Questions tagged [device-administrator]
the device-administrator role gives an app elevated priviliges. Use this tag only if your question is about this role.
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Can Outlook Device Policy monitor anything outside of the app?
In order to get emails for work on my phone I need to enable this feature. My worry is that this will allow my employer to monitor personal things on my phone such as my internet search history or ...
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Disable device admin apps functionality completely
Every time I activate Google Play Services and reboot my phone (Galaxy A50, Android 9), Google Play Services gets automatically added to Device admin apps. It prevents also Google Play Services from ...
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How to prevent Android from booting into Safe Mode?
I'm hoping to remove access to Safe Mode on my own device. I want to explore the possibility of making it more difficult to circumvent self-restriction apps such as the popular AppBlock app (and ...
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How to gain administrator privileges on a kid's Android 6 phone?
I have an old functional Honor phone with Android 6 which would be perfect for the little ones to use basic apps such as Spotify Kids or Youtube Kids.
I created a Google kids account, added it to my ...
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Set Automate app as a device admin on Fire OS
I'm using Fire OS 7.3.2. I'm trying to set the "Automate" app as a Device admin, but when I click "Grant as device admin" it doesn't do anything. So I then tried to use ADB ...
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How to setup CleanBrowsing app properly?
I installed the CleanBrowsing app on my Redmi 9a (Android 10) phone and it asks for accessibility permission. I give that permission, but when I activate the family filter, it goes to Private DNS on ...
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How do I eliminate system admin application permanently on my Android phone
My friend registered on an app with my phone to get a loan from the PalmPay application. The management asked him to install an app before the loan will be given to him, they say the application will ...
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How to remove the "SecurityPlugin" device admin app?
I don't know how I installed the below application to my phone and now I can't remove it or uninstall it. The app is called "SecurityPlugin".
Anyone can help?
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How can I disable remote wipe, in a way that can't be remotely re-enabled?
I don't want my Android phone to be remotely wipeable. I have this setting disabled on my phone, and the device administrator for Find My Device is disabled. However, https://android.com/find has an &...
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Cant uninstall but device admistrative is empty
I have an app which was downloaded by pre-owner of the phone and I can't uninstall.That app uses all permissions and I cant change its permissions nor uninstall.Im using samsung galaxy A8 star (...
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Non-root user in rooted Android phone?
In my Arch Linux setup(and most others), the default user is non-root. Any admin work needs access to root account which is given temporarily with a password(generally using programs like sudo and ...
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Google play services is crashing my Samsung J7 phone
Google services is crashing my Samsung J7 phone.
I can't disable or force stop the app. The button is inaccessible.
I can't uninstall updates: it tells me "administrator protected", I need ...
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How do I generate an IT Admin code to enroll devices [closed]
I want to setup a work profile on several devices but I need to be an IT Admin to do that and generate an IT admin code.
How do I do that?
I have about 3 devices that I wish to enroll.
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How to setup employee device without Google Cloud
My organization has several phones which I would like to setup for employee use. It appears that the Google Admin app has this functionality but requires a Google Cloud subscription.
If possible I ...
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How do I block installing new apps and internet browing on my Android phone? [duplicate]
I'd like to be able to block internet access from my Android Pixel 4 cell phone. The ideal solution would prevent me from installing new apps onto my phone. I'd like to have a set of apps, so that I ...
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Can I enroll my device in Android Enterprise to install a root CA?
My phone can't be rooted but I want to MITM my own traffic. Is there any downside to enrolling my device as a managed enterprise device and installing a certificate through the program? It seems ...
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Screen Lock Service as a Device Administrator
Background:
I was looking at the device administrators of my phone in the settings and saw a device administrator called "screen lock service". It's description is "Activating this ...
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What is this device administrator called screen lock service? [duplicate]
I was looking at the device administrators of my phone in the settings and saw a device administrator called "screen lock service". It's description is "Activating this administrator ...
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Google Pay hidden & its device admin
I cannot locate Google Pay on my Z971 ZTE phone in Apps, system, hidden, etc, however it is a device admin. If I attempt to click on it to remove it as an admin, the settings app immediately pops up a ...
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App Installation "blocked by your IT admin"? (Galaxy Note 8)
I use YMusic to listen to music/audio books, which is an outsider app from xda-developers. When I tried to install an update, I got the message below, as if YouTube is preventing me from installing ...
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Set device owner app causes "Workspace has been locked" on Android 8.1 Oreo
I've been using my app as a device owner app since Android Lollipop.
I have a new device here which I want to be a device owner too. It is a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.5(2018) SM-T590. I am currently ...
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"Device Admin" apps are asking for permission to erase my data after failed login attempts! How can I confirm?
I was about to install the Outlook app on my phone, when it asked me to activate it as a device admin. (See image below):
I'm sure few people read the whole warning. One part greatly concerned me:
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Are device administrator permissions a security risk?
I would like to use t-igra's SwipeLock+ app, but it requires device administrator permissions.
Google Play Store lists the following permissions:
receive data from Internet
view network connections
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Device administration
I'm looking for a good solution to manage workplace Android devices that are heavily locked down.
Our devices will basically be single-use with a custom app.
We want to manage the Wi-Fi connection, ...
