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2 users on 1 nexus.. and limit access to sensitive info????

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dan330

Extreme Android User
hi all,

I got the Nexus7 for me and my daughter.
Rooted, on Dirty AOKP ROM 4.2.1

I am divorced. she wants to take the N7 with her on some weekends to my exwifes house.

sense it is using my GMail account.. it has all my contacts and appointments and emails. if google voice is loaded.. then all my text can be read too!!!

what can i do.. to get a login for my daughter.. and limit access to sensitive information on it???
 
I would give her an account on the device, and then make sure to place a lockscreen with a pin on your account when she takes it somewhere else.
 
Mostly Harmless said:
The nexus 7 comes with the ability to have multiply users. Just go to settings-> users and add her as one.
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creating a new user.. does that stop that user from accessing my info?
in contacts, emails, text?

Rxpert83 said:
I would give her an account on the device, and then make sure to place a lockscreen with a pin on your account when she takes it somewhere else.
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i have created her GMail account.. but I can not remove my account... they can still click it over. and my contacts...right?

i need to have her able to use the apps that are on the device.. but not access personal info. NO contacts or emails or text/sms
 
I've got mine stock but rooted, myself as admin user and Mrs as second user....she can do all her own stuff, apps, email the lot and neither of us can access the others...administrator can delete her account, and she can delete her own account, but not touch yours without the pin etc!


However, unless there have been done recent changes, then her account will not have root access, meaning no use of titanium etc to side load apps or any other root access stuff :-)
 
i am going to do a full nandroid backup...

then try this out.. admin and 2nd user.
if it dont work.. i can restore back. :)
 
Note.. I am on Dirty AOKP ROM. I with AWD Launcher

I tried create a 2nd user.. When it booted into home screen so that I can setup the user account.. Everything force close.. Endless fc..

So.. Has anyone handle this before?
 
When I first tried it, before rooting, I had similar issues, strangely creating another account solved the problems for me.

I then rooted, clearing all info....started again, the admin account had few issues, but occasionally my partners has some force closing.

I'd recommend that it will depend on who's account has the most problems, if it's the admin one I'd do a wipe, start over, set up all apps you use on both accounts first, then set up another account, if it has problems, create another and hopefully it will work well! :-)
 
I think there is something deeper that is not right.. In the ROM..

Wiping everything and doing a clean flash..
I can setup the 2nd user.. But if I mess with the ROM controls.. It starts to FC.
 
Btw, I'm using completely stock ROM (not deodexed etc, that I'm aware of anyway!) All I've done to my nexus is root using wug toolkit! And I still get some issues, though its better now than it was before rooting, the clean wipe may have done that though as I hadn't unlocked the bootloader!
 
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