Android 10 - GPS only works when phone awake?

[Jay Dee]

Hi guys,

I've got an old phone running android 10 which i need to use as a vehicle tracker.

For some reason when the phone has gone to sleep it can literally take hours for it to get a GPS fix and send me it's location.  If i unlock the phone it will send the replies almost instantly. When i look at the logs it's got stuck on the get location block - for hours.

Is there a workaround for this please?

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Ensure Automate and every geofencing library/app, e.g. Google Play services, Google Services Framework, Fused Location, Maps (Google) and Motorola Sensor Service, is excluded from any "power save" feature, see:

https://llamalab.com/automate/doc/faq.html#automate_not_running

Try toggling the "Google Play Services" option in settings.

As a last resort try use the Device keep awake block.

[Jay Dee]

Okay thanks - have found the optimisation settings but couldn't find the advanced one (android 10 - i loathe it lol). If you don't hear back then you can assume it's working for me - thanks