Please vote for background location tracking

[Teo Bartulovic]

Microsoft made a big mistake by switching off the ability to track your location for apps that run in the background. Every GPS-Outdoor app needs this feature. But if this app is made for WP8.1 (not 8.0) this feature is not allowed anymore :shocked:

Hope dies last, let us vote for rationality and click on the vote button of this link:

Vote here please!

 

[vodda]

Odd. I've used runtastic several times on 8.1 and WP10 and it worked just fine in background.

Or is this about something else?

 

[Teo Bartulovic]

Same as with Endomondo, but those are old apps made for 8.0 and as I said above, if you decide to make new app or optimized it for WP8.1 or W10M this feature is not allowed anymore according to developers...

 

[Rasetech]

Odd - I can't believe this. There must be some other way to accomplish this in WP8.1 or W10M.

 

[Teo Bartulovic]

Possible but it seams that developers are currently facing problems with this issue and can't get any usable feedback from Microsoft so they decide to try to reach them on this way

 

[Rasetech]

Did some short research right now - that seems to be really an issue as hard to believe it is.

EDIT: Maybe this helps someone: http://inthehand.com/2015/03/25/background-gps-in-a-windows-phone-8-1-windows-runtime-app/

 

[Teo Bartulovic]

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, anyone who use any kind of GPS tracking app even occasionally should vote on this, with a single vote at least

 

[vodda]

Cant believe this is happening.

Voted.

 

[Teo Bartulovic]

Good news

Posted on September 22, 2015: The background location tracking will be available again. This app is back-migrated to WP8.0 again (was WP8.1). The background location tracking was switched off by Microsoft for WP8.1 Apps. Now a step backwards is a step forward.