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[Q] Smart unlock:places

Smart unlock: places is not working any longer. I have GPS locations turned on, set to High accuracy, Smart unlock is turned on and is also enabled in my trusted agents, and my home address is correct. This was working a couple days ago. But then suddenly stopped. I've also done a reboot several times. Any help please.

I heard something about there being a problem with the predefined locations "home" and "work". Try setting a custom trusted place and see if that works...

my experience says GPS for the Smart Lock is a bit off.....this workaround has worked for me and others:
leave your Home location, but add another one. In my case when the Map came up, it showed me in a slightly different location. adding that and keeping Home, has me working.
my home is at 472, and usually GPS gets it correct or sometimes its 470.....Now, in Smart Lock, it shows my home as 500.
HTH....GL

Thanks guys! I added my neighbors address. Lol. It seems to work now.

youre welcome, glad its working for ya!

5.1 Smart Lock Trusted Places not working

Anyone having issues with Trusted Places not working? I just updated to 5.1 and rooted. Trusted Places does not work at all. I even tried a different location than home. I noticed the location icon no longer flashes in the notification bar when turning the screen on. This use to happen all the time on 5.0.2. It would only display for a second or 2.
I tried turning off and on Smart Lock, turn off and on Smart Lock in Trusted Agents, location history off then on, changed Home address in Maps, different location in Smart Lock, reinstalled GPS 7.0.97, rebooted several times. My location settings are set for High Accuracy as well.
I'm thinking this is an issue with Google Play Services 7.0.97.

It's broken for me to. I read that it was the play services update that did it.

mwalt2 said:
It's broken for me to. I read that it was the play services update that did it.
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OK I figured that. But its weird since I updated to GPS 7.0.97 on 5.0.2 and didn't have an issue.

lacesout said:
Anyone having issues with Trusted Places not working? I just updated to 5.1 and rooted. Trusted Places does not work at all. I even tried a different location than home. I noticed the location icon no longer flashes in the notification bar when turning the screen on. This use to happen all the time on 5.0.2. It would only display for a second or 2.
I tried turning off and on Smart Lock, turn off and on Smart Lock in Trusted Agents, location history off then on, changed Home address in Maps, different location in Smart Lock, reinstalled GPS 7.0.97, rebooted several times. My location settings are set for High Accuracy as well.
I'm thinking this is an issue with Google Play Services 7.0.97.
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Hi, there's been some discussion about this already. Look here for some more info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3052484

Evolution_Freak said:
Hi, there's been some discussion about this already. Look here for some more info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3052484
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Thanks I just fixed it for myself. In addition to my Home address, I added both neighbors to my right and left. Now it works perfectly.

lacesout said:
Anyone having issues with Trusted Places not working? I just updated to 5.1 and rooted. Trusted Places does not work at all. I even tried a different location than home. I noticed the location icon no longer flashes in the notification bar when turning the screen on. This use to happen all the time on 5.0.2. It would only display for a second or 2.
I tried turning off and on Smart Lock, turn off and on Smart Lock in Trusted Agents, location history off then on, changed Home address in Maps, different location in Smart Lock, reinstalled GPS 7.0.97, rebooted several times. My location settings are set for High Accuracy as well.
I'm thinking this is an issue with Google Play Services 7.0.97.
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I did not remove my Google address, but added the neighbors address manually and made that the default and it has been working or the last 2 days.

[Marshmallow][6.0][Q] Smartlock completely broken after M update

Hi all, I updated to android-M (completely wipe then installed stock rom). Since then, all the ways of smartlock do not work at all. I checked location access all the apps have it, including system apps (in app permissions). Please help. Has anyone sucesfully gotten Smartlock to work with android-M?

Worked fine for me on stock m and pure nexus

Works fine for me with my BT headset and Android Wear Watch. I've never tried it with a location.

Works with my smartwatch, my location , and my bluetooth stereo adapter thing for my house.

No problems here using MM Pure Nexus using my Android Wear for smart unlock.

Smart Unlock works fine for me with Bluetooth devices...but the location version does seem broken. I even have two location "circles" for my home, to cover a greater area, and I keep having to unlock it manually. This was not an issue for me on 5.1.1.

Location smart lock does not work well for me at all. 5.1.1 it worked great. Bluetooth smart lock is on point.

Location smart lock has been working fine for me the past couple weeks on 6.0. I did run into an issue initially where it seemed like it was stuck thinking I was always at a location to stay unlocked. That was right after I flashed and a reboot solved it.

Location is also broken for me, only works if I manually open Maps and let it settle my location for a bit, then the device stays unlocked for a couple of minutes only. Changing location accuracy has no effect on it.

I'm surprised more people aren't complaining about this...do most people not use location Smart Unlock?

