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Andriod: Automate USB Permissionions Management

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Bob S
JPW Associates, Inc.

We've got a workflow that involves an in-house Android application interacting with some USB peripherals. Android doesn't persist permissions settings for detachable USB devices, so every time the devices disconnect/reconnect, the user has to be reprompted for various access permissions to the USB devices. If we have a listing of the device VID/PIDs and the list of permissions required, can we get MobiControl to automate the granting of the permissions, so we don't have to bother the user?

a year ago
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Raymond Chan Diamond Contributor
a year ago

Are your devices enrolled with Android-Enterprise device agents?

What are the brand, model and Android firmware versions of your devices?

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Bob S
a year ago

Yes, an enterprise agent is being used. There's a couple types of devices, the main two are:

  • Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro; Android 13 / API 33
  • Google Pixel 7a; Android 14 / API 34
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Raymond Chan Diamond Contributor
a year ago

For Samsung devices, you can either use OEMconfig compliant Knox Service Plug-In (KSP) in apps policy or in Mobicontrol OEMConfig profile payload,  to configure PID/VID of allowed USB devices.  However, I have no idea if app permissions still need to be granted manually on targeted device running the latest Android firmware & KSP implementation.

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ABMOD@SOTI
a year ago

Hi Bob,

Thanks for posting on SOTI Pulse, Thanks Raymond for responding to the post, your expertise and willingness to help are greatly appreciated!

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