Android Service goes to sleep when phone locked
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Hi all,
I have very strange problem. I have created app which uses Android Service. Service is reporting to external application via TCP every minute. Everything works as long as I have USB cable (with debug) attached to the phone. When I disconnect debug cable Android Service goes to sleep after a few seconds.
Service uses QTimer to report updates to external app every minute, and when service goes to sleep network connection is still active, just QTimer inside Android Service doesn't count. I am not an expert but it looks like main event loop inside Service just stops.
To illustrate the problem I have prepared small example, I know I should paste it here, but there are to many files, including gradle-wrapper.jar (I was following this example qt-android-create-android-service-using-qt/ so my example is here
It counts seconds, first count is from QTimer inside Android Service, second is QTime difference between time saved inside Service and current QTime when reporting QTimer timeout, they should be the same but if you lock the phone they aren't after some 20 seconds.
Can someone confirm that ? Is there something wrong with what I'm doing?
Best Regards
Marek -
Hi all,
I have very strange problem. I have created app which uses Android Service. Service is reporting to external application via TCP every minute. Everything works as long as I have USB cable (with debug) attached to the phone. When I disconnect debug cable Android Service goes to sleep after a few seconds.
Service uses QTimer to report updates to external app every minute, and when service goes to sleep network connection is still active, just QTimer inside Android Service doesn't count. I am not an expert but it looks like main event loop inside Service just stops.
To illustrate the problem I have prepared small example, I know I should paste it here, but there are to many files, including gradle-wrapper.jar (I was following this example qt-android-create-android-service-using-qt/ so my example is here
It counts seconds, first count is from QTimer inside Android Service, second is QTime difference between time saved inside Service and current QTime when reporting QTimer timeout, they should be the same but if you lock the phone they aren't after some 20 seconds.
Can someone confirm that ? Is there something wrong with what I'm doing?
Best Regards
Marek@Marek please provide your example as github repo
