I'll try the time zone problem. The reason I used your WakefulIntentService was just to make sure the application stays awake, I'm going to remove this now as it is working just as well as a regular service. This service is started from another service, which was triggered by an alarm. In regards to you underground issue, it's a not a problem. The service that starts this service will call the stopSelf method after 20 seconds, which is more than the 13 seconds it waits for a location.
On Dec 20, 7:42 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > dapaintballer331 wrote: > > If somebody can get this to work for me, using an emulator on the 1.5 > > sdk, I will send them $25 via paypal if you need it. I am using the > > android 1.5 emulator. > > > Problem: I see the satilite icon on the top of the phone, but when I > > send the device multiple coordinates, is never runs the > > onLocationChange method. > > I don't think requestLocationUpdates() will work reliably from an > IntentService. The, um, intent of an IntentService is for it to shut > down (via stopSelf()) after it has exhausted its queue of work. > > Also, I don't see where an IntentService will be called with onStop(). > You might want to slap an @Override on there to confirm. If it does not > exist, as I suspect, then you will never release your location listener, > and that is seriously bad with an IntentService. > > My guess is that you're trying to create a scheduled task, triggered by > an alarm, that will look up the current location and do something with > it. While the IntentService (Wakeful or otherwise) is normally a fine > answer, I suspect that it will give you loads of problems in this case, > since it automatically stops when the Intent is delivered and consumed. > You will probably need to fall back to a regular service, calling > stopSelf() after you have gotten your location fix, and using a WakeLock > to keep yourself awake in the interim. Even then, things could get a bit > icky (e.g., what if the user is underground and you never get a fix?). > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android 1.6 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books -- 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
