I have a Nexus 5 with Google Play Services v. 6.5.99 and I'm getting some strange behaviour with the Smart Lock feature.
When I initially used the Trusted Places feature, I noticed that when I drove away from my home, the lock function didn't work automatically. This is also happening on my husband's Nexus 6. I don't think this is right and believe the phone should lock when you move away from the unlock zone.
However, the main problem I'm having is that the phone won't lock when I turn off the Home toggle and have no customised places set up. I also deleted a work address in Google Maps and so this option is naturally greyed out in Smart Lock Trusted Places. At one point, I played around with adding my home as a customised place and have since deleted it. I also changed my home address in Google Maps to my parents' address so I could test it when I was at my own home to see if the phone would lock. Nothing seems to work.
The only way I can get the phone to lock now is to disable the whole Smart Lock feature in Trusted Agents, otherwise I have a phone which won't lock. The exception is after a reboot - I have to unlock it once and then the phone stays unlocked.
Because of this, I can no longer use the Face Unlock feature either.
I've read that some people are finding they have to unlock their phone when it should be unlocked already but it's worse if you have no Trusted Places set and the phone won't lock. Does anyone else have this problem?
I too have the same problem with my Nexus. Only way to enable lock for me was to disable smart lock or turn the Location service off
Glad it isn't just me. I set my parents address as a customised place and the behaviour seemed to be as it should be when I went there. It appears that the problem lies with the Home trusted place.
I have the same problem although I've never used trusted places. I have a smartwatch setup as a trusted device, phone is a Nexus 6 rooted
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So I've got BT enabled and paired for both my N9 and my N5. The smart lock is on my N9 and set up to trust my N5. It always shows Not connected and requires a PIN.
Also, I've got my home as a trusted place, but it still requires a PIN when I'm there. I've checked Maps, and it knows it's here. It even shows the word "Home" underneath my blue dot.
The only thing that works is Trusted Faces, but that's so finicky I can't rely on it for anything.
Do you have location set to high accuracy? It wont work unless it is.
In settings I only have smart unlock (Huawei).
Under trusted agents,I have two options;
Smart unlock, that's Huawei, and smart lock (Google).
I uncheck the one from Huawei and check Google's smart lock.
Still, the only one showing under security and under screen ands passwords etc, is Huaweis own smart unlock.
I really would like to use Google's smart lock, but it won't appear, and have never been showing there.
How is this you others here?
Does smart LOCK show to you, or only smart UNLOCK?
After entering pin, my only choice is add Bluetooth device.
Anyone else here have the option for trusted places?
With Honor 7 I have same issue.
No any reference about google smart lock option than in trusted agents.
Disabling of huawei own smart lock does not have any effect for functionality of google smart lock.
However when I connect my smart watch ....confirmation screen of smart lock is google's one...I think...maybe....this is first time I use this feature so....
Several days ago I set my home place, but smart unlock never worked.
I receive every morning the message "Smart Lock - Phone locked after 4 hours of inactivity" therefore I understand smartlock is configured correctly but usually I cannot overtake the lock page without using the fingerprint.
What am I mistaking?
Mine works with Mi Band and Honor Zero Band and B180.
But this defeats the purpose of the excellent fingerprint scanner. So I don´t use it.
Smart Unlock Trusted places only works sometimes.
Anyone knows a fix? I guess it's connected to Huawei paranoidly killing all apps/ services in the background.
Sometimes I see that trusted places works but most of the time it doesn't even if I go to maps to update my current location it doesn't keep my phone unlocked. (This usually helped with my older nexus6P)
0alfred0 said:
Smart Unlock Trusted places only works sometimes.
Anyone knows a fix? I guess it's connected to Huawei paranoidly killing all apps/ services in the background.
Sometimes I see that trusted places works but most of the time it doesn't even if I go to maps to update my current location it doesn't keep my phone unlocked. (This usually helped with my older nexus6P)
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At least you have it, I can't even find it on my BLA-A09.
zone23 said:
At least you have it, I can't even find it on my BLA-A09.
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Came with 137 update.
Settings -> security -> lock screen -> smart unlock
With wifi off system puts me like 200m off my actual location, just outside the geofance, when I turn wifi on it will put me on the right spot.
But if I open maps with wifi off, it will fix to my location with great accuracy.
I can only think that the system is only using network information to determine my location instead of pinging GPS from time to time.
