Figured this one out. A connectivity change intent was causing other apps and system services (notably maps) to increase system load dramatically. One of my own responses to a connectivity change was to cancel/set several alarms.
Seems that when a device is under high load, alarm manager set/cancel calls can take around half a second so the chances were that when the ANR occurred it would be there i.e. the ANRs weren't caused by AlarmManager code hanging but by it taking so long. Pent -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

