Hi all,
I am having trouble installing the privileged extension on (non-rooted) linageos 19.1 (unofficial because official support for my device was discontinued unfortunately 
)
I flashed the fdroid privileged extension .zip OTA just after flashing the lineageos ROM from TWRP (adb sideload) before rebooting to system. I then installed fdroidâs APK, but it did not âseeâ the privileged extension somehow.
To try and fix this:
- I downloaded the OTA .zip privileged extension from fdroid and installed it with TWRP from /data/data/⌠(logs seemed OK)
- It did not seem to work, so I also tried installing the rooted device version from fdroid (which was probably stupid, since my device is not rooted)
- I uninstalled it, still from fdroidâŚ
- I now can check âuse privileged extensionâ in the settings, but I am getting âError installing RandomAppFromFdroid. Privileged permissions have not been given to the app. Please report this bugâ
So my questions are:
- Is it possible to get the privileged version to work on this unofficial lineageos rom?
- Did I mess up my fdroid install and if yes, how could I fix it?
My workaround was to uncheck the âuse privileged extensionâ from fdroidâs settings, which is fine, but I like the background auto update of froid installed appsâŚ
Thanks for any tip or direction about what to try next!
Android 12 is not supported
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It should work fine on 12.
Well these are interesting answers. 
Any idea why it doesnât not work on my device @SkewedZeppelin?
Logcat during install will say.
Took me some time, but hereâs a logcat during a failed install:
05-09 10:02:09.888 14367 14381 D PrivilegedExtension: Checking if package is allowed to access privileged extension: org.fdroid.fdroid
05-09 10:02:09.890 14367 14381 D PrivilegedExtension: Allowed cert hash: 43238d512c1e5eb2d6569f4a3afbf5523418b82e0a3ed1552770abb9a9c9ccab
05-09 10:02:09.891 14367 14381 D PrivilegedExtension: Package cert hash: 43238d512c1e5eb2d6569f4a3afbf5523418b82e0a3ed1552770abb9a9c9ccab
05-09 10:02:09.891 14367 14381 D PrivilegedExtension: Package is allowed to access the privileged extension!
05-09 10:02:09.895 14346 14346 E AppDetailsActivity: install aborted with errorMessage: Les autorisations privilĂŠgiĂŠes nâÂÂont pas ĂŠtĂŠ accordĂŠes Ă lâÂÂapplication. Veuillez signaler ce bogue.
I donât know if this helps. Iâm willing to try things out if it can help me and others to get this to work. I have no clue what to try next
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The PrivExt apk needs the permission whitelist too.
Try installing via the OTA again or use an OS with the PrivExt included.
Thanks for your reply!
The PrivExt apk needs the permission whitelist too.
It never requested these unfortunately. In android settings I can see the app but cannot change anything about its permissions:
There is a âspecial permissionsâ dialog but the privileged extension is not listed there:
Try installing via the OTA again
Just did it again, and it did not change anything. TWRP reports âf-droid successfully installedâ and âf-droid priv ext successfully installedâ thoughâŚ
use an OS with the PrivExt included
Oh I wish I could but LineageOS discontinued official support for my device unfortunately. But the unofficial build from xda-developers is quite good so far, except for not providing fdroid and fdroidâs priv ext by defaultâŚ
I guess I will go the âroot the deviceâ way to get the privileged extension to work thenâŚ
Such special permissions can only be granted by a permission whitelist file in
/etc/permissions.
Interesting! I didnât come across this piece of info before you mentioned. (Iâm pretty lost when it comes to androidâŚ)
I did this:
> adb shell
mido:/ $ ls -l /etc/permissions/
total 136
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 846 2009-01-01 01:00 android.hardware.biometrics.face.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1050 2009-01-01 01:00 android.software.live_wallpaper.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 748 2009-01-01 01:00 android.software.webview.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 777 2009-01-01 01:00 android.test.base.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 777 2009-01-01 01:00 android.test.mock.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 781 2009-01-01 01:00 android.test.runner.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1306 2009-01-01 01:00 com.android.documentsui.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 807 2009-01-01 01:00 com.android.future.usb.accessory.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 801 2009-01-01 01:00 com.android.location.provider.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 805 2009-01-01 01:00 com.android.media.remotedisplay.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 797 2009-01-01 01:00 com.android.mediadrm.signer.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1277 2009-01-01 01:00 com.android.networkstack.tethering.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2003 2009-01-01 01:00 com.android.networkstack.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 541 2009-01-01 01:00 com.qti.snapdragon.sdk.display.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 763 2009-01-01 01:00 javax.obex.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 787 2009-01-01 01:00 org.apache.http.legacy.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 2022-05-10 22:13 org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14960 2009-01-01 01:00 platform.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295 2009-01-01 01:00 privapp-permissions-org.pixelexperience.faceunlock.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34087 2009-01-01 01:00 privapp-permissions-platform.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5153 2009-01-01 01:00 privapp-permissions-qti.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 2009-01-01 01:00 qcom.fmradio.xml
mido:/ $ cat /etc/permissions/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.xml
<permissions>
<privapp-permissions package="org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged">
<permission name="android.permission.DELETE_PACKAGES"/>
<permission name="android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES"/>
</privapp-permissions>
</permissions>
but no change, even after âsuccessfullyâ flashing the priv ext OTA in TWRP again. Did I do something wrong? Or does this ROM somehow prevents the priv ext to work? (according to a reply from their telegram group, priv ext was not tested but should work)
