Android :: Process Died After Exiting Application
Jan 14, 2010
I am seeing a curious behaviour in my app. I have a widget that gets updated by a service every # hours, when the service finishes I stop it, using "stopService(new Intent(this, MyService.class));", the widget if pressed launches an Activity. Now it gets interesting, while im on the activity everyting works fine, then when I exit the app(by the back key or a button I designed which simply calls this.finish() ) the ActivityManager would tell me that my process has died, I do not see any error of any kind, just that the process has died.
Why I am seeing that message and what does it mean exactly? That is having a side effect on my service regarding static variables getting set to default. Could my code be the cause of this? Is there any way to know that your process has died? I have tested my app on a HTC Hero running 1.5, it always works well on the emulator and I never get that message. I know android kills processes to reclaim memory but Im always careful to close apps heavy on resources.
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Jul 29, 2009
I have an app that receives and stores SMS messages. The main use is to run in the background, although it does have a full GUI when running in the foreground. I'm using a notification with the FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT flag so users can tell the application is running, even if it's in the background. However, the user could easily close the app by viewing the main screen and clicking the back button. The notification icon goes away, but I would like to be able to warn the user that closing the app would prevent it from capturing the SMS messages. Is there any way to prompt the user if they really want to exit the application when they hit the back button, and prevent the exit if they say no? Or should I take a different approach? And a bonus question: is there a way of receiving an SMS message, but prevent it from passing on to, say, the Messenging app?
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Nov 18, 2009
I would like to know how to execute code before exiting application. My application is composed of several activities. When the user starts the application (from the launcher menu or from a notification in the status bar), he goes in an InitActivity where I process some initializations. From user experience, application always restarts. One of these initializations is to init a network manager and start a thread that periodically sends a network request to notify a server that application is active.
I need to process some end operations, like stopping this thread when user quits application, for example by pressing the HOME key or BACK key when he's in the root activity. However, when the user press the HOME key, application is still running in background.
Q1 : is it possible to execute code when exiting application (I see the onTerminate() method of the class Application but it seems not to be always called)?
Q2 : Is it possible to force application exit (activity method finish () only destroy the current activity, not the application)?
Q3 : Is it possible to handle HOME key press (onKeyDown() is not called when this button is pushed)?
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Jul 13, 2009
I have a service receiving and sending data to a server in separate threads each. The service lifecycle methods look like this:..................
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Mar 5, 2009
Say a user runs my app from the HOME screen. The app has 3 tabs. Say he/she selectes a different tab, so he/she is in a different screen (same task). Now - if the user presses BACK - the device returns to the HOME screen. If the user launches my app again - the default tab is shown. BUT - if the user presses HOME - the device returns to the HOME screen (same). If the user launches my app again - the OTHER tab is shown.
I understand (sort of) the logic - BACK returns to previous app, popping my app from the history stack, so when launched again - it is started from scratch. But this is confusing my customers - they say it's a bug ! They dont understand the different between two keys doing the same thing as far as they see (returning to HOME). Moreover - I see a different behavior with the built-in DIALER app - I change tabs, press HOME, launch the app again - and it starts with the default tab.
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Nov 4, 2010
I have a timer thread setup to play a loop using soundpool, but for some reason I cannot get _soundPool.stop(_playbackTimer); to stop the loop. even if I exit the application the loop keeps running. I have to physically power off the phone to get it to stop. am I missing something here? Does anyone have any experience with this? I have searched with no resolution. below is a snippet.
if(timeLeft>0 && timeLeft<20 && ticking == false){ _soundPool.play(_playbackTimer, 0.3f, 0.3f, 0, -1, 1); ticking=true; }
if(timeLeft==0 || timeLeft>20){ _soundPool.stop(_playbackTimer); ticking=false; }
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Feb 9, 2010
With Android Eclair 2.1 on ARM-based target, we are executing Instrumentation test application from command line:
am instrument -e class android.app.foo. -w com.android.cts.foo.MyTestApp/android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner
Test application executes fine, showing result of the sub-tests in the MyTestApp. But, Application Manager is not exiting properly. This is observed from "ps" command output:
1114 0 52328 S app_process /system/bin com.android.commands.am.Am in....
Due to this issue, we are not able to execute the test applications in shell script.
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Dec 30, 2009
Does anybody have any insight as to why a game appliction would restart when exiting with the back button. It does not automatically restart when using the Home button to exit and this only occurs one time (after the second attempt to exit with the back button, it exits cleanly). Also, I can reproduce this consistently on the Motorola Droid, but have not been able to reproduce on the G1 or the emulator running 2.0. I've tried changing the launchMode of my activities, but have not found something that works. These are my activities:
1. Splash Screen, Single Instance, Main/Launcher 2. Help, Single Instance 3. High Score, Single Top 4. Preferences, Single Top 5. Options, Single Top 6. Game, Single Top, with SurfaceView
The steps to reproduce the problem are: 1. User starts application, launching Splash Screen Activity 2. User starts game, launching Game Activity 3. Game Activity launches Options Activity (for result) 4. Game Activity restarts with result and game begins. 5. Pressing Back Button returns to Splash Screen Activity 6. Pressing Back Button again, briefly shows home screen, then relaunches Game Activity which starts Options Acitivity 7. Pressing Back Button again finally shows the home screen
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Feb 18, 2009
the thread sleeped not killed and it wakes up after 10 sec and try to post message and it causes exception. is there any way to kill the threads those are in sleep mode while exiting the application?
