Capacitor 4 after 5 minutes stop working #89

ghimarcos · 2023-02-02T17:49:35Z

Describe the bug

I have an application that was previously on Capacitor version 3.6.0, and it worked perfectly. So we need to update Capacitor to version 4.6.1 and now it always stops working after 5 minutes in while the application is in Background.

To Reproduce

create an application with the following libs:

"@capacitor-community/background-geolocation": "1.2.7",
"@capacitor/android": "4.6.1",
"@capacitor/ios": "4.6.1",
"@capacitor/core": "4.6.1",
"@capacitor/app": "4.1.1",

Remembering that the same code with these lib versions here work perfectly sending POST for more than 5 minutes:

"@capacitor-community/background-geolocation": "1.2.7",
"@capacitor/android": "3.5.1",
"@capacitor/ios": "3.6.0",
"@capacitor/core": "3.6.0",
"@capacitor/app": "1.1.1",

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jamesdiacono · 2023-02-02T21:24:24Z

Are you using the native HTTP plugin to send your POST requests? See #14 (comment).

ghimarcos · 2023-02-02T21:36:28Z

Yes, in both versions (@capacitor 3.6.0 and @capacitor 4.6.1 ), I used native requests from CapacitorHttp, example:

if (window.navigator.onLine) {
const doPost = async () => {
const options = {
url: 'https://myApiUrl',
headers: { 'Authorization': Bearer ${localStorage.getItem('token')}, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
data: { trackingCoords: this.trackingCoords },
};
const response: HttpResponse = await Http.post(options);
};
doPost();
}

jamesdiacono · 2023-02-02T21:38:02Z

Can you reproduce this using the app in the example/ directory?

ghimarcos · 2023-02-02T22:00:43Z

I believe so, but only tomorrow, then I'll let you know

ghimarcos · 2023-02-03T14:13:13Z

In app from the example/ directory when i generated apk by android studio, it worked correctly in the background for 5 minutes, but then it stopped, I didn't even change the code, could it be that something was missing?

Samy-F · 2023-02-03T14:23:20Z

I got the same problem. It was working perfectly before I updated to capacitor v4 and it stopped working. Right now it stops after 5 minutes. And yes I am also using HTTP to make requests. Anyone that knows a fix?

diachedelic · 2023-02-03T21:30:33Z

Is this affecting iOS, or just Android?

Samy-F · 2023-02-03T21:59:37Z

Only android. On iOS it is working fine. I had this same problem a while ago on version 3but that was because I was using axios. Op vr 3 feb. 2023 om 22:30 schreef diachedelic ***@***.***>

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diachedelic · 2023-02-03T22:10:03Z

Were you using the same version of this plugin for both Capacitor v3 and Capacitor v4? I just want to be sure that it's not a bug I introduced recently.

Samy-F · 2023-02-03T22:16:46Z

I tried 2 things. First on version 1.2.6 and then 1.2.7. Both not working. Op vr 3 feb. 2023 om 23:10 schreef diachedelic ***@***.***>

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diachedelic · 2023-02-03T22:34:32Z

Try setting some breakpoints around

background-geolocation/android/src/main/java/com/equimaps/capacitor_background_geolocation/BackgroundGeolocationService.java

Line 96 in c6e5010

Location location = locationResult.getLastLocation();

. We must determine whether the issue is with the location provider, or communication with the WebView.

Samy-F · 2023-02-04T11:32:27Z

You want to talk trough discord? Add me if you want: Add me on https://discord.com/ so we can talk! My username is Samy#1851. Op vr 3 feb. 2023 om 23:34 schreef diachedelic ***@***.***>

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ghimarcos · 2023-02-06T13:47:21Z

Try setting some breakpoints around

background-geolocation/android/src/main/java/com/equimaps/capacitor_background_geolocation/BackgroundGeolocationService.java

Line 96 in c6e5010

Location location = locationResult.getLastLocation();

. We must determine whether the issue is with the location provider, or communication with the WebView.

