In addition to acquiring a partial wake-lock, try to make your service a foreground service. This causes the service to be considered a foreground process and it shows the user a notification on the notification bar. See the method Service#startForeground(int id, Notification not) in the api-docs for more info.
Be careful with this, though. Your app may consume more battery power than the user would care for. On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2:00:27 AM UTC-5, Archana wrote: > > Hi, I m doing it as part of a research project. I need my service to keep > running even when the device is asleep(until the user presses Stop button > in the App s GUI) and monitor difference in battery consumption. I used > PowerManager(implemented WiFi Locks also) because I read that CPU will be > ON during this period. When I plug device to the computer, it is working > fine. But as soon as it is disconnected, the service seem to stop. I want > to know if this is expected behavior? Please guide me in this regard. > > On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 9:08:02 PM UTC+2, G. Blake Meike wrote: >> >> You probably realize that just seizing a WakeLock for a long time is a >> really, really horrible idea, yes? Given that, it isn't clear what you are >> actually trying to do. Obviously, your service can't run when the device >> is asleep.... >> >> You can use the Alarm Manager in >> RTC_WAKEUP<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html#RTC_WAKEUP> >> mode, >> to cause the device to be awakened, periodically, to run your service. If >> you do that, you may have to seize a WakeLock to keep the device awake >> until your service has completed its task and is ready to let the device go >> back to sleep... >> >> G. Blake Meike >> Marakana >> >> Programming Android 2ed is now in stores: >> http://bit.ly/programmingandroid >> > -- 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
