I've an app that has a background service running every minute. I want the service to wake the device up if it's asleep. I am using a PowerManager but the device doesn't wake up. Any ideas why? Thanks in advance.
@Override protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) { PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE); PowerManager.WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.FULL_WAKE_LOCK, "My Tag"); wl.acquire(); // do work as device is awake wl.release(); } [edit1]
This is how i start the service from an Activity.
// get a Calendar object with current time Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); // add 5 minutes to the calendar object cal.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 1); Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), AlarmReceiver.class); intent.putExtra("alarm_message", "sending outstanding transactions"); // In reality, you would want to have a static variable for the // request code instead of 192837 PendingIntent sender = PendingIntent.getBroadcast( getApplicationContext(), 192837, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT); // Get the AlarmManager service AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE); // am.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(), sender); // 86400000 = 24 hours // 43200000 = 12 hours // 3600000 = 1hr // 1800000 = 30 mins // 300000 = 5 mins am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(),60000,sender); AlarmReceiver class
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver; import android.content.Context; import android.content.Intent; import android.widget.Toast; import android.os.Bundle; public class AlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { try { Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras(); String message = bundle.getString("alarm_message"); // Toast.makeText(context, message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); Intent myIntent = new Intent(context, SendOutstandingTransactions.class); myIntent.setAction("com.carefreegroup.startatboot.MyService"); context.startService(myIntent); } catch (Exception e) { Toast.makeText( context, "There was an error somewhere, but we still received an alarm", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); e.printStackTrace(); } } } The following class calls the Activity which I want to start when the device is asleep.
SendOutstandingTransactions IntentService.
protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) { PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE); PowerManager.WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.FULL_WAKE_LOCK, "My Tag"); wl.acquire(); if (hasMessageDisplayed == false) { Intent i = new Intent(this, DisplayMessageActivity.class); i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); startActivity(i); } wl.release(); } [edit2]
@Override public void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) this.getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE); PowerManager.WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock( PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK, "com.something.alarm"); // Acquire the lock if (wl.isHeld()) wl.release(); }