SkyDemon on Android 11 losing GPS signal when device locks

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SkyDemon on Android 11 losing GPS signal when device locks

SkyDemon on Android 11 losing GPS signal when device locks

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aplatte	a aplatte posted 1/9/2022 5:24:04 PM Topic Details Share Topic
a Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 0	Hello, After moving from Android 7 to Android 11, I have noticed SkyDemon looses GPS signal when the device locks (i.e.: you want to try to navigate on your own, and have SD as backup just in case you get lost). When you unlock the device, SkyDemon starts getting GPS signal again, and you lost the flight log during the screen lock. When checking permissions, I can only give SkyDemon one of the following for location: "Allow when app is running", "Ask" or "Don't allow". I see other apps (i.e.: Google, AccuWeather) have an extra option "Allow always", which I cannot choose for SkyDemon. I suspect this article explains the reason: for Android 10 and above the app should declare ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission in its manifest. Can anyone else running SkyDemon on Android 11 tell me if they experience the same behaviour? Thanks, and best regards, Adrian Edited 1/9/2022 5:52:58 PM by aplatte
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Adam Erchegyi	Adam Erchegyi posted 1/9/2022 6:52:23 PM ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 86, Visits: 2.2K	+x aplatte - 1/9/2022 5:24:04 PM Hello, After moving from Android 7 to Android 11, I have noticed SkyDemon looses GPS signal when the device locks (i.e.: you want to try to navigate on your own, and have SD as backup just in case you get lost). When you unlock the device, SkyDemon starts getting GPS signal again, and you lost the flight log during the screen lock. When checking permissions, I can only give SkyDemon one of the following for location: "Allow when app is running", "Ask" or "Don't allow". I see other apps (i.e.: Google, AccuWeather) have an extra option "Allow always", which I cannot choose for SkyDemon. I suspect this article explains the reason: for Android 10 and above the app should declare ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission in its manifest. Can anyone else running SkyDemon on Android 11 tell me if they experience the same behaviour? Thanks, and best regards, Adrian Did you try to turn off battery optimization?
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 1/10/2022 10:49:48 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7.8K, Visits: 8.5K	"Allow always" is for apps that need to start and monitor your location with you being unaware they're doing it. SkyDemon is not such an app. As long as you start navigating in SkyDemon, you are free to use other apps and SkyDemon will continue to receive your location, which is how it's designed to work. Locking your device should also work, but it's possible there are device-specific issues that might stop it. Android 11 is a popular operating system and SkyDemon is a popular product, we're unaware of any general issues with SkyDemon running in the background on it.
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aplatte	a aplatte posted 1/10/2022 3:50:16 PM Post Details Share Post
a Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 0	+x Adam Erchegyi - 1/9/2022 6:52:23 PM +x aplatte - 1/9/2022 5:24:04 PM Hello, After moving from Android 7 to Android 11, I have noticed SkyDemon looses GPS signal when the device locks (i.e.: you want to try to navigate on your own, and have SD as backup just in case you get lost). When you unlock the device, SkyDemon starts getting GPS signal again, and you lost the flight log during the screen lock. When checking permissions, I can only give SkyDemon one of the following for location: "Allow when app is running", "Ask" or "Don't allow". I see other apps (i.e.: Google, AccuWeather) have an extra option "Allow always", which I cannot choose for SkyDemon. I suspect this article explains the reason: for Android 10 and above the app should declare ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission in its manifest. Can anyone else running SkyDemon on Android 11 tell me if they experience the same behaviour? Thanks, and best regards, Adrian Did you try to turn off battery optimization? That was causing the issue. Disabling it did the trick. Thanks a lot, Adam.
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177	1 177 posted 1/12/2022 8:35:17 PM Post Details Share Post
1 Group: Forum Members Posts: 72, Visits: 757	You can also download free 'GPS Locker' from Google Play. It will keep awake the gps chip no matter what.
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