I am using Android management API. I have applied policy to device and turned it to kiosk mode. After a while when I turn on the device, it is not connected to wifi anymore and is still in kiosk mode. Therefore I cannot connect it manually or update its policy. Is there a way to solve it ?
Unfortunately, as you cannot open the wifi dialog and devices cannot update the policy without a connection, the only way to workaround this is to hard reset the device per OEM instruction.
In the future, you can use KioskCustomization to have access to the status bar and navigation buttons so there would be no need to hard reset the device again if there is no connection as you can open the wifi dialog with this.
For people wondering how to escape the kiosk mode. There should be a way for your device to reboot to recovery mode. I my case - samsung tablet - I hold power button and volume down button for a while and when samsung logo appeared a released the power button, but still hold the volume down button. In recovery mode I were able to connect to wifi manually.
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How can we detect ibeacons from a android phone without explicitly switching on the bluetooth or location...?
I want to design an app which detects for the beacon even when the bluetooth is off...please suggest the answer
Sorry, this is not possible. Bluetooth must be turned on to detect t beacons as it requires using the Bluetooth radio to do a scan.
With BLUETOOTH_ADMIN permission (required for scanning anyway), it is possible to detect if bluetooth is off, then turn it on long enough to do a scan, then turn it back off again. The user will see the Bluetooth icon when this happens, and the user will be told at install time that the app requires this permission.
I set my tango down for a couple of months while busy with other things. I charged it for a bit, turned it on and saw the red battery icon. I charged it overnight and saw the green battery symbol. I clicked the power button The splash screen came up, said it was installing updates and screen turned off. That evening I tried to turn it on and it wouldn't do anything. Next morning it turned on - splash screen - white screen, off. Now it doesn't do anything at all. I've tried - volume button and power, both volume buttons...nothing. Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas? Thanks.
On the below instruction. it only diagnose your device for hardware and BSP level problem. Tango Core and Apps related is not included.
To diagnose your device problem. First we need reset your device.
Hard Reset device
Press your device power key for around 8-10 secs.
sometimes you will see the backlight of screen is off.
Diagnose what is going on on your tango devices
2.1 Check basic bootloader function.
Plug in device with a charging usb cables.
2.1.1 if your device is out of power.
It will show red battery icon. or green icon which you device still enough battery to boot it up.
2.1.2 if your device is not any icon pop up.
Try 1 step again. or
switch different Usb cables and chargers or charging docks.
If it still doesn't work.It is possible a hardware issues now. you may need to contact project-tango-help#google.com
2.1.3 if you do see the battery icon, but without charging icon on it.
That mean something wrong with your charging cable or devices. Switch different charger and cables. if problem still exists. you may need to contact project-tango-help#google.com
2.2 Check the Software side of the devices
if you can see the icon in 2.1.1, that is good.
Normally on Green icon, you can boot up your device.
2.2.1 after the icon is gone, press the power key are 1-3 secs, device will boot up.
you will see the tango icon and the rolling tango icon as part of booting process.
if you get stuck at this two process forever. it means that there is some problem on booting image on android. please go to section 2.3.
if you can see the Android UI without problem. you are fine.keep a eye on your battery. if it show 50% on charging full. and some weird condition. you may need to contact project-tango-help#google.com for more details.
2.3 Recovery your device by android recovery mode.
if you android system can't boot up successfully, Recovery your device is needed. Remember it will wipe out all your data,and cache. so try to backup your data if possible.
2.3.1 If you device can access by ADB, try : adb reboot recovery
or try below steps:
{ make sure device is off,
press the power key with volume Up and Down key at the same time for around 2-3 seconds, till you see Bootloader menus
you will see
{
Continue
Fastboot protocol
Recovery mode
Reboot
Power off
Force Recovery
}
by using volume Up and Down, and power key you can select the item.
select "Recovery mode"
2.3.2: now you are at Tango android recovery mode.
it will show
reboot system now
apply update from ADB
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
Using Volume down key for moving, and power key for selecting.
The same step as normal Android recovery step.
1. wipe cache partition
2. wipe data/factory reset
then select reboot system now.
Waiting device to boot up.
2.3.3, If your device is still not good. Google didn't provide the tango image for customer fastbooting the device. you had to contact project-tango-help#google.com for next step.
Basically, I'm looking for any way to go about this at all, no matter how cumbersome or unintuitive, so long as it can be done on iOS 7 (which the third party SBSettings framework currently cannot), and can be done on a non-jailbroken device.
This is for an app which will be loaded into iPads in a physical enclosure so the power button is inaccessible. The device itself will be in single app mode, which cannot be enabled or disabled except through our network-accessed MDM solution. The issue I'm trying to find a way around is that every now and then, the network connection stops functioning and the only way to re-establish it is to restart the device, which can't be done without an internet connection other than to physically press the inaccessible buttons. The reboot action would be password-locked in a hidden event handler and so inaccessible to normal users. This is not an app that will ever see the app store, so Apple's user interface guidelines don't necessarily apply.
Alternatively, is there any way to enable/disable assistive touch programmatically or any other possible method that will enable rebooting the device while in single app mode without physically touching the power button?
This is not a real answer (just thinking aloud).
Obviously, you can't do this through public API.
I believe, API's like SBReset can't do this either, because they are protected by entitlement.
I believe your simplest option to find some reasonably low level API which crashes and use it to crash a device.
I had exactly the same question some time ago:A way to reboot iOS device or restart Springboard using private API?
P.S. I don't have a way to find these crashes. I would recommnd to talk to jailbreak community (people who come up with jailbreaks for iOS devices). They collect all kinds of crashes. Most of these crashes aren't exploitable. However, you don't need an exploit, you just need a OS crash.
I'm using windows WLAN APIs (Windows Desktop not Metro Apps) to scan WiFi networks.
I'm curious what will be the behavior of the WiFi scan when Airplane mode is enabled before the scan is completed?
I'm trying to create such scenario but it very hard to catch such timing.
Any ideas?
Technically speaking, "Airplane Mode" Takes the Radio Transmitters in your iPhone and changes their frequencies of transmission to frequencies that are sympathetic to Aeronautic Instrumentation, such as Guidance Systems for example.
Due to the frequency change, if you're scanning Networks and then you change the properties of the Network adapter, the adapter has to restart. So, your Scan will be temporarily interrupted.
Test it on your iPhone, download something from App Store and switch modes during the download, see what happens. The Icon will suddenly stop and will display "SEARCHING" and will then re attempt to pick up the connection again.
Is it possible to emulate a device sleeping and waking using the Microsoft-supplied device emulators?
Yes, but you have to generate your own emulator image with a modified kernel (changing OEMPowerOff). Bruce Eitman blogged about it here. You didn't detail your needs, so it's hard to say, but you might be able to provide some form of simulation by manually setting the named power management events.
This is an old thread, but in case anyone else stumbles across it, you can make the Windows Mobile emulators 'sleep' and wake up, though not with the debugger attached.
Close the emulator window while your application is running and save the state. Or, configure power management to sleep the emulator at the desired time; the emulator will close and save its state automatically. If the debugger is attached, it will lose its connection and stop debugging.
Open Device Emulator Manager and click Refresh until the emulator shows up as disconnected (no icon next to it). Right-click on the emulator name and select Connect.
Emulator wakes up and reappears. If your application is listening for the wake-up notification, it will be signaled at this point.
You can also wake up the emulator using Debug > Attach to Process, though this does not always succeed. Either way, by the time the debugger attaches, the wake up sequence will already have executed. If you can get by with debug statements, though, this is easier than modding the emulator image.