$location.path() change fails in Android 2.3 (1.2.0rc1)

[doup]

Route change ends in an $digest error in Angular 1.2rc1 + Android 2.3.6 default browser when changing the location. This is the message:

Error: [$rootScope:infdig] 10 $digest() iterations reached. Aborting!
Watchers fired in the last 5 iterations: [
    ["fn: $locationWatch; newVal: 9; oldVal: 8"],
    ["fn: $locationWatch; newVal: 10; oldVal: 9"],
    ["fn: $locationWatch; newVal: 11; oldVal: 10"],
    ["fn: $locationWatch; newVal: 12; oldVal: 11"],
    ["fn: $locationWatch; newVal: 13; oldVal: 12"]
]
    at http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.0rc1/angular.js:60:12
    at Object.$digest (http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.0rc1/angular.js:9860:19)
    at Object.$apply (http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.0rc1/angular.js:10039:24)
    at HTMLHtmlElement.<anonymous> (http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.0rc1/angular.js:7613:22)
    at http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.0rc1/angular.js:2246:10
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at forEach (http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.0rc1/angular.js:196:11)
    at HTMLHtmlElement.<anonymous> (http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.0rc1/angular.js:2245:19)

Plnkr with the bug:
http://plnkr.co/edit/Rx6SDx

I've tried, changing the route via ng-click="$location.path('/b')" and ng-href="#/b". Both ways fail.

Might be related issues (now closed): #1417 #2815

This comment fixes the issue for me (but it does not work in a phonegap app): #1417 (comment)

[brisma]

Same error in Android 2.2 (Samsung Galaxy Ace).

Note that the official tutorial page of routing (http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.0rc1/docs/tutorial/step_07) isn't loading into native browser and all my phonegap apps using it are broken with the same error on Android 2.2/2.3.

[moperacz]

is there any timeline to embed this into master?

[peey]

Facing the same issue, +1

This can be reproduced in Android 2.3 browser (webkit 533.1). In case anyone wants to debug this issue on a desktop, it can also be reproduced on an older version of chrome (Google Chrome 6.0.401.1 Beta) which is available for download from http://www.oldversion.com/windows/google-chrome/ .

[gkalpak]

Closing as v1.2.x only receives critical security fixes and Android 2.3 is pretty old.
If the problem persists with newer versions of Angular, please open a new issue (specifying the exact versions of Angular/Android/Browser that are know to be affected).

Thx !