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How to grant MODIFY_PHONE_STATE permission for apps ran on Gingerbread

I write an application that attempts to modify phone call state. It works well on Android 2.2 or less, but throw an exception on Android 2.3 because of the lack of permission on android.permission.MODIFY_PHONE_STATE permission (I declared this permission on AndroidManifest.xml). Any idea? Below is the exception log:

01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start receiver test.PhoneReceiver: java.lang.SecurityException: Neither user 10031 nor current process has android.permission.MODIFY_PHONE_STATE.
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread.java:1780)
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2400(ActivityThread.java:117)
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:978)
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3647)
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
01-15 09:14:23.210: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(404):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Solution

  • MODIFY_PHONE_STATE is a system-only permission, so apps are not allowed to get it.

    This may have changed from previous versions of the platform, but that is okay because it is only protecting private APIs, so if you are doing something that requires it, you are using private APIs that are not supported and will result in things like your app breaking on different builds of the platform.

    The stack crawl you include is not complete, so there is no way to tell what you are actually doing.