This is intented just for the US as privet beta.
Any one got is hands on?
http://www.skyfire.com/product
Cheers,
It's not out yet.
Yeah, but did anybody download the beta? and can they share that with us?
They've changed this privacy policy in the last day or so, but here is part of it, which explains why I won't ever touch Skyfire...
(from http://www.skyfire.com/about/privacy-and-security)
Skyfire Labs, Inc. (“Skyfire”) has developed a mobile web browser (the “Browser”) that enables you to surf the internet, interact with websites and send and receive content (collectively “Browser Usage”) on your mobile phone, PDA and other handheld electronic devices. When you use the Browser, Skyfire has access to, and in many cases will monitor, your Browser Usage.
...
Once you have subscribed to and begin to use the Browser, we will collect information about your use of the Browser on your Device (“Browser Usage Information”). Browser Usage Information includes such information as which websites and programs you access or download on your Device, how long you visit such websites and use such programs, your activities (such as products purchased or advertisements viewed) on such websites, which specific areas of a website or webpage you use and for how long, websites you bookmark, search terms you use, referring/exit pages, browser and platform types, the geographic location in which your Device is being used and information you provide on third party websites. All of your Browser Usage Information is stored by Skyfire under an automatically generated, random identification number (“ID Number”) that will not be associated with or linked to your Personal Information. Please be aware, though, that your Browser Usage Information, when viewed in the aggregate, may reveal your identity even if it is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information. By downloading our Browser and accepting our Terms of Use (which includes acceptance of this Privacy Policy), you have given us your express consent to collect and use Browser Usage Information and tie it to an ID Number.
dude who cares its still going to be really cool so what they will know what your looking at dont do your banking or anything else to important look up your favorite youtube videos read the news and look at your fav teams scores on espn and let them watch
Of course I'd not do any banking or similar, but the point is... do you want Big Brother watching your every move?
AdamR78 said:
Of course I'd not do any banking or similar, but the point is... do you want Big Brother watching your every move?
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being honest i have to say i don't mind, let them record what they want.
do you think your ISP/Mobile carrier does not log your usage via IEM/Opera mobile etc?
i work for a mobile carrier and can tell you they do.
Chris
Was a little surprised no one had posted a thread here in the E4GT forums regarding the Avast! Mobile Security app. For those who are unaware, Avast! has been one of the best desktop AV solutions available for years. Their free options have routinely been better than most others' paid options. I started running their free Android app a few days ago and it is quite impressive. It might even be overkill, but I don't think many can argue that it doesn't provide something positive for pretty much anyone. I was going to post up a little write up, but Prashanthme already did a great job, so I'll just cleanup and repost his stuff here and link it to his name. Thanks to him for grabbing the Avast! site info. Anyway, give it a whirl, it's pretty powerful.
Full-featured Antivirus and Anti-Theft security for your Android phone.
Protect personal data with automatic virus scans and infected-URL alerts. Stop hackers by adding a firewall (rooted phones). Control anti-theft features with remote SMS commands for: history wipe, phone lock, siren activation, GPS tracking, audio monitoring, and many other useful tools. Your ‘invisible’ app hides itself, making it extremely hard for thieves to find and disable. A standalone yet tightly integrated component of avast! Mobile Security, avast! Anti-Theft is the slyest component on the market. Formerly known as Theft Aware, the Anti-Theft portion of avast! Mobile Security has been recommended by leading industry experts that include T-Mobile, N-TV, AndroidPIT, and Android Police.
avast! Mobile Security
Antivirus
Performs on-demand scans of all installed apps and memory card content, as well as on-access scans of apps upon first execution. Options for scheduling scans, virus definition updates, uninstalling apps, deleting files, or reporting a false-positive to our virus lab.
Privacy Report
Scans and displays (grid) access rights and intents of installed apps, identifying potential privacy risks, so you know how much info you are really providing to each app.
SMS/Call Filtering
Filter calls and/or messages from contact list using set parameters based on day(s) of the week, start time, and end time. Blocked calls redirect to voicemail, while blocked messages are stored via filter log. Also possible to block outgoing calls.
App Manager
Similar to Windows Task Manager, it shows a list of running apps and their size (MB), CPU load, used memory, and number of threads and services – with an option to stop or uninstall.
