Soti on android devices / accessing values from build.prop

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MarcH
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Hi,

during playing arround with conditions and rules there are some cases where it would be usefull to have access to values from the /system/build.prop file as custom data cause different manufacturers are using diferent locations to identify some version strings etc.

The build.prop file is a (in most cases) common file where we can pick params like os versions patch versions and so on.

It would be really helpfull if soti can make it acessible for usage in custom data cause cureently only ini and xml is readable on android which would result in the need of transforming the file after for examply copy to sdcard and rewrite it.

I noticed for example a custom zebra apk in the community which does exactly this - read params from build.prop and writing a file to sdcard in ini syntax (in this sample the lifeguard version). Possible an idea which can soti directy addapt to handly params like version strings etc. in a more common way not limited by the way of a manufacturer?

6 years ago
Android
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Matt Dermody Diamond Contributor
6 years ago

I think that is a great idea. I think it may actually be possible to attempt using the Custom Data rule to pull from a non ini or xml file as it was once suggested on this forum that a .txt file could also be read from provide that it was formatted correctly. I would suggest at least attempting to pull from build.prop to see what happens.

I can certainly agree that this would be a great feature as GetPatchVer from Zebra is a decent solution to the problem, but it does result in LG versions not being reported back to SOTI in real time. 

YW

Where can I download the GetPatchVer application?

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