Hi all,
I just spend some lot of time, running into 'problems' with a parental control app. Allow me to explain;
(as a parent of three 'mobile geared up' kids) I installed a nice app called screentime, wich is a parental control app, enabling me to restrict the time my children can use their mobile phone. (e.g. no more youtube after 23:30 )
This worked fine in the past, but after a while I noticed that two of the kids (using a Mi2s and Mi2a) simply removed the app. Quite odd, because normally I would expect this app to safely secure/prevent itself from being deinstalled.
On another phone (Jiayu G4s), the app is working fine, and can not be simply deinstalled by a kid, without entering a set password, as expected.
The Mi2s is running under 4.1.1 JRO03L Miui-4.12.5 wich was the last miui5 version.
I did some googling, and I think that the app is not being registered as a device administrator somehow.
I also tested another parental control app on the Mi2s, but encountered the same ease of deinstallation.
Well, tough luck, took me a lot of time, but for now I'll just use the good oldfashioned parental trick; leave the phone downstairs before you go to bed
.
I'm not an expert, but I was just wondering if anyone recognised this.
I have a Mi3W myself, and succesfully installed the Lollipop (beta) rom from Ivan. I'm giving this rom a try, I might be lucky if the 'issue' is Miui related, and I can resolve it installing Lollipop.
Tips, advise are very welcome, I am certainly not an expert and just fiddling around to try and get it working properly.
cheers,
Nico.
I just spend some lot of time, running into 'problems' with a parental control app. Allow me to explain;
(as a parent of three 'mobile geared up' kids) I installed a nice app called screentime, wich is a parental control app, enabling me to restrict the time my children can use their mobile phone. (e.g. no more youtube after 23:30 )
This worked fine in the past, but after a while I noticed that two of the kids (using a Mi2s and Mi2a) simply removed the app. Quite odd, because normally I would expect this app to safely secure/prevent itself from being deinstalled.
On another phone (Jiayu G4s), the app is working fine, and can not be simply deinstalled by a kid, without entering a set password, as expected.
The Mi2s is running under 4.1.1 JRO03L Miui-4.12.5 wich was the last miui5 version.
I did some googling, and I think that the app is not being registered as a device administrator somehow.
I also tested another parental control app on the Mi2s, but encountered the same ease of deinstallation.
Well, tough luck, took me a lot of time, but for now I'll just use the good oldfashioned parental trick; leave the phone downstairs before you go to bed
.I'm not an expert, but I was just wondering if anyone recognised this.
I have a Mi3W myself, and succesfully installed the Lollipop (beta) rom from Ivan. I'm giving this rom a try, I might be lucky if the 'issue' is Miui related, and I can resolve it installing Lollipop.
Tips, advise are very welcome, I am certainly not an expert and just fiddling around to try and get it working properly.
cheers,
Nico.
