You need to hold a wake lock the entire time you want to be running, from when onReceiveIntent() is called until you have done all of your work.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Adam K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Dianne. > > Should I be holding a wakelock in the pendingintent receiver of the > alarm (basically acquiring at the start of the onReceive() and > releasing at the end)? All I am doing in the receiver is setting off > a notification - I am not creating any other intents or accessing any > other threads or services. > > Cheers, > > Adam > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Dianne Hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> 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] >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
