Device settings

These settings allow you to customize device locale and language settings, the keyboard, developer settings, hardware key mapping, and battery settings.

The following settings are available:

• General settings
• Keyboard
• Developer settings
• Remap hardware keys
• Battery

General settings

Under GENERAL SETTINGS, configure the following settings:

• Locale — Select the language and country for the device.

  The language and country pair selected must be a language and country combination that is supported by the device. If not, it could result in a configuration error. You can check which language and country combination is supported in the language menu of your device settings.

• Time zone — Keep current settings or select the appropriate timezone for the device.

• Automatic Time Update — Set the device to automatically update its time and date information from a network resource.

Select LANGUAGE AND INPUT to show or hide the keyboard button.

Select TEXT TO SPEECH to set up the device text-to-speech engine and adjust the pitch and speech rate.

Each Text-to-speech setting has an Allow user to change setting option to either Allow device user changes, Do not allow user changes or Do not allow and hide setting from user. These options can be set independently of each other and are persistent across subsequent logins.

Select SETTINGS to disable the suggestions pop-up on the device after enrollment.

Keyboard

Select Customize keyboard options to enable or disable predictive mode on the device keyboard.

Under Add keyboards, you can add up to five third party keyboard to the device. The appropriate keyboard application must also be installed on the device to be added successfully using Knox Configure.

Select GENERAL KEYBOARD to enable or disable the keyboard settings and toolbar items in the device keyboard.

Developer settings

Set the Default USB debugging mode to On or Off. When turned off, developers cannot receive debugging information from the device or use Android Debug Bridge to push content or files to the device. You can disable USB debugging mode entirely.

Remap hardware keys

Customize the hardware key controls on the device.

Select Microsoft Teams to use a preconfigured template or Custom to create a custom key mapping configuration.

To create a custom key mapping configuration, select the Key name, Key press type, Action type, and Application package name for the configuration.

If you’re creating a ProKiosk mode profile, you can’t add a custom hardware key configuration, but you can choose to hide the Power off and Restart options when the device user presses the device power button.

Select Side button to configure the behavior of the device’s Side button. You can configure the following settings:

• Double-press the Side button — You can choose to allow or restrict the device user from double-pressing the appropriate key. You can turn this setting on or off.

  • Allow users to change setting — Choose whether you want to allow users to change the Side button settings, disallow, or disallow and hide the setting altogether.

• Double-press key type — Select what happens when the user double-presses the Side button: Quick launch a camera or Open application.

  • If you select Open application, enter the Application component name of the app you want to open.

• Press and hold the Side button — Choose to either Wake Bixby or show the Power off menu.

Battery

Under POWER AND BATTERY SETTINGS, configure the following settings:

• Power on the device when connected to a power source — Set devices to automatically power on when connected to a power source.

• Power off the device when disconnected from a power source — Select this option to automatically power off a device when disconnected from its power source.

• Extend battery life by limiting the maximum charge when connected to a power source — Select this option to provide a maximum charge setting of 85% to avoid issues with keeping a tablet on its charger too long. When selected, the device will stop charging once it reaches 85% of total available charge.