How do you not loose network connectivity without holding on to wakelock? Any secrets :P
Or does the user keep the app active untill the download ends. On Jun 4, 10:02 am, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't even used a wakelock yet, so I don't think a wakelock is the > problem. > > I've thought of using a brief wakelock around a single file download. > But I also think that users can leave the phone plugged in if they > want the download to complete soon. > > Nathan > > On Jun 3, 9:15 pm, nikhil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am not sure about the exact reason but I feel it was because of > > mishandling of partial wakelock. Like your app, I had a service which > > remained active all time and for that I had to hold on to the > > wakelock. The phone did not restart if I commented out my wakelock > > code. Interesting thing is it never restarted untill I tried to change > > call forward setting or use car navigator app (thankfully, this was > > observed when we tested the app for any kind of conflicts) .Then I > > realised that I should not hold on to the wakelock for long, to avoid > > conflicts. When I went the AlarmManager way all conflicts vanished. > > Are you holding on to wakelock? If you are, you may try commenting out > > that part and keep your app active until download is complete so that > > you don't loose network connection. Just perform few tests with the > > wakelock thing hopefully you should get the answer. You may have to > > split your file download into batches so that you can release the > > wakelock. > > > On Jun 3, 3:28 pm, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 3, 12:47 pm, nikhil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Nathan, > > > > > I had similar issue long time back when I had implemented the service > > > > architecture. I had observed few things: > > > > > 1. My phone (Nexus One) used to restart (with my service running in > > > > background) when I tried to change the call forward setting or I tried > > > > to use the google car navigator app. > > > > 2. The phone did not restart if it was plugged into a computer. (May > > > > be related to network connectivity.) > > > > > I tried all kind of stuff the only way I was able to get my app > > > > working was by referring to Mark Murphy's wakefulintentservice > > > > structure which uses the alarm manager. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Did you find out why the restart was triggered? Or did you simply > > > managed to avoid it? Was it because of many notifications, or just the > > > fact that it was running for long time, or that Android tried to kill > > > it? > > > > The alarm manager isn't appropriate for this task, at least I don't > > > think so, because it is not a service that wakes up periodically and > > > does some work. > > > > It has a defined list of files to download and then finishes, but it > > > is actively working all that time. > > > > Nathan -- 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
