Detecting HTC power up on restart

Question

So I am having an issue where I need to be able to determine restart on an HTC device. I can determine ShutDown, but detecting a complete restart seems to be a bit more challenging. After including every possible Android permission and intent-filter I can think of I have come to the conclusion that I must be missing something from HTC. Is there a permission or something that I need from HTC directly to determine phone restarts?

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />

....

 <!-- RECEIVERS -->
 <receiver android:name="com.smashingboxes.speed.BootReceiver"
    android:enabled="true" >
    <intent-filter>
         <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
         <action android:name="com.htc.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON" />
         <!-- Just adding this to show that I have tried everything :P -->
         <action android:name="android.intent.action.ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED" />
    </intent-filter>
 </receiver>
 <receiver android:name="com.smashingboxes.speed.ShutdownReceiver" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.ACTION_SHUTDOWN" />
        <action android:name="com.htc.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWEROFF" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

Again, ShutdownReceiver is doing it's thing just fine whether it is a restart or a full hard power down/power up. But the BootReceiver is only detecting hard power up's and not HTC's restart. So when I restart I can tell I shut down, but it never detects BOOT_COMPLETED... Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you can tell on a shutdown event occurs, and since you can subscribe for the "ON-BOOT-COMPLETED" event - why not combine both of them? Save the date on your app SharedPrefernces for the last time a "Shutdown" event happened - after a "On boot completed" event compare the date to the one's saved - if the time difference is lower than (per say) 5 minutes do your "restart" action.

I added a code example which works for me (galaxy S4 running android 4.3) I dont have the main activitis but those are not necessary for your example (just throw a blank one or copy the service and bootloader to yours...) -

manifest -

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.servicelifecycle"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="7"
        android:targetSdkVersion="15" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />

    <application
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <activity
            android:name=".StartedServiceActivity"
            android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >
        </activity>

        <service android:name=".StartedService" >
        </service>
        <service android:name="BoundService" >
        </service>

        <activity android:name="BoundServiceActivity" >
        </activity>
        <activity android:name="MainActivity" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

        <service android:name="BoundedServiceUsingMessangerInterface" >
        </service>

        <activity android:name="MessangerServiceActivity" >
        </activity>
        <activity android:name="IntentServiceActivity" >
        </activity>

        <service android:name="IntentServiceDemo" >
        </service>
        <service android:name="ForeGroundServiceDemo" >
        </service>

        <activity android:name="ForeGroundServiceActivity" >
        </activity>
        <activity android:name=".AIDLActivity" >
        </activity>

        <service
            android:name="BoundedServiceUsingAIDL"
            android:exported="false" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="com.example.bindservice.AIDL" />
            </intent-filter>
        </service>

        <receiver android:name=".BootCompletedReceiver" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>
    </application>

</manifest>

Service -

package com.example.servicelifecycle;

import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class StartedService extends Service {

    private static final String tag = StartedService.class.getSimpleName();
    Timer timer;
    ToastHandler t;
    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        t = new ToastHandler(getApplicationContext());
        t.showToast(tag + " onCreate", 3000);
        Log.d(tag, "onCreate");
        timer = new Timer();
        timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new RemindTask(), 10000, 6000);
        super.onCreate();
    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        t.showToast(tag + " onCreate", 3000);
        Log.d(tag, "onStartCommand startId=" + startId);
        return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        timer.cancel();

        Log.d(tag, "onDestroy");
        super.onDestroy();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onUnbind(Intent intent) {
        t.showToast(tag + " onCreate", 3000);
        Log.d(tag, "onUnbind");
        return super.onUnbind(intent);
    }

    class RemindTask extends TimerTask {
        public void run() {
            t.play();
        }
    }

}

BootReciever -

package com.example.servicelifecycle;

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.util.Log;

public class BootCompletedReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

    final static String TAG = BootCompletedReceiver.class.getSimpleName();

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        Log.w(TAG, "starting service...");
        context.startService(new Intent(context, StartedService.class));
    }
}

Some example task to be run

package com.example.servicelifecycle;

import android.content.Context;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.media.MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.widget.Toast;

/**
 * A class for showing a <code>Toast</code> from background processes using a
 * <code>Handler</code>.
 * 
 * @author kaolick
 */
public class ToastHandler {
    // General attributes
    private Context mContext;
    private Handler mHandler;

    /**
     * Class constructor.
     * 
     * @param _context
     *            The <code>Context</code> for showing the <code>Toast</code>
     */
    public ToastHandler(Context _context) {
        this.mContext = _context;
        this.mHandler = new Handler();
    }

    /**
     * Runs the <code>Runnable</code> in a separate <code>Thread</code>.
     * 
     * @param _runnable
     *            The <code>Runnable</code> containing the <code>Toast</code>
     */
    private void runRunnable(final Runnable _runnable) {
        Thread thread = new Thread() {
            public void run() {
                mHandler.post(_runnable);
            }
        };

        thread.start();
        thread.interrupt();
        thread = null;
    }

    /**
     * Shows a <code>Toast</code> using a <code>Handler</code>. Can be used in
     * background processes.
     * 
     * @param _resID
     *            The resource id of the string resource to use. Can be
     *            formatted text.
     * @param _duration
     *            How long to display the message. Only use LENGTH_LONG or
     *            LENGTH_SHORT from <code>Toast</code>.
     */
    public void showToast(final int _resID, final int _duration) {
        final Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                // Get the text for the given resource ID
                String text = mContext.getResources().getString(_resID);

                Toast.makeText(mContext, text, _duration).show();
            }
        };

        runRunnable(runnable);
    }

    /**
     * Shows a <code>Toast</code> using a <code>Handler</code>. Can be used in
     * background processes.
     * 
     * @param _text
     *            The text to show. Can be formatted text.
     * @param _duration
     *            How long to display the message. Only use LENGTH_LONG or
     *            LENGTH_SHORT from <code>Toast</code>.
     */
    public void showToast(final CharSequence _text, final int _duration) {
        final Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                Toast.makeText(mContext, _text, _duration).show();
            }
        };

        runRunnable(runnable);
    }

    /**
     * Shows a <code>Toast</code> using a <code>Handler</code>. Can be used in
     * background processes.
     * 
     * @param _text
     *            The text to show. Can be formatted text.
     * @param _duration
     *            How long to display the message. Only use LENGTH_LONG or
     *            LENGTH_SHORT from <code>Toast</code>.
     */
    public void play() {
        final Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                playSound();
            }
        };

        runRunnable(runnable);
    }

    private void playSound() {
        MediaPlayer mp;
        // mp = MediaPlayer.create(mContext,);
        mp = MediaPlayer.create(mContext, R.raw.click);
        mp.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {

            @Override
            public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                mp.release();
            }

        });
        mp.setVolume(100, 100);
        mp.start();
    }
}

PS - If you want - send me an email address and Ill send you the whole project.