remoteserviceexception

I'm having the Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground() in my Android service, but I cannot figure out why it is happening. My application is for media streaming, and this error only occurs when you pause from the foreground notification (turning it into a regular notification), and you then swipe the notification away, which is intended to stop my service. Here is the only method where the startForegroundService , startForeground and stopForeground methods are called: private void configureServiceState(long action) { if (action == PlaybackStateCompat.ACTION

Background I have a spare time app that I've been working on for some years ( here ), and I try to handle as many crashes as I can (I hate seeing crash reports!). The problem One recent crash that seem quite new, is this one: android.app.RemoteServiceException: at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage (ActivityThread.java:1768) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage (Handler.java:106) at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:164) at android.app.ActivityThread.main (ActivityThread.java:6494) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java) at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit