PebbleNotificationCenter-Android

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I am posting this here to document a workaround. I understand the app is no longer supported.

Some combination of an upgrade to Android 10 and changing the power options on my phone disabled the notifications from this app reaching my Pebble (March 2020). Periodicaly I would stop receiving any notifications on my watch . When I would check for notifications, the watch would just hang on the spinning loading icon.

I found two workarounds, at least on my Galaxy S9 running Android 10:

Works Suggested by a Google Play review from Laszlo KERN Setting my phone's power settings to optimized (or higher) and turning off Adaptive power saving solved the problem and allowed the app to send notifications to my watch. I think this wirks because the phone never goes into Medium power saving or lower.

Works Better Suggested by a comment from DumasZack in a Samsung support forum. The trick seems to be turning off battery optimization for this app. On my phone the following worked: Settings -> Search for Special Access -> Optimize Battery Usage Make sure the toggle is set to show all appsthen make sure Notification Center for Pebble is not optimized.

As I say I am not expecting a fix for this issue, I'm just documenting things for other users with the same problem.

Thanks for the notes.

This site might also help: https://dontkillmyapp.com/

For anyone else: The other thing to consider is disabling doze ( if you want to get notifications in a timely fashion)
otherwise if you don't touch your phone for a while, Android assumes that it can delay checking for notifications to save battery.

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