You may also want to look into wake locks:
http://developer.android.com/intl/de/reference/android/os/PowerManager.html
to help avoid your service getting snoozed by the system.

On Aug 15, 12:13 pm, Pent <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah I was thinking the thing was being killed at first, but I have
> long-term logs going to SD
> and I would've seen it happen.
>
> Pent
>
> On Aug 15, 5:36 pm, JP <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Look for the following log entry:
> > DEBUG/Activity(xx): Process <yourappservice> (pid:xxxxxx) has died
> > In my experience this happens quite a bit on smaller devices.
>
> > On Aug 15, 8:31 am, Pent <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Users are giving me logs showing alarm manager alarms just not going
> > > off across many devices and OS versions.
>
> > > I log any calls to the alarm manager. They seem to just disappear into
> > > a black hole sometimes. I usually have them chained. One goes off, I
> > > do a check, then set another (usually a few hours). They're set by a
> > > service.
>
> > > Intent ai = new Intent( this, ReceiverStaticInternal.class );
> > > ai.setAction( Keys.ActionCodes.ACTION_ALARM );
>
> > > alarmPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(
> > >                 this,
> > >                 0,
> > >                 ai,
> > >                 PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT
> > > );
> > > alarmLastTime = ....some time in the future...
>
> > > alarmManager.set( AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, alarmLastTime,
> > > alarmPendingIntent );
>
> > > I'm checking for alarmLastTime being in the past.
>
> > > Anyone else ? Any ideas ?
>
> > > Pent

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