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[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
Hey, hey BT, seasons greetings to you and best wishes for twenty-thirteen!!!

M8 can you please tell me why tabs get stuck "booting primary kernel image"

is this a screwed up boot.img issue and can you just flash a new one!! Does it mean the BL can't find an OS??? And could you explain it in "normal persons language" lol - seems a few users are stuck with this atm and I'm not real sure on how to help them!!!

Whats the best way of repairing this problem????

thanx for your time BT

dibb
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
Probably just means you need to flash a new ROM. Boot to recovery (ClockworkMod etc) and flash a new ROM :)
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
hahaha,...no m8 it can't be that simple surely, we are talking bout the Acer here:)

sweet as and cheers!!
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jeepguy04:
I have created an app that will help share apps across users on google's new 4.2 multi user feature.

Thanks to mentose457 and unwired for giving me the idea.

see this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1994169)

It works by removing package elements from user's package-restriction.xml file to add the app and adding the package element back to remove the app. (located at \data\system\users\10\package-restrictions.xml where 10 is the user's id)

This is quickly thrown together and will likely have a ton of bugs, but I wanted to go ahead and get it out there for testing.

- This is BETA

-You must have ROOT

- This changes system data on non documented files it could screw something up.

- I'm not responsible for any problems this causes or lost data or bricked or broken devices

- please use cation

- it is currently built to run on main user to enable or disable apps on secondary users (once root is fully working on secondary users I will see about making it run correctly on secondary user's account)

- not tested thoroughly with paid apps*

- does not currently support system apps**

- due to the way I pull the app list from the package manager some installed apps may not show as available to add/remove

- apps installed first on a secondary user's profile will probably not show in the list to add/remove

*paid apps seemed to work but I did not have internet access during testing. My theory is that any paid apps that use Google's license verification will not work or not work for long. So adding your Google Account to the secondary user's play store is probably still the best way to share paid apps.

**The entries in the xml for system apps is different. Therefore I will have to research them more before getting it to work or deciding not to mess with those apps. Currently some will show not installed on other users even though they are and removing/adding them will not work correctly.

------> DOWNLOAD HERE https://play.google.com/store/apps/...tm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=app_announcement

I'd love to get feedback to what is working and what is not. Also if anybody figures out anything more about the package-restriction.xml file I'd love to hear it. Especially when it comes to system apps.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] toidimaet:
Thanks mate added my sons Google account and it is all running perfectly. Seperate saves and account details for apps and allowing me to share my paid ones with him :)

First review on play store is up.

Will have a mess around with apps and report back but it appears to be running sweet at the moment

Cheers danny...
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] mentose457:
I wanted to chime in as well. It is working on AOKP. Thanks again jeepguy04.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] rkuijpers:
Looks like it's working for me too :thumbup:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] DeadlyDazza:
Strange, I'm rooted. Using root apps such as cache mate, titanium & sixaxis.

Multi user app enabler says not rooted.

So does root checker??
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] rkuijpers:
On the first 'owner' account I'm rooted, but the second user account doesn't recognize root in apps shared through multi user app.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] mentose457:
That is a known issue (if you want to call it that). For me it's not a problem as my second user is a guest just like on my computer.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] rkuijpers:
I know, that's why I quoted the user I meant to answer ;)

It wasn't meant as a negative comment, as I think this app is very useful.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] nstrand:
I tried this with ten games and all worked fine (free and paid) except Retro Racing. It works with primary user but crashes with secondary user.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mrqwak.retroracing
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] bergfex:
Do you think it is possible to have a shared folder for fotos and musik for multiple users?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] joeyman08:
some one post the apk my devices are not compatible lol
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] player911:
Great idea! My solution involves just buying everyone their own tablets.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] DeadlyDazza:
... Fail
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] agabe:
Does it works on nexus10 ?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jeepguy04:
Should work on any tablet running 4.2 (or phone if your custom rom enables the multiple user profiles)

Currently I only have it available in the market to tablets to avoid confusion for people wondering why it doesn't work with their phone. Maybe I will change that since only nexus devices or phones with custom roms are running 4.2. Those users tend to be a little smarter and know if their phone has multiple user profiles or not.

Here is a link to the apk for anybody that can't see it in the market.

