Sensorium starts at boot regardless of settings

[anarcat]

I just rebooted my phone and sensorium is running even if i disabled that in the sensorium settings. I can't find a way to make it not start at boot.

[aaaaalbert]

@anarcat: Sorry for that, it seems that we don't handle the settings checkbox value correctly.

Do you happen to have logcat output for when you toggle the checkbox, and/or for when the app starts at boot?

[anarcat]

On 2016-03-30 09:49:31, aaaaalbert wrote:

@anarcat: Sorry for that, it seems that we don't handle the settings checkbox value correctly.

Do you happen to have logcat output for when you toggle the checkbox, and/or for when the app starts at boot?

I can give you that when i finally reboot the phone, but i'm in the
process of reinstalling everything (again again) so i may not be able to
provide this.

[aaaaalbert]

Oh, okay. No worries though, I can check on a device of my own later today.

[anarcat]

this starts with the checkbox on, i disable it an re-enable it:

W/View    ( 4212): requestLayout() improperly called by android.widget.LinearLayout{3a05f513 V.E..... ......ID 23,74-477,122 #7f0a0006 app:id/seekBarPrefBarContainer} during layout: running second layout pass
W/View    ( 4212): requestLayout() improperly called by android.widget.LinearLayout{24e75350 V.E..... ......ID 23,74-477,122 #7f0a0006 app:id/seekBarPrefBarContainer} during layout: running second layout pass
W/View    ( 4212): requestLayout() improperly called by android.widget.LinearLayout{31c10949 V.E..... ......ID 23,74-477,122 #7f0a0006 app:id/seekBarPrefBarContainer} during layout: running second layout pass
D/Sensorium( 4212): Listening socket timeout
W/View    ( 4212): requestLayout() improperly called by android.widget.LinearLayout{3282b714 V.E..... ......ID 23,74-477,122 #7f0a0006 app:id/seekBarPrefBarContainer} during layout: running second layout pass
W/View    ( 4212): requestLayout() improperly called by android.widget.LinearLayout{2e83bbd V.E..... ......ID 23,74-477,122 #7f0a0006 app:id/seekBarPrefBarContainer} during layout: running second layout pass
W/View    ( 4212): requestLayout() improperly called by android.widget.LinearLayout{304335b2 V.E..... ......ID 23,74-477,122 #7f0a0006 app:id/seekBarPrefBarContainer} during layout: running second layout pass

i am not sure how to extract relevant parts of the boot process unfortunately.

[aaaaalbert]

Thanks! I tried with a debug build and see pretty much the same log output when I toggle the setting.

On boot, the boot completed broadcast receiver seems to read the new value OK:

D/Sensorium( 3535): boot completed receiver not starting service, preference disabled

...but then it is started anyway, I guess from the manifest. I'll try to remove the SensorService from there and see what happens.

[aaaaalbert]

Removing SensorService did not make sense, it caused the service to be unavailable from within the app.

After some debugging, I saw that SensoriumApplication always binds to SensorService, no matter what SensorBootCompletedReceiver reads from the app preferences (see log snippets below).

I tried to isolate the boot comleted receiver so that it doesn't import other parts of the app, but the Application still binds. Alternatively, removing the boot completed receiver from the manifest completely disables autostart. Looks like this requires larger changes to the app architecture to fix.

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When set to do start on boot:

D/Sensorium( 3632): application starting, binding service
D/Sensorium( 3632): application starting, binding service
(....)
D/Sensorium( 3632): boot completed receiver starting service

When set to not start on boot:

D/Sensorium( 3282): application starting, binding service
D/Sensorium( 3282): application starting, binding service
D/Sensorium( 3282): boot completed receiver not starting service, preference disabled