"Ice Cream Sandwich" and WRITE_APN_SETTINGS

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user1128166 picture user1128166 · Jan 3, 2012 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

Does anybody know how to write app for "Ice Cream Sandwich" using WRITE_APN_SETTINGS permission ? WRITE_APN_SETTINGS is now ignored in ICS and code touching APNs fails.

Answer

Dino Fancellu picture Dino Fancellu · Jun 26, 2012

Yes, Google high handedly decided to remove this. No dialogue comes up for confirmation, they simply make it fail. Thanks for acting like Apple! This ruins the user experience for users of non standard APNs (I'm on giffgaff which Google decided not to put on the official ICS list, once again, thanks). So I had to enter all the settings by hand. Think of all the users who simply wouldn't have a clue, this is insane.

You might like to make your feelings known to Google.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24227&can=1&q=WRITE_APN_SETTINGS&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=29264&can=1&q=WRITE_APN_SETTINGS&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars

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