Device actions

The following actions are available to send to your devices. These actions are available in the Actions drop-down menu, either from the Device List page, or from a specific device page. 

If device is offline, the actions is queued and will be performed once device is online again.

Lock / Unlock

  • Locks or Unlocks the device.
  • When a device is locked, it can only be unlocked from the WizyEMM console.

Screen Off

  • Turns the screen off of the device, and returns to lock-screen if one is defined.

Reboot

  • Reboots the device
  • This feature is only available from Android 7.0

Reset password

  • Resets the password on the device

Start Application

  • Starts an application remotely on the device

Send Notification

  • Sends a notification to the device
  • The expiration date for this action is automatically set at 24 h later than the current time.
  • Past this expiration date, if the device is still not online, the push notification will not appear on the device when it goes back online

Push File

  • Sends a file to a path on the internal memory of device
  • The path for the file directory of a specific application installed will look similar to: 
  • sdcard/android/data/{{package_name}}/...
  • You can override existing files by pushing the updated file with the same name (as the file to be updated), to the same file path. 

Retrieve File

  • Retrieves a file or folder to a Google Cloud storage bucket

Delete Files

  • Deletes a file of folder from device

Install Certificate

  • Installs a certificate on device

Install APK

Ping

  • Pings device, which refreshes device geolocation, network information and last contact fields.

Run Bundled Actions

Exit Kiosk

  • Exits kiosk on device
  • The kiosk is enabled again automatically on the device after 1 hour.

Clear App Cache

  • Clears app cache & data (only on Samsung devices)