I did this in the example, and from what I noticed, it continues to capture the values, but after 5 minutes it stops sending to the application but continues capturing, if we open the app again, leaving to the background, it sends everything that it captured all at once.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XOIMpzMi_0tC_Tawal90O0hAZ9iDBTqI/view?usp=share_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Was8pK6cmcHQh8Xl60QWmgsgx_DK3VU/view?usp=share_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dvS0uXE1L15nigOA6bMDkzZTfT1eRUt8/view?usp=share_link

diachedelic · 2023-02-06T21:23:54Z

It seems that the operating system is suspending execution of the WebView. Have you ensured battery optimisation is turned off? See https://dontkillmyapp.com/. It seems strange that upgrading to Capacitor 4 would cause this.

Samy-F · 2023-02-06T21:39:24Z

I had that in the previous version. I might have deleted it by accident. I will try it and let you know. I tried to set the settings on the phone to allow all battery usage the app needs. Op ma 6 feb. 2023 om 22:24 schreef diachedelic ***@***.***>

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ghimarcos · 2023-02-16T11:52:10Z

I resolved my problem, it was probably a structural problem, i removed all my code and did it based on the example, some imports changed too, here's how the code made in typescript was in case anyone needs it.

` async addWatcher(background: boolean): Promise {
try {
let id: number;

  const theConfig = Object.assign(
    { stale: true },
    background
      ? {
        backgroundTitle: 'Location you',
        backgroundMessage: 'getting your location.',
      }
      : {
        distanceFilter: 0,
      }
  );

  // eslint-disable-next-line prefer-const
  id = await BackgroundGeolocation.addWatcher(theConfig, function callback(
    location: any,
    error: any
  ): void {
    if (error) {
      if (
        error.code === 'NOT_AUTHORIZED' &&
        window.confirm(
       'This app needs your location, ' +
                'but does not have permission.\n\n' +
                'Open settings now?'
        )
      ) {
        BackgroundGeolocation.openSettings();
      }
      return this.logError(error);
    }

    return console.log('getting', location, 'id :', id);
  });

  console.log('your logic...', id);

} catch (error) {
  console.log(error);
}

}`

diachedelic · 2023-02-16T21:59:54Z

I'm not sure that will have resolved your problem. Above your comment there is a reference to a bug report for Capacitor 4, which makes it look like we need some kind of workaround like this to prevent the WebView going to sleep in the background. @Samy-F , do you want to see if you can implement this fix?

ghimarcos · 2023-02-17T12:56:06Z

I believe it's not a problem with the background-geolocation plugin, because I'm managing to send Post now normally for as long as I want, and I'm on the latest version of both the capacitor and the geolocation plugin, but I admit that I don't know what the problem really was, I simply deleted everything I had and redid everything again.

diachedelic · 2023-02-17T22:09:29Z

OK, I'm glad you got it working. I will leave this issue open because it seems others are having the same problem.

darwinmanchola · 2023-02-23T21:26:39Z

Hi,
I have the same problem my appp work fine in background for 5 ~ 10 minutes and then stop de sent locations, but when open again app star work fine.

sorry by my english

diachedelic · 2023-02-24T03:30:32Z

Can you replace the handleOnPause method in BackgroundGeolocation.java with the following, and see if that solves the problem?

    @Override
    protected void handleOnPause() {
        if (service != null) {
            service.onActivityStopped();
            new Thread(() -> {
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(1000);
                    this.bridge.getWebView().dispatchWindowVisibilityChanged(View.VISIBLE);
                } catch (Exception ignore) {}
            }).start();
        }
        stoppedWithoutPermissions = !hasRequiredPermissions();
        super.handleOnPause();
    }

guizmo51 · 2023-02-24T11:05:38Z

Thanks for all your work !
Do you if adding Capacitor Permissions (using annotation per example) can help about background ? I have my own plugin about beacons scanning in background and my device and others where the following permissions were requested hadn't issue about background. I had a try with ten's of users with several device (without the part about the permissions) and they got issues about background location.

I suggest to add the following permissions :

android.Manifest.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION
android.Manifest.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
android.Manifest.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS

EDIT : ok, I add an issue (no service triggered and no notificatio, using Capacitor 4), now when I add ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION the notification is OK. I will try the background behavior using this notification.

If you want I can create a PR !
thanks again

diachedelic · 2023-02-25T00:27:49Z

That is interesting, but I don't see how can be a permissions problem. The locations are being recorded in the background, but they are only reported to the WebView when the app comes to the foreground again.

