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Idea for an Applocker (if it doesn't exist yet)

Hi,
I was hunting for an applocker a while ago, and I had some ideas for a couple of features.
1) When accessing the locked app, it should show an error message like "Access Denied : File checksum failed" or something with a lot of error codes to confuse a non-techie person instead of straight up asking for a password. (custom error messages if possible)
2a)Now to unlock that app, you have to go into the dialer and type your chosen unlock code. Use a special symbol to unlock only for 5 minutes, or unlock completely until manual re-locking.
2b) Ability to set a button and screen password combination. Eg/- To unlock gallery, tap the right corner of the screen twice, then press the volume up button 3 times. Something along these lines.
3)Hides itself from the Apps section in Settings, app drawer and recent apps. Only way to uninstall is from the app itself (I think this is a common feature.)
4) Essentially an inconspicuous applocker. - Asks for password but looks like an error message. I think this could be nice and slick..
I'm not knowledgeable enough to build such an app myself....
What do you guys think? If such an app already exists, please link me to it.
Thanks.

compgenie said:
Hi,
I was hunting for an applocker a while ago, and I had some ideas for a couple of features.
1) When accessing the locked app, it should show an error message like "Access Denied : File checksum failed" or something with a lot of error codes to confuse a non-techie person instead of straight up asking for a password. (custom error messages if possible)
2a)Now to unlock that app, you have to go into the dialer and type your chosen unlock code. Use a special symbol to unlock only for 5 minutes, or unlock completely until manual re-locking.
2b) Ability to set a button and screen password combination. Eg/- To unlock gallery, tap the right corner of the screen twice, then press the volume up button 3 times. Something along these lines.
3)Hides itself from the Apps section in Settings, app drawer and recent apps. Only way to uninstall is from the app itself (I think this is a common feature.)
4) Essentially an inconspicuous applocker. - Asks for password but looks like an error message. I think this could be nice and slick..
I'm not knowledgeable enough to build such an app myself....
What do you guys think? If such an app already exists, please link me to it.
Thanks.
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Nice thinking.
Though point one has already been implemented by most app locks.
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So has been point two.
Point three is common like you said.
And point four is just the error feature which has already been done.
Keep thinking though.

Hi, thanks for your reply!
Glad to see someone has done this!
And -
Could you tell me what app has the error message feature?
Is it the app in the second screenshot?
I want something which not only locks gallery but also SMS and Whatsapp. Can those apps do this?
EDIT: The second screenshot looks like it uses the passcode to open the app locker itself (if I'm not mistaken). I meant unlocking a locked app.

All the features you talked about are scattered. All of them are not present in one app.
But the best lock I would say is Vault.
It has the dialer feature, you can even put a fake vault which is completely empty incase someone forces you to open it. Then it also has a feature which can help u lock conversations both from the messaging service and even Facebook conversations. Hope it helps.

techacker007 said:
All the features you talked about are scattered. All of them are not present in one app.
But the best lock I would say is Vault.
It has the dialer feature, you can even put a fake vault which is completely empty incase someone forces you to open it. Then it also has a feature which can help u lock conversations both from the messaging service and even Facebook conversations. Hope it helps.
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Ah, alright.
I'll check out Vault. Thanks a lot!

Quick Toggles / Find My Phone

I want to secure my phone as much as possible so i turned on the "find my phone" feature to locate your phone when stolen.
But the problem i found with this is that you can turn off the basic things like mobile data or airplane mode from the lockscreen without unlocking the phone.
So when someone steals your phone while its locked with a fingerprint they can still turn on airplane mode or turn off the mobile data so its impossible to track the phone.
While when i try to turn off wifi from the lockscreen it ask me to unlock it first, same goes for most other quick toggles so thats why i find this pretty weird.
So my question is, are there more people with this problem or does it work perfectly for you?
I'm running the G930FXXU1BPHB software with the august 1 security patch and thought maybe its a software thing so im hoping someone else can check if they got the same problem as me.

