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App to stop kids dialling?

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My toddler nephew loves playing games etc on my phone (and at 2 is already a dab hand at scrolling to find his favourites etc). Problem is that sometimes he ends up in my phone book/dialler instead and ends up calling people. Is there an app that would lock the dialler/phone book? I've searched market to now avail :(


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Not to sound like an ass or anything but... As a young child I was always brought up not to touch my parent's stuff, and as well I pass that same logic onto my own children. While there may be fun stuff for a child to look at on your phone, your smartphone is most definately not a toy. Do you let your toddler play with your address book, credit cards, work documents?

As it is.. I don't allow any John Q Public to pick up and play with my phone without my direct supervision, so why would I let a child?
 
To the OP try this app Android Protector

DenverRalphy said:
Not to sound like an ass or anything but... As a young child I was always brought up not to touch my parent's stuff, and as well I pass that same logic onto my own children. While there may be fun stuff for a child to look at on your phone, your smartphone is most definately not a toy. Do you let your toddler play with your address book, credit cards, work documents?

As it is.. I don't allow any John Q Public to pick up and play with my phone without my direct supervision, so why would I let a child?
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I feel the same way. The device in my pocket cost a few hundred bucks I don't want my kids touching it. But my wife thinks like to OP, they have toddler games that can help our kids learn and/or be entertained and not messing with other stuff. Needless to say I have not had to use an insurance replacement on my phone in years. My wife has burned through about 20 phones in 3 years.
 
selotape a slipper to the top of the phone and if he does it again give him a swift hard wallop around the head with it.

Not strictly an app but this will teach him a few things.

1.. that he shouldnt make calls from your phone
2.. that he should fear the technology, nothing good can come of it.
3.. that you shoud be taken seriously when you say not to do something
 
snakeeyes21 said:
selotape a slipper to the top of the phone and if he does it again give him a swift hard wallop around the head with it.

Not strictly an app but this will teach him a few things.

1.. that he shouldnt make calls from your phone
2.. that he should fear the technology, nothing good can come of it.
3.. that you shoud be taken seriously when you say not to do something
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THats great advice DR spock. THe kid is 2 years old. Also when has kids of any age take their parents seriously. The kid is to young to be allowed to play with a cellphone. I have heard to many stories of cellphones winding up in the toilet or a cup of water at the hands of a small child.
 
Privacy Guard will let you lock sections of your phone. A good thing to have in case someone "borrows" it. They can't dial out, look at your calendar or access whatever else they don't need to see. It allows you to set the time it takes effect. Best thing is it's free.
 
snakeeyes21 said:
selotape a slipper to the top of the phone and if he does it again give him a swift hard wallop around the head with it.

Not strictly an app but this will teach him a few things.

1.. that he shouldnt make calls from your phone
2.. that he should fear the technology, nothing good can come of it.
3.. that you shoud be taken seriously when you say not to do something
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Said the person who had never interacted with a 2 year old.
 
There is toddler lock. It locks the phone to doodle mode, I haven't tried it though. My 5 year old loves angry birds, I let him play it occasionally.

P.s. My son has had a ds since he was 3, there's also the leapster game system for preschoolers. No need to rely on your 500$ smartphone to entertain your child.
 
I only allow my 3yo niece and 5 yo nephew to play on my Atrix if a few condtions are met:
1)I am in the room
2)their hands are cleaned
3)they are sitting on the sofa or the floor

I've taught them if they click on something they don't know, press the house button and then reopen the game. If that doesn't work, they then have to call me. Works pretty well since I had my Nexus One :)

Kids are (very) smart these days and I believe they should understand how to use technology so that they won't fall behind.

My niece at the age of 2 was able to swipe unlock my Nexus One, swipe to the homescreen with her game folder, open it and play her games. Exit and open another game. Press the power button when she's done.

soj said:
Privacy Guard will let you lock sections of your phone. A good thing to have in case someone "borrows" it. They can't dial out, look at your calendar or access whatever else they don't need to see. It allows you to set the time it takes effect. Best thing is it's free.
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Are you using Privacy Guard? How good is it :)
 
Roze said:
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Are you using Privacy Guard? How good is it :)
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Works pretty well. Sometimes it gets carried away & I have to unlock twice. The price for security can be a pain. But I guess it's better than having someone use/go through my stuff.
 
soj said:
Works pretty well. Sometimes it gets carried away & I have to unlock twice. The price for security can be a pain. But I guess it's better than having someone use/go through my stuff.
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What do you mean unlock twice? Would be nice if that app integrate the Atrix's finger scanner. Maybe that's something we should bring up to the dev, lol.
 
Goreygirl posted on my behalf.

Thanks to those who answered the question as read, I appreciate your advice and suggestions and like Roze says, he plays his toddler games when I am in the room.. I agree with the statement that children should learn about technology. 99% of the time its no problem, but have noticed that calls he makes are usually in the log of last dialled or texted numbers... Yesterday's latest attempt being an Irish mobile roaming in Dubai.

I'm new to android so really just looking for assistance. Surely security wise its a valid questions? I did install a call outgoing app which just looks for yes/no confirmation everytime a number is dialled, which is great for me.....

Is the Toddler lock available on the Samsung Galaxy S?? My OH had the security pattern lock on his phone, but same toddler got his hands on the phone and of course locked the whole phone, meaning the phone had to be reset to factory settings and all the apps he had previously downloaded..

Once again, thanks those for the valid suggestions. I must go now and see how my 2 year old is getting on using the electric clippers on our dog in the bath.....
 
I downloaded toddler lock and tried it out, just for you. It is available free in the market. It is really a launcher, featuring a doodle background and nothing else. To exit it you touch the screen's four corners in a clockwise direction.
 
ninja_reject said:
I downloaded toddler lock and tried it out, just for you. It is available free in the market. It is really a launcher, featuring a doodle background and nothing else. To exit it you touch the screen's four corners in a clockwise direction.
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Not everyone is willing to swap the Android default Home launcher to a third party. The reason it has to be a launcher is because the Android default Home launcher does not broadcast any Intent for new apps starting up and hence we cannot "trap" those apps that is launched by the kids for which we need to stop them playing.

In case it is too technical all you all need to know there are certain limitations and for those app developers that offer a solution, they use work-around and most likely in this case, they replace the default Home launcher to their own so they can have maximum control.

Also a app cannot go and "terminate" other apps without proper security control. This is to stop *evil* app that prevent all other apps to function except their own. For apps that proclaim they can do require possibly root access or some other non-documented Android SDK API.
 
tomadilly said:
Goreygirl posted on my behalf.

Thanks to those who answered the question as read, I appreciate your advice and suggestions and like Roze says, he plays his toddler games when I am in the room.. I agree with the statement that children should learn about technology. 99% of the time its no problem, but have noticed that calls he makes are usually in the log of last dialled or texted numbers... Yesterday's latest attempt being an Irish mobile roaming in Dubai.
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"So I was transferring my e-trade forex account from Dublin to Dubai and all of a sudden...MOM!"
 
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