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Jul 12, 2009
I am trying to retrieve all applications that are running on the android phone. Following is the code I have wrote, but how do I get the application name into my Array items?
Context context = getApplicationContext(); Resources appR = context.getResources();
ActivityManager actmgr=(ActivityManager)context.getSystemService (Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
List<RunningAppProcessInfo> appList = actmgr.getRunningAppProcesses();
CharSequence[] items = new CharSequence[appList.size()];
Vector <Process>allProcesses = new Vector <Process>();
for (int i=0;i<appList.size();i++) {
RunningAppProcessInfo rti = (RunningAppProcessInfo)appList.get (i);
Process p = new Process (rti.pid,rti.processName,rti.pkgList);
allProcesses.add(p); items[i] = p.getProcessName(); } : : :
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Apr 26, 2010
If an application begins a Service via bindService or startService, will this Service object ever run from a process different from that of the application? I ask because many Android example projects begin a service and communicate to them using IPC which seems wholly unnecessary considering that, according to the Android Service documentation, "... services, like other application objects, run in the main thread of their hosting process." IPC, AIDL, and the IBinder interface only seem useful if connecting to a Service started by an application other than your own. Is this a correct or fair understanding?
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May 12, 2009
As an exercise I attempted to add an AppWidgetProvider-derived class to one of our existing Android applications. When the widget is created and appears on the home screen, the output from adb logcat notes: W/ActivityManager(58): Unable to launch app com.mycompany.myapp/ 10042 for broadcast Intent { action=android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_ENABLED comp= {com.mycompany.myapp/com.mycompany.myapp.MyAppWidgetProvider} }: process is bad
This output comes from around line 10814 in ActivityManagerService (looking at cupcake on git). This is running on an ADP 1.5, FWIW. The same AppWidget code, once separated from the main application's project and put into its own simple project, runs as expected, so I know my manifest entries/XML/Java are all as they should be. Has anyone else run into this, or perhaps can the Android team comment on what aspect of my application might be preventing the AM from starting up the process when the widget is added to the home screen?
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Apr 22, 2009
For some reason I can't explain, when my app runs, I will on occasion get the following error message: "The application xxxxxxxx (process xxxxxx) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again". When I debug my code, it seems to break at random places that doesn't make sense. On top of that I tried to surround the entire code with a try/catch block just to try to catch the exception, but it doesn't work either. I'm suspecting it's the OS that is producing this error message but I don't know why. As far as my code goes, if there were exceptions caused by it, it would've been caught by the try/catch block. Can someone shed some light here?
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Aug 5, 2010
Is android's memory 16MB limit per Process or Application? If the limit is by process, I can make some services remote. That means the service will be in different processes, and the limit will be 16 x N.
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Mar 15, 2010
Being interested in Android development and still in the experimentation phase - there's something I haven't been able to grasp. As far as I've been able to understand, the process lifecycle and application lifecycles are separate and as such, it would be possible for the application to still to exist, even if it's process has been killed. So I guess my question would be, in what scenario could this occur and how is the application accessible if the containing process has been killed?
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Oct 31, 2010
In a comment on an epic StackOverflow question-and-answer, a gentleman who I will call Tim has outlined a scenario he says he is running into, one I have some difficulty believing. Reading somewhat between the lines, the flow would appear to be this:
1. User taps on an activity icon in the launcher 2. Process starts up 3. Application object is put in that process -- and a custom Application object loads an NDK library which initializes some statics/singletons 4. User uses application 5. User abandons application (e.g., HOME) 6. Later, user returns to application, before the first process is killed or recycled for use with another app 7. A second Application object is created, in the same process, before the first Application object is called with onTerminate()
This screws things up for Tim's app -- apparently, it does not deal with pre-initialized statics/singletons well. They were presumably counting on onTerminate() to let them clean up the NDK space. As a result, they are relying upon killProcess() (somehow...unclear under what conditions they might call this) to force their own process to go away, so their statics get cleaned up. Step #7 is what confuses me. I can see a new Application object being created, but only if the first Application object were terminated. I don't see any NDK-related bugs out on b.android.com that seem to match this complaint, though in principle it might cause problems for non-NDK apps as well. Has anyone encountered a new Application object being created in a process before the old one is terminated?
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Apr 9, 2009
After long running the Media|Player (audio mode) the app I'm developing often crashes w/ the following error: > Process android.process.media (pid 14795) has died. > Killing <my app> because provider com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider is in dying process android.process.media
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Nov 4, 2008
One of the winners of the Google app contest was Jigsaw by Mikhail Ksenzov, an app to capture and process whiteboard data. The app isn't in the market, and I can't find anything via Google about it's status. Is it still beta, or what?
