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No notifications from Signal/Whatsapp until I open the app (feddit.nl)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has anyone else come across this? I'm running 21-20240419-NIGHTLY-panther and I don't get notifications until I open the app, at least in Signal and WhatsApp, and I suspect Gmail too. I already set the apps to unrestricted battery usage (including the hard-to-find extra setting when you press to the left of the "Allow background usage" toggle ) and I disabled the "Battery Manager" (which I could only find by searching in settings, there doesn't appear to be a button for it in the settings, separately...)

Is there anything else I could try? I have a Pixel 7.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Do you have Google Play Services on your device? Because those particular applications need Google Play Services in order to send push notifications. Most apps use Google Play Services for notifications, but some such as Element, Tusky, and Thunder do not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I do have Google Play Services, yes! It's on Magisk's denylist to help hide root status for Google Wallet, but I wouldn't expect that to be related...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I had very similar behaviour, when I disabled background activity for google play services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I looked at that, too, but it seems that I can't even disable that activity in the first place...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Having run WA for years on a LineageOS phone without google services, I can attest that this is a myth. You just have to turn off battery optimization

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know Signal has its own notification service if there is no Google Play services, but I was not aware of whatsapp did the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean it did work for years on LineageOS, but last month I've switched to GrapheneOS and it's less reliable, so who knows what's the problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use Molly Foss. I set it to always run and there is a persistent notification so that I know it is working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, I'm starting to consider doing the same... Still, there must be a way to make it behave.