Android :: Service Dies Without Calling OnDestroy
Dec 15, 2009
A service is setup by an activity with startService(service_intent). This service is meant to run 24 hours a day. After some amount of time, 5 or 6 hours sometimes but its not predictable, the service is killed.In the database log, the destroyed message does not show up and the notification #1 is not cancelled. Android makes no attempt to restart the service. The database log will show the startup of the replacement service if I trigger it by visiting the activity. What can I do to keep this service running or at least get it restarted by android automatically?
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Oct 14, 2010
i`ve got some problems with finish() method. I expect what after calling on my Activity finish() method onStop and onDestroy must be triggered(or am wrong??), in majority of examples they are, but Scenario: - reboot phone - launch activity - invoke finish() onPause is triggered but afterwards they are no calls to onStop() and onDestroy()I`ve noticed, that those calls are triggered after launching any other activity.
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Sep 30, 2009
I use AlarmManager to restart my service, code is:
CODE:........................
After 5 seconds, BootCompleteReceiver will startServcie(), but only see onStart() not onCreate() calls.
Is the way of destroying the service wrong? BootCompleteReceiver is written in AndroidManifest.xml
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May 26, 2009
I'm implementing a service that contains a thread to handle all time consuming operation. My core service logic is in a different thread than the ui or main thread. According to the Android document, when the OS plans to free some system resource, it will call onDestroy () on the service and only when onDestroy() returns it will kill the process hosting the service, thus giving opportunity to the service to cleanup.Now, when onDestroy() is called, I want to send a message to my service thread to do the necessary cleanup. Only when the service thread acknowledges that the cleanup or shutdown is complete, onDestroy () should return. I could find a way to send asynchronous messages to threads and the corresponding processing of the messages, but not able to figure out how I need to implement onDestroy(), such that it would send a message to the service thread and should wait for a result, before returning.
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Nov 24, 2010
In onCreate method of Activity, it binds to a remote service and makes use of AIDL intefaces. Is it required to unbind from the remote service when onDestroy is called on screen orientation change.?
If the activity un-bounded from the remote service in onDestroy and if no other contexts are bound to remote service, is remote service likely to get stopped losing the state that it maintains.?
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Jul 27, 2010
I'm the author of SystemPanel, which includes task management (killing) features. I've recently noticed a problem with my Droid X where it suddenly will stop accepting a charge. For example, the screenshot below shows that the phone plugged in overnight, yet battery continues to drain: With a bit of testing, it appears that killing the app "usb" results in this behavior occurring. Once it has been killed, the phone will never accept a charge until it the phone is rebooted.
I would greatly appreciate if a fellow Droid X owner could verify this for me. To do this, use SystemPanel (Lite version will work fine, as will ANY task killer, or the OS' own task killer) to terminate the "usb" program. The full name of the process is "com.motorola.usb". Any task manager should also reproduce the behavior if you perform a "end all" or "kill all" operation. Then unplug the device from USB/AC power (if it was plugged in) and then reconnect it. You should see no indication of a USB connection and/or charging if your device suffers the same problem. The issue can then be corrected by rebooting the phone. Here is the process as shown by SystemPanel: It appears that Motorola has incorrectly allowed this process to be user-killable and/or has failed to automatically restart it in the event that it terminates or otherwise fails. Would greatly appreciate feedback on this problem, if this is not unique to my device, I'll be modifying SytemPanel immediately to avoid ever killing this process.
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Sep 6, 2010
I am currently working on an application in android where I need to call the Web Service. I am working in Android and I don't have an idea about how to call a web Service in Android.So, can anybody please help me out in how to call a Web Service in Android Programming.
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Dec 17, 2009
I am trying to develop an application which calls the asp.net web service from android. I tried a lot but i got an exception while calling the SOAP_ACTION. I have tried with the localhost, local IP Address and also i have taken URL from the internet but it throws an exception.
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Nov 19, 2010
i am writing an app in which i need a background service to call an activity and show some result.
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Aug 30, 2010
So I'm working on a service that will handle requests to send data to a socket.I've done socket programming in a service before, but only within the same application. I'd like this to just sit and do nothing until any application wants to give it data to send. That's all well and good.I have register an intent filter and the usual stuff and can process the data. But I want to process the data coming from different activities in different threads (subsequent calls from the same application will be computed on the same thread).Is there a way to get the calling package or app or whatever? I'd prefer not to require passing in an identifier as an extra to prevent spoofing. (It's not a serious security concern, it's just each application needs its data processed in the order that it's received.)
