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Status: WontFix
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Closed: May 2016
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OS: Windows
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Can't use GPS device on windows 8.1 device (Geolocation API)

Reported by dchar.ah...@gmail.com, May 11 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. navigator.geolocation.watchPosition
2. enableHighAccuracy -> true

What is the expected behavior?
Search for the best accurate location from GPS ( if enabled ), not all times but should work.

What went wrong?
Can't use "Location Activity" service on windows 8.1

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 50.0.2661.94  Channel: stable
OS Version: 8.1
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

On an android device it's work fine.
 

Comment 1 by ajha@chromium.org, May 12 2016

Components: Blink>Location
Adding proper label for someone from the respective team to have a look at this.
Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-3
Owner: mvanouwe...@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
My understanding is that navigator.geolocation.watchPosition still works, it just doesn't use the Windows specific GPS hardware. On what percentage of desktop/laptop devices is that hardware actually available? It seems this is an edge case optimization that we will not prioritize.
Thank for your reply,
It's a Broadcom BCM47511 GPS ship, and it's seem to be used by Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Sumsung, in Tablet/Phone devices, but i didn't found an exact percentage of use.
Components: Blink>Geolocation
Components: -Blink>Location

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