Hello, I have recently bought this device. I got a deal for the LTE Variant, but it seems support for it is kind of lacking...
I installed LineageOS 17.1 suing the Nano GApps. I also enabled Freedom Mode, but apps seem to either never respect the mode (even with Force Activity Resize).
So, I am wondering if there is any app out there that allows the tablet to always run in desktop mode, with resizable windows and all.
Basically an always on DeX.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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I am going to be blunt...some friends of mine are having some issues in their marriage due to one of them having a porn addiction and also just using their phone too much so they came up with 5-10 apps they want to be able to use and don't want anything else to be usable including browsing the internet. Being their most tech savvy friend they turned to me for help.
He had an iPhone 6S Plus and it was very easy to set it up to lock down apps and even prevent web browsing even if he did manage to get a browser installed via Restrictions.
Unfortunately his phone recently died out of warranty and his wife had an old Galaxy S4 anyway so was due for a replacement. Their carrier (T-Mobile) had a special on Galaxy S8's for a buy one get one free so they ordered two of those to replace his non-working phone and her old one. (not relevant to the question, but I also have T-Mobile and took advantage of that deal too)
I have tried and tried to find a way to do those things they want on Android but am not having any luck. Most of the stuff I see for Restrictions on Android are for people wanting to put THEIR phone in like kid mode prior to handing it to their child. Other apps like Norton App Lock work for some apps but not all apps are listed and for example doesn't allow restricting the built in internet browser.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
chmcke01 said:
I am going to be blunt...some friends of mine are having some issues in their marriage due to one of them having a porn addiction and also just using their phone too much so they came up with 5-10 apps they want to be able to use and don't want anything else to be usable including browsing the internet. Being their most tech savvy friend they turned to me for help.
He had an iPhone 6S Plus and it was very easy to set it up to lock down apps and even prevent web browsing even if he did manage to get a browser installed via Restrictions.
Unfortunately his phone recently died out of warranty and his wife had an old Galaxy S4 anyway so was due for a replacement. Their carrier (T-Mobile) had a special on Galaxy S8's for a buy one get one free so they ordered two of those to replace his non-working phone and her old one. (not relevant to the question, but I also have T-Mobile and took advantage of that deal too)
I have tried and tried to find a way to do those things they want on Android but am not having any luck. Most of the stuff I see for Restrictions on Android are for people wanting to put THEIR phone in like kid mode prior to handing it to their child. Other apps like Norton App Lock work for some apps but not all apps are listed and for example doesn't allow restricting the built in internet browser.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I would download applock from the Google play store. Let's you lock apps and then a pin is needed to unlock. I use this one
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock
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I never needed this function, but see what Secure Folder can do for you.
Some info: https://www.samsungknox.com/en/solutions/secure-folder
How to set it up: https://www.androidcentral.com/how-set-samsungs-secure-folder-galaxy-s8
Hello XDA, I appreciate all you have done for me and my tech endeavors SO I found it necessary to post my results with the community.
Recently I was gifted a Note 8, told it was paid-off, not wanting to wait 3 days for Sprint to MAYBE unlock the bootloader, I set off to work around that by searching through these forums to find that the solution was not as simple as I'm used to.
Here's what I've done to gain access to WiFi again.
Note 8 had Oreo installed (and SIM card removed) I used Odin to flash VZW's Pie (using SamFirm to download, as SamMobile is painfully long). Everything finished installing, but before rebooting the final loading screen sorta stalled, then proceeded to boot. As you may know, it showed the Sprint logo (I panicked and held the down button to put device into safe mode, for control). Next, I decided to go through the Pie setup without allowing the device to access Wi-Fi or Data. Turn on airplane mode ASAP. After I got to the home screen, I stopped ALL automatic updates in settinga, opened developer options, running services, and cancelled everything that would let me, specifically: Chameleon, Sprint Hub, Sprint Voicemail, Sprint ID, RootPA, DRParser Mode, MTP Application, bootagent, Sprint OMADM, com.sec.phone (THIS ONE made the difference in ADB, I was actually able to communicate with my device, see the serial code and everything!, THIS is why I wanted to share with this genius community..and this next one, maybe?), com.samsung.android.smartswitchassistant, tethering automation, and security policy updates. Stop all of those processes, and force stop/disable/remove permissions from all of those (when switching device or WiFi on/off, monitor the running services for those & keep them shut off or they WILL help Sprint "seal the deal"). Make sure to disable/force stop "configuration update". After that I entered PhoneUtil by going to the dialer and pressing ##3424#, then switching the UART from PDA to CDMA MODEM.
