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Girl-proof Nexus 7 - lock down apps

Hey. I think my question is mostly around locking down apps somehow.
I have an N7 and i want to be able to give it to girls when they come over to play games, browse the web, Facebook etc.. Can anyone recommend the best way to hide all my stuff? I wanna load it with tonnes of games (all the stuff i bought but never played) but still have an app or two on there for me. Evernote, gmail etc.
I have chameleon and nova launchers, figured in nova i can hide apps but they can just be shown again via the options menu.. There's no password option.
Im running stock jb, rooted.
My only other thought is to manually backup>verify>uninstall via titanium apps like Gmail, then manually restore when i want them??
I searched for app lockers but most seem to be poorly maintained / aren't compatible with jb or are easily bypassed by the recent menu..
Does anyone have any suggestions for a device i can safely share with other people?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiddoware.kidsplace

This is why I like Go Launcher:
It has a Running Apps section in the App Tray
You can hide apps
You can lock the desktop (nice for kids so they don't screw up your mojo)
While I don't personally use Go Launcher, it is pretty high in features and functionality. It has folder support in both the App drawer and desktop, themeable, and attractive. Sure you CAN unlock apps through options, but they'd probably never find it.
Somewhere I saw a profile manager where you could setup different users with different launchers, wallpapers, and apps. Might be worth checking out.

Go launcher also collects more data than it needs.
Remember CIQ? Yeah like that...
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player911 said:
This is why I like Go Launcher:
It has a Running Apps section in the App Tray
You can hide apps
You can lock the desktop (nice for kids so they don't screw up your mojo)
While I don't personally use Go Launcher, it is pretty high in features and functionality. It has folder support in both the App drawer and desktop, themeable, and attractive. Sure you CAN unlock apps through options, but they'd probably never find it.
Somewhere I saw a profile manager where you could setup different users with different launchers, wallpapers, and apps. Might be worth checking out.
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Yeah profile management would be perfect, like a login on a PC.. there was some mention of google getting a patent for this based on face recog but.. I might do a search to see if there is secure profile management somewhere..
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Go launcher also collects more data than it needs.
Remember CIQ? Yeah like that...
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Thanks for the tip. I'm wary of those premium but free apps sharing info >_< plus having paid for nova (albeit on the 25c sale) and chameleon, i'd rather find an option that uses those..
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(link to kidsplace)
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I'll check this out and post my thoughts, thx =)

CM10 (and other ROMs I am sure) also have the profile options. It sounds exactly like what you're looking for.

Demanufacturer said:
Hey. I think my question is mostly around locking down apps somehow.
I have an N7 and i want to be able to give it to girls when they come over to play games, browse the web, Facebook etc.. Can anyone recommend the best way to hide all my stuff? I wanna load it with tonnes of games (all the stuff i bought but never played) but still have an app or two on there for me. Evernote, gmail etc.
I have chameleon and nova launchers, figured in nova i can hide apps but they can just be shown again via the options menu.. There's no password option.
Im running stock jb, rooted.
My only other thought is to manually backup>verify>uninstall via titanium apps like Gmail, then manually restore when i want them??
I searched for app lockers but most seem to be poorly maintained / aren't compatible with jb or are easily bypassed by the recent menu..
Does anyone have any suggestions for a device i can safely share with other people?
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You can try app protector apps. You can lock it down with a pin
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I would try a Profile Manager, one for kids/missus, one for you.
Then you can easily switch between them as and when you need.

ZDBox has an app locker which seems to do the job for me.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsImNvbS56ZHdvcmtzLmFuZHJvaWQudG9vbGJveCJd

Yet to try those apps but so far the best solution I've found is to "freeze" the apps in Titanium Backup
It moves the links from the launcher.. every launcher, as if they arent there at all.
There seems to be a batch defrost/unfreeze option, but I'm not sure if theres an easy way to re-freeze a set of apps..
Not sure if titanium backup has a PIN / password option though.. but it would be complicated for a non-tech user to figure out how to unfreeze apps in Titanium Backup..

You could try SwitchMe. It basically reboots the tablet when you switch users. Each user can have their own apps, etc.

App lock could be worth a look.

Freezing in titanium is my solution and works great for that purpose unless she's an android nerd and you pissed her off enough for her to install titanium and thaw out your frozen apps.
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You should def look into hide it pro. I've been using it for a while n love it. It gives a fake crash report dialogue to unlock apps n hides pics n videos
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Shouldn't my N7 be auto restoring apps from my GNex or am I missing something

Got a N7 and a Gnex, just upgraded both to 4.2 and I'm wondering if my N7 should be syncing all my apps on my google account like it did with my Gnex. Same account on both devices, but only the Gnex auto restored everything. Is there a setting to get the N7 to auto restore from a different device or what?
Basically I'm trying to get my N7 to auto install the apps after upgrading to 4.2 so everything's the same as my Gnex.

That's not the way it works.
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So there's not really a way of doing that then is there besides using TiBu? It'd be nice if I could have them both sync'd so no matter which device I picked up everything's the same =/.

+1
That's one of the reasons why I haven't updated yet.

