title: How can I get notified when Google Play Services can not get a location fix?
body: <p>I have an android application that needs to ascertain its current location (Using Google Play Services LocationClient) and then send that location back to a server. This needs to happen in the background at regular intervals e.g. Every 5 minutes</p>
  
  <p>This code is working very well and it generally delivers the locations every 5 minutes within a few seconds tolerance. The problem occurs when android can not get a fix. Under these conditions I was expecting the callback to be run after 5 minutes with a NULL location object, however this does not happen. The Application merely continues to look for locations without ever calling the callback.</p>
  
  <p>I call my LocationClient's requestLocationUpdates method with a locationRequest object created as follows</p>
  
  <pre><code>locationrequest = LocationRequest.create();
  locationrequest.setInterval(5 * 60 * 1000);  
  locationrequest.setFastestInterval(3 * 60 * 1000);
  locationrequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);
  locationrequest.setExpirationDuration(45 *1000);
  locationclient.requestLocationUpdates(locationrequest, mPendingIntent);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can not see a suitable way to have the LocationClient call me every 5 minutes, even when it is not able to get a location. I appreciate that I could have an alarm that goes off every 5 minutes and then sends the most recent location back to the server but I was hoping to handle the sending within the callback.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone else had to handle this situation, or have any idea how to address it?</p>