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[APP] Avanos, the first guest mode for Android

One day when I was jogging, a little girl that looked scared and confused approached me. She couldn't find her mother and she asked if she could use my phone to call her. I thought to myself 'Sure, I'm helpful.' When I was waiting for her to finish her phone call, I noticed that she was swiping her finger on the screen. I was thinking to myself, 'Why does she need to scroll during a phone call?' I took my phone back and lo and behold, she was going through my pictures. I reprimanded her, telling her that she shouldn't be going through other's phones like that. I felt real bad that I had to take my phone back before she could find her mother, but what else was I supposed to do? It's not like there's an app that can do that.
That's when Avanos was born.
It's a simple phone dialer that locks the user in it so that no other app can be opened, fullscreen so that the notification bar cannot be accessed, It even closes the long home press automatically. It operates just like the built in dialer. After the person hangs up, it opens a password prompt that unlocks the phone and makes it go back to normal when the correct password is entered. I honestly think this is a revolution in Android. It can be helpful to coaches when kids that don't have phones need to call their parents, nice people who gives their phone out to others frequently, or as an everyday emergency phone.
So tell me what you guys think; I need the feedback.
Mod edit: No commercial advertising without free version.

Ooooh great idea!Congratulations!I wish i was an adult and could buy apps from play store.
Thank you
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It seems like a great idea to me. You might want to edit your post since its missing the play store link.
I tried the reviewer version. Unfortunately running cyanogenmod nightly 7/27 for the Sprint gs3 it won't lock. Press the home button it goes home, long press and task manager comes up.
Long press also still works on the menu button to bring up search and back button to kill the app. Not sure if you can fix that though.
If it gets updated for cyanogenmod would definitely pay the 99 cents.
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[APP][2.3+] Avanos, the first guest mode for Android

Hi all, I have developed a breakthrough in Android apps.
One day when I was jogging, a little girl that looked scared and confused approached me. She couldn't find her mother and she asked if she could use my phone to call her. I thought to myself 'Sure, I'm helpful.' When I was waiting for her to finish her phone call, I noticed that she was swiping her finger on the screen. I was thinking to myself, 'Why does she need to scroll during a phone call?' I took my phone back and lo and behold, she was going through my pictures. I reprimanded her, telling her that she shouldn't be going through other's phones like that. I felt real bad that I had to take my phone back before she could find her mother, but what else was I supposed to do? It's not like there's an app that can do that.
From that moment, Avanos was born.
It's a guest mode app that can act as a stealth mode when you need it to. When you use it, it locks the user into the app so that your other apps cannot be accessed, your recent apps cannot be seen, and the notification bar is hidden. It's helpful for a lot of things, such as when your girlfriend wants to go through your phone to read your messages. Just open Avanos and everything is hidden. It was designed to be a guest mode so that when others use your phone in an emergency nothing can be accessed. When they end their call it opens a password dialog. Enter your password and your phone goes back to normal. It's helpful when you're a coach, a parent or just a helpful person. Here's the free version of it: bit(.)ly/17NVKpz. Tell me what you think of it and send me a message if you're interested in getting a demo version of it.
Mod Edit: link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mshaw.avanos8.lite

Seems like a great idea. Have a link?
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Great idea.

Am interested mate....looks something innovative
Link??
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Link plz
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Sound interesting
I am interested in trying this app. However you need to include a link that works. The link in the text (OP) does not work for me.
Thanks

There's a link:
bit.ly/17NVKpz

nice idea...
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Can't do anything much on the lite version, just a dialer without contacts. I am using Hi App Lock which do the job for me in locking all apps that I don't want others to mess up with. But would love to try the beta one please
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Great idea!
Reserved.

Here's a link: play(dot)google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mshaw.avanos8.adfree

Good
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I use HiApp also but this sounds interesting. Going to try and use kid launcher as an alternative to hand my phone off. Will give this a shot.
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You have already a thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2383942

awesome

very good idea

Guest Mode in All Phones
Hi,
I have used your app and I must say that it works like a normal app locker. You can simply select an app that you want to lock and it remains locked till a password is entered. There are a lot of apps in Google Play that do exactly that.
However, the challenge that I faced with app lockers (similar to yours) is that when I want to use a locked app (such as WhatsApp), there are two steps of authentication that are involved. First, I need to unlock the home screen of my phone (all of us lock our home screens for any unintended usage), then I need to input the password again to unlock an app. This becomes quite a tedious process for any user.
Therefore, we have developed an app that is a combination of screen lock as well as an app lock. The procedure is that, once you install the app, you get to select all the apps that you want to mark as private and locked. The application then asks you to set a master password (which can be either a PIN based or Pattern based password). The application then asks you to set a guest password as well.
Once you lock your phone (or it gets automatically locked on screen off), the application is active. When you want to unlock the phone and use your master password to unlock, the screen gets unlocked along with all the locked apps that you had selected. Therefore, when you unlock the phone screen, you do not have to enter the password again to use the protected app. However, when you lend the phone to someone, just use the guest password to unlock the screen and the screen gets unlocked. However, all the selected apps continue to be locked. Thus protecting your privacy!
We have a patent pending on this feature and shall be adding more features to the app. You can download it from Google Play (just search for 'Guest Mode' and our app is the second one - developed by Pluggdd India). We would love to hear your feedback on this.

