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[Bug]: GPS location does not work (for GMS-less phones) #6468

@mnalis

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@mnalis

Summary

In Nearby, GPS location does not work - it shows incorrect location (while other apps at the same time show correct location).

It was broken in slightly different way in previous versions (#6312), but the alleged fix in PR #6352 by @Jason-Whitmore does not seem to work for me (or something else broke in the meantime).

Steps to reproduce

  1. have device without GMS1 (Google Mobile Services) and F-droid build
  2. open some other app in which GPS works (I've used CoMaps and OsmAnd from F-droid)
  3. verify that in that other app GPS works fine and always shows correct location
  4. open Commons app and navigate to Nearby
  5. notice the location is wrong
  6. press the location ("sniper dot") button
  7. notice the location does not change and is still wrong
  8. switch back to other app
  9. note that the location is correctly updating there all the time
  10. (repeat steps 6-9, and see that the problem is consistent)

Expected behaviour

in steps 5 (and especially 7) Commons app would show correct location.

Actual behaviour

It shows some incorrect location (in this example - several kilometers off, where I was last time about a day ago)

Device name

Samsung Galaxy S23+

Android version

Android 15 (stock Samsung ROM, but degooglified, i.e. no GMS)

Commons app version

6.0.2~a283ffe2b (latest F-droid)

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No response

Screen-shots

small_Screen_Recording_20251008_163619_Commons.mp4

Would you like to work on the issue?

None

Footnotes

  1. i.e. adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gms etc.

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