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[Android Apps and Games] flydev:
Do you have titanium backup?

When you create a label (on filters settings) you can select to show enabled elements on top.

This is the behavior i'm thinking.

(if you don't have the app i can describe whats happens)

Let me put an example: i have a group with 10 apps, 3 enabled and 7 freezed.

If i press the lock icon, all the apps are enabled and i need to press again to freeze all.

With 2 icons i can disable just the 3 enabled apps.

Makes any sense what i'm saying?

Of course this are comments/suggestions, not requests.

As always, thanks for your time.
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
I just checked it out. This would be possible when you see the default app list in the group. But when you add a filter then the apps are grouped by their permissions, and then the "active on top" would remove the associated permissions. Hmmm I see that's somewhat difficult ;)

Now I understand, and it just reminded me that I had some troubles to choose whether a group is enabled or not when only few apps are disabled. Let me think about this issue a bit longer ;)

Thanks! It's greatly appreciated! ;)
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
There's an update in Google Play which is like the result of two weeks of work. The most important feature is that App Quarantine now supports AdbToggle. That means that the (rather critical) USB debugging mode doesn't need to be turned on all the time, and is only enabled when needed by the app.
[Android Apps and Games] jago25_98:
^ what's going on behind the scenes here?

Great app. Essential for battery conservation.

Apps in my freeze list:

- adb wireless

- fring

- gmail

- HDRCam+

- skype

- talk

- youtube

Check all is ok with a reboot. If you have trouble try a fix permissions.
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
There are two reasons why this message appears:

1. On the Galaxy Note it's impossible to restore (unfreeze) apps. Samsung have changed something in their firmware and when you run the "pm enable..." command then it responds with a nice “This app can not be enabled due to EBM policy.” message.

I wrote more details about this issue on my blog: https://ramdroid.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/app-quarantine-solves-ebm-policy-issues-on-galaxy-note/

2. I received a report that on some Acer tablet the apps which had been quarantined are magically re-appearing after a reboot.

It's possible that there are issues on other devices as well, I also heard about such issues on a Motorola phone. What I'm doing to resolve these issues is a manual patch of the file /data/system/packages.xml

In this file you have a list of all installed packages on your device and the associated permissions. But it also contains a flag to say if the package is enabled or not. When the "pm enable..." or "pm disable..." command runs (which all freeze apps are using) then the Android package manager is enabling/disabling the app and when succeeded it changes the flag in the packages.xml file.

On the Galaxy Note this flag is never changed because nothing happens. On the Acer tablet the pm command is successful but for some reason the xml file seems like it isn't updated too.

So I'm going along and check if the package.xml flag was updated after running the pm command, and otherwise change it myself. However the device needs to reboot immediately. If it's not rebooting then the Android system is overwriting the changes after a while.

As far as I know App Quarantine and Titanium Backup Pro are the only freeze apps that are supporting this!

If this message appears on your device but you think you are not affected by these issues then please drop me a message ASAP!
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
New update is published!

There's now a new application icon! Please give the new guy a warm welcome! :cool:

New features:

- 1x1 widget is now available in the free version as well

- added Password protection for PRO version

And finally the old big, ugly and over-sized 2x2 widget is no more.

I also solved the following issue in the PRO version, as reported by martul:

In the homescreen widget you can now enable/disable all apps in a group with one click. If there are few apps disabled and few enabled ones in a group then this is now visible in the widget state.
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Guys, I'm currently working on some more changes to App Quarantine (mainly performance and stability improvements) and while developing it would be nice if it's tested on few more devices before release. I'm especially interested in devices running Android 4+ using the original "SuperUser" (not "SuperSu", because "SuperSu" is usually working fine). So just write me a PM and let me know what device and Android version you are using, and whether you are using SuperUser or SuperSu. If you ever had hangs or crashes while using App Quarantine then you are a potential tester as well ;) Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] lorenx:
hi ramdroid, nice app! :good:

just one question...

