onServiceConnected() not called

Question

I have a problem with using a background service.
I am using the service from 2 activities.

The first activity starts the Service with start

Answer 1

After some more research, I discovered this is a known issue in Android.

The second activity I was talking about was an activity which is used as content within a TabActivity.

The way to fix this was to call bindService(...) on the application context, instead of on the activity context using getApplicationContext().bindService(...)