TLDR, I have a 2-3 second delay for floating buttons and a 4-5 second delay attempting to and then failing at reading the screen, after the most recent update; and it seems at least partially due to a proximity screen off state.
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Okay, so the new version release (5.43.6) has exacerbated this issue two to three fold. It now takes a minimum of two seconds, and often more, for a button to reset and be usable again. This means that I have to wait two to three seconds to be able to do anything else in the macro. Every subsequent action gets queued and then bogs down my phone and I can't do anything until they all finish.
But, the even more troubling development that's popped up is that reading the screen now has a major issue. It's basically broken...
Here's my setup, I'm on android 13 on a Z Fold 3. For years I have used a proximity screen off app that mimics how the screen turns off during a phone call. The screen doesn't turn off like normal, as soon as the proximity sensor is cleared, it pops back on. No need for unlocking or anything, as it was never truly off. And most importantly, the phone behaves as if the screen is on. So I can read the screen and do ui clicks and whatnot when the screen is off like this. (BTW, it'd be super cool if Macrodroid implemented this ability, so I didn't have to have another app running just to accomplish this screen "off" state.
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One other thing that might play a role, Samsungs apparently don't have a real proximity sensor, they have a virtual one. I can't use any Macrodroid proximity sensor triggers normally and no other sensor test app registers the proximity sensor on my S10e or this Fold. (I'm really not a fan of Samsung it turns out, but I didn't know that before I got the Fold, and I can't give up it's coolness
, and the S10e is my work phone so I can watch TV on my xreal glasses.
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But, I can "trick" the sensor to start working by placing my palm on the phone, as there is a completely useless feature (seriosuly, who besides my being forced to would use this?
) to turn off the screen by placing your whole hand on it. So, everytime I restart the phone, I have to put my hand on the screen for it to turn off, and then after that, the proximity sensor starts registering like "normal" (it's still a bit hit or miss, and takes a second sometimes to register, and is kinda dependent on light, also... It's all around silly) A very very weird issue, but whatever, I have a phone that folds finally after 30 years of wanting one (back then, phones weren't on my radar, I just wanted some sort of display that folded that I could watch TV on or something
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Okay, I'm very sorry for that extremely long backstory...So the prox screen off and then using Macrodroid to read the screen worked perfectly up until the new version. Now, it is almost completely broken. The screen read action usually (but not always) works like normal when I restart my phone, or restart Macrodroid, but the very first time I use the prox screen off, it breaks totally. It then takes 4 to 5 seconds to try to read the screen, and then ultimately fails, every time. And, this continues even when the prox sensor is cleared and the screen turns back on. And persists until either the phone or Macrodroid is restarted (usually, sometimes it's still broken)!
This is very sad, as I do so much that relies on reading the screen, and it's basically borked on my phone.
So...
Any ideas?
Pretty please, I'm fairly desperate.