Help 3rd party apps blocked from wifi

[ggorg]

Hi all,

after using my phone just fine the other day, I get up to find all my none-stock apps are now blocked from wifi access.

This means things like google maps, the stock browser and google play all work fine over wifi (as well as this laptop I'm posting from). So there's no problem with the wireless router I'm using.

But all the good stuff like opera mini, jango, pretty much anything which isn't stock, can no longer use wifi for network access.

3G network works just fine for all aps.

No updates were applies since yesterday.

My current software is:
Android: 2.3.5
Software number: 2.26.401.3

Rebooting does nothing.
There is no virus checker or firewall like software installed.

Any ideas?

 

[Caro332]

It's probably a firewall setting that got changed for some reason. Make sure your antivirus is not preventing the apps from using the wifi

edit: ohhh read your post wrong...nevermind what I wrote then...Would you have a wifi setting by any chance. It's been a while since I've used the stock rom so don't really remember. I would think some setting somewhere has changed

 

[ggorg]

Thanks for the reply.

No, no firewall settings from what I can see. I tried reinstalling opera to see if somehow it had lost permission to wifi, but no luck.

Perhaps there is an app to read system logs to check why some apps are being denied access, but I can't find any.

 

[Dan in SA]

you can use the adb commands to look at the logs. the easiest way would be to attach the usb cable, set phone to "charge only", and use "adb logcat" - this will dump stdout and stderr to your shell. Try one of the apps, and look at what's shown in the logcat.

Oh, I forgot to mention, you need the Android SDK to do this, but you should already have the required tools if you've rooted the phone.