Zenith gets killed / notifications die after reboot

Your notifications drift across the sky — your home screen — as comets you can catch. The quick ring — a bubble that opens the ring, a wheel of your apps, over any app — floats on top of whatever you're using. Both need Android to keep Zenith alive in the background. Some phones don't, especially after a restart. Here's how to fix it.

#The symptom

• Comets stop appearing. New notifications no longer streak across the sky.
• The quick ring bubble vanishes after you restart the phone.
• Zenith feels like it "resets" when you come back to it.

This is almost always your phone killing Zenith or dropping a permission — not the app turning itself off.

#Fix 1 — re-connect the comet feed

Catching comets needs notification access, which you grant in your phone's system "notification access" screen, not inside Zenith.

1. Open Settings and find the "comets · notifications" page.
2. If it reads comets need notification access for "Zenith comets", tap "enable comet feed →".
3. In the system screen, turn notification access on for "Zenith comets".

When it's connected, the page shows "comet feed connected ✦ — hold a comet to catch it (open · dismiss · snooze)".

#Fix 2 — keep Zenith running

A reboot or a battery cleanup can suspend Zenith so nothing reaches the sky.

• Allow Zenith to run in the background, and to start on boot where your phone offers it.
• Turn off battery optimization for Zenith.
• The exact menus differ by brand — follow Per-OEM matrix.

#Fix 3 — bring back the quick ring bubble

The quick ring runs as a background service and needs the "display over other apps" permission.

1. Open Settings and turn on the "✦ quick ring — the ring over any app" toggle.
2. If the permission is missing, the toggle sends you to the system "display over other apps" screen — grant it there.

While the bubble runs, Android shows an ongoing notice: "Zenith Quick Ring" — "Tap the ✦ bubble to summon the ring". Tap it to open the ring, or use its "stop" action to turn the bubble off.

If you don't use the quick ring, this doesn't affect your comets.

#Your own Zenith notices

Zenith can also post its own notifications — for backups, Gold, and new Zenith apps. Each has its own on/off switch under Settings → "notifications", and a switch that's off means that kind is never posted, not just silenced. If one of those has gone quiet, check its switch there.

See also. Comets & notifications · Quick Ring over any app · Per-OEM matrix · Privacy & permissions