Ping. Anyone? It seems for certain people the alarm can never wake up the phone. For others (like myself) it pretty much always wakes up the phone.
Thanks, Adam On Nov 16, 8:15 pm, "Adam K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed that AlarmManager does not always seem to wake the device > correctly when using types RTC_WAKEUP or ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP. It > seems like whatever intent was pending is triggered later after the > Menu key is hit. > > I realize you need to hold a wakelock for any activity fired after the > initial pending intent event - but I thought at least the pending > intent should execute without a wakelock being required? All I want > to do is set off a Notification when the alarm is complete - nothing > else. > > It does seem to work 90% of the time without an issue, just not 100% > of the time. Has anyone else noticed this? > > Here is a summarized version of what I'm doing: > > //in main activity, set alarm for some time in future > myPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(myContext, 0, new > Intent(myContext, MyReceiver.class), 0); > myAM = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE); > myAM.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, getTriggerTime(), myPendingIntent); > > //in MyReceiver.class, onReceiver(), trigger notification > NotificationManager myNM = (NotificationManager) > context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE); > Notification notif = new Notification(); > ..setup notification to play alarm, vibrate etc. > myNM.notify(MYNOTIFICATION_ID, notif); > > Thanks, > > Adam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
