Fwiw, I am not aware of any issues with the alarm itself not waking up the phone. Typically bugs in this area are a result of applications not holding wake locks the entire time needed.
Note that the behavior when not holding a wake lock can change significantly between devices, depending on things like how often sync is running. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Adam K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- Dianne Hackborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
