[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Huh? The entire phone lock I am talking about is in the Settings/Lock Screen menu. In there at the top of the list is Screen Security. Tap that. Now at the top of the Screen Security menu is Screen Lock. Mine is set to slide like most phones. Tap that. Here you pick your method of locking the entire phone. None, Slide, Face Unlock, Pattern, PIN, or Password. Let's say you pick pattern. You get a choice of how complex you wish this to be. 3x3, 4x4, 5x5 or 6x6. 3x3 is nine dots, plenty enough for me. Next you draw a pattern with your finger over the nine dots. To make it simple, I will use a capitol C and start at top right, move over top to right, down the right side, and back to the right on the bottom to make a capitol C. I will repeat this to make sure it is correct. Then, tap home or wherever you want to go. Press power to lock your phone or just let it time out to black screen and 5 more seconds for the grace period.

NOW press power and try to get into your phone. You get nine dots. And if you do not draw the correct pattern over the dots, you are NOT getting into that phone. You complete the letter C we used for the example and you are in your phone. If you do not know the pattern and try moving your finger around, access denied. You can make an emergency call, that is it. This screen privacy lock should work with any launcher, but I really like Trebuchet now. You can use a PIN number, password, or even facial recognition to unlock your phone instead, or just set it to Slide if you do not wish to lock it, just stop if from lighting in your pocket. I, personally, would not use the Facial Recognition to unlock my phone, I just do not trust it enough but it may very well work just fine.

This absolutely does work, Mr. Chen. But if you wish to allow your kids to use the phone on a restricted basis, I would use the app lock instead. You can stop it from being a phone, take away internet access, and make it a game player only if you wish. Or, if the kids have a yahoo mail account, you can allow the yahoo mail. Or a browser, you can restrict this as much or as little as you wish for the kids. They will have to know the pattern to unlock the restricted apps or forget it. Do not let them see you unlock the apps or change the pattern.

We do also have profiles, it might be neat to restrict one profile and leave your own unrestricted. Go to Settings, Profiles and turn it on. Then tap the Profiles menu and use one for the kids and one for yourself. For the kids profile, you can restrict quite a bit. You can do an awful lot with profiles, add triggers, control apps, and more. I am not sure how this all will work so experiment a bit with this, can you? I really cannot take the time to mess up my phone so much with several in depth profiles and experiment with restrictions, but they are there. Someone else may have already done this and, hopefully, we can get some feedback on it.

Try it again Mr. Chen. I just went through both methods in my hand right now to prove I am not missing anything or giving you false information. I am on Trebuchet so the app lock won't work on other launchers, but the screen total phone lock should. Try again please. :p