Archos Updates Manager is an Android app developed by Archos S.A. (12 rue Ampère 91430 Igny France). Others apps created by Archos S.A. are: Archos Video Player, Archos Remote Control.

It is estimated that Archos Updates Manager has been downloaded between 1000000 and 5000000 times from the Play Store.

Archos Updates Manager 1.16 requires the following permissions:

Allows read/write access to the "properties" table in the checkin database, to change values that get uploaded.

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows an application to collect battery statistics

Allows an application to tell the AppWidget service which application can access AppWidget's data. The normal user flow is that a user picks an AppWidget to go into a particular host, thereby giving that host application access to the private data from the AppWidget app. An application that has this permission should honor that contract.

The system process that is allowed to bind to services in carrier apps will have this permission. Carrier apps should use this permission to protect their services that only the system is allowed to bind to.

Must be required by a InCallService, to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by a RemoteViewsService, to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by a ConnectionService, to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by a TvInputService to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Must be required by a WallpaperService, to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Allows applications to pair bluetooth devices without user interaction, and to allow or disallow phonebook access or message access. This is not available to third party applications.

Allows an application to call any phone number, including emergency numbers, without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call being placed.

Allows an application to capture audio output.

Allows an application to capture secure video output.

Allows an application to capture video output.

Allows an application to change whether an application component (other than its own) is enabled or not.

Allows an application to modify the current configuration, such as locale.

Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.

Allows an application to clear the caches of all installed applications on the device.

Allows enabling/disabling location update notifications from the radio.

Allows an application to delete cache files.

Allows an application to delete packages.

Allows an application to retrieve state dump information from system services.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

This permission can be used on content providers to allow the global search system to access their data. Typically it used when the provider has some permissions protecting it (which global search would not be expected to hold), and added as a read-only permission to the path in the provider where global search queries are performed. This permission can not be held by regular applications; it is used by applications to protect themselves from everyone else besides global search.

Allows an application to install a location provider into the Location Manager.

Allows an application to install packages.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to use location features in hardware, such as the geofencing api.

Allows an application to know what content is playing and control its playback.

Allows modification of the telephony state - power on, mmi, etc. Does not include placing calls.

Allows formatting file systems for removable storage.

Allows mounting and unmounting file systems for removable storage.

Allows an application to collect component usage statistics

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows an application to take screen shots and more generally get access to the frame buffer data.

Allows an application to read the low-level system log files.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows applications to read the sync settings.

Allows an application to read voicemails in the system.

Required to be able to reboot the device.

Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting. If you don't request this permission, you will not receive the broadcast at that time. Though holding this permission does not have any security implications, it can have a negative impact on the user experience by increasing the amount of time it takes the system to start and allowing applications to have themselves running without the user being aware of them. As such, you must explicitly declare your use of this facility to make that visible to the user.

Allows an application (Phone) to send a request to other applications to handle the respond-via-message action during incoming calls.

Allows an application to control whether activities are immediately finished when put in the background.

Modify the global animation scaling factor.

Configure an application for debugging.

Allows an application to set the maximum number of (not needed) application processes that can be running.

Allows applications to set the system time.

Allow an application to request that a signal be sent to all persistent processes.

Allows an application to open, close, or disable the status bar and its icons.

Allows an application to update device statistics.

Allows applications to write the apn settings.

Allows an application to write to external storage.

Allows an application to modify the Google service map.

Allows an application to read or write the secure system settings.

Allows an application to modify and remove existing voicemails in the system.