Android 14 - File sync rule not syncing

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JR
Republic National Distributing Company

Hello,

I’m having an issue creating a specific folder under sdcard/Android/media and placing a .json file there via a file sync rule. This works on our AOS 13 devices but not on AOS 14. We recently upgraded from SOTI 15.6.6 to 2025.1.2.1007, which may be related.

Additionally, the app install is extremely slow on AOS 14 (over an hour with no success), and after revoking the profile I now have to manually run the uninstall script—previously this happened automatically.

From what I’ve read, Android 14’s scoped storage may block this path. I tried creating a new profile with Zebra OEMConfig and granting Manage External Storage to net.soti.mobicontrol.androidwork, but it hasn’t helped. Community posts suggest the app may need to use a different, more accessible directory, but I’d like to exhaust all options first.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Device: Zebra MC93
OS: AOS 14
SOTI Agent: 2026.0.1.1158
OEM Version: 14-23-05.00-UG-U00-STD-HEL-04

a month ago
Android
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Rafael Schäfer
a month ago (edited a month ago)

Afaik you don't have access to this folder anymore. (Please someone correct me if i remember wrong as we don'T need such access from our side anymore)

Try to copy it to an own folder under %sdcard% and then i think it was possible to copy/move the file from there to the relevant folder afterwards via script.

Please test as it's really a long time when we saw somaething like this.

K
KKMod
18 days ago

Hi JR,

Thank you for posting your query on SOTI Pulse. The issue is due to the blocked scoped storage as per Google's security measures. Please let us know if you have tried the workaround suggested by Rafael.

Regards