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copied!<blockquote> <p><strong>Service class automatically started after rebooting one time.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>There are lots of questions posted by many users on this issue "Service automatically started after rebooting".</p> <p>As a solution many of them suggested on return value onStartCommand() method with START_NOT_STICKY (It may worked for many, but isn't for me).</p> <p>Note: it works good for lower versions of android 2.3.3 and 3.0 but not on 4.0 and later versions.</p> <p>After analyzing bit ,came to known that startID seems to be giving different value when it is starting automatically, and on invoking by users.</p> <p>So for me startID played a trick</p> <pre><code>@Override public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) { if(startId!=2) { //to do } return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId); } </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>And For tracking your time even after reboot.</p> </blockquote> <p>I am not sure if android provide a API for tracking the time,but it can be achieved with simple mathematical computation.</p> <p>For this you need to track at what time Alarm has fired for last time (use sharedpreference storing date/time in milli seconds).</p> <pre><code>long lastInvoked = preferences.getLong(AndroidAlarmSMS.LASTALARAMINVOKED, -1); Log.d("last_time_invoked",""+lastInvoked); long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); long period = 1000*60*5; // using 5 min of interval to repeat long diff = currentTime - lastInvoked; Log.d("difference",""+diff); if(diff > period) { long result= diff % period; long nextInvokeAt; if(result > period) { nextInvokeAt = currentTime + (result - result); } else{ nextInvokeAt = currentTime + (period - result); } Log.d("invoked_next_time",""+nextInvokeAt); setPendingIntent(context,nextInvokeAt,period); } else { long result= period-diff; long nextInvokeAt = currentTime + result; Log.d("next_time_invoked_else",""+nextInvokeAt); setPendingIntent(context,nextInvokeAt,period); } </code></pre> <p>and do the above operations in your Broadcast receiver class for action "BOOT_COMPLETED" and set the alarm with the resultant time</p> <pre><code>public static void setPendingIntent(Context ctx,long time,long period){ AlarmManager alarmManager= (AlarmManager)ctx.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE); Intent myIntent = new Intent(ctx, MyAlarmService.class); PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getService(ctx, 0, myIntent, 0); alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, time, period , pendingIntent); Toast.makeText(ctx, "repeating --> "+time, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } </code></pre> <p><strong>Note:</strong> It is not a standard answer to resolve this issue, but for time being it work for me, hope it may help you to resolve this.</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> Looking for better answers too...</p>

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