process blah has stopped unexpectedly

ArtLeeApps

Hi,

I have an app in progress.
if its been running, and i do other things, im guessing android needs the memory so it kills the app off. (fair enough)
but i get 2 messages, one shortly after the other.

"Sorry!"
The application (process com.) has
stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
[ Force Close] << Button

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I can replicate this, by running the app, then killing it via Task Manager.
I cant understand why my app would show this message, but other apps, dont report its death.

is there something like a manifest setting, "die quietly" or something like im not killing off my listeners correctly.
if you dont answer the dialog, as i was typing this... it removes the dialog, and then the second one pops right up.

* dont you like the tough questions...*

Help please....

ar2rsawseen

hmm, no, there is no die quietly flag, it should be a natural behavior.
do you have any background services defined in your manifest, maybe thats what causing the problem?

ArtLeeApps

Hi @ar2rsawseen ,

I killed it off, with the same message, and got this from eclipse logs...
looks interesting... the battle started at WIN DEATH
then its like google billing is getting a null pointer exception....

09-10 22:59:41.911: D/AudioSink(1274): close L=1871 09-10 22:59:41.911: I/WindowManager(1391): WIN DEATH: Window{40576c28 com.artleeapps.bubbleadventurecolors/com.giderosmobile.android.BubbleAdventureColorsActivity paused=false} 09-10 22:59:41.921: I/WindowManager(1391): WIN DEATH: Window{40c3a330 SurfaceView paused=false} 09-10 22:59:42.742: D/StatusBarPolicy(1551): Network Type: 8 09-10 22:59:45.755: D/StatusBarPolicy(1551): Network Type: 8 09-10 22:59:46.826: I/keystore(1278): uid: 1000 action: e -> 7 state: 3 -> 3 retry: 4 09-10 22:59:46.836: I/ActivityManager(1391): Start proc com.artleeapps.bubbleadventurecolors for service com.artleeapps.bubbleadventurecolors/com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.googlebilling.BillingService: pid=28628 uid=10100 gids={1015, 3003} 09-10 22:59:46.926: D/AndroidRuntime(28628): Shutting down VM 09-10 22:59:46.926: W/dalvikvm(28628): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001d5a0) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start service com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.googlebilling.BillingService@4052cd20 with null: java.lang.NullPointerException 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:2473) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2800(ActivityThread.java:135) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1127) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4385) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:849) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:607) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.googlebilling.BillingService.handleCommand(BillingService.java:445) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.googlebilling.BillingService.onStart(BillingService.java:435) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at android.app.Service.onStartCommand(Service.java:428) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:2456) 09-10 22:59:46.936: E/AndroidRuntime(28628): ... 10 more 09-10 22:59:46.976: D/WindowManagerImpl(1391): addView, new view, mViews[1]: com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@40a8d078 09-10 22:59:50.850: D/dalvikvm(26455): GC_EXPLICIT freed 285K, 47% free 4017K/7495K, external 22K/512K, paused 100ms 09-10 22:59:54.754: D/StatusBarPolicy(1551): Network Type: 8 09-10 22:59:57.757: D/StatusBarPolicy(1551): Network Type: 8 09-10 23:00:00.750: D/StatusBarPolicy(1551): Network Type: 8 09-10 23:00:03.752: D/StatusBarPolicy(1551): Network Type: 8 09-10 23:00:06.896: W/ActivityManager(1391): Timeout executing service: ServiceRecord{40ac3728 com.artleeapps.bubbleadventurecolors/com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.googlebilling.BillingService} 09-10 23:00:06.896: I/ActivityManager(1391): Crashing app skipping ANR: ProcessRecord{40b32430 28628:com.artleeapps.bubbleadventurecolors/10100} Executing service com.artleeapps.bubbleadventurecolors/com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.googlebilling.BillingService 09-10 23:00:08.837: D/dalvikvm(25475): GC_EXPLICIT freed 60K, 47% free 3504K/6599K, external 0K/0K, paused 73ms 09-10 23:00:10.079: I/keystore(1278): uid: 1000 action: e -> 7 state: 3 -> 3 retry: 4 09-10 23:00:12.601: V/DeviceStorageMonitorService(1391): freeMemory=285388800 09-10 23:00:12.601: D/DeviceStorageMonitorService(1391): OoO SMS Memory available. SMS_AVAILABLE_THRESHOLD == 524288 09-10 23:00:12.601: I/DeviceStorageMonitorService(1391): Posting Message again

ar2rsawseen

Try out this fix:
http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/26797#Comment_26797

ArtLeeApps

@ar2rsawseen Brilliant !

That worked, thank you muchly

now my app can die a quiet and painless death....