stopService doesn't stop's my service.... why?

Question

i have a background service on my android APP that is getting my GPS position and sending it to a remote db. It work's fine.

The problem is when i want to stop the service.... it doesn't stops :S. Also no exception or errors on logcat have appeared... it simply doesn't stops.

this is the code to start my srvice (with a button):

startService(new Intent(GPSLoc.this, MyService.class)); //enciendo el service 

this is the code where I stop it (on the onactivityresult method):

stopService(new Intent(GPSLoc.this, MyService.class)); 

I have been debugged the app, and i checked that the stopService codeline has been called every time that i debugged it, but it doesn't stops......

i am sure that it's not stopped cause on my database i still recive gps positions from the emulator when i have press the button to stop the service.

what i am doing bad?

Answer 1

Have you implemented onDestroy()? If not, I believe that might be the solution - and you stop your Timer or whatever you're using to run the service within onDestroy().

A service can be stopped by calling its stopSelf() method, or by calling Context.stopService().

See this link for some more information.

Answer 2

i am sure that it's not stopped cause on my database i still recive gps positions from the emulator when i have press the button to stop the service.

You probably are not unregistering your LocationListener.