If there's a reason to do this asynchronously, you should do it with an 
AsyncTask.  On the other hand, I'm with Justin wondering why you want it 
done asynchronously, at all...

G. Blake Meike
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On Friday, June 22, 2012 11:29:04 AM UTC-7, Justin Robinson wrote:
>
> Every 30 seconds my broadcast receiver starts a service thread like this:
>
> Thread t = new Thread(){
>             @Override
>             public void run(){
>                 Intent intent = new Intent(context, AlarmService.class);
>                 context.startService(intent);
>             }
>         };
> t.start();
>
> Is this thread killed after 10 secs along with the broadcast receiver or 
> do I need to kill it manually?
>

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