The recording of my trail is not done in the background or screen off ¶
Check that you have not activated a power saving mode in your device's battery settings or another setting that would cause the GPS to stop when the screen is off.
- On Sony devices in particular, the activation of the "Stamina mode" causes this problem.
- On Samsung devices too, some power saving modes causes the GPS to stop when the screen is off.
- On Huawei/Honor devices, a particular procedure must be applied. Please read the specific section below.
The application does not work in the background on Huawei and Honor devices ¶
On Huawei and Honor devices, a limitation of applications running in the very restrictive background is applied by default.
So that our application can work in the background (to record your track or to follow a trail, ...), a particular configuration is necessary.
Here's the procedure to follow :
1) First, check the battery settings of your device that no power saving mode is enabled.
2) Next, you must allow the application to run in the background. The procedure depend on the version of Android installed on your device (you can check this via the "About" section of the device settings).
On Android 6 : the application must be added to the list of protected applications. To do this, go to the "Protected Applications" section of your device's battery settings and check the box corresponding to our application.
On Android 7 : The application must be removed from the list of applications that close the screen lock. To do this, go to the "Close the application after screen lock" section of your device's battery settings and uncheck the box correponsding to our application (if it is checked).
On Android 8 : In the "Launch" section of your device's battery settinfs, uncheck the automatic management of the application and then check the 3 boxes (automatic launch, secondary launch and background execution).