Alarm is not working in android when the device is

Question

I have set the alarm to remind me in android it is working when the device is on. But when i switch off the device and again on that reminder alarm is not working. Can you guys please suggest me how can solve this problem?

My code looks like this,

Intent myIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), serviceclass.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getService(getApplicationContext(),
    CONST+id, myIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

Calendar calender = Calendar.getInstance();
calender.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
calender.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, hours);
calender.set(Calendar.MINUTE, ireminder.getMin());
calender.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
calender.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);  
calender.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, day);

alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,  

calender.getTimeInMillis(), 7 * AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, pendingIntent);                

Answer 1

Alarms will be cleared on reboot.

What you can do is

1. persist alarm information in a db table
2. register for the REBOOT_COMPLETED-Event
3. On reboot, start a background thread the re-registers alarm. Make sure that you compute the alarm times correctly.

See API: "Registered alarms are retained while the device is asleep (and can optionally wake the device up if they go off during that time), but will be cleared if it is turned off and rebooted." - http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html

Answer 2

Create a class OnBootReceiver

public class OnBootReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        mgr.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,
        SystemClock.currentThreadTimeMillis(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_FIFTEEN_MINUTES,
                    pi); 

    }

}

inside manifest

<receiver android:name=".OnBootReceiver" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>

inside your activity

sendBroadcast(new Intent(this, OnBootReceiver.class));