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Nov 24, 2010
when I call web service from my machine using 'localhost' or 127.0.0.1 , I got exception. But if I give the public IP, it works fine. Why it is happening?And also, If I use my public IP, I can't access web service. But If I put the same code in another machine, and call that web service using the IP address of that machine, It works fine.
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Jun 7, 2010
I'm trying to use .net SOAP web service with ksoap2 lib. Example from http://www.vimeo.com/9633556 shows how to do it correct. Below the code from that example. everything shoud work ok, but when I try to do a call inself (httpTransport.call) I get "Permission denied (maybe missing INTERNET permission)" exception. Moreover, I don't see in the Application info window among permissions the internet permission alert. Tried this on emulator and Google phone. Will be very appreciated if somebody could help with it. Thanks.
public void CelsiusToFahrenheit()
{
String SOAP_ACTION = "http://tempuri.org/CelsiusToFahrenheit";
String METHOD_NAME = "CelsiusToFahrenheit";
String NAMESPACE = "http://tempuri.org/";
String URL = "http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx";..............
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Sep 3, 2010
I'm pretty sure that android services are going to be the end of me.I have almost no hair left after the last few days.At first I was having a heck of a time getting the service to bind on an onclick of a button, got that straightened out from help here yesterday. Now I actually want the service to bind in the onCreate() method of the activity. That part is no problem, works as intended.My service is actually a socket service to connect TCP sockets to a socket server that I wrote.If I put the call to the method from the bound service mBoundService.StartSocketServer() inside a button click, bingo, works great. But I need this to fire up immediately when the activity loads, so directly under my bindService() call within my onCreate() method of the activity.When I place the call to start the socket inside my onCreate() I get a force-close.
This method (StartSocketServer()) spawns a new thread then opens the socket on that thread to my remote machine.I'm guessing that the problem lies with the new thread generation before the activity fully loads not sure.LogCat is fairly cryptic here. It does say something about thread attach failed, then shows an uncaught handler exception that has "Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException" within it.Again, if I put this call to the method inside a button click, I"m in business, if it's in the onCreate() it fails. Is there some way inside an activity (presuming that my assumption is correct that it needs to fully load before spawning a new thread) to call the StartSocketServer() after it's loaded: ala body.onLoad() in html?
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Jun 3, 2010
I have a .Net Web Service which returns a single integer value. When i call upon it from my application, no value is returned. Nothing at all really happens. I set up breakpoints and watched it's progress and it seems the problem is coming from when i get to this line:androidHttpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION, envelope);
I have a hunch that my URL string is the problem. I've tried replacing the "localhost" in my URL string with my local and network ip with no luck. Whenever i replace the localhost with the ip in my browser i get Server Cannot Access or Unable to Connect pages. Does anyone know a solution to this problem?
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May 24, 2010
I am trying to call a push notification background service from BroadcastReceiver class, but my application crashes.When I call this service through an Activity it's working, but my goal is to call this service from a BroadcastReceiver.
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Nov 11, 2010
I'm trying to port an app over I wrote for the new Windows 7 Phone to the Android OS. I have Eclipse and the Android SDK. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how I might call my WCF web service from my Java app? The WCF service is very basic and uses Soap 1.1 (basic http binding)
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Sep 14, 2010
Suppose I have code in the onStart() handler of my Service to launch a thread to do some stuff and then call stopSelf().stopSelf() gets called before the thread finishes.What exactly happens?I've tested this out myself and my thread continues to execute until it is finished.Does Android hear the stopSelf() call, but postpone it until the thread is finished?
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Nov 19, 2010
I am having one web service and I have call that from the Android application by passing double value along with other values like String, int and float. When i call the web service I am getting Runtime exception saying cannot serialize the double value. Please some one help me to do call the web service if you know the solution.
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Jul 2, 2010
I am trying to call my service class's stopService() method from my activity. But I don't know how to access stopservice method from my activity class. I have the below code but its not working. This is HomeScreen class:
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
enablecheck = (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.enablecheck);
enablecheck.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener(){
@Override
public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView, boolean isChecked) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if(enablecheck.isChecked()){
startService(new Intent(HomeScreen.this, AutoService.class));
} else {
stopService(new Intent(HomeScreen.this, AutoService.class));
} } });
}
This is Service Class:
public class AutoService extends Service {
private static final String TAG = "AutoService";
private Timer timer;
private TimerTask task;
@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
return null;
} @Override
public void onCreate() {
Toast.makeText(this, "Auto Service Created", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Log.d(TAG, "onCreate");
int delay = 5000; // delay for 5 sec.
