After removing "<" and ">" from the preferences I have not seen this problem anymore.
Sorry, I don't know what else could cause your problems, Chander. Christoph On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:08 PM, android_soft <cspeche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have noticed this behavior couple of times. But I have not been able > to reproduce, also I do not have "<" or any other special character, > except some Double values encoded as Strings. > > Chander > > On Jan 25, 12:39 am, Christoph Studer <chstu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Okay, so my current suspicion is that I got bitten >> byhttp://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1707 >> >> I have one preference value containing "<" and ">" which are >> improperly encoded due to above bug. My guess is that the XML parser >> chokes on this value and the pref file is ignored. I think >> SharedPreferences only reads data from disk after the process is >> killed, so the app is fully functional until it is killed. Also, it >> was not consistently reproducible because this pref value is not >> always present in my application. >> >> I've removed "<" and ">" from the pref value and see how it goes. >> >> Christoph >> >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Christoph Studer <chstu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello, >> >> > I'm making use of SharedPreferences in my application. One part is a >> > PreferenceActivity and the other part is a backend that accesses the >> > preferences using PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(...). >> > Both parts are running in the same process, but potentially in >> > different threads. >> >> > Now, from time to time, I encounter a reset of all the preferences. It >> > looks to me like this happens when my process is killed (e.g. when >> > installing a new version or starting the activity or service the first >> > time after a long time). However, it is not reproducible by killing >> > the process manually and it does not happen consistently. >> >> > Are there other people who have the same problem? Is there a race >> > condition that could lead to something like this? >> >> > The source code of my app can be found here: >> >http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/source/browse/ >> >> > The relevant files are: >> >http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/source/browse/trunk/android-clie... >> > and >> >http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/source/browse/trunk/android-clie... >> >> > Thank you, >> >> > Christoph > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