Now, I turned on my WiFi (with airplane mode still on), and signed into my router, seen Sprint Hub trying to process a request, went to running services, shut it down & force stopped it, seems to stay off until the phone was restarted, at which point I shut it down.
Again, by doing all of this I was able to get ADB & Kingo Root (desktop) to fully recognize the device, I was able to access Wi-Fi & run "harmful" apps that could help use bruteforce our way past the bootloader lock. SO if there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.
Thanks again!
I am a pretty tech savvy individual if I do say so my self, but there are a lot of areas that I've never ventured into. I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ that has a broken screen (no functional display) and I don't have usb debugging enabled (I thought that I did when I tried to do some mobile web development on the device, but it appears that I disabled that after using it) and am attempting to use android control tool to mirror my display onto my laptop so that I can use smart-switch to transfer my data to my insurance provided device once it gets here. Once I can get usb debugging enabled it should be pretty simple from there, but I am very new to this stuff and a lot of the things that I've seen on how to do it involve sending commands to the phone through a terminal and I have no idea how to set up that type of interface with the phone. If anyone would be willing to help me through a voice chat of any-type then please let me know by messaging me through Discord: (Gammett#1946) or by replying to this thread with another way that I can contact you.
Hi folks, I would really appreciate some help (sorry for the long-winded post.)
I have an S7 Edge SM-G935W8 that I received as a "hand me down". It was reset to factory and updated to the latest firmware last week.
The phone was locked to Tellus and, as a SIM card is required to enable the mobile hotspot, I had Samsung unlock the phone so that it would recognize my old Bell SIM card in order to enable the mobile hotspot. The SIM card is not provisioned as I don't intend on using this phone as my daily driver and I don't require internet or data. I simply want to use it as a backup camera for my travel trailer by setting it up as a mobile hotspot using the camera to stream to my tablet using IP Webcam Pro.
This setup works relatively well but I only have the 2.4Ghz band available to me on this phone, which leads to a slightly choppy stream. It's not bad, but not great. I would prefer to use the 5Ghz band since it has less interference and thus runs faster, which I believe would yield better video quality. That being said however, the 5Ghz option is not available under the mobile hotspot advanced settings on this phone.
I then decided to root the phone, which I did without issue by enabling USB Debugging and OEM Unlock in developer option. I then successfully installed TWRP and tried both Lineage 17.1 and 18.1 since the 5Ghz does show up under the mobile hotspot advanced settings. Great I thought as the video feed was indeed better! That was until I discovered that there are issues with the video camera with these versions of Lineage whereby it works fine for about 15 or 20 minutes then the screen goes green and you need to reboot the phone in order to get the camera working again. I tried installing Footej to see if that would make a difference but it did not.
Soooo, I returned the phone to stock with ODIN and we're back to where I was before. It's a setup that works but could be better. I read that the 5Ghz band could be enabled with CSC Features Expert but you need root. OK, so I go back into developer options to enable USB debug and OEM Unlock like I did a few days ago and lo and behold, it no longer stays enabled. The option is there, NOT greyed out or anything. I toggle enable, get the message about device protection... and an option to cancel or enable. I click enable and it goes on then quickly goes off again so it now seems I can't root the phone anymore
I've scoured this site high and low, googled everythhing I could think of but I seem to be running around in circles. I can re-install the latest stock version of the firmware from any provider in Canada (I've tried a bunch) but the same always happens. The OEM unlock options gets enabled for a fraction of a second then turns off again. Can this option be forced on using ADB or Fastboot or some other method?
My goal is to root it again in order to install CSC Features Expert so I can enable the 5Ghz band in the mobile hotspot advanced settings. It also appears I can't downgrade to anything because Samsung updated the bootloader in the latest firmware. ODIN fails at installing any stock firmware except for the most recent.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi. I have been attempting to unlock the bootloader on my S8, but the option doesn't seem to be in the developer settings. I've tried doing the date trick that everywhere suggests, as well as disabling automatic updates and auto download updates over WiFi, neither of which actually solved the issue. I also tried asking Samsung support and, no surprise, they were completely useless. Could anyone help me with this? I have a Galaxy S8 running Android 9
Samsung certainly has good reasons for not offering the OEM unlock option.
I know all of the risks involved, I just want to try out a different ROM on my device. This is an old device that I don't use anymore, and all of the data on it has been backed up to my computer and transferred to my new phone.
xXx yYy said:
Samsung certainly has good reasons for not offering the OEM unlock option.
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Like making you buy a new device