Cordova jQuery AJAX call timing out after 30 seconds regardless of timeout setting

I'm trying to execute the following function on Android to sync with an IoT device I'm making:

function NewDeviceFetchDeviceID(){
    strURL = "https://192.168.x.x/.....";

    return $.ajax({
        url: strURL,
        type: 'GET',
        timeout: 90000
    });
}

The device takes some time to churn a response to the request (about 45-50 seconds) so I need the timeout to be slightly longer than 30s. The timeout seems to work on iOS - if I set it to 5 seconds it will do so, if I set it for 90 it will wait the whole time. For Android, it seems that this argument is ignored.

I tried adding the following into config.xml under <platform name="android"> with no luck:

<preference name="LoadUrlTimeoutValue" value="90000"/>

How can I properly increase the timeout argument for AJAX requests in a Cordova Android app?

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