[Android Apps and Games] Spookasem:
Some points - Island app

Hi,

1. About Orbot-Tor: Great with the vpn connected both inside and outside. The vpn I used is the in-app vpn of Orbot. The problem is Orbot is fully connected inside the island, there is joy inside the island Orbot-wise. But Orbot stopped working outside the island, though its vpn is up. Orbot itself outside is forever "Orbot is Starting". UPDATE - Orbot righted itself after a simple restart.

2. I actually realized early on that the island is really a bare island and not ClubMed :) (I'm not an expert as the app requires for testing, but I'm not exactly a rookie either, so I apologize for my ignorance and for being blunt on some comments here and there). I use 360Security outside and can't see any of the cloned apps being scanned, so decided to clone the app in the island and so it scanned files generated inside the island and the apps. It did a full scan in few seconds with the meager info inside, Cloned Total Commander app showed only the folders and files on the island, but it didn't belie the meager info because the content menu of TC showed the totals or the same numbers in total space, available space, etc. found in TC's menu outside, one distinct difference between the Contents Menu of TC inside and outside is a small detail on the upper right corner of TC's Contents Menu panel wherein it shows the Island is using storage/emulated/11 path.

The external MicroSD is accessible inside the island and all its generated files and folders that end up here as well but I could not access the Android folder here in the same way I can with using TC outside the island.

Since the external MicroSD is visible inside and outside, For security and privacy, I would then need to freeze cloned TC after using it to keep it away from prying apps inside the island.

UPDATE - Maybe now, as I have restudied the setup, I've reconsidered and uninstalled cloned TC inside the island. Better to keep the TC outside the Island. Solved.

3. Camera Block, MicBlock can work independently from their cloned apps on the island. This is really great ! The security and privacy in this sense is now flexible, compared to the All or None choice I had with camera block apps available for non-rooted phones. This flexibility encompasses any security and privacy feature being offered by security equipment or gadgets currently. Having a Camera Block app outside the island for an All or None access to camera, then having a cloned Camera Block inside the island for an All or None, PLUS/OR using Freeze feature in the Island for excluding apps from access to camera. I can now target specific app/s to access the camera, the rest of the apps with Camera permission can be either frozen or blocked. I can now do this without root in a short time as its not even complicated to do.

Same can be done with mic block apps or some other...

4. I'm using an Asus Zenfone 3max, and I'm wondering why the Asus Mobile Manager app does not work in the island. I then expected AMM app outside the island to service the whole device but it seems it does not as no cloned apps are shown in the AutoStart Manager which is the main feature of AMM. The message that pops up when I attempt to open the app after it is cloned is "AutoStart Manager Does Not Work In This Device".

I thought to hear from you before I send an email to Asus Support to report on this.

5. Some apps, not cloned apps, but that have been cloned, like Cool Tool now crash on first opening after a while of not using it but the always stabilize and open on the second attempt. THIS HAPPENS only to a couple of apps that were cloned OUTSIDE the island while its clone in the island is doing fine.

6. On strategy in using Island app: Since the Island app automatically cloned itself in the Island; Should/can I then uninstall the Island app outside so there won't be any trace of where I am. Let's say I do not want anyone to know about its existence so to speak. The Island lives on and goes on forging its own destiny even without the Island app outside right ?

7. Also on good strategy: On the flipside, in case a fraudster/scammer pops in through a link in one of the cloned apps that I forgot to freeze and manages to enter via a link landmine that I managed to click with nothing happening and so forgot to close its tab, scammer then sends a message via notification in my tablet that I also forgot to shut off, and at that time, I coincidentally, was out indefinitely. The scammer then slides in and manages to marvel at the desolateness and the meager info that was available to him (sandbox). And then he sees the cloned Island app and figures out he's in a sandbox.

Should/Can I then also uninstall the cloned Island app inside to erase any evidence of the Island/sandbox/world where the scammer might still be in and hopefully get discouraged and leaves.

Sincerely,

Spookasem