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Asked: 2026-05-29T06:37:35+00:00

I have a service (with a wakelock) that must run continuously behind the scenes

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I have a service (with a wakelock) that must run continuously behind the scenes capturing user Geo Location. The Service implements the LocationListener methods (i.e. onLocationChanged()).

However it takes some time for onLocationChanged() to get invoked by the phone, so in the meantime my service has to do something. I thought of using Thread.sleep(), but will that prevent the phone from invoking onLocationChanged()? Or should I do polling: while(i < 1000,000) {++i;}?

I’m not getting such abundant GPS results using either of those ideas; wondering if anybody can give me a tip on how to accomplish this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I solved the problem by removing WakeLock (waste of battery), doing a 10-second busy wait/Thread Sleep (just in case one blocks the GPS invocation of onLoc()), and using AlarmManager to wake the device from sleep and start the service.

    This: gets GPS during sleep AND doesn’t drain battery power.

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