"ro" stands for "read only" and even members of the Android team
cannot write applications that change these properties. You can read
the value of the ro.* properties but not change them.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Hans <hkess...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Google applications do it, and apparently it used to be part of the
> public API (via android.os.SystemProperties.)
>
> How are we supposed to enable/disable sync on the phone?
>
> Disabling/enabling roaming is easy, but I'm beating my head against
> the wall trying to find a non-hack method for disabling auto-sync
> (much less the granularity that would actually be nice.)
>
> Is this intentional by the framework team?  Is it a whoopsie that is
> planned to be changed later?
>
> Thanks,
>
>        Hans :)
> >
>



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