Thanks for the replies guys, it's a really weird bug. It should be simple! I think creating a service to handle the GPS is a good idea, I'll try that
On Nov 4, 12:21 pm, loweroctave <twinte...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was having a good deal of problems with the location listener > starting / not starting / restarting when I didn't want it too > (especially on Captivate phones) and it was further exacerbated by > having multiple activities in my application. I ended up creating an > android service to control the GPS portion of things. When you bind > to the service you can get all the GPS data you need from it. > > You may want to try this method. > > On Nov 3, 5:03 pm, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Strange... > > When starting/stopping in onResume/onPause, it works well for me. > > Do you have, by chance any other location listeners registered? > > Try to make a bare-bones app with only one activity that just > > registers and unregisteres a location listener. See if that works. > > > On Nov 3, 2:25 pm, Chirag Patel <chi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the response but it didn't help. Calling > > > locationManager.removeUpdates(this); causes the GPS icon to stop > > > flashing so it does have some affect but it doesn't remove/stop it > > > completely. When I put the application in the background and I leave > > > it, I can see it's using up the cpu and battery due to the GPS being > > > active. There are no other threads running in the app. This is very > > > frustrating! Another problem which might be somehow related is that > > > calling finish() on my Activity doesn't close it. If intercept the > > > back button and call finish() the app goes into the background but the > > > activity remains alive i.e when I go back to it, it doesn't start a > > > new instance just resumes the old one. Any help on this would be much > > > appreciated.. Thanks! > > > > On Nov 2, 10:45 pm, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Get the LocationManager in onCreate(). Store this in an instance- > > > > variable. > > > > Request location updates in onResume(), using the instance-variable. > > > > Remove location updates in onPause(), using the instance-variable. > > > > > On Nov 2, 2:10 pm, Chirag Patel <chi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi I'm having a problem when trying to stop location updates when the > > > > > app goes into the background. In my onCreate() method I start request > > > > > updates like this: > > > > > > LocationManager locationManager = > > > > > (LocationManager)context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); > > > > > > > > > > > locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, > > > > > LOCATION_UPDATE_INTERVAL, LOCATION_UPDATE_DISTANCE, this); > > > > > > locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, > > > > > LOCATION_UPDATE_INTERVAL, LOCATION_UPDATE_DISTANCE, this); > > > > > > Then in my onPause() and onDestroy() methods I request to stop the > > > > > updates like this: > > > > > > LocationManager locationManager = > > > > > (LocationManager)context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); > > > > > locationManager.removeUpdates(this); > > > > > > However the GPS icon remains in the status bar and the only way to get > > > > > rid of it is to manually kill the application. Am I doing anything > > > > > wrong? > > > > > > Cheers- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
