Repeating alarm canceled after a few days

Asked Oct 30 '16 at 13:12

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I'm having a problem with a very simple app that shows a notification once a day. To do that I am simply doing this:

    PendingIntent pendingIntent = [pending Intent to a Service]
    alarmManager.setInexactRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC, DateTimeUtil.getTomorrowAtEight(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, pendingIntent);

This works for a few days and then stops working, on a device running Android 6.0 (LG G4).

adb -d shell dumpsys alarm shows that indeed my alarm is not in the list of "Pending alarm batches".

I don't have this problem on a device running Android 5.1 (Samsung S4).

I'm guessing this has something to do with Doze Mode or App Stand by, but as far as I can tell (correct me if I'm wrong), alarms can be delayed, which is fine for my use case, but are not supposed to be cancelled!

Ideas?

edited Oct 30 '16 at 13:42

asked Oct 30 '16 at 13:12

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try use Inexact with rescheduling in onHandleIntent – Dmytro Rostopira Oct 30 '16 at 13:50
@DimaRostopira But why? Shouldn't it work? – BoD Oct 30 '16 at 13:55
do you have a spare time to think about "Why"? :D I don't really. The only thing I understand - you should never rely on system. Neither with GCMNetworkManager, nor with AlarmManager, nor with JobScheduler. – Dmytro Rostopira Oct 30 '16 at 13:57

Repeating alarm canceled after a few days

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