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Asked: 2026-06-10T01:24:46+00:00

I wrote an android service, which search for GPS every 5 minutes. I have

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I wrote an android service, which search for GPS every 5 minutes. I have used a timer inside the service. But this timer is not running when the phone is in the sleep mode.

Can’t I run a service when the phone is in sleep mode?
How can I over come this problem? pls help me.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Instead of using a Service I would recommend that you take a look at the AlarmManager class. Depending on what you are trying to achieve this could be the better way to go. Using AlarmManager you can schedule a task (piece of code) to be executed at a given point in time. When you set an alarm you can set it’s mode to RTC_WAKEUP which will wake the device up if it’s sleeping and run the code associated with the alarm.

    Take a look here for more details:
    http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html

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