Also, on Android, we do not technically record locations in the "background" (see #58 (comment)), so the ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION should not be necessary.

The FOREGROUND_SERVICE permission is already requested in the plugin's AndroidManifest.xml. I wonder if the REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS has something to do with it - but from my understanding, that is just a convenient way to disable battery optimizations, which can be done via the settings anytime).

using annotation per example

Which example is this?

ok, I add an issue (no service triggered and no notificatio, using Capacitor 4)

Can you please link to this issue?

Are you using this plugin, a different plugin, or both?

ivinantony · 2023-02-28T10:18:33Z

same issue for me in android pixel 5

ivinantony · 2023-02-28T13:06:53Z

Try setting some breakpoints around

background-geolocation/android/src/main/java/com/equimaps/capacitor_background_geolocation/BackgroundGeolocationService.java

Line 96 in c6e5010

Location location = locationResult.getLastLocation();

. We must determine whether the issue is with the location provider, or communication with the WebView.

I did this in the example, and from what I noticed, it continues to capture the values, but after 5 minutes it stops sending to the application but continues capturing, if we open the app again, leaving to the background, it sends everything that it captured all at once.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XOIMpzMi_0tC_Tawal90O0hAZ9iDBTqI/view?usp=share_link https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Was8pK6cmcHQh8Xl60QWmgsgx_DK3VU/view?usp=share_link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dvS0uXE1L15nigOA6bMDkzZTfT1eRUt8/view?usp=share_link

same happens for me @ghimarcos how you fixed it?

diachedelic · 2023-03-02T00:14:56Z

Please test that this is fixed in v1.2.12.

diachedelic · 2023-03-25T02:37:43Z

Thank you @alexandermccormick for getting to the bottom of this. I have reverted the WebView hack as of v1.2.13. Ensure that background watchers are created whilst the app is in the foreground, or pin the plugin to v1.2.12 if you really want to rely on the hack.

vdt2210 · 2023-04-13T04:42:54Z

Hi everyone. I have this issue on Nokia Android 11. I have modified the handleOnPause() and it's worked fine. Is there another way to fix it
I am using "@capacitor-community/background-geolocation": "^1.2.13"

diachedelic · 2023-04-13T05:20:00Z

@taivo-digiex Ensure you add any background watchers while the app is still in the foreground.

vdt2210 · 2023-04-13T05:27:21Z

@taivo-digiex Ensure you add any background watchers while the app is still in the foreground.

Yes, I have. I'm using your example code and it working in background for about 5m before stop

diachedelic · 2023-04-13T06:17:39Z

Is your app sending each location in an HTTP request? Can you reproduce the problem using the demo app in the example/ directory of this repository?

vdt2210 · 2023-04-13T12:33:12Z

Is your app sending each location in an HTTP request? Can you reproduce the problem using the demo app in the example/ directory of this repository?

My app just received location's object and not sending to any database. Sorry if I misunderstand your first question

Is the /example is native app? If that so I don't know how to reproduce the problem in native app. My app is using ionic + angular

alexandermccormick · 2023-04-13T16:37:47Z

@taivo-digiex The example/ isn't any more or less "native" than using Ionic + Angular. Ionic is more of a component library, so the example/ only utilizes Capacitor. You will still use the same commands you do when working with an Ionic project, but instead of calling ionic cap [command] you will call capacitor directly with npx cap [command]. The example/ is more plain, as it does not use a web framework but instead simply uses one index.html file and one main.js. You'll find these located in the www directory inside example/.

By lightly modifying the example/ to better match your use case, it will help provide a more clear picture of what might be going on, either with the plugin or your specific architecture.

diachedelic · 2023-04-13T22:51:20Z

@taivo-digiex Does the notification remain after 5 minutes, or does it disappear?

vdt2210 · 2023-04-14T00:14:15Z

@taivo-digiex The example/ isn't any more or less "native" than using Ionic + Angular. Ionic is more of a component library, so the example/ only utilizes Capacitor. You will still use the same commands you do when working with an Ionic project, but instead of calling ionic cap [command] you will call capacitor directly with npx cap [command]. The example/ is more plain, as it does not use a web framework but instead simply uses one index.html file and one main.js. You'll find these located in the www directory inside example/.

By lightly modifying the example/ to better match your use case, it will help provide a more clear picture of what might be going on, either with the plugin or your specific architecture.

