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Permission denied error when using SystemProperties.set() in Android

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I've a problem of not having enough permissions for setting a “persist.xxxxx” property from one of the applications. This application shares the User-id of the phone so I tried to hack in property_service.c and add an entry: 

{“persist.”, AID_RADIO, 0} 
in property_perms structure.

After this I was able to set the property but without this I get a “permission denied” error "> init: sys_prop: permission denied uid:1001 name:persist.xxxxx". Any clue...

posted Aug 19, 2013 by Ahmed Patel

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