Hi Is there any action to contact the devs of all the GPS apps in the Market to inform them about this big change? I expect that most of the fitnesse trackers will be broken by this change
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Alphan Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Christof, > > > Any ideas what the reason for this change could be? Was there a change > > in Gecko? > Yes, we phase in a change in Gecko. > Bug 1216148 shows the whole story. > The patch was phased in one weeks ago. (1/13) > > > And if so, what would an application have to do to prevent > > GPS being turned off? Is there any resource lock to acquire to prevent > > this? > You need to use wakelock to keep GPS on. > *window.navigator.requestWakeLock('Gps');* > > P.S. Ya-Chieh is modifying the content of MDN for this change currently. > > > Alphan Chen 陳俊帆 > Software Engineer | Mozilla Taiwan > Tel: +886-2-87861100#214 | Mobile: +886-937589694 > Email: [email protected] | Skype: alphan102 > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Christof Meerwald <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am using a ZTE Open C with nightly builds from >> http://builds.firefoxos.mozfr.org/opencebay/ and am seeing a change in >> behaviour for GPS when the screen is switched off. >> >> It used to be the case that an app would still receive GPS location >> updates (using the navigator.geolocation.watchPosition API) when the >> user turned the screen off. But with recent build (last week) it >> appears that GPS is turned off when the user turns off the screen and >> only turned on again when the user turns the screen back on (and it >> takes a few seconds to get a new location via GPS). >> >> Any ideas what the reason for this change could be? Was there a change >> in Gecko? And if so, what would an application have to do to prevent >> GPS being turned off? Is there any resource lock to acquire to prevent >> this? >> >> >> Christof >> >> -- >> >> http://cmeerw.org sip:cmeerw at cmeerw.org >> mailto:cmeerw at cmeerw.org xmpp:cmeerw at cmeerw.org >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-fxos mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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