PDroid Privacy Protection

After many hours trying to get the patch to work on my phone (come hell or high water I was determined to get this working!), I found out that my problem was version 1.32 of the patcher. Once I patched with version 1.31 everything worked perfectly and I was able to boot. Wonderful app though, is exactly what I wanted. Wish it had a block by default feature though to make absolute sure an app never gets any info.

Version for ICS or JB coming? Also, default protection sets would be great, rather than doing each app separately... Set up is slow, but the rewards _are_ huge. Terrific work by Dev!

Many ppl won't contact the dev or go to xda and depend on market reviews. Anyway, works fine but FCs refreshing app list on 300 of 422.

This is not a complete app and installing it is not even the first part of the process of getting it all to work. You need to do a lot of other hardcore low-level stuff to your system to get this to work, it's kind of misleading to have this up on the app store looking like a regular app. Didn't really go through all the hassle of making it work so I can't say more.

So I guess this app doesn't work on ICS so I'm kinda out of luck. Hopefully it will be updated as it says. Looking forward to using this app. Droid 4

I downloaded this at first because it said NO ROOT NEEDED but it don't matter because I have my phone rooted now but the need to download a patch to get it to work is too much. Why not update the app with the patch already so there is no need for another download.

This will work for virtually any build, if you actually read the XDA thread and add it into the ROM zip file. To those who are whining: 1. It's free, and the dev obviously devoted a lot of time to get it this far; 2. Do a little work, you might actually learn something; 3. If every complaint was $10 to the dev, you might actually get changes to what is already a priceless app; 4. Change it yourself and share it with the world (if I don't beat you to it).

Spent well over an hour tonight trying to figure out how to get this to work with different combinations... so frustrated I want it so bad!!!

Please keep it up! Crashes sometimes, but ok! Cant use my phone anymore without this extension!

Thanks to someone's patch. Pity the dev seems to have lost interest, or maybe some covert government organisation has performed a lobotomy on him...

Loving this. Running a custom ICS ROM on my SGT. Now I fear that OI have slammed the stable door after the horse has bolted, but better late than never.

Great app.why would I want a app to access my contacts on my sum card? Etc. Took some time to work out mod of current from but worth every min. Root your phone and get this all for privacy. great work developer 100 stars if possible

App gives the owner the right to decide. This should be built into all android phones as a basic function. Well done dev, you are hero to all who value privacy.

Pdroid patcher and this app are great. I can't imagine a smartphone that doesn't have the functionality of pdroid anymore. To people with JB or ICS, Google autopatcher on xda.

Best blocker out there, hands down. Combine this with auto_patcher from XDA and yer in business. Running on CM10 nightlies and no issues here. Now let's see this and PDroid AddOn combined. That would be an epic app!

Small hassle with patching rom but once done, this works great. You'll be shocked what apps are able to access about your phone/tablet.

someone takes privacy seriously. This app (on a patched ROM) allows full control of what apps can access to.

Anyone concerned about app privacy needs this. Thanks dev - not just for the app but for the ROM Patcher too. Didn't work for me at first, but have a 64-bit system so installed 32-bit JDK instead, re-ran the Patch process (v 1.31) and it worked just fine. If you have a 64-bit sys, try that as a troubleshooting step first.

Very nice software if you understand what security in a modern society is. Use it together with LBE (in fact it would be great if PDroid also support blocking of "services that cost you money" like SMS sending - something that LBE has and PDroid hasn't - but anyway 5* are earned).

DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO UNINSTALL THIS??? It crashes all the time. Was working fine for the last month but suddenly started FCing

@John & Adam Learn to read. It says only for Gingerbread in the description. Man I hate bad reviews because of stupidity.

Great app but hard to find patch if you use a rom other than above.

I have to say that the patch and the app are the best privacy solution I've seen on Android so far. Too bad it's not being developed any longer. It takes some skill and knowledge to get it working, but my time was worth it. I will miss it on ICS and JB. I know other devs are writing PDROID 2, but it it's a lot of work to get it going a lot more than with this one.

Thanks for the previous comments that others made they R right the patch v1.32 doesn't work but v1.31 did. j just had to find it.

Can't use it on my phone as there is no ICS support but devs say it'll come soon. Great app, can't wait to use it again.

Allows ics phones to download the incompatible app. A message in the app informs you it won't work.

PDroid gives the control over your personal data back to you! Excellent app!

Awesome app + patch. For those with trouble thinking the app alone is enough, please be more careful with reading. Follow the links provided to xda forums and learn how to patch it from there. Nobody said this would be easy, it isn't just an app to download and poof its all there. Changes to the framework have to be made and that is where the patch comes in. If you aren't able to get it to work with the immense amount of information provided, you shouldn't vote on this app at all. To judge it because you couldn't figure it out is just nonsense. To the 1 star that thought you could use the patcher in android from your phone... READ THAT IS A WINDOWS patcher. Meaning, you need to use it from Windows on your downloaded rom. ***This isn't very difficult to do*** Follow the instructions on the XDA link provided.

Not sure why this isn't specified in the description?... Will gladly chance my rating when my Gnex is supported.

To old now and no updates by the looks of it

This is the perfect app for privacy. You control the apps permissions. Power to the people!!!

Does this app work on htc explorer ? , its looks like a great app!

To have buttons to trust or block an app completely, so you don't have to select each one

Awesome but imilk and ibeer have hidden permissions p Droid misses them Awesome but imilk and ibeer have hidden permissions pDroid misses them completely but you can see the pop ups

I don't know if the supporter is alive but would be great to add support for froyo since it says coming soon....

One of my favourite apps, hurry up with the ICS update... mmm sandwich... BTW It's not his fault or responsibility to upgrade this app to ICS, he made it for gb. Life gets in the way sometimes people. So neg'ing his awesome work cause you're not on gingerbread is childish.

This app works great. I'm also really impressed with the automagic patcher. There was no patch for my rom but making one was almost too easy.

When I got my Android phone, I was shocked that I cannot deny permissions to applications. This app FINALLY fixes this properly. Other applications that deny permission cause many apps to FC. With this you can provide fake data, thats the best part.

One of the best apps in the market! Gives you total control and secures your phone perfectly. The only downside is that it doesn't support ICS yet.

This is probably the best privacy app available...however, the process to get it wotking neds a lot of help. you need to patch the android kernel on your pc and current patch sotware doesn't work well. So if you like spending hours on forums figuring out what the hell is going on. Then this is for you! Still though i think it was worth the effort