Android :: Stop Other Services In API 8 (Froyo 2.2)
Jun 12, 2010
I know of the wonderful change from 2.1 to 2.2 that ActivityManager.restartPackage now doesn't do the dirty stuff anymore since it now calls killBackgroundProcesses. Nice on one side, but bad on the other side. Because of that Services are not killed anymore.See as well: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa.I am the developer of SleepTimer in the Android market and used restartPackage to stop Music Players to play music. I therefore killed the services. That worked well. But now with killBackgroundProcesses it doesn't work anymore. I added the new Permission to my manifest, but still the music remains running. Yes i know that google kind of wants that. But it breaks the possibility to stop the different music players from my app. Now my question: Is there another way to kill/stop other services (music player services) in API 8?
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Aug 3, 2010
I have an application that consist of several Activities. When the application starts, some alarms are scheduled using AlarmManager and some services are started:
AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
a.setInexactRepeating(...)....
I would like to know any way to guarantee every service is stopped and every alarm is unscheduled when the user exits the application. The problem is that the user can leave the application from different Activities, and I don't like the idea of overriding the onDestroy method in every Activity. Is there any known Intent I can receive when the application ends? I've also found that an Android application can have a class that extends from Application, with a onTerminate method:
public class MyApplication extends Application {
@Override public void onTerminate() {
... } }
But the documentation is very clear: "never depend on this method being called; in many cases an unneeded application process will simply be killed by the kernel without executing any application code".
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Apr 18, 2010
Is it possible to stop all started services when the user hits the Home Button? I use:
startService(new Intent(ClassName.this, ClassName2.class));
stopService(new Intent(ClassName.this, ClassName2.class));
This means I will have to somehow add the 'stopService()' for 7+ of my app classes
I've researched this topic and I think there's 'onTerminate' but still not sure how this should be implemented.
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Jul 18, 2010
Even when I kill FindMyAndroid and the ATT maps deal, they start up again in a few seconds. How do I make them stop?
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Nov 9, 2009
I just got the TaskPanel app and it allows me to kill background running apps/services easily. My question is how can I get these apps/services to just stop launching themselves. I'm not using them at all and I really am just looking for a way to get them to stop launching and running. They include services like:
Google Voice
Alarm Clock
Calendar
Corporate Calendar
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Jul 16, 2010
I was wondering if I can somehow permanently get rid of some running services that start up on my phone? I'm speaking specifically to the motorola widget ones such as social networking and news that are running even when i haven't signed up for them.
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Sep 25, 2010
I've noticed the GPS icon at the top of the screen even when I'm not in a GPS app. It's definitely affecting my battery life. I've rebooted the phone a few times. I used Google Maps last night, but closed it before I went to bed. This morning my battery was really low and the GPS icon was still sitting there. My wife noticed a similar occurrence of GPS running more than expected on her Droid X as well.
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Sep 28, 2010
I debranded and upgraded my Desire to Froyo last night (Woohoo!) and now the music player has duplicate entries for certain albums.
Basically, when I look through the albums in the list it shows some albums twice and when you select each one you get one entry which has all the right tracks and a second with maybe 2 duplicate tracks in. If I delete the extra tracks I lose them from the correct album entry so the files themselves don't seem to be doubled, only the entry in the media player.
Anybody else had this problem? I've tried deleting the offending albums and adding them using both Windows Media Player and by adding them into the relevant folders using Explorer but it makes no difference.
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Sep 23, 2010
I have a rooted Droid X on 2.1
After hearing about the crap Motorola pulled with the bootloader, I decided to wait on the ota update to Froyo until someone either figures a workaround, or they don't...to which I will update via the latest leak.
PROBLEM: After twice saying NOT to download this ota, I look down at my status bar and it shows something downloading at 10%...It's the syatem update!!!! I immediately pulled the battery, only to have the download continue upon restarting the phone. I am currently in Airplane mode waiting to hear if there is a way to KILL, CANCEL or STOP this download from installing!
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Sep 1, 2010
Just wondering if anyone has a simply solution to stop the additional drive that pops up on the PC when connected, that asks if you want to install the phone's drivers?
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Aug 31, 2010
What are C based services and Java based services in Android? What is similarity and dissimilarity between them ? Are C based services available in Android?
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Jan 5, 2010
In my application i have several activities and i want to start background music whenever my *Application* is launched and stop music whenever *Application* is paused or stopped.
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Aug 2, 2012
Okay when user presses log out button what's supposed to happen is:
Code:
stopService(myIntent);
unbindService(mConnection);
mIsBound = false;
I need to shut down the service on background.Except the service restarts itself over and over again! Even if I kill the program from task manager the service restarts itself. Other programs aren't using the service. when I uninstalled the program the foreground program information popped up indicating it was STILL there(albeit this I solved by rebooting phone).
When user says he's finished with the program 'least he can expect is for the program to stay down rather than keep eating battery by acquiring GPS signal and sending them to server. The program is not intended to be "once you log in you need to Uninstall me and reboot phone to get rid of me!" type of program!
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Feb 22, 2010
I'm trying to understand the idea behind the Services. If it runs in the program's thread, why not create just a separate thread (or AsyncTask) to do the job? Can a service keep running in the background? For example, i want to create a task that will continuously be polling data from a server, even if the main application is not running. Can this be achieved with a Service?
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Mar 25, 2009
I am trying to send AT commands via Ril from LocationManager as there is only one AT port I can use. But it seems like that there is no ways to call the function refer to Ril. Can I just new a commandsinterface and to call ril's functions via it?
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May 19, 2009
In my ideal little dream world, I'd like to have a custom service running that handles network comms. Activities (e.g. UIs) then add listeners to it and it provides callbacks when anything interesting happens.
