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ScreenTinker f5ce88c93f Keep retrying an install for a working day, and flag a human straight away
Three attempts inside one hour, then a day of silence, was calibrated for the wrong
cost. The ~8.7MB re-download that throttle exists to prevent is already prevented by
the APK cache — downloadAndInstall reuses a previously verified file, so attempts
2..N pull no bytes. What actually blocks these installs is a confirm dialog waiting
for somebody to walk past, and giving up an hour in guarantees nobody has.

The cap is now 40, roughly a working day at the 30-minute cadence, before falling back
to the existing daily retry. Two things had to come with it, because raising the number
alone would have made things worse:

Telling the operator is now a SEPARATE threshold from giving up. It used to fire at
the cap, so a bare bump would have pushed "this panel needs attention" from about an
hour out to about twenty. It fires at ATTEMPTS_BEFORE_FLAGGING (3) instead, and
statusFor keys on the same threshold, so a device reports manual_update_required as
soon as a human is demonstrably needed and KEEPS reporting it while it retries.
Previously the status dropped back to 'pending' once the backoff window elapsed, so a
panel that needed hands looked healthy in between attempts.

PackageInstaller sessions are now abandoned before a new one is opened. Every attempt
stages a full copy of the APK via openWrite, and a session whose dialog is never
accepted holds onto it. At three that was a rounding error; at forty it would be
~350MB of staged installs on hardware without it to spare, and would eventually trip
the per-app session limit.

The warning text no longer promises a 24h backoff it is not about to take, and says
what would actually fix it — accept the prompt, or have the MDM delegate install
permission.

The three tests that broke encoded the old thresholds and were rewritten to the new
intent rather than retuned to pass.
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