Failing on Android 4.1 and 4.2

[safinahmed]

I have successfully implemented you plugin on Android 2.7 using PhoneGap 2.7.0, but when testing in version 4.1 and 4.2 I get the following error

W/dalvikvm(1074): threadid=17: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40a71930)

Do you have any idea how I might fix this ?

I was able to pinpoint it to this call in the JS side app.service.enableTimer But on the Java side, I have logging statement everywhere, and it doesn't show anything

Thanks in advance

[safinahmed]

data.ServiceRunning was returning false the first time around for some reason, but now it's ok

[greips]

@safinahmed I think I'm facing the same problem as you. Could you tell me how you solved it?

Thx :)

[safinahmed]

Hey greips, I would, but all that happened was that I ran it once in debug mode (so I could pinpoint the error) and it started working from that point on The first time around data.ServiceRunning was returning false as I mentioned (not sure why) After that I tried debugging again and data.ServiceRunning was already returning true and everything started going smoothly

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful and good luck

[teusink]

Maybe the service started bit to early in your scripts? (before Phonegap was fully loaded?). Not sure, just guessing here :).

2013/8/20 safinahmed notifications@github.com

Hey greips, I would, but all that happened was that I ran it once in debug mode (so I could pinpoint the error) and it started working from that point on The first time around data.ServiceRunning was returning false as I mentioned (not sure why) After that I tried debugging again and data.ServiceRunning was already returning true and everything started going smoothly

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful and good luck

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[greips]

@safinahmed ok... i thought you just hack into the code.

@teusinkorg nice to see you here as well :P I put my code as a response in your opened issue for 2.8, and there you can see this sequence: 08-19 18:50:14.679: D/BackgroundServicePluginLogic(27704): Check if the service is running? 08-19 18:50:14.684: D/BackgroundServicePluginLogic(27704): Service is running? 08-19 18:50:14.699: D/BackgroundServicePluginLogic(27704): Exception - null 08-19 18:50:14.719: W/dalvikvm(27704): threadid=23: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4123a930)

so I guess the problem is related to the answer to the question "Service is running?" It might return null or something unexpected and then it crashes...

[teusink]

@greips Hi :)

It fails on this command: service.isServiceRunning()

This is the function: private boolean isServiceRunning() { boolean result = false;

// Return Plugin with ServiceRunning true/ false ActivityManager manager = (ActivityManager)this.mContext.getSystemService( Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE); for (RunningServiceInfo service : manager.getRunningServices(Integer. MAX_VALUE)) { if (this.mServiceName.equals(service.service.getClassName())) { result = true; } } return result; } Source: https://github.com/Red-Folder/Cordova-Plugin-BackgroundService-Source/blob/e904dfab1dd6ac7ba1f68a8809509c3758cd176a/src/com/red_folder/phonegap/plugin/backgroundservice/BackgroundServicePluginLogic.java

It is strange that the function would return null. As it boolean is initialized with false. So I guess that it has to do something with either ActivityManager or RunningServiceInfo (that is returning null), so it fails within the function. As I do not suffer from this error I cannot test it out.

Perhaps the developer knows.

2013/8/20 greips notifications@github.com

@safinahmed https://github.com/safinahmed ok... i thought you just hack into the code.

@teusinkorg https://github.com/teusinkorg nice to see you here as well :P I put my code as a response in your opened issue for 2.8, and there you can see this sequence: 08-19 18:50:14.679: D/BackgroundServicePluginLogic(27704): Check if the service is running? 08-19 18:50:14.684: D/BackgroundServicePluginLogic(27704): Service is running? 08-19 18:50:14.699: D/BackgroundServicePluginLogic(27704): Exception - null 08-19 18:50:14.719: W/dalvikvm(27704): threadid=23: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4123a930)

so I guess the problem is related to the answer to the question "Service is running?" It might return null or something unexpected and then it crashes...

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[greips]

@teusinkorg Actually i think it fails at line 151:

Log.d(TAG, "Service is running?");

EDITED:

Actually, looking at the code it might fail at the startService() when the bind is failed... That's the only difference I can see.

[Red-Folder]

It's the same issue as https://github.com/Red-Folder/Cordova-Plugin-BackgroundService/issues/7

I'm putting comments on that issue at it's got the logcat