Haven't tried this setting yet, but have a look at:
Settings > Lock Screen & Security > Secure Startup
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*Detection* said:
Haven't tried this setting yet, but have a look at:
Settings > Lock Screen & Security > Secure Startup
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Is it me or does this setting keep changing to "do not require" by itself for anyone else? I know i've changed it to require pin a few times already.

peachpuff said:
Is it me or does this setting keep changing to "do not require" by itself for anyone else? I know i've changed it to require pin a few times already.
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Dont think so because i turned mine of from day 1 and it still asks me for a patern each time i reboot which is a good thing

*Detection* said:
Haven't tried this setting yet, but have a look at:
Settings > Lock Screen & Security > Secure Startup
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Yes i have that turned on but thats only for a secure boot and has nothing to do with the toggles. But i posted this on reddit also and it seems that its been fixed in the newer security patches because im still on that 1st of august patch will people with the september patch dont have this bug.

RiTCHiE007 said:
Yes i have that turned on but thats only for a secure boot and has nothing to do with the toggles. But i posted this on reddit also and it seems that its been fixed in the newer security patches because im still on that 1st of august patch will people with the september patch dont have this bug.
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So even with that secure boot enabled, without the PIN you can still access the toggles?
Sounded to me as if it asked for the PIN before booting the OS, but as I say I haven't tried it

*Detection* said:
So even with that secure boot enabled, without the PIN you can still access the toggles?
Sounded to me as if it asked for the PIN before booting the OS, but as I say I haven't tried it
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Well the secure boot is just to protect the device from turn on. But im talking when you have your phone already on annd have the lockscreen protected with fingerprint or anything really. But when the phone is locked, i can still turn off mobile data without it asking me to unlock the phone's lockscreen. When i want to turn off wifi or bluetooth or anything else rather then flashlight it asks me to unlock the screen first in order to turn it on or off. So again, when the phone gets stolen, the thief can turn off mobile data and them im inable to locate the device with the find my phone.,

RiTCHiE007 said:
Well the secure boot is just to protect the device from turn on. But im talking when you have your phone already on annd have the lockscreen protected with fingerprint or anything really. But when the phone is locked, i can still turn off mobile data without it asking me to unlock the phone's lockscreen. When i want to turn off wifi or bluetooth or anything else rather then flashlight it asks me to unlock the screen first in order to turn it on or off. So again, when the phone gets stolen, the thief can turn off mobile data and them im inable to locate the device with the find my phone.,
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I see what you mean, if you lose the phone while powered on
Only workaround I can see until a fix is sent out, is turn off your phone while you are outside with it, turn on occasionally to receive texts etc
Complain to Samsung every week until it is fixed

*Detection* said:
I see what you mean, if you lose the phone while powered on
Only workaround I can see until a fix is sent out, is turn off your phone while you are outside with it, turn on occasionally to receive texts etc
Complain to Samsung every week until it is fixed
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Well after some diggin i see that problem many have this problem and some even reported it to google in 2014 but guess without any luck. Funny that they call this a smart phone while things like this should be fixed years ago.

ISSUE! Please download 'Launch Manager' App for gesture feature !!!

Howdy,
I keep getting Please download 'Launch Manager' App for gesture feature !!!
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pop up constantly on my device, Anyone know how to stop this from happening?
Tried turning the Gesture feature off and still does it, Its very annoying..
Could it be a faulty accelerometer?
Phone is a S7 Edge with Gear S3 Frontier..
Please help!

Install Launch Manager? That might make it stop:victory:
seriously though have you factory reset the watch? What are the procedures have you tried to fix this? Is your phone custom or stock? More info is better

highaltitude said:
Install Launch Manager? That might make it stop:victory:
seriously though have you factory reset the watch? What are the procedures have you tried to fix this? Is your phone custom or stock? More info is better
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Yep, Tired that! Done factory resets on both the phone and watch, all stock firmware. Thanks!

