getCurrentPosition not working any more after clicking button if GPS is off on the device even if it turned on again

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Hi,
I 'm new in ionic world and it’s my first question on this forum :slight_smile:

I have un problem with the use of Geolocation.getCurrentPosition() .
I’m testing my app on an android device.

I use a button to center a Google Maps on the user location.

If I start my app with GPS on, all is ok = when I click the button the Geolocation.getCurrentPosition() is working.

If I start my app with GPS off, if I dont click the button and turn the GPS on and after I click the button, it’s also working.

But if I start my app with GPS off and I click the button, getCurrentPosition is not working any more even if I turned on again the GPS.
Same thing appen if I start the app with GPS on, turn off, click button, tun on, click button => no more getCurrentPosition.

I think I have to test if the GPS is on before firing getCurrentPosition but I dont know how to do that.

Thinks for your help.

Here my code :

Button in the template file:

 <button fab fab-center fab-bottom style="z-index: 999" (click)="geolocMe()">
 <ion-icon name='pin'></ion-icon>
 </button>

My method in the map.js file :

    geolocMe() {
     Geolocation.getCurrentPosition().then((position) => {
       let latLng = new google.maps.LatLng(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longitude);
       this.markerPosi = new google.maps.Marker({
         map: this.map,
         position: latLng
       });
       this.map.panTo(latLng);

     });

   }

 Cordova CLI: 6.1.1
 Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.0-beta.6
 Ionic CLI Version: 2.0.0-beta.25
 Ionic App Lib Version: 2.0.0-beta.15
 OS: Windows 7 SP1
 Node Version: v4.4.3
2

This sounds like an issue with the geolocation plugin in general :thinking:
This is tough, but I think we might want to create a vanilla cordova example and use the raw cordova plugin to test this out.

3

Ok thank you for your answer !

4

Hello I am facing this issue till now. Did this got fixed by ionic team.
Thanks !
Your system information:

Cordova CLI: 6.3.1
Gulp version: CLI version 3.9.1
Gulp local: Local version 3.9.1
Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.0-beta.11
Ionic CLI Version: 2.0.0-beta.37
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.0.0-beta.20
OS:
Node Version: v5.10.0

5

I have similar problem: my app requires access to GPS. If GPS is enabled when app starts, geolocation works fine. However, if GPS is disabled when the app starts, I turn it on from the app using cordova-plugin-request-location-accuracy. After that geolocation turns to absolutely unreliable: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t work, it throws Timeout expired exception, doesn’t matter how big the timeout is.

Any help will be highly appreciated! Thanks!

6

It seems that I solved the problem by adding

enableHighAccuracy: true

option to getCurrentPosition call:

this.geolocation.getCurrentPosition({ timeout: 30000, enableHighAccuracy: true })

I suspect it somehow related to the fact that the call that triggers GPS enabling also uses high accuracy:

this.locationAccuracy.request(this.locationAccuracy.REQUEST_PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY)

It all looks a little bit like a black magic, but it seems to be working.

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Thank you @skydive !!! Your solution works perfectly!

8

Sir its working for me properly i got message: “Timeout expired” in the console tell me sir why?

9

Nice dudeeeeeeeeeee works fine for me on ionic 5…Great

10

It doesnt work for me… even with the options, how can i fix it?