Persistence of jQuery Mobile page loading message

Question

I'm using jQuery Mobile and have turned off the default AJAX handling of forms and links, and I'm using

$.mobile.showPageLoadingMsg()

to display the page loading message when I submit a form that transitions me to a different page. This works fine except for the fact that if I use the hardware back button on the device, or the browser's back button to go back to the form, the page loading message is still running. I've tried calling

$.mobile.hidePageLoadingMsg()

on document ready but this didn't seem to fire when I used the back button to go back.

Answer 1

This could be solved by listening to window unload and hiding the message there:

$(window).unload(function(){
 $.mobile.hidePageLoadingMsg();
});

It seems like somewhat of a hack though.