I used trebuchet's new feature to protect a folder and now I cannot find the messaging app that was in it. It is the default messenger app. I can get to it from the Google launcher but it had disappeared from trebuchet. I unchecked it from the protected apps list also but still cannot find it. Does anybody know how to get those apps back or where to re-enable them? I also tried resetting the locked apps in the settings menu of the protected apps and that did not bring it back either. Other apps that I set to protected did not disappear like the messenger app did. They all showed back up.
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Hi,
I've gotten myself in some kind of mess here. I hope someone has a tip or trick that will help.
The stock email app is my default email app, but according to the OS it's not set as the default, so I can't clear defaults on it. The 'clear defaults' button is not enabled (it's grayed out). So how do I set a different email app as the default?
The phone is not rooted.
Thanks.
Try pressing menu settings applicationa, manage applications. Then all. Then clear data for gmail, email, any email apps you have, and then open your email app and see if it lets u set it as defult
Thanks for the quick response, however after following your suggestion my problem still remains. Any other ideas?
I recently purchased Sliding Messaging and want to use that as the default for SMS and MMS. Every time I reboot my phone, the defaults reset and I am prompted to set them again. What is worse is that some apps do not give the option to select an app and it always uses the stock app.
I have sent new messages and selected Sliding Messaging to be used Always, set Sliding as the default for all received message, and I have cleared the defaults in App Info for stock, but the stock messaging is still the default for random apps and the Sliding as default gets cleared after a reboot. Does anyone know how to prevent this from resetting and how to completely remove the stock from being the default? All of the methods above have worked on my previous devices, but for some reason, it does not work here.
PS - I do not want to freeze the stock app because I need it occasionally to send videos and view certain MMS.
I've been using WidgetLocker from TeslaCoil Software for years. They sadly have stopped working on it and removed it from the play market. So, I decided to figure out how to show my home screen BEFORE unlocking my phone.
It was actually pretty easy. I think you have to be rooted because you have to change application settings.
1) Download an application settings app
I used the Applications Settings app from Xposed, others might work. You have to be able to let apps show while locked. (Also convenient for note taking on the go).
2) Use said app settings app to change the settings for your Home screen app and let it show while locked.
This lets you get to your home screen by pressing softkeys IF it was that last app you were in. Otherwise it forces you to unlock and then goes to the last used app. Not what we want.
3) Install some kind of lockscreen app that lets you put Shortcuts on the lockscreen. I'm using WidgetUnlocker, I lost it in phone wipe without knowing that it was not in the market and downloaded it elsewhere. I had already paid for it and the developer directly told me that they are not working on it anymore in favor of NovaLauncher. I think that there are other lock screen apps that will let you add shortcuts to shortcuts.
3) In said app, make a shortcut that points to Activities -> (YourHomeScreenAppName/Launcher) -> com.android.launcher2.Launcher
TADA! You can now access your home screen before drawing your pattern or pin by using the shortcut you created. You can interact with folders and widgets on your home screen. However, your pattern unlock will appear whenever you try to click on anything that would switch to another app. I've played with this quite extensively and have only one way to get past the pattern; but, it only lets me change the settings with WidgetLocker. .. So, someone could say, add a email / txt / etc widget to WidgetLocker that would let them scroll through you emails or txts etc. However, they would NOT be able to click and access the whole message. (That requires switching to another app besides your Homescreen/Launcher and hence your pattern lock will pop up.)
NOTE: I am not sure exactly how this will work with other lockscreen apps. I'm guessing that it will work with any app that still lets you use your devices pattern or pin lock. I'm not sure about the ones that make you use their app for a pattern etc lock.
I have a dilemma, is it in anyway possible to lock access to settings via the default Huawei App Lock? sibling changes all settings whenever he takes the phone, really annoying af.
No. You need a third party app locker.
Add user and have a different password for it. It will be limited to the account he uses and not to yours so everything will be fine.
That could work too.
Hello,
Since when has facebook been integrated into the os system. I'm pretty sure its only since oreo 8.0.
I have a problem with a notification showing on my facebook, I have no new notifications and this will not go away. Its annoying
Went to uninstall facebook and messenger to find out it only rolls back the update to factory installed app. What the hell??
I don't want his on my phone, I want a clean uninstall and reinstall of the app.
Factory installed app is exactly that. It is held in a part of the memory that cannot be modified so the app is as pure as the day it was flashed. To remove it permanently means rooting the phone.
You can disable the app in settings/apps once it has been cleared to default.
Also you should be able to swipe the notification and permanently exclude them from showing. If not then go to settings - apps - Facebook and disable its permissions.
If the notification is one of those dots on the icon then the problem is with sense home. Clear its cache and it should be OK.