title: Why am I seeing an error when making a call from the adb shell?
body: <p>This used to work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.CALL tel:1234
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, now I get this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>09-08 14:35:57.821 W/dalvikvm( 1107): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001b200)
  09-08 14:35:57.841 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
  09-08 14:35:57.841 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107): *** EXCEPTION IN SYSTEM PROCESS.  System will crash.
  09-08 14:35:57.871 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107): java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent { act=android.intent.action.CALL dat=tel:1234 flg=0x10000000 cmp=com.android.phone/.OutgoingCallBroadcaster } from null (pid=-1, uid=-1) requires android.permission.CALL_PHONE
  09-08 14:35:57.871 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107):     at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1218)
  09-08 14:35:57.871 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107):     at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1206)
  09-08 14:35:57.871 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107):     at android.app.ActivityManagerProxy.startActivity(ActivityManagerNative.java:1149)
  09-08 14:35:57.871 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107):     at com.android.commands.am.Am.runStart(Am.java:202)
  09-08 14:35:57.871 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107):     at com.android.commands.am.Am.run(Am.java:76)
  09-08 14:35:57.871 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107):     at com.android.commands.am.Am.main(Am.java:54)
  09-08 14:35:57.871 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107):     at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.finishInit(Native Method)
  09-08 14:35:57.871 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107):     at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.main(RuntimeInit.java:186)
  09-08 14:35:57.871 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  09-08 14:35:57.911 E/JavaBinder( 1107): Unknown binder error code. 0xfffffff7
  09-08 14:35:57.921 E/AndroidRuntime( 1107): Crash logging skipped, no checkin service
  09-08 14:35:57.921 I/Process ( 1107): Sending signal. PID: 1107 SIG: 9
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a workaround for this?</p>