The shared folder idea is interesting but beyond the scope of this app. Probably could do it with symlinks or something (not very knowledgeable in linux). Maybe I will look into it and either make another app or find a way to make it fit in with this app.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] xpmode:
Yes. Symlinking the photos/music folders outside /data/ should work. But I don't have a 4.2 device(nor willing to set up an emulator) so I'm unsure.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Saskmaster:
Looking forward to trying on my p5113 CM 10.1

Great to see this is available

Thanks:good:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] excarnate:
Why the full network access and google play billing service permissions?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jeepguy04:
Google Play billing service is for accepting donations via in app purchase. Under settings anybody can donate if they feel the app has value to them... so far I've gotten two $1 donations...lol

network access is for connecting to internet for ads and also for ACRA (Application Crash Report for Android) it basically sends error reports to me to help fix errors. It can be disabled under settings if you do not want it reporting errors.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] ando roido:
Does not populate menu on my Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] KidCarter93:
Great app as and works like a charm.

Any chance you'd be able to include files to be transfered across users aswell? I have no idea about this kind of thing so I have no idea if it can be easily done or not.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] TxaEkis:
Really nice app, just what i was looking for!

Just one thing, on certain games where u are required to download data before play, the data is shared for both profiles (just downloading on the main profile before sharing it), but for some games (ex. Shadowgun) this doesn't happen and you are asked to download it again for the second profile, would be nice if you could check into this, as duplicating data is what i was looking to avoid..

Thanks again, and good work on this! :good:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Zatta:
Would you be so kind to share the apk also as i would like to try it on my Samsung galaxy s3 (would save me some time tinkering with the xml).

Looks like you have disabled various devices on the play store, at least it isn't compatible with my device.

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[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] KidCarter93:
He posted the apk in this post :)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Zatta:
Am I that stupid?! Hmm, apppearently :D

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[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Zatta:
Goodmorging,

I have used your app to setup a user account for my kids on my phone. I wanted to get rid of everything they can use to ****up, in fact, all I wanted to keep for them were some games.

What I did to remove the play store was to ADD "enabled=3" to the xml file. There was no "enabled"item so your app couldn't change it to 3.

<pkg name="com.android.vending" [B]enabled="3"[/B]>
<enabled-components>[INDENT] <item name="com.google.android.finsky.receivers.BootCompletedReceiver"/>
<item name="com.android.vending.AssetBrowserActivity"/>
<item name="com.google.android.finsky.receivers.AccountsChangedReceiver"/>
<item name="com.google.android.finsky.receivers.PackageMonitorReceiver$RegisteredReceiver"/>
[/INDENT]</enabled-components>
<disabled-components>[INDENT] <item name="com.google.android.finsky.activities.DebugActivity"/>
[/INDENT]</disabled-components>
</pkg>

The same goes for the following, where I added enabled is "2" with the same result.

pkg name="com.google.android.gm" enabled="2"
pkg name="com.android.email" enabled="2"
pkg name="com.android.gallery3d" enabled="2"

One more thing, I think you use the sdcard/0 to copy some files to, user10_info.xml, user10_package-restrictions.xml and userlist.xml. I usually use /data/data/com.mypackage.name/files to copy files to that need to be modified or read (if not readable). That location is the result from

String data_storage_root = getBaseContext().getFilesDir().toString();

Do we already know the difference between enabled = "1" enabled="2", enabled="3" (system apps??), inst="false" (for user apps that are installed before adding a user??) and inst="false" stopped="true" nl="true" (for user apps installed after adding a user??)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] ramdroid77:
The enabled value is the component-enabled-state from Package Manager, see http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] ando roido:
Problem was that I had only one user account.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jeepguy04:
Thanks for the info. I kinda figured out the enabled=3 a while back see this thread, but I haven't had a chance to implement it yet. Trying to fully understand all the values in the xml.

So it appears 2 and 3 disable it, 0 is default and 1 enables it (although 0,1 seem to not be used for any apps in the xml or at least not on mine)

And the difference between 2 and 3 is that 3 is user disabled so they should be able to reenable it in the app manager where 2 is system diabled. So I wonder if setting an app to enabled=2 would not only remove it from the user but prevent them from enabling it back??? Time to do some testing.

Actually I need to take that part out. I was just copying the files to the sdcard to make it easier on me pull them off my tablet and verify I was modifying the xml correctly. I can remove that and stop cluttering up everybody's internal storage. Sorry about that.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jeepguy04:
And everybody asking about sharing data between users. I will probably look into it down the road but not in the immediate future. Fist I want to get the system apps settled. I also feel there will be alot of testing that needs to be done to see if sharing data directory on apps is stable. It would be cool to have to option to share data from some apps but not others.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] keshonok:
I've found this thread after I'd found the app and tried it on my Nexus 7. I have a few questions though after using it for a couple of days.

- Is it necessary to reboot the system after each session of sharing an app? I am not proficient in Android at all, but in any Unix system (which Android is a relative to) you can simply restart a certain service or daemon without rebooting the whole system, unless it's the kernel that has been changed.

