Help How to (re)allow GPS or Camera to apps?

[Rastislav Galvanek]

Hi, I accidently forbid Sygic(navigation) in a pop up window access to GPS. And now when I turn on the app I get message that the application was forbidden to use GPS but I dont know how can I allow to the app to use the GPS again.
Could someone give me advice how to do it? Thanks
Edit I hawe android 4.4 KitKat

 

[Hadron]

So was this pop-up part of Sygic's interface? If so, it will be in Sygic's settings.

Otherwise, what produced this pop-up? Android doesn't do that by default (though that will change with Android M), so it must be some app that produced it (are you rooted?). In which case, it will be that app you need to open to change this.

 

[Rastislav Galvanek]

This is from messenger but the same matter and it is the same window for every app so I think it comes from android or maybe from some sort of a security app but if so it had to be preinstalled, I m not rooted.
Edit I accidently checkced "Do not remind again"

 

[Hadron]

What device is this? Those cellular signal icons (2 sets, different colours) are nothing I've seen before, but modifications to that do require root.

It's certainly not a standard Android feature. Really never seen that before.

 

[Rastislav Galvanek]

It's Prestigio Multiphone 5455 DUO

 

[electricpete]

Rooted?

 

[electricpete]

What's that M icon..... McAfee?
Try turning that off.

if you get a noTification asking with the alert pop-up...long press to see what application generated it.

 

[Rastislav Galvanek]

Thanks for trying to help me, but I solved it finally ->Settings->Security->AppPremissions and there are options like Send SMS, Get Position, Use Camera... and for every app if it asks for that premission there are three choices (allways ask, deny, allow). I dont know if it is standard of Android(according yours reactions it isnt) or Prestigio. I dont think that McAffee or Cleen Master have anything with that to do and device is in "system original" state -> no root, no modes or whatever.
So solution was easy I dont know how could I miss that choice in settings when I was trying to solve it in the morning.

 

[Hadron]

No, that's not standard KitKat. It's something that you can add via an app to a rooted phone, or is sometimes baked into a custom ROM, but this is the first time I've heard of a stock ROM having that.

Something like that is promised as a feature of the next major Android release though.

BTW, you mention Clean Master: for the love of all that's holy, delete that thing immediately. It degrades phone performance and Cheetah Mobile apps have been documented as a major privacy risk (sending your data to various servers in China, using malware techniques to spread the apps, etc). I'm quite serious, I would never allow any app by that company onto my phone.

 

[Rastislav Galvanek]

Ok thanks for advice McAffe is better, or what would you recommend? Both were preinstaled in my phone when I bought it an I dont like bothering with something what works and untill I didn't have this issue with navigation it was OK.

 

[Hadron]

I would recommend neither. But of the two, McAfee I would regard as simply unnecessary, while Clean Master I would classify as unwanted and possibly malicious.

Frankly as long as you only install apps from reputable sites (e.g. Play Store), and pay a little attention to what you are installing (check the permissions the app requests are reasonable for what it does, for example), you don't need security software. There are no "viruses" for Android, in the correct sense of self-propagating malware, so the malware that exists relies on tricking you into installing it. If you take a little care you are unlikely to ever have a problem.

But if you want some peace of mind, you could install MalwareBytes and just scan the device every now and then. If McAfee can be set to just scan apps when installed rather than being continuously active that might also give you some reassurance without the overhead of constant scanning, but I certainly wouldn't have one scanning continuously or checking each app every time I open it.