Warning: Service terminated by system

okoetter · Post by *okoetter » 2012-06-27, 07:27 UTC

Hi,

brand new Galaxy S3 and I have a problem I did not have on my old HTC Desire:
Although TC is not active I regularly get the notification saying "Total Commander: Warning: Service terminated by system".

Any idea how I could get rid of that message?

Kind regards,
Oliver

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-06-28, 12:40 UTC

This error is shown only in case of abnormal termination of the TC service - the service is used for file transfers in the background, e.g. when you copy something and a phone call comes in. It should actually never happen because the service is started with maximum importance. It means that you are starting a program which needs a lot of memory (RAM) and kicks TC out of the memory.

okoetter · Post by *okoetter » 2012-06-28, 14:12 UTC

This happens everytime I used TC after some minutes. I guess the SGS3 should have a lot more RAM than my old Desire....

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-06-29, 10:02 UTC

Well, it's the Galaxy S III again causing troubles - I don't know what Samsung did, but this phone behaves completely differently from any other Android devices...

szafran · Post by *szafran » 2012-08-01, 07:00 UTC

Hi,

I can't agree with you guys.
I have the same warning on my 3 phones:
Samsung Galaxy S3 - rooted with stock ROM
HTC Sensation - rooted with stock ROM
Samsung Galaxy Gio - rooted with a lot of different ROMs

So with my experience it's TC and not S3 to blame for this warning.

okoetter · Post by *okoetter » 2012-08-01, 10:43 UTC

Well, after having the problem for a few days, they disappeared after posting this thread and luckily the problem did not happen again until now...

szafran · Post by *szafran » 2012-08-01, 16:35 UTC

I'm having this problem ever since TC wen't on GPlay. Never had it while TC was in beta stage.

Anyways... On every phone everytime when i exit TC using the back button on my phone (or even from menu), after a few minutes the warning comes up.
It may be helpfull - On all 3 phones I have Android >4.0

wolf2063 · Post by *wolf2063 » 2012-08-06, 18:13 UTC

I have the same problem after upgrading my SG2 from GB to ICS.

It is really annoying seeing this icon in the top-bar

It doesnt matter if i leave TC via the back-button or closing TC via the exit-sk...

Tommyhome · Post by *Tommyhome » 2012-09-23, 19:43 UTC

I get the termination message for the LAN plugin if I let it copy in the background, it don't take much time before it pops up, and stops the copy process. (I use the Google Play version of TC)

If i let TC run and have it as the active app it will copy the same files for hours without problem.

My device is a HTC ONE X, European version, updated to latest software over OTA.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-09-24, 13:31 UTC

This should be much better with the beta of Total Commander 2 for Android. Sorry, it's not on Google Play yet - we now have more than 1 million downloads, and I want to ensure that it is 100% stable before I push it to that many users...

Calain · Post by *Calain » 2012-10-22, 00:51 UTC

Today I had the same problem for the 1st time. I was moving huge files (several 100 mb per file) while still having a huge memory needing program in the background. So it could be ok, that android stopped the service.
But after that every time I did close the program and ended it in the active programs list of ics I got the error message again. Even if I closed the program with a long press on back or with exit in the menu.
As the error message is also shown as a service and not as a normal message (in the upper part of the notification, which can not be deleted). There was no way off removing that message beside starting tc again and then I got the message again if I closed Tc again.
The actual transfer was finished in the meantime.
So it seems, that tc does not remember, that a stopped service is no problem any more.

Maybe this detailed information helps fixing the problem.

My current phone is the S3 with android 4.0.4. Rooted stock Rom.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-10-22, 12:57 UTC

Which version of Total Commander did you use?

Btw, it's impossible to keep Android from closing programs, it's only possible to make it less likely by giving the service a higher priority (which TC is already doing).

Calain · Post by *Calain » 2012-10-22, 13:18 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:Which version of Total Commander did you use?

Btw, it's impossible to keep Android from closing programs, it's only possible to make it less likely by giving the service a higher priority (which TC is already doing).

I also don't think that closing tc was the problem, but that tc never forgot, that it was forced to close during a copy / move operation and always brought up the error message again even after I completed the action with an new command to move the files and closed tc with it's build in options for it.

I was still using the current release from the Android market. (v 1.03) I updated to the 2.0 beta 3 yesterday, but I did not try the reproduce the problem with the new beta, yet. Should I try if that problem can still occur in the 2.0 beta?

p.s. I'm from Germany, so if it would be more helpful for you I could try to describe the problem and how to produce it in German. (Thought it might be useful for other people if they could read it in English.)

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-10-22, 13:24 UTC

TC 2.0 beta should already be much more stable with background operations, and also be able to "forget" background errors.