I've searched for 3 days now but didn't find a solution or similar problem/question anywhere else. Here is the deal:
Trigger in 1 hour - works correct
Trigger in 2 hours - Goes of in 1:23
Trigger in 1 day - Goes of in ~11:00
So why is the AlarmManager so unpredictable and always too soon? Or what am I doing wrong? And is there another way so that it could work correctly?
This is the way I register my PendingIntent in the AlarmManager (stripped down):
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager)parent.getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
Intent myIntent = new Intent(parent, UpdateKlasRoostersService.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getService(parent, 0, myIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
//Set startdate of PendingIntent so it triggers in 10 minutes
Calendar start = Calendar.getInstance();
start.setTimeInMillis(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime());
start.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 10);
//Set interval of PendingIntent so it triggers every day
Integer interval = 1*24*60*60*1000;
//Cancel any similar instances of this PendingIntent if already scheduled
alarmManager.cancel(pendingIntent);
//Schedule PendingIntent
alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP, start.getTimeInMillis(), interval, pendingIntent);
//Old way I used to schedule a PendingIntent, didn't seem to work either
//alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, start.getTimeInMillis(), pendingIntent);
It would be awesome if anyone has a solution. Thanks for any help!
Update:
2 hours ago it worked to trigger it with an interval of 2 hours, but after that it triggered after 1:20 hours. It's getting really weird. I'll track the triggers down with a logfile and post it here tomorrow.
Update:
The PendingIntent is scheduled to run every 3 hours. From the log's second line it seems like an old scheduled PendingIntent is still running:
[2012-5-3 2:15:42 519] Updating Klasroosters
[2012-5-3 4:15:15 562] Updating Klasroosters
[2012-5-3 5:15:42 749] Updating Klasroosters
[2012-5-3 8:15:42 754] Updating Klasroosters
[2012-5-3 11:15:42 522] Updating Klasroosters
But, I'm sure I cancelled the scheduled PendingIntent's before I schedule a new one. And every PendingIntent isn't recreated in the same way, so it should be exactly the same. If not , this threads question isn't relevant anymore.