As it stands, I can't see how to do this in an appropriate way. OK, you can call bindService() and have a ServiceConnection implementation that monitors the service state. From there you can easily talk *to* the service whenever you desire, using serialisation over transactions, but I don't think that helps with communication initiated by the service.
The only way I know of doing what I want is by maintaining static collections of listeners on the service class, which doesn't strike me as good engineering.
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Sep 4, 2009
I know about LocationManagerService, AlarmManagerService, and BatteryService, from Android programming books, but is there a published list of all available services?
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Jul 30, 2013
When an app gets permission to access your Google account's Android services exactly what does it have access to? Is it authenticated to access all your google stuff including gmail?
For example, I installed Changelog Droid from the play store and it wants to access my Android services. I understand it probably only needs the permission to access my play store account to analyze my installed apps, but what else is open to it if I give it the permission?
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Nov 26, 2009
I have a couple of services in my application which need to be marked as foreground to prevent them from being killed unnecessarily. Currently I am building my application with the 2.0 SDK but I have android:minSdkVersion="3" android:targetSdkVersion="5" in my manifest file so that I can support 1.5, 1.6 or 2.0 devices. I am currently using only the 1.5 APIs so that my application will run correctly on the 1.5 devices.
2.0 introduced a nicer startForground method that combines setting the foreground flag and starting a notification which can be used to control the service. The 2.0 documentation says that startForground replaces setForeground, and that due to the fact that many applications were mistakenly using setForeground without a notification that could be used to control and close down the service, that the older setForeground method had been changed so it no longer does anything on 2.0. I tried using the newer 2.0 interface but it caused an exception for phones running 1.5 or 1.6. So I am still using the older setForeground interface and calling notify separately. But it appears that since I am building with the 2.0 SDK the older interface isn't really preventing my services from being killed.
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Oct 19, 2010
i want to use alert dialog in services, but i'm not getting the dialog,
public void myEventOccurred(Event evt) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub System.out.print(">>>>><<<<<< Event fired..."); new AlertDialog.Builder( this ) .setTitle( R.string.SaveConnectionChangeWarningTitle ) .setMessage( "Alert !" ) .setPositiveButton( android.R.string.ok, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { public void onClick( DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) { dialog.dismiss(); } }) .show();
}
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Aug 8, 2009
When i am calling the web services i got his errors. i added the internet permissions in android manifest.xml file 08-08 15:40:09.127: INFO/aSizzle(198): statusCode>>>500 08-08 15:40:09.158: INFO/aSizzle(198): statusLine>>>HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
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Aug 14, 2010
I have a service running (Socket), this is how i start the service.
CODE:.......
But this doesn't seem to stop my service? Am i missing something? I need to destroy my service as soon as the home button is clicked.
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Jul 6, 2010
I am new to Android development and have trouble enabling / disabling the wifi & audio services. I get the appropriate manager instance using the getSystemService method. But I don't get any error when enabling wifi using:
wifiMgr.setWifiEnabled(true);
But the wifi is simply not turned on! Similarly I use
mAudio.setRingerMode(AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_SILENT);
or
mAudio.setRingerMode(AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_NORMAL);.....................
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Jan 20, 2009
I wrote some reverse geocoding, geolocation and proximity alert routines for my little Android app. I took my Android out with me when running errands to test my routines; they're kinda hard to test from my couch. Half of them didn't work. What's the best way to debug something like this? Sprinkle a bunch of printf statements (or whatever you call them in Java) throughout the app? Log everything to the sdcard? Write a toggleable view (is that even possible?) that acts as a console? Faber Fedor Cloud Computing New Jersey http://cloudcomputingnj.com
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Aug 31, 2010
The only thing i have running on my phone right now is the touch input. is this something that runs constantly? ive tried going fully through the setup again and its still there. anyone know how to end it so its not running all the time?
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May 13, 2010
What are the types of locating services offered by android? Does it offer GPS, cell-site/geolocation and WiFi? Can a developer choose which service to use or does the android choose?
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Nov 18, 2009
I went through the Android introduction videos and in them an engineer from Google spoke of an open XMPP/gtalk service provided by Android, that developers could use to push messages out from a server to Android devices. I googled the forums and dug through the SDK samples, but could not find any code for these XMPP services. Also my search results only returned entries logged in the Jan 2008 time frame an earlier (I found this to be somewhat odd). Anyway, there was mention of a SMACK API that handles xmpp messaging, but I'm assuming that android has their own libraries for this.
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Jul 2, 2010
I'm a little confused on how binding to services works. I understand using Context.startService() starts the service and that bindService doesn't call onStartCommand. But my understanding is that if I use startService, I have to explicitly stop the service. But I want the service to die if there are no more activities bound to it.My problem is that calling bindService never calls onServiceConnected(), so my Service binder object is null. Does the service have to be explicitly started in order to bind to it? If so, how does it know to terminate when nothing is binding to it anymore, and how do I know if it's started so I can know to use the bound object?
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Jun 13, 2009
I need to use a wakelock to hold the screen active while its required. I was recommended to use a service which I have been trying but on the onDestroy I am getting "wl cannot be resolved".
Code below:
CODE:...............
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Sep 27, 2010
What is the best way to deal with web services in Android? I have been looking at KSoap2 library and RESTful web services.
I got one working with KSoap2, but only when the web service is on a remote server, not on localhost. I have tried to redirect the ports for incoming and outgoing as it says on the android dev site, i have used the ip of the network i am on, my own ip and the localhost-ip (it says on the site that one cannot use localhost cause that is the emulators own loop-back network. None works.
With RESTful webservices, i have only tried a tutorial where a google app engine is used as server if i understood it right. Is it easy to connect a RESTful web service to a database. I need to have a database connection in my applikation, which one is normally used with REST?
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