Android Question What is 'Background Manage'?

warwound · Feb 28, 2025

I have a custom android 13 tablet, in Settings > System is an option named 'Background Manage'.
It lists some of the installed apps and each app has a toggle switch to enable or disable this option.
If this option is disabled (the default) then one of my app's services either:

Fails to auto start at boot
or
Auto starts at boot but quickly gets killed by the system

I'm not sure which but it's not relevant to my question.

I want to use an adb or similar command to enable this option, so I can use a script to setup my app on many of these custom tablets.
The script has been working for a long while on previous versions of android, I'm modifying it to work with android 13 and it currently looks like:

adb install my-package-name.apk

adb root

adb shell pm grant <my-package-name> android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
adb shell pm grant <my-package-name> android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS
adb shell pm grant <my-package-name> android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
adb shell pm grant <my-package-name> android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE
adb shell pm grant <my-package-name> android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW
adb shell pm grant <my-package-name> android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
adb shell pm grant <my-package-name> android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

adb shell cmd appops set <my-package-name> RUN_ANY_IN_BACKGROUND allow
adb shell cmd appops set <my-package-name> RUN_IN_BACKGROUND allow
adb shell cmd appops set <my-package-name> WRITE_SETTINGS allow

adb shell dumpsys deviceidle whitelist +<my-package-name>

adb shell am start -n <my-package-name>/.main

I've been searching for days, trying to find a script command to enable this option but had no success.
Does anyone recognise 'Background Manage' and know which android API setting or permission it enables?

warwound · Mar 18, 2025

Let me close this thread with my own answer:

Background Manage is the 'Allwinner Background Manage Service', a feature of the custom firmware on our custom android tablet.
It's configuration is set by the file: /data/system/awbms_config
With root permission it's possible to add or remove applications from the 'background manage service' by editing that configuration file.

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