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[Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2016-07-15 at 14:00 +0200, Tomas Öqvist wrote:
>  How much of the location problem is actually software related? I
> used a Bq Aquaris E4.5 for over a year and I agree that the location
> service was useless 99% of the time. I am now using a Pro 5, and the
> location service on this phone is working much better, i.e. it is
> usually able to get a correct location within seconds. It may require
> a couple of updates in the Today scope before finding the correct
> city, but with uNav and Here Maps it works more or less as expected.

Agreed, the location service works great for me under uNav. But, for
the Weather app, it requests a location and gets an ancient cached
location. If I restart the app a few minutes later, it seems to update
to the correct location. So, it seems to me, that the call triggers it
to find a new location, but still hands out the stale one.

I can only assume the Today scope polls for the location multiple
times, which shouldn't be necessary. As per that documentation, I
expect as an app developer, to be able to request an up-to-date
location one time, and not receive an old stale location.

If the only way to get an up-to-date location is to poll multiple
times, then that is just a hacky solution that many developers are
going to get wrong, and will keep waking up the location service for no
reason when a new location is not actually needed.

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