Android SecurityException: Admin does not own the profile

Your app needs to become either the device owner or profile owner. The easiest way to do this for one device is to use adb as here:

http://florent-dupont.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/android-shell-command-dpm-device-policy.html

Basically from a command prompt

adb shell dpm set-device-owner com.foo.deviceowner/.DeviceAdminRcvr 

where com.foo.deviceowner is your app package, and DeviceAdminRcvr is the DeviceAdminReceiver in your package. Note that you will get a java.lang.IllegalStateException unless you have removed all accounts from the device (Settings > Accounts).

The other method is to create a NFC provisioning app as:

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/admin/provision.html

I think that you need to setup Profile with this code

Intent intent = new Intent(**ACTION_PROVISION_MANAGED_PROFILE**); intent.putExtra(EXTRA_PROVISIONING_DEVICE_ADMIN_PACKAGE_NAME, activity.getApplicationContext().getPackageName()); if (intent.resolveActivity(activity.getPackageManager()) != null) { startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_PROVISION_MANAGED_PROFILE); activity.finish(); } else { Toast.makeText(activity, "Stopping.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } 

Are you correctly Registered as DeviceAdminReceiver?

As per the Android Documentation HERE, The calling device admin must be a device or profile owner. If it is not, a security exception will be thrown.

And from the Logs it is clear that you don't OWN the Profile!

Adding this for anyone researching a solution in the future.

My case was that I was updating an old app to a new application.

The new application needs to have the same Java package path. Which means that if your old application had: com.org.app/package.path.SomethingAdminReceiver then you have to have the package path package.path.SomethingAdminReceiver in your new app.