I have noticed this behavior couple of times. But I have not been able to reproduce, also I do not have "<" or any other special character, except some Double values encoded as Strings.
Chander On Jan 25, 12:39 am, Christoph Studer <chstu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, so my current suspicion is that I got bitten > byhttp://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1707 > > I have one preference value containing "<" and ">" which are > improperly encoded due to above bug. My guess is that the XML parser > chokes on this value and the pref file is ignored. I think > SharedPreferences only reads data from disk after the process is > killed, so the app is fully functional until it is killed. Also, it > was not consistently reproducible because this pref value is not > always present in my application. > > I've removed "<" and ">" from the pref value and see how it goes. > > Christoph > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Christoph Studer <chstu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > I'm making use of SharedPreferences in my application. One part is a > > PreferenceActivity and the other part is a backend that accesses the > > preferences using PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(...). > > Both parts are running in the same process, but potentially in > > different threads. > > > Now, from time to time, I encounter a reset of all the preferences. It > > looks to me like this happens when my process is killed (e.g. when > > installing a new version or starting the activity or service the first > > time after a long time). However, it is not reproducible by killing > > the process manually and it does not happen consistently. > > > Are there other people who have the same problem? Is there a race > > condition that could lead to something like this? > > > The source code of my app can be found here: > >http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/source/browse/ > > > The relevant files are: > >http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/source/browse/trunk/android-clie... > > and > >http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/source/browse/trunk/android-clie... > > > Thank you, > > > Christoph --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
