[android-developers] Re: Alarms/Wake Locks/Sound notification question

Thank you for your questions. I will add a sample app in the next
days. In addition I will test out if I am able to play simple audio
file in stand by mode on the Nexus One.

Regards

On 28 Apr., 22:40, nikhil <nik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you atleast able to play a sound file when you are in stand by
> mode?
>
> On Apr 28, 2:24 pm, code_android_festival_way
>
>
>
> <festival.s...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > So well I have tested that out once more.
>
> > I have tried different wake lock levels up to the full wake lock. It
> > doesn't make any difference. As a last test I have set up a simple
> > notification with:
> > ...
> > notification.defaults = Notification.DEFAULT_ALL;
> > nm.notify(123,notification);
> > ...
>
> > This one gets started inside the WakefullIntentService which gets
> > started every five minutes triggered by an Alarm which is sending a
> > broadcast caught by a BroadcastReceiver which starts the service. As
> > long as I have the Nexus One plugged in everything is fine. As long as
> > I have the screen on everything is fine. But when I set the  phone to
> > stand by unplugged from USB I am only getting the vibration but no
> > sound (no LED as well, but ok that is caused by the buggy Android
> > 2.1).
>
> > To sum up sound notifications do not work in stand by using this way.
> > I have no idea how to get them working. Perhaps someone got another
> > device running Android 2.x and would like to test that one out.
>
> > I would love to hear your opinions.
>
> > On 28 Apr., 18:45, code_android_festival_way
>
> > <festival.s...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Thank you very much for your answers. I will try all of your devices.
>
> > > Regarding the following:
> > > "I dont know why you have multiple
> > > notifications when you can have all in one.. "
>
> > > I'd like to stop each notification on its own. So starting them
> > > together would not give me the choice to stop vibrate or sound on its
> > > own.
>
> > > Regards
>
> > > On 27 Apr., 20:13, MB <manoj.bi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Perhaps, for the sound notification to fire, the screen should be on.
> > > > Try acquring wakelock using different flags.
>
> > > > I would start with SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK and move all the way up to
> > > > FULL_WAKE_LOCK.
>
> > > > On Apr 27, 9:43 am, code_android_festival_way
>
> > > > <festival.s...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hmm does really no one got an idea what could be wrong here?
>
> > > > > Regards
>
> > > > > On 25 Apr., 19:44, code_android_festival_way
>
> > > > > <festival.s...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Well you are right that this will drain the battery pretty heavily. At
> > > > > > the moment I am using the broadcast which gets fired every n seconds
> > > > > > and gets caught by the receiver which handles the notifications in its
> > > > > > onReceive method. But well the problem remains. I haven't found a
> > > > > > possibility to get the sound noitification working during the wake
> > > > > > lock.
>
> > > > > > If someone has got a solution for that problem I would love hearing
> > > > > > about it. :)
>
> > > > > > On 25 Apr., 17:17, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > code_android_festival_way wrote:
> > > > > > > > What do you mean exactly by that? Well I know that 30 seconds or even
> > > > > > > > lower is very frequent but I would let the user decide how often he
> > > > > > > > would like to be notified.
>
> > > > > > > I mean you may chew up a fair bit of battery life constantly cycling
> > > > > > > through processes, starting and stopping receiver and/or service
> > > > > > > components every 30 seconds. I'd use the battery blame screen in
> > > > > > > Settings to test and see how bad this is in reality.
>
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