Thanks Jon. It works very well for me. You saved me a day. Thank you.
Hai On Sunday, December 7, 2008 2:56:10 PM UTC+7, Jon Colverson wrote: > > On Dec 5, 7:56 am, Jon Colverson <jjc1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 5, 6:41 am, Jon Colverson <jjc1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I'd been having some weird issues with AlarmManager seemingly not > > > firing my alarms when the device is asleep. I'm using the alarm to > > > start a service and I was acquiring my wake lock in onStart(). I tried > > > acquiring the lock in onCreate() instead, and that seems to have > > > solved the problem. > > > > Oops. I spoke too soon. After some more testing that doesn't seem to > > have helped. > > I had another look at the AlarmManager documentation and I noticed > that it only talks about using alarms to broadcast events, not start > services. I changed things around to use a BroadcastReceiver instead > that acquires the lock in its onReceive() and stored the lock > reference as a static member of another class, following the example > of the AlarmClock application: > > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/AlarmClock.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/com/android/alarmclock/AlarmAlertWakeLock.java;hb=HEAD > > > That seems to have worked. I guess what was happening was that my > service starting alarms were being fired, but the device was sometimes > going back to sleep before I could acquire the wake lock. Apparently > the only guarantee that is made when an alarm is received is that the > onReceive will run to completion. > > I just thought I'd post this in case anyone is ever searching for the > same problem. > > -- > Jon > -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
