I noticed another application on the market (called "Missed Call") has a big message in the about section about how it's not possible to keep a service running forever. Is this a limitation of the Android OS itself? It seems to me that this "feature" is a real killer for some applications that must stay running constantly.
On Jan 1, 11:25 am, bparker <cbpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any way to do this without keeping the phone tied to a PC? > > On Dec 29 2008, 6:17 pm, Tomei Ningen <tomei.nin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > You can run logcat in a DOS window. That way it will keep as much log as > > you have disk space > > > DOS> adb logcat > file > > > ________________________________ > > From:bparker<cbpar...@gmail.com> > > To: Android Developers <android-developers@googlegroups.com> > > Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 5:21:20 PM > > Subject: [android-developers] Re: Service will not stay running > > > I tried the Logcat app and it seems that it (the app itself) only > > keeps about 2 hours worth of data, whereas the Logcat view in eclipse > > shows me at least twice that much... but still not enough to catch the > > service being stopped, which usually takes at least a day or more. > > > Any ideas on how to log data for this long? > > > On Dec 28, 7:16 pm, Al <alcapw...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > Does Logcat show any reason for killing the Service? You can install > > > Logcat app fromhttp://code.google.com/p/android-random/, which will > > > show logcat on the phone. You can also save the data to a text file, > > > but by default, it saves it to /data/{package-name}/file, which we > > > can't access. You can use this patch to save it to the SD > > > Card:http://pastebin.com/m130c099d > > > > Hopefully that'll shine more light on why it gets killed. > > > > On Dec 28, 6:55 pm,bparker<cbpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have a service which is dynamically registered from within an > > > > activity. The service listens for incoming and outgoing phone calls, > > > > so it needs to stay running all the time. But after about 1 day, > > > > without even launching any other applications, the parent activity is > > > > killed and the service stops running. How can I prevent this? > > > > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
