GPS does not work when screen is off or app not on top

Help Fairphone 4
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The location icon and notifications indeed vanish when the app is no longer visible. I messaged the Beeline team. I will post an update when they get back to me

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Hi all.

I have the same problems with Google Maps and OruxMaps. The trick of allowing permanent access to location worked for Google Maps but not for OruxMaps. I see no icon in the status bar signaling a foreground service is implemented.

Nevertheless, OruxMaps has many users in Spain and I find it weird that the issue hadn’t been already addressed. Moreover, OruxMaps began to fail for me in my old Fairphone 2 when I upgraded to Android 9.

I will search more information specific to OruxMaps. If I find something useful I will post it here (just in case it helps with the Beeline problem). If not, I will open a support case.

Thanks anyway for all your posts.

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Hi Jakub, did you hear anything back from Beeline? I am having the same issue.

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I’m having major problems with Google maps. I normally connect my phone to a third party helmet Bluetooth device on my motorbike helmet and run maps in the backround with the phone locked. Every other phone for the last 10 years worked fine this way but for some reason this phone shuts the GPS module down when the screen shuts off… is there a way of preventing this from happening?

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Hi and welcome, you habe to allow Maps to always access GPS ,same Problem discussed here in german,

in settings -apps-maps-GPS

Edit: moved your post to this existing

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Do you have recieved an update? I have the same issue with my beeline…

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The problem seems to be intermittent. Right now it works for me, but I have no idea for how long. I think it has stopped working around three time now, all of them on the Fairphone. My solution is to always bring an older backup phone which never exhibited this behavior, just in case it stopped working mid-trip.

Clearly the issue is on Fairphone’s side, but since it works most of the time I cannot be bothered to keep fighting this problem.

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