Android 11 calamities
Posted: 2022-05-11, 15:11 UTC
Sorry for this kind of off-topic question but a gut-feeling tells me that in this forum I have the best chance to get some advice from Android power-users.
I have switched to a new phone running Android 11 as of recently that would allow me to further stay "in the game", at least kind of, before removable batteries and SD-cards would become completely extinct and users thereby - by obvious malicious intent - ultimately being coerced into paying for their "cloud-based personal espionage devices" even themselves. So I've settled for a somewhat exotic "Fairphone 4" for now despite of its substandard display.
Now after trying to port my trusty old apps to the new device I've run into seemingly serious difficulties.
Some of my favorite apps, like for instance the picture-gallery app "just pictures" seemed to install correctly but now refuse to start/run altogether by constantly popping up a message that the "application has stopped", needless to say without telling me why, and without ever opening any front-page with possible settings to tweak.
Others, like in particular 2 quite recent hex-editor/viewer-apps will open normally - but then cannot show a single file ANYWHERE, by either saying "access denied", even for the complete internal storage, or the other one showing all directories in the file-manager-dialogue correctly but then presenting every one of them as "empty" - even when this is by no means the case.
I have already read about the restriction for programs being unable to look into "foreign" directories and have already unblocked each of them in the "permission manager" - but to no avail.
TCAnd on the other hand, when initially restricted to access certain sub-trees, can handle that situation by offering to grant access by the user via some special screen. Unfortunately TCAnd gives no clue from what exact (Settings-?)-section/location that grant of permission can be accomplished.
Now if those less capable, more primitive other apps do not offer that internal unlocking-capability - is there, apart from the unhelpful permission-manager, any other Settings-region from where I could administer those access-rights actively in a system-wide manner? Some research via the Internet brought up the advice to set the access-permissions for those dirs/files in some kind of "file-sharing-manager" to "Everyone" - not unlike the NTFS-permission-settings. But I have no idea where to find such an equivalent in Android-11.
Any help would be appreciated and I once more apologize for the off-topic character of this post.
I have switched to a new phone running Android 11 as of recently that would allow me to further stay "in the game", at least kind of, before removable batteries and SD-cards would become completely extinct and users thereby - by obvious malicious intent - ultimately being coerced into paying for their "cloud-based personal espionage devices" even themselves. So I've settled for a somewhat exotic "Fairphone 4" for now despite of its substandard display.
Now after trying to port my trusty old apps to the new device I've run into seemingly serious difficulties.
Some of my favorite apps, like for instance the picture-gallery app "just pictures" seemed to install correctly but now refuse to start/run altogether by constantly popping up a message that the "application has stopped", needless to say without telling me why, and without ever opening any front-page with possible settings to tweak.
Others, like in particular 2 quite recent hex-editor/viewer-apps will open normally - but then cannot show a single file ANYWHERE, by either saying "access denied", even for the complete internal storage, or the other one showing all directories in the file-manager-dialogue correctly but then presenting every one of them as "empty" - even when this is by no means the case.
I have already read about the restriction for programs being unable to look into "foreign" directories and have already unblocked each of them in the "permission manager" - but to no avail.
TCAnd on the other hand, when initially restricted to access certain sub-trees, can handle that situation by offering to grant access by the user via some special screen. Unfortunately TCAnd gives no clue from what exact (Settings-?)-section/location that grant of permission can be accomplished.
Now if those less capable, more primitive other apps do not offer that internal unlocking-capability - is there, apart from the unhelpful permission-manager, any other Settings-region from where I could administer those access-rights actively in a system-wide manner? Some research via the Internet brought up the advice to set the access-permissions for those dirs/files in some kind of "file-sharing-manager" to "Everyone" - not unlike the NTFS-permission-settings. But I have no idea where to find such an equivalent in Android-11.
Any help would be appreciated and I once more apologize for the off-topic character of this post.