hicaller Android Permission BreakDown
Revised August 4, 2018



Permission BreakDown

Full network access: Required to communicate with hicaller servers and perform searches. 


View network and Wi-Fi connections: Required to check if the device has an active connection. 


Receive data from Internet: Required to receive push notifications. 


Read phone status and identity: Required to detect EVENTS like incoming calls, answering calls and ending calls. 


Prevent device from sleeping: Required to show the Caller Id window during INCOMING calls and to receive push notifications when the device has the screen locked. 


Read your contacts: Required to access and upload your contacts to our servers for improving hicaller services e.g excluding already known people from the search,etc. 


Read your Call Log: To let you search directly from call history. 


Modify or delete the contents of your USB storage: Required to save the PROFILE picture together with the ones of the other found people. 



Run at startup: kepping the hicaller service up for caller id detection during calls.