Service not available while calling geoCoder.getFr

Question

I know sometimes google back-end service might not be available.

Hence a solution might be to loop until i get the data.

private class getLocationDetails extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... params) {

        Log.d("looping", "" + count + "");
        count++;
        double lat = Double.parseDouble(params[0]);
        double lng = Double.parseDouble(params[1]);
        List<Address> addresses = null;
        try {

            Geocoder gCoder = new Geocoder(ImageAndLocationActivity.this,
                    Locale.getDefault());
            addresses = gCoder.getFromLocation(lat, lng, 1);
            Address addr = addresses.get(0);
            user_country = addr.getCountryName();
            user_city = addr.getLocality();
            user_district = addr.getSubAdminArea();

            if (user_city == null) {

                user_city = user_district;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {

            Log.e("Exception in getLocationDetails - ", e.getMessage());
            return null;
        }

        return "";
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result) {

        if (result != null) {

            Log.d("user_city = ", "" + user_city);
        } else {

            new getLocationDetails().execute(CurrentLat + "", CurrentLng
                    + "");
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {

    }

    @Override
    protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {

    }
}

But i am not able to get the location at all:

LogCat:

02-27 16:29:49.568: D/looping(10966): 110355
02-27 16:29:49.568: E/Exception in getLocationDetails -(10966): Service not Available
02-27 16:29:49.573: D/looping(10966): 110356
02-27 16:29:49.573: E/Exception in getLocationDetails -(10966): Service not Available
02-27 16:29:49.573: D/looping(10966): 110357
02-27 16:29:49.573: E/Exception in getLocationDetails -(10966): Service not Available

and ofcourse i have added all the needed permissions:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

I am trying this on Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 (4.0.4 version)

Am i missing any settings? related to device or application ? Or this usually happens? If so any better solution to resolve this??

Thank You

Answer 1

I had the same error, add below permissions to resolve it.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS" /> 
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

Answer 2

For the following line

Geocoder gCoder = new Geocoder(context, Locale.getDefault());

Use Context of your Activity and don't use getApplicationContext()

Answer 3

The actual reason why Geocoder was not working is because the NetworkLocator was killed in action. Probably due to less memory or maybe you used the Task Manager to kill all services?

I'm not sure but this is a guess. I've seen this before. Last year I wrote a reconnect mechanism to load the NetworkLocator.apk and bind to the GeocoderService. I think this change has not merged into JellyBean so this problem persists.

It can be only solved by reboot. (The NetworkLocationService is loaded at boot)

Edit: You won't see this problem in JBP or KK, this service is moved into the playstore app .

Answer 4

API will throw a "Service not Available exception" if such service is unavailable on the device. Use method isPresent() to check for the existence of the service.

See also: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Geocoder.html

Answer 5

I had the same geocoder error but non of the above applied. It would not run one of my Android devices. Then I remembered that I had accedently killed some running service. The solution was to remove the battery for some seconds and re-install it. And it worked without changing the code :))

Answer 6

Some devices do not have suport for Geocoder, so what you need to do is create your own geocoder.

Basicaly you need create a async task to request google for the address and treat the json response.

Using aquery, i do something like this:

public void asyncJson(String address){
        address = address.replace(" ", "+");

        String url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address="+ address +"&sensor=true";

        aq.ajax(url, JSONObject.class, new AjaxCallback<JSONObject>() {

                @Override
                public void callback(String url, JSONObject json, AjaxStatus status) {                        

                        if(json != null){

                                 //here you work with the response json
                                 JSONArray results = json.getJSONArray("results");                               
                                Toast.makeText(context, results.getJSONObject(1).getString("formatted_address"));

                        }else{                                
                                //ajax error, show error code
                                Toast.makeText(aq.getContext(), "Error:" + status.getCode(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        }
                }
        });        
}