Android Service behaving weird when started by BootReceiver

Question

I have a service that I want to use for remotely managing my device. When it starts up it's supposed to connect to a server and then receive commands from there. When I start my App normally I have the MainActivity fire up my service using

startService(new Intent(this, service.class));

This works perfectly fine. However, when the autostart.class fire up the service it's reporting that it can't resolve the host. So I simply had it retry every second until it is connected but it is never able to connect even though the network connection is up and working perfectly. When I click on the App icon then, it kills the old service, starts a new one, connects and everything works great, but not with the automatic startup. It's like the service doesn't have any permissions when it's started up, but I'm not sure about that.

autostart.class

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.util.Log;

public class autostart extends BroadcastReceiver 
{
     @Override
     public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
      if ("android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED".equals(intent.getAction())) {
       Intent pushIntent = new Intent(context, service.class);
       pushIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
       context.startService(pushIntent);
       Log.i("Boot Receiver", "Service started");
      }
     }

}

AndroidManifest.xml

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

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="21"
        android:targetSdkVersion="25" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>
    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity
            android:theme="@style/Theme.Transparent"
            android:name=".DialogActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
        </activity>  
        <receiver android:name=".autostart">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver> 
        <receiver
            android:name=".Darclass"
            android:permission="android.permission.BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN" >
            <meta-data
                android:name="android.app.device_admin"
                android:resource="@xml/my_admin" />

            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.app.action.DEVICE_ADMIN_ENABLED" />
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>
        <service android:enabled="true" android:isolatedProcess="false" android:persistent="true" android:name=".service" />
    </application>
</manifest>

Answer 1

In general I check the connectivity with this (although getAllNetworkInfo is deprecated)

 public boolean areWeConnected(){
    /** 
     * isConnected()
     * Indicates whether network connectivity exists and it is possible to establish connections and pass data.
     * Always call this before attempting to perform data transactions.
     */
     boolean haveConnectedWifi = false;
        boolean haveConnectedMobile = false;

        ConnectivityManager cm = (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(getApplicationContext().CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
        NetworkInfo[] netInfo = cm.getAllNetworkInfo();
        for (NetworkInfo ni : netInfo) {
            if (ni.getTypeName().equalsIgnoreCase("WIFI"))
                if (ni.isConnected()){
                    haveConnectedWifi = true;
                    break;
                    }
            if (ni.getTypeName().equalsIgnoreCase("MOBILE"))
                if (ni.isConnected()){
                    haveConnectedMobile = true;
                    break;
                }
        }
        return haveConnectedWifi || haveConnectedMobile;
}