Mine was working flawlessly on 5.1.1 after I upgraded to 6.0 was hit and miss bit I durty flashed the update-after performing factory reset it works fine again

Do you have an exchange account installed? If yes, switch to 'Nine' and it uses app-level encryption rather than device-level. That's the only time it didn't work for me.
Running stock latest image. No tweaks/root.
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Location unlock is a bit messy for me as well. I thought only I had it.

Location unlock occasionally doesn't work for me (first thing in the morning, usually, or if the phone has been locked/screen off for an extended period of time), but it works most of the time; and the BT unlock works 100% of the time in my car (stupid Toyota not having Android music controls to browse albums...)

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Location unlock occasionally doesn't work for me (first thing in the morning, usually, or if the phone has been locked/screen off for an extended period of time), but it works most of the time; and the BT unlock works 100% of the time in my car (stupid Toyota not having Android music controls to browse albums...)
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Even when Smart Unlock (Location) is working, it will still lock after an extended period of time untouched. It's just a built in safety feature.

Ok so consensus seems to be that location at least IS broken for a lot of people...I'm not sure why though, at least it's not just me.

Same here
Running Google nexus 5 and stock marshmallow, unrooted. Have had same problem since upgrade to marshmallow. Location worked beautifully on lollipop. Bluetooth still fine. Basically sometimes I'm lucky and it unlocks with smart lock, but mostly it's a manual unlock. Noticed that it does sometimes eventually unlock smartly when one waits a while on lock screen and screen on. Keep tapping it to keep active. Very frustrating, adding a feature in past which you get used to and then breaks in future.

It would seem that if a trusted location has an address, it does not work so well, if at all.
Moving the trusted location pin around so that the trusted location uses gps coordinates instead of an address seems to work more consistently. No recent problems with smart lock trusted locations.

The location smart lock never worked for me even in lollipop. The only way I got it to work is by dropping something like 20-30 pins to blanket my county to ever get it to say it unlocked for location. And in google's location history thing it looks all good with points dropped frequently at my house.

Me too, my cellphone don't unlock in my house.
He work well on 5.0.2, now I'm in 6.0 and don't work. I go to do downgrade

Google maps/GPS issue

Hey dudes, recently I've been having a problem with my note 5 where google maps/gps just doesn't work unless I reboot my phone. I'll put in the address and my location will be detected, but once I start driving the location doesn't move, it's as if the app is frozen, but it isn't. Rebooting and reopening the app makes it work which makes me think it must be software rather than hardware? I have factory reset the phone, but the problem persists. Any ideas for a solution?

GPS Toolbox app, use it, if it doesn't work try a different navigate app, like waze.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2

I'm having the same problem. GPS seems to know generally where I am, but not enough to guide me through the navigation. If I ask Maps to tell me where I am right now (stationary, at home), it locates me two blocks away. If I ask Maps to navigate me while I'm on the road, it finds me a route from where it thinks I am, but is unable to update my location once I start moving. My location seems to jump around a lot during navigation and it shows me driving in the middle of the block two blocks away.
I've been trying to find an answer to this online but can't find anything helpful - my location services are on, power saving mode is off, locating method is GPS, Wi-Fi, and mobile networks. I've tried turning location off and back on, I've tried restarting the phone. Nothing works. The problems started when I woke up (e.g. didn't change the settings and suddenly it went wrong) and the phone didn't drop or anything.
GPS toolbox did nothing for me. Waze is having the same problem. I even downloaded Mapquest, thinking that Waze was using Google tech and that was the issue, and Mapquest is having the same problem. This is so frustrating - any ideas?

I have the same issue with my Note 5. I have even had my handset replaced to fix this issue. But I'm stuck with the same problem. There is something seriously wrong with these devices and Samsung needs to own up to it. Considering how much these devices cost, you'd expect everything to work.

automatically unlock phone when connected to car

The goal: if my phone is connected to my car (and the car is turned on), unlock it automatically.
I keep a spare phone in my car connected to Android Auto (and hidden) so I don't have to keep plugging in my more expensive phone daily. Since it is also connected to my carrier and google accounts, I lock the phone. I have SmartUnlock set to keep the phone unlocked when bluetooth is connected to my car. This works for keeping the phone unlocked once unlocked, but it does not unlock the phone. I still have to do that manually with my fingerprint or passkey. Any idea how to automatically unlock the phone when connected to the car (and the car is on)? If my car is broken into and the phone is stolen I want the phone to remain locked. I am going to take the risk that if the keys are present (thus the car is on and the phone is connected to bluetooth & via cable), it's ok to unlock the phone automatically. If someone steals my car with the phone, then I'm screwed. But I'll take that risk.
Basically here is the problem with the built-in auto-unlock (from official instructions):
Important: When you don't use your device for 4 hours, and after it restarts, you'll need to unlock it.
Which means almost every time I use my car!
I've also tried google assistant voice unlock, but that only works if I don't have another lock method in place, which is not safe.
In case it matters, the spare phone is a Moto X4 with Oreo, not rooted. I'm on Google Project Fi, which allows multiple data-only SIMs on the same account. I have my voice SIM in the Android Auto phone and a data-only SIM in my main phone that is not directly supported by Project Fi.

