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Help "Android Device Manager location access is turned off." How? Where?

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Nehmo

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I've used Android Device Manager successfully on other phones, but I'm having a problem with this Alcatel Onetouch, which runs Android 4.4.2 Kitkat.
In order to get the geographic location of the phone, on a laptop separate from the phone, I sign in to the appropriate Google account, go to the ADM site and the phone shows up properly. I can even use the Ring button with results (phone rings). But when hit the location icon in the upper right to get the location, I get:
Online
"Android Device Manager location access is turned off."

I have
Settings > Location (slider switch ON) > Mode > High Accuracy
Settings > Location > Location Services > Google Location HIstory > the first section below the e-address name of the Google account ON and the box on the right is checked
This device
Alcatel one touch 4037T Location last reported [today's date] Box checked

In "Settings" > "Security" > "Device Administrators" - I have the box checked to allow "Android Device Manager". The other boxes for two other apps are not checked.

So, assuming the error message is correct, how do I turn ADM location acces?

But there's a contradiction here. The error says ADM location access is turned off, yet under location services (is "access" something else?) the switch for Location is turned on.
So what am I missing? What do I need to turn on?

(I use ADM to track my wife when she rides a scooter. I figure if she wrecks and the phone is undamaged, I can find the scooter, etc.)
 
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funkylogik said:
Not sure if this helps but go to the Google Settings app in app drawer and check the settings for ADM
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Forgive me, but I'm behind the curve on Android and not acquainted with the term "app drawer". I thought it meant the "Manage Applications" section until I looked it up. Now, I realize it's just the link page displayed by hitting the bunch of rectangles icon, the Launcher button. I don't see how the word "drawer" is merited. A pull down menu, it seems, would be similar to a real-world drawer.
Anyway, Application Drawer > Google Settings > Security > Check the box right of Remotely locate this device
That did it.
 
In the Android beginning, it was a drawer (in GUI terms) - there was handle for it and you had to slide it up to pull the drawer open - see bottom of this screen -

180px-Android_1.5_Cupcake_Screenshot.png


The access icon can now take a number of appearances so rather than reinvent a term we all just stick with the original by convention.

Very much like saying that you're going to dial a number on a push keypad, or indeed, the term phone call itself where you don't actually call out into a old crank set to get the operator.

Hope this helps. :)
 
funkylogik said:
^^impeccable logic :thumbsupdroid:
And we don't watch videos on youtube
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Actually, I don't use "dial" a number, because I estimate that usage for that word is headed out. But I may be wrong. "Turn" on seems to be sticking around.
But I don't get the "watch videos" one. The verb seems representative of reality. We do watch them. What do you mean?
 
Nehmo said:
Actually, I don't use "dial" a number, because I estimate that usage for that word is headed out. But I may be wrong.
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Pretty sure I didn't call you out on that personally but anyway, if you don't believe that one, see what happens with a Play Store search for dialer.

You're welcome on the drawer explanation, don't mention it. :D
 
Yeah I was just chain pulling on that.

I still keep my rotary dialer app handy because you just never know. :D

Regardless of what funky meant I found it interesting that we only acknowledge the visual portion when we say watching a video - it gave me a new appreciation for the phrase, take in a movie.

Saw a thing on TCM where a very old actress explained that the movies originally referred to the actors that moved around Hollywood while looking for work and that the term was coined by the landlords and landladies.
 
Sorry if I offended you. I didn't mean to. Thanks for the explanation.
Ok, now I understand the "watch video" comment. In addition to watch, you also listen. So, technically, someone would watch and listen to a video, assuming they had functioning ears.
 
I have no effing idea what my comment was meant to mean lol it makes no sense now.
Ignore anything stupid I say, I'm a (nice) alcoholic and mean no harm.
Hmmm wtf did I mean lol of course we watch videos on youtube lol.
I'm a dumdum :)
Sorry Nehmo for at least trying to understand my jibberish ;)
 
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