Please don't restore your apps via TiBu. If you go to My Apps in Play, apps purchased under your google account will be there for you to download without paying again. You can also d/l any other apps you already have or want. You will be much better off d/l these apps since a good many have been updated already for 4.2.

Well yeah I know I can do that, but I have way to many apps and I just figured since it's linked to my GNex as well and I've go them already restored for 4.2 there that they'd restore on my N7 as well. But no big deal on manuall doing it.

Apps are restored to the individual device that they were installed to. It would be a veritable mess if they pushed to every device on the account.
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[Q]Remove System Apps

I've rooted my Nexus 7, and I wanted to know if anyone has a list of Apps that I can safely remove from it. For example, can I remove Google Currents, Google +, Messenger+, Play Magazines, Play Movies and TV, and Google Talk using SysApp Remover? I know having google apps installed instead of the Cellular Bloatware is a blessing, but I'd like to have this thing as clear as possible. Thanks ahead of time!

I removed all of them, nothing bad happend and i think nothing will happen to you, since those apps don't have any influence on your device system it should be fine.

In addition to the ones you listed you can safely remove: bubbles, downloads (you'll want a replacement file manager app), keychain, live wallpaper picker, phase beam, setup wizard, tags, email, email exchange, Google Korean keyboard, Google pinyin, wallet, if using a different launcher can also remove launcher. There's a few others you should be able to remove safely but I'm only listing ones I know for certain that won't affect functionality.
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Thanks for the reply. I don't mind Phase and such, nor Live Wallpaper picker, but I definitely wanted to get rid of Currents and such. Thanks!

Root
If you are rooted you can remove what you want.....

Can somebody tell us the locations in the system folders where we can find the apps?
I´ve got the same "Problem". I´ve rooted my Nexus 7 and want to remove the unnecessary apps, e.g. Currents, Google+, Talk, Messenger, and so on.
I don´t want to erase some important or usefull things.

/system/app/
You can access it by allowing the 'up to root ' setting in es file exp
Cheers Danny

Don't forget to install a launcher before removing the stock launcher.
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I'd suggest freezing apps first and make sure things run fine before you delete, just in case...

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I'd suggest freezing apps first and make sure things run fine before you delete, just in case...
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Excellent advice.....been there

How to get all my settings back after restore

I used to have an iPhone and one thing I really liked was when I restored my iPhone, it would automatically restore all the apps I used, and even put then in the folders I had them in, on the specific screen I had them on. I then moved to Android and was very happy to see that my Nexus 7 2013 running lollipop and the Google now launcher did the same thing after a reset and restore.
I was thinking that was a feature of lollipop or the Google now launcher. However, I recently reset and restored my verizon samsung galaxy note 3 running lollipop and using the Google now launcher, but when the phone restored, my apps and folders and screen arrangements did not restore on their own. I had to load my apps, build my folders, and arrange my screens all over again. Is there a way that I can make my verizon samsung galaxy note 3 restore the way my Nexus 7 tablet does, and the way iPhones do?
Thanks

The default on Android is to restore apps from Play Store but not the app settings. There is a setting to turn that off. Maybe you did that?
As for restoring folders, I don't use stock Touch Wiz so I don't know. I use Nova Launcher so I have to back up my screen settings so I can restore them later.
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Thanks, I might try nova launcher. So it will arrange my screens the way I had them after a reset?
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No. After you install Nova Launcher, get the screen the way you want it and backup your Nova configuration, THEN you can restore your screen if something messes up your system. But be aware that you'll want to download all your apps before restoring your Nova backup. If you don't, Nova will create dummy stubs for apps not installed.
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Thanks
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transfer app data from old phone

There was an option during setup to transfer app data from my old phone. I skipped it initially as I figured I'd do it later, but now I can't find it... Can anyone help me find this option? Also, am I going to have problems using this option coming from an Amazon Fire Phone?

goldfish2 said:
There was an option during setup to transfer app data from my old phone. I skipped it initially as I figured I'd do it later, but now I can't find it... Can anyone help me find this option? Also, am I going to have problems using this option coming from an Amazon Fire Phone?
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Go in to the google settings app on your old phone. Then scroll down and click "set up nearby device". The instructions will then tell you too turn on bluetooth and wifi to find your new phone. I used this method and not all my contacts transferred over so i have to use a third party app. I used CM backup and it transferred everything over.

Not every phone will have this option, tho.

Titanium backup can do this for you.

Okay, I tried this but it isn't doing anything at least for my non-google apps.
Old Phone - Rooted Amazon Fire Phone
New Phone - Unrooted Nexus 6P (I'm trying unrooted this time)
So I can use titanium backup to backup on the Fire Phone, but I can't restore onto the new phone (since no root). I think I can also use titanium backup to create apk's containing the data to install on the new phone, but then things wouldn't be linked to the google play store anymore (I think?). Any other ideas? The fact that my Fire phone is rooted should be helpful, right? I'm just not quite sure how to get the restore to happen. What if I did a titanium backup and restored to another android phone that had google syncing capabilities... would my Nexus 6P apps get the updated app data then? It seems like a lot of work, but if it'll actually work it'd be worth a try.