Hi I have had a bit of a search around the forum and elsewhere , as well as trying a number of different settings on my phone, but couldn’t get the answer I need. so…
I am travelling internationally in few weeks and I would like to set my firewall so most apps would be blocked, but only a couple of apps would work while I am roaming.
I am trying to see the easiest way to allow specific apps thru like google maps, google translate.
(I plan to offline cache the maps I need before I go) but In the past I have needed a data connection for route planning.
When I open the firewall and click “enable the firewall”
in that state I can see that everything is Allowed. - (the buttons all appear solid grey with white text)
So I would want to … use the “block All Apps” option
I would permit wifi, - so leave it solid grey with white text.
For the 3g setting, I guess I could in theory leave it alone also, my phone would be “roaming” - so the 3g setting wouldn’t affect anything?
That brings me to the “Roaming” setting and column.
I can see that I can “Block All Apps” and that should cut off data usage for everything when not on wifi whilst roaming.
But then how do I specify that a given app is then allowed?
It appears I can only go down to an application in that column and “block it” (turn the button black).
IF individual apps are allowed, that setting is overidden by the “block All Apps” option.
I can see that if I do not “block all Apps” from roaming, I could then go down the column and turn off just about all applications in that column, but that would be time consuming, there are a lot of entries, and new apps would probably be allowed by default.
Is the answer to create a custom rule?
They overide all.
Is there a good method for knowing what custom rule settings to use to allow specific apps?
Hope my rambling question makes some sense, appreciate some guidance, not keen on putting another data monitoring app on my phone to achieve this when Avast is already doing the job.
cheers
Greg