Android service stops working when phone locked

Question

I have an application which starts a service. The service has a timer and pops a notification every 30 seconds. I notice the following behavior:

• if the screen

Answer 1

I had the some problem.

You may use the WakeLock to do the work! Something like this:

PowerManager pm = (PowerManager)getApplicationContext().getSystemService(
          getApplicationContext().POWER_SERVICE);
WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK, TAG);
wl.acquire();

Then use this:

wl.release();

to release the wakelock.

Don't forger to add:

to the manifest!