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Automatically Redirect Browser to a Website on Android Device Inactivity

Do you have multiple allowed websites on your Lockdown Device?  Want Auto Redirect to SureFox Home Screen or one of the allowed websites after an idle timeout? Use SureFox‘s Idle Timeout option to force the screen to redirect itself to SureFox Home Screen or a website. Follow mentioned steps to enable Idle Timeout option: 1. Login to…

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Play Videos in Kiosk Mode using SureFox

With SureFox you can play videos on an Android device by embedding videos in an HTML file. Follow the below-mentioned steps to start playing locally stored videos using SureFox. Step 1: Save the Zipped Folder with SureFox Settings file, sample HTML file and sample video file on your desktop Step 2: Copy all the three files and save it in your device’s SD Card Root Folder Step…

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How to enable Offline Browsing using SureFox Kiosk Browser?

Offline Browsing is downloading and copying web pages onto a computer or a device in order to view them locally without being connected to the Internet. It is very useful when the computer is offline and connection to the Internet is impossible or undesirable. With SureFox, now you can enable offline browsing of listed allowed websites…

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Troubleshooting SureLock/SureFox for Android

Applies to: SureLock, SureFox To speed up the process of troubleshooting these problems, we have integrated diagnostics into our products. There are 3 files generated: SureLock Log file The SureLock log file is found in the root folder of device storage by the name of SureLock(version_num)_LOG.txt where version_num is the SureLock version you are using. This file contains…

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Updating SureLock and SureFox settings remotely using SureMDM

 SureMDM allows you to update SureLock and SureFox settings on your enrolled Android devices remotely. This means no user interaction is required while updating SureLock and SureFox Settings. There are two ways of doing it: 1. Update SureLock/SureFox Settings using inbuilt SureLock/SureFox option 2. Update SureLock and SureFox Settings using SureMDM Jobs   Update SureLock and SureFox Settings…

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How to change the User Agent on SureFox browser

User agent is a browser feature which determines how the browser identifies itself while requesting for information on the web. It also affects the behavior of web pages displayed on your web browser. For example, many websites have a lighter version specially designed for mobile platforms. However, this might not be desirable always. The good…

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How to export SureLock and SureFox settings?

Applies to: SureLock, SureFox Follow the steps below to export your SureLock/SureFox configuration to a settings file: 1. Launch SureLock/SureFox. 2. Go to Admin settings using your password (Default: Tap on home screen for 5 times within 3 seconds to bring up the password prompt). 3. Once you are on settings screen, tap Import/Export Settings and…

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How to provision large number of mobile devices into Kiosk lock down mode

Applies to: Product SureLock / SureFox / SureVideo Platform Android / Windows 7 & 8 / iOS If you’re an IT administrator in an organization, it should not be difficult to understand how tedious it can become when it comes to configuring multiple devices. To make this process easy for you, SureLock, SureFox, and SureVideo allow you…

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Differences between SureFox Basic and SureFox Pro

Two variants of SureFox for Android are available –SureFox Basic and SureFox Pro. There are a few important differences between SureFox Basic and SureFox Pro. Choice to use either of them depends on the actual requirements. First things first, the basic functionality of SureFox as a locked web browser is present in both the variants…

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SureFox Javascript APIs

SureFox for Android now comes with built-in set of Javascript APIs. Use them in a customized SureFox toolbar or embed in your web application to perform variety of actions such as navigating through pages or to launch an app directly from SureFox. The APIs are written as window.surefox.<API_Name> Following is a comprehensive list of SureFox APIs: getVersion(): Gets SureFox Version…

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