title: GPS Tracker service class is not getting called in my application
body: <p>I am working on a gps tracker application. my application should work in the background and should not be visible to the user in the menu.. So basically what happens is it posts the latitude and logitude values in the php server..and my application should manually start and stop from morning 9am to evening 9pm without the interaction with the user..I am using a broadcast receiver and service to make my application run in background i am passing an intent from receiver to service class and the problem is my service class is not getting called </p>
  
  <p>Here is my code.. for Broadcast receiver</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class MainActivity extends BroadcastReceiver {
  
  @Override
  public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
       Toast.makeText(context, "MyReceiver Started"+intent.getAction(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
      Intent myIntent=new Intent(context,GPSTRACKER.class);   
      context.startService(myIntent);       
      }}   
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And here is Service code..GPSTRACKER</p>
  
  <pre><code> public class GPSTracker extends Service implements LocationListener {
   private static String url_create_product = "http://testingicon.com/gps.php";  
  private static final String TAG_SUCCESS = "success";
  JSONparser1 jsonParser2=new JSONparser1();
  private final Context mContext;
  boolean isGPSEnabled = false;
   boolean isNetworkEnabled = false;
  boolean canGetLocation = false;
  Location location; // location
  double latitude; // latitude  
  double longitude; // longitude
  private static final long MIN_DISTANCE_CHANGE_FOR_UPDATES = 1;//1 meter
  private static final long MIN_TIME_BW_UPDATES = 5000;//30 
  protected LocationManager locationManager;
  private static final String TAG = "BroadcastGPSService";
  public static final String BROADCAST_ACTION = "com.example.gpstracking.display";
  private final Handler handler = new Handler();
  Intent intent;
  int counter = 0;     
  int hour,min,year,month,day; 
  GeoPoint gp; 
  @Override
  public void onCreate() {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
      super.onCreate();
      intent = new Intent(BROADCAST_ACTION);  
  }
  public GPSTracker(Context context) {     
      this.mContext = context;
      getLocation();
      }
  public Location getLocation() {
      try {
          locationManager = (LocationManager) mContext
                  .getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE);
          // getting GPS status
          isGPSEnabled = locationManager
                  .isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);
          // getting network status
          isNetworkEnabled = locationManager
                  .isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);
          if (!isGPSEnabled &amp;&amp; !isNetworkEnabled) {
              // no network provider is enabled
          } else {
              this.canGetLocation = true;
              if (isNetworkEnabled) {
                  locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(
                          LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER,
                          MIN_TIME_BW_UPDATES,
                          MIN_DISTANCE_CHANGE_FOR_UPDATES, this);
                  Log.d("Network", "Network");
                  if (locationManager != null) {
                      location = locationManager
                              .getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);
                      if (location != null) {
                          latitude = location.getLatitude();
                          longitude = location.getLongitude();}}}
              // if GPS Enabled get lat/long using GPS Services
              if (isGPSEnabled) {
                  if (location == null) {
                      locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(
                              LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,
                              MIN_TIME_BW_UPDATES,
                              MIN_DISTANCE_CHANGE_FOR_UPDATES, this);
                      Log.d("GPS Enabled", "GPS Enabled");
                      if (locationManager != null) {
                          location = locationManager
                                  .getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);
                          if (location != null) {
                              latitude = location.getLatitude();
                              longitude = location.getLongitude();
      }}}}}} catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}return location;}
       @Override
  public void onDestroy() {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    //  handler.removeCallbacks(sendUpdatesToUI);     
      super.onDestroy();}
  /**
   * Stop using GPS listener
   * Calling this function will stop using GPS in your app
   * */
  public void stopUsingGPS(){
      if(locationManager != null){
          locationManager.removeUpdates(GPSTracker.this);}}
  /**  
   * Function to get latitude
   * */
  public double getLatitude(){
      if(location != null){
          latitude = location.getLatitude();}
      // return latitude
      return latitude;}
  /**
   * Function to get longitude
   * */
  public double getLongitude(){
      if(location != null){
          longitude = location.getLongitude();}
      // return longitude
      return longitude;} 
  /**
   * Function to check GPS/wifi enabled
   * @return boolean
   * */
  public boolean canGetLocation() {
      return this.canGetLocation;
  }
  /**
   * Function to show settings alert dialog
   * On pressing Settings button will lauch Settings Options
   * */
  public void showSettingsAlert(){
      AlertDialog.Builder alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(mContext);
      // Setting Dialog Title       
      alertDialog.setTitle("GPS is settings");
      // Setting Dialog Message
      alertDialog.setMessage("GPS is not enabled. Do you want to go to settings menu?");
      // On pressing Settings button
      alertDialog.setPositiveButton("Settings", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
          public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,int which) {
              Intent intent = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS);
              mContext.startActivity(intent);
          }});
      // on pressing cancel button
      alertDialog.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
          public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
          dialog.cancel();}});
      // Showing Alert Message
      alertDialog.show();
  }
  @Override
  public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
      //getLocation();
      latitude=location.getLatitude();
      longitude=location.getLongitude();
      gp = new GeoPoint((int)(latitude*1000000), (int)(longitude*1000000));         
  
      String address = ConvertPointToLocation(gp);
      String locationname = address.substring(0,address.length());  
  
      Date date = new Date();
       //formatting time to have AM/PM text using 'a' format
  
      String strDateFormat = "HH:mm:ss a";
      SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(strDateFormat);
      String time=sdf.format(date);
      String device_id=getdeviceid(mContext);
      System.out.println("Time with AM/PM field : " + time);
  
      System.out.println("Location changed is.................. "+latitude+longitude + "Time is  "+time +"Date is  "+date );
      Toast.makeText(mContext, "Location changed is.................. "+"Latitude " +latitude+ "Logitude "+longitude + "Time is  "+time +"Date is  "+date, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();  
      Log.d(TAG, "entered DisplayLoggingInfo"+ " Time is "+time+ "Date is  "+ date   + "Device Id iss "+device_id );
  
      String str1=String.valueOf(longitude);   
      String str2=String.valueOf(latitude);
  
      // here is the code for Posting values on PHP server     
      List&lt;NameValuePair&gt; params = new ArrayList&lt;NameValuePair&gt;();
      params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("longitude", str1));
      params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("latitude", str2));
      params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("time", time));
      params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("device_id", device_id));
      params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("location_name", locationname));
  
      JSONArray json1=jsonParser2.makeHttpRequest(url_create_product, "POST",         params);
      // check log cat fro response
     //   Log.d("Create Response", json.toString());
      // check for success tag
     /* try {
          int success = json1.getInt(TAG_SUCCESS);
          if (success == 1) {
               // successfully created product
              // closing this screen
           } else {
              // failed to create product
          }} catch (JSONException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();}*/
      //db code
  }
  private String ConvertPointToLocation(GeoPoint gp2) {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
      String address = "";
      Geocoder geoCoder = new Geocoder(mContext, Locale.getDefault());
      try {
          List&lt;Address&gt; addresses = geoCoder.getFromLocation(gp2.getLatitudeE6()  / 1E6, gp2.getLongitudeE6() / 1E6, 1);
          if (addresses.size() &gt; 0) {
              for (int index = 0; index &lt; addresses.get(0).getMaxAddressLineIndex(); index++)
                  address += addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(index) + " ";}}
      catch (IOException e) {                
          e.printStackTrace();}   
      return address;}
  protected String getdeviceid(Context context2) {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
      TelephonyManager manager = (TelephonyManager)context2.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
          String deviceId;
          if (manager.getPhoneType() == TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_NONE) {
              //Tablet
               deviceId = Secure.getString(this.getContentResolver(),
                      Secure.ANDROID_ID);
          } else {
              //Mobile
               deviceId = manager.getDeviceId();
          }
          return deviceId;
          }
      @Override
  public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
  }
  @Override
  public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
  }
  @Override
  public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
  }
  @Override
  public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
      return null;}}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is Manifest file</p>
  
  <pre><code>          &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
            &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
               package="com.websmithing.broadcasttest"
                   android:versionCode="1"
           android:versionName="1.0" &gt;
          &lt;uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8"
   android:targetSdkVersion="17" /&gt;
  &lt;application
      android:icon="@drawable/icon"
      android:label="@string/app_name" &gt;
      &lt;receiver
  android:enabled="true"
  android:name=".MainActivity"&gt;
   &lt;!-- &lt;intent-filter&gt;
      &lt;action android:name = "com.websmithing.broadcasttest.BroadcastService"/&gt;
        &lt;/intent-filter&gt;   --&gt;
        &lt;/receiver&gt;
         &lt;service android:name=".GPSTRACKER" /&gt;
         &lt;/application&gt;
  
          &lt;/manifest&gt;
  </code></pre>