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  • GPS location not working with Life360 on Kyocera DuraXV Extreme

  • FlippyLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member

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    Mowza Not sure exactly, but as a start, can you try waze or another app that requires location and see if it works?

      Location works by me on the E4610 for the Garmin app for certain features that require location (not sure if exact location) (I use it for a garmin smart watch that I synced with my phone to read text messages and pick up calls and control music through the watch)

      Mowza

      Make sure battery optimization is disabled for the app, and that its also running in background in the dev settings.

      Also, the app may not have requested the proper permissions when it started, so you may have to use adb to enable some. If all else fails, I'd try setting up a Traccar instance on a VPS (or use the demo servers).

        5 days later

        Thank you to all who chimed in and helped point me in the direction of a fix so far! I have installed Waze and everything seems to function normally. I made sure that battery optimization was disabled and that it is running in the background in dev settings. I went through and gave it permissions for both fine and coarse location as well. So far It still shows my phone as "no network of phone off". Any more ideas? Maybe a different version of Life360? There were many to chose from when I searched for the apk download.

          Mowza

          Its quite possible Life360 requires Google Services (or MicroG) to run properly. Last I remember it was a pretty invasive app.

          Like I said, you may consider moving to something like Traccar & setting it up yourself (its easy, lemme know if you need help). It uses open maps & the apps work 100% on the Kyocera. There's also a FOSS app called Zood Location that I've used that works OK (the map doesn't show however without G Services). You'll find this a common theme w a lot of these apps, so you just gotta work around it.

              sappypappy

              Ok I got rid of Life360 and installed Traccar client on my device and Traccar manager on the device that will be used to track it. Unfortunately I am in the same boat with the managing device stating that my device is offline. I have battery optimization disabled for Traccar client and gave it the permissions it asked for when setting it up. The status in the client states "Network offline". What should I be looking for to fix this?

                  7 days later

                  Mowza

                  Sorry, just saw this. Can you show me your setup on the tracked device, what settings & server you used, etc? Is it the demo servers?

                      sappypappy

                      Thank you for getting back to me. Yes it appears to be a demo server. I found a site listing some demo servers. I punched in the address for the one in the US. Network is now listed as online. May have fixed it.

                          Mowza

                          Demo is fine, as long as you've inputted the domain name properly & made sure the device identifier is correct on the other device. I believe you have to register an email on those as well.

                          Try setting the interval to 30 (30 seconds) to test, enable & see if it starts tracking on the other device. Location accuracy high for the time being (this is a battery drain tho).

                              sappypappy Hey sapppypappy can you open a thread here about tmobile and dumbphones with a quick rundown on what wont work?

                                  Biden2020prez

                                  Are you talking about some VoLTE devices no longer working? I believe they might've fixed that on the network recently according to reddit posts.

                                  I switched to Verizon (for the Dura flip) so not sure now.

                                      sappypappy Oh okay. I just saw you were very involved with that on Reddit, but wasn't clear whether it's still an issue. Thanks for confirming.

                                        sappypappy

                                        Ok so while I can get it to say that I am online on my dumb device, It still will not show up on the traccar manager which is on a smart phone. Both devices have the same server address punched in and the ID number listed on my dumb phone is entered correctly on the smart phone. I changed the interval to 30 seconds and also the accuracy to high. What else could be wrong? Does the traccar manager version need to register an email address? would this somehow stop my phone from showing up?

                                            Mowza

                                            Problem sounds like its on the manager somewhere. Yeah, I believe w the demo, you must enter the email address & pass you registered on it with at the beginning. Try clearing the app data & starting that over again. You can also try logging in from any browser by going to the URL of whatever demo server you signed up with. You should see your tracked device there.

                                                sappypappy

                                                I went ahead and logged into the server we are registered on through a web browser and it shows my device as offline on there as well. Is there any other settings I need to check or change on my dumb phone through ADB?

                                                    Mowza

                                                    On the dumb phone, try leaving the app running in the foreground then check to see if its updating on the manager/site. Could be its closing itself out on exit.

                                                    You can also make sure to give the app the proper permissions via adb. The ones showing on mine are location, network & sensors.

                                                        sappypappy

                                                        App running in foreground does not help with the device appearing unfortunately. There is no change. I checked to see what permissions were granted to the client and this is what it spat out. I don't see anything missing do you? This is still new to me.

                                                        installPermissionsFixed=true
                                                        pkgFlags=[ HAS_CODE ALLOW_CLEAR_USER_DATA ALLOW_BACKUP ]
                                                        declared permissions:
                                                        org.traccar.client.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION: prot=signature, INSTALLED
                                                        requested permissions:
                                                        android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
                                                        android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
                                                        android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION
                                                        android.permission.INTERNET
                                                        android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
                                                        android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
                                                        android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
                                                        android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
                                                        com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT
                                                        oppo.permission.OPPO_COMPONENT_SAFE
                                                        com.huawei.permission.external_app_settings.USE_COMPONENT
                                                        com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE
                                                        org.traccar.client.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
                                                        android.permission.REORDER_TASKS
                                                        install permissions:
                                                        android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE: granted=true
                                                        android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: granted=true
                                                        android.permission.INTERNET: granted=true
                                                        android.permission.REORDER_TASKS: granted=true
                                                        org.traccar.client.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION: granted=true
                                                        android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: granted=true
                                                        com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT: granted=true
                                                        android.permission.WAKE_LOCK: granted=true
                                                        User 0: ceDataInode=-4294956479 installed=true hidden=false suspended=false stopped=false notLaunched=false enabled=0 instant=false virtual=false
                                                        gids=[3003]
                                                        runtime permissions:
                                                        android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION: granted=true

                                                          Just realized that background permission doesn't appear on the list. Now to figure out how to grant that permission....
                                                          When I try to enter "./adb shell pm grant org.traccar.client android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION" it says the permission is not recognized even though it appears on the list of requested permissions in the above list I posted.

                                                            Mowza please give the exact output of the adb command. And this is an unmodified APK?

                                                                Biden2020prez

                                                                Here is the exact output. The APK is unmodified as far as I know. I know I did not modify anything, at least I don't think I did.

                                                                Exception occurred while executing:
                                                                java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown permission: android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION
                                                                at com.android.server.pm.permission.PermissionManagerService.grantRuntimePermission(PermissionManagerService.java:1398)
                                                                at com.android.server.pm.permission.PermissionManagerService.access$900(PermissionManagerService.java:89)
                                                                at com.android.server.pm.permission.PermissionManagerService$PermissionManagerInternalImpl.grantRuntimePermission(PermissionManagerService.java:2093)
                                                                at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.grantRuntimePermission(PackageManagerService.java:5486)
                                                                at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.runGrantRevokePermission(PackageManagerShellCommand.java:1730)
                                                                at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.onCommand(PackageManagerShellCommand.java:217)
                                                                at android.os.ShellCommand.exec(ShellCommand.java:103)
                                                                at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.onShellCommand(PackageManagerService.java:21731)
                                                                at android.os.Binder.shellCommand(Binder.java:634)
                                                                at android.os.Binder.onTransact(Binder.java:532)
                                                                at android.content.pm.IPackageManager$Stub.onTransact(IPackageManager.java:2871)
                                                                at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.onTransact(PackageManagerService.java:3931)
                                                                at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:731)