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I cannot remove Administrator Rights from any app
I gave admin rights to two apps I have on my Motorola Moto G5 Plus (Android 7.0): Find My Device; Greenify Automator. The first one I mean to keep it as admin, but I would like to remove Greenify. ...
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How to uninstall Button Savior (non root) from Samsung Galaxy Note 4
I asked this question here and somebody suggested to me that I should asked here.
A friend of mine installed an app called Button Savior (non root) from google play and then decided to uninstall it ...
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What are these logs? Was I hacked?
I started finding these logs on my phone a few weeks ago and didn't think much about it until my phone started acting weird. Somehow, it's been added to a network, and has listed me as the user. Is ...
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What is device administrator supposed to be set to on a smartphone?
I have an LG smartphone, and I'm curious what my device administrator should be set to. I have two options, one is Android, and the other is the anti-virus program that I'm running. Neither one are ...
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"Phone may be monitored"
I'm seeing this message is because I installed a device owner, right? (Note that I'm talking about a "device owner" in the sense of a special device administrator app, not the first user in a multi-...
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What does it mean if a "device administrator" can "change the screen lock"?
If a corporate policy requires a mobile device management app (like Microsoft Intune), what does it mean in Settings-> Security-> Device Administrators when "Change the screen lock" is listed? Is ...
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Apps not appearing in Device Administrators
I'm running Nougat 7.1 on device and I've came across a strange issue.
Newly installed applications are not listed in the device administrators page in security. The list just doesn't show newly ...
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Device administrator can not be deactivated
I installed a security app on my Samsung phone and it blocks the device from going to Odin mode (bootloader) so I can not update the software. I can not remove this app because it is a device ...
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Is it possible to disable admin rights of a malware?
There is a smartphone with anroid 5.1. Another user installed an app from a non-verified source (some hacks for Clash of Clans afaik). To uninstall it I have to drop its administrator rights in ...
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Prevent device administrators from being installed
My company has some Android devices that are available for our customers to use. Customers have nearly full access to the devices, and unfortunately a customer recently installed Android Device ...
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Removing an app protected from uninstall by password and with System Owner permissions?
I want to ask, if there is a way to remove an app that is protected from uninstall by password and has Device-administrator permissions granted?
I am using an LG L90 phone with android 5.0.1 L (NOT ...
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Any way to reboot device programmatically without root?
I don't switch off mobile phone at night. After several weeks of uptime my mobile phone becomes slow. When I reboot it everything is smooth again.
It's not possible to root my android 5 phone, there ...
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How to disable device administrator that stops Settings app?
I try to disable two apps: Tasker and Applock, from device administrators, but when I tap to uncheck it, the Settings app stops. Other device admins like Cerberus can be enabled/disabled.
I sent an ...
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How can I use (parts of) a managed account without submitting my device to the Device Policy?
My kid's school uses Chromebooks with Google Apps. All the kids in school have an account which they can use both in and out of school (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, and so on).
I wanted to let ...
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How to unlink a device from my google account
I gave my android to my daughter. She cannot link the device to her own google account because it is linked to mine. How can we unlink the android from my account without her loosing her data
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Can't activate nor deactivate any administrator permissions outside of safe mode
I just upgraded my Nexus 5 from 4.4.4 all the way to 6.0.1 and ran into a problem: I can't change any administrator settings outside of safe mode. I wanted to activate it for a screen lock app but the ...
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Android Intent problems
So a few days ago I build an update for my custom android car tablet with my own launcher (based on nexus 7 2013). I added a few new features and some fixes, and I added accidentally the device admin ...
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Do device administrators have access to other user accounts?
I have installed an Enterprise App Store application, provided by my employer. The app says that I need to make it a device administrator in order to use it, but I do not want to give it admin access ...
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How to remove an app that is a persistent device administrator
I received a Samsung GS5 as part of a program from Samsung in exchange for their recording device statistics through an app I installed. The program is over, and I have been notified that the app can ...
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How can Android Device Manager (ADM) help to locate Android phone if Google account's password has been changed?
I lost my Samsung Android phone. It was connected with Google account, but I changed my Google account password. Now I am not able to trace it through Android Device Manager (ADM). When I tried, it ...
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How can I uninstall a device admin if the Deactivate button doesn't work?
I am trying to uninstall CM Security. It's a device admin, so I go to Settings, Security, then Device Administrators, and try to uncheck the box next to CM Security, then a screen comes up listing the ...
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Can't uninstall package disabler app
I'm trying to remove package disabler from my phone as i have upgraded to the pro version but i seem unable to.
The app is marked as device administrator, but when I go to the menu the app is checked ...
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Samsung SMG900S applications
how to uninstall android device manager to samsung SM G900S.
how to remove applications under administrator.
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My screen lock is set to "PIN", and I can't change it to "Swipe". Why not?
I have tried to do the fix as suggested on here however my swipe option states it was disabled by administrator or something like that. Not sure how I even set a PIN in the first place. How do I ...
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Bypass Swipe to unlock in Android 5.0.2
I have upgraded my Sony Xperia Z1 from Android 4.4.4 to Android 5.0.2 and now, when the screen is locked, I first have to swipe before I can enter the pattern. When I go to Settings -> Screen Lock, ...
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Granting device admin previlage to email account
I am connecting my gmail app(or any e mail application) to my office e mail using exchange. It asks me to add the mail app as a Device administrator for my phone. So that it can Erase all data,Set ...
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