Guest Mode for All Android Phones (App)
Even I was waiting very eagerly for this version of Android and the Guest Mode feature. There are a lot of times when my kid uses the phone or some one borrows the phone to make a call. With the battery life of smartphones being so small these days, people borrowing phones is common.
However, I was always worried what all they may see on my phone once I loan it to them. The same was when my kid was using the phone. Once he clicked a picture of mine and sent to a random whatsapp group.
However, I must say that the new Guest Mode feature does not meet my expectations. There are a few reasons why:
1) The switch from Normal Mode to Guest Mode is not seamless. You need to get to Settings (which is a two step procedure), then go to 'Users' and from there switch on the Guest Mode. This easily takes a few seconds.
2) The switching of user takes more than 2-3 seconds.
3) Anyone can easily find that they are in Guest Mode (because the phone is completely empty, no history of calls, no phone numbers, virtually nothing). As a result of which apart from a kid, anyone can tell that you have switched modes of the phone. With the kind of friends and colleagues that I have, that would raise more suspicion and leg pulling than giving them the phone in full access.
I was always looking forward to this solution. However, I think I will continue to use the app that I have been using. The app locks all my applications that I deem need to be protected. It gives me two passwords to unlock the screen. When I open the lock screen with a master password, the screen gets unlocked as well as all the locked applications get unlocked too. When I lend my phone to someone, I open the screen using a guest password and only the screen and unprotected apps get unlocked. All the protected apps, such as my emails, chats, facebook; continue to be locked. This is so much of a relief, as the no one comes to know that they do not have full access to the phone. What I have read on their page is that they are also coming up with a fake crash in Guest Mode, that would be lovely.
In case you are interested, you can get the app for free from Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pluggdd.SmartAppLocker).

Hacking and Virus'

I have always had stupid ads pop up on my phone every now and then. Didn't bother me much.
I did the upgrade the other day and now I'm getting these random pop ups, quite often. My phone will make a strange beep sound then vibrate. Then these pages pop up. I took screenshot of a couple & included them in here.
Are these real?? Should this be something I should be really concerned about?? How do I stop them??
I have a galaxy S6 verizon. It's stock everything. Never messed with this phone at all.

Those are completely fake, do not believe them. Just exit off the page. You can try clicking the 3 dots at the top, and checking "request desktop site" that might work to not have them show up, sometimes not though.
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56AceCorey said:
Those are completely fake, do not believe them. Just exit off the page. You can try clicking the 3 dots at the top, and checking "request desktop site" that might work to not have them show up, sometimes not though.
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This, it also happens on PC so its not a virus. If need be just force close the browser. I hate click bait that just pops up this crud every time.

Go into Application Manager, scroll through the Downloaded section, and make sure there aren't any oddly named or suspicious apps installed. If you haven't installed anything then this shouldn't be a problem, but just as a precaution I would check

Download Samsung Brower and Samsung Browser ADBLOCK on Play store and be happy withot ads

Clear chrome's cache.

I've seen this multiple times before, and they even made my device vibrate really really loudly. Don't let this fool you, they are completely fake. Most of them won't let you exit out so you may have to mash the back button on your Galaxy S6, but that may take you a couple of pages back from where you left it. It's a complete hit-and-miss, but at least you'll get out of it.
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Screen Overlayd

I'm getting an error that says I have to reset my screen overlays and when I go to the screen, all apps eith overlays are disabled. This error won't let me do several different things, i.e. Call Sprint, open apps and more.
I called Sprint and they ackbowledged there's a bug in the note 7 O/S and they contacted Samsung about it. They said Samsung would be releasing an update soon.
Anyone else having same problem?
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I had an app do this. I closed it then opened again then it asked for permissions then I never say the overlay again
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This happened to me too, on set up. But I don't remember the app. I thought it had something to do with the S Pen having an over lay type set up.

Google News asks to have this disabled.
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Still having issues here after replacement and have tried about everything I can find. Still same issue over and over. Any fixes?

Come to find the Samsung Plus app The Weather Channel was my culprit. But Make Sure when you download apps, if it asks for it to overlay, say no and I heard screen brightness, or something around, say no. Trust me, it took me awhile to figure out. And only app overlaying was The Weather Channel for Samsung Device.
Forever Justice said:
Still having issues here after replacement and have tried about everything I can find. Still same issue over and over. Any fixes?
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What I have had to do was to go in and set all software that is in the "apps that can appear on top" to off. Go back to the software I am installing and grant it the permissions it is requesting. Once that is done I go back and set all the apps listed that can appear on top back to on. I hope that makes sense. A bit of a pain but it works.

Push notifications

Seem to be having issues with apps that use push notifications. Like my email app(nine) or the ESPN app. It seems I get sporadic notifications instead of the constant ones I am suppose to get. I am constantly missing emails because of this. Most of the times I end up opening the email apps and the new emails download instead of being pushed when they are received. Same thing with the ESPN app. I have it to alert me with scores of certain teams that I follow. However I don't get anything until I open the app. Once the app has been open then I start getting the score notifications for about a hour and then again nothing. It is almost as if the apps are not being allowed to operate in the background.

Nevermind. Fixed the issue.

What was the fix? Having the same problem.
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improwise said:
What was the fix? Having the same problem.
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Go into Mobile Manager. Swipe left at the bottom and select Permissions. Then select Auto-start Manager. From here you need to toggle the issue apps to "allow". My educated guess is this is keeping the apps from opening to send the needed notifications. That is why everything back logged drops when you manually open the app. Wondering if there will be any ill sided affects if I disable mobile manager.