From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 06:46:37 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: ; * etc/PROBLEMS: Document how to grant storage permissions on Wear OS.
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; * etc/PROBLEMS: Document how to grant storage permissions on Wear OS.

(cherry picked from commit 81ca9c75f1170f2b4cc85c69e859f68da4c508e4)
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 5c95afa67ca..5fdb4bd95db 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -3804,6 +3804,16 @@ devices manufactured by OnePlus and possibly others.  Sadly, to the best
 of our knowledge such events cannot be distinguished from legitimate
 keypresses.
 
+** Emacs crashes or is not acknowledged by the OS when requesting storage permissions.
+
+This is only possible on Wear OS (an Android distribution), where the
+system component that provides confirmation dialogs for this type of
+permission is unavailable.  You may circumvent this component by
+connecting to your device over ADB as in the preceding entries and
+executing:
+
+  $ adb shell appops set --uid org.gnu.emacs MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE allow
+
 * Build-time problems
 
 ** Configuration