[Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 Android Development] r2d23cpo:
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Since this is a stolen space form Pimpdroid I want to ask for forgiveness of the use of its space and to let Pimpdroid fanatics that the problem I mention below has nothing to do with the stability of Pimpdroid. Except for the two or three services that hangs. Pimpdroid works like a charm once you freeze or uninstall them. At least with the Xperia launcher that I used. I like it, it seems fast to me.

What I describe below is my attempt to Fix 4.4.2 Read/Write to external SDCARD. Problem that relate to 4.4.2 and not Pimpdroid. I have tested for a Day the Fix again and this time the Fix is working without loosing the SDCARDs. Still under test. But I prefer to explicit explaining what I did just so everyone understand.

So Click [CLICK TO SHOW CONTENT] to read on my report.

I do not deny I am one of those! Yes I am paranoid about Google, Intel, Samsung and Apps that pushes all those adds in your phone and any one that think my phone or tablet belong to them just because there is a license. They will change things in your android, they do it almost daily.

I say this because I want you guys to understand that yesterday’s failure may not relate to the fix I am proposing or testing. Instead could be the result of Various Active Filters I put in place over Pimpdroid to fight my Paranoid. Versus Google services trying to overcome some of them!!! Yes my paranoid, I know.

I do not promote any app in particular but this are the ones I use freeeeeeeee.

*Firewall -> Android Firewall , I use this to take away all Wireless data privileges almost to all apps. Normally I will only enable wifi just to the apps I use at the moment.

*Addaware Bloker -> AdAway , This will require root access and wifi for 10 minutes the first time while it set the Linux IPtable in your Android phone.

*Android App and services Freezer -> AppQuarentine , this magical program freezes almost any service or app. While they are freeze those routine should not run and do not eat resources.

If you like you could also fake your position with “Fake Location” or “Fake location Path” but this is not one of my immediate needs. Still many apps try to turn your GPS on to know where you are!! Fake location will provide a fake location that will keep you battery safe by not turning GPS on.

With those rules my Battery Life is at the minimum double of normal. Taking in account I do not do Social Media and that I read my Mail just once or twice a day. Clearly Battery is drained by our Big Screen, nothing that I can do about it except lowering the light intensity.

Why I took the time and effort to say this? Because as you can see I am NOT letting most Intel/Samsung/Google services to connect to their servers. And I have a feeling that at least Google Play/Framework is doing weird stuff trying to combat my Game Rules!!!

I am taking about

Google Account Manager=>com.google.android.gfs.login

Google Services Framework=>com.google.android.gfs

Google Play Services=> com.google.android.gms

Google Play Store=> com.google.vending

Before 4.4.2 I use to freeze com.google.android.gms & com.google.vending just to make sure Google Play does not start to Forcedly Update some of my Apps. Because Google Play update things even when you set No Automatic update!!!. And Google Play Services is been used for many apps to request Googles resources like Positioning, Maps etc.

So here in 4.4.2 I am starting to receive this message:

“An Application requires Google Play Services to be enabled, Requested by com.google.android.gfs.login”. Ahaaaaa, so now Google in 4.4.2 is realizing that I disable(Freeze) some of the services and is kindly to let me know that it does not like it.!!!! Sure I bet you, it will end overriding some of my rules. Again my paranoid.

I think I also saw Google Services Framework crash yesterday just when I lost access to the SDCARDs by the apps!!!

Any way here is my report, when I had the SDCARD problem I could not recover from it. I even wipe cashe, Dalvik and even reinstall Pimpdroid over. The problem persisted. I saw a glimps of a log that claimed there was something corrupted in “/system/etc/permisions” exactly where

I was changing stuff in my Fix test.

So to resolve the problem I used “Clean to Install a New Rom” option inside the “Wipe and Format Options” of Philz recovery. And reinstall Pimpdroid.

Then I proceeded to Setup Tablet and installed all the apps I previously mention. I try to use “App Backup and Restore” . Surely I could not do simply because 4.4.2 do not let the program read from External SdCard where I save my programs. I know that Root Explorer was my savior with the problem so I installed First. In any case I need it to set \System from ReadOnly to Writable. Then I went to edit “/system/etc/permisions/platform.xml”

This time I added in this way:

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

<group gid="sdcard_rw" />

<group gid="media_rw" />

</permission>

And I been working for more than a day without any problem.

So what that means, well In my case that I can use “App Backup and Restore” to restore all my apps from the External SDCARD. Sadly “App Backup and Restore” have not naturally detected the external SDCARD. So I was forced to go into settings and set the Path to my Stored apps manually [\storage\extSdCard\App_Backup_Restore].

After all this I even installed aMPdriod and started to watch D!shn3twork on my Tab3.