Android - BroadcastReceiver trying to return result during a non-ordered broadcast

Question

I am trying to catch the BOOT_COMPLETED intent. In my receiver, I just print something to the Log. In Logcat I get this error, and the log statement that I put never prints out. I have set the permission in the manifest for

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

And have also declared the required intent filter in my receiver. What am I doing wrong?

Is your application installed to sd-card or to internal memory? — inazaruk, Sep 06 '11 at 18:48

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '11 at 20:19

What am I doing wrong?

That's impossible to answer given the limited information you have supplied. Perhaps your action string is wrong in your <intent-filter>.

Here is a sample project that does just what you describe (boot-time receiver writing a message to LogCat).

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '12 at 12:55

I had the problem too, found this answer and solved it by diffing with CommonsWare's sample code:

You will get this error, when you call setResultData(...) in the onReceive()-Method of the BroadcastReceiver and reacting to a non-ordered Broadcast. It looks like the boot broadcast is non-ordered. see also: Developer docs

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
{
    try
    {
            Intent serviceIntent = new Intent(context, MyService.class);                
            context.startService(serviceIntent);
            // setResultData(null);
    }
    catch (Exception exception)
    {
        exception.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Android - BroadcastReceiver trying to return result during a non-ordered broadcast

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