Thanks, i will check your examples. > Assuming mWl is the same instance in onDestroy() as you got in > onCreate()
Thats correct. > That may be a matter of the GPS radio turning off despite the WakeLock. > Do you have any evidence that GPS is still on? > > I don't know much about that, except that keeping the GPS radio on means > very short battery life. I wasn't 100% clear, its location updates from telephony manager, so when the phone gets a new LAC code rather then GPS location updates. On 29 July, 12:57, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Ne0 wrote: > > Can you confirm if i am using WakeLock in the correct way please. > > > //My Service > > public void onCreate() { > > ... > > mPm = (PowerManager) getSystemService > > (Context.POWER_SERVICE); > > mWl = mPm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK, "MGS"); > > mWl.acquire(); > > ... > > } > > > public void onDestroy() { > > ... > > mWl.release(); > > ... > > } > > Assuming mWl is the same instance in onDestroy() as you got in > onCreate(), that sure looks OK. You can test it by forking a thread to > dump a message to LogCat every second and then SystemClock.sleep()-ing > the rest of the second. If you get the LogCat messages, you know your > service is still running. > > You can see a more elaborate example of WakeLocks and services in one of > my book examples: > > http://commonsware.com/AdvAndroid/ > > (click the Source Code link, and look at SystemServices/Alarm) > > That is more simulating work coming in from multiple sources, including > a boot-time-scheduled alarm, into an IntentService, and the > IntentService having to do a bit of work to ensure it stays awake while > there is work to do. > > > The intention is to keep the CPU going so my service can log when a > > location change happens, works as i want while the phone is fully > > awake, though even with the above WakeLock it stops logging the > > changes. > > That may be a matter of the GPS radio turning off despite the WakeLock. > Do you have any evidence that GPS is still on? > > I don't know much about that, except that keeping the GPS radio on means > very short battery life. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Development Wiki:http://wiki.andmob.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
