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Native geolocation ionic watch position working on background but not when phone is locked


I'm using this code:

this.watchID = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition((localizacion) => {
  console.log("En el enviarPos", localizacion);
}, (err) => {
  console.log(err);
}, { enableHighAccuracy: true });

It works in background, but only doesn't work when the phone is locked.

Error:

GeolocationPositionError {code: 3, message: "Timeout expired"}

Solution

  • I was facing same issue but I switched to Geocoder, and it's working fine for me, also it gives lot of info,

    => For Ionic 3

    ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-nativegeocoder
    
    npm install --save @ionic-native/native-geocoder@4
    

    => For Ionic 4

    ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-nativegeocoder
    
    npm install --save @ionic-native/native-geocoder