Web Shield
Part of the avast! WebRep cloud, the avast! Web Shield for Android scans each URL that loads and warns you if the browser loads a malware-infected URL.
Firewall
Add a firewall to stop hackers. Disable an app’s internet access when on WiFi and 3G and roaming mobile networks. (Works only on rooted phones.)
avast! Anti-Theft
App Disguiser
After downloading avast! Anti-Theft, user can choose a custom name that disguises the app (e.g. call it “Pinocchio game”) so that it is even harder for thieves to find and remove.
Stealth Mode
Once anti-theft is enabled, the app icon is hidden in the app tray, leaving no audio or other trace on the target phone – the app is ‘invisible’, making it difficult for thieves to detect or remove.
Self-Protection
Extremely difficult for thieves to remove (especially on rooted phones), Anti-Theft protects itself from uninstall by disguising its components with various self-preservation techniques. On rooted phones it is able to survive hard-resets and can even disable the phone’s USB port.
Battery Save
Anti-Theft only launches itself and runs when it needs to perform tasks. This preserves battery life and makes it very difficult for thieves to shut it down.
SIM-Card-Change Notification
If stolen and a different (unauthorized) SIM card inserted, the phone can lock, activate siren, and send you notification (to remote device) of the phone’s new number and geo-location.
Trusted SIM Cards List
Establish a ‘white list’ of approved SIM cards that can be used in the phone without triggering a theft alert. You can also easily clear the trusted SIM cards list, to leave the one present in the phone as the only trusted one.
Remote Features
SMS commands provide you the following REMOTE options for your ‘lost’ (or stolen) phone:
Siren, Lock, custom Display properties, Locate, Memory Wipe, covert Calling, Forwarding, “Lost” Notification, SMS Sending, History, Restart, and more.
Market Link
Avast! Site
Avast! Forums
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Nice! I've been a fan of and using Avast for about a yr+ now and agree, even the free version is one of the best.
patrick_1 said:
Nice! I've been a fan of and using Avast for about a yr+ now and agree, even the free version is one of the best.
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I've been on Lookout since it came out, but after a few days on this, I can't see any reason not to use it. I trust Avast! and this app will do as much or as little as i want it to. It's definitely a great app.
So I have asked my friends this, what is the point of having one of these types of security with a rooted phone. I used to have lookout before and the thing I found useful was locating phone when stolen. Everything is useless. You get a virus on your phone you do a whip and reinstall rom. If I'm wrong tell me. I think it's more space being used, and it does use space. And that was one of the reasons I rooted by phone. To get rid of bloatware.
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i find these apps unnecessary:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ps-infected-Androids-charlatans-scammers.html
Do you think it's better than Lookout?
@OP
I'm so glad you posted this, let me explain (and ask a question).
I've always thought AV stuff was kind of a sham. And always figured if I did somehow get a virus, I'd just wipe and flash a new rom. But a few days ago, I went to sleep with 455MB free on my SD card....woke up with 140MB. I panicked, and thought maybe I had downloaded a few roms before sleep. Checked my whole SD card, and no, I didn't. Couldn't find any new, big files on SD. Erased a bunch of extra music and stuff, got up to about 260MB free.
Next day, at work, I open file explorer to listen to a podcast, and see 7.39GB used, OKB free. Massive freak out, of course. Erased a few things, got about 50MB free.
Cruised the market looking for AV software cuz all I could figure was I had some malicious file on SD causing this. Read reviews of several AV SW, and wanted one that would scan SD card. I went with Avast (knowing nothing about AV SW, personally). Avast scanned card (all 24,000+ files, lol), and found ....nothing corrupt/malicious/dangerous .
So, does anyone have anyone have any idea what could cause SD space loss like this? Could a corrupt file even do that?
I've been considering making a thread, but saw yours, and thought it seemed the perfect place. Thanks in advance.
Evo, on CM hack rom
SZ kernel 2.2.1
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Uamore6 said:
So I have asked my friends this, what is the point of having one of these types of security with a rooted phone. I used to have lookout before and the thing I found useful was locating phone when stolen. Everything is useless. You get a virus on your phone you do a whip and reinstall rom. If I'm wrong tell me. I think it's more space being used, and it does use space. And that was one of the reasons I rooted by phone. To get rid of bloatware.
