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Asked: 2026-06-17T13:50:07+00:00

I know that this is not the first Thread about this permission, however the

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I know that this is not the first Thread about this permission, however the other ones aren’t finished or don’t help me.

What I need is to inflate KeyEvents using Instrumentation. That works great and is insanely faster than the shell (“input keyevent “) method. But if I want to inject to other apps I catch a SecurityException. That didn’t surprise me to much so I added <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INJECT_EVENTS" /> to my manifest. Eclipse stops to debug this telling me that only system apps can use this permission. So I compiled using the signed apk tool and pushed that apk to /system/app. Rebooted, and guess what

W/PackageManager( 3499): Not granting permission android.permission.INJECT_EVENTS to package com.<....> (protectionLevel=2 flags=0x8be45)

The app is targeted for only one special device. So I know all the specs and it is rooted. But su injection-commands take to long and SuperUser is required. I would love to do that with Instrumentation or maybe there is something else I should try?

The firmware is not written by me, so I don’t have the platform key.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT: Got the platform keys (The dev used the normal Google ones), signed and aligned, then pushed the apk to /system/app. Also added android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system" to my manifest. On Boot there is no longer the logcat message. However when I want to send the keysync I still catche the SecurityException. Any ideas?

EDIT2: Here is an excerpt from ps. Seems like the package ist not listed as system

u0_a108   5241  2399  492044 48968 ffffffff 40113ab0 S com.mypackage
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  1. Editorial Team

    Update

    Use the signtool located here, then go ahead and read on in my blog.

    Ok, I got the right platform-keys and it works like a charm now! I signed using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125626
    and replaced (renamed the sign…. to testkey….) the testkeys inside signare folder with

    signapk-key.platform.x509.pem
signapk-key.platform.pk8

    (Google for them)

    Also make sure to zipalign and then to copy to /system/app. Installing the .apk the normal way is NOT possible as it is flagged as System app.

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