Maybe something like this ?
AutomateIt Pro - Automate tasks on your Android ( cant post links)

j0k3r5 said:
Maybe something like this ?
AutomateIt Pro - Automate tasks on your Android ( cant post links)
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Sadly, unlocking the phone is not one of the supported actions of this app.

Did you consider a different approach? Like using AAGateway ( https://forum.xda-developers.com/ge...droid-3-0-proxy-gateway-android-auto-t3813163 ) for wireless AA connection?
It's the solution I use. I have an S4 mini running CM13 permanently connected to the car, only running AAGateway. No Google account and no other apps.
Using Automate scripts on both master and slave so AA connection starts automatically when I enter the car.

Android can do this already. Trusted Devices. Bt unlocks your phone when the trusted Bt device connects.
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m00n61 said:
Did you consider a different approach? Like using AAGateway ( https://forum.xda-developers.com/ge...droid-3-0-proxy-gateway-android-auto-t3813163 ) for wireless AA connection?
It's the solution I use. I have an S4 mini running CM13 permanently connected to the car, only running AAGateway. No Google account and no other apps.
Using Automate scripts on both master and slave so AA connection starts automatically when I enter the car.
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That's intriguing, but it doesn't solve everything I need in the spare phone.
1. The spare phone acts as a spare - if I forget or lose my phone, I can grab the spare phone from the car. Happens about once per month.
2. My main phone is not Project Fi compatible, and thus only works on LTE, no voice. I can use Hangouts Dialer to manually dial numbers for VoLTE, but that doesn't work through Android Auto. My cheap spare phone is Project Fi compatible and can dial voice via Android Auto.
3. My main phone is rooted and thus there is a thing or two it can't do - if I need to do those things, I can grab the spare phone (though admittedly playing PokemonGo is the only thing falling into that category thus far).
So the spare phone stays - I just need it to auto-unlock when I turn on the car.

Did you solve this? I have exactly the same problem. I need to have my phone unlock automatically when linked to my car bt. Not just stay unlocked, but actually unlock when connected.

pwvandeursen said:
Did you solve this? I have exactly the same problem. I need to have my phone unlock automatically when linked to my car bt. Not just stay unlocked, but actually unlock when connected.
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See the attached Tasker screenshots for how I do it. The swipe is just a swipe up to get to the password prompt screen and %PASSWORD is set as my unlock password. The steps you see there are triggered by BT Connected to my Mazda. You will need Tasker and the AutoInput plugin

Mibuix0r said:
See the attached Tasker screenshots for how I do it. The swipe is just a swipe up to get to the password prompt screen and %PASSWORD is set as my unlock password. The steps you see there are triggered by BT Connected to my Mazda. You will need Tasker and the AutoInput plugin
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I configured it nearly the same now and my keyboard is gone after the task was running.
Did you find a way to set it back after the tasks stopped?

WebBuddha said:
I configured it nearly the same now and my keyboard is gone after the task was running.
Did you find a way to set it back after the tasks stopped?
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No sure what you mean? My keyboard never disappeared? Make sure you have a default input mode selected in your Android settings maybe, Tasker plugins can sometimes clear that.

Mibuix0r said:
No sure what you mean? My keyboard never disappeared? Make sure you have a default input mode selected in your Android settings maybe, Tasker plugins can sometimes clear that.
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Thanks for your fast reply.
That has happend, it has cleared the seetings for my default input method.
Maybe it was an one time issue. I'll try it again later.

Mibuix0r said:
See the attached Tasker screenshots for how I do it. The swipe is just a swipe up to get to the password prompt screen and %PASSWORD is set as my unlock password. The steps you see there are triggered by BT Connected to my Mazda. You will need Tasker and the AutoInput plugin
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Thanks much! I will give this a try - once I use the car again often enough to keep the phone in it charged.

Mibuix0r said:
No sure what you mean? My keyboard never disappeared? Make sure you have a default input mode selected in your Android settings maybe, Tasker plugins can sometimes clear that.
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The problem stays. If the profile runs, tasker will be set as default input method.
Is it possible to create an new task if the bluetooth connection get lost?
I've tried it with "Input" + "Choose Input Method" but I have no glue what has to be entered there.