i read that the support for custom rom works with some data saved on the sdcard and, when restored, the app would automatically find that data and re-freeze the unwanted apps. am i right?

well, there's no data on my sdcard (phone and rom in my signature).

am i missing something?

thanks a lot ;)
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
It's stored in /sdcard/Android/data/com.ramdroid.appquarantine/files
[Android Apps and Games] lorenx:
oh, ok... thanks.

i use to delete the /sdcard/Android folder when changing rom, just to clean cached files and all the other stuff.

maybe it would be useful to have that data stored somewhere else, in /sdcard/AppQuarantine for example (titanium backup saves its preferences in /sdcard/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup, a bit weird but cleaner).

just a personal opinion anyway :)

thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Well, I'm using the default folder on SD card as recommended by the Android developer manuals. IMO it's important that apps are using this folder, instead of polluting the SD card with tons of random folders that still will be there when the apps are removed. Android takes care about the /sdcard/Android folder and automatically cleans them up when you uninstall an app.
[Android Apps and Games] mk01:
Uninstalling App Quarantine

I have installed the free version of App-Quarantine and have frozen several apps.

What will happen to the frozen apps if I uninstall App-Quarantine using a PC(Google Play website i.e. my Gmail account )?

Will all the frozen apps be automatically become UN-frozen/available?
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
The apps will still be frozen after uninstalling App Quarantine.
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Here's a new test version that fixes display issues in the widgets:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11516830/AppQuarantine.apk

I'm currently working on few more things before I'll publish an update to Google Play.

If there's some more things you'd like to see here, please let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
If you have a device running Android 4.1 then you can now toggle apps from the notification bar, in case you are using the PRO version ;)

Check out this article for more details:

https://ramdroid.wordpress.com/2013...oggle-apps-from-notification-bar-android-4-1/
[Android Apps and Games] viethungyp:
great app . tks so much
[Android Apps and Games] zNightmares:
Any chance of a Tasker plugin?
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Hi. Sorry but a Tasked plugin is not planned. But may I ask what kind of actions would you want to do with such plugin?
[Android Apps and Games] zNightmares:
I was thinking for my Nexus 7 (wifi) that I could enable apps with push service (hangouts, facebook messaging, etc) while connected to the internet and have them disabled otherwise.

I'm not sure if that will have an impact on the battery or not because I don't know if it tries to update without a connection..
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
I don't know either. Though I'd assume it won't make a lot of difference to battery life. The use of a data/wifi connection is what drains all the battery. But when internet is disabled I don't think there's any significant battery drain.
[Android Apps and Games] bofh999:
Hello first of all, its a great app

Anyway i cant solve the bug sitting in front of the screen so i need some help here

how exactly does quarantine freeze the apps?

my problem is i locked myself out of the phone, after disabling to much i crashed and hangs in the bootloop

so now ife touch recovery so i made a backup and factory reset.

my plan is now

A. restore the backup and use a script to undo the damage

B. alter the backup files to undo the damage and restore

C: all is ****ed and ife to reinstall everything and manully put essential data back (like all 3 star levels in angrybirds lol)

any idea?
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
The freezing is done by an Android system API. Android itself has a file were it stores all information about installed apps:

/data/system/packages.xml

You can boot into recovery, copy the file to your PC with adb shell. Then search for the app you want to restore and edit the entry. It's pretty much self I explanatory. Then copy back to device and make sure the permissions are correct. Though if you make a mistake hear you'll have a lot of force closes....

