$location service doesn't work outside of an eval

[IgorMinar]

$location service doesn't explicitly trigger an eval because it assumes that it will be used to modify the state within an eval stage.

At the same time, it is possible to inject $location into other services which can run outside of eval stage (e.g. delay service which executes callbacks outside of eval), so these services need to explicitly call root.$eval(). But the docs, nor common wisdom makes it clear that this is actually needed, unless one looks at the source code.

[IgorMinar]

we should update docs and make no changes to the code. $location is designed to work within the scope lifecycle and if someone is using it outside of it, he/she is responsible for managing the lifecycle to get things to work properly.

[vojtajina]

Closing, as this has been fixed by new $location.
See http://code.angularjs.org/0.10.2/docs-0.10.2/guide/dev_guide.services.$location