Try to check the native, built-in feature:
Disables (or enables) deferring location change interception.
If you wish to customize the behavior of syncing the URL (for example, if you wish to defer a transition but maintain the current URL), call this method at configuration time. Then, at run time, call $urlRouter.listen()
after you have configured your own $locationChangeSuccess
event handler.
Check some similar issues:
In one of these links, observe this plunker, where this feature is used like this:
Stop and wait in .config()
phase:
.config(['$urlRouterProvider' ...,
function($urlRouterProvider, ...) {
// defer execution in config phase
$urlRouterProvider.deferIntercept();
...
Later in .run()
phase turn the url hanlding on
.run(['$urlRouter' ...,
function($urlRouter...) {
...
$http
.get("modules.json")
.success(function(data) {
// do some stuff
// re-enable UI-Router url stuff
$urlRouter.sync();
$urlRouter.listen();
});