The app doesn't close properly since the 3.40.0

In actual version 3.41.0, when you double tap back button to close the app, the GPS symbol stays visible at the top of the Smartphone screen. Even waiting some time doesn't help.

Moreover, if you start Locus Map again then the latest used Locus screen is shown immediately - no initialization has to be done.

This clearly indicates that Locus Map will not be closed when double tapping the back button. Not sure when this started but in 3.41.0 it's present.

Hi Thomas, what phone and Android version do you use? We can't simulate it...

Samsung A3 (2016), Android 7.0

Hi Thomas, thank you for the additional info. We'll see to it. Best regards, Michal

Fixed for me after updating to 3.42.0.

But this is with a TaskManager (OS Monitor).

Locus stays running in background, see the Screenshot, using memory and CPU. I had quit with two Back-Taps.

EDIT: It doesn't always happen. Of the eight uses only once. It was after using navigation, it automatically ended after reaching the destination. Locus terminated by the Back button. After a few minutes I heard a Locus GPS loss signal at the supermarket.

With my phone it happens every time.

Media channel. I've just tried both options, the problem is the same.

Ok so Media channel Only.

My newly installed Locus Pro (On the A9 phone ) did not generate TTS nor voices audio.

After install (Locus Pro) was on the "Notification audio channel", changed to Media channel = ok.

Tablet A 5.1 = Both media and notification audio channels ok.

confirm behavior,

for me after "auto-screen off > screen on" the GPS-icon is gone

Hi, if you have Locus Map with active track recording and you swipe it out, recording is also still running?

It should. And then GPS is needed. Which I think is correct behavior. The app should not be closed when has active service without direct confirmation from the user. But most probably, this behavior will be different on different Android versions and mainly different device manufacturers.

sonny sorry, but it is not easily possible.

To make some background tasks (like track recording or navigation with the screen turned off) possible and working reliably, app has to run so-called "foreground service". This causes a) permanently visible notification in the system status bar and also b) inability to swipe the app off as you did.

You most probably not used "Locus as a service" so your method worked before, but does not work anymore since a few months when I changed navigation stability a little bit.

Because your method requires tap + swipe, I really suggest starting using back + close combination, which takes the same amount of time and allows Locus Map to correctly handle "close" request and really terminate all necessary tasks and services.

Hi franc,

what problem are you trying to solve? You close the app by double back press and what happens? GPS is still running? Does app suck your device battery? Or you just still see Locus Map in the list of recently used apps (which is correct)?

Menion

Double tap and Locus seems to close.

But after a while i hear the beep and buzz of gps found (or absence?) of Locus and in the task manager i can still see Locus is running.

I need to kill it there then.

I had exactly this before in some previous Locus version and after an update it was fixed, i guess. Now it's again.

And I don't mean that I find it in the recently used apps, I find Locus in my Task Manager App (from bytehamster.com), where only running apps are listed.

And the beep is the most irritating thing, means that Locus found GPS or so, means that it still does something.

And when I start Locus then, it is not initializing (means still running). But it shows shortly the initializing screen, but much too short to really do it.

You are the only one known, with this problem. Only what I think we may do is create and share with me your backup, so I may restore exactly what you have set in the app with hope, it will have the same problem. Anyway, I still think there will be something different that causes this ... probably some add-on, some external app that calls Locus Map for some reason, maybe some own creation? :)

Could it be the automatic backup?

I have set that to weekly backup (all 7 days).

No, nothing calls Locus, nor any self made app, and when i kill Locus in my task manager, Locus stays closed.

Locus is just not fully closed with double tap back in Locus.

What caused the bug before, when I was not "the only one known" with this problem?

Could the fix be so special that it didnt effect all devices?

At the moment I still have Locus running in the background, since more than half an hour and just it did again do the GPS signal (lost and refound). I killed it in my Task Manager now.

Hello Franc, I've moved your last two posts to the separate topic, so we may continue there and not disturb other users here in the already "solved" topic.

It works now. I made a simple Locus backup and reset Locus data in Android app settings (or titanium) after i restored the backup and now the issue has gone :)

I think you have maybe a system (not Locus) setting to turn off display with double back, could that be? I remember vaguely that such things exist in Android Settings, at least I remember that with a tap on the notification bar.

If you have such a Display-Off-Setting with double-back, than Locus cannot override it and stays running.

There is no exit option in the main menu (at least not on my Locus). Have never seen such exit option in Locus, though.

Thanks Franc,

I didn't find such a setting on my phone. In many other context I can "double back" without the display turning off.

I disabled the "locus running as service" option and:

- still no exit option from the main menu

- still black screen when trying exiting with the back button.

- locus AND gps notifiation icons disappear when I sweep Locus out from the running app list. Indeed the gps has to reconnect if I launch locus again. Oddly the startup screen showing a bunch of loading steps doesn't appear anymore now.

Hello Vincent,

my two suggestions:

• check if you have enabled settings > controlling > display > Disable screen lock. If so, disable this settings
• "Exit button" is in the main menu only in case, you have enabled "fullscreen" mode in the app

Hello Menion,

- I tried all options in the "Disable screen lock" settings but behaviour of the "back" button stays the same

- However, the exit button in fullscreen mode works fine, both with and without the "locus running as service option".So that is fine for me.

Thank you!