service.StartForeground disables boot on startup on HTC ONE X

[Jmu5667]

Hi

Has anyone experienced this. When a project a a reference to service.startforeground, your app will not start on a cold boot(phone powered off).

Is there a reason for this type of behavior ?

Regards

John.

 

[Erel]

Service.StartForeground is only called when your service runs so I don't see how it can affect the "start at boot" feature.

Are you sure that the service doesn't start?

 

[Jmu5667]

Yep, not in task manager. When I rem out the service.startforeground it starts

 

[Erel]

Check the logs and see if there is any related message.

 

[Jmu5667]

where will i find the logs please, never had reason to look at them before.

 

[Jmu5667]

Hi

This is the first entry in the log file for our app.

2012-10-18 12:30:20.164 I 251/WindowManager: WIN DEATH: Window{41691680 is.com.vitllink/is.com.vitllink.main paused=false}

Is WIN DEATH as bad thing ?

 

[Jmu5667]

attached is a simple foreground service that wont start on a cold boot. All it does is display the current time in the notification area. Anyone who views this post please have a go using the test_1.zip. Let me know if you experience the same problem.

 

[Jmu5667]

Here are the log file for test1, anyone who views this post pls download the application zip and play with it. Let me know if it works on your device.

Many thanks.

 

[Jmu5667]

Solved

Discovered what the issue is. If a smartphone has a fast boot option available in it's power management it can cause a service not to be loaded.

android - HTC autostart behavior - Stack Overflow

 

[Erel]

Please use File - Export as zip when uploading projects. Otherwise you are uploading many unnecessary files.

 

[Jmu5667]

Will do.

 

[viljemto]

Hi,

have you maybe found any solution to this problem? I have the same problem with Htc One V (Android 4.0.3). With Htc Desire S (Android 2.3.5) works OK.

On both devices I have Fast boot enabled. I have made test project in Eclipse. Result: on both devices Start on boot works OK.

 

[Erel]

The problem is with Service.StartForeground? You can use StartServiceAt to schedule your service to start in a few minutes and then call Service.StartForeground.

 

[viljemto]

I just use a service and in Project --> Service properties: Start as boot (yes)

 

[Erel]

HTC implemented a special fast boot mode. In some cases it breaks the standard way to start a service after boot.

If the problem is with Service.StartForeground then you can try my suggestion.

 

[viljemto]

Can you explain this a little please? Service.StartForeground or StartServiceAt?
I just use a simple service, which shows ToastMessageShow.

That is a little more strange today. On Htc Desire S I ran out of battery. Today it also does not want to start service at boot. Before it did.

 

[Erel]

I'm sorry but I don't think we understand each other. This thread is about the effect of Service.StartForeground. You should start a new thread for your question.