Recent discussions
Celebrating World Earth Day! Share your experiences
Hello everyone, I wanted to take a moment to highlight that today, April 22nd 2025, is World Earth Day. In recognition of this, I'm sharing a video I found last year (August 2024) that offers an interesting look at the packaging redesign process for Pixel. While sustainability hasn't been a common topic of conversation here in the AE Customer Community much yet, I know from speaking with several of you that it's a consideration for many. I thought today would be a good opportunity to start a relaxed discussion around sustainability and generally the circular economy at work. I'd love to hear any tips, experiences (including challenges), and even the small, collective actions you take that can make a significant difference (at work or in your personal life). For example, thinking on devices - do you have any particular habits to extend the lifespan of your devices? Perhaps you have a minimum requirement for the number of operating system updates you look for, or maybe you have a specific process for recycling or reusing devices at the end of their life. Or perhaps if you work from home you make sure you turn screens and TVs off standby mode to reduce electricity. Looking forward to hearing your insights, ideas and generally how you feel/would like to see sustainability in technology will evolve over time. Thanks so much, Lizzie
Link Android Zero Touch Portal with Access Management Tool
Hello Team Is there any possibility to link Android Zero touch portal with an Access Management tool with the APIs? We have our internal access management tool of our organization. We want to link the ZTE portal so that the request and permission for adding and deleting admins can be managed by Access management tool. Is there any API for that?
Google Messages App: SMS to shortcode not able to send
Our Provider (Vodafone Germany) is using a SMS shortcode number to be able to order an upgrade on dataplans by sms. Once the monthly contract plan (e.g. 1 GB) have been used users will receive a sms from 70997 to inform that you can answer the SMS with "1" or "2" to restore your data connectivity. We ran into the issue that the Google Messages app seems to have some sort of bug with sending SMS to this kind of shortcode number as it alway says "Not sent" in red error text. Provider tech support told me that the Google messages app is prefixing the number with "49" resulting in a wrong / unknown number (4970997). They cannot fix that from their side as the issue is within Google messages app and asked me to install a 3rd party messages app.... *ugly* Is this something I can request to investigate from here? I will also create a case with Samsung tech support as we are mainly using Samsung devices as our corp. device fleet. Thank you! Kind Regards Daniel
Android zero-touch customer portal
Learn more about the changes to the new zero-touch customer portal The new zero-touch customer portal has been designed to make it easier for you to manage your account. Here are some of the key changes: New look and feel: The portal has been redesigned with a modern look and feel, making it easier to navigate and find the information you need. Improved navigation: The navigation menu has been simplified and reorganized, making it easier to find the pages you're looking for. Updated Terms of service: Updated the zero-touch customer terms of service and customers will be prompted to accept the terms of service upon next login to the zero-touch customer portal. The terms of service need to be accepted once by an admin or owner of the customer account. If you own multiple accounts, you might need to accept the terms of service for each one. Note: when attempting to access the zero-touch customer API. Any existing solutions leveraging the zero-touch customer APIs to access an account that has not yet accepted the new terms of service will receive a TosError response. Users will need to accept the terms of service by signing in to the zero-touch enrolment portal. New features/changes: The portal now includes a number of new features, such as: Improved search: search for specific device(s) by the fields below, without specifying which identifier(ie. IMEI, MEID, serial number). Additional fields on device CSV download: You can download a CSV of existing devices assigned to your organization, which contain all data seen on the device management page with additional field(ie. Reseller name and reseller ID). Additionally, unified the formats so the customer can download a CSV, make changes to the profiles, and upload it. Undelete account: You can no longer undelete the account once deleted, alternatively you can reach out to your reseller who can then reach out to us to recover your account with valid reason. To access the new customer portal, simply go to link. You will need to log in with your existing username and password To help you navigate the changes, please refer to the customer portal guide. We value your feedback, please use the feedback button as shown in the attached GIF to share your insights: If you have any questions about the new customer portal, please create a new community conversation in the General Discussion board. Thank you.
In-house app is not being distributed to a specific device
Hello, I am facing an error for a several months in the MC33ax from Zebra. I have an in-house app that was uploaded to Play Console, to be further linked to Microsoft Intune. The MDM is managing corporate devices by providing the app to many ones, as MC94, MC93 and MC33ax. However, everything works fine for 93 and 94, I can see the app in the Play Store, which is not happening to 33ax. In the Google Play Console, it seems that MC33ax is not part of the device catalog. Zebra support said something about reaching out GooglePlay Developer support to add the part number, and they said I should contact Android Enterprise. Is there someone able to provide assistance? Thank you in advance, Regards,
Zero Touch MDM Phones Randomly Factory Resetting
Hello We have been having an issue over the past few weeks/months where Android devices are randomly resetting. The phones are zero touch enrolled and managed by Intune via COPE, we apply configuration and compliance policies to these devices. One of these configurations enforces a device wipe after so many failed pin code failures. This is the only known wipe configuration set on the devices. We have exhausted the configuration side and do not see a root cause other than user error, however this is not really likely given it takes some effort to actually do this. From googling online, we can see that this may be an issue relating to the play version not updating correctly, is this still an issue? Random factory resets after devices complete GZT configuration. | Android Enterprise Customer Community - 2236 These devices are a mix of newly enrolled and also old enrolled devices. They have also been setup with Wi-Fi. Thanks
FYI - Chrome is dropping support for A8 and A9 in August 2025
138 will be the last version of Chrome that will support both A8 and A9 according to this recent announcement. https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/352616098/sunsetting-chrome-support-for-android-8-0-oreo-and-android-9-0-pie?hl=en There are very small populations of these devices left in the wild but I personally still support quite a number of them. The entire Atlas family from Zebra including the TC51, MC3300, and VC80x devices all max out on A8 with no higher upgrades available. This likely will lead to forced upgrades to those devices, especially given how many modern apps are hybrid web apps dependent on the WebView and/or Chrome (Chrome is the System WebView implementation on A8).
