MKMapView showsuserlocation - iphone

In my app I have a rare bug that stops showing the userlocation. If I tone the app down and just have the map, and set everything up in the viewDidLoad, and at the end do the typical:
myMapView.showsUserLocation = YES;
everything works great 99% of the time. It always works when the App is starting from scratch, but like 1 time out of 100, when resuming from the background, the userlocation doesn't show. And even if I make a button to turn showsUserLocation back on, it still won't show (and upon doing NSLog's the property shows that it is set to YES in the MKMapView). If I kill the program, and start it again, it works fine again.
Everything is being done in the main thread as well.
Anyone encounter anything like this?

you can refer this image for fetch location in backgroud Mode

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iPhone Pause CAAnimation from app enter background and retrieve

I've been reading functions of how to pause CAAnimation at:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa2009/qa1673.html
And it works great! Apart from when I tap the home button to make the app to background(which I did use the same pause technique for applicationWillResignActive)
However, it happens that the animation seems completely erased rather than its nice pausing.
Any suggestion of how to solve this issue?
It sometimes also happens that the storyboard seems restart the entire app from beginning?
I've used the technique from that link to pause animations and it works perfectly.
However, based on a little testing, it looks to me like the system kills running CAAnimations when your app goes to the background. If you want to resume the animation where it left off, you would have to recreate the animation(s) and set the beginTime parameter to a value that offsets into the animation. I haven't done that, so I couldn't tell you exactly how to do it without doing some tinkering.

MKMapView userTrackingMode overridden by CLSqliteDatabaseManager

I am setting the userTrackingMode of an MKMapView instance in my UIViewController's viewLoaded method. The first time the view loads I set it to MKUserTrackingModeFollowWithHeading successfully. However every subsequent time the view loads, though I again set its value to MKUserTrackingModeFollowWithHeading, this is almost immediately overritten by MKUserTrackingModeNone. I have subclassed MKMapView and overridden setUserTrackingMode, inserting a breakpoint so I can see where it is being called from. The same thing happens in both simulator and on device:
On simulator I get the following from the stack when the value is set to MKUserTrackingModeNone:
On my device (iPhone 4s) I get the following:
There is very little else going on in my application and certainly nothing that is directly triggering the property to be set. What is CLSqliteDatabaseManager? Google returns not a single result. On the device how on earth can MKMapRectContainsRect be involved? I'm using iOS 5.0.
It seems too late to answer. But it may still be helpful for whoever is looking for an answer.
I had exactly same problem. Suddenly I figure out why. Please load your iOS build-in Maps app and click the small arrow button at bottom-left corner to start tracking your location. As soon as you drag the map. The tracking is stopped. Same reason, if you move the map in your code, the MKMapView property userTrackingMode will be reset to MKUserTrackingModeNone automatically.
In my case, I called setCenterCoordinate after set userTrackingMode to MKUserTrackingModeFollow in - (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated. It worked fine after moving around the code mapView.userTrackingMode = MKUserTrackingModeFollow; to the end.

Objects not being released fast enough, causing an app relaunch crash

I have an app where I have 5 sets of animations that I'm storing in an array. The animations get picked to play randomly after a button touch. This is all working perfectly, however I noticed a bug when I quit the app and reopen immediately, I'll see my main view, then it'll jump to my second view that has the animation in it. (This shouldn't happen since you have to tap the main view in order for it to modally swap in the second view. If I interact with it everything works for a few seconds, then it closes with no crash log.
I finally realized that some of the objects must not be getting released fast enough, since if I close the app and wait three seconds, then reopen, everything executes fine.
I didn't want to put down code to show as this is more of a brainstorming question. I'd love any insight that could point me the right way. I changed a lot of my code to get rid of convenience methods and have all my variables defined and then released in my dealloc.
Is there a way to truly tell the app to kill everything on quit? It's not set to run in the background so this is a bit odd. Thanks for your help I'm still new to this and learning!
Alright, after working on this all weekend and doing more research comparing a barebones version of my app to my prerelease version, I traced memory leaks to the Flurry Analytics api that I am using. Apparently I was suffering from the same issue as the post here: App hangs on restart with latest Flurry SDK and ios4 . I resolved this by setting these optional methods to false, since they take extra time to send data after the app terminates, and depending on the connection it takes a few seconds.
FlurryAnalytics.h
/*
optional session settings that can be changed after start session
*/
+ (void)setSessionReportsOnCloseEnabled:(BOOL)sendSessionReportsOnClose; // default is YES
+ (void)setSessionReportsOnPauseEnabled:(BOOL)setSessionReportsOnPauseEnabled; // default is YES
Hope this helps anyone else who experienced something similar to me!
All apps can enter the background by default. Normally they do not do anything there, but they stay there in a frozen state and when you open them again, your program does not restart, it just picks up where it left off.
Anything that's set as an animation delegate might not get released, since it's retained for that purpose until the animation completes.
You can add an applicationDidEnterBackground: method to your app delegate to get informed when your app is going into the background, but exactly what you need to do depends on the design of your app. You can also add applicationWillEnterForeground: to do anything you need to do differently when restarting, as opposed to newly starting.
You might be able to force your animations to complete by starting a new animation with duration 0.0 (or very short if for some reason you can't do that).
If this happens only if your app goes to bkgnd and comes back AND you don't mind if the app restarts everytime it comes back then just put UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend in your app's plist. In all my cases where these and other bad things happen with apps going to and returning from bkgnd this helped.
While you might still see the app on the buttom when double tapping it is really stopped and will restart. Apps that show on the buttom do not always have to run or be stored in the bkgnd I learned.
ps. don't forget to set the value of UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend to YES