Idk if this is related to the Google location history problem, that only track the places I've been (and poorly) and not the route I took to get there.
For the life of me i cannot find smartlock on this device, if i look in trusted agents in security i can see google smart lock is activated, but cannot find any way to use it at all?
Its really annoying at night to have to keep unlocking my phone over and over and over with the fingerprint.
Is smart lock where the camera is supposed to recognize you and unlock itself?
No smart lock is when you activate a location or device to keep the device unlocked, say at home.
Every day i am finding another reason to get rid of this phone, DIABOLICAL software.
I was wondering if the smart lock option would work with any smart door lock, I think it should have a smart lock integration option build in. I am going to install a smart lock to try it, I had already scheduled a call with a local locksmith london to find out how much would it take for me to install it
@jrvenge from what I know Smart Lock is not something available in stock Android and vendor ROMs - it is a feature available only in some (Pixel software has it) - BUT it is also available in the Lineage ROM for MIX4
Fingerprint scanner is very convinient, but not that much secure as PIN or password. Is there any way (preferrably for non-rooted Pixel 6) to force my phone to periodically ask for a PIN or password to unlock (once every hour or afrer X mins of inactivity or so), but still keep a fingerprint unlock on? I know I could schedule to reboot my phone, but the phone would be unavailable during reboot (no phone calls) and I think I would need some third party app to save and restore notifications (which can be lost during reboot). Any suggestions?
My aim is to prevent someone to force me to unlock my phone with a fingerprint. They could use a force to put my finger on the fingerprint scanner, but no one can get a PIN out of my head. Yeah, I'm paranoiac - there's no need to remind me ;p
In that case, best and only solution is to stop using fingerprints. Just use pin and turn on notification history.
And what about available options for this matter on rooted phones? Is there any way to force Android to lock a phone with a PIN after X minutes? I don't want to stop using fingerprint scanner completely, but at the same time I don't want it to be the only screen unlocking option. I don't believe there's no way to accomplish this.
Alternatively I came up with an idea to make a "soft reset", kinda like on older Windows OS where instead of rebooting entire OS we could simply kill and restart explorer.exe process (I used to do that after installing some software which wanted to reboot my OS before first use). Does anyone know if such thing is possible and how to make it? I guess if it would be similiar approach to the one I used on Windows (restarting some process) then I could simply schedule some script to run every hour or so, but what that script would be?
Maybe use Tasker, and set a profile that open an app every amount of time?
I always have used this "lock" app, basically lock the phone so only with the password you can unlock it.
It's free, no ads or bs.
Lock - Apps on Google Play
Ultra-simple lock screen
play.google.com
snake218 said:
Maybe use Tasker, and set a profile that open an app every amount of time?
I always have used this "lock" app, basically lock the phone so only with the password you can unlock it.
It's free, no ads or bs.
Lock - Apps on Google Play
Ultra-simple lock screen
play.google.com
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Thanks for suggestion, I'll check that out later, but I'm quite doubtful it'll work as the app you suggested seems to override other screen lock options, so it would switch off fingerprint scanner once activated. I'll give it a try though.
There is already a built in function called 'lockdown'. I don't know if can be triggered via Tasker though.
Choose when your Pixel phone can stay unlocked - Pixel Phone Help
You can keep your Pixel phone unlocked in some situations, like when your phone is in your pocket or connected to another device you use often. When you use Smart Lock, you only need to unlock once wi
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Turn on lockdown​Important: Lockdown will only work until you unlock your phone. If you want keep using lockdown, turn it on each time you want to use it.
Hold the power button for a couple seconds.
Tap Lockdown. This turns off notifications, fingerprint or face recognition unlocking, and Smart Lock while on your lock screen.
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chaimav said:
There is already a built in function called 'lockdown'. I don't know if can be triggered via Tasker though.
Choose when your Pixel phone can stay unlocked - Pixel Phone Help
You can keep your Pixel phone unlocked in some situations, like when your phone is in your pocket or connected to another device you use often. When you use Smart Lock, you only need to unlock once wi
support.google.com
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Right, I forgot about it, but as you noticed - I also don't know if it could be triggered via Tasker. I think it's time to finally play with Tasker for a bit. Fingers crossed!
$ROGAL$ said:
Right, I forgot about it, but as you noticed - I also don't know if it could be triggered via Tasker. I think it's time to finally play with Tasker for a bit. Fingers crossed!
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Please report back on your findings