BroadcastReceiver not receiving an alarm's broadcast
- by juanjux
I have a code that sets a new repeating alarm (on production I'll use a inexactRepeating), but the BroadCastReceiver I've registered for handling it is not being called.
Here is the code where I set the alarm:
newAlarmPeriod = 5000; // For debugging
Intent alarmIntent = new Intent(this, GroupsCheckAlarmReceiver.class);
PendingIntent sender = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, Constants.CHECK_ALARM_CODE,
alarmIntent, 0);
AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, System.currentTimeMillis()
+ newAlarmPeriod, newAlarmPeriod, sender);
It seems to work and it triggers and alarm every five seconds, as seen in the output of "adb shell dumpsys alarm":
DUMP OF SERVICE alarm:
Current Alarm Manager state:
Realtime wakeup (now=1269941046923):
RTC_WAKEUP #1: Alarm{43cbac58 type 0 android}
type=0 when=1269997200000 repeatInterval=0 count=0
operation=PendingIntent{43bb1738: PendingIntentRecord{43bb1248 android broadcastIntent}}
RTC_WAKEUP #0: Alarm{43ce30e0 type 0 com.almarsoft.GroundhogReader}
type=0 when=1269941049555 repeatInterval=5000 count=1
operation=PendingIntent{43d990c8: PendingIntentRecord{43d49108 com.almarsoft.GroundhogReader broadcastIntent}}
RTC #1: Alarm{43bfc250 type 1 android}
type=1 when=1269993600000 repeatInterval=0 count=0
operation=PendingIntent{43c5a618: PendingIntentRecord{43c4f048 android broadcastIntent}}
RTC #0: Alarm{43d67dd8 type 1 android}
type=1 when=1269941100000 repeatInterval=0 count=0
operation=PendingIntent{43c4e0f0: PendingIntentRecord{43c4f6c8 android broadcastIntent}}
Broadcast ref count: 0
Alarm Stats:
android
24390ms running, 0 wakeups
80 alarms: act=android.intent.action.TIME_TICK flg=0x40000004
com.almarsoft.GroundhogReader
26ms running, 2 wakeups
2 alarms: flg=0x4 cmp=com.almarsoft.GroundhogReader/.GroupsCheckAlarmReceiver
But for some reason my BroadCastReceiver is not being called when the alarm is triggered. I've declared it on the Manifest:
<receiver android:name=".GroupsCheckAlarmReceiver" />
And this is the abbreviated code:
public class GroupsCheckAlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver{
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
Toast.makeText(context, "XXX Alarm worked.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Log.d("XXX", "GroupsCheckAlarmReceiver.onReceive");
}
