Trying to start a service on boot on Android

Question

I\'ve been trying to start a service when a device boots up on android, but I cannot get it to work. I\'ve looked at a number of links online but none of the code works. Am

Answer 1

Before mounting external storage BOOT_COMPLETE is sent execute.if your app is installed to external storage it won't receive BOOT_COMPLETE broadcast message. To prevent this you can install your application in internal storage. you can do this just adding this line in menifest.xml

Some HTC devices can enable a "fast boot" feature that is more like a deep hibernation and not a real reboot and therefore should not give the BOOT_COMPLETE intent. To recover this you can add this intent filter inside your receiver: