After reading my text I just realized something!
in the service onStartCommand() i check if the passed intent is !=
null and if that is the case proceed to check the connection state.
But if the service was killed while in "idle" the intent would have
been null and i would NOT have proceeded to check the connection state
and the static boolean would now be false (senes the service has been
re-created). I made fix so that if(intent != null) { doStuff(); } else
{ checkConnection();}. Now if the service is killed and later
restarted it would check for the connection!
// Fredrik
On Jun 24, 3:18 pm, Freddman <fredd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Service that is launched from in a widget, when the service
> start's it sets a static boolean to either true or false depending if
> it's able to connect to a device in my home network.
>
> I have different buttons on my widget performing different task if we
> are connected, I also have an alarm that triggers an update at
> different intervals ( it sends a specific Intent to the widget ).
> Everything works fine, but if I leave the phone long enough it goes
> into sleep and when I return the buttons won't send any actions to the
> device because for some reason the "connected" boolean has changed
> from true to false.
>
> The strange thing is that if we are unable to connect the device, it
> prints out "Unable to connect" in the widget. But in this case it
> doesn't but the boolean has still changed to false.
> Example:
>
> if (mConnection.getConnection() != null) {
> CONNECTED = true;
> doStuff();
> } else {
> CONNECTED = false;
> updateWidget("Unable to connect");
> stopSelf();
>
> }
>
> So if the Service has been killed, and is re-launched and unable to
> connect the widget would have said "Unable to connect" instead shows a
> message that has not been valid for some minutes (and should have
> changed when the automated update triggers). I know my
> onClickListeners work because one button doesn't send a command but
> instead opens up an Activity, and that still works.....
>
> Any ideas for this strange behaviour?
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