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[ravi kanth]

Hello,

I downloaded the app a couple of days back and have been growing through all of the documentation that I can, downloaded "Remove silent mode via sms" flow from community. I feel I have all the required "permissions" set for the app but this flow is not working on my phone? what am I missing? any leads will be appreciated. I started the flow as is and sent "wakemeup" sms from another phone, I set my phone in silent mode but the flow didn't change it back to "normal" mode. I tried tweaking the "contains" expression block (expression true block) a bit to keep it simple " =contains(wakemeup, "wakemeup") " but still not working. The flow I am talking about is created by Luis Gomes, "Remove silent mode via sms" flow. 

The flash light demo flow is working though, 

[L.Schmidt]

A description how the problem you experience manifests.

11.10.2025 14:22:03 ravi kanth <ravi...@gmail.com>:

what am I missing?

[Ravi Kanth]

I'm starting the flow and sending an "wakemeup" sms from another phone, and I don't see any action taken by the flow. 

I have my phone in "silent mode" when I send the message, 

I only see SMS received block starting in the flow log and no further messages. 

I even selected "show volume popup" and play test volume options in the audio volume set block. 

-Ravi

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[L.Schmidt]

Partition the problem domain:  Test the wakeup action isolated from the
rest of the flow. For example, add a new Flow header to the flow, which
you can use to start the flow there manually, interactively.  Add a
delay block, choose a comforable time, maybe a minute, set it to "don't
wake up device", because you want to test what follows, not the wakeup
action of the delay block.  Launch the flow, set your device into sleep
mode. Wait and see whether it wakes up. If it does, the problem ought
to be found in the SMS stuff before wakeup. If it doesn't, the problem
resides with the wake-up action.
Further actions depend then on the result of such a test.

11.10.2025 15:59:19 Ravi Kanth <ravi...@gmail.com>:

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[Ravi Kanth]

After this testing I can confirm that the issue is with SMS stuff, when I changed the flow to change my phone to normal mode, show toast msg etc if my BT is connected it works perfectly fine. 

Only SMS received block not able to read SMS on my phone I beleive. I just did a simple flow 1) Flow start 2)SMS received (output msg var set to "msg" ) 3)show toast msg 

But the show toast msg block never starts, which makes me think automate not able to read SMS on my phone ? I can see in settings the send recieve messages option is selected. 

I'm using google pixel 8 with Android 16

-Ravi

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[L.Schmidt]

Check permissions. In Automate Settings, look for SMS related settings, like Send and Access SMS, read SMS. Make sure they're enabled.

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[Ravi Kanth]

They are enabled, unless there's some other setting I'm missing. Here is a screenshot of privilege page of automate.

-Ravi

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[L.Schmidt]

There's another setting which I can't see among yours. It may, or may not, be related to the fact that my phone is rooted.
To determine whether that setting may be the culprit, repeat your receive test without a variable for message, so that the SMS receive block continues for any received SMS.
If it does, but fails with SMS text copied into a variable, you may have nailed it.

14 Oct 2025 06:27:09 Ravi Kanth <ravi...@gmail.com>:

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[Ravi Kanth]

I did, it still not working. 

I cleared everything in SMS received block, so for every new message received this should proceed, and next block in the flow is show toast,  

Flow doesn't progress beyond SMS received block.

-Ravi

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[L.Schmidt]

I'd then try to figure out whether this may be the case (screenshot), for example by stopping a possibly running additional SMS app.

14 Oct 2025 06:53:50 Ravi Kanth <ravi...@gmail.com>:

I did, it still not working. 

I cleared everything in SMS received block, so for every new message received this should proceed, and next block in the flow is show toast,  

Flow doesn't progress beyond SMS received block.

-Ravi

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 10:16 AM L.Schmidt <l...@scarydevilmonastery.net> wrote:

There's another setting which I can't see among yours. It may, or may not, be related to the fact that my phone is rooted.
To determine whether that setting may be the culprit, repeat your receive test without a variable for message, so that the SMS receive block continues for any received SMS.
If it does, but fails with SMS text copied into a variable, you may have nailed it.

14 Oct 2025 06:27:09 Ravi Kanth <ravi...@gmail.com>:

They are enabled, unless there's some other setting I'm missing. Here is a screenshot of privilege page of automate.

-Ravi

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 9:53 AM L.Schmidt <l...@scarydevilmonastery.net> wrote:

Check permissions. In Automate Settings, look for SMS related settings, like Send and Access SMS, read SMS. Make sure they're enabled.

14.10.2025 06:08:14 Ravi Kanth <ravi...@gmail.com>:

After this testing I can confirm that the issue is with SMS stuff, when I changed the flow to change my phone to normal mode, show toast msg etc if my BT is connected it works perfectly fine. 

Only SMS received block not able to read SMS on my phone I beleive. I just did a simple flow 1) Flow start 2)SMS received (output msg var set to "msg" ) 3)show toast msg 

But the show toast msg block never starts, which makes me think automate not able to read SMS on my phone ? I can see in settings the send recieve messages option is selected. 

I'm using google pixel 8 with Android 16

-Ravi

On Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 7:37 PM L.Schmidt <l...@scarydevilmonastery.net> wrote:

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[Ravi Kanth]

So, SMS blocks are working for me, finally, after disabling RCS on my messaging app.

I'm using native Android messages (Google's) app  on my phone and no other sms app is installed. 

Can anyone else confirm if RCS setting is what causing this issue?

-Ravi

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[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

As the documentation say, "This block only works for SMS, not MMS, RCS and other kinds of IM, e.g. as provided by Project Fi by Google."

[Ravi Kanth]

Understood! I guess the test SMS I'm sending from, that phone also had RCS enabled so by default we are exchanging RCS messages without knowing even though using standard messages app. 

-Ravi

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