Crash because of the foreground service did not start in time

Media3 Version

1.0.0-beta01

Devices that reproduce the issue

Google Pixel 6, Android 13 Samsung Galaxy A32 5G, Android 12 Samsung Galaxy A13 5G, Android 12 Xiaomi POCO X3 Pro, Android 12 Samsung Galaxy A12, Android 11 Samsung Galaxy A10s, Android 11

Devices that do not reproduce the issue

Can’t reproduce manually, got those stats from Crashlytics. Not sure how we can deal with this crash, do you have any idea why this crash may happen?

Reproducible in the demo app?

Not tested

Reproduction steps

We extended our playback service by your MediaSessionService, the crash happened approximately 70% in the background (stats in Crashlytics), we can’t manage to reproduce it in any way.

Expected result

Actual result

There are several types of exception grouped by the Android OS, but the reason looks exactly the same

Android 11

Fatal Exception: android.app.RemoteServiceException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{bc3065 u0 com.bandlab.bandlab/com.bandlab.media.player.notification.MediaPlaybackService}
       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2269)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:246)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8653)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:602)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1130)

Android 12

Fatal Exception: android.app.ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{782cd47 u0 com.bandlab.bandlab/com.bandlab.media.player.notification.MediaPlaybackService}
       at android.app.ActivityThread.throwRemoteServiceException(ActivityThread.java:2147)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2800(ActivityThread.java:310)
       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2376)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
       at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8669)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:571)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1135)

Android 13

Fatal Exception: android.app.RemoteServiceException$ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{2c98e95 u0 com.bandlab.bandlab/com.bandlab.media.player.notification.MediaPlaybackService}
       at android.app.ActivityThread.generateForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException(ActivityThread.java:2013)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.throwRemoteServiceException(ActivityThread.java:1984)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mthrowRemoteServiceException()
       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2249)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
       at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7929)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:936)

Media

Nothing particular, just normal audio streaming

Bug Report

You will email the zip file produced by adb bugreport to dev.exoplayer@gmail.com after filing this issue.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

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kvn-stglcommented, Jul 19, 2022

I have the same issue in my app (at least I can see it in crashlytics). But in my case, the issue is a bit stranger: It only happens at Samsung Devices and only with Android 12. The other things are identical (we can not reproduce it manually and it happens around 70% in the background). Also, the crashlog is (almost) identical (Android 12):

Fatal Exception: android.app.ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{4e97eb7 u0 ***}
       at android.app.ActivityThread.throwRemoteServiceException(ActivityThread.java:2147)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2900(ActivityThread.java:310)
       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2376)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
       at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8669)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:571)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1135)

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christostscommented, Aug 2, 2022

I spotted a bug that occurs after the player has finished playback. The notification still shows a pause button (which does nothing) and the MediaSessionService remains in the foreground.

I don’t think this is the root cause for the exceptions you are seeing reported, but I’m going to link the commit to this issue anyway since I spotted it while investigating this issue. Thank you for reports and for helping us.