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I'm using AngularJS and the Ionic Framework to build an app. My app needs to have a logout button. When the user presses the logout button, I would like to reload the page so that the app is re-bootstrapped and all cached data is wiped clean. Based on this StackOverflow Question I should be able to just do $window.location.reload(true). That works fine if I'm just running the app in the browser via ionic serve. However, when I run it on an actual device, the screen just goes blank and never comes back. How can I reload/refresh the page on the mobile device without getting a blank screen?

EDIT: Here's my actual code:

angular.module('login').controller('logoutController', ['$state', '$window', function ($state, $window) {
    $state.go('login');
    $window.location.reload(true);
}]);

I'm trying to reload the location after transitioning to the login state.

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The code above works fine. It turns out that my problem was with how I was transitioning to the logout state. If I use href on the ion-item, then it causes the blank screen issue:

<ion-item nav-clear menu-close class="item-icon-left" href="#/logout">
    Logout
</ion-item>

However, if I use ui-sref on the ion-item, then the blank screen does not occur:

<ion-item nav-clear menu-close class="item-icon-left" ui-sref="logout">
    Logout
</ion-item>

Don't ask me how or why that happens. That's just what I have observed.

battmanz
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I just tested $window.location.reload(true) within my apps' logout function and it works fine (also within the actual app).

In order to solve your problem, please get sure that

  1. you added $window as dependency in your view's controller

  2. you send your user to the apps entry view, by calling $state.go("your-entry-view") within your logout function or

  3. by defining a fallback state within your $stateProvider config: $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/your-entry-views-url')

If that doesn't help, provide us with some more details, like the controller where you are calling the logout function and your state config. Also your console output could help.

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