Can somebody tell me why none of this works?

[Wjbell1]

I recommend that you check if it works correctly by sending an SMS in action with no trigger.
If this does not work, then it is definitely a device problem.

I'm not sure how to do that. How do you do an SMS action with no trigger? I think I tried to save a macro without a trigger before and it wouldn't let me.

 

[Wjbell1]

Okay I tried the latest macro you sent me and attached is my system log that I cleared right before I ran it. So are you saying that you tried this macro yourself and it worked for you sending the location back to the phone you called from? I just get sending sms failed.

 

[Dimlos]

I never attach macros that I haven't tried.
From the log it looks like you are not getting the number.

You can save it by setting the trigger to Empty Trigger.
Try entering the phone number directly instead of a variable.

It is not a good idea to insist on using an older version, I recommend testing with the latest version.

 

[Endercraft]

Just update because that's a way too old version.

 

[Wjbell1]

I never attach macros that I haven't tried.
From the log it looks like you are not getting the number.

You can save it by setting the trigger to Empty Trigger.
Try entering the phone number directly instead of a variable.

It is not a good idea to insist on using an older version, I recommend testing with the latest version.

Okay so here we go. I uninstalled macrodroid and install the latest one from Google Play. Got it all set up with permissions granted on pretty much everything. Made sure my user and system logs were cleared and told my friend to call my phone. He called but got no SMS back at all. Then I checked my system log and got this error message about accessibility. So I'm going to redo the ADB hack that it suggests. And this is the latest macro that you sent over. So I'll see what's going to happen.

 

[Wjbell1]

Okay so I ran to ADB commands attached in an image. Had my friend call my phone and he still gets nothing. Latest version of macrodroid, all the permissions granted, ADB hacks and running the macro you sent. Nothing works. Any ideas other than buying a whole new damn phone?

 

[Dimlos]

You may want to try turning off anything related to MacroDroid in the accessibility settings and then turn it on.

 

[Wjbell1]

You may want to try turning off anything related to MacroDroid in the accessibility settings and then turn it on.

Already done that. I'm afraid it's a hopeless cause. Thank you both for trying to help me out. But I think that I just have to scrap the whole idea of location on this phone. Period. Time to get a whole other phone and start over. It's just not worth the aneurysm I'm going to get trying to figure this piece of shit out.

 

[Endercraft]

It's very weird. If the contact is retrieved successfully which I doubt you could use some dictionary.

 

[Wjbell1]

Just an update letting everybody know that helped me with this. So I have a macro that I run along with the locate attempt that will use the UI interaction to turn on my speaker phone anytime a call is active. So I thought, what the heck I'm going to delete that macro and turn off UI interaction for macrodroid under accessibility. As soon as I did that I rewrote a whole new location SMS tracker in the simplest way. Now works like a charm! No problems whatsoever.

So I don't know if it's a bug with macrodroid or a problem with my phone itself but when I don't use any UI interaction or have it enabled in accessibility the location script works fine.