Disable Keyguard and START STICKY not working with Android for BlackBerry

Question

Im trying to port an android app to BB and Im having some issues with a few things. First off, when this app starts it creates a service that listens for certain events whether the application is in foreground or background. If the service is killed, I want it to automatically restart. here is my code for this in the service itself:

public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) { // Other code here...

 // this will restart service if killed.  
return START_STICKY

}

This works as expected in Android, but will not restart the service on BB. Has anyone experienced this?

Second off, I am trying relaunch an activity if the device is turned off. Therefore, I have created a wake lock to turn the screen on, and then I disable the keyguard and finally launch the activity. Unfortunately, I cannot disable the keyguard. My code to disable keyguard is below, has anyone experienced this?

KeyguardManager Keylockmgr = (KeyguardManager)getSystemService(KEYGUARD_SERVICE); Keylockmgr.newKeyguardLock("My Tag").disableKeyguard();

Any help would be greatly appreciated !!

Answer 1

This works as expected in Android, but will not restart the service on BB. Has anyone experienced this?

Quoting the BlackBerry documentation:

Background service: Apps can run services only while the user runs them, either in full screen or in thumbnail mode.

Now, I'm a bit hazy on "thumbnail mode", but my interpretation of this is that START_STICKY will be ignored.

Unfortunately, I cannot disable the keyguard

According to the BlackBerry documentation, DISABLE_KEYGUARD is not supported.