location tracking only works when the app is in the foreground, with no updates in the background

[Bharatkt]

Your Environment

• Plugin version: 4.17.4
• Platform: Android
• OS version: Android 13
• Device manufacturer / model: Realme RMX3501
• React Native version (react-native -v): 0.72.2
• Plugin config

BackgroundGeolocation.ready({
        enableHeadless: true,
        desiredAccuracy: BackgroundGeolocation.DESIRED_ACCURACY_HIGH,
        // Android Call api after certain period
        distanceFilter: 0,
        locationUpdateInterval: 1 * 60 * 1000, // 5 minutes        stopTimeout: 5,

        locationAuthorizationRequest: 'Always',
        backgroundPermissionRationale: {
          message:
            'App provides address verification for banking. We use background location access to collect geotags, ensuring accurate address verification',
          title: `Allow App to access this device's location.`,
          positiveAction: 'Change to "{backgroundPermissionOptionLabel}"',
          negativeAction: 'Cancel',
        },

        // iOS notifications from taskbar
        showsBackgroundLocationIndicator: false,

        // physical activity permission disbale
        disableMotionActivityUpdates: true,

        // Sounds / Notification
        debug: false,

        // Logs
        logLevel: BackgroundGeolocation.LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE,

        // Android options for get location on BG
        stopOnTerminate: false,
        startOnBoot: true,

        // // HTTP / SQLite config
        // url: '<ENV_URL>/user/location',
        // batchSync: false, // <-- [Default: false] Set true to sync locations to server in a single HTTP request.
        // autoSync: true, // <-- [Default: true] Set true to sync each location to server as it arrives.
        // headers: {
        //   Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
        //   'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        // },
        // Filter out old timestamps
        // maxRecordsToPersist: 10, // Limit the number of records to keep
        // autoSyncThreshold: 1, // Sync every location
      }).then(state => {
        BackgroundGeolocation.onLocation(async location => {
          await sendLocationToServer(location);
          console.warn(location);
        });
        BackgroundGeolocation.start();
      });

Expected Behavior

The background location tracking feature was working as expected before this issue began.

Actual Behavior

Background location tracking is not functioning; only foreground location updates are being received.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Verified that location permissions are correctly set
   2.Confirmed no recent changes to the location-related code
2. Restarted both the app and device, but the issue remains unresolved.

Context

Debug logs

Logs

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[christocracy]

Realme RMX3501

See https://dontkillmyapp.com

disableMotionActivityUpdates: true,

Without the Motion API to determine when the device is moving, you are relying only upon a geofence around the last known position to determine when the device is moving.

Why are you disabling the Motion API? You'll have much better performance if you don't disable that.

[Bharatkt]

Hello @christocracy I have enable the Motion API, and Testing still not working, we can't change anything in code for BackgroundGeolocation file since last 2 month and it's working fine before, Is there any way to debug ?

[christocracy]

Logs. I need logs.

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 30 days with no activity.

[121Unicorns]

I am also experiencing the same, in the background there are no http events or batch updates, in the foreground, even with autoSync threshold set to 10 and batchSync set to true, the http batch events log only one location at a time.

[christocracy]

Logs…

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 30 days with no activity.

[github-actions]

This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 14 days since being marked as stale.