Cannot set the app as profile owner - set-profile-owner command stuck - android

I'm trying to set the profile owner for one of my application using command on my Android 10 device:
adb shell dpm set-profile-owner com.example.blockcamera/.BlockCameraDeviceAdminReceiver
When I press Enter nothing happens - the command will be stuck with a cursor flashing on new line. I have to Ctrl+C to kill it.
The command works fine on Android Emulator and the app works as expected afterwords.
I am using android:testOnly flag in AndroidManifest.xml
Things tried:
Used --user current option but no luck
Also tried set-device-owner command but same result, the command gets stuck.

I reset the device and it worked later.

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Problem
My App.apk is currently set as a custom Launcher and also set as a Device Owner to have access to the Lock Task Mode.
Command to be a Device Owner
adb shell dpm set-device-owner com.package.name/.MyDeviceAdminReceiver
Previous to that I could just press Run App and the old app.apk process would have been killed and the new one would appear.
Now I have to manually reinstall it by pressing build and then using adb
adb install -t -r <path/app-debug.apk>
I have already tried the attaching to debugger solution provided here which doesn't work.
According to Googles Issue Tracker this is the reason why it happens.
It looks like we don't recognize when an app features BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN permission which protects them from being force-stoped.
My goal
I don't want to manually write adb install I want to achieve the same fluent workflow without this workaround stuff. Pressing Run App should have the same effect as before.
Im pretty confident there is a custom run configuration that can help with this problem but this is my first android project so any ideas or help would be appreciated.
What I have tried
I tried to setup a before launch shell script on the Run/Debug configuration but all adb commands are not working to stop my app.
adb shell pm disable com.package.name
Security exception: Cannot disable a protected package: com.package.name
adb uninstall com.package.name
Failure [DELETE_FAILED_DEVICE_POLICY_MANAGER]

Unable to start the "HelloWorld" NativeScript app on an Android emulator [duplicate]

