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Master ownership of Android devices
My point is that the device user is not always the device owner, and that general consumers shouldn't have such powerful tools available. While ZT is SUPPOSED to be only devices purchased through the reseller, but they can actually onboard any device as we've experienced, but I'm not going in to that now. I can understand a business locking a device, but not some random user, potentially even by accident, and without any sort of special tools. This is about device users not being device owners, something that has never been a problem until FRP.
I am also concerned about this, I've been looking for details everywhere. We loan out phones all the time and FRP is a big problem for us when users change the pin.
Thanks for the response Genero, please let me know if you find out anything useful. I guess what it comes down to is that there is no "User" role on androids, the user is the Admin, which didn't used to be a problem until FRP came along.
Exactly, which is a big problem when your business model is based on being able to Factory Reset phones, to undo all the mess users make on them. We have lost the ability to loan out phones without an MDM solution.
Actually that's the crux of it, the introduction of FRP has made Android Enterprise mandatory where it wasn't before, as well as all the other MDM bits or whatever to make it impossible to remove accounts.
Thats not correct, if you have a fully managed device, there is an admin role (already described above) and user role. The only thing is you need to set it up correctly or force users to wipe the device when taking back the device (i know that this is most often very complicated).
And FRP i would only use on fully managed devices, not on work profile or BYOD or anything else otherwise you need to send such devices to repair (as jasonbayton mentioned before as well) to get them back working again for which you may got charged, depending on your error description.
If the device is fully managed you may can disable the ability to change the pin (or enter the settings in general) if it's just "set up manually" without any restriction (like a normal consumer device) than i can just point to the reply from jasonbayton and sorry to say but the problem is made yourself then.
