ui-router-state-decorator.js

.config(function ($provide) {
    $provide.decorator('$state', function ($delegate) {

        // let's locally use 'state' name
        var state = $delegate;

        // let's extend this object with new function 
        // 'baseGo', which in fact, will keep the reference
        // to the original 'go' function
        state.baseGo = state.go;

        // here comes our new 'go' decoration
        var go = function (to, params, options) {
            options = options || {};

            // only in case of missing 'reload'
            // append our explicit 'true'
            if (angular.isUndefined(options.reload)) {

                options.reload = true;
            }

            // return processing to the 'baseGo' - original
            this.baseGo(to, params, options);
        };

        // assign new 'go', right now decorating the old 'go'
        state.go = go;

        return $delegate;
    });        
})

Source link 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23144566/changing-the-default-behavior-of-state-go-in-ui-router-to-reload-by-default