BroadcastReceivers in ICS

Question

I had written a small utility app just for my phone, which stopped the annoying carrier provided jingle which played on boot up. I noticed the sound didn\'t play if I put th

Answer 1

If you wound up completely uninstalling and reinstalling the app, the problem is that you have no activity.

Starting with Android 3.1, applications are installed in a "stopped" state, where no broadcast receivers will work until the user manually launches an activity. This is an anti-malware move. I blogged about this ~9 months ago.