Prey Icon is visible on Adroid

[JJ]

Hi everyone,

I just installed Prey on my Samsung Galaxy S2 (I hope I'll never need
it, though) and what's bugging me is that when I open the Applications
menu (from the Homescreen, my mother tongue is German, so I don't know
if it's really called applications) I can access Prey via an icon.

This doesn't make really sense, does it? I mean, I (and the developers
as well :P) surely wanted the app to be hidden, so that a potential
thief can't see and uninstall the app before I can locate my phone.

So what can I do to fix this? Any advice would be great!

Greetings

PS: sorry for any unintentional spelling/grammar mistakes, as I said,
I'm not a native English speaker

[Tom Wood]

I don't think that applications can be hidden on Android.

Tom

Hi everyone,

Greetings

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[Drew Reece]

Take a look at …

Hide It Pro - Apps on Android Market

It may be able to do what you want but I guess a thief could know enough to look inside it. It claims to hide applications.

I haven't tested it so make sure you can still activate Prey after hiding it (I'd reboot 'just in case').

Drew

[JJ]

But shouldn't the standard setting of Prey itself be that it's not
accessible via the applications menu?

[Drew Reece]

Is that a setting that is actually on standard Android (non rooted)? Or is it just something you would like to see?
I haven't seen any apps that do this hiding & wonder how Hide It Pro works. As Tom said it doesn't seem like it is possible in standard market place applications but if you have info on how it works or examples that hide by default please pass it on.

There are a few drawbacks…
Hiding by default would make Prey more confusing to new users.
It may get Prey labeled as malware/ trojan by anti virus scanners.
Hiding Prey would also be pointless if you just set a screen lock password on your device.
Hiding Prey does nothing to protect all the other data on the phone, but a screen lock does.
A smart thief would simply use the market app & try looking through your purchase history - I can't see any way to sign out. The list of 'My Apps' would always be visible stating which ones are installed.

Personally I think users should be encouraged to lock down & protect their data on devices instead of trying to think around the problem.

Drew

On 11 Jan 2012, at 07:44, JJ wrote:

> But shouldn't the standard setting of Prey itself be that it's not
> accessible via the applications menu?
>

[JJ]

Well. I guess you're right. It's probably just because I'm used to
Prey being practically invisible after installation on Windows, but
comparing Windows and Android is pointless :P

All right, I guess I have to live with that. Thanks anyway :)