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locoboi187 said:
i find these apps unnecessary:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ps-infected-Androids-charlatans-scammers.html
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This is really why I posted this, so that people can have a discussion about the merits of this app (or apps like it), give opinions, experiences, answwr questions, etc. It's a hot topic these days and will continue to be.
By all means, if you don't like, believe in or want an app like this, I would recommend you don't use it. Then you have no worries about it. I appreciate the post though as it presents another point of view.
For me, I feel like this app has the most robust remote features of any that I have tried. That's why I have it installed. The Firewall, Antivirus and Privacy scan options are bonuses for me.
So far it has had zero negative affects on performance, battery or anything else. So I guess for me based on a personal list of pros and cons, I'd rather have it installed than not. But again for those who don't want/need it, don't use it. Pretty simple.
Bottom line, information is power so now those who didn't know, they now know about it do.
P.S. That said, the article you linked locoboi is pretty useless as it provides no substantiated claims and is vaguely targeted at "many of the anti-virus apps". Honestly anyone who grabs any old anti-virus app deserves to have issues. The tried and true av companies that are offering apps are no more "charlatans and scammers" than Google themselves. Avast!, being one of the best and most trusted names in av software has nothing to gain from scamming its users. They have in fact offered complete, open-source, free av software for more than a decade, so I'd say it's a pretty safe assumption that the Avast! app is probably not one to worry about.
I love it but how do u get rid of the notification always on
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srgwidowmaker said:
I love it but how do u get rid of the notification always on
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Open App (type in password/pin if you've given root access.)
Go to Settings (at the very bottom of the list)
Untick "Show notification icon" (the app of course discourages this, but you'll have to go to the forum to find out exactly how the icon does/doesn't affect the functionality/performance of the app.)
Just_s said:
Open App (type in password/pin if you've given root access.)
Go to Settings (at the very bottom of the list)
Untick "Show notification icon" (the app of course discourages this, but you'll have to go to the forum to find out exactly how the icon does/doesn't affect the functionality/performance of the app.)
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The perma-icon in the notification bar is the only thing I dislike about the app. If you uncheck it in Settings, you get no notifications from the app at all. Bad design in this respect only.
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So no one has any suggestions about what could make an SD card behave that way?
I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts in this. Didn't wanna have to create anew thread, and thought maybe people familiar with AV stuff may have an idea/suggestion.
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scottspa74 said:
So no one has any suggestions about what could make an SD card behave that way?
I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts in this. Didn't wanna have to create anew thread, and thought maybe people familiar with AV stuff may have an idea/suggestion.
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Sorry, I missed your first post. That is a strange situation. What it's your setup (ROM, kernel, modem)? I've seen lots of crazy things on this phone regarding SD. Is it your external or internal SD that is acting up?
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Just_s said:
Was a little surprised no one had posted a thread here in the E4GT forums regarding the Avast! Mobile Security app. For those who are unaware, Avast! has been one of the best desktop AV solutions available for years. Their free options have routinely been better than most others' paid options. I started running their free Android app a few days ago and it is quite impressive. It might even be overkill, but I don't think many can argue that it doesn't provide something positive for pretty much anyone. I was going to post up a little write up, but Prashanthme already did a great job, so I'll just cleanup and repost his stuff here and link it to his name. Thanks to him for grabbing the Avast! site info. Anyway, give it a whirl, it's pretty powerful.
Full-featured Antivirus and Anti-Theft security for your Android phone.
Protect personal data with automatic virus scans and infected-URL alerts. Stop hackers by adding a firewall (rooted phones). Control anti-theft features with remote SMS commands for: history wipe, phone lock, siren activation, GPS tracking, audio monitoring, and many other useful tools. Your ‘invisible’ app hides itself, making it extremely hard for thieves to find and disable. A standalone yet tightly integrated component of avast! Mobile Security, avast! Anti-Theft is the slyest component on the market. Formerly known as Theft Aware, the Anti-Theft portion of avast! Mobile Security has been recommended by leading industry experts that include T-Mobile, N-TV, AndroidPIT, and Android Police.
avast! Mobile Security
Antivirus
Performs on-demand scans of all installed apps and memory card content, as well as on-access scans of apps upon first execution. Options for scheduling scans, virus definition updates, uninstalling apps, deleting files, or reporting a false-positive to our virus lab.
