firebase notifications stops working after a while (one day or a few days)

Please describe the question in detail and share your code, configuration, and other relevant info.I am very frustrated with this problem:(

I am developing an app for android and ios (using capacitor 3) and I am sending notifications to the app via firebase notifications. (capacitor packages: @capacitor-community/fcm and @capacitor/push-notifications).

It works for a while and after one day or a few days that the app is running in background or foreground (and not killed) it stops from working and the app doesn’t get notifications(This has happened to me in android device.).

I am sending notifications using topics and i also tried to send the notification through firebase console, but it didn’t work.

I am not sure if this means that the registration token has expired because I would think that the capacitor packages are suppose to handle it since they are not talking about this problem.

I did everything from the documentation of capacitor push notifications.

Thank you all in advanced!

Have you tried to connect your mobile device to your laptop and look at the logs (eg. by using adb or Remote debugging with Chrome DevTool for an Android device)?

I tried and it prints me this error : Failed to sync topics. Won’t retry sync. INVALID_PARAMETERS.
@manu_ionic

My code in JS:

// CAPACITOR and FCM
import '@capacitor/core';
import { ActionPerformed, PushNotificationSchema, PushNotifications } from '@capacitor/push-notifications'
import { FCM } from '@capacitor-community/fcm';
import { getMessaging, getToken as firebaseGetToken, onMessage, deleteToken, isSupported } from "firebase/messaging";
import { myAxios } from './generic-functions/my-axios';
const platform = window.Capacitor && window.Capacitor.platform;
const topicIos = `${process.env.REACT_APP_TOPIC}_ios`;
const topicAnd = `${process.env.REACT_APP_TOPIC}_and`;

function isCapacitor(): boolean {
    //check if we are in a capacitor platform
    return window.Capacitor && (window.Capacitor.platform === "android" || window.Capacitor.platform === "ios")
}

export async function InitFCM(destination: string) {
    if (!isCapacitor()) {
        const isNtfSupported = await isSupported()
        if (!isNtfSupported) return

        // web notifications
        Notification.requestPermission().then(function (permission) {
            if (permission === 'granted') {
                subscribeTo(destination);
            } else {
                // Show some error
            }
        });

        const messaging = getMessaging();

        onMessage(messaging, (payload) => {
            let notification = payload.data;

            const notificationOptions: NotificationOptions = {
                badge: notification?.largeIco,
                body: notification?.body,
                icon: notification?.largeIcon
            };

            const title = notification?.title || "";

            // show notification
            navigator.serviceWorker
                .getRegistrations()
                .then((registration) => {
                    if (notification?.sound) {
                        const audio = new Audio(`/notifications/${notification?.sound}`)
                        audio.play()
                    }
                    registration[0].showNotification(title, notificationOptions);
                });
        })
        return
    }
    try {
        console.log('Initializing Push Notifications');

        // Request permission to use push notifications
        // iOS will prompt user and return if they granted permission or not
        // Android will just grant without prompting
        PushNotifications.requestPermissions().then(result => {
            if (result.receive === 'granted') {
                // Register with Apple / Google to receive push via APNS/FCM
                // PushNotifications.register();
                subscribeTo(destination);
            } else {
                // Show some error
            }
        });

        // Some issue with our setup and push will not work
        PushNotifications.addListener('registrationError',
            (error: any) => {
                console.log('Error on registration: ' + JSON.stringify(error));
            }
        );

        // Show us the notification payload if the app is open on our device
        PushNotifications.addListener('pushNotificationReceived',
            (notification: PushNotificationSchema) => {
                console.log('Push received: ' + JSON.stringify(notification));
            }
        );

        // Method called when tapping on a notification
        PushNotifications.addListener('pushNotificationActionPerformed',
            (notification: ActionPerformed) => {
                console.log('Push action performed: ' + JSON.stringify(notification));
            }
        );
    } catch (e) {
        console.log('err in push notifications: ', e);
    }
}

async function subscribeTo(destination: string) {
    if (!isCapacitor()) {
        //subscribe to web topic
        const messaging = getMessaging();
        firebaseGetToken(messaging, { vapidKey: process.env.REACT_APP_FIREBASE_VAPID_KEY }).then(
            async (token) => {
                if (token) {
                    await myAxios.post("/api/notifications/subscribe-to-topic", { token, destination });
                }
            }).catch((err) => {
                console.log('An error occurred while retrieving token. ', err);
            });
        return
    }
    try {
        await PushNotifications.register();
        if (platform === "ios") {
            //subscribe to ios topic
            const resIos = await FCM.subscribeTo({ topic: `${topicIos}_${destination}` });
            console.log(`subscribed to ios Topic ${JSON.stringify(resIos)}`);
        }
        if (platform === "android") {
            //subscribe to android topic
            const resAnd = await FCM.subscribeTo({ topic: `${topicAnd}_${destination}` });
            console.log(`subscribed to android Topic ${JSON.stringify(resAnd)}`);
        }
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(error));
    }
}

export async function getToken() {
    try {
        /* const result = */ await FCM.getToken();
        // console.log("TOKEN", result.token);
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
}

export async function unsubscribeFrom(destination?: string) {
    if (!isCapacitor()) {
        const isNtfSupported = await isSupported()
        if (!isNtfSupported || !destination) return
        const messaging = getMessaging();

        //unsubscribe from web topic
        firebaseGetToken(messaging, { vapidKey: process.env.REACT_APP_FIREBASE_VAPID_KEY }).then(
            async (token) => {
                if (token) {
                    await myAxios.post("/api/notifications/unsubscribe-from-topic", { token, destination });
                }
            }).catch((err) => {
                console.log('An error occurred while retrieving token. ', err);
            });

        return
    }
    try {
        await PushNotifications.removeAllListeners();
        if (destination) {
            if (platform === "ios") {
                //unsubscribe from ios topic
                const resIos = await FCM.unsubscribeFrom({ topic: `${topicIos}_${destination}` });
                console.log(`unsubscribed from ios topic ${resIos}`);
            }
            if (platform === "android") {
                //unsubscribe from android topic
                const resAndroid = await FCM.unsubscribeFrom({ topic: `${topicAnd}_${destination}` });
                console.log(`unsubscribed from android topic ${topicAnd}_${destination}: ${resAndroid.message}`);
            }
        }
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error)
    }
    if (platform === 'android') {
        await FCM.deleteInstance();
    }
}

Have you tried to look at android - D/FirebaseInstanceId: background sync failed: INVALID_PARAMETERS - Stack Overflow ?
At this point I can’t help more