Vanadium location issue (getcurrentposition)

MetropleX

Just opened my Testbed secondary user to check this out, I granted Vanadium Location permission and navigated to browserleaks.com/geo and it worked fine. Vanadium has default OOB settings in this user and there are no Play Services installed so using GPS only with no network location provider used. Location QS toggled ON.

Edit: Per de0u's reply below for your FYI I am using the latest of the OS and Vanadium.

de0u

pled Unfortunately, not really! Can you see whether it misbehaves the same way in a fresh secondary user profile as MetropleX tried?

de0u

pled Which version of Vanadium, on which build of GrapheneOS? Owner profile, Private Space, work profile, secondary profile? What are the system Location settings, e.g., is network location on?

pled

de0u I answered your questions, do you have any idea/direction to go ?

pled

I am using GOS with Google Play Service, all is up to date without any other profile (very basic install and usage).
Pixel 6a - Vanadium v725812333 - GOS Build 2025081400 - Owner profile.
Location settings are basically defaults one I suppose, network location is on :
In recent acces, I cannot see Vanadium (strange because I do accept localisation request after clearing site in Sites parameters-Position-Granted sites).
In Applications access to position, I can see Vanadium.
In location services, Wifi is turned on, Bluetooth is off, Network location is Off, Geocoder is GrapĥeneOS Proxy.
=> I set Network Location to GrapheneOS Proxy : no change, same behaviour.

As I mention, all is fine using Fennec, so I may have a Vanadium setting causing this ? Is there any way to reset Vanadium to default, or something similar ? I tried clear cache and storage space, with no change.

MetropleX

pled Location settings are basically defaults one I suppose, network location is on

Can you outline what you did to turn Network Location on?

pled

More information :
Vanadium 139.0.7258.123
Android 16; Pixel 6a Build/BP2A.250705.008.A1
Vanadium Config version : 115

pled

de0u
I created another profile, and geoloc works fine testing with browserleaks website... So there is something wrong with my profile, but what ? ;-)

pled

What is the best way to reset (owner) profile ? shoud I reset phone to default factory settings ?

pled

MetropleX
Sorry for the late answer, I was out for a few days.

Well, nothing special, location access is granted. I can see in parameters-Location, Vanadium is listed with apps having location perm granted. "Exact position" is activated in Vanadium. What else should I check ?
This is a very basic GOS usage, I am not concerned with a "high privacy" setting. I can add I have GPlay service installed, that GPS Test App works fine, and OsmAnd App as well, and using another browser like Fennec the browserleaks.com/geo page does work.
I also tried google.com/maps : using Vanadium, it searches and fails. Using Fennec browser, location is immediate.

pled

I got it to work !
First, I went to Settings > Apps > Sandboxed Google Play, and I saw that that "Reroute location requests to OS APIs" was deactivated. Below was "Potential issue - Geolocation" I clicked on, telling me to grant Location permission to Play Services.

I did that, and then yes, Vanadium was able to find location. But this is not a setting I was expecting to grant.
Then I read the documentation : https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play-configuration
(which is very clear by the way).

So going to Settings > Apps > Sandboxed Google Play, I just activated the "Reroute location requests to OS APIs" parameter, and removed Play services Location permission.
And now, everything works as expected ! :-) I am very happy to have this resolved after so long... Don't know why and when I deactivated that "Reroute location requests to OS APIs" setting... but that was the problem.

de0u

pled Thanks for reporting back!