I am having similar issues with Droid. G1 and Emulator seem to work fine. Is this related? http://community.developer.motorola.com/t5/Android-App-Development-for/AlarmManager-ELAPSED-REALTIME-WAKEUP-amp-RTC-WAKEUP-won-t-wake/td-p/4987
On Apr 29, 12:17 pm, nikhil <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to update this topic, it seems that even HTC Hero is facing the > same issue. > > Does anyone know if there are any plans to provide push notifications? > > On Mar 22, 2:46 pm, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Mark, > > > It doesn't seem to consume battery. I've tried several solutions and > > only yours is really working. > > Before I used a regular service with aAlarmManager.set(...) to > > schedule service run every minute. > > It worked fine on emulator (even when killing the service) but on real > > devices it failed often. > > I mean sometimes the Alarm did no go off after a few hours. That's why > > I tried your solution based onAlarmManager.setRepeating(...). > > > What do you think about it ? > > > On Mar 21, 9:28 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Derek wrote: > > > > Refresh is every minute. > > > > :: blink, blink :: > > > > Every *minute*? > > > > That's not really a good idea. > > > > If you have a short-term need for an every-minute bit of work, you may > > > as well use a regular Service and a Timer/TimerTask. This would, by > > > definition, eliminate your classloading problem, because you wouldn't be > > > starting and stopping the service. > > > > If you have a long-term need for an every-minute bit of work, you might > > > want to switch to developing for things that don't run on really small > > > batteries and have very little RAM. :-) > > > > While my WakefulIntentService sample uses a five-minute period, even > > > that's kinda frequent -- I only use that to limit frustration for people > > > testing the code. > > > > > Here is the WakefulIntentService I'm using: > > > > That resembles one I wrote. Releasing the lock in finally {} is a good > > > move -- I need to fix mine for that. > > > > -- > > > Mark Murphy (a Commons > > > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > > Android 2.0 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