Privacy Report
Scans and displays (grid) access rights and intents of installed apps, identifying potential privacy risks, so you know how much info you are really providing to each app.
SMS/Call Filtering
Filter calls and/or messages from contact list using set parameters based on day(s) of the week, start time, and end time. Blocked calls redirect to voicemail, while blocked messages are stored via filter log. Also possible to block outgoing calls.
App Manager
Similar to Windows Task Manager, it shows a list of running apps and their size (MB), CPU load, used memory, and number of threads and services – with an option to stop or uninstall.
Web Shield
Part of the avast! WebRep cloud, the avast! Web Shield for Android scans each URL that loads and warns you if the browser loads a malware-infected URL.
Firewall
Add a firewall to stop hackers. Disable an app’s internet access when on WiFi and 3G and roaming mobile networks. (Works only on rooted phones.)
avast! Anti-Theft
App Disguiser
After downloading avast! Anti-Theft, user can choose a custom name that disguises the app (e.g. call it “Pinocchio game”) so that it is even harder for thieves to find and remove.
Stealth Mode
Once anti-theft is enabled, the app icon is hidden in the app tray, leaving no audio or other trace on the target phone – the app is ‘invisible’, making it difficult for thieves to detect or remove.
Self-Protection
Extremely difficult for thieves to remove (especially on rooted phones), Anti-Theft protects itself from uninstall by disguising its components with various self-preservation techniques. On rooted phones it is able to survive hard-resets and can even disable the phone’s USB port.
Battery Save
Anti-Theft only launches itself and runs when it needs to perform tasks. This preserves battery life and makes it very difficult for thieves to shut it down.
SIM-Card-Change Notification
If stolen and a different (unauthorized) SIM card inserted, the phone can lock, activate siren, and send you notification (to remote device) of the phone’s new number and geo-location.
Trusted SIM Cards List
Establish a ‘white list’ of approved SIM cards that can be used in the phone without triggering a theft alert. You can also easily clear the trusted SIM cards list, to leave the one present in the phone as the only trusted one.
Remote Features
SMS commands provide you the following REMOTE options for your ‘lost’ (or stolen) phone:
Siren, Lock, custom Display properties, Locate, Memory Wipe, covert Calling, Forwarding, “Lost” Notification, SMS Sending, History, Restart, and more.
Market Link
Avast! Site
Avast! Forums
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I look at tons of porn and download them and never caught a virus, really why do I need this?
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smoke423 said:
I look at tons of porn and download them and never caught a virus, really why do I need this?
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You don't
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This app actually seems to have some pretty good anti-theft capabilities taken from theft-aware acquisition. I think you can technically install it, hide the anti-theft portion and then uninstall the main app although someone might want to try it?
http://androidheadlines.com/2012/01/review-avast-mobile-security-for-android.html
Check it out
E4GT=IPhone killer
Just_s said:
Sorry, I missed your first post. That is a strange situation. What it's your setup (ROM, kernel, modem)? I've seen lots of crazy things on this phone regarding SD. Is it your external or internal SD that is acting up?
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nah, it's my external (SD card), that's why I installed avast, cuz I thought I maybe downloaded an infected file on my SD. I've never had SD free space dissapear in HUGE amounts like that. Avast came back with no infected files. Not sure what to make of it. Just wondered if anyone else had any ideas.
Evo
CM7 based rom (been a solid rom for a while)
Stock 8GB SD card OEM.
I know nothing of how viruses work, so I thought I'd ask here, rather than start a new thread.
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Just_s said:
Was a little surprised no one had posted a thread here in the E4GT forums regarding the Avast! Mobile Security app. For those who are unaware, Avast! has been one of the best desktop AV solutions available for years. Their free options have routinely been better than most others' paid options. I started running their free Android app a few days ago and it is quite impressive. It might even be overkill, but I don't think many can argue that it doesn't provide something positive for pretty much anyone. I was going to post up a little write up, but Prashanthme already did a great job, so I'll just cleanup and repost his stuff here and link it to his name. Thanks to him for grabbing the Avast! site info. Anyway, give it a whirl, it's pretty powerful.