App crashes on backgrounding because of SimpleAudioEngine

So I׳m trying to play some effects in my Cocos2D game using SimpleAudioEngine , but after I have added them my app crashes when it goes to background (multitasked).
I searched for this problem in the internet but all the solutions that I found didn't work for me. What I did find out is that this problem happens because my app is somehow trying to play sounds when backgrounded.
In console it shows me (which is the same error I found other people had):
sgx error (background gpu access not permitted):
And another thing, when I run my app on the simulator, or even on my device while debugging carefully (going line-by-line with XCode while the app is running) this doesn't happen.
I just had this issue. I resolved it by having a bool to check if the app is running or in background that I set to true when the app goes to foreground ( applicationWillEnterForeground ) and that I set to false when the app goes to background ( applicationDidEnterbackground ) . So using the bool you can tell if the app is in the background and if it is, I just exit out of drawView function in EAGLView (thus not doing any graphics rendering which was causing the error).
I am a very dodge programmer but that method has worked for me and I hope it works for someone else. I did not need to unload and reload my sounds or anything and my app now has Multitasking XD
I was experiencing this, on about 25% of the occasions that my application re-entered the foreground. Like you, when I removed the sounds, the problem went away. That is how I came across your question here.
I may have found a solution to this. I have made what appears to be an unrelated change, but the problem seems to have gone away. Now, when my app enters the background, I invalidate my main scheduled timer. When my app re-enters the foreground, I then re-schedule the timer (after reloading my sounds, which I completely shut down on entering background).
So far, the problem has not come back. I would be interested to know if this helps.
I just resolved this issue on my end. Here's what was wrong in my case and, from what I can tell from the other answers and comments on this page, many other people's case as well:
By default, when I started my project, CCDirector::sharedDirector()->pause(); and CCDirector::sharedDirector()->resume(); were both being called twice, once by (void)applicationWillResignActive:(UIApplication *) and (void)applicationDidBecomeActive:(UIApplication *) respectively in AppController.mm, and once by AppDelegate::applicationDidEnterBackground() and AppDelegate::applicationWillEnterForeground() respectively in AppDelegate.cpp.
Make absolutely sure that these methods are only being called once, in AppController.mm. In AppDelegate.cpp, instead make sure that you are calling CCDirector::sharedDirector()->stopAnimation(); in place of CCDirector::sharedDirector()->pause(); and CCDirector::sharedDirector()->startAnimation(); in place of CCDirector::sharedDirector()->resume();.
Hope that's helpful to anyone else stuck in this crappy situation!
Are you sure it's related to audio? "background gpu access" sounds like it's using OpenGL.
I had the same issue in my application and spent some 4 hours to find out. Going background was OK the first time, but crash application the second time. With a short error message related to OpenGL. I had the same questions: how audio can crash graphics. But it wasn't a question of audio, but a question of notifications...
I discovered that going foreground was creating 2 timers in my custom level meter class.
I had registered UIApplicationWillEnterForegroundNotification and UIApplicationWillResignActiveNotification. Then, going background invalidated only one, since I registered only on notification... That was it!
One need's count its notifications!

My Iphone App crashes (Bad access) when turned on it's side (landscape mode)

For some reason, every time I run my Iphone App, the App works fine as long as it is upright. The second the simulator turns to the left or right (like if I manually turn it, or if it's trying to play a video), the code crashes, with either a "Bad Access" or an exception.
The crazy thing is that this stuff was JUST working, and I didn't change ANYTHING that looks like it would affect landscape mode only. Could something complicated in the background have changed to make this stop working? Is this just a symptom of some sort of memory error?
-Jenny
Sure, you could be releasing something which should shouldn't release yet, or similar.
I'd put some NSLog statements in key places, start with shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation and in any custom drawing functions you may have.