'ActivityManager does not hold REAL_GET_TASKS warning

I'm getting a warning message on my android phone (Nexus 5) from the ActivityManager. It doesn't seem to be from any particular application. And it keeps displaying about ever 2 seconds. Anyone know why this is happening? Or what I should look into to find out more about it?

Solution 1:^[1]

Looks like an app is using permission for GET_TASKS which was deprecated in Lollipop: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#GET_TASKS

The error is specifying that REAL_GET_TASKS be used instead and there's a bug report about this issue (though I'm not spending the time to see if its the exact same issue): https://code.google.com/p/android-developer-preview/issues/detail?id=2347

Sorry (I looked it up now), 10078 is the UID according to the code:

private boolean isGetTasksAllowed(String caller, int callingPid, int callingUid) {
...
if (!allowed) {
    Slog.w(TAG, caller + ": caller " + callingUid
    + " does not hold GET_TASKS; limiting output");
}

https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/services/core/java/com/android/server/am/ActivityManagerService.java

The caller is a method of ActivityManager: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActivityManager.html#getRunningAppProcesses%28%29

I have no idea what 10078 uid actually is on your device. You can try 'adb shell' then 'id' and hopefully it shows up.