My Android service does not start

Question

My service does not start.

I used the following onCreate method within my service:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){

        wsConnection = new WSConnection();
        handler = new Handler();
        Bundle b = savedInstanceState;
        this.dbManager = b.getParcelable("object");

        super.onCreate();
        Log.i("prova","servizio attivato");
        TimerTask task = new TimerTask(){
            public void run(){


                FindPendingData();
            }

        };
        timer = new Timer();
        //timer.schedule(task, cal.getTime());
        timer.schedule(task, 0, 30000);
    }

while, the following code starts my service:

        Intent intent = new Intent(this, myService.class);
        intent.putExtra("object", myObject);
        startService(intent);

object extends Object and implements Parcelable

I also declare in the Manifest:

<service android:name="myPackage.myService" /> 

Any idea Where the problem may be?

EDIT : I tried removing the Bundle parameter and now the service starts! But I don't understand why! Someone can help me?

Answer 1

use onStartCommand(Intent, int, int) or onStart() instead of onCreate of Service for getting Intent data as:

@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
      // get intent data here
    return START_STICKY;
}

as in comment OP says :

no error. I always use this code for starting service and usually this works good

but if we see in doc onCreate() not take any parameter if you are overriding it