Unable to pause activity exception in android

Question

Hi I am developing small android application. So my application contains following things. 3 Activities consider A1, A2, A3. A1 is my launcher activity. my application also contains one background service. So when I click on button inside A1 it will start background service.

Inside background service I am starting A2. I am also doing some calculations in service so after those calculations i am starting activity A3 from service only. SO my problem is here when I start service from A1 it will open A2 from service. If I click back from there(A2 to A1) it will come back to A1. But in case of (A1 -> service -> A2 -> A3(this also started from service)) if i click on back it will causes unable to pause activity exception error. It will not resume A1.

When I start activity from service I am using Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK. Where is the problem? need Help Thank you

See this is my error log:

01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to pause activity { ABC/ ABC.map.MapActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performPauseActivity(ActivityThread.java:2709)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performPauseActivity(ActivityThread.java:2665)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handlePauseActivity(ActivityThread.java:2643)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:124)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1159)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4436)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.media.MediaPlayer._stop(Native Method)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.media.MediaPlayer.stop(MediaPlayer.java:977)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at  ABC.map.MapActivity.onPause(MapActivity.java:170)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.app.Activity.performPause(Activity.java:4564)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnPause(Instrumentation.java:1195)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performPauseActivity(ActivityThread.java:2696)
01-17 14:45:03.689: E/AndroidRuntime(27805):    ... 12 more

Answer 1

It happens because your A2 Activity is not started. You need to check that onCreate() and onStart() method are finished in your A2 Activity and only after that you have to start A3 Activity.