Have you tried startForeground()? On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Jake Basile <jakerbas...@gmail.com> wrote: > My app, Hearing Saver, registers a BroadcastReceiver to get the > ACTION_HEADSET_PLUG action. Because of a flag on this, the receiver cannot > be registered via the AndroidManifest, so I need to keep a service alive to > maintain it. This worked perfectly in 2.2 and 2.1, but in 2.3 (my nexus S), > this doesn't work. After I initially start the service up that registers the > receiver, it will work for roughly one hour, but after that my receiver will > no longer receive the intent. > I have checked the logs, and my service's onDestroy is not called, so I > haven't unregistered the receiver myself. I also see that there is some > other component of Android getting the Intent, so I know it's being > broadcast. I know that my process is not killed, and according to the manage > apps settings screen, my service is still running. > I have tried a few things to fix this, but nothing has helped. I have > acquired a wakelock in my receiver because I thought maybe the Nexus S is > just very aggressive about sleeping, no dice. I tried setting > android:persistent="true" on a whim out of desperation, no dice. I am out of > ideas as I believe my app's structure is correct. > Does anyone have any ideas as to what is causing this difference in 2.3 from > previous versions, and/or how I can correct/work around it? > For your reference, here are the classes in question: > > The Service > The BroadcastReceiver > The Manifest > > -- > 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
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