Android GPS does not work until restart on new phones

Question

I have posted about this issue before, and found a few other people who have had the same issue with no solutions found.

I am developing an Android app that submits a JS

Answer 1

Why do you use Google Play Services Location API?

The only new feature provided by Play Services is Geofencing. From your answer i assume that you don't want to use Geofencing but just "usual" location requests.

The Android platform provides a great API for such requests which does not requires Google Play Services. I never had the problem you described when using it.

Note that although Google claims the Play Services to be better than the Android API, this is not true since API 9 (Android 2.3), as long as you use the newer LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates methodes that don't require a provider to be specified.

See: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/location/strategies.html