An easier way is probably to make a nandroid backup, wipe, then restore the apps you need with Titanium backup or similar tools.
[Android Apps and Games] bofh999:
Thanks for the quick response, found that xml in the meantime

ife red somwhere that each line contains something like enable="false" flag,

so ife restored the bricked backup, and went into a shell tryed to edit with vi :)))))))

well vi on that tiny thing isnt a good idea tough, yea should do that on the pc is way easier

,naa not backup restoring things, naaa this is to stupid one dam service disabled restoring all that things grr i refuse todo that lol

btw it would be like a surrender

but leads to a suggestion, i guess iam not the first one that stupid, so a

stupid.zip for clokwork woudl be great - unfreeze everything :))

btw i was one of your very first first users i think i got it during the first week of your release :))
[Android Apps and Games] bofh999:
Oups looks like we have a problem here.

packages.xml does not contain any enabled flag at all

actually i cant even see a difference between an enabled and an disables app in there.

ther must be another file or something new

iam using android 4.1.2 on sgs2 anyone any idea what has changed?
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
oh, you're already up-to-date. For multi user support some things have changed. Check in /data/system/users/0 there should be the same file. Let me know if that's fine with you and hope you don't have to surrender!

Glad you're already enjoying the app already for so long! ;)
[Android Apps and Games] bofh999:
omg 3rd time in 1,5 years they changed things in there at least for samsung devices,..

anway all i got in there is

accounts.db

accounts.db-journal

appwidgets.xml

package-restrictions.xml

wallpaper_info.xml

anyway my hole phone is wierd.

after endless backup restores, factory resets and so on i finally killed my recovery, decided to reflash the stockrom again via odin

and guess what the phone works better than ever bevore. (thats why i ended up freezing samsung sysapps in first place, no matter which kernel i always had issues with lags and battery)

even i made a hole wipe bevore the last upgrade seems that this doenst work always, something was always off

so i decided to redo my phone, maybe i give even a mod a shot, now is my chance , now or never lol

thanks anyway for the assistance, still its something worth finding out but first iam gonna restore it
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
App Quarantine re-design - in process...

As you may have noticed App Quarantine in the meanwhile aged a bit. The first version has been released in June 2011 and Android has changed a lot since then. Today it's more important than ever to have nice looking, buttery-smooth and responsive apps. So during the last few months I've finally started to completely re-design the app, though at the same time I need to add new features as well. This combination, together with an everlasting lack of time (due to having a main job and a family) only allows me to work in small steps, so this is a process that keeps going over the next couple months. :silly:

The plan is to split-up the re-design into two version. The first one (1.29) is merely a code re-work under the hood and does not offer a lot of visual changes. The next one (1.30) will offer a brand-new UI and new improvements and options for managing groups (in the PRO version).

New version 1.29

Nevertheless, in order to offer a light-weight app first thing I did was removing support for Android 2.x. This reduced the APK size from 1.7 MB to a nice 800K, and there are already more features included. In the Google Play store luckily you can offer multiple APKs, so the old version (1.28) will remain available for older devices, though there won't be any more updates or new features. There will be a final update (when 1.29 is ready too) that will fix some issues with root access (using the newest RootTools library) but other than that this chapter is done.

The only visual changes in 1.29 are a great new settings screen and faster loading times in the App/Quarantine tabs.

Currently the new version is available as beta version and I'm now looking for some feedback before publishing the final version. In order to join the beta test please join my community on Google Plus:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100180624966322712646

When you are a member of the community you have to register as beta tester in the next step:

For the free version:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.ramdroid.appquarantine

...or if you have the paid version use this one:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.ramdroid.appquarantinepro
[Android Apps and Games] Thomas_BA:
Thanks, will join the community and will test.

P.S. Grus aus dem kalten Buenos Aires in meine alte Heimat.
[Android Apps and Games] Skeese:
When can we expect 1.29? Holding off buying Titanium Backup just for freezing apps...
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
I'm currently working on few open issues. But you can already test the free version and 'upgrade' to 1.29 through the beta version.
[Android Apps and Games] alberta1254:
hello,

I need a little help. I uninstalled app Quarantine and all the apps that were frozen are now, not Functional. Inside quarantine, there were some system apps like "play store"... :eek:

Could you send me an app quarantine.apk to resolve the situation? I think that reinstalling is the way to go back.

