It's not possible to remove Tasker as the Device Owner after you set it, so please keep that in mind before doing this procedure.
If anything stops working because of this procedure you'll have to factory reset your device to make Tasker not the Device Owner again.
A known issue for Samsung owners is that some of their Samsung services stop working and there's currently no known way to get them back to working while Tasker is the Device Owner:
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Here's how to make Tasker the Device Owner on your device
adb shell dumpsys account | find "Account {" | find /V "Session"If you're on a mac/linux write
./adb shell dumpsys account | grep "Account {" | grep -v "Session"
adb shell dpm set-device-owner net.dinglisch.android.taskerm/.MyDeviceAdminReceiverIf you're on a mac write
./adb shell dpm set-device-owner net.dinglisch.android.taskerm/.MyDeviceAdminReceiver
Note: If the ADB command above does not work you have to
On some devices the system backup functions might be disabled after you do the above. If so, use the Tasker Device Admin/Owner action to run the following Custom action:
setBackupServiceEnabled(true)After running that in Tasker backups should run again.