I'm having a problem with emulator-5554, it keeps telling me it is offline.
When I do a adb devices from the command line it says
emulator-5554 offline
Even after a fresh restart, I try that command and it still says it is offline.
The problem is when I try to install .apk files to the emulator using abd install <path> from the command prompt, it tells me that it is offline, if I create another device and run that one, then try to install the .apk files, it says I have too many devices connected. So in other words, I can't install my .apk files.
How in the world can I get rid of that damn emulator-5554? I heard that if you do a restart, it should clear all the devices, but that does not seem to be working. It is like it is getting initialized when my computer starts up. Has anyone run into this issue?
Thanks
1 . Simply "Wipe data" to fix this issue.
2 . If it doesn't work, go to emulated device and enable developer options > enable usb debugging
In such a case, you can do all of the following in order to be assured that your emulator starts working again :
Go to cmd and type adb kill-server
Go to task manager and find adb in processes. If you find one, right click on it and click on end process tree.
In eclipse, go to Window>Android Virtual Device Manager, click on the AVD you want to launch, click on start and uncheck "Launch From Snapshot" and then click on launch.
That's it! It will take a while and it should resolve your problem.
The way that Android detects emulators is by scanning ports starting at port 5555.
The number you see in the adb devices list (in your case 5554) will be one less than the port that adb is finding open.
You probably have a process running that is listening on port 5555. To get rid of the "offline" device, you will need to find that application and close it or reconfigure it to listen to a different port.
This solution is for Windows.
(See #Chris Knight's solution for Mac/Linux)
Start Windows Powershell:
Start -> type 'powershell' -> Press ENTER
Run the following command: adb devices
PS C:\Users\CJBS>adb devices
List of devices attached
emulator-5656 host
emulator-5652 host
12b80FF443 device
In this case, 12b80FF443 is my physical device, and the emulator-* entries are garbage.
Per #Brigham, "The way that Android detects emulators is by
scanning ports starting at port 5555.". The port number is indicated after the emulator name (in this case 5656 and 5652). The port number to check is the emulator port number plus 1. So in this case:-
5656 + 1 = 5657
5652 + 1 = 5653
So let's see which program is using these ports. In this case, the ports to check both start with "565". So I'll search for ports in use starting with 565. Execute: netstat -a -n -o | Select-String ":565"
PS C:\Users\CJBS> netstat -a -n -o | Select-String ":565"
TCP 127.0.0.1:5653 127.0.0.1:5653 ESTABLISHED 5944
TCP 127.0.0.1:5657 127.0.0.1:5657 ESTABLISHED 5944
The final field in this output is the PID (Process ID) - in this case it's PID 5944 for both of these two ports. So let's see what this process ID is. Execute: tasklist /v | Select-String 5944. Replace 5944 with the output of the previous command:
PS C:\Users\CJBS> tasklist /v | Select-String 5944
adb.exe 5944 Console 1 6,800 K Running MyPCName\CJBS 0:06:03 ADB Power Notification Window
What a surprise. It's ADB. As noted by other answers, it could be other programs, too.
Now, just kill this process ID. Execute kill 5944, replacing 5944 with the PID in the previous command.
PS C:\Users\CJBS> kill 5944
To confirm that the spurious emulator is gone, re-run the following command: adb devices
PS C:\Users\CJBS>adb devices
List of devices attached
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
12b80FF443 device
ADB re-starts (as it was previously killed), and it detects no more fake emulators.
From the AVD Manager try the "Cold Boot Now" option in the drop-down. It worked for me!
If you are on Linux or Mac, and assuming the offline device is 'emulator-5554', you can run the following:
netstat -tulpn|grep 5554
Which yields the following output:
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5554 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4848/emulator64-x86
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5555 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4848/emulator64-x86
This tells me that the process id 4848 (yours will likely be different) is still listening on port 5554. You can now kill that process with:
sudo kill -9 4848
and the ghost offline-device is no more!
On macOS Big Sur and later, use
sudo lsof -i -P | grep LISTEN | grep 5554
to find out the process.
I finally solved this problem,
I had to go to the Developer options from the Settings in the Emulator,
then scrolled down a little, turned on the USB debugging. Instantly my device was recognized online, and I no longer faced that issue. I tried restarting android studio and emulator, killing adb process, but those did not work.
I also had the same issue. I've tried all solutions described here, but they didn't help me. Then I've removed all emulators in the Android Virtual Device Manager and created new ones. The problem was in the CPU/ABI system image configuration of the Android Virtual Device Manager. My Windows10 machine emulator with system image x86 is always offline, where the emulator with system image x86_64 is working fine as expected. Just be aware of this
I solved this by opening my commandprompt:
adb kill-server
adb devices
After starting up, ADB now detects the device/emulator.
In my case, I found some process that makes adb not work well.
You can try to kill some strange process and run "adb devices" to test.
It worked for me:
kill the process name MONyog.exe
Just write
adb -e reboot
and be happy with adb))
Enable USB Debugging into your emulator
Settings > About Phone > Build number > Tap it 7 times to become developer;
Settings > Developer Options > USB Debugging.
That's it enjoy
The "wipe user data" option finally solved my problem. just wipe user data every time you start the emulator. This always works for me!
I use windows 8 x64 , eclipse
open your emulator,
setting --> about emulated device --> click Build number repeatedly-->open developer options --> open USB debuggin
From AVD manager list at the actions dropdown:
Cold Boot Now
restarts it without all pain above.
Do you have bluestacks installed? If you do, the background processes that it runs creates the offline device "emulator-5554".
Go to the task manager and end all the processes with the description of "Bluestacks"
Try this ...
Close emulator if it Running.
Start Emulator again and wait for its online.
enter Command in commandprompt and press ENTER key : adb tcpip 5555
(Make sure that only One emulator running at a time.)
adb -s emulator-5555 emu kill
Press Enter Key....
Done.
check devices by command "adb devices" in cmd.
In my case, I started in 'Cold Boot Now' and clicked on Message to allow the connection.
Did you try deleting and recreating your AVD?
You can manually delete the AVD files by going to the directory they're stored in (in your user's /.android/avd subdirectory).
Go to windows task manager and end process "adb.exe". There might be more than 1 instances of the same process, make sure to end all of them.
on linux or mac the port thats blocked will emulator-id + 1 so 5555 so:
sudo lsof -i :5555
will show you the pid of process that are taking the port (should be the second column) so to kill it:
sudo lsof -i :5555 | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
then adb (fake) devices will no longer show on the list
In my case, the emulator was working with Oreo and lower, but not with Pie, and everything I tried seemed to have no effect. What finally worked was updating the emulator to latest (version 28).
I found that the emulation environment comes up as "offline" when the adb revision I am using was not recent. I properly updated my paths (and deleted the old adb version) and upon "adb kill-server", "adb devices", the emulation environment no longer came up as "offline".
I was immediately able to use "adb shell" after that point.
If the emulator is already open or executing it will tell you is offline. You can double check on the Command Line (Ubuntu) and execute:
adb devices
You must see your emulator offline, you have to close the running instance of the emulator (since the port will show as busy) and after that you can run your application. Hope this helps someone.
I tried everything but only this one works for my case:
Use SDK manager, and reinstall the system image.
Android Studio, click Configure, SDK Manager, Launch Standalone SDK Manager,
Check all "Google APIs Intel x86* System Image", "Intel x86 Atom*System Image" and install. Then re-start Android studio.
You might have to reconfigure and wipe the virtual device with AVD Manager, make sure you choose x86 version.
Ensure that your enable ADB integration is marked;
go to Tools>Android>Enable ADB integration .
if doesn't checked , check this option and close your virtual device and re-open it . this worked for me.. good luck!!
In MAC, you can use Activity Monitor utility, since, unlike Linux, we cannot use netstat -tulpn command in MAC. Search for the running instance of the emulator, typically qemu-system-i386. Kill that instance and you will see none of the ghost emulator running.
Simplest way to grab Activity monitor utility is to use spotlight search. just hit cmd-space and type in Activity Monitor.
I had the same issue with my virtual device. The problem is due to the Oreo image of the virtual devices that have the Play Store integrated. To solve this problem I installed a new device without the Play Store integrated and all it was fine.
Hope it helps, Bye
See emulator-5554 unauthorized for adb devices. On API 29 emulator I run adb devices command and got emulator-5554 unauthorized message. Then I created a new avd device from Google APIs image (in my case Q, x86), not from Google Play.
Simply delete and created gear avd again.It will work.

create 3 android emulators [phone, tab7, tab10] and start them via commandline for fastlane

I'm working on fastlane and want to start 3 emulators [phone, tab7, tab10] and take screenshots on them.
How do I create a script to create and start emulators via fastlane or commandline
You will need a script which does the following:
Start the emulator
Wait for the emulator to boot
Start screengrab for this emulator
Shut down the emulator
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Some more details:
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I have requirement like i need to take a UI dump of each window that appears on my android app to verify resource-id given is unique.
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#Gokul
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Which adb commands does eclipse use to run app?

I'm working on an app that uses device admin. If I run the app on a device using eclipse, then make a minor change to the code, then run the app again, the app runs as you'd expect with the new change.
However, if the second time I run the app I use adb install I get:
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If I try to uninstall then reinstall, the uninstall fails because the app is device admin. This has led me to wonder which adb commands eclipse executes when you select run. I've looked for some sort of "update" command but I couldn't find one. Anyone know?
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