@ -1572,17 +1572,95 @@ same broadcast receiver in the XML??
August 25, 2022.
Reimer Prochnow sent a patch to use the new Android 11 permissions! He
is disappointed that it does not seem to allow more access than before,
Reimer Prochnow sent a patch to use the new Android 11 permissions! They
are disappointed that it does not seem to allow more access than before,
but it will nonetheless probably be necessary when I update to the new
sdk.
Leaving it in reimer_prochnow-manage_extensions.path until then.
Leaving it in reimer_prochnow-manage_extensions.patch until then.
September 4, 2022.
I want to resolve the two big problems for me since Android 11.
The resource starvation is bad. It is about 50/50 on completing my
morning rsync, and unfortunately it's streaky so I will go weeks without
a successful backup, I guess. And interactively, it seems to get about
2s of execution out of every 5 minutes, even if the phone is extremely
active in another app. It is definitely freezing it, not merely failing
to keep the CPU hot. The only way I can think to make progress on this
is to look in the Android framework and try to figure out what the actual
heuristic is for freezing. Or trial and error with dumb things like wake
locks and so on. But that's not what they're for! Ugh.
Oh, I found https://dontkillmyapp.com/oneplus, which led me to some
stabbing around in the UI. I found and enabled hidden app settings for
"auto launch" (which might solve start-on-boot), and "never optimize
battery", and in the task switcher long-pressed on SimpleSSHD then
"lock". And that seems to have done it! It only starves for resources
if the phone is asleep! Well, maybe. I will have to wait and see.
I can't tell how it's really working, but after about 30 seconds of
while true; do date; sleep 1; date
it stops, but then it immediately resumes the moment I hit enter on my
terminal! I'm having a hard time imagining the heuristic it uses to
detect that event.
Anyways, too bad that's a OnePlus-specific hack that won't help anyone else.
But I should probably add dontkillmyapp.com to the doc, I guess.
The other problem is the inability to trigger an intent from the shell,
which is single-handedly responsible for me needing a cable just to
upgrade my own apps. "am" used to allow this, but it now says (on
stderr):
java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial:
package=com.android.shell does not belong to uid=10278
I googled that and found confirmation of the problem, but no reported
work-around. It doesn't matter what I put as --user: none, --user 0,
--user 278, --user 10278, all the same result. --user -1 gives a
different error "Error: Can't start service with user 'all'". I did find
a report that "am start-foreground-service" still works but I'm shrugging
at it. It has been becoming harder to launch "am" over the years and if
this isn't when the camel broke, then I think I'd rather not know.
FWIW, the --user 0 one works under 'adb shell'. Of course.
I want to take the first timid step towards the future nuclear option. I
want to make a way for my unix environment to communicate with the java
side of SimpleSSHD, so that it can launder requests as if they are coming
from Java.
It seems like something on the order of a named pipe, AF_UNIX socket, or
a TCP/IP socket is indicated. The TCP/IP socket could be plausibly
secure by providing an authentication string in a $SIMPLESSHD_TOKEN env
var that would authenticate it?
And a third problem! I keep losing the ability to write to /sdcard.
The upshot is, this time I got it back simply by doing
"... -> Enable /sdcard" again. Why does it lose that? In settings ->
apps -> SimpleSSHD -> Permissions it says "Allowed Storage All Files",
but it also says, at the bottom, in small print:
To protect your data, if the app is unused for a few months, the
following permissions will be removed: Storage
Well it hasn't been a few months but it does very much seem like someone
is removing or degrading the storage permission on some sort of schedule.
Sigh.
XXX - each time it starts, mkdir apiXX (if not present), fill in apiXX/ss_api (if not present), ln -sf apiXX api (overwriting if different), fork a thread in java that listens on 127.0.0.1:port, set $SS_TOKEN, $SS_PORTNO
XXX - make api for start http intent
XXX - make api for start apk install intent?
XXX - try MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission -> ACTION_MANAGE_ALL_FILES_ACCESS_PERMISSION intent action, will that help??
XXX - should probably add dontkillmyapp.com to the doc
XXX - why is it 100% starved of foreground service cpu time, unless it happens to have been running when i switched away from the app
Greg Alexander
2 years ago