Hoping your understanding.
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
You can use this one:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvahr2621cnmzjp/AppQuarantine.apk
[Android Apps and Games] alberta1254:
Thank you very much, it is a highly appreciated gesture :good: It seems that everything is back to normal :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] Skeese:
Will keep an eye out :good:
[Android Apps and Games] flydev:
waiting for my approval =)
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Recently I started to put more focus on translations for App Quarantine, a thing I've never done before. So if the app is not available in your native language then why not contribute some translations ;)

Join project on Crowdin

https://crowdin.net/project/app-quarantine

No need to register on the site, just login with your Google account

Drop me a message

If there's not already another proof-reader then you'll be assigned a proof-reader for your language and can also change/fix suggestions from other users. Proof-readers are the ones that get credited in the app and who can snatch a free "pro" version too!

I also wrote about it on my blog:

http://ramdroid.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/app-quarantine-translators-wanted/
[Android Apps and Games] jomtones:
Hi sorry for the double post - just emailed you about this, bit freaked out as I have my first day at a new job tomorrow and I've disabled my phone!

I just tried out 'App Quarantine' from the Play Store on my HTC Sensation - I froze a bunch of apps I wasn't using. All seemed fine until I rebooted - the phone now hangs on a blank desktop when unlocked. I tried to get into 'safe mode' and it's the same there

Phone is rooted but stupidly I have no recent backup. Is there any way I can 'unfreeze' the apps without running App Quarantine? Or some other way to recover my phone?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
You probably disabled your default launcher. Connect it to your PC and start an adb shell. Type 'pm enable com.android.launcher'. Now your home screen should appear magically....
[Android Apps and Games] G00fY2:
Wow,this app is great! Thank you very much. As a HTC user with root but S-ON this was exactly what I was looking for to disable some preinstalled apps.
[Android Apps and Games] siddarthsmallya:
working perfectly..cooool
[Android Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Hello everyone! After a little few months hiatus I'm actively back to development now. Sadly I couldn't finish to publish the 1.29 version to all users before I left, but plan to do asap now ;)

I just published a new beta version to Google Play. If you want to get it then read the first post (free version) or second post (pro version) that contain the links to sign up as beta tester etc.
[Android Apps and Games] babydouggie:
Apps Not Staying Frozen

My apps not staying frozen thru a reboot. Was using App Quarantine , but it quit holding apps frozen thru a reboot. Tried using other apps with same result. Even tried a terminal emulator with the package manager disable command (which told me the app WAS disabled) , but after a reboot the app was not disabled. Any ideas why this is happening and/or how to correct this? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] johnmouth17:
app

hi sir, I just badly needed this app, but the latest version was uploaded on play store..anybody kindly upload the older version of this app.. TY
[Android Apps and Games] xecutionkrk:
no easy way to add to group. have to manually click 3 steps to add to group, pretty inconvenient when you have hounded of apps. But this app still useful plz fix dev.
[Android Apps and Games] E:V:A:
[MENTION=1755319]ramdroid77[/MENTION]: Would it be possible that you could publish your app on some other place than google play, like F-Droid or Aptoid?
[Android Apps and Games] onetrue:
Quarantine List Issue

Long story short:

Phone Lenovo A850+

English rom was flashed and rooted

a) I install app quarantine on a phone that I didn't root myself

b) I quarantine the app that give root access to the phone, (I quarantine the program that allows quarantine to work, it was KingUser)

c) I factory reset to whatever the rooted flashed rom was

d) everything works fine, EXCEPT there is a list of apps in the "Quarantine List" that cannot be removed.

The apps are not quarantined AND the first time that I install app-quarantine after the first factory reset, the app asked me something about "old list", "quarantine again" and in the fear of quarantine "KingUser" again, I said "No", or something.

Please, help
[Android Apps and Games] avasil:
Must Have! Thank You developer! :)

With this program, my smartphone began to work as quickly as after purchase. There is no need for him to do a Hard reset. It is enough to freeze unnecessary or infrequently used apps. Now when these apps need, then you can run them from the program App Quarantine.

