Hi! I've been using GrapheneOS on a Pixel 6a for the last 2 months and it's been a great experience so far, except for some issues with the gestures features.
I have configured both the Lift to Wake & Tap to Wake gestures, but the problem is that they randomly stop working or behave quite oddly:

  • Sometimes they just work fine, but sometimes it gets really tricky to wake up the phone by lifting it, even when touching the screen multiple times, but in the end the phone wakes.

  • Some other times I just give up and use the power button, after having spent maybe 5 seconds holding the phone on my hand and touching the screen, as nothing seems to make the screen turn on...

By the way, I don't use screen protector.

Another thing that bugs me is that I don't really now if they're upstream Android or GrapheneOS issues, as I didn't really use the stock OS when I bought the phone.
I also wonder if it could be a hardware issue...

So, my doubts are:

  1. Am I the only one with those issues?
  2. How can I debug issues with the gestures?

Thanks for any help!

  • These features are indeed upstream from AOSP,
  • Sometimes I also find them a bit temperamental too.

My Pixel 6a wakes up just fine. Actually even too fine; when I'm driving, the screen comes on constantly.

I have this exact same problem on my Pixel 7 with the latest GrapheneOS 2023030400 stable build. No screen protector on my phone either.

Happened to me too so I just disabled it since it doesn't work correctly so often.

9 days later

OK, so I'm not alone. Does anybody knows how to debug those kind of issues?

22 days later

I have been using Graphene on the Pixel 3 and 4a before switching to the 6a.
I have been using 4a and 6a in parallel for a few days-weeks.
The 6a showed diverging problems with waking. The 4a was working properly and with the 3 I never had any trouble.
It dos not appear to be a time issue. Sometimes preasing the power button is required after a few minutes sometimes it still works after hours of being idle.

2 months later

Some good news: after installing the latest update, with tag TQ3A.230605.012.2023061402, the problems seem way less apparent!
Now Lift to Wake and Touch To Wake both work fine most of the time; they're still not perfect, but way better than before in my case.

2 months later

Same problem here, Pixel 5 and neither work. I tried the disable adaptive display but made no difference.

    LazyLizard actually nothing works on my lock screen, if I enable audio controls on lockscreen they never appear so lift to wake, tap to wake and show device controls all dont work :(