int period = 5000; // repeat every sec.
timer = new Timer();
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(task = new TimerTask(){
public void run() {
System.out.println("done");
} }, delay, period);
}
@Override
public boolean stopService(Intent name) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
timer.cancel();
task.cancel();
return super.stopService(name);
} }
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Jun 29, 2010
Is there a way that a Service can report back to the calling activity when the Service has reached a particular stage of processing? Consider a music player activity that initiates the actual music playing in the background as an Android Service. I want to detect and inform the Activity when the Service has reached the Mediaplayer's onPrepared. Is there a way that the Service can tell the calling Activity when the MediaPlayer's onPrepared is called, to let the Activity know that the audio is prepared and ready to play?I am basically looking to see if there is work around, rather than having a thread in the activity, pinging constantly to check if the Service has reached onPrepared.
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Jun 9, 2012
I am trying to reduce the battery consumption on my Note. I have several apps which use the GPS but the gpsd process is being called quite a lot, even when I am not using any GPS app.
Simple question - now that I have established which service is being called (using better battery stats) is there a way to determine which app(s) are using it? GT-N7000
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Nov 5, 2010
My Android application is calling a JSON service via HTTP and I would like to only allow my application to call the service and block others.What is the best way to do it?One way I can think of is using private/public key encryption. Can we embed a private key securely in the application?
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Dec 7, 2009
am developing an app that needs to track incoming calls. I have set up a phonelistener which is launched form a service like so
TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager)getSystemService (TELEPHONY_SERVICE); tm.listen(mPhoneListener, PhoneStateListener.LISTEN_NONE);
This seems to work for a while but then fails to fire after - say an hour. I have tried relaunching the listening in a timertask every 60 seconds but this does not seem to work. Is there a way of keeping a listener alive for a long period of time. I can only assume the system is garbage collecting it.
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Nov 12, 2010
We have a very simple ViewFlipper widget in a layout. The following trace back happens when it crashes. This does not trace back into our application code at all.
There is a similar bug logged for 2.1 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6191
We are running on 2.2 and getting this error.
Is this fixed or is it necessary to create a workaround subclass?
CODE:....................
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Aug 20, 2010
I understand that the system may kill the activity without calling onDestroy(). Say I have a MediaPlayer that runs even when it's not visible, I would be releasing the player in onDestroy() method.Now, if the system decides to kill the activity after calling onPause() and never called onDestroy(), what does it mean for my MediaPlayer? Is it ever released? This is bigger problem for Camera since I think it requires to be released for other activities to use it.
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Jun 21, 2010
Testing onDestroy.
Q: does using a lot of RAM in one application always lead to onDestroy being called on Activities in other applications?
To try and figure this out I created two separately installed applications. The first just logs its lifecycle transitions and the second allocates a chunk of memory each time you press a button.
What I saw was the second application eventually suffered a fatal Out Of Memory Error force close. The onDestroy method was not called on the first logging application and when I switched back to it onResume was called.
My conclusion is that using a lot of memory in a single application will lead to a fatal Out Of Memory Error without onDestroy first being called on Activities in other applications. The documentation left me expecting an onDestroy on the logging application since the foreground application was trying to allocate more memory.
Does the above sound right? What's a good way to test the onCreate/ onDestroy lifecycle methods as they relate to low memory?
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Jul 21, 2009
Every once in a while my activity gets restarted after it's destroyed instead of being created again. I.e. I see:
CODE:..........
instead of:
CODE:............
Looking back in my log I can see this happening periodically, but no apparent pattern to it. This certainly isn't in the state diagram, and needless to say this doesn't make for a happy app.
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Sep 17, 2009
Each time I switch the orientation of the device, onStop() and onDestroy() are called. They are also called when I close the Avtivity (dismiss()), and when I press 'back' key. In onStop() or onDestroy() methods : how can I know how I can here ? I'd like to run some code when I close the Activity (back button), but not if I change screen orientation
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Jun 30, 2010
when writing a ContentProvider I have to implement the onCreate()-method, in which I establish my database connection. But to write the changes I made to the database I have to close the database on some point. Does something like a onDestroy()-method exist for ContentProviders or is there some intent I have to listen to, which is fired before killing my process?
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Oct 28, 2009
When user presses BACK key, my activity's onDestroy is called and then it is killed. Is there a way (by overridding Activity.onKeyDown??) to simply put the activity into background without killing it? I want the BACK key to act like the HOME key (which doesn't kill my app), except I want to show the activity immediately below my activity.
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