* This program is especially necessary if the smartphone is a small amount of RAM, for example, 512 KB RAM. But those who have 2GB she also significantly speeds up the smartphone.

* I use a program App Quarantine together with program Greenify.
[Android Apps and Games] mickmattes:
F-Droid

Hi [MENTION=1755319]ramdroid77[/MENTION],

could you please offer the app on a different place than Google Play Store? Many of us are trying to avoid US IT companies for obvious reasons and so we are looking for free alternatives to the apps on Play Store. This app could for example replace "Gemini App Manager".

Thank you in advance.

mick
[Android Apps and Games] ourfear:
could you support android 6.0? also where to buy the pro version?
[Android Apps and Games] rockman.kowal:
@up

For me it working on MM

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9506 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Android Apps and Games] ourfear:
But maybe improvement... there is a app "cold launcher" do same thing, and it can be faster than normal root freeze method , when it be placed in /system/app

sent from Nexus5X chroma
[Android Apps and Games] Technical:
Free version does nothing but freezing.

Without creating the home screen icons, the free version does not add any feature to any other "freeze" app (like TitaniumBackup).
[Android Apps and Games] rmelotte:
Great app but needs updates. I bought the pro version but there are still no updates since January 2014 :(
[Android Apps and Games] imesg:
Quarantine widgets don't survive reboot.
[Android Apps and Games] xecutionkrk:
new version plz
[Android Apps and Games] DirkStorck:
Hi, is there an alternative app to this one which also has the possibility to add a widget to freeze/unfreeze an app?

I am still using it on my S9+ (oreo) but sometimes the widgets won't get displayed on the screen. There are still there. I can still freeze/unfreeze the app but it doesn't displays the icon anymore.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzx:
This app is abandoned, but I still use it every day. I am now on Oreo (Android 8), and I believe it works for Pie and Q (Android 9 and 10) as well.

I have hundreds of app quarantine widgets on my screens on my phone and I use them regularly. Folders, and individual app freeze widgets get daily use from me. However, the app does need updating because it's slow to open and sometimes runs into a crash bug where I can't modify app folders below a certain scroll point in the app (like the 15th or so folder, give or take), which I am assuming is because of my device memory. A phone with more memory would probably solve the issue, but I'm not ready for that as another phone with more than 4GB RAM doesn't appeal to me yet, due to the notches. My phone is still really good.

Unfortunately, as far as I know there is no replacement for App Quarantine Pro. All the other app freeze apps only have an app drawer, but they do not have folder widgets and individual app widgets like App Quarantine Pro. That is a deal breaker, so despite being coming up on 6 years with no update to this app, it is still the most valuable app for me, next to Titanium Backup. I could not use a phone without these two most valuable apps.

I'm using the 3.0 Beta 6 and there are even menus like Themes which are empty because the developer had not built out these features despite the code base already being there.

This app, even with the small bugs, is still the most invaluable app to me. It is by far the best quarantine/freeze app.

As a result, if the developer could release the source code on github and make it open source, that would be amazing, that way the community can update this most valuable app for newer phones and more modern versions of android, as well as to fix the bugs, make it faster (like to utilize 64 bit), and add new features.

Thank you!

UPDATE:

Using this guide I have done the work of both extracting the apk file as well as extracting the xml, and I combined both the contents of these two tasks into one folder (not sure if that's the right way to go about it, but it's what I did), and have attached the result to this post. I also attached the original APK file itself to this post.
[Android Apps and Games] zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzx:
Update: I just got a new phone and it has Android 12. Unfortunately, I am unable to use this app on it. Now I am considering either installing a rom of an older version or going back to my V30S for another 5-10 years. Unfortunately, this app is so critical to my daily use, it outweighs any speed or screen improvements from my current phone.

If anyone knows the developer and/or can help e modify this app to work on Android 12, I would really appreciate it. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] MasterGamer1:
No download link available

Google play link not working