Help KitKat update

[codesplice]

The Bastards.... Did Steve Job's get resurrected as a Google exec? Looks like that is the direction they are headed in.

Yeah, they're changing Android to become another walled garden, blocking third-party battery monitoring apps is just the first phase in their Evil Plan.

At any rate, what actually happened is that Google changed the properties for the ACCESS_BATTERY_STATS permission to restrict it to system and/or Google-signed apps. I'm sure this is somehow a security fix, but I can't find any details on why the change was made.

There's an open thread on the Android issue tracker with lots of users and developers essentially petitioning for Google to revert the commit that changed this, so feel free to go star up that issue if you'd like.

 

[ooberandy]

I've got an issue with high Android OS running. I went to download a wakelock app and noticed a few developers saying that they would only work with rooted devices, so thats another wall el goog seem to be putting up

 

[John Bean]

Blocked app access to battery stats?

Very odd. The app I use still works perfectly:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.smalltech.battery.free

I don't know if everything still works but all the bits I use do, I haven't noticed any difference since I updated. And my Nexus 4 isn't currently rooted in 4.4 but was in 4.3.

 

[codesplice]

Blocked app access to battery stats?

Very odd. The app I use still works perfectly:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.smalltech.battery.free

I don't know if everything still works but all the bits I use do, I haven't noticed any difference since I updated. And my Nexus 4 isn't currently rooted in 4.4 but was in 4.3.

That one doesn't appear to access detailed OS-level battery stats (specifically wakelock information), so it wouldn't be having trouble with 4.4 anyway.

 

[John Bean]

That explains it then.

 

[jhonb]

Blocked app access to battery stats?

Very odd. The app I use still works perfectly:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.smalltech.battery.free

I don't know if everything still works but all the bits I use do, I haven't noticed any difference since I updated. And my Nexus 4 isn't currently rooted in 4.4 but was in 4.3.

Thanks,I will give that one a try.

 

[alikhd]

Guys i received my ota update too but i keep facing the signature failed when i install it. Then nothing happens . i tried to disable verification but it ends with installation aborted

 

[codesplice]

Guys i received my ota update too but i keep facing the signature failed when i install it. Then nothing happens . i tried to disable verification but it ends with installation aborted

 

[Rxpert83]

Are you completely stock, including the stock recovery? As far as I know, the stock recovery MUST be used for OTA updates.

Twrp can flash OTA updates, but it'll be rewritten the by stock upon boot

 

[alikhd]

My device is rooted and i already installed apk and clocworkmode recovery before. Note that i got the official update , i didnt clear google frameworks. Also update failure happens at the clockworkmode recovery level after the device reboot for installing updates