What happens if you let it install? Don't you think it's probably something you need? I can't remember since I haven't reset mine in a few weeks

highaltitude said:
What happens if you let it install? Don't you think it's probably something you need? I can't remember since I haven't reset mine in a few weeks
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Nah its just that annoying multi app screen, The app pops up when installed which makes me think its the accelometer.

Doing a Google search for it I don't see anything for Launch Manager other than a 3rd party app for the app circle with all your apps. No aftermarket apps installed?

highaltitude said:
Doing a Google search for it I don't see anything for Launch Manager other than a 3rd party app for the app circle with all your apps. No aftermarket apps installed?
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Yeah i've googled it and couldn't find anything. Its an Samsung App from the store, Nope all stock.

Crazy. I do believe you can do a hardware test by going to Settings -> Gear Info -> About Device -> Tap Software version ( 5 times ) -> Magic
Check All Hardware ( Sensor, speaker, Echo Test, Camera) – *#0*#

highaltitude said:
Crazy. I do believe you can do a hardware test by going to Settings -> Gear Info -> About Device -> Tap Software version ( 5 times ) -> Magic
Check All Hardware ( Sensor, speaker, Echo Test, Camera) – *#0*#
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That just brings up a full screen green keyboard.

Which watch face do you have installed? This looks like a stupid pop up ad from some stupid free app...

Weird, something definitely up. I would investigate getting a replacement. "green screen" is one of the color tests but the keyboard is gray with white characters. Scrolling up and down displays different tests.

user91 said:
Which watch face do you have installed? This looks like a stupid pop up ad from some stupid free app...
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**** didn't even think of that!! Yep that was it!! Thanks mate!!

brucey791 said:
Howdy,
I keep getting Please download 'Launch Manager' App for gesture feature !!!
pop up constantly on my device, Anyone know how to stop this from happening?
Tried turning the Gesture feature off and still does it, Its very annoying..
Could it be a faulty accelerometer?
Phone is a S7 Edge with Gear S3 Frontier..
Please help!
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Just delete all the watch faces you have installed. some developers did it...

Listing Battery optimisation troubles (apps stop, after locking phone)

If you have apps that stop , when your screen goes black, manually (power button), automaticlly ( depends of your sleep settings), or after a notification.
But you have already desactivate the "close after screen locked option" for this app...
Please report here with your firmware and phone version, the apps affected and the one working well for you.
Settings pages Screenshots would be helpfull.
Maybe Honor could do something abou it...

My case :
Honor 8 - FRD-L09 - B389 firmware version (rooted)
I had the same problem with B381. I think, but not absolutely sure, problems started with update from emui 4 to emui 5 (I don't remenber the build version).
So, I have an app "Podcast addict", 80 percent of time when my phone screen goes black 3-4 sec after, the app stop playing, same problem after receiving a notification when listening... It s happening when I lock the screen, manually (power button), automaticlly (going to sleep mode after 2 min, or other setting), or after a notification.
I have desactivate the "close after screen locked option" for this app :
screenshot 1
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Set to "don't close" in "lock screen cleanup" options :
screenshot 2
When I use the "optimizer" widget, the app stay alive :
screenshot 3
But when I use the "optimize" option in battery settings, my app is killed, and sound stop :
screenshot 4 and 5
When I look at the "Battery settings" ( the gearing, up right), my app isn't in the "power intensive app history", and neither in "history of closed app" :
screenshot 6, 7 and 8
My temporary fix, not allways working : I hit play, manually lock the screen, unlock (fingerprint) and lock manually again... But still, when there is a notification 2-3 seconds after my app stop playing....
:silly::silly:

fredfred41, check my post in this thread. Maybe this will work for you.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72988635&postcount=37

Thanks, I will try it, and report here...

