Service pauses on screen lock

Question

For testing purposes i have made a service that beeps every 1 minute. (No client-server interface yet). It beeps okay when the screen in on, but when it goes to sleep the beepin

Answer 1

You want to acquire a partial wake lock (leaving the CPU running whenever sleep is entered on the device) as suggested by your code.

The issue is your presumably overriden on start releases the wake lock. You want to release your wakeLock in onDestroy .. once your service is finished running.