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Ringtone permissions

See original GitHub issue

Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.liveultrahealthy.violet/com.liveultrahealthy.violet.ui.settings.SettingsActivity}: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri content://media/external/audio/media/50 from pid=19062, uid=10187 requires android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, or grantUriPermission()
       at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1546)
       at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:185)
       at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:137)
       at android.content.ContentProviderProxy.query(ContentProviderNative.java:421)
       at android.content.ContentResolver.query(ContentResolver.java:513)
       at android.content.ContentResolver.query(ContentResolver.java:448)
       at com.lge.media.RingtoneManagerEx.getActualDefaultRingtoneUri(RingtoneManagerEx.java:244)
       at android.media.RingtoneEx.getTitle(RingtoneEx.java:177)
       at android.media.RingtoneEx.getTitle(RingtoneEx.java:145)
       at com.liveultrahealthy.violet.ui.settings.SettingsFragment$1.onPreferenceChange(SettingsFragment.java:65)
       at com.liveultrahealthy.violet.ui.settings.SettingsFragment.bindPreferenceSummaryToValue(SettingsFragment.java:80)
       at com.liveultrahealthy.violet.ui.settings.SettingsFragment.onCreatePreferences2(SettingsFragment.java:152)
       at android.support.v7.preference.XpPreferenceFragment.onCreatePreferences(XpPreferenceFragment.java:53)
       at android.support.v7.preference.PreferenceFragmentCompat.onCreate(PreferenceFragmentCompat.java:216)
       at com.liveultrahealthy.violet.ui.settings.SettingsFragment.onCreate(SettingsFragment.java:102)
...

Device: LG H634 Android 5.1.1

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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consp1racycommented, Sep 21, 2017

Yeah, me too, just about yesterday I grew tired of it and just wrapped the Ringtone.getTitle call in try-catch and just set the summary to "???" if it fails.

Here’s what I found out:

This will happen when the user has a default ringtone from external storage and the app is not granted the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. Those are apps that do not specify it in their manifest below API 23 and apps over API 23 that have not been granted the runtime permission.
For devices with API <23 just request the permission in manifest. It will solve you a lot of headaches, not just this one. For example Samsung Gallery doesn’t grant you URI permissions when obtaining images, so you have to rely on the manifest permission anyway to actually read the image.
On API 23+ there are two cases: a) The user has granted you READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission, set a ringtone from external storage and then revoked the permission. You can work around this one by also saving the ringtone title when it’s picked. b) The user hasn’t granted you the runtime permission yet so you have no means of getting the ringtone title. And you don’t want to flash the Permission dialog for no apparent reason. This one really is a bitch.

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consp1racycommented, Oct 4, 2017

@dirkam Please update to 1.3.1. There was a NullPointerException possibility in 1.3.0.

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