Geolocation: watchPosition() always fails w/ timout on Cordova 3.0.1 on Android device

[Láďa Říha]

I have a simply project, where I'm using geolocation plugin. I've added the plugin via Cordova CLI, all seems to be OK, but when I use it like

locationWatchId = window.navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(callback, onFail, {maximumAge: 10000, timeout: 10000, enableHighAccuracy: true});

Then it always fails with message "Position retrieval timeout" message (I've tried to double maximumAge and timeout). The very same works with if I build the new project with same sources but with PhoneGap 2.8.1. Here are the steps I'm doing with Cordova 3.0.1:

cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld
cd hello/
cordova platform add android
cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-geolocation.git
... adding more plugin...
cordova build
cordova run android

Do you have any ideas? On Android device, I can see that once the watchPosition() is called, GPS is activated and searching for signal. I have also cellular data on and enabled location via Wifi and cellular data. Thanks in advance

[Láďa Říha]

The same works with iPad so it seems to be some issue with Android and geolocation plugin....

[Kaan Soral]

geolocation failed silently when I tested it on Android, callbacks never get called etc. So I decided to wait until a new version etc. might check the situation again now, with a clean project

Is 3.0.1 a typo? it kind of got me excited - however the docs seem to be at 3.0.0

[Láďa Říha]

It is just kind of sad, such a regression. Version 3.0.1 is not a typo, npm offers also version 3.0.5 to install. I'll try it if it helps.

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2013/8/6 Kaan Soral <kaan...@gmail.com>

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[Kaan Soral]

Tested with 3.0.4, still same issue

does getPosition work for you?

I've checked the permissions etc, doesn't seem to be a permission issue, it just doesn't respond

There are discussions about other plugins failing silently, however didn't see any geolocation ones

[Tobias Blum]

Dear all,

I posted a similar issue a few days ago: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/phonegap/u-Aon5qOB_w/FeiDc8MJ6rMJ

Unfortunately didn't get a response. I can reproduce the behaviour on android with a Nexus 7 or a older Motorola phone.

Láďa, do you also get the exception I mentioned in my initial post?

Best Regards, Tobias

[Láďa Říha]

Thanks for the link, I'll have a look at it but right now I'm only printing error message from onFail callback like

window.console.error(error.message);

and it says "Position retrieval time out", like it does in your case. So I think this is the same case. I filled issue against it https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4521 so hopefully someone look at it.

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2013/8/7 Tobias Blum <bl...@socialworkplace.de>

[Tobias Blum]

I got the full exception from logcat when the phone was connected to my computer.

I made some additional checks with a fresh minimal project and added the results to the issue:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4521?focusedCommentId=13731909&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13731909

I hope someone will have a look at it, as geolocation is not usable for me at the moment.

Best regards,

Tobias

[André Coelho]

Hello,

I'm having the same issue with version 2.9.0 and I've been cracking at it for a while. Still can't get it to work.

If I manage to find a way to make it work I'll post it here and I would appreciate it if you guys could do the same.

Best regards,

André

[Tobias Blum]

Dear André,

maybe it's a good idea to comment on the issue at apache.org mentioned before und vote it up, to draw a bit attention on it.

Best regards,

Tobias