- When an app is made shared between users, my understanding is that certain system data is written in the space of that user. When you remove the app without un-sharing it first, that leaves the system data in the user space intact, essentially polluting the system. Also, if you reinstall the application either under the owner's account or under the user's account, my feeling is that the the above mentioned program data and system data is picked up again under the user's account, which is kind of wrong. I am not absolutely sure if that's what's happening, but I've seen some strange behavior. I can imagine that it would be possible to catch these cases and automatically remove the leftover data under user accounts for deleted apps.

- I shared the "Kid's shell" app to my kid's account on my tablet. This app can be made the default launcher. However I was unable to do that for the kid's account. I've tried everything, the the system thinks (settings->apps->Kids Shell) that the "Kid's Shell" is the default launcher indeed, but the standard "launcher" still starts. Is there anything I don't understand, or is there something missing?

Thanks for a great app, and I am sure it improves a lot in the future. :good:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jeepguy04:
New version is out that should work with system apps. Setting enabled=2 does in fact remove the app from the user and also makes it where the user cannot enable the app in settings. Enabled=3 removes the app but the user can go into settings and enable it.

Right now I'm using enabled=2. Do you guys think that is best or would you rather disable it but leave the ability to enable it back in the app settings? Or should I make a dialog and let you choose which option to do for each system app.

For thos using phones and cannot see the app in the play store... here is the link to the new version https://dl.dropbox.com/u/43302928/MultiUserAppShare.apk
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jeepguy04:
There very well may be a service or something but right now I don't think there is much knowledge about exactly what goes on under the hood when an app is downloaded on second account that is already on the first. But there must be a way to do it without rebooting because the app shows up immediately if you redownload it from the play store instead of doing this hack. Right now rebooting is necessary because I bet it only reads that xml file that I'm modifying on boot. Maybe I can go digging through the android source to see if there is a better way. But for now you must reboot.

This method should be no different that installing apps on the secondary user account the normal way. I'm not writing any system data to the secondary user, it is all this done by the android OS. To my knowledge it is the exact same whether this hack is used or if you install apps the official way.

However if anybody wants to do some in depth testing about how app data is added and removed for secondary users when installing/uninstalling apps or sharing/unsharing apps via this method, I'd love to see the results. Should be able to monitor the /data/user/XX folders before and afeter and see if the two ways differ any. I will when I get some extra time.

I bet this is due to extra lines in the package restriction file for that app. There are some apps, especially system apps that have extra nodes in the xml for enabled-components and disabled-components. I'm betting for apps like launchers there may be extra work that I need to do to xml. Look in the package-restrictions.xml file under /data/system/users/0/ and compare it to the one for your secondary user /data/system/users/XX/. See if the xml for that app has anything extra on the main user.

I will try to download "Kid's Shell" and look for myself and see what might be different about it.

Thanks. Hopefully the more we learn about the whole multi-user system that google put in place the better I can make the app.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] crypticc:
Just doubled it. Lol. All my apps worked except Met Office weather app for some reason. ll done
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Scofield.:
This app is just genius! Thanks a lot!
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] guardian-bs:
User Installed Apps

Great app, just a couple of questions

1. This app is offered in the list of apps to share with other Users, but this app requires Root and Users do not have access to Root and cannot therefore run this app, or am I missing something ?

2. If a User (not Owner) installs an app then it is not available to the Owner and as the Multi-User App Share app is not usable by Users there is no way to share the installed app with the Owner / Users (unless they install it themselves of course). It would be nice if this app could list apps installed by Users with the option to make them available to the Owner (who could then make them available to other Users).
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Mr.R™:
Hi pal, messaged you via the playstore before but thought this mght be quicker, any chance of making this compatible with the galaxy s3? could really use this :) Thanks.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Zatta:
Check post 32. You can download it from there.

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[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Mr.R™:
Excellent thanks i missed that :/

Anyway, got it installed, kinda does the job, ALL apps are now shared, but if i try to unshare any/all apps upon reboot all apps are still shared no matter what i do. Is this an issue thats been seen before or just me? Im using an s3 on paranoid android with siyah kernal if it matters, any additional info can be supplied if needed :)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] TxaEkis:
I have the same issue, running CleanRom 3.1.1 (N7) when i share an app upon reboot all apps are shared including system apps
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] BossMafia2:
I'm having an issue, and I'm not quite sure if it's related to this or what...

Basically, I'll turn the tablet on, log in as myself and do some work. Later, I'll log in to a secondary account (or the actual person will, either way) and the tablet will hang for a bit then restart, every time.

