Call for testing: background location updates

cliffcoggin

@mardy Further information: the battery level dropped from 65% to 5% in less than three hours. (I don't know the precise time as the phone turned itself off while I was away from it.) That's probably similar to what it would have been before the modification.

kugiigi

If i remember correctly, the main issue before is that location stops working when you lock the screen even if you disable suspension. I had to stop automatic locking whenever I use Activity tracker. I was lucky Bq E5's battertly is great so I was able to use it for many hours.

TotalRando

Hey this just turned my GPS on! Thanks!

magdesign

@mardy
Thanks!
After doing

sudo ubports-qa install xenial_-_locationbg

and rebooting my oneplus6 several times the GPS is finally working!

hsce1

Hey @mardy, do you know if your background location service implementation has survived the transfer to focal?

Edit: I guess I found the relevant MR: https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri/-/merge_requests/70

aimar

Wow! How did I miss this feature? I have seen the last post and realize that it was available two years ago.
Well, BQ E4.5 OTA 25. I have just installed it, but I am not very confident it will work. I get some errors that make me suspect:

ubuntu-location-service-bin#####]
W: No sandbox user '_apt' on the system, can not drop privileges
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ERROR:ubports-qa:Failed to run 'apt full-upgrade'. See the output above for details.
mount: / is busy
WARNING:ubports-qa:Failed to remount root filesystem read-only.
WARNING:ubports-qa:Please consider rebooting your device.

I have rebooted the phone. This weelend I will test the background data adquisition.

aimar

I think ubuntu-location-service-bin is not properly installed.

Just some questions. I see the following packages upgraded:

biometryd-bin
libbiometry1
qml-module-biometryd

Why do we need biometry stuff?

This ones were downgraded:

libubuntu-location-service3
qtubuntu-sensors
ubuntu-location-service-bin
unity8 unity8-common
unity8-private unity8-schemas

@mardy you mentioned Lorimi, but I still see unity. Is it all right? I understood this change was for xenial devices.
I hope I do not miss anything with the downgrade.

aimar

It works.
I tried it with Activity Tracker and records my position with the phone locked.
During the first try, the location switch turned off automatically whenever I turned it on. But now the switch and me seem to have achieved an understanding.
Thank you very much for such a useful feature.

AmauryDBZ

@aimar didn't worked for me. Any tests that I can perform ?

aimar

Hi @AmauryDBZ. Sorry, I am not a developer, so I cannot provide any hint. I usually use a trial and error approach. You can try uninstalling the package and reinstalling it again.
Actually for me, the first time it was not properly installed because I lost the wifi connection. I tried again and although I had some doubts (see posts above) it works.
My phone requires some time to connect to the satelites, but once it is done, Activity Tracker followed me.

aimar

Why have I been downvoted?
I was just reporting an initial weird behaviour, but finally a succesfull performance.

AmauryDBZ

@aimar thanks I'll try this

@aimar said in Call for testing: background location updates:

Why have I been downvoted ?

I had the same question

danfro

Can anyone here, who had background recording working, please confirm if that still works with current OS (OTA4 or newer RC/devel)? We sadly couldn't get it to work on two Xperia X and on OP5T with ActivityTracker.

AmauryDBZ

@danfro not working on my FP4, but I didn't investigate much