Ok, we didn’t talk about your “Ionic Deploy” code here yet.
Does your app update via Ionic Deploy after being started with --livereload? If so, it naturally destroys livereload as the complete app is replaced with the downloaded version of the app. Not ionic upload is the problem, but that your code always updating the app when a new snapshot is available.
Does the same problem happen if you remove the “autoupdate my app” code?