Google Pixel phone Not receiving Smart Life notifications!

2 min. readlast update: 10.17.2023

There is a global issue with Google Pixel phones (including Google Pixel 6, etc) where the customer is not recieving notifications on there phone from Smart Life ( this goes for other apps as well such as messenger, what's app, facebook and many others). This is an issue that can happen for a short time, or a long time, it can seem to be fixed later on and then the problem arrises once again.

This Google Pixel 6 notification issues seems to be a bug in the software:

Here are details which will seem like a foreign language "This bug causes a fatal exception to be thrown in GMS, disabling all push notifications, and Android AM's automatic crashed-service-restart brings it back up which delivers all queued messages. This could explain why a reboot causes all notifications to be flushed. It seems to be originating from CHRE, which seems to be some kind of interface between the Android runtime and firmware code for other hardware components on the device. Since the stack traces reference a location service I'd guess it's one coming from one of the GPS chips. The fact that a lot of the code is proprietary (GMS and vendor-specific firmware) makes this really hard to debug.

Google Pixel has sent an update in late 2022 to fix this issue but it seems to still cause issues with people. Some people are having this issue with Google Pixel phones right out of the box still. it may be because even though the phone gets updated there is too much softare residual coding errors that are still embedded within the CPU of the phone

What to do?

A Factory Reset tends to work (yes this is not convenient) but seems to work have worked for many people globally with the notification issue including a few of our customers that had this issue with Smart Life Notifications. the Factory Reset completely clears all the errors. But this is not 100 percent, there is a small possibility that it will not fix the issue. 

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