Android Phone Presence Sensing

[jpark40]

Do you have a Samsung Galaxy phone?
If so this is something that’s a fundamental core OS issue that can only be solved by Samsung. See my previous post here:

Samsung Presence Horror Show

This is a fundamental core Samsung Android issue that’s been around for a while and it’s causing Samsung Galaxy phones to have these unreliable geofencing behaviors. Even with the “battery saving” and “doze” features turned off, the core OS memory management system in the Samsung Android kills background processes regularly, even if there’s plenty of memory left in the system. This is a well known fact amongst the Android enthusiasts at sites like XDA. One example: I’ve experienced your exact issue with various Samsung Galaxy phones (S6 edge, S7 edge, Note 7) over the years and not just with ST mobile presence. Geofencing in general on recent Galaxy phones are never reliable because the OS memory management system is constantly killing background processes, such as Life360, ST, IFTTT…

I recently moved to iPhone 7 Plus and I’ve not had a single phone presence issue that I had with my Galaxy phones.

My wife who still has the Galaxy S7 edge, still have phone presence issues similar to what you have described since day one for boht ST and Life360 apps.

Good luck, hopefully you’ll have better luck than we did.