Android Plus unlock device with password

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Martin Cunningham
Advanced Manufacturing Control Systems Ltd

I must be missing something obvious here. I have a test Android Plus device (Samsung ELM v14.4 agent) running in lockdown mode. I have security settings requiring an alphanumeric password. We are looking at using this on 1 group of devices.

Assuming the device is locked, and being that the password is set by the user, how am I supposed to remote control the device when the user isn't logged in? I won't know the password, when I try to unlock it prompts me for it. I know I can remove the password but this then means the user has to set it again.

Even when I do remove the password, when the user tries to set it again, while is user mode the user will be told they cannot change the password due to device permissions.

I expect I must be doing something wrong, setting something wrong as it seems unnecessarily clunky and not thought out on how this operates at the moment.

4 years ago
Android
ANSWERS
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JCMOD@SOTI
4 years ago (edited 4 years ago)

Hi Martin,

Thank you for posting in SOTI Central.

I've sent a request internally to our Product Management Team to provide feedback on the points you've raised. Will send an update in due course.

Regards,