Are you starting activity that starts the service? Your logcat shows that having activity thread. If it's not true, try sending pending intent to start a service. That might be a workaround, but that should get you moving.
On Apr 12, 2:14 pm, Te-Yuan Huang <huan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to start a service when the system boots up (no activity > involved). > I have a BroadcastReceiver listening to the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETE > intent, then start a service inside the onReceive function. > From the log, I can see the BroadcastReceiver received the intent > properly. > > However, when it tries to start a service through > context.startService(); > The system complains cannot initiate the service: > > D/dalvikvm( 1393): newInstance failed: Lnet/startup/DispatchService; > not accessible to Landroid/app/ActivityThread; > D/AndroidRuntime( 1393): Shutting down VM > W/dalvikvm( 1393): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception > (group=0x4001d7e0) > E/AndroidRuntime( 1393): FATAL EXCEPTION: main > E/AndroidRuntime( 1393): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to > instantiate service net.startup.DispatchService: > java.lang.IllegalAccessException: access to class not allowed > E/AndroidRuntime( 1393): at > android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java: > 2943) > > I have been googling all night and this morning, but still couldn't > understand where went wrong. > Is there any other permission I should set, so that the > BroadcastReceiver can start the service? > Note: the BroadcastReceiver and the Service is under the same > package. > > Great thanks for any help. > > -Te-Yuan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