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Jun 24, 2010
I have been struggling with uploading my application to android market. I keep getting the same old "The server could not process your apk. Try again.". I tried for hours to change and modify my AndroidManifest.xml file but no luck.
Here is my my AndroidManifest.xml:
CODE:............
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Sep 1, 2010
When a try to deploy my android App in the emulator, after the application(.apk) gets loaded in to the emulator, when I tap on the menu button in emulator for loading my application's initial screen, its is raising me a alert message with this information:
<pre>Sorry Application Keyboard in Process (Force Quit / Wait)..</pre>
and some other similar messages too..
How can I avoid this issue that is happening at all time, When this happens, unless I tap on Wait button, I can't able to proceed.
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Mar 2, 2010
I have develop some application using sending sms" when I try sending sms show up " The Application xxx(Process com. Bhn.xxx)has stoped unexpectedly
Any body knows , about that error ?
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Sep 15, 2010
Camera application process dies and restarts again when device is Locked/End Call Key is clicked. Steps to reproduce: 1) Launch Camera application. 2) Click on End Call key(it acts as lock screen when there is no active call) or wait till device is locked. 3) Camera application is paused and surfaceDestroyed callback is not being called. 4) Camera process has died and restarted again. I would like to know why Camera process has died after onPause is being called and restarted again when device is put to Lock state. For all key events like BackKey,HomeKey and Accept Key it is working fine.
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May 21, 2010
Sometimes the DDMS in the Eclipse not listing the process.
To do the debug in this condition,
1) Is their any way force the DDMS to list the process?
2) Any command to attach the process from the command line?
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Feb 21, 2009
At a certain point in my program, when I'm completely done with my service, my activity executes unbindService() and stopService() -- yet the process persists. I can tell that it persists because I run "ps" in "adb -e shell":
CODE:.............
"adb logcat", I can show you the sequence of events:
ACTIVITY: context.unbindService(serviceConnection);
SERVICE: onUnbind();
ACTIVITY: stopService(serviceIntent); & returns true!
SERVICE: onDestroy();
First, my activity calls unbindService(serviceConnection). According to the documentation, unbindService() will "Disconnect from an application service. You will no longer receive calls as the service is restarted, and the service is now allowed to stop at any time." So that is fine, and it is happening.
Appropriately, we see the onUnbind() call happen on the service side. According to the documentation, onUnbind() is called when "all clients have disconnected from a particular interface published by the service." So this confirms the correct service connection is being passed, and that the service is responding accordingly.
Next, my activity calls stopService(serviceIntent), and returns true. According to the documentation, stopService() does the following: "If there is a service matching the given Intent that is already running, then it is stopped and true is returned; else false is returned." Again, this is happening and returning true.
In response, the service's onDestroy() method is called. According to the documentation, onDestroy() is "Called by the system to notify a Service that it is no longer used and is being removed. The service should clean up any resources it holds (threads, registered receivers, etc) at this point. Upon return, there will be no more calls in to this Service object and it is effectively dead."
At this point I expect the process to disappear from the process table. Yet it remains indefinitely. But why?
Also, the process is so persistent that I can bind to it again, and I see that it is the same exact process responding because the PID (process ID) is the same!
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Nov 24, 2010
So, I decided to give Tridents ROM a try about 10-minutes ago.
I used ROM Manager, backed-up my old ROM, then downloaded Velocity 0.2.
Now, my phone will do nothing, it turns on and shows the red Droid eye, then when it's time to go to the home screen I get pop-up after pop-up saying that "The process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
I have no way of getting on my phone at all, what can I do?
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Jun 23, 2010
I seem to get this error message when I turn on the phone after powering off. I get to click "force close" and then it seems to work ok. "The application HTC Sense (process com.htc.launcher) has stopped unexpectedly."
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Nov 12, 2010
I Just installed a new theme (Live Wire) for my Lithium Mod Rom. Don't know if there is a connection, but when I need to update an app, I get the message something like "process android media process stopped unexpectedly" and it will not allow the update. Everything else works well. I have turned it off for awhile, and have done a battery pull.
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May 11, 2010
Every 5 minutes this error pops up "Sorry! the process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectdly. please try again." It doesnt actually close anything. It pops up even when im not in an app. So it's more annoying than anything.
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Oct 13, 2009
My application is background application.It uses WIFI lock and INTERNET permission. It is doing some socket communication with a Remote Host PC and as well as with a local android application. It will start based on incoming SMS. While my application is running, I tried to use the browser application. Within a minute my application is getting crashed.(in DDMS log, I found the application process has died) And again I restarted my application, it is always getting crashed within a minute. I could not find the reason from the DDMS log. Someone can help me to figure out the problem.
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Nov 23, 2010
Situation: Second day of owning X8. So I'm downloading some Apps and one of them took forever, the download arrow was showing activity all through the night. (I was on WiFi) This morning, I pull down the Activity bar and see that the phone thinks the Download is still continuing. I couldn't see anyway to force quit other than turning off the phone. So, how does one Kill an Activity, Application, or Process in this Android system?
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