Starting an activity from Broadcast receiver in android

Question

I am trying to launch the Main Activity from a broadcast receiver. Can anyone guide me as to how I can do it? I always get "Process is Bad" message.

Thanks

What is "the Main Activity"? What is a "Process is Bad" message? If you are getting an error dialog, please use `adb logcat`, DDMS, or the DDMS perspective in Eclipse to get a stack trace and post it here. — CommonsWare, May 28 '10 at 22:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '10 at 23:51

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Restart the emulator or just Kill the process that will solve this situation.

answered May 28 '10 at 23:51

Jorgesys

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

When using a real device, the only I found to fix this was:

Uninstall the app through Settings -> Applications.
Remove the battery from the phone (using the Android "Power off" menu did not work).
Turn device on again.
Install the APK again using adb install .

My app didn't show up in the list of processes running on the device (it's a BroadcastReceiver), so I wasn't able to kill that process.

See my answer here for more detail on what didn't work.

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