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autoclear notifications?

Is there a way or utility to autoclear notificatiions? I find the notifications useless without it.
-j

miatawnt2b said:
Is there a way or utility to autoclear notificatiions? I find the notifications useless without it.
-j
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Do you mean the notifications for things such as when there are updates for apps in the Market, or when your Facebook or Twitter client alerts you to new messages? As far as I'm aware Android in general (not just Honeycomb) doesn't have a built-in system to 'auto-clear' notifications as such, it's up to the user to clear the notifications themselves. It makes sense since you might not necessarily have a chance to see the notification as soon as it comes in (e.g. perhaps you're driving at the time), so you would look at it later. Personally I wouldn't want my notifications to disappear on their own.

a "clear all" function would be great..
annoying to click each "X" at time.
same thing would be perfect for recent apps
have a way to close all, or each individual app. (maybe by adding and X on the app window or by doing a "long press"

Set the indivual apps to not notify you for things you don't care about?

Need this clear function definitely, and a way to get rid of the SD card icon. STAT!

[Q] Lock Apps?

Is there any way I can lock some of my apps with another another app? I have many cousins and they like to go threw my phone and I would like to lock just certain apps like my messages and pictures not my whole phone.

Same here
Sent from my HD7 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

Some launchers let you hide certain apps. For Windows Phone, that's probably not possible. Without some sort of exploit, the design of a Windows Phone app is supposed to be very limited.
On the other hand, you could have an application with a password-protect feature that would store your archived pictures and messages.

I'm afraid that this isn't possible in WP7. You would probably need some kind of replacement launcher to make this happen.

Same problem

SecureIt app for photos
You can always download SecureIt app from the marketplace. You can store private pics there and then delete them from your camera roll, or albums. As for text messages I have no idea.

I wasn't able to find SecureIt app on the Market Place. Has it been removed or non existent anymore?

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Block application from accessing certain device folders?

Is it possible to somehow prevent certain applications from accessing certain folders on Android?
I use Adobe Lightroom that has an option to automatically add pictures to my library. The problem is, Adobe provides very little customisation for what gets added, which means it doesn't just add my phone photos, but also all my screenshots, WhatsApp images, Instagram posts and basically any media folders on my device.
I'm hoping there's some way I can block Lightroom's access to those folders at OS level so it can't even see them. Is that possible?

itsChimpanzee said:
Is it possible to somehow prevent certain applications from accessing certain folders on Android?
I use Adobe Lightroom that has an option to automatically add pictures to my library. The problem is, Adobe provides very little customisation for what gets added, which means it doesn't just add my phone photos, but also all my screenshots, WhatsApp images, Instagram posts and basically any media folders on my device.
I'm hoping there's some way I can block Lightroom's access to those folders at OS level so it can't even see them. Is that possible?
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To block the app per folder at system level is not possible. However, you can try a good old trick to make them invisible, maybe the app won't recognize them after: put a dot before the name of the folders you want to hide, for example: ".WhatsApp"
Try that and let me know

Thanks Raiz. I'll give that a go.

Nice idea but unfortunately, WhatsApp stops recognising the folder and just creates a new one and Lightroom uploads from that instead.

How clipboard should be implemented

On iPhone, the clipboard retains data only for about 20 minutes, and there is no concept of clipboard history.
On Android, different OEMs have different implementations. Samsung has a very neat clipboard history feature that allows one to copy something quickly and paste it elsewhere.
Here is the problem:
The clipboard retains the last copied item until the phone is rebooted. This allows any app that can access clipboard to see what is there, and may be keep a record of it too in its own data (although I don't think this is possible unless the user manually pastes it somewhere).
HOW CLIPBOARD SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED​
1. Clipboard should be automatically erased by the OS every 20 minutes or so.
2. Clipboard Access should be a setting and users should be able to allow/ deny access per app (just like they can for other permissions like Camera, Microphone, etc.).
3. Clipboard History should be retained in a secure encrypted storage, so user can access it whenever he wants. No app should have access to the history. User must manually copy it each time it is required.

Use ColorNote to retain copies and hyperlinks. Auto backup to SD card or cloud.
I use it to store bookmarks as well.

blackhawk said:
Use ColorNote to retain copies and hyperlinks. Auto backup to SD card or cloud.
I use it to store bookmarks as well.
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That requires me to create a note each time, which is not convenient. Hope you're aware of the restrictions with clipboard starting with Android Q. I welcome this move to block clipboard monitoring by 3rd party apps.
If the OS allows to keep clipboard history, it should ensure no apps have access to it without user intervention.

TheMystic said:
That requires me to create a note each time, which is not convenient. Hope you're aware of the restrictions with clipboard starting with Android Q. I welcome this move to block clipboard monitoring by 3rd party apps.
If the OS allows to keep clipboard history, it should ensure no apps have access to it without user intervention.
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Clipboard works ok on Q... scoped storage sucks. For those who think they can install anything they want rather than being careful what they install. No saving dumb bunnies... they always end up dead.