KDE Connect notifications from phone not showing on pc when screen locked

I use kde connect to sync my samsung phone notifications to my pc running fedora kde (both on my laptop and my gaming pc), and everything worked like a charm out of the box until a couple of weeks ago when suddenly notifications from my phone stopped showing up on my PCs when phone was locked. I seriously looked up every forum i could, tried digging everywhere in the settings of my phone; all battery optimizations and stuff like that are either disabled or kde connect is whitelisted. i tried installing it from play store instead of fdroid. i even tried a bit of debugging with adb but nothing. I really have no clue what is preventing notifications from appearing, so is anyone having the same problem as me? if so, did any of you find a workaround or just even a root cause? thx

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