IntentService rare crash used to update AppWidget

What am I doing?

I am updating AppWidget using IntentService.

What is the problem?

Everything works fine, except in rare times, probably every 12-15 hours, or I can say randomly, widget updates do not happen. After debugging in this situation, a logcat message appears here, which seems like a problem.

05-27 20:21:13.122: WARN/ActivityManager(97): Scheduling restart of crashed service com.myapp.android/.myAppWidget$UpdateService in 5000ms

Following are a few logcat messages. It is very difficult to replicate, as it happens once in a while, but it happened when I restarted the application on my real device connected via USB port in debug mode.

05-27 20:21:16.712: DEBUG/AndroidRuntime(24419): --- registering native functions ---
05-27 20:21:16.742: INFO/global(24420): Default buffer size used in BufferedInputStream constructor. It would be better to be explicit if an 8k buffer is required.
05-27 20:21:16.842: DEBUG/Configuration(24420): active site = local
05-27 20:21:16.872: DEBUG/FREESPACE(24420): Bytes to fill: 580550656
05-27 20:21:16.942: VERBOSE/AlarmManager(97): Adding Alarm{46389f38 type 2 com.google.android.apps.maps} Jan 01 09:30:42 am
05-27 20:21:17.032: INFO/ActivityManager(97): Start proc com.myApp.android for broadcast com.myApp.android/.myAppWidget: pid=24431 uid=10080 gids={1015, 3003}
05-27 20:21:17.092: DEBUG/dalvikvm(24420): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 3967 objects / 320968 bytes in 162ms
05-27 20:21:17.172: DEBUG/FREESPACE(24420): Bytes to fill: 580550656
05-27 20:21:17.252: ERROR/UpdateService(24431): Service Started.. 
05-27 20:21:17.332: INFO/ActivityManager(97): Force stopping package com.myApp.android uid=10080
05-27 20:21:17.332: INFO/Process(97): Sending signal. PID: 24431 SIG: 9
05-27 20:21:17.332: WARN/ActivityManager(97): Scheduling restart of crashed service com.myApp.android/.myAppWidget$UpdateService in 5000ms
05-27 20:21:17.332: INFO/ActivityManager(97): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10000000 cmp=com.myApp.android/.myApp3 }
05-27 20:21:17.372: INFO/ActivityManager(97): Start proc com.myApp.android for activity com.myApp.android/.myApp3: pid=24444 uid=10080 gids={1015, 3003}
05-27 20:21:17.402: DEBUG/AndroidRuntime(24419): Shutting down VM

Below are the code snippets for onReceive (), onUpdate (), and onHandleIntent () for the UpdateService class extending the IntentService

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    check_intent = intent.getAction();

    if (check_intent.equals("android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE")) {
        if (!getLock(context).isHeld()) {   // fail-safe for crash restart
            getLock(context).acquire();
        }
        try {
            this.onUpdate(context, intent);
        } finally {
            getLock(context).release();
        }
    }       
    if (check_intent.equals("android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_ENABLED")) {
        this.onEnabled(context);
    }
    if (check_intent.equals("android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_DELETED")) {
        this.onDeleted(context);
    }
    if (check_intent.equals("android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_DISABLED")) {
        this.onDisabled(context);
    }
    super.onReceive(context, intent);
}

Here onUpdatewhere the method startServiceis called

public void onUpdate(Context context, Intent intent) {

    mAppPreferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);
    int saved_num_widgets = mAppPreferences.getInt(NUM_WIDGETS, 0);

    if (saved_num_widgets > 0) {     
        Intent widgetUpdate = new Intent(context, myAppWidget.class);
        widgetUpdate.setAction(AppWidgetManager.ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE);
        AlarmManager alarms =
            (AlarmManager)context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
        PendingIntent newPending =
            PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context,
                                       0,
                                       widgetUpdate,
                                       PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);
        alarms.set(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME,
                   SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() + PERIOD,
                   newPending); 
        context.startService(new Intent(context, UpdateService.class));
    } else {
        //Show Notification         
    }
}

, onHandleIntent()

@Override
protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
    // here is where your long running task goes

    RemoteViews updateViews = buildUpdate(this);
    // Push update for this widget to the home screen
    if (updateViews != null) {
        ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(this, myAppWidget.class);
        AppWidgetManager manager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this);
        manager.updateAppWidget(thisWidget, updateViews);
    } else {
        updateViews = new RemoteViews(getApplicationContext().getPackageName(),
                                      R.layout.tuwidget);
        updateViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.ad, R.drawable.myApp_null_game);
        Intent defineIntent1 = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), myApp3.class);
        PendingIntent pendingIntent1 =
            PendingIntent.getActivity(getApplicationContext(),
                                      0 /* no requestCode */,
                                      defineIntent1,
                                      0 /* no flags */);
        updateViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.tuwidget, pendingIntent1);
        ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(this,myAppWidget.class);
        AppWidgetManager manager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this);
        manager.updateAppWidget(thisWidget, updateViews);
    }   

} 

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• onStartCommand

• onCreate()

  @Override
  public void onCreate() {
      super.onCreate();
      Log.e("UpdateService", "Service Started.. ");
  }
  

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