I was having a good deal of problems with the location listener starting / not starting / restarting when I didn't want it too (especially on Captivate phones) and it was further exacerbated by having multiple activities in my application. I ended up creating an android service to control the GPS portion of things. When you bind to the service you can get all the GPS data you need from it.
You may want to try this method. On Nov 3, 5:03 pm, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > Strange... > When starting/stopping in onResume/onPause, it works well for me. > Do you have, by chance any other location listeners registered? > Try to make a bare-bones app with only one activity that just > registers and unregisteres a location listener. See if that works. > > On Nov 3, 2:25 pm, Chirag Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the response but it didn't help. Calling > > locationManager.removeUpdates(this); causes the GPS icon to stop > > flashing so it does have some affect but it doesn't remove/stop it > > completely. When I put the application in the background and I leave > > it, I can see it's using up the cpu and battery due to the GPS being > > active. There are no other threads running in the app. This is very > > frustrating! Another problem which might be somehow related is that > > calling finish() on my Activity doesn't close it. If intercept the > > back button and call finish() the app goes into the background but the > > activity remains alive i.e when I go back to it, it doesn't start a > > new instance just resumes the old one. Any help on this would be much > > appreciated.. Thanks! > > > On Nov 2, 10:45 pm, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Get the LocationManager in onCreate(). Store this in an instance- > > > variable. > > > Request location updates in onResume(), using the instance-variable. > > > Remove location updates in onPause(), using the instance-variable. > > > > On Nov 2, 2:10 pm, Chirag Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi I'm having a problem when trying to stop location updates when the > > > > app goes into the background. In my onCreate() method I start request > > > > updates like this: > > > > > LocationManager locationManager = > > > > (LocationManager)context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); > > > > > > > > > locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, > > > > LOCATION_UPDATE_INTERVAL, LOCATION_UPDATE_DISTANCE, this); > > > > > locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, > > > > LOCATION_UPDATE_INTERVAL, LOCATION_UPDATE_DISTANCE, this); > > > > > Then in my onPause() and onDestroy() methods I request to stop the > > > > updates like this: > > > > > LocationManager locationManager = > > > > (LocationManager)context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); > > > > locationManager.removeUpdates(this); > > > > > However the GPS icon remains in the status bar and the only way to get > > > > rid of it is to manually kill the application. Am I doing anything > > > > wrong? > > > > > Cheers- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- 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
