NETWORK_PROVIDER not providing updated locations

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I finally found a way to solve this problem (see my question here).

In my case on S3 Galaxy Mini there were similar symptoms (no location updates until reboot…) like the ones described above. Location in most cases stopped updating when the device reached low power conditions, but sometimes it just happened even when the phone was fully charged.
Obviously this is a problem somewhere in the LocationManager. I managed to bypass LocationManager by using the new Google Play Services API for locations (LocationClient class).

This is probably the reason why the location updates were still working with Google Maps, because Google Maps were using Google Play Services API even before it was made public.

I recommend you to follow this link which shows the way how to use Play Services API to get locations instead of using LocationManager if you encounter this problem.

Im running location updates with Play Services and there were absolutely no problems like this anymore – I keep receiving regular location updates anytime.

Beware that this will require that the user must have Google Play installed on their device, so Kindles and the like will be out of the picture. It also requires a minimum of Android 2.2.

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