How to stop android service?

Question

I have created a android service. I start the service and stop the service using startService(intent) and stopService(intent).

My problem is that even i stop the service; it starts again without any explicit call to startService.

Any help appreciated

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2176375/android-service-wont-stop — Samir Mangroliya, Oct 10 '11 at 09:33
other questions with very similar topics seem to answer this one: refer [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2176375/android-service-wont-stop) and [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2265217/why-cant-i-stop-a-service-in-android) — Houcine, Oct 10 '11 at 09:41

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 21 '12 at 15:41

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without proper code samples, this is difficult, but chances are that you have a bound services that is not unbound yet.

in case you dont have it bound, "this.stopSelf()" from within the service is one of the ways to do the trick:

public class BatchUploadGpsData extends Service {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        Log.e(TAG, "here i am, rockin like a hurricane.   onCreate service");
        this.stopSelf();
    }

this is an actual code snippet from testing code that works on android 2.2 and up

answered Jul 21 '12 at 15:41

tony gil

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Wouldn't stopSelf() stop the service as soon as it is started? How can we let the service run then? – IgorGanapolsky Sep 15 '12 at 17:55
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@IgorG. in this case it stops the service right after it executes its one and only line of code. imagine that there are thousands of lines of code BEFORE "this.StopSelf()". – tony gil Sep 16 '12 at 18:17

How to stop android service?

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