player.
Either way, there are plenty of floating apps on the play store that are pretty awesome. Lilypad HD is a floating chat client, Overscrkeen is a floating web browser, and there's a few others as well.
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It has a version of multiwindow? I thought that was only for like the video player.
Either way, there are plenty of floating apps on the play store that are pretty awesome. Lilypad HD is a floating chat client, Overscrkeen is a floating web browser, and there's a few others as well.
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I was looking more for like any app you can put in the split screen. I'm going to check out those apps though. Thanks
there's cornerstone which existed before samsung came and you can be sure thats what samsung probably based theirs on. googles dianne hackborn personally vetoed when cyanogenmod tried to bring in cornerstone, even hinting at legal consequences. afaik it was troublesome and buggy aswell, even samsungs solution was for a couple of apps only, right?
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there's cornerstone which existed before samsung came and you can be sure thats what samsung probably based theirs on. googles dianne hackborn personally vetoed when cyanogenmod tried to bring in cornerstone, even hinting at legal consequences. afaik it was troublesome and buggy aswell, even samsungs solution was for a couple of apps only, right?
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Yes, it was originally only for a couple of apps. But there are some hacked up versions available on XDA that allow it to work perfectly with all apps.
Thanks guys. I'll check out cornerstone on xda.
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