Androd Presence is misbehaving

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@skiingj

Well that was false info as it does report her location just fine

Did you see this post, location isn’t as straight forward as you think, your GPS isn’t active always. Is uses AGPS and WiFi to locate your position. See this if you haven’t seen it:

Phone presence sensor gone rogue?

Calling Rogue One for assistance. Sorry couldn’t resist that Coming back to your Rogue issue, let’s understand how location works so it’ll help you figure out how to fix your issue. Location is determined by a couple of methods: GPS - Most of the time devices do NOT use active GPS due to the fact that’s it drains the battery. So this only works while the app is open. AGPS - Assisted GPS, this done with the help of mobile network towers. Most cellphones are aware of the network towers within a certain radius and their distance from them using the signal strength from the towers. Since the mobile network is always active this is the primary way for a cellphone to “guesstimate” its position. (Each towers location is transmitted to the phone). This is one source of a problem. Often i…