Android AlarmManager stops when activity die

Question

I start AlarmManager with PendingIntent and on few phones Alarm is not responding. On some devices is working ok on others it fails. I have made a few tests on different pho

Answer 1

There could be a couple of different issues at work here:

• The type of alarm you are requesting (ELAPSED_REALTIME) will not wake up the device to deliver the alarm. Instead, if it expires while the device is sleeping it will be delivered the next time the device wakes.
• The triggerAtMillis value of 1000 is requesting the first alarm at 1 second after boot of the device. If the device has already been up and running and you request this alarm, the first alarm may not fire and could cause the subsequent ones to not get scheduled. This is just a guess, I've not verified by looking at the 4.4.4 AOSP sources

The alarm handling was changed in API 19 (Android 4.4) to handle collating of alarm timers (all are inexact by default) and this change could have affected things for the 2nd bullet. You might try changing the triggerAtMillis value to be (SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() + 1000)

Note that if you need the device to wake from sleep, you'll need to use a _WAKEUP alarm variant and also have your BroadcastReceiver take a wake lock which your Service or Activity releases when it is done handling the alarm.