stopService doesn't stop's my service… why?

Question

i have a background service on my android APP that is getting my GPS position and sending it to a remote db. It work\'s fine.

The problem is when i want to stop the

Answer 1

i am sure that it's not stopped cause on my database i still recive gps positions from the emulator when i have press the button to stop the service.

You probably are not unregistering your LocationListener.

Answer 2

For those who want to send a request to server periodically, this is my solution. You should have this in your Activity or Fragment Activity

{
private static final Long UPDATE_LOCATION_TIME  = 30 * 60 * 1000l; // 30 minute

private AlarmManager alarm;
private PendingIntent pIntent; 
...

@Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();

        // Run background service in order to update users location
        startUserLocationService();

        Log.e(TAG, "onResume");
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStop() {
        super.onStop();

        stopUserLocationService();

        Log.e(TAG, "onStop");
    }

private void startUserLocationService() {
        Log.i(TAG, "Starting service...");
        Intent intent = new Intent(MainFragmentHolder.this, ServiceUserLocation.class);
        pIntent = PendingIntent.getService(this, 0, intent, 0);

        alarm = (AlarmManager)getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        alarm.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(), UPDATE_LOCATION_TIME, pIntent);
    }

    private void stopUserLocationService() {
        alarm.cancel(pIntent);
        Intent intent = new Intent(MainFragmentHolder.this, ServiceUserLocation.class);
        stopService(intent);
    }

}

Answer 3

I had the same problem. I found that if the service has GoogleApiClient connected and still get location update, the stopService() has totally no effect, the service's industry() was not called. To fix the problem, I created a function to stop the location service in the service code. Call the stopLocationService() from the activity, and then call stopService. Here is the code example:

public class myLocationService extends Service{
...

    public void stopLocationUpdates() {

        LocationService.FusedLocationApi.removeLocationUpdates(mGoogleApiClient,this);       
        mGoogleApiClient.disconnect();

    }
    ...
} 

In activity,

{
    ...
    if(mService != null && isBound) {

        mService.stopLocationUpdates();
        doUnbindService();
        stopService(new Intent(this,   myLocationService.class));

     }
     ...
} 

Answer 4

my problem solved by removing the added views to WindowManager ondestroy

public void onDestroy() {
    isRunning = false;
    super.onDestroy();
    if (checkBox!=null) {
        windowManager.removeView(getlayoutparm(fabsetting,fabrateus,fabexit,true)); 
        windowManager.removeView(checkBox); 
    }
 }

Answer 5

Have you implemented onDestroy()? If not, I believe that might be the solution - and you stop your Timer or whatever you're using to run the service within onDestroy().

A service can be stopped by calling its stopSelf() method, or by calling Context.stopService().

See this link for some more information.