Stop geolocation.watchPosition when pause event fires (Android)

[Vito Samson]

I'm trying to get my app to stop watching the geolocation when the app goes into the background. Here's my code:

document.addEventListener("pause", stopGeo, false);

document.addEventListener("resume", startGeo, false);

var geo_success = function(pos) {

localStorage.setItem('latitude', pos.coords.latitude);

localStorage.setItem('longitude', pos.coords.longitude);

localStorage.setItem('accuracy', pos.coords.accuracy);

console.log('got geo');

};

var geo_error = function(err) {

console.warn("GEO ERROR(" + err.code + "): " + err.message);

};

var geo_options = {

enableHighAccuracy: true,

timeout: 5000,

maximumAge: 10000

};

var igniteGeo;

function startGeo() {

igniteGeo = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(geo_success, geo_error, geo_options);

}

function stopGeo() {

navigator.geolocation.clearWatch(igniteGeo);

}

This isn't working. When the app goes into the background, I continue to see the GPS icon in the phone's top bar, and the console continues to show "got geo". Am I doing something wrong here?