I'm getting a steady trickle of reports from ICS users that two separate app features are not working reliably on their devices, and I'm hoping someone else here has some experience they can share. Both features involve Alarms; both are working fine on my Galaxy Nexus, and I've had no reports of trouble with either from pre-ICS devices.
The app in question is a clock, and the first feature is a true alarm. As in, the user wants to wake up at 7AM, sets an alarm in my app, and behind the scenes my app calls AlarmManager.set() with an appropriate PendingIntent. Works fine on my GNex, but from users, I get reports like this: the alarm doesn't ring on time unless I'm actively using my phone. That > kind of defeats the purpose of an alarm. The alarm that I set is for 10pm > and on multiple occasions, it rang at 10:03, 10:07, or even later. On those > occasions, I actually had to "remind" the alarm to ring by clicking > around on my homescreen. The second feature is a clock AppWidget which works via a repeating Alarm; basically, I set up a PendingIntent in my widget's onEnabled() event, then call AlarmManager.SetRepeating() to fire it every minute. The user reports say that it runs for a while, and then stops - but again, I can't repro this at all. Unfortunately, that's about all the information I have. I've been unable to get a useful log file from anyone for either problem. And it's possible that these two problems are unrelated, but it seems like quite a coincidence if so. From where I'm sitting, it sure looks like a single problem: sometimes the Alarm intent just doesn't arrive. I can post source code if anyone thinks it would help, but I'm not convinced there's anything "wrong" in my code. My alarm code is actually based on the AOSP clock app, and I've just confirmed that the alarm-setting routine in the ICS source is identical to my code. As for the widgets, I have another app using clock widgets and virtually the same code, and I've had no problems reported with that one. So, it's a real head-scratcher, but I'd be interested in any thoughts that anyone might have. Thanks! String -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
