[android-developers] Re: startForeground() broken on Incredible

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Jeffe
On Jul 9, 7:16 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > Well, they should be able to use it if they keep your activity in the > foreground, right? What they can't do is multitask or launch your > player from an app widget. You're right, and we'll be notifying them of that (lots of fun compacting that message int

Re: [android-developers] Re: startForeground() broken on Incredible

2010-07-09 Thread Mark Murphy
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Peter Jeffe wrote: > As a result, our > thousands of users on the Incredible won't be able to use our > equalizer function. Well, they should be able to use it if they keep your activity in the foreground, right? What they can't do is multitask or launch your playe

[android-developers] Re: startForeground() broken on Incredible

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Jeffe
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9663 that is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-d

[android-developers] Re: startForeground() broken on Incredible

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Jeffe
Submitted as http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9663: On the Incredible (and possibly other devices) the process is always put in the background scheduling group when it doesn't have a visible activity, even though the app's service has called startForeground(). This causes it to ge

[android-developers] Re: startForeground() broken on Incredible

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Jeffe
On May 27, 3:05 pm, Nathan wrote: > I could see that there could be a family of bugs in services on the > Incredible. I'm hoping to meet with someone local who has one. Yes, any service that expects to have foreground priority because it's called startForeground() will be sorely disappointed on t

[android-developers] Re: startForeground() broken on Incredible

2010-05-27 Thread Nathan
I don't know anything about this, but I do have beta testers reporting a phone reset on the Incredible if my downloadservice runs for much longer than ten minutes. I had thought that maybe startforeGround was too intense and tying up the CPU, but based on this information the opposite may be true.