# Await xr.baseExperience.enterXRAsync doesn't return on Android device **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** native, webxr, react-native\ **Created:** [November 20, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/await-xr-baseexperience-enterxrasync-doesnt-return-on-android-device/45801 "2023-11-20T02:39:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![srinivas\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/srinivas_kumar/32/35901_2.png) [@srinivas\_kumar](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/srinivas_kumar)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/await-xr-baseexperience-enterxrasync-doesnt-return-on-android-device/45801/1 "2023-11-20T02:39:24Z")
Hello! I’m very new to React Native (and JS in general), so I apologize in advance I’m trying to launch a simple XR(AR) session on my Samsung Galaxy S21 phone. I have react native and the babylon dependencies installed/ EDIT: A few notes about how I differed from the instruction to install babylon react native. The [Instructions for a fresh project](https://github.com/BabylonJS/BabylonReactNativeSample/blob/main/CREATE.md) recommend using React native 0.69, but that won’t work properly on my m1 mac, so I used react 71. But this required me to use [@babylonjs/react-native-iosandroid-0-71 - npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@babylonjs/react-native-iosandroid-0-71) (not 64) and my installation command became `pm i @babylonjs/react-native@1.6.4-preview @babylonjs/react-native-iosandroid-0-71 @babylonjs/core @babylonjs/loaders react-native-permissions --legacy-peer-deps`. This was needed because 1.6.4 oreview was updated to work with loaders package according to this [answer](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/error-babylonjs-react-native-1-6-3-requires-babylonjs-core-5-42-2-but-version-6-14-0-is-currently-installed-run-npm-install-babylonjs-core-5-42-2-in-your-apps-root-directory-to-upgrade/42923) The scene the code I took from the sample renders fine even with a few small changes but when I press the Start XR button, nothing happens. I added some debugging logs inside and only the first one `test message 1` is printed. I think `await xr.baseExperience.enterXRAsync` is not returning, am I invoking it correctly? This is my code ```auto import React, { FunctionComponent, useEffect, useCallback, useState, } from 'react'; import {SafeAreaView, View, Button, ViewProps, StatusBar} from 'react-native'; import {EngineView, useEngine} from '@babylonjs/react-native'; import {SceneLoader} from '@babylonjs/core/Loading/sceneLoader'; import {Camera} from '@babylonjs/core/Cameras/camera'; import {ArcRotateCamera} from '@babylonjs/core/Cameras/arcRotateCamera'; import '@babylonjs/loaders/glTF'; import {Scene} from '@babylonjs/core/scene'; import {WebXRSessionManager, WebXRTrackingState} from '@babylonjs/core/XR'; import {LogBox} from 'react-native'; const EngineScreen: FunctionComponent = (props: ViewProps) => { const engine = useEngine(); const [camera, setCamera] = useState(); const [xrSession, setXrSession] = useState(); const [trackingState, setTrackingState] = useState(); const [scene, setScene] = useState(); const onToggleXr = useCallback(() => { (async () => { try { if (xrSession) { await xrSession.exitXRAsync(); } else if (scene) { const xr = await scene.createDefaultXRExperienceAsync({ disableDefaultUI: true, disableTeleportation: true, }); console.log("test message 1"); const session = await xr.baseExperience.enterXRAsync( 'immersive-ar', 'unbounded', xr.renderTarget, ); console.log("test message 2"); setXrSession(session); console.log("test message 3"); } } catch (error) { console.error("Failed to toggle XR", error); } })(); }, [scene, xrSession]); useEffect(() => { if (engine) { const url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models/master/2.0/DamagedHelmet/glTF/DamagedHelmet.gltf'; SceneLoader.LoadAsync(url, undefined, engine).then(loadScene => { setScene(loadScene); loadScene.createDefaultCameraOrLight(true, undefined, true); (loadScene.activeCamera as ArcRotateCamera).alpha += Math.PI; (loadScene.activeCamera as ArcRotateCamera).radius = 10; setCamera(loadScene.activeCamera!); }); } }, [engine]); return ( <>