I made a third account, didn't attach a google account or share any apps with it and I can switch users all day with no crashes, and it's quite quick too. I feel like something got corrupted in the second user's account, but since there is hardly any info about this multiple user thing all together, it's hard to tell. I supposed I'll have to try to remove and re-add that second users account to see what happens.

I'm running a Transformer Infinity with CM10.1, btw.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Mr.R™:
Have you deleted any user apps? This happened to me when i removed the default android keyboard because i use another
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] cmonsterf50:
I finally got this working. I'm on Modaco R4, a CM10.1 port. I tried 3 different stock based ROMs and kept running into issues with the new profile resetting after reboot. I've setup 2 other profiles and no issues. Thanks!!
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Mr.R™:
2 questions if anyone would be so kind as to answer them :)

1. Is there any way to unshare the apps without having to do it manually?

Which brings me to:

2. There seems to be a few apps similar to this floating about now so any recommendations as to which is best? If any actually work properly I can achieve 1 using said app ;)

Orrr is this going to be updated in the near future? I'm on 1.14 installed manually as I'm using an s3
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] mrplowdan:
damn my apps somehow got messed up. I updated cm10.1 recently and afterwards when I login with a second account every app FCs, fused location trebouchet, aosp keyboard...

I deleted all my secondary users but it happens with new users as well.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] SferaDev:
Referral on my app!

Hey!

I made an app that enables the feature on 4.2 phones and I'm referring your app!

See you!
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] absenttoschool:
Try put any foto or musik file to android/data/obb,then go to second user,go to same place android/data/obb,you will see musik or fotos file,then just cut and paste to any where folder in second user..that it,work for me.

nexus7 (WiFi) 4.2.2
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] hdaackda:
I have multi user enabled on my phone but play store doesn't let me download your app, saying it's not compatible with my devices. Any direct link pls?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Zatta:
postcount=32
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Kusie:
Hello,

is there a way to completely MOVE an app WITH IT`S USER DATA to a different user? My son started to play a game on my account and now I made a seperate one for him. Of course he wants to have his savegames and data on his new account as well, without the need to start the game from the beginning... Is there a quick and easy way to transfer/move a complete app?

Thanks!
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Kusie:
Hi,

is this app still "alive"? No messages or answers from OP since Dec 2012 ...

Anyhow .. I´d like to try to post some more questions, maybe other users have the answers:

I use this app on my rooted nexus 7 and share some apps (mostly games) with my sons secondary account (no root).

- what happens if i share an app and the "secondary user" uninstalls the app? Does this have any effect on the primary root account?

- It seems when I uninstall an app from my root user, the app is still availbale/visible/usgabel on the secondary account

- what happens to the shared apps if I UNINSTALL the "Multiuser App share" App completely?

- what happens to the shared apps if I delete the secondary profile on my Nexus 7?

Some days ago I had a strange error on the secondary account, don´t know if this is connected to this app: all of a sudden I had system messages saying "System-UI has been stopped" and this error message popped up every time I pressed OK ... I had to restart several times to get rid of this, and it has happened again yesterday...

Any hints?

K.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Phuturist:
Development seems quite dead but just for the record, I could not get this working on a Nexus 10 first generation with CM10.2 (Android 4.3). It's stuck on checking root permission even though Super User grants this permission.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Mr.R™:
Get AppShare instead, free version forces you to reboot after 3 changes before you can change more, slightly annoying but at least it works and doesn't share all apps like this one did :)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Aleq:
Seems to crash on 7.1.2
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BillBong:
I just got my Nook HD+ a few days ago (running 2.04), and I've had a read through the boards but it's a bit confusing because there seem to be a couple of approaches to rooting, and I'm not sure which is the more reliable/recent one to follow.

I'd be grateful for any pointers on :

1) Running 2.04, which is the current best method to root, and is this now "permanent" or is still prone to factory reset (the "8 boot" cycle).

2) Once I root, is it then limited in terms of what I can install (eg. I saw in some of the earlier methods, that AdAway would trip the reset).

3) Once rooted, how do I install the Google Play Store/Market.

4) How compatible generally is the Nook with Google Play Store - can I download/run things like launchers, keyboards etc?

(I realise most of this info is already somewhere on the boards, but it seems a difficult to find where to start coming at it cold).
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] someone0:
I can answer numbr3 now, from the look of it, there will be an all-in-one version of root+Gapps comin soon.

I prefer mineof course, but there are people that use verygreen also. Both should work the gapps.

most of the apps work w/o any problem, but you should be aware that anything that can modify /system (meaning required root) can screw up yoir system.

And no, there is currently no root mod that survive 8 bootloop.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lkmiller:
Start here.