I can't get smart lock/bluetooth on my chromebook to work with my s8?

[anon(233121)]

Hi All, Potential fix below
I have been having this issue since I switched from my Nexus 6p to my Moto x4 AndroidOne edition a few months ago. (Samsung Chromebook Pro) and honestly just gave up because I was running in the unstable dev channel for my chromebook anyway.
I switched back to stable last week and was still having this issue (After powerwashing multiple times.) I just got it to work finally, by going to chrome://flags on my chromebook, and enabling a flag that said 'use newblue Bluetooth daemon' just because I was curious. But I did that and it is working now for me.

TL,DNR

1. Unpair both from each other
2. Disable smart lock on chromebook
3. Enable smart lock on phone, add trusted place or device (Optional?)
4. Turn on flag above
5. Reboot chromebook
6. Have phone unlocked, turn on smart lock on chromebook, follow steps.
7. Profit

 

[Bhmm]

Hi All, Potential fix below
I have been having this issue since I switched from my Nexus 6p to my Moto x4 AndroidOne edition a few months ago. (Samsung Chromebook Pro) and honestly just gave up because I was running in the unstable dev channel for my chromebook anyway.
I switched back to stable last week and was still having this issue (After powerwashing multiple times.) I just got it to work finally, by going to chrome://flags on my chromebook, and enabling a flag that said 'use newblue Bluetooth daemon' just because I was curious. But I did that and it is working now for me.

TL,DNR

1. Unpair both from each other
2. Disable smart lock on chromebook
3. Enable smart lock on phone, add trusted place or device (Optional?)
4. Turn on flag above
5. Reboot chromebook
6. Have phone unlocked, turn on smart lock on chromebook, follow steps.
7. Profit

Just want to say thank you. I had this issue with my Nokia 6.1 Android One...with Pie. Smart lock would stay disabled even after connecting the chromebook HP X2 with the device. But the above solution worked for me. Thank you. Searched the web, googled with no solution. Until your post. I'm on the latest stable chrome 71. Please note I did not have an issue with bluetooth pairing before this fix ...but that would still not enable the smart lock. The new smart lock setting is under "Connected Devices" and does not need the two devices to bluetooth paired in the the Bluetooth Setting category. But I think it's uses bluetooth since this what the flag is changing.

 

[joelbon]

Hi All, Potential fix below
I have been having this issue since I switched from my Nexus 6p to my Moto x4 AndroidOne edition a few months ago. (Samsung Chromebook Pro) and honestly just gave up because I was running in the unstable dev channel for my chromebook anyway.
I switched back to stable last week and was still having this issue (After powerwashing multiple times.) I just got it to work finally, by going to chrome://flags on my chromebook, and enabling a flag that said 'use newblue Bluetooth daemon' just because I was curious. But I did that and it is working now for me.

TL,DNR

1. Unpair both from each other
2. Disable smart lock on chromebook
3. Enable smart lock on phone, add trusted place or device (Optional?)
4. Turn on flag above
5. Reboot chromebook
6. Have phone unlocked, turn on smart lock on chromebook, follow steps.
7. Profit

Just wanted to say that this worked for me. Although, the flag name as of June 5, 2019 is called "Newblue". It took me awhile to find the flag, but once I found it and enabled it then I was able to get smart lock to work perfectly. THANK YOU

 

[ptkelly]

I can't get it to work with my Pixel 3 either. It worked 18 months ago but a new Chromebook or a new version of Chrome OS took it away never to return. Whenever I see instructions posted on how to do it I give it a shot with utter futility.