Jquery Mobile Back Button Does Not Work With Cordova 1.9.0 And Android 2.2

I've spent the last few hours pulling my hair out on what should be a simple problem. I'm trying to make use of the backButton feature in JQuery mobile to build a site which has na

Solution 1:

Works fine with cordova 1.9 and Android 2.2. Using back in three different way:

Override backbutton:

document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);

functiononDeviceReady() {
    document.addEventListener("backbutton", handleBackButton, true);
}

functionhandleBackButton() {
    console.log("back clicked");
    window.history.back();
}

With data-rel=back

<a data-rel="back"data-role="button">Rel Back</a>

With click handler

<a id="forceBack" data-role="button">ForceBack</a>

...

$("#forceBack").click(function(){
    history.back();
});

For full source - https://gist.github.com/3037838