Play Location Services getLastLocation returns null

Question

I am trying to listen to location changes but sometimes onLocationChanged callback is never called and getLastLocation returns null, w

Answer 1

First

It's kind of bug on old Android devices.

Apparently the location APIs have different behavior on different Android versions (LocationManager has issues on Android >= 4.1, while Play Services has issues on Android 2.3), see here.

So what I ended up with is below:

Trying to retrieve last location by play services, if failed try with LocationManager.

Second

I would like to thank you all for your valuable suggestions, I get the hint to use the previous workaround from AndroidHacker's post so I think he is the one who deserve the bounty.