Thanks @alexandermccormick. I will try it

vdt2210 · 2023-04-14T00:21:11Z

@taivo-digiex Does the notification remain after 5 minutes, or does it disappear?

Its still appear with location icon on status bar.

Btw, I have a case when I modified handleOnPause() I had to add the background location permission. If not the app will stop all

diachedelic · 2023-04-14T10:26:48Z

When your application receives a location update, what does it do with it? Does it save it to disk? Display it on the screen in some way? How do you know exactly that it is stopping after 5 minutes?

vdt2210 · 2023-04-14T12:11:02Z

@diachedelic my app is getting location to show on screen only. I have used console.log(new Date)/count i++ to know when it stop on Android studio terminal

diachedelic · 2023-04-14T12:34:19Z

OK. Please try to reproduce your problem using the app in example/. When you add watchers, each location update is logged to the screen. The first column of each logged line is the time the location was generated, and second column is the time the location was received by the WebView.

vdt2210 · 2023-04-15T02:44:26Z

hi @diachedelic , I just run your example with only add console.log(new Date()) in log_locaiton() and modified packages.json for match with windows command
I start run in BG in 9:33 then stop at 9:38

UPDATE: after few minutes it show this msg

diachedelic · 2023-04-16T04:36:20Z

Have you disabled all battery saving optimizations on your phone? Please try doing that via the Settings app, and if that doesn't fix the problem follow the instructions at https://dontkillmyapp.com/hmd-global.

vdt2210 · 2023-04-16T15:36:08Z

yes, I have disabled battery saving optimizations and set example app to unrestricted. I have tested on Samsung A52s Android 13 and it's happened too
If the OS killed the app, why do the notification and the location icon remain? I am just curious this part

diachedelic · 2023-04-17T01:26:58Z

I believe the OS is probably suspending the app, rather than killing it entirely. Are you able to confirm?

vdt2210 · 2023-04-17T01:47:15Z

I don't know how to confirm that correctly, but the OS may just suspend the app as you said. As I mentioned before when I modified the handleOnPause() like your comment and added background location permission and it works perfectly

diachedelic · 2023-04-17T03:34:03Z

I have attempted to reproduce the problem on my Samsung A52, running Android 13. Initially, locations stopped after one minute in the background. But after changing battery optimizations to "Unrestricted" the locations keep coming. How can it be that we are running the same app, on the same device, with the same operating system and the behaviour is different?

vdt2210 · 2023-04-17T07:33:39Z

let's me check with other devices, and I will let you know the result later

nemoneph · 2023-04-25T07:54:06Z

@diachedelic I tried to add more details, you can look at my comment : ionic-team/capacitor#6234

diachedelic · 2023-04-25T08:09:01Z

Possibly related: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/timer-throttling-in-chrome-88/#intensive-throttling

Thanks @nemoneph .

nemoneph · 2023-04-26T08:42:56Z

Added a comment with a "solution" here: ionic-team/capacitor#6234 (comment)
(don't know why but my comment is hidden by default and marked as abuse.. )

ghimarcost was write, the bug has been introduced since Capacitor 4.0 =>

https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/releases/tag/4.0.0

"android: Use addWebMessageListener where available (ionic-team/capacitor#5427) (c2dfe80)"

diachedelic · 2023-04-26T08:47:19Z

@nemoneph has found a workaround for this problem: simply set android.useLegacyBridge to true in your Capacitor config (see https://capacitorjs.com/docs/config).

close #89

mohamadnagi · 2023-11-29T16:27:22Z

I added android.useLegacyBridge = true but still having the same issue.

ghimarcos closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Feb 2, 2023

ghimarcos reopened this Feb 2, 2023

flanger777 mentioned this issue Feb 10, 2023

bug: Capacitor listeners failing to be called from Android notifyListeners with foreground service ionic-team/capacitor#6234

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ButterflyCount app gps switching off (and how to solve it) BiologicalRecordsCentre/ABLE#547

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mrshlle mentioned this issue Jul 21, 2023

Cannot get locations when in background HaylLtd/cordova-background-geolocation-plugin#126

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diachedelic mentioned this issue Sep 27, 2023

Fixed the Capacitor 4 after 5 minutes stop working #107

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