2 days without problem, using your tips... could you be my savior? A long time, I m looking for a way to fix it...

fredfred41 said:
2 days without problem, using your tips... could you be my savior? A long time, I m looking for a way to fix it...
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That might have been the solution all along. Remember I told u that I didn't have an issue like that. It turns out that for me chrome didn't have that option turned on.
Great to see that it is finally working ....
Sent from my Honor 8 using XDA Labs

fredfred41 said:
2 days without problem, using your tips... could you be my savior? A long time, I m looking for a way to fix it...
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Glad to hear it's working for you. I know how frustrated I was with Pocketcasts closing when the screen locked. It was just luck that I stumbled across this solution. Hopefully this solves your problem completely.
Raster71

Does the app works if you disabled Chrome?

I don't have this issue with apps such as whatsapp...etc

pijes said:
Does the app works if you disabled Chrome?
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completely disabling chrome, like if it was not installed?
PalakMi said:
I don't have this issue with apps such as whatsapp...etc
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I only had this issue with "podcast addict"... but I don't use whatsapp...

fredfred41 said:
completely disabling chrome, like if it was not installed?
I only had this issue with "podcast addict"... but I don't use whatsapp...
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I don't podcast appa, so I can't tell

Question Best fully working Gestures app for MIUI13?

Have been a great fan of Vivid Navigation Gestures for years, until I switched over to Xiaomi 12S Ultra and realized I couldn't make it work despite disabling all battery optimizations & enabling all permissions. Which gestures app can work properly without it closing by itself after long lock periods, and allow me to disable the navbar?

dylansmith said:
Have been a great fan of Vivid Navigation Gestures for years, until I switched over to Xiaomi 12S Ultra and realized I couldn't make it work despite disabling all battery optimizations & enabling all permissions. Which gestures app can work properly without it closing by itself after long lock periods, and allow me to disable the navbar?
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all of them can do it you just need to know what to change in miui settings.
I use FNG.
* disable miui battery optimization
* enable autostart
* go to apps -> system app settings -> security -> boost speed -> lock apps (enable fng)
* pull down notification shade and switch to toggles, click on the edit icon. drag the fng toggle to your "added toggles"
in the rare case where FNG is shut down you can just pull down the toggles shade disable enable it and you're back in business.

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I have already done all these but VNG still shuts down way too often ( I have to re-enable maybe >10x a day). Any other settings I'm missing?

any thoughts?

dylansmith said:
any thoughts?
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Try FNG instead. I got max 3 restarts a day

3 a day is still a lot. Is there any gestures app that has a no-kill notification service?

In addition, that app was not maintained since 2019

dylansmith said:
3 a day is still a lot. Is there any gestures app that has a no-kill notification service?
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3 is better than 10, I don't know why it happens. If you are rooted you can try making this an admin app. Maybe that will prevent it from restarting

is there any easy way to root the phone without bricking it? Thank you.

This is the solution. Need to stop Miui from closing app.
Swipe up and hold to enter app tabs. Press and hold on FNG, then press the lock icon.
This stops the system from closing.

as shown in screenshots above, locking it doesn't prevent auto-close by system.

dylansmith said:
as shown in screenshots above, locking it doesn't prevent auto-close by system.
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I'm using FNG, and mine hasn't closed once since locking for 1 week now.

jiggyho said:
I'm using FNG, and mine hasn't closed once since locking for 1 week now.
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Oh I forgot to mention I'm on Xiaomi.eu rom.

can I port to eu ROM while maintaining all my apps, configs, settings?

No. It may be a different ROM branch and may have different partition differences as well as system apps being non Chinese versions. You might find it just boot loops if you do.
Just make sure you back everything in Google back up and have it set for auto restore and most settings and apps will get put back on with settings via the Google back up after you configure the Google account once flashed and formatted.

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Finally I think I found a way to make FluidNG working without any breaks. Just use tasker and create a task that FluidNG (or your favourite gesture app) starts when you unlock your screen. Second: launch app "go to home screen". That's it. Working for a few days perfectly.