Ionic camera plugin getPicture ignored

Question

This is freaking me. I have a simple app where you press a button and it take a picture, then the user can do other stuff but the problem is that sometime the getPicture function is ignored and camera never shows, here goes some info and simple code:

$ ionic info

Your system information:

Cordova CLI: 6.5.0 
Ionic CLI Version: 2.2.2
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.2.1
ios-deploy version: 1.9.1 
ios-sim version: 5.0.13 
OS: macOS Sierra
Node Version: v6.10.2
Xcode version: Xcode 8.3.2 Build version 8E2002

Installed platforms:
  android 6.0.0
  ios 4.3.1

plugins installed

$ ionic plugin ls
WARN: ionic.project has been renamed to ionic.config.json, please rename it.
com.googlemaps.ios 2.1.1 "Google Maps SDK for iOS"
cordova-plugin-camera 2.4.0 "Camera"
cordova-plugin-compat 1.1.0 "Compat"
cordova-plugin-console 1.0.3 "Console"
cordova-plugin-device 1.1.2 "Device"
cordova-plugin-file 4.3.1 "File"
cordova-plugin-file-transfer 1.6.1 "File Transfer"
cordova-plugin-geolocation 2.4.2 "Geolocation"
cordova-plugin-googlemaps 1.4.0 "phonegap-googlemaps-plugin"
cordova-plugin-screen-orientation 1.4.2 "Screen Orientation"
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 3.2.2 "Splashscreen"
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.1.3 "StatusBar"
cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.2.2 "Whitelist"
ionic-plugin-keyboard 2.2.1 "Keyboard"

Then we have a HTML with this button

<button class="button button-full button-positive" ng-click="take_picture()">Take photo</button>

And the function into the controller

$scope.take_picture = function()
{
    screen.lockOrientation('portrait');
    var options = {
        quality: 25,
        destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.DATA_URL,
        sourceType: Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA,
        encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.JPEG,
        saveToPhotoAlbum: false,
        correctOrientation: true,
        allowEdit: false,
        targetHeight: 200,
        targetwidth: 200
    };

    $cordovaCamera.getPicture(options).then(function(imageURI) {
        $scope.image_uri = imageURI;
        $scope.marcar_gps();
        $cordovaCamera.cleanup(); 
    }, function(err) {
      console.log('error ',err);
      $cordovaCamera.cleanup();
      $ionicLoading.hide();
    });

};

Hope someone can help. Best!

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EDIT

When camera is skipped on xCode console I get this: Warning: Attempt to present on which is already presenting

Answer 1

Avoid using DATA_URL destinationType and replace it with FILE_URI as it may consume so much memory on the old phones. When you're using FILE_URI as destinationType, you can use cordova file plugin to transfer image to the external/internal storage, then you can call the image src link to your local device url.

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EDIT

camera plugin and orientation plugin wasn't up to date. So need it to update from versions 2.4.0 "Camera" and 1.4.2 "Screen Orientation" to 2.4.1 "Camera" and 2.0.1 "Screen Orientation"