Android App Not Responding the SMS Receiver

Question

I have been working on an app to respond to received SMS messages (before you complain, I know this has been asked A LOT, but believe me, I can't get it to work at all, and I've tried searching for hours). I've got my manifest set up like so:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.csbctech.notiscreen"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" />

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

    <application
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <activity
            android:name=".NotiScreenActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <receiver android:name="NotiScreenSmsReceiver" android:process=":remote">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>
    </application>

</manifest>

And my receiver class looks like this:

package com.csbctech.notiscreen;

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.CountDownTimer;
import android.os.PowerManager;
import android.util.Log;

public class NotiScreenSmsReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Log.w("NotiScreen", "Got SMS");

    }


}

But the "NotiScreenSmsReceiver" class never gets called. I've tried several different examples, and I can't for the life of me get the receiver class to get called...I've even tried removing the uses-permission, and I don't even get an error message about not having permissions. What could be wrong? Oh please help me, you're my only hope!

Answer 1

Change

<receiver android:name="NotiScreenSmsReceiver" android:process=":remote">

to

<receiver android:name=".NotiScreenSmsReceiver" android:process=":remote">

Answer 2

Are you running this on a phone with a custom SMS app such as GOSMS? I've heard that some of those programs will stop the broadcast so that they can create their own notifications and stop the stock ones.