Full-featured Antivirus and Anti-Theft security for your Android phone.
Protect personal data with automatic virus scans and infected-URL alerts. Stop hackers by adding a firewall (rooted phones). Control anti-theft features with remote SMS commands for: history wipe, phone lock, siren activation, GPS tracking, audio monitoring, and many other useful tools. Your ‘invisible’ app hides itself, making it extremely hard for thieves to find and disable. A standalone yet tightly integrated component of avast! Mobile Security, avast! Anti-Theft is the slyest component on the market. Formerly known as Theft Aware, the Anti-Theft portion of avast! Mobile Security has been recommended by leading industry experts that include T-Mobile, N-TV, AndroidPIT, and Android Police.
avast! Mobile Security
Antivirus
Performs on-demand scans of all installed apps and memory card content, as well as on-access scans of apps upon first execution. Options for scheduling scans, virus definition updates, uninstalling apps, deleting files, or reporting a false-positive to our virus lab.
Privacy Report
Scans and displays (grid) access rights and intents of installed apps, identifying potential privacy risks, so you know how much info you are really providing to each app.
SMS/Call Filtering
Filter calls and/or messages from contact list using set parameters based on day(s) of the week, start time, and end time. Blocked calls redirect to voicemail, while blocked messages are stored via filter log. Also possible to block outgoing calls.
App Manager
Similar to Windows Task Manager, it shows a list of running apps and their size (MB), CPU load, used memory, and number of threads and services – with an option to stop or uninstall.
Web Shield
Part of the avast! WebRep cloud, the avast! Web Shield for Android scans each URL that loads and warns you if the browser loads a malware-infected URL.
Firewall
Add a firewall to stop hackers. Disable an app’s internet access when on WiFi and 3G and roaming mobile networks. (Works only on rooted phones.)
avast! Anti-Theft
App Disguiser
After downloading avast! Anti-Theft, user can choose a custom name that disguises the app (e.g. call it “Pinocchio game”) so that it is even harder for thieves to find and remove.
Stealth Mode
Once anti-theft is enabled, the app icon is hidden in the app tray, leaving no audio or other trace on the target phone – the app is ‘invisible’, making it difficult for thieves to detect or remove.
Self-Protection
Extremely difficult for thieves to remove (especially on rooted phones), Anti-Theft protects itself from uninstall by disguising its components with various self-preservation techniques. On rooted phones it is able to survive hard-resets and can even disable the phone’s USB port.
Battery Save
Anti-Theft only launches itself and runs when it needs to perform tasks. This preserves battery life and makes it very difficult for thieves to shut it down.
SIM-Card-Change Notification
If stolen and a different (unauthorized) SIM card inserted, the phone can lock, activate siren, and send you notification (to remote device) of the phone’s new number and geo-location.
Trusted SIM Cards List
Establish a ‘white list’ of approved SIM cards that can be used in the phone without triggering a theft alert. You can also easily clear the trusted SIM cards list, to leave the one present in the phone as the only trusted one.
Remote Features
SMS commands provide you the following REMOTE options for your ‘lost’ (or stolen) phone:
Siren, Lock, custom Display properties, Locate, Memory Wipe, covert Calling, Forwarding, “Lost” Notification, SMS Sending, History, Restart, and more.
Market Link
Avast! Site
Avast! Forums
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Great app. Just installed. Very light on resources. Thanks. I am sure this will become a paid app before long. Thanks again....
sd_N said:
Great app. Just installed. Very light on resources. Thanks. I am sure this will become a paid app before long. Thanks again....
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They might come out with something paid, but I'd wager this will remain free. Been using their full featured desktop av for more than a decade and they have never even hinted at charging for the personal version. Avast is one of those rare "good guy" companies.
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Hi,
finally I found LineageOS as a suitable OS for the Moto G4 Plus in a work environment, where employees get an restricted user profile. In my test, everything seems to work fine up to now. But the problem is now that I cannot enable the "Email"App for the restricted profiles to connect to the Exchangeserver 2010.
