[Android Apps and Games] Sivabhaskar:
Greenify Donation Package User

Hello Oasisfeng / Other Island users,

Note: Apologies if you have already answered these sort of questions earlier in the thread. But browsing through 50+ pages seemed strenuous to me. So here we go!

Thanks in Advance :)

I am a Greenify Donation Package user and I want to be able to completely freeze annoying apps like Twitter (I can see I should avoid using this idiotic app in the first place!) that wakes itself every 5 seconds -- no matter what.

Device Information:

Manufacturer: Swipe

Model Name: Swipe Elite Plus

Android Version: 5.0.2

Operating System: Freedom O.S (on top of Android 5.0.2)

Read More about Freedom O.S here --> giridhar.co.in/blog/phonelicious/the-new-freedom-os-and-its-features/

Location: Chennai, India

I installed the Island app from Google Playstore by accessing its playstore page by selecting Hybernation Mode = Deep Hibernation (Island) from inside of Greenify. The app itself has installed without any issues.

When I launched the app, it says:

Sorry, the required "Multi-User" feature is not supported on this device.

Now, I can see we can circumvent this by manually setting up a new profile using ADB.

And I am open to going through that route. I am planning to use only the 'Normal' Mode (as opposed to the 'God' mode) for now, because I am already not sure what side effects my phone might get (hopefully not) by setting up a manual profile using ADB.

Questions I would like to get answered before I proceed with that though:

1) So I understand, through 'Normal' mode, only apps 'cloned' inside Island can be 'completely frozen'. Also, the suggestion here seems to be to create a home screen shortcut for the 'cloned app' inside Island and then Uninstall the 'original app'. I understand we are asked of this probably because the original app might keep waking up anyway (if not uninstalled).

So my question here is, what happens when (the original version of) a cloned app gets an update in Playstore? Does Island notify the users in some way so we can install the updated version of the app and clone it again?

2) If something goes wrong and if I cannot proceed any further, does deleting the newly created profile (Android 'Settings' app --> Accounts --> New Profile --> Remove Account) undo all the changes I previously did via ADB? (I saw you had also mentioned an ADB code to accomplish this, in one of the first few pages of this thread).

3) If your answer for question #1 above is "no", then I MIGHT go for the 'God' mode after all. And like it has been warned multiple times NOT to mess with in this thread, this is my DAILY USE DEVICE.

So my question here is, were anyone able to try out 'God' mode in Android 5.0.2? If anyone did, were there any boot loops?

4) In case boot loop happens (touchwood, hopefully not :D ), is it possible to delete the newly created profile from the boot loop screen(!?) (probably using ADB?). I know, dumb question. Probably not. Then again I have no experience with boot loops before. Is a HARD RESET the ONLY way to recover a phone that goes into boot loop?

So my ultimate question here is:

Is it possible to use the ADB Shell command to delete the new manual profile even after a boot loop? (and thereby recover the phone by doing a simple phone OFF/ON)

Thanks Again!