a question about a Kyocera Hydro phone

reble · Jun 12, 2014

I just upgraded to a ZTE 4G phone and I was thinking of giving my old Kyocera Hydro cell phone to my 9 year old nephew for a Christmas present this year to play Android games on. There is 2 things I need to do to it before I give it to him. I need to know how to put the phone in airplane mode in such a way as so he can't turn off the airplane mode and have the wifi to connect to a free wifi and get on the internet or call 911. His parents are adamant on that. He is not to have access to the internet or the ability to call 911 period. Any thought's on this?

Steve

Update: putting the phone in airplane mode doesn't kill the ability to call 911 or use the wifi mode even though there is no phone number or service on this phone.

divinebovine · Jun 15, 2014

I wonder if removing the dialer would work. You'd have to root, and I imagine it could potentially brick the phone. I found a phone.apk and a telephonyprovider.apk in /system/app.

For wifi and maybe phone, I bet it could be done from a terminal or ADB shell by removing permissions on the appropriate devices in /dev/.

It might be possible with something more Androidy like editing system.prop.

Then there's always physical destruction of the antennas, if you can find them.

Looking at this from a less hacky perspective, there might be an app made exactly for this. Look for one that allows you to set kid mode or kiosk mode.

Qb420 · Jun 19, 2014

I would recomend root the phone, rename the dailer and wifi apk by 1 letter. With a root file explorer like es file manager.

And if you have no pop ups on the phone saying that something isn't woring. Then your golden.

If not. Change the name back and brainstorm on somthing else.

But if you would be soo kind, i deleted my contact app. I you do the root could you make a backup of system apps with es file manager so i can reinstall my contacts app?

ipodnite00 · Jun 19, 2014

You can download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidware.uninstallmaster and delete all the phone and dialer stuff. BUT! you should UN-Root it befor you give it to him

divinebovine · Jun 20, 2014

Qb420 said:
But if you would be soo kind, i deleted my contact app. I you do the root could you make a backup of system apps with es file manager so i can reinstall my contacts app?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/195616/Contacts.apk
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/195616/ContactsProvider.apk

Qb420 · Jun 20, 2014

Thanks but still fails. If by any chance you have a stock/custom dump of all system apps for cricket, could you post that. I think that my be the only thing that can help at this point. Thanks

divinebovine · Jun 20, 2014

Mine is Boost, I didn't notice the bit about Cricket before. Probably won't work.

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