Since k9-Mail does not work with Exchange, it could not work as a replacement.
I read, the reason is that a google account cannot be used in restricted accounts. That is fine. But I don't want to use a google but an exchange account. Does anyone has an idea how to solve this?
risaer said:
Hi, finally I found LineageOS as a suitable OS for the Moto G4 Plus in a work environment, where employees get an restricted user profile. In my test, everything seems to work fine up to now...
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I don't have this device but, your best bet is to post this question within the following Official LineageOS thread for your device.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3522101
If all else fails, and you don't receive any responses from the above thread, you can always try to obtain some member guidance within the following Q&A thread that's specific to your device.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3526598
Good Luck!
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risaer said:
Hi,
finally I found LineageOS as a suitable OS for the Moto G4 Plus in a work environment, where employees get an restricted user profile. In my test, everything seems to work fine up to now. But the problem is now that I cannot enable the "Email"App for the restricted profiles to connect to the Exchangeserver 2010.
Since k9-Mail does not work with Exchange, it could not work as a replacement.
I read, the reason is that a google account cannot be used in restricted accounts. That is fine. But I don't want to use a google but an exchange account. Does anyone has an idea how to solve this?
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So you have gapps installed. Do you really need it in this setup? Without gapps you get the default aosp mail. No Google account on the phone.
Hmm. I suppose it is not a device specific problem, but a general one.
Maybe even a general Nougat one? <-- UPDATE: Stock seems not to have the selection list **
And no. No GAPPs. It is the modified Version with MicroG. Email app is com.android.email (Version 7.1.2). I will try the unmodified version also.
If I go to the user page where I can allow, which apps can be used, more or less every app is listed but (UKW-Radio, Recorder AND E-Mail).
I also tried to move the Email from /system/app to /data/app which only caused force closes.
Maybe another reason could be that by entering exchange data you will be forced to add it as device administrator so it is not in the list?
Any help is apreciated.
I tested several mail-apps now, but either they do not support the Exchange server or they send a lot of data to other obscure servers so I have not found any alternative. I also installed the "Gmail" app (which is also usable with an exchange account) but this also does not appear in the share list and I absolutely do not understand why.
risaer said:
I tested several mail-apps now, but either they do not support the Exchange server or they send a lot of data to other obscure servers so I have not found any alternative. I also installed the "Gmail" app (which is also usable with an exchange account) but this also does not appear in the share list and I absolutely do not understand why.
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Looks like you should install something from Microsoft.
kurtn said:
Looks like you should install something from Microsoft.
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Sorry, if I do not understand if there is a hidden meaning behind this. If this is a serious tip I do not know what app? The android outlook app (which really looks neat) happily transfers AND STORES your account credentials and the content on their servers (see e.g. https://www.pcworld.com/article/288...s-new-outlook-apps-over-privacy-concerns.html , article is from 2015, but I suppose it is still valid. Some time ago I checked it and found out that there is no connection to my but only to some foreign servers). That is not only critical in my sense of privacy but also illegal in the sense of the GPDR. Funny that some people advertise certified Microsoft cloud products for the GPDR.
Nevertheless: Even if I would not use an MS server this would not solve the problem that I cannot select Email or GMail as an allowed app for an restricted user. I also tried the unmodified Lineageos but it has the same issue.
I really do not understand how all the companies work with android phones in working environments. All this fiddeling around just do protect the phones by encrypting the content in case of loss, to give the user restricted access so that they cannot install apps that must not be on the device and to care about privacy. Like on a usual work pc. Do they all use I-Phones?
possible Explaination (?)
(arrg. Always copy your text before you try to send your post) short summary of what I've written:
according to these links my understanding like this:
https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3175031?hl=en and https://android.stackexchange.com/q...restricted-accounts-on-phone-running-lollipop
"Normal user" and "restricted user" is not equivalent to windows "admin" and "restricted user". "restricted users" are not allowed to use accounts so you need to use "normal user" which has some rights less than the owner. All allowed apps has to be installed again (but are just links, no duplicates).
The store and some other apps can be locked with a pattern.
I will test this. If you have further ideas or a suiable management solution for more than 10 phones to hesitate to write.