Android Services: START_STICKY does not work on Kitkat

Question

I am using services in an application to listen for how many times the user presses his/her power button. The implementation was working fine on all devices. But when I tested t

Answer 1

Seems that this is a bug present in Android 4.4, got around it with the following:

@Override
public void onTaskRemoved(Intent rootIntent) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    Intent restartService = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),
            this.getClass());
    restartService.setPackage(getPackageName());
    PendingIntent restartServicePI = PendingIntent.getService(
            getApplicationContext(), 1, restartService,
            PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);
    AlarmManager alarmService = (AlarmManager)getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
    alarmService.set(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME, SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() +1000, restartServicePI);

}

So this is a method that is overridden in the Service class itself. The reason